I Am Loaded with Passive Skills

Chapter 4214: Chapter 1978: Dao Ancestor (Part 2)

Like a river.

Like a stream.

In a daze, it seemed like he saw a vast ocean of consciousness.

"Perfectly flawless!"

Dao Qiongcang’s heart was shaken.

He rarely used such praise to evaluate any talent’s cultivation of any Great Path he had seen in this world.

Including Bazhun’an’s "Sword Me," in Dao Qiongcang’s view, still had areas needing improvement and refinement, but would require some time to polish.

Xu Xiaoshou...

It seemed like in his understanding of the Will Path, he had been undistractedly immersed for billions of years!

Yet his bone age was only twenty; even if his past life was extraordinary, and he cultivated reincarnation correspondence, altogether it couldn’t make him understand reincarnation better than the Medicine Ancestor and cultivate a more perfect Path?

Observing Xu Xiaoshou closely in achieving the Path further confirmed a previous hypothesis for Dao Qiongcang:

Xu Xiaoshou’s success was definitely not solely due to his personal disposition; there must be external forces, such as "time" assisting him.

The secret discussed that night on Qingyuan Mountain was left unsaid by Xu and Dao, but now Dao Qiongcang was eighty to ninety percent sure that Xu Xiaoshou was practically half a Name Ancestor.

His greatest ability was to deepen others’ impression of his name through attracting attention or stirring emotions and directly receiving nourishment from the name.

This greatly accelerates his growth process.

As for whether there is other assistance besides the name...

There is!

There absolutely is!

Dao Qiongcang can even analyze details to find evidence so apparent yet completely overlooked by people.

He is the person most focused on Xu Xiaoshou across the entire continent!

Any tiny transformation on Xu Xiaoshou, Dao Qiongcang secretly records and carefully studies the "why" and "how".

The most notable change is...

Xu Xiaoshou’s super Taoization of the Will Path, evidently completed in the Divine Relic.

His Will Path reached the Extreme Realm within just half a year, rapidly rising without any side effects.

Thus analyzing his growth path reveals, by assessing the force influencing drastic transformations in Great Path understanding, the singular conclusion:

"This involves the power of the Time Ancestor in the All Time Forgotten Sorrow Pavilion."

But it’s not over yet!

Why did Xu Xiaoshou comprehend the Will Path?

Was it a coincidence that just before the Ancestral God battle, he seemingly caught some hints, directly abandoning the Way of the Sword, Name Path, and all those various strange forces on himself, opting precisely for the Will Path which best aids in discerning the self within the Great Path, taking the most correct route?

It is absolutely not a coincidence!

Bazhun’an, after so many years, couldn’t walk such a fast-growing path; evidently, he also couldn’t provide Xu Xiaoshou pointers in this regard.

The one best assisting in self-cultivation, as Dao Qiongcang now knows, there’s also a "Nu", and highly likely, Nu sought out the Demon, Medicine, and other ancestors.

So finding Xu Xiaoshou, is it a coincidence too?

It could be a coincidence, yet it might also be an inevitability!

"Hoo!"

Dao Qiongcang let out a long breath, his thoughts burning hot.

The Body of Consciousness was severed into two halves, one lingering inside the Medicine Ancestor, the other at Cross Corner Street observing Xu Xiaoshou’s becoming the Path.

Dao Qiongcang, while maintaining the great severance technique using Xu Xiaoshou’s power, simultaneously observed and analyzed Xu Xiaoshou himself.

To him, dissecting Xu Xiaoshou thoroughly, verifying whether this person would ultimately threaten him, and determining how to avoid facing the blades of those guys, meanwhile using "him" to view "me", aiding in breaking through the last memory barrier, achieving omniscience, and attaining the perfection of Memory Great Path.

These four tasks all precede possessing the Medicine Ancestor.

And deeply gazing at the raging torrent of the Will Path in front, then retracing Xu Xiaoshou’s extraordinary life from the rise at Tiansang Spirit Palace to now nearly becoming an Ancestral God in his mind.

An absurd and bold speculation irresistibly leapt from his mind:

"If the Time Ancestor becomes the river of time, it must return to zero, and if the Name Ancestor never dies for ten thousand generations, it must also return to zero. Why did the Time Ancestor become lost, why did the Name Ancestor fall?"

"Let’s suppose they encountered a ’difficulty’."

"Why did the Nu Ancestor assist others in cultivating ’self’, even repeatedly seeking out the Demon Medicine, or maybe every ancestor among the Ten Ancestors, including the second generation?"

"Let’s suppose it’s searching for a solution to the ’difficulty’."

Dao Qiongcang’s thoughts flew rapidly, his own survival under the threat of life and death instead utilizing this calm to bring himself to the state of ’insight’-grade reasoning:

"This ’difficulty’, perhaps same, perhaps different, also possibly many at different periods along the river of time, overall external forces combined, prompting the trio of returning-zero Ancestral Gods, Time Name Nu must huddle for warmth."

"Hence, Name contributed the force to accelerate early-stage growth, Time contributed the force to accelerate late-stage Great Path understanding, Nu responsible for finding people, the range extending from Ancestral God to mortal, but possessing a disposition they approve of, enough to rapidly become a returning-zero Ancestral God from mortal..."

No.

Dao Qiongcang sharply captured a misconception.

Nu didn’t seek mortals, only sought Ancestral Gods, even if Nu approached Xu Xiaoshou after his emergence from the Divine Relic, assisted in cultivating Will and Self, by then Xu Xiaoshou wasn’t a mortal anymore.

"Name is seeking people?"

"Time, also seeking people?"

This becomes unimportant detail, Dao Qiongcang doesn’t have time to concern with it, having reached a conclusion of ’they are seeking people’, then continues downward:

"The Ancestral Gods found by Time Name Nu all refused them."

"Very normal, if I were sealed as an ancestor, they came seeking me, the first response would be there’s a problem."

"Then, Xu Xiaoshou’s appearance, as expected by me, has the coincidence, also inevitability, selected as the ’perfect Great Path seed’ after all previous eliminated candidates."