Exploring Immortality Cultivation-Chapter 1017 - 101: Nascent Soul Skill, Xuanzi Scripture

What is most important for a cultivation method to be widely spread and have its inheritance never severed?

Is it power? Is it cultivation speed? Is it the difficulty of breaking through?

None of these.

The most important thing for a cultivation method to have continuous inheritance is—no peculiar requirements on talent, bloodline, or species, allowing more life beings to practice it.

Once the base number increases, naturally the cultivation method will be brought to a new level, and there will be more experts in this cultivation method.

From this perspective, the Modern Cultivation Method, with its approach to continuously simplifying cultivation and lowering the cultivation threshold, is undoubtedly on the right path.

Zhen Chan became more and more confused: "This... you're still praising the Modern Method..."

"If viewed solely from the perspective of the 'Human Clan,' that's correct. But, there's a but here!" Wang Qi emphasized, "The Primordial Spirit Skill is actually the most suitable cultivation method for the Human Clan. It requires the physical body, soul, mind, life, and everything to be unified in harmony with the great system of life and the great harmony of Heaven and Earth. To achieve this, one must have an in-depth understanding of oneself first."

"You mean..."

"The species that humans have studied most thoroughly is still the Human Clan itself..." Wang Qi sighed.

Humans have studied the species most deeply is still the Human Clan itself. The vast majority of medical methods are based on humans. And the majority of cultivation methods are premised on the "human body." Whether on Earth or Shenzhou, the Human Clan bloodline/human gene is the first high-level biological genetic map to be completely deciphered.

Ultimately, the Primordial Spirit Skill is the most suitable cultivation method for the Human Clan.

If a race can use scientific methods and reasoning to enhance its understanding of its own species, then perhaps there is some hope to have the same opportunity as the Human Clan to advance with the Primordial Spirit Skill. However, currently, it seems only the Dragon Clan has this capability on Shenzhou.

In fact, even now, the Immortal Alliance hasn't completely solved the discrimination problem against Half-demons, which is related to this. After all, Half-demons are not pure Human Clan, using the Human Clan's standard to cultivate the Primordial Spirit Skill always feels like there's a barrier. The scarcity of high-level Half-demons also contributes to the saying "Half-demons have low intelligence."

On the other hand, the cultivation method derived from the core Divine Skills of Transformation Divine Power, comprising Divine Power Body and Demon God Body, can completely transcend the barriers of bloodline. However, this cultivation method has its limitations too.

Transformation Divine Power is a cultivation method that changes bloodline expression, thereby deriving various incredible abilities. If applied appropriately, a person can obtain several species-specific bloodline innate divine abilities.

However, for species originating from lower life forms with less complex genetic information, the function of deriving divine skills from this Transformation Technique is practically useless. Their bloodline Spirit Sense is just too simple, and no matter how arranged, it cannot generate powerful transcendent abilities.

For example, Senior Sister Mi.

In Senior Sister Mi's hands, the Transformation Technique is merely used to experience "fixed thinking," nothing more. Her body is the most primitive marine algae, with genetic information too simple, incapable of deriving any transcendent abilities.

Many individual weak Beast Herd Species life beings also may not benefit from the Transformation Technique.

The Renewal Demon Clan and Primordial Demon Clan, civilizations guided by the Ancient Dragon Emperor, don't exist in the Beast Herd Species, perhaps for this reason.

Strictly speaking, the demon clan cultivation method centered on the Transformation Technique is only suitable for the Dragon Clan's cultivation method. However, its limitation lies not in the research level of oneself, but in the inherent complexity of the bloodline Spirit Sense.

This is like a natural, unbreakable caste system.

"Human Clan cultivation method purely depends on acquired effort, while Dragon Clan cultivation method focuses on utilizing innate capital to develop it into acquired strength." Wang Qi summarized, "Clearly, whether it's the Primordial Spirit Skill or Divine Skill-Demon God Skill, they only suit 'one species,' only suit one's own clan."

"And oddly enough, the Nascent Soul Skill is unconditionally suitable for all species of life beings."

"Hmm?" Zhen Chan did not expect Wang Qi would reach this conclusion. He was silent for a moment, then said, "Did you come up with this?"

Wang Qi shook his head and answered through Spiritual Sense Transmission: "Actually, this is an old theory. After the Demon Emperor's chaos, there was a brief period of Ancient Method restoration. This theory was proposed by a 'restorer.' Although this person ultimately died, his theory strangely persisted. A year ago, while contemplating 'the essence of technology,' I briefly encountered this theory. However, I didn't pay attention at the time. But recently, it suddenly came to mind..."

"According to that cultivator's theory, the Golden Core acts as a hub for all body mana. Every cultivator from any school or cultivation method will determine this 'hub' at a certain stage to break through physical limits and increase mana. Human Clan Golden Core, Demon Clan Demon Core... If not for Sea God Type naturally crossing this stage, they would also undergo this step. Additionally, according to Yue Luo and Liu Li, the core individual within Beast Herd Species will also have such a 'hub.'

"And regardless of which 'hub,' all can become a Nascent Soul—Senior Sister Mi's cultivation of Ancient Method these days is just this feeling."

Zhen Chan was silent for a moment.

Wang Qi was right; the Golden Core Nascent Soul Great Dao suits all species, even cultivators of both organic and inorganic types.

Even in recent extrapolations, Constant Star creatures can form a star core with the Nascent Soul Skill, and Nebula creatures can condense a star infant.

However, knowledgeable people are not abundant, and abundant people are not knowledgeable. A cultivation technique that allows all species to cultivate regardless of origin holds less significance for a single species than a method that suits its own race best.

The Ancient Dragon Emperor abandoned ancient methods; the Human Clan ultimately chose the Primordial Spirit Skill, which might relate to this point.

However, Wang Qi thought further.

"Who do you think originally came up with a way to create a cultivation method that allows the entire cosmos to cultivate?"

Zhen Chanzi immediately retorted: "If the Nascent Soul Skill is as powerful as you say, then before the rise of the Human Clan, wasn't the Demon Clan..."

Zhen Chanzi stopped halfway, not continuing to speak further.

Why didn't the Human Clan observe traces of the Nascent Soul Skill becoming popular among the Demon Clan?

Because the dominant force on this planet is still the Dragon Clan!

The Dragon Clan, or perhaps the Ancient Dragon Emperor, could quietly make the Divine Skill - Demon God Skill become mainstream among the collapsing Demon Clan, so suppressing the Nascent Soul Skill within the Demon Clan to death wouldn't be too difficult, right?

Zhen Chanzi suddenly felt very foolish, extremely foolish.

Having practiced for ten thousand years, and being sealed alone for another ten thousand years, why hadn't he thought of this layer?

An Ancient Method Practitioner, who understood the Ancient Method - Nascent Soul Skill, not even as well as a cultivator walking the path of the Primordial Spirit.

Wang Qi continued: "This point is indeed very puzzling... Who was it, back then, that spread the initial seeds of the Immortal Dao Civilization across the entire cosmos?"

In the beginning of antiquity, who transmitted the Dao?

Wang Qi's question is not a metaphysical philosophical thought, but a tangible historical question.

Who created the Nascent Soul Skill?

How was this law, suitable for the vast majority of species, created?

What was the purpose of creating the Nascent Soul Skill? Was it to have the entire cosmos practice it?

How was it spread?

Was the Nascent Soul Skill really spread across the entire universe?

Who was the person who initially sowed the seeds of Immortal Dao Civilization?

Why did the Ancient Dragon Emperor and the Demon Emperor play the "Immortal Transmission" game so skillfully?

Did "Immortal Transmission" really happen frequently in some era billions of years ago?

More importantly...

"The laws inherent within the Nascent Soul Skill don't seem to be meant for interacting with Heaven and Earth itself," Wang Qi said: "The Nascent Soul Skill and the current Dragon Cultivation Method and Human Clan's Primordial Spirit Skill have obvious differences. Whether it's the might of high-order dragons or the Primordial Spirit's Magical Domain of Primordial Spirit Cultivators, they can manipulate the great powers of Heaven and Earth, temporarily changing the laws of Heaven and Earth. However, the Nascent Soul Divine Domain gets corrected by the operation of the cosmic spiritual energy - I don't have to spell out the differences here, do I?"

Zhen Chanzi sighed: "We've been living like this for tens of thousands of years..."

Wang Qi rolled his eyes: "You were foolish, but the people who created the Nascent Soul Skill billions of years ago might not have been!"

To create a path relatively fair to all species is already a miracle of miracles. Certainly, the Nascent Soul Skill has negative issues such as "being unfriendly to the environment," but considering that the founders of the Nascent Soul Skill might have been celestial body creatures or beings equivalent to them, it's understandable that they weren't concerned about the ecosystem of mere rocky planets, right?

Such beings surely understand "interacting with Heaven and Earth," right?

"Could it be that the Nascent Soul Skill sent by the Demon Emperor was castrated from the start?"

"But the Demon Emperor intended to one day escape. If to better control those who receive the cultivation technique, even the power of the technique itself was weakened, that would be putting the cart before the horse - if the Demon Emperor had such intelligence, he might as well remain forever suppressed by the Ancient Dragon Emperor!"

"In other words, whether the Nascent Soul Divine Domain is naturally corrected likely reflects the original nature of the Nascent Soul - though we can't completely rule out the possibility of the Demon Emperor being foolish, but it's unlikely."

Zhen Chanzi felt his head spinning. He asked: "If there's something you want to say, just say it..."

"According to my previous thoughts, if a cultivation technique can always be a rule of interaction between 'Life' and the 'Material World' based on physical principles, then the agreement target of the Nascent Soul Stage might very well not be 'Heaven and Earth,' or 'cosmos,' or the 'Material World,' but something else."

Zhen Chanzi was already bewildered. He pursued: "Then what is it..."

Wang Qi shrugged: "I don't know, I really don't know this."

"However, apart from contemplating the Nascent Soul Skill, Primordial Spirit Skill, and Virtual Primordial Spirit, I've also created a cultivation technique that can embody my set of ideas. It's currently in the experimental stage. Perhaps, it won't be long before I get an answer."

Zhen Chanzi's heart was stirred: "No way, could it be..."

"The 'Xuan Jun Seven Chapters Secret.'" Wang Qi nodded.