'I just got away by luck; I need to be careful on this type of dangerous mission,' thought Kai.
He, who had just lost control of his willpower in excitement, was covered in a cold sweat. He quickly calmed his emotions and controlled his willpower.
The voice that came from the scripture pavilion is the guardian of the pavilion; he sensed the willpower when Kai lost control of it. He did not suspect the insects because of their harmless appearance. He only thought someone had come in without permission.
Kai did not cut off the connection between him and the insects when he got caught, because if he were to do that, he would be locked by the sense of the powerful cultivator.
"I thought someone had sneaked inside the pavilion," said the guardian. His name is Daniel, and he is a loyal servant of the Yang family.
The Yang family is the ruler of Slaughter Palace. The first ancestor of the Yang family is the founder of this sect, and now it has become a Saint tier sect, on the verge of becoming a supreme sect.
The sect leader is still in seclusion, and he will only come in a critical situation, the grand elder also has a lot of work to do. So the reason Kai did not get caught was because the powerhouses in the sect were busy.
Kai only devised the plan based on this assumption; the sect master can easily sense his willpower. He may not know about willpower, but he can understand it is some kind of foreign energy, and that is invading the pavilion.
Seeing the guardian did not find him, Kai ordered three ants to go inside the book. He can only read three books at the same time, so he only used three and gave the order to hide from other insects.
The three ants started searching for the books of other cultivation paths; after searching for a long time, he did not find anything related to them. He was disappointed by his findings, but he decided to try all over the pavilion.
The pavilion has a total of 5 floors, and he only looked at the first floor. The body and soul cultivation books will be on the 4th or even 5th floor.
The first floor only contains information about the world. It was like the library in his house but with detailed information. He did not find anything on the second floor either, as this floor only contains basic techniques.
The third floor has a lot of books, but all of them are about cultivation techniques and martial arts techniques. They were not his target now, so he decided to make the ants move towards the fourth floor.
The fourth floor only contains a small amount of books, but all of them are saint-level books. It was a treasure trove, but he did not see it since his only objective was to find books related to other paths. Kai did not want to take risks because Daniel was guarding the pavilion. Reading all the books in the pavilion will take a lot of time, so the chances of doing something wrong are very high.
With his order, the ants started searching for a body and a soul path. He found three books on each path. Kai was disappointed since there were only three books, and one book only gave an introduction to the path, but he understood the rarity of the path and the level of slaughter Palace. It was a very good thing to have two books at Saint level with them at their level.
The emperor-tier family and sects may have a lot of books and techniques with them, but it is not a luxury for Slaughter Palace unless they are pure soul and body path sects.
Kai started to read all three books at the same time, using the ants as a communication link. After finishing all three books, he started the next set.
'So, it is the reason heaven did not allow me to teach Will's path to others.' thought Kai. A person can only cultivate two paths at the same time, the will path is not a fully-fledged path for now. It only has two realms, and the heavenly dao does not want Kai to teach a half-baked path to another. It is also possible to cultivate three paths at the same time, but it cannot be done by all people; only a heaven-defying genius can cultivate them.
There are only nine people capable of cultivating three paths at the same time, and all of them are emperor-level powerhouses. They are idols of countless generations and also the strongest among the emperor realm. There may be some other people who cultivate all three paths at the same time, but it won't exceed a hundred.
'Now I have another limit to break through, but this can be done later. For now, I need to break the limitations of talent, and I have only one chance.' thought Kai. He did not care about the limitations of the path since he already had a plan.
The body path also has six major realms and corresponding minor realms; the same goes for the soul path. The Slaughter Palace only has the cultivation technique for the first four realms in both paths. If Kai wants to find higher realms in these paths, he needs to steal them from the emperor-tier family and sects, but that is an impossible task considering his strength.
Body cultivation path
1. Essence formation realm
* Marrow tempering
* Cell tempering
* Mortal cleansing
* Essence transformation.
2. Nine gate-opening realm
* Gate of opening
* Gate of rest
* Gate of life
* Gate of pain
* Gate of closing
* Gate of joy
* Gate of shock
* Gate of Death
* Gate of power.
3. Dao body realm
* Body tempering
* Bone tempering
* Blood tempering
4. Saint Dao's body
* Golden Blood
* Golden bone
* Golden body
* Sanctification.
This four-tiered system corresponds to the energy path. The essence formation realm forms the essence by cleaning and tempering the body to form the essence. The essence is a type of energy that is used for the body's path, like Qi.
The gate-opening realm is to open the gate inside the body of a person. Each gate has to be opened by using the essence of energy.
The Gate of Opening frees the brain from all the strains and muscles, giving the user five times more speed and strength.
The Gate of Rest releases the brain's limit on stamina.
The Gate of Life is in the spinal cord and frees the limit to the nervous system throughout the body. This makes information faster and builds more stamina.
The Gate of Pain, releases the limit of oxygen going to the lungs, making more oxygen for the user's body to use.
The Gate of Closing frees up the amount of energy that can be used in one attack.
The Gate of Joy takes away the amount of fat and protein the body can digest. Releasing useless energy resources gives the person more power and more stamina.
The Gate of Shock takes away the dead skin cells to fences and refreshes the system in the body to make it more powerful and have a lot of stamina.
The Gate of Death is at the heart and uses the whole body's energy; it makes the heart pump at its fullest speed and passes energy to all the 1–7 gates. It uses every cell in the body.
The Gate of Power amplifies all the gates using the power of essence and makes the body stronger.
In the Dao body realm, the cultivator needs to temper their body with law, or Dao. After tempering the whole body, bones, and blood, the Dao body is formed. The law, or Dao, is based on their affinity, or it can also be the comprehended law in the divine realm.
After tempering the body with Dao, in the saint Dao body realm, the cultivator needs to refine theirs for sanctification.
In the golden blood realm, the cultivator needs to refine the blood until it turns a gold color; in the golden bone realm, the cultivator needs to refine the bone until it turns a gold color. The same goes for the golden body realm.
After the whole body turns gold, it is time for the body to be sanctified. The cultivator needs to pass the heavenly tribulation to be sanctified. It makes the cultivator's body pure and holy, capable of fighting saint realm Qi cultivation with their bare hands.
This is the reason that the upper echelon of the world did not allow the common people to gain knowledge about these paths. Both body and soul are superior to the Qi path in terms of strength. These two paths also have disadvantages, but they outweigh the gains.
If a pure body cultivator uses the correct subdao, the power of a person will increase multiple times. In terms of versatility, the Qi path is superior. All three paths are considered equal in overall terms, but in the early stages, the Qi path is at a disadvantage, and the upper echelon of the world wants to use this as an advantage.