Aspiring to the Immortal Path

“To understand a sects resources, the simplest method is also the most effective: looking at its history. The greatest difference between a major sect and a minor sect is in their Immortal arts. To understand which one has the better Immortal arts, you cant listen to what they say. You have to look at their past. Sects can decline, but their Immortal arts will remain. If a sect has produced a Violet Palace True Lord in its history, then that means that the sect does not have a problem when it comes to arts. Even if this sect has, for some reason or another, lost its high-level arts, at least there is no problem with its low-level arts, and in the future, you can just cultivate a different art. But if theyve never produced a True Lord… you have to be careful.”

Saying this, Tang Jie produced another piece of paper. “Take this Furious Sword Gate noted here. It once had a resplendent period where it produced numerous Celestial Heart Realm experts that swept over the opposition. But this Furious Sword Gate has never produced a Violet Palace True Lord. Those peerless geniuses of the Furious Sword Gate ultimately stopped at the peak of the Celestial Heart Realm, none of them able to make that critical step. Some of them even died in the attempt. This means that there is a problem with this sects arts. If you cultivate it, you might not even have a chance to start over. Of course, it might just be that their luck was bad, but on a matter like this, its better to be safe than sorry.”

In truth, the Xu Clan was a classic example. The clans Immortal arts were limited, and if there was a problem with ones foundation, then no matter how talented one was, one would never be able to surpass the Celestial Heart Realm.

Fortunately for them, the Celestial Heart Realm was enough to muddle through in the Rosecloud Domain, which was why the Xu Clan was still okay. But for those people who were set on the Great Dao, to have hope and to be able to realize ones hopes were two completely different things.

For arts like those of the Xu Clan, one could learn them in ones journey for the Dao, but one absolutely could not use them to establish their foundation. Of course, the Xu Clan was trying to find its own solutions to this problem.

Unlike Qin Yuan and Wei Die, Tang Jie had spent half a year with Xu Muyang and had learned many important things about the cultivation world. In knowledge of this aspect, only official Spirit Masters could compare to him.

When it came to the various minor sects of Sageheart, Xu Muyang had told him about a lot of them, and Tang Jie had learned about some of them over the last two years. As for the method of looking at history to filter out the bad ones, this was his own unique development. Though it was not guaranteed to work, it was not without reason. At least when it came to the arts of the twenty-two sects he had written, they could be trusted.

Qin Yuan and Wei Die were stunned. It took a while for Wei Die to finally ask, “And what was the meaning behind your second question?”

Tang Jie explained, “Immortal sects differ in their methods. Even the same spell art will have different effects when used by different people. What do you think the essential reason for these differences is?”

“Their individual aptitude?” Steward Qin blurted out.

Tang Jie shook his head. Wei Die was the smarter one, and she shouted out in understanding, “Could it be personality?”