The Sims: I Open the Immortal Path for All Beings-Chapter 854 - 804: Refusing Communication

Chapter 854: Chapter 804: Refusing Communication

The wise can err despite a thousand considerations, while the foolish may succeed from the same.

Pei Xuanjing had always believed in the idea that the wisdom of one falls short, while the collective wisdom of many is far-reaching. In his view, the pioneering of any Dao was never an easy feat for one person to accomplish alone; the so-called pathfinder’s efforts were but a guiding role. The true levelling of the path to allow everyone access inevitably required the wisdom of countless individuals.

By gathering the wisdom of all beings and transforming it into my own cultivation sustenance, it becomes an aid as I strive for higher peaks. In the same vein, awaiting me atop that summit is the chance to build from a high vantage point—systematically organizing the path I’ve trodden to assist those who come after me, reducing their time expenditure and the cost of trial and error. This creates a win-win situation.

Pei Xuanjing did not only think this way, but he also acted accordingly. His initial purpose for establishing the Li Tao Academy was just that. After its establishment, he gathered techniques of various families, created countless new skills and divine power methods for innumerable academy disciples to learn, and similarly, he absorbed their ingenious and unique insights into the skills, their sparks of wisdom, to foster his own growth.

Just like the Martial Arts that Pei Xuanjing sought to perfect, although it had only been a few short decades, the Martial Arts Techniques he developed and deduced, comparable to the Paths of Refining Qi and Refining Spirit, were also disseminated within the academy. As the headmaster of the academy, Pei Xuanjing’s prestige was unmatched; therefore, as the academy’s offerings, the disciples would certainly not overlook them.

Hence, although the system for Martial Arts had yet to be established and many academy disciples did not immediately focus their cultivation on it, it did not prevent them from beginning to practice it alongside their primary disciplines as they tried out these Martial Arts Techniques.

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Time and the myriad things and spirits have no identical flowers; even the same skill is perceived differently by different eyes. Thus, even the skills pioneered and deduced by Pei Xuanjing from the vantage point of the Nine Realms of Spirit Realm were not entirely flawless. As the originator of the skills, these were most suited to him and not necessarily a perfect match for everyone.

Before the academy’s disciples entered the Spirit Realm, all the academy instructors would tell them a phrase left by Pei Xuanjing: “Ancestors’ laws are not sufficient, and the Heavenly Dao is not to be feared.”

All academy disciples must keep in mind that there is no ultimate skill, only the most suitable one for oneself. In the process of cultivating any skill, there is no need to replicate entirely. Doing so means following the path of the predecessors; they need to ponder and tread their own Dao.

Therefore, the academy’s many disciples all enjoy discussing the Dao, sharing their insights gained through cultivation. Although this process inevitably leads to conflicts, with some disputes escalating from debates to physical confrontations, as long as lives are not endangered, the academy’s many instructors let these disputes take their own course, even encouraging them.

There’s a saying that practice trumps theory. You claim your understanding and enlightenment to be the best, but if you can’t beat me, it proves your insights are incorrect, without my strength.

In cultivation, Realm and power are fundamental, the most authentic principles. Not that there are no eloquent discourse masters among the academy’s disciples, but when facing their strong but silent peers, they can only scurry away in defeat.

Similarly, just as it is among the academy’s disciples, conflicts are inevitable among the many instructors, or rather, because of the different teaching methods employed in guiding disciples, their disputes are even more significant.

Perhaps out of respect for an instructor’s dignity, or maybe because their strength is on par and no victor can emerge, then using their respective disciples to determine who’s superior is also an acceptable solution.

“It’s a pity that even ordinary disciples in the academy understand a principle that these top forces fail to grasp,” Pei Xuanjing frowned and shook his head, “No, it’s not that they don’t understand, but rather they are unwilling, just unwilling to share their prized possessions.”

The academy’s disciples all know that by exchanging and sharing knowledge, they can gain more, benefiting their cultivation; surely disciples from those top forces understand this too.

But they are reluctant!

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Even when Pei Xuanjing took the initiative to speak, not only did he selflessly express his many cultivation insights at the Shenxiao Debate Conference, but also, after entering Tianhuang Realm as an avatar and completing his study of the human sacrificial altar at the Witch Deity Teaching, he personally visited many top forces of Tianhuang and engaged in discussions with them. While they shared many things, they still would not exchange core information with Pei Xuanjing.

The secret to Becoming Immortal is related to the Sect’s millennia of heritage—all efforts of the Sect’s predecessors over thousands of years. How could such knowledge be lightly imparted to others?

This was the response Pei Xuanjing received from an unnamed Supreme Strong after proposing an exchange of insights on the path to immortality during his visits to various top forces in Tianhuang Realm.

The myriad top forces of Tianhuang Realm today, aside from the newly risen Taixu Sect in Tianhuang, all have legacies that span thousands to tens of thousands of years, surviving one or even several cataclysms. They have given birth to countless Supreme Strong, whose experiences and insights into the Immortal Path are their true legacies.

In their view, Pei Xuanjing merely wanted to freeload off of them. After all, even though he was powerful, he had only risen for a mere century or so, and likely had not reached the pinnacle of the Strongest Realm. Whatever insights he had into the Immortal Path were certainly not worth exchanging in their eyes.

Under such circumstances, even Pei Xuanjing, the recently ascendant powerhouse imbued with grand Qi Luck, was insignificant in the face of these millennia-old top forces, naturally disinclined to engage in an overtly disadvantageous trade with him.

For them, the willingness to interact with Pei Xuanjing and to share some of the Supreme Strong or less critical skills and divine abilities unrelated to their Sect’s core heritage with him, allowing him to peruse them, was already out of respect for his potential as a figure of the Revival of Heaven and Earth, carrying the tide of fortune.

In such a situation, when Pei Xuanjing faced rejection, he naturally had nothing to say, as the others had their reasons. Their willingness to share is kindness, their reluctance is a duty; he would not press them. After all, Pei Xuanjing was not the sort of person who thrives with favor and perishes with disfavor, like Long Aotian.

Of course, these interactions were not in vain; at the very least, even these exchanges had allowed Pei Xuanjing to see many things.

As the saying goes, by seeing just one spot, one can deduce the whole leopard. Sometimes, knowing just a tiny clue or piece of evidence can lead to significant conclusions.