Before Departure (Interlude)

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The Heaven-Penetrating Wisdomheart had three stages and five grades.

Fu Henghua had been stuck at the second grade of the second stage, "Divine Wisdom," for several centuries.

Now, he finally sensed a slight loosening of the bottleneck.

Yet it was not due to his own effort or accumulation, but a flash of inspiration—an awakening that came naturally from somewhere beyond.

Whether it had anything to do with the Xuandan Alliance not long ago, or the gains from the Dragon King battle... none of it could be said for certain.

Thus, Fu Henghua sighed. Empirical verification held advantages in the early stages, but in the later stages, one still could not avoid profound enlightenment.

Empirical verification had always been Fu Henghua's way since entering the Dao: seeking true knowledge through practice. It was also the path followed by the Western Continent Immortal Dynasty. At present, because cultivation methods had scattered across the Donglai Cultivation World after the Continent Overturning, Donglai too was walking the path of empirical verification.

Yet what was happening now gave Fu Henghua a few more things to ponder.

"Our Donglai's practice of empirical verification cannot compare to Western Continent's... but Western Continent, because it single-mindedly practiced that path, seems to have lost some spiritual nimbleness and mysterious intuition in its mode of thought. It does not seem to be a qualified example either."

From those marshals and ministers to the Sage Emperor himself... perhaps Western Continent's advantage in numbers had instead stripped its upper ranks of creativity, turning every one of them rigid and wooden?

The Emperor and Empress's combined strike gave Fu Henghua quite a fright, but when Dongfang Yunqi rushed over, he still gritted