Zou Dongsheng continued with a smile, “Young Master, cultivating realms, sword techniques, physical body, and divine sense, each one requires extreme effort to reach high proficiency. The realm is definitely the priority. As for the other aspects, generally, one only needs to specialize in one, at most two. Cultivating one or two aspects to excellence is far better than learning a jumble of things.”
Lin Yun naturally understood Zou Dongsheng’s meaning. The vast majority of cultivators specialized in one thing besides their realm.
Because knowing many things is not as good as mastering one thoroughly.
Greed leads to indigestion.
Researching one path to the extreme is stronger than researching many.
For example, someone particularly skilled in sword techniques can carve out a name with just that. Someone extremely proficient in formations can roam freely relying on arrays.
One trick that works everywhere, the same principle.
If one learns everything, it is hard to excel, because reaching sufficient proficiency in any one is a very difficult process.
The same resources and time, used to cultivate one thing, are usually more effective than spreading them across two or three.
And mastering multiple techniques without true proficiency often means losing to someone who masters one.
“Zou Dongsheng, I understand your meaning. You hope I specialize in one or two, cultivating one or two to outstanding levels. But what I pursue is both many and refined!” Lin Yun said.
Zou Dongsheng smiled helplessly, “Young Master, I understand your intent, but greed leads to indigestion. Stepping back, even if you pursue many and refined, it is not impossible, but there is no need to choose divine sense. Your divine sense has already reached Origin Return. Wanting to advance further is as hard as ascending to heaven.”
“Reaching Origin Return level is sufficient. There is no need to cultivate it much more in the future. Putting effort and money into sword techniques and physical body cultivation, would that not be better?”
After reaching Origin Return level divine sense, undoubtedly, further improvement is extremely difficult, requiring terrifying amounts of time, money, and effort.
Under limited finances and energy, concentrating resources on one or two things is usually the optimal choice.
And in the eyes of ancestral land cultivators, divine sense has the most limited uses. This is the concept instilled in them from birth.
Hearing Zou Dongsheng say this, Lin Yun was momentarily at a loss for how to refute.
For ordinary cultivators, what Zou Dongsheng said was indeed correct.
“I will weigh it myself,” Lin Yun said.
“Young Master, you have not improved your physical body in these years, right? The physical body is the focus of our Wuji Heavenly Palace,” Zou Dongsheng said.
“This…” Lin Yun was momentarily speechless.
Lin Yun’s physical body realm had indeed been stuck at a bottleneck for too long. His own realm had reached Xu Dao Realm, yet his physical body was still at the Indestructible Divine Body.
After opening divine veins, one can slowly cultivate and improve the physical body through the divine veins, but it requires a long time. Previously, Lin Yun had focused his energy on breaking through to Xu Dao Realm.
“Alright, Young Master, you are very smart. I think you understand the reasoning. You definitely know what to do. I say this only to hope the Young Master avoids detours. I will not say more. You continue cultivating.”
After finishing, Zou Dongsheng bid farewell and left.
Lin Yun also pondered.
His own views clearly conflicted with Zou Dongsheng’s.
And Zou Dongsheng’s advice was indeed reasonable and well-founded.
However, Lin Yun still planned to stick to his own ideas.
Divine sense, Lin Yun would not give up!
Specializing in one thing does make sense, and it is indeed the choice of the vast majority of cultivators. But what Lin Yun wanted to do was not the same as most cultivators. Lin Yun wanted to master multiple things proficiently.
Perhaps this would make his path more difficult, but to become a truly powerful existence, one is destined to walk a harder road than others.
After pondering, Lin Yun entered the One Thought Clear Mind Tower again.
Inside the tower.
“Now that the divine sense realm has broken through the major bottleneck and reached Origin Return level, I can try the effect of this Glazed Sacred Lamp on cultivating Origin Return level divine sense.”
Previously, when divine sense was stuck at the Origin level ninth tier bottleneck, the Glazed Sacred Lamp could not directly help break through the stagnation.
After deciding, Lin Yun brought out the Glazed Sacred Lamp again, then took out Haoyue Crystal Stones and infused them.
After trying for a day, Lin Yun temporarily stopped.
“After reaching Origin Return level, the Glazed Sacred Lamp’s tempering speed on divine sense has slowed considerably,” Lin Yun sighed.
Although the efficiency was slower, it still worked. If he slowly tempered with the Glazed Sacred Lamp, it could still improve.
