Emperor Cang was stunned.
Lu Yang's words were like thunder piercing his ears, leaving him standing there in a daze, until an almost shrieking scream sounded from the bottom of his heart, abruptly jolting him awake.
'He knows! He actually knows.'
'He knows exactly where my problem lies!'
That's right, Emperor Cang also knew that he had actually taken the wrong path. This was quite normal; after all, more than a hundred thousand years had passed, and even his memories were somewhat blurred.
Although his comprehension wasn't considered high—only vaguely a tier above Pan Huang—after more than a hundred thousand years, even the stupidest person would have figured out some principles. Not to mention he had long been delving into the [Three Profound Heavens-Revering Orthodox Method]; how could he not understand that he had walked into a dead end?
But the problem was—
"You only know you took the wrong path, but you don't know where you went wrong."
The next second, Lu Yang directly voiced Emperor Cang's inner thoughts. A smile graced the corners of his mouth, and the Light of Wisdom swirled in his eyes, as if endless talismanic characters were fiercely colliding.
"You think you are very smart."
"The [Three Profound Heavens-Revering Orthodox Method] originated from the [Precious Life Perfect Form Scripture]. You modified it countless times, successfully elevating your incarnations to the Immortal Bridge tier."
"According to your plan, as long as the three bodies eventually merge into one, you can achieve Heaven Treading." Speaking up to here, the sneer at the corner of Lu Yang's mouth grew increasingly intense: "But for some unknown reason, your three bodies could never merge. You tried all methods, whether they were yours or Sisui's."
"So you concluded that Sisui lied to you."
"The three bodies fundamentally cannot be merged. This path is wrong. But you already had no way back, and could only bite the bullet and waste a hundred thousand years."
Lu Yang paced forward.
Seeing this, Emperor Cang gritted his teeth: "Is it not true? Back then, He told me that as long as all three bodies reached the Dao Integration tier, merging them would allow a breakthrough to the Immortal Bridge."
"The result was all a lie."
"Now I have gone a step further, the student surpassing the master. I elevated all three bodies to the Immortal Bridge tier, yet the result is they fundamentally cannot merge to break through to Heaven Treading..."
"You idiot."
Before Emperor Cang could finish, Lu Yang directly sneered and rebuked him, contempt practically overflowing from his eyes: "What do you think the merging of the three bodies is?"
"Once merged, why can it break through the realm?"
"...?"
Emperor Cang froze.
What do you mean by what is merging? Why can it break through the realm? Isn't that what the cultivation method says? That's what Sisui told me too. Do I still need to ask why?
"That's why I say you're an idiot," Lu Yang shook his head. "The three bodies shouldn't have broken through to the Immortal Bridge in the first place! Dao Integration was enough. The true [Three Profound Heavens-Revering Orthodox Method] is not about splitting a person into three, but rather about severing three incarnations, cultivating them to Dao Integration, and then merging them into one to form a Supreme Treasure!"
Speaking of this, Lu Yang laughed out of sheer anger:
"Reckless waste of heavenly treasures!"
"According to the cultivation method Sisui customized for you, you don't need any external objects. Relying solely on yourself, you could have refined a Supreme Treasure, and then used it to build an Immortal Bridge!"
"In other words, the merging of the three bodies wasn't meant for you to break through realms, but for you to build an Immortal Bridge. Yet you took this to attempt breaking through to Heaven Treading?"
"I suggest you first figure out the concept of Heaven Treading."
In the depths of Lu Yang's eyes, the Light of Wisdom collided further.
Even though he had only exchanged blows with Emperor Cang briefly, he was now empowered by eighty percent of the First-generation Master of Beast Taming Peak's Light of Wisdom. He was vastly different from before.
Everything about Emperor Cang was no longer a secret to him:
"After achieving the Immortal Bridge, you originally only needed to follow the prescribed order, fusing your true body with the Supreme Treasure formed by the merging of the three bodies, and you could easily..."
Suddenly, Emperor Cang spoke up, a cold sneer on his face:
"And here I thought you were going to say something else."
"Why do you think I wanted to find a way to modify the [Three Profound Heavens-Revering Orthodox Method]? It was precisely because of this step! This step in the cultivation method is problematic!"
"According to my deductions, after the Azure Heaven, Blue Heaven, and Yellow Heaven merge, they will transform into a true [Heaven]. And if my main body fuses into it, it will make the [Heaven] completely perfect. From then on, I would lose my freedom and become a tool to support the [Paramita], just like the Foundation Establishment Realm and the Netherworld!"
"So that person had long wanted to harm me!"
Speaking of this, Emperor Cang spoke with forceful conviction: "I was merely fighting back from a desperate situation. That hypocrite with his sanctimonious facade, even if he died, it was well deserved!"
He had been holding these words in his heart for a long time.
To Emperor Cang, he never felt that betraying Sisui back then was something to be ashamed of. On the contrary, it was his pride; it showed how brilliant his methods were.
Under a Dao Lord's calculation, I walked out a path of survival, and even leveraged power to counter-kill the Dao Lord!
What a grand achievement this is!
What's wrong with that?
Relying on this, he was able to persuade and rope in a portion of the Three Foundations cultivators back then. It was just a pity that not a single Great Perfected Lord of the Dharma Body Dao believed him.
The next second, he looked at Lu Yang and said again:
"So, Fellow Daoist, you should understand now, right? That person, Sisui, is absolutely not a good person. Rather, there cannot possibly be any good people in this world..."
Before his voice faded, Lu Yang suddenly scoffed:
"According to your deductions?"
"Don't make me laugh."
Emperor Cang's eyes widened, only to see [Pill Cauldron] wearing an expression of uncontrollable amusement, full of extreme sarcasm: "Someone who cultivates the Dharma Body is actually playing around with deductions!"
A poor student should study more, not think about random nonsense all day.
Look at me. Knowing my ability is lacking, I know how to use my talent and hard work to make up for it, and never having amateurs dictate to professionals.
Emperor Cang was a classic counter-example.
"What ability do you have for deductions? With that tiny bit of Light of Wisdom, worse than a monkey's, you actually want to deduce a cultivation method created by a Dao Lord. Who gave you the courage?"
"If it were me, that would be more like it!"
At this point, the Light of Wisdom in Lu Yang's eyes finally reached a certain limit. He had astonishingly comprehended the complete [Three Profound Heavens-Revering Orthodox Method] out of thin air.
"You said that after your main body and the [Heaven] merged, you would become a tool to support the [Paramita]? Foolish! As long as you strictly followed the cultivation method to cultivate, upon the fusion of the two, the only result is that through the cultivation method, you would successfully grasp the foundation of Sisui's entire cultivation— the profound wonder of [Body as Heaven and Earth]!"
What was this?
It was actually forging oneself into a [Plane]!
"After that, you only needed to follow the prescribed order, cultivating steadily every day. Sooner or later, you would be able to perfect your own [Plane], and logically advance to Heaven Treading."
All along, the Heaven Treading Realm had been a hurdle for Great Perfected Lords.
To break through this level, one either relied on a Dao Lord's elevation, expended a massive amount of resources to forge a [Plane], or achieved a fusion of the Grotto-Heaven Method and Void Attainment.
But only now did Lu Yang know:
"As early as the ancient era, Sisui was already setting out to solve this problem. As long as his cultivation method succeeded, the Heaven Treading Realm would no longer be an insurmountable chasm!"
Because he made his own foundation open for all!
A cultivation method that required no resources, no Void Attainment, and no Dao Lord. Relying solely on oneself, one could break through to the Heaven Treading Realm, and even support the [Paramita]!
It was simply a method that gave the best of both worlds.
But what was the result?
Lu Yang said no more, merely looking at Emperor Cang with a cold sneer. The latter, however, had a dull face and blank eyes, seemingly plunging into massive self-doubt.
"Impossible... how is it possible?"
"He definitely wanted to harm me... He was so good to me. Not only did he raise me meticulously, lacking no resources whatsoever, he even frequently guided me."
"What was he after?"
"Doing all this, truly just to cultivate me? This is fundamentally unreasonable. How could he not want to harm me? He must have been planning to harm me!"
Pies don't fall from the sky for no reason. Compared to Sisui simply caring for him and wanting to cultivate him, the idea that Sisui actually wanted to use him as a stepping stone for his own further advancement was undoubtedly easier for Emperor Cang to accept. Or rather, judging others by himself, he felt this was the right way!
At the same time, Lu Yang finally drew a conclusive judgment.
"What a pity, Sisui's eye for people wasn't very good."
"A dignified Dao Lord, all his painstaking efforts ultimately fed to a fucking dog."