After reading about Li Weitian's experiences, Lu Qing fell silent once more.
He dismissed his previous thoughts, feeling that this person's luck was incredibly poor.
If his life could have been longer, or if he had arrived here earlier,
then he would have had enough time to comprehend runes here.
In that case, perhaps he would have gained more insights and broken through to a level above Innate.
Unfortunately, there are no "ifs" in this world.
Fate plays such cruel tricks, and Li Weitian, of all people, found the Jade Cave chamber only when his life was nearing its end.
In the end, he could only fight a desperate battle.
This experience of seeing hope amid despair, and then plunging back into despair,
Li Weitian didn't fall into madness in the end and was able to calmly record his last words, advising those who came after him to take him as a warning.
Such nobility could only be expected from a Martial Arts Expert who had reached Innate Perfection.
Even when death was truly imminent, he was still able to face it gracefully.
[...97%, 98%, 99%, 100%]
[Cultivation technique simulation complete. Would you like to learn it?]
As Lu Qing remained silent, a prompt also appeared in his view.
Perhaps because the cultivation technique Li Weitian left behind was particularly mysterious, this simulation took much longer than usual.
Lu Qing stared at the prompt in his view and silently chose yes.
The next moment, a flood of cultivation technique information and insights surged into his mind.
Lu Qing closed his eyes, and it was a long time before he awoke from the insights.
"So it's just the Innate Methods?"
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With enlightenment in his eyes, Lu Qing muttered to himself.
Indeed, the cultivation techniques Li Weitian left in the Jade Scroll were all of Innate Level, also his life's proud special skills.
As for the lower-level Postnatal Techniques, there were none.
Li Weitian was proud.
In his view, anyone qualified to access his Jade Scroll information must at least be a Martial Arts Expert who had stepped into the Innate Realm, having formed Divine Soul Power.
Such Martial Arts Experts wouldn't care for mere Postnatal Realm techniques.
He also disdained to include such low-level techniques in his Inheritance Jade Scroll.
Li Weitian never imagined that there would be an anomaly like Lu Qing in the future, who could access the information in the Inheritance Jade Scroll without having Divine Soul Power.
"Is the key to breaking through from Postnatal to Innate all about forming one's own Divine Soul Power, using it to sense Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi, breaking barriers, and inducing energy into the body?"
After receiving the cultivation technique information, Lu Qing immediately understood the critical points for the breakthrough from Postnatal to Innate.
But understanding was useless.
The saying goes: a strong body is needed for a strong soul.
Only a sufficiently robust body can nurture a powerful spirit.
To form one's own Divine Soul Power, the physical body must reach an extremely tyrannical realm, and only then is there a glimmer of possibility.
According to the path of Martial Arts Cultivation, this means reaching Postnatal Realm Perfection, where Qi-Blood, tendons, bones, and Inner Organs all reach the human limit. Only then, through repeatedly tempering the spirit with Secret Techniques, might one possibly break through the limit and comprehend Divine Soul Power.
Lu Qing was currently only at a Small Success in the Qi Blood Realm, far from the realm of Postnatal Perfection.
So, although he had obtained Li Weitian's Innate Level cultivation inheritance, he was still far from qualified to cultivate it.
He would need to progress step by step, reaching Postnatal Realm Perfection before he could cultivate these Innate Methods.
But no matter what, Lu Qing's gains were still tremendous.
At least, with these several Innate Methods, his future cultivation would never lack techniques.
The Nourishing Body Boxing taught by his master was already sufficient for him to cultivate to the Internal Organ Realm.
Now that he had the Innate Methods, moving forward he just needed to peacefully cultivate, assisted by his superpower, and achieving the Innate Realm would not be wishful thinking.
With a very positive mood, Lu Qing took Li Weitian's remains outside the valley, buried them properly, and then returned to the cave.
After returning to the cave, he still didn't touch the Earth Vein Spiritual Liquid.
Instead, he stood in front of the cave wall, observing the mysterious patterns carved into the jadeized wall.
In the Inheritance Jade Scroll, Li Weitian highly praised these mysterious patterns, calling them runes, and from them, he deduced a bit of the mysteries above the Innate Level.
According to Li Weitian's last words before his death, if his life limit had come a bit later, giving him enough time to ponder these runes, he would certainly have been able to break through his limits and step into the realm above Innate.
This inevitably made Lu Qing curious about these mysterious patterns too.
He wanted to try whether his superpower could discern anything from them.
Activating his superpower, Lu Qing concentrated, intently staring at those mysterious patterns.
He looked at them for a long time.
A quarter of an hour passed, and just when Lu Qing thought that even his superpower could not penetrate the mysteries of these mysterious patterns.
Finally, he saw a dense golden light emanating from the mysterious patterns.
[Array Dao Rune: Mysterious runes engraved by a magic user, containing mana, can draw and organize earth energy, gathering the essence of earth veins.]
[The Rune Path, created by a Great Divine Power who studied the patterns of all things in heaven and earth, naturally possesses mysterious powers that can communicate with all things.]
[The path of runes varies infinitely; different runes combined can exert unimaginable powers.]
[Inheritance discovered, initiate simulation download?]
Then, a surge of elation welled up from within.
The information about the runes that appeared didn't disturb his composure—
after all, the information left by Li Weitian had prepared him somewhat, and he knew these mysterious patterns possessed mysterious powers.
But the last prompt caught him entirely by surprise.
He hadn't expected that these mysterious patterns contained an inheritance.
Indeed, it was an inheritance, not a technique.
Lu Qing noted the phrasing used by his superpower; that which could be termed an inheritance must be quite complete.
He didn't hesitate for a moment and chose to simulate the download.
Then he stared intently at the mysterious patterns in front of him as never before.
[Beginning simulation download, current progress: 1%, 2%…]
The progress bar in his view was jumping very slowly, but Lu Qing wasn't in a hurry.
The slower the simulation download of the superpower, the more precious the inheritance concealed within the runes.
When the progress bar in his view jumped to 10%, it stopped and didn't move again.
Lu Qing paused, pondered for a moment, then moved to another part of the cave wall and continued observing the runes there.
Sure enough, before long, the progress bar in his view started moving again.
In this way, whenever the progress bar stopped moving, Lu Qing changed his location to observe other runes.
By the time he had scanned all the visible runes in the cave, he finally saw the progress bar in his view jump to the end.
[...97%, 98%, 99%, 100%]
[Simulation download complete, initiate learning?]
Looking at the prompt in his view, Lu Qing, filled with excitement, chose to learn.