Legend of the Great Sage Chapter 126 - Encompassing Vows and Obsessions

First of all, cultivation methods were not split into detailed grades like spiritual artifacts or talismans, but their grades were instead more clear-cut than spiritual artifacts and talismans. The limit on cultivation determined the grade of the cultivation method.

For example, the Innate Method of Practising Qi that Li Qingshan practised would only amount to a third layer Qi Practitioner if he reached the ninth layer, which only illustrated that the cultivation method was not very great. It was basically the lowest, more rudimentary cultivation method in the cultivation method. He would have to find a new cultivation method to practise in the future.

There were many great cultivation methods that could directly allow Qi Practitioners to cultivate to the ninth layer, or even undergo the first heavenly tribulation, reaching the legendary Foundation Establishment realm. The books he read were ambiguous over whether there were even greater cultivation methods than that. All they said was that they definitely did exist, but they went into no reason as to exactly why. Clearly, the writer’s knowledge was limited in this area.

However, they did indeed exist. The Path of White Bone and Great Beauty was one of them. As for the very limit of the cultivation, the black ox had told Li Qingshan since the very beginning. It was bodhisattva.

By bodhisattva, he meant attaining bodhicitta and swearing four encompassing vows—the boundless creatures, I vow to save; the endless afflictions, I vow to break; the limitless dharma, I vow to learn; the unsurpassable buddha way, I vow to accomplish. Finally, they would attain the fruit of bodhisattva.

TL: They are a legitimate part of buddhism. You can read about them here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhisattva_vow

That was how the buddhist scriptures put it. Xiao An had read about it on the ship, and he had written them in Li Qingshan’s palm, word by word. The Path of White Bone and Great Beauty also had four encompassing vows:

The boundless creatures, I vow to slaughter; the endless

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