Chapter 163 – The Divine Path
Wang Lin raised his head toward the old man and said, “Senior, don’t worry; once I finish reading the Divine Path, I will leave this place. After that, I shouldn’t need to come back here again.”
The old man stared at Wang Lin. After a long time, he waved his right hand, and a piece of jade appeared in his palm. He slammed the jade onto the stone slab, and a white light spread across the stone slab. Then, a clear light spread across the stone slab until its entire surface was like a mirror.
The old man didn’t look back; he stepped towards the mirror. The surface of the mirror rippled as if he was walking into water. Wang Lin followed behind him.
A cool and refreshing feeling entered his body as he walked past the stone slab. It was as if his face had been wiped with a cold, damp towel. After that, Wang Lin realized that he had walked past the stone slab. He turned around and discovered that the surface of the slab on this side was the same as the outside. Its surface rippled like water.
Wang Lin put his hand inside and the cold feeling appeared again.
The red-faced old man said calmly, “This is a water mirror door created by my War God Temple’s refining method. Without the jade to open it, it’s impossible to enter unless you’ve reached the Soul Formation stage.”
After Wang Lin heard the words “refining method,” something tickled his heart before he followed the red-faced old man.
The space inside this stone temple was extremely large. In the center was the main hall and hundreds of stone chambers beside it. Outside each stone chamber was a stone wall. After carefully examining them, Wang Lin was certain that each stone chamber was also a water mirror door.
The old man saw Wang Lin staring at the doors and said, “There are a total of 365 stone chambers here. Each stone chamber is a water mirror door. Creating a water mirror door symbolizes that a disciple is no longer a beginner in treasure refining.”
Wang Lin looked for a moment before looking away. They had arrived at the hall in the middle. In front of them was a shelf with four levels. There were several tokens on each level.
Apart from the top layer, which has only one token, the other layers have quite a lot of tokens.
Wang Lin’s gaze fell on the token at the top. It read: “Founder of the War God Temple —- Gong Mo”
“Ancestor Gong is the founder of my War God Temple and also the one who discovered the Divine Path.” The red-faced elder bowed toward the token before turning toward Wang Lin.
Wang Lin pondered for a moment then bowed.
The red-faced elder turned around and stepped forward. He stopped in front of a green wall covered with countless tiny words. All of these words had been carved into the wall. At the top of the wall, Wang Lin could clearly see the two words “Divine Way.”
However, after looking down, his heart sank as he read: “Disciple Chen Chong engraved this from memory. Future disciples need to cultivate carefully.”
“Disappointed?” The red-faced elder looked at Wang Lin and sighed. “The second year after my ancestor discovered the Divine Path, there was a traitor, so news of the Divine Path suddenly spread far and wide. Soon after, the rank 4 cultivation country, Tian Gang, arrived. After secretly speaking with ancestor Gong, they took him away. Ancestor Gong then left the War God Temple and never returned.”
“This Divine Path is the strangest cultivation method I’ve ever seen in my life. Anyone who sees it can understand it, but they can’t remember it. It’s as if some mysterious force is blocking them.”
“Ancestor Chen Chong’s talent was very ordinary, and he was the weakest of Ancestor Gong’s disciples. However, he was able to use his memories to do something no one had ever thought of: carving the Divine Path. After he finished carving, he passed away. Just before he died, he said that this cultivation method was extremely powerful. His own lifespan was insufficient, and he could only carve 10% of it, so future disciples must cultivate carefully.”
“Actually, Ancestor Chen Chong was overly concerned. How could this Divine Path be comprehended so easily? Since then, only about 30 people have successfully comprehended it, and only half of them have advanced to the Nascent Soul stage.”
“As for the Divine Path that the other Hou Fen sects saw, it was fake, so the number of outsiders who understood it was even lower.”
When Wang Lin heard the red-faced old man’s words, he looked at the green stone wall. He could imagine a weak young man who spent his life carving there.
“You can see for yourself. I’ll wait for you outside. Don’t enter any of the water mirror doors.” After the red-faced old man finished speaking, he turned to leave.
Wang Lin stared at the stone wall and read each word. The words were difficult to understand, and some parts seemed to contradict each other. As he read them, he slowly began to frown.
After a long time, he sat in the lotus position with a troubled expression on his face. However, he didn’t blink as he stared at the stone wall. The words written there slowly appeared in his mind.
The longer he looked at it, the more confused he became. This Divine Path was truly incomprehensible. He frowned even harder until he finally finished reading it all. Then he simply closed his eyes and memorized everything on the stone wall.
Time passed slowly. Wang Lin still didn’t understand anything. He slowly opened his eyes and let out a sigh before looking back at the stone wall. However, at that moment, his pupils shrank as he muttered, “Something’s wrong!”
When he looked at the wall again, all the words he had memorized suddenly disappeared from his memory as if they had never been there. Wang Lin saw the familiar words he had memorized before, but now it was as if something was missing from his memory. Everything had disappeared.
Wang Lin took a deep breath and focused. This Divine Path was too strange. No wonder no one could create a copy of it. Back then, he had asked Zhou Zihong to create a copy for him, but Zhou Zihong said that every time he tried, he would forget. He hadn’t taken it too seriously back then, but now that he had experienced it for himself, he immediately became extremely serious.
Wang Lin looked again at the words, “Disciple Chen Chong engraved this from memory. Future disciples need to cultivate carefully.” He was even more shocked than before. Although he had heard about it from others, this was his first time experiencing for himself how difficult it was to record the Divine Path. He memorized Chen Chong’s name in his heart.
Wang Lin took a deep breath as his eyes passed over the words and returned to the Divine Path. After an hour, Wang Lin remembered everything again, but what happened before happened again after a while.
After repeating it several times, Wang Lin’s face darkened. This time, he stared at the wall and didn’t try to memorize it but instead continued to read it over and over.
The first time Wang Lin read the Divine Path, it took him three hours, but now it only took him an hour. His eyesight had become even faster. Now it only took him half an hour to read the entire thing.
Time passed slowly, and Wang Lin’s reading speed accelerated. From reading once every half hour to reading three times in half an hour, his eyes moved faster and faster. At one point, he began to feel a throbbing pain in his eyes.
After some time, Wang Lin subconsciously closed his eyes, but the stone wall still seemed to flash past his sight.
The words began to move faster, and even after Wang Lin closed his eyes, they still hurt. Soon, two streams of blood flowed from his eyes, but just at that moment, Wang Lin opened them. His eyes were completely red and filled with shock.
Wang Lin clearly saw the writing on the wall slowly disappear, and suddenly a figure dressed in white appeared. His face was blurry, so Wang Lin could only see his hands forming several seals. The figure then transformed into two figures, then three.
The difference between a real avatar and a fake avatar in most cases is that the latter is rather boring. Every movement they make is simply a copy of the original.
However, the avatars of the white-robed figure were all extremely intelligent and agile. Wang Lin felt unable to distinguish which one was the real body.
In fact, what Wang Lin didn’t know was that the old man’s avatar was created from a powerful magic treasure by force and not a powerful avatar technique.
After a while, the white-robed figure began to fade slowly until it finally disappeared.
Wang Lin closed his eyes again. His face was pale, and he began to ponder. Several spells mysteriously appeared in his mind. After analyzing them for a while, Wang Lin opened his eyes and smiled bitterly. He finally understood a little about the Divine Path.
This is a technique for cultivating avatars. One way to increase your chances of reaching the Nascent Soul stage is by using avatars. One can cultivate the main body together with the avatar, and then fuse them back together to help increase the success rate of reaching the Nascent Soul stage.
However, this technique is incomplete and has a fatal flaw. The created avatar will not cultivate and will have a lifespan of less than 30 years. As a result, this technique is more of a burden.
Along with the chant, Chen Chong also left behind several messages. Besides the fact that the technique was incomplete and he wasn’t old enough to carve it, he also left behind a solution.
The solution is to use the technique to create an avatar and use its 30-year lifespan to consume pills. Hoard as many pills as possible and raise the avatar’s cultivation to the highest level. Either way, when you reunite, your chances of breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage will increase slightly.
If enough pills are stored, then it will be possible to reach the Core Formation stage on the avatar, thus increasing one’s chances of forming a New Soul by that much.
Wang Lin pondered for a moment before bitterly dismissing the thought of using the Divine Path. He didn’t have many pills to give to his avatar. Even if he could get pills, he wouldn’t even have enough to use on himself, so how could he be willing to give them to his avatar?
Instead of using this technique, it would be more reliable to find some pills that could increase his chances of forming his Nascent Soul.