---- Chapter 2831 Andrew continued flipping through the scripture, reading ten lines at a nce. He was even going faster and faster. Watching his movements, Luther and Valerie stood in stunned silence. Even with Luther''s vast experience and steadyposure, his breathing grew increasingly heavy. "Mr. Johnston, Andrew has already flipped past half of this scripture, hasn''t he?" Valerie looked like she had seen a ghost. " Didn''t you say that you could only turn halfway through before being unable to continue?" Luther said nothing, just staring intently at Andrew''s movements.
Andrew showed no intention of stopping and continued flipping through the ancient scripture. Finally, his movements came to an abrupt halt. Pain shed across his brow and face. It seemed there was something he could not ept orprehend. Luther breathed a sigh of relief while simultaneously growing tense. "How is it, Andrew?" Without realizing it, he was speaking with the natural affection ---- of an elder who had grown to admire the younger man.
He was relieved Andrew had stopped, because if Andrew had really finished the whole thing without trouble, even Luther would have started doubting whether this scripture''s so-called mystical power was real. Andrew winced slightly. "No, something''s wrong. Everything''s mixed up." Valerie jumped in. "What''s wrong?" It was like countless pieces of information were crashing around in Andrew''s mind, alling from the scripture, and they shattered everything he thought he understood That was why he looked so pained, because nothing he knew lined up anymore.
"The cultivation of the human body is founded on the principles of cosmic duality and the primordial elements. Everything can be exined through that, which is why the ancient cultivation era flourished. But without an energy core, you can''t cultivate at all; that''s the basic rule. "Except the scripture says something else. It says you have to break everything down to rebuild, because the human body itself is a universe. It ims the energy core doesn''t matter because the body alone can reach enlightenment.
The organs, the meridians, the blood vessels; they''re all bridges, but the ---- scripture calls those techniques external, saying they don''t touch the source." Luther trembled. "Then what is the source?" Andrew nced at him. "To be one with the world. If you can connect to the natural forces around you, you can draw power from them freely. It doesn''t matter if you don''t have an energy core or special meridians. As long as you canmunicate with the world itself, you''re already a cultivator.
And the source is enlightenment, meaning you fuse with the world until you can move through it as one." Luther muttered, "To merge with the outside world? That''s easier said than done. I''ve studied countless scriptures all my life. Even now, I''ve only barely touched the threshold of enlightenment, and it was enough to boost my martial path like a rocket. But if someone could truly mergepletely with the world, wouldn''t that mean..." Valerie cut him off.
''Wouldn''t that mean straight-up ascending to the heavens?" Andrew suddenlyughed, and the pain on his face disappeared "Ascending to the heavens is just a fantasy. Everything in this world cycles, and every life and every thing has an end. And that end is also a beginning. "So everything repeats endlessly, over and over again, and that''s ---- the cycle, the constant rule of the universe. You could even call it part of the Way." Valerie murmured, "Andrew, you sound like one of those cult preachers spouting mystical nonsense." Andrew shook his head. "I''m not saying this.
It''s all written in the scripture." Then, he kept flipping through the remaining pages, and it took barely any time before he finished the entire text. As he closed the nearly 200-page scripture, the gold glow shimmering on the cover and the faint pulsing energy vanished at once. Then, with a soft thud, it dropped to the floor.