Longevity Martial Arts: Starting from Inner Core Skill

Chapter 1258: Chapter 99: Failure/Mother River_2

The Time River is the cornerstone of all heavens, stabilizing countless worlds.

Compared to the still invisible River of Destiny, the Time River is incredibly mature, with a complete system.

Even though the Time River has already formed, he is unable to see the formation trajectory.

But the existence of the Time River itself can give him many insights.

Especially since he controls the Space-time Dao, allowing him to see more.

“The power of the Fate Path must be the strongest, otherwise the foundation would be unstable and easily overtaken by other paths.”

Fortunately, the Fate Path was created by Wang Sheng, so he could input his celestial power, rapidly increasing the strength of the River of Destiny.

Once the Fate Path manifested, Wang Sheng immediately input a large amount of celestial power.

Now, he is much stronger compared to a Fate Path that has not yet completed its growth.

A large influx of celestial power into the Fate Path quickly strengthened its power.

This kind of enhancement naturally has its limitations, otherwise, he would have long made the Fate Path grow to its peak and challenged the Corrosive Fate Dao.

Once the Fate Path could no longer be enhanced, he halted the input of celestial power.

“The consumption is not too great…”

This is not necessarily a good thing.

As the core, the power of the Fate Path should be as strong as possible.

Even for just a short while, it’s enough for him to verify many pieces of information.

The smaller his consumption, the less advantageous it is for his verification.

However, having reached this point, he naturally wouldn’t give up.

“With the foundation stable, the next step is to absorb the power of other paths… the River of Destiny, aside from the Fate Path, the most important is the Causality Path.”

Destiny inevitably involves causality.

Even the Fate Path itself contains the power of causality.

Wang Sheng had already verified this when creating the Fate Path.

And the River of Destiny requires more of the power of causality.

“Just like the Primordial Ancestor World and Su, cultivators serving as nourishment mostly pursue the Causality Path to gradually integrate its power, but I don’t need such troubles.”

Cultivating “nourishment” cultivators is a method of forming the River of Destiny.

Yet having observed for a hundred thousand years, Wang Sheng knew this was not the only method.

Perhaps there is an alternative.

The method is quite simple, it’s to directly find the “Tao Administrator”, which is the Starry Sky.

The formation of the River of Destiny in the Primordial Ancestor World was obviously without Starry Sky’s agreement, hence it had to adopt the “nourishment” method to slowly siphon the power of other Dao.

Wang Sheng, however, was different; he could directly involve the Starry Sky.

Enable the Starry Sky Rules to actively integrate.

Completely unnecessary to laboriously cultivate so-called nourishment, which is inefficient and prone to accidents.

Being within the Great Tao River of the Starry Sky and considering Wang Sheng’s profound understanding of the Causality Path, he easily found the Causality Path.

Upon finding it, he said: “I need to make an attempt, hoping Starry Sky will cooperate without interfering.”

If the Starry Sky decisively wanted to resist, he’d have no way out but to cultivate “nourishment,” akin to the Primordial Ancestor World, to steal power.

However, things went as he anticipated.

The Starry Sky didn’t stop him.

He easily grasped the Causality Path.

“Next, it’s about integrating the power of the Causality Path into the Fate Path, but to maintain the Fate Path as the main body, the power of the Causality Path must be constrained.”

Although Wang Sheng’s mastery of the Causality Path hasn’t reached a hundred percent like the Space-time Dao, it’s still sizeable.

Restricting the input of power poses no problem.

With his manipulation, the power of the Causality Path integrated into the Fate Path.

The process was extremely smooth, without any unexpected occurrences.

Of course, that’s also because everything was under his control.

But this certainly won’t do.

After integrating the power of the Causality Path, Wang Sheng attempted to let control slip.

However, the moment he released control, unexpected events immediately emerged.

Originally, the power was flowing toward the Causality Path.

But as the constraint was lifted, losing control of his celestial power, the power of the Causality Path immediately surpassed the Fate Path, causing a backflow.

The power of the Fate Path was siphoned off by the Causality Path.

Seeing this, Wang Sheng did not hesitate at all and used celestial power to sever the connection between the two.

“Although such a situation was anticipated, it was too rapid, without even a moment’s endurance.”

When the Fate Path could not harbor too much celestial power enhancement, he anticipated such a situation might occur, yet he didn’t expect it to be completely lopsided.

The River of Destiny obviously requires not only the power of causality but other Dao power as well.

But Wang Sheng knew there’s no need to continue experimenting after this.

It definitely would yield the same result.

This outcome wasn’t within his prediction.

Of course, he could also choose to let it be.

“Fate Path flowing to Causality Path, causality as the main, fate as secondary, could possibly form the River of Destiny, but such a River of Destiny would certainly be flawed; the key issue is, unlike the Fate Path, the Causality Path isn’t entirely under my control, so even if it succeeds, it wouldn’t align with my interests.”

He has painstakingly aimed to shape the River of Destiny, surely he can’t have nothing to gain from it.

Moreover, this method might not even succeed.

Hence, merely giving it a thought, he decided to abandon it.

“Thus, even the most fundamental ideas remain unfinished!”

Regarding the crafting of the River of Destiny, Wang Sheng never assumed it would easily succeed.

However, in his envisioning, even if it couldn’t succeed, there should at least be an experiment to see if the method was viable.

But now it ended just as it began, making it impossible to discern if the method was viable.

The reason was clear to him.

“Ultimately, the Fate Path is currently too weak.”

The Fate Path he created can now even plan destinies at the Fourteenth Realm, entirely not weak within the Starry Sky.

Yet, when it comes to crafting the River of Destiny, it’s still lacking.

His initial thought was to temporarily enhance with celestial power, just to attempt it simply.

The final outcome was clear; even attempting proved difficult.

“It seems that even experiments require sufficient fundamental power, else should I continue waiting?”

He wanted to attempt swiftly because he sought to seize the initiative.

To craft the River of Destiny before discovering it within the Primordial Ancestor World.

Naturally, the underlying reason was to amplify his power and bolster his stakes.

“Could anything serve as a substitute?”

Wang Sheng pondered in his mind.

Soon, he thought of a possibility.

[True Spirit Method: Breakthrough+9 (10%)—Soul Source Sea (Derivation, Purification, True Origin, Mother River): 1%]

Upon proving the Heavenly Immortal Dao, his Cultivation Technique had all ascended, and after breaking through nine times with the True Spirit Method, he attained the new term “Mother River.”

What is “Mother River”? It’s the destination where all sentient beings’ True Spirits return, in some sense, Mother River is the origin of beings, and now, it’s a part of Soul Source Sea’s traits, also its core trait.

“Soul Source Sea seems capable of ascending to the level of Time River, River of Destiny, in perfect precision.”

“Soul Source Sea’s potential is undoubtedly outstanding, with high limits, and most importantly, the conditions of Mother River might perhaps be better than the current Fate Path, entirely worth attempting.”

Unlike the Fate Path, though the Fate Path was Wang Sheng’s creation, its independence meant growth required self-achievement, even with external aid, it wasn’t simply accomplished.

On the other hand, Soul Source Sea differs, it’s derived from the Cultivation Technique of Wang Sheng.

Wang Sheng strong, Soul Source Sea is strong.

After proving the Heavenly Immortal Dao, the ascent of Soul Source Sea was extremely formidable.

Even from a purely hierarchical view, due to the proof of his Dao, Soul Source Sea exceeded the current Fate Path considerably.

What the Fate Path cannot withstand, Soul Source Sea might just be able to.

“It seems Soul Source Sea is suitable to be the core, even if it falls short of a genuine Dao, it won’t exhibit the backflow phenomenon like the Fate Path.”

“Transform the Soul Source Sea into a true Mother River, it’s worth attempting.”