Chapter 273 – Enduring Eternity (V)

Chapter 273

Enduring Eternity (V)

It happened yet again, Long Tao mused.

He’d found himself stunned into silence reading his Master’s ‘aunt’s supposed inheritance–Enduring Eternity, the method was called, and, by some miracle, it actually somewhat lived up to that audacious name.

As with most other things that his Master seemed to pull out of thin air, it was not conventionally astounding. Rather, on its own, it was a rather simple, if quite stable, cultivation method that practically anyone could use. While that made it universal, it also limited its functionality, as most legendary cultivation methods were geared for specific physiques or bloodlines or even people.

Sort of like how he already made one for Dai Xiu and her Vast-Body Dantian physique, but even more so toward the extreme ends of that spectrum.

For the majority of his past life, one cultivation method was considered to be the ‘most powerful’–Immortal Buddhist Sutra. However, its outcome was entirely theoretical, as there had never been anyone born with the ability to cultivate it.

Not only did it require a pure soul–which already eliminated the vast majority of the living–but it also required a sinless existence, self-sacrifice to the point of absurdity, and a litany of other things that not even saints from the myths could live up to.

If, somehow, some way, someone did actually manage to fulfill those requirements, they’d be able to become crowned within a literal month, burning through every single cultivation realm as though they were nothing.

And, even among the Emperors and Empresses, they would have been unrivaled.

Nobody ever learned when it was created, or even by whom, and though it was considered the property of the Monastery, practically anyone could have walked in at any time and tried to cultivate it.

Long Tao himself did it, just about a year or so after he ascended, and, just like everyone before and after him, he failed… rather spectacularly.

That was the context of all ‘powerful’ cultivation methods–the more restrictions there were, the more powerful they’d become.

But his Master, once again, did something… unorthodox, to say the least. While true that this particular method wasn’t in and of itself particularly heaven-defying, that was only so after being viewed outside the context.

Long Tao had tried creating something similar in his past life–the idea of ‘stacking’ was far from new and had been attempted thousands of times to varying degrees of ‘success’, but nobody had truly managed to create something like it, as the requirements were absurd.

One would have to be intimately familiar with dozens of Laws and Paths from the very beginning and would have to have the capacity to reshape that knowledge into digestible bits and pieces for those who did not have an iota of knowledge about them.

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… but with this method, that was irrelevant.

His Master, clearly, did not possess intimate knowledge of dozens of Paths and Laws. He probably didn’t even possess any kind of knowledge of any kind of them. But that was also perhaps the reason why he managed to ‘solve’ the conundrum–Enduring Eternity’s baseline stability and utter inoffensiveness meant that Laws and Paths could be layered on top of it, sort of like adding another floor to a building with an extremely stable foundation.

Even Long Tao, who in his head already possessed perhaps the best cultivation method for himself, could and should learn this one, as there would be no interference.

He couldn’t use the Horizon of Infinity until the Nirvana Realm, and with a bit of pestering of his Master to ‘procure’ a slightly more specialized version, he could even see the two of them eventually merging into one.