Daily life of a cultivation judge-Chapter 1157 The last legacy (2)
1157: The last legacy (2)
1157: The last legacy (2)
“They revered our founder, for one, and then there was also his relationship with the Silver Crane Sect to consider.
While the Silver Crane Sect could ignore us or keep their distance, that wasn’t the case when it came to him,” Xia Fang said, a hint of envy in her tone.
“His master would visit from time to time, though not often.
He came when our founder’s first child was born and later when he officially established the clan,” Xia Fang said before pausing briefly.
“And the last visit was when he passed,” she added in a somber tone.
“Other than his master, his martial siblings were the more frequent visitors,” Xia Fang added.
“With that relationship, the five personal disciples couldn’t do much.
Though from the records left behind, it seemed they truly revered him.
And it wasn’t just them—our ancestors did too, beyond the fact that we were kin.
They admired his insights and breadth of knowledge in cultivation.
His crippled cultivation base didn’t diminish it in the slightest.
And as far as understanding the principles of cultivation went, no one in our clan—past or present—has ever come close.
The reason we managed to sustain and even improve ourselves for so long after he passed was because of the teachings and foundations he set,” Xia Fang said, her eyes gleaming with reverence.
Her clan possessed a Daoist canon written by their founder, containing his insights into various facets of cultivation.
It explored how different branches of cultivation shared similarities, all leading back to a singular root.
That canon was one of the few things that offered a glimpse into the prodigious abilities of their founder and what a monster he was.
He was a talented sword cultivator who had used his understanding of the sword to derive insights into other paths, which eventually led him to become just as skilled in formations just as he was with the sword.
The blue-grade formation arrays the Xia clan used had all been personally designed by him.
The canon he created provided profound insights and guidance whilst at the same time demystifyied countless truths and principles into a form that could be easily understood and applied.
Ninety percent of what the Xia clan had achieved or built was thanks to that Daoist canon.
The exposure, guidance, and understanding it provided allowed them to establish foundations that smoothed their path forward.
It was because of it that the clan was able to consistently produce palace realm experts, one generation after another.
Even during their golden era, though the celestial light hawthorn played a major role in their success, its effects wouldn’t have been nearly as astonishing without the foundation laid by the Daoist canon.
The guidance it provided allowed those who consumed the celestial light hawthorn to fully capitalize on its properties, elevating themselves beyond what would have been possible otherwise. freewebnσvel.cøm
Under different hands, that celestial light hawthorn would never have produced nine late-stage palace realm experts.
And without that Daoist canon, the Xia clan would never have been able to reach the heights it once did.
Their ancestor may have only been in the Core Formation Realm when he created it, but that canon was the culmination of his entire experience and journey as a cultivator and the understanding that had been born from said experience which was then refined and distilled into its pages.
It was one of his greatest lifetime achievements, fully deserving of its title.
While the canon helped set firm foundations from the Qi refinement realm all the way through to the core formation realm, its advantages didn’t stop there.
Even those in the palace realm found themselves improving by reading it.
As her grandfather once put it, “It is only when one reaches the palace realm that they can truly ‘see’ and appreciate the canon,” before sighing in admiration at their founder’s breadth of insight and talent.
He may not have stepped into the palace realm when he wrote it, but the insights within that canon dwarfed those of any palace realm expert the Xia clan had ever produced.
It continued to guide and nurture them even at that level.
Xia Fang couldn’t help but agree with her grandfather’s sentiments.
She wasn’t in the palace realm like he had been, so she couldn’t fully grasp how different the canon might appear at that stage.
Moreover, she had only interacted with one of its three volumes, yet even that alone was enough to show her how extraordinary it was.
Her blue-grade core was achieved thanks to that volume, which not only simplified complex concepts but also provided the insights she needed to deepen her foundations in order to form it.
And it wasn’t just the canon that left Xia Fang and the rest in awe of their founder’s abilities.
His countless achievements spoke for themselves, especially the things he accomplished even after he was crippled.
One of his most remarkable feats was personally guiding and nurturing thirteen palace realm experts, including his five personal disciples.
Those five may have been the first palace realm experts to come out of his tutelage, but by the time he passed, he had produced eight more from among his own descendants.
The fact that he achieved all of this in less than 5,000 years and with a crippled core formation cultivation base to boot was a staggering testament to his abilities.
“Pheasant’s Reflection into the Natural Flow,” Xia Fang softly and absentmindedly muttered under her breath, waves of nostalgia washing over her.
That was the title of the canon, its name borrowed from their core cultivation art—the Azure Wave Pheasant Art.
That canon was the true legacy their founder had left behind for his descendants, and it was one of the chief reasons the three retainer clans had set their sights on them and why they acted the moment the opportunity presented itself.
As long as the Xia clan had that canon with them, no matter how dire their circumstances were, with the canon in hand they could still rise back to where they once were.
And that was something the three clans would never allow.
