The Great Way of the Buddha, also known as the "Forbidden Heavenly Tome", was a forbidden Divine Profound Art, and just like Heretic God Arts, it belonged to a True God from the Primordial Era. It came from a primordial true god once called the "Rage God".
The way that the Great Way of the Buddha was different from Heretic God Arts. The Heretic God Arts existed in the Profound Veins and didn't need to be cultivated but the Great Way of the Buddha affected your blood, meridians, muscles, skin, and hair and actually had not even the slightest of relationships with Profound Veins or even Profound Strength since it relied on the strength of the soul and nature instead.
In simple terms, you could not cultivate the Great Way of Buddha through battle but only through pure comprehension.
{Normally, it is impossible for mortals to cultivate the Great Way of Buddha. If they tried to, their bodies would simply explode; as mortals are not meant to carry the powers of gods. But brother and you are different. Unlike other mortals, both of you possess True God inheritance. This allows both of you to cultivate the Great Way of Buddha till sixth level, the peak that you can reach with a mortal shell!}
"I see…" Yun Che nodded. He knew that his system wouldn't be registering the Great Way of Buddha as skill, since it wasn't. It was purely a way to guide one to tone their bodies with heaven and earth, to become one with it, and to use its power to evolve their bodies. It had nothing to do with skills. If he had to put it in gamer terms, then it was an art that depended solely on one's INT stat. The greater INT stat, the better understanding of the art would be.
{In this world, only me and my brother know about the Great Way of Buddha. Other than that, you are the third person to know about it.}
Jasmine herself wondered why she was willing to teach him this. After the death of her brother, she had sealed the Great Way of Buddha in the deepest part of her heart. She considered it as a special art which connected her and her brother. And now she was going to give it to another person.
She wondered if she was doing all of this just so she could see the visage of her brother within Yun Che.
Even though Yun Che acted weird all the time, she could still see a part of her brother in him… maybe that's why?
{That's why, swear to this princess that you would never leave the path of heavy sword!}
"I promise." Yun Che didn't deny and nodded.
{Good. Then you should rest for now. After all that… happened today, your mind must be tired. Rest, and this princess will teach you the Great Way of Buddha tomorrow.}
Yun Che nodded. He won't say no to a good bed rest.
After meeting so many mobs today, he really was tired mentally. That indeed was the case. As such, he once again put the Overlord Colossal Sword back in the Sky Poison Pearl and left the Profound Gathering Tower.
Reaching his room, he took a bath to clean himself and to relax his mind and body. Got cursed and slapped by Jasmine for calling her a voyeur.
Entering the room and seeing the massive bed, Yun Che suddenly felt that something was missing. Of course he would! The past ten days, he has been sleeping with Cang Yue on the same bed. He was already missing her huggable soft body.
"Jasmine, any plans for sleeping with me today? Forget it." The moment he felt incomprehensible bloodlust filling the room, he took a step back right away. He was quite flexible. He knew when to take a step back!
"Ah! This feels good!" Laying on the bed, he let his body sink into the softness of the bed.
Not only was the bed big, it was greatly soft. He really enjoyed lying on it.
'Since I finally have free time, I should check Menu in detail. My memories are already quite fuzzy about most things, it's a great opportunity to refresh them.'
With that, he opened the system and started to check what it had to offer. He saw many options, way too many! Some of them were something he used on instinct level, something he still remembered, and some were he had no idea about.
He was glad he decided to check it now.
Storage, Map, Radar, Map Search, Column List, Memo Pad, Augmented Structure, Magic Column, Recipe Column, Self Status, Analyze, Clock, Automatic Loot, Log, Unknown, Integration, Unit Argumentation (Sealed), Unit Creation (Sealed), Indestructible (Sealed), All-Map Exploration, Administrator (Sealed).
One by one, Yun Che checked each option.
All his attention, though, was diverted towards sealed options, which he remembered were the authorities of Satou, and Unknown option.
He clicked the unknown option as information popped up.
Unknown — Unlike others, the user only needs to successfully perform an active action to gain the relevant skills and only needs to be in a situation where passive skills are useful to gain such skills. The user can copy skills and spells performed in his presence automatically and unlike others he is always guaranteed 10 skill points per level. Also allows the user to pierce through space and spatial barriers without any hindrance.
'Oh! I completely forgot about the level-up status. Does that still work even though whenever I use Self-Status, all that pops up is my profound strength. How does that even work?'
Other than that, he was already aware of other benefits this option provided.
Then, his gaze landed on the sealed options. Confused, he clicked on it as an option popped up.
[Warning! User doesn't possess divinity to use authorities!]
'Ah… So that's why!'
All those sealed options were in fact authorities of Satou as Creation God! But since he didn't have divinity, all of them were sealed because he couldn't use them anyways.
Though Yun Che doubted he could use them even after they were unsealed. The amount of divinity required to use each should be ginormous.
Yet, he was excited to reach Divine Realm even more now. Just being able to use those authorities made him giggle weirdly, creeping out Jasmine.
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