A Regressor’s Tale of Cultivation

Knowing the original text beforehand, understanding its meaning, and being able to apply it to the Lightning Path Methods allowed me to master all 9,000 lightning methods in a short time!

The original text of the Golden Divine Heavenly Thunder Sect’s methods is as follows:

Chapter 1. All beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Chapter 2. Every being is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as Race, Plane, Vision, Cultivation, or Origin or any other category such as the physical world, Netherworld, Immortal Realm, Decaying Corpse Realm, or other Realms. Furthermore, regardless of whether the fate or history to which a being belongs is subject to constraints by higher beings, there shall be no oppression based on the fate, birth state, or planar status of that being or soul.

Chapter 3. Every being has the right to liberty and preservation of life and fate.

Chapter 4.

This is less a method formula and more of a kind of blessing prayer recited during rituals.

And I know this formula’s original text.

’The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.’

Words from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights seen on Earth, adapted to this world, imbued with magical power so that the sentences ’hold power.’

That is the formula that appears when mastering all methods of the Golden Divine Heavenly Thunder Sect.

Crackle!

I recite Chapters 1 through 29 internally, operating my spiritual power according to the magical power and force contained within the formula.

Thus, knowing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and having an understanding of the laws of lightning due to the backlash from the curse given by the owner of the Heavenly Lightning Banner, I succeeded in mastering all 9,000 methods within 10 years.

’Was Yang Su-jin really someone from the same world as me?’

Now I am certain.

That Yang Su-jin, the Enders, are beings from Earth.

Pazijijik!

As I recite Chapters 1 through 29, I realize the power of lightning has reached its limit.

And in an instant.

Boom!

The power of lightning at its limit shakes off the oppressive Heavenly Tribulation!

Woo-woong!

Simultaneously, a surge of cultivation hits me like a flood.

My Nascent Soul, previously glowing with a faint blue light, splits in half, and the other half begins to turn red.

A line forms from my forehead, dividing the domain of the Yin Spirit and the domain of the Yang Spirit.

’Finally.’

I have successfully created both the Yin and Yang Spirits.

However, I brace myself for the backlash that will follow.

The formula formed by combining 9,000 methods of the Golden Divine Heavenly Thunder Sect indeed maximizes the power of heavenly lightning for a moment.

Thanks to this, I was able to amplify the lightning power flowing within me and reach the mid-stage of Nascent Soul.

But, once the heavenly lightning reaches its peak.

Hiss.

The lightning energy swirling around me gradually begins to fade.

The abundance of lightning power in my dantian starts to feel flimsy, dissipating into colorlessness.

Soon, I revert back to my state from before I completely mastered all the Lightning Path Methods.

The ’power’ in my dantian confirms I am indeed at the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul.

The cultivation I have built up through the Lightning Path Methods remains.

However, after combining the 9,000 methods, the lightning attribute of the Lightning Path Methods becomes completely attribute-less and utterly untraceable.

That’s right.

By unifying all the methods of the Golden Divine Heavenly Thunder Sect, I successfully reached the mid-stage of Nascent Soul using that power.

But the method formed by unifying all of the Golden Divine Heavenly Thunder Sect’s methods can no longer be called a method of the Golden Divine Heavenly Thunder Sect.

”Congratulations on reaching the mid Nascent Soul Stage.”

Hong Su-ryeong comments with a click of her tongue, seemingly regretful.

”However to choose to recite such an absurd formula that completely gives up the advantages of the Lightning Path Method, converting it all into ordinary spiritual energy instead Why would you do that? Jeon Myeong-hoon also succeeded in performing the Seven Stars Ritual, and he could have resolved the disharmony among the methods after reaching the Nascent Soul stage”

”Well, it’s not like my cultivation has decreased, has it?”

I laugh it off as if it’s no big deal.