As for the methods of achieving sainthood, such as opening up a world to become a saint, evolving oneself into a world to become a saint, and achieving sainthood through incense, while they seem novel, they actually don't deviate from the three methods of achieving sainthood.
Therefore, Shi Hao didn't waste his breath. Otherwise, he could talk for days and still not finish.
Cai Yun, whose cultivation had reached the mid-stage of the Great Golden Immortal, listened very carefully.
After pondering, she also summarized three points.
Firstly, achieving sainthood through merit requires immense Heavenly Dao merit and recognition from the Heavenly Dao (Purple Qi of the Primordial), even though it's considered the easiest, those two conditions, in Cai Yun's view, are almost impossible to achieve.
Secondly, the method of severing the three corpses requires three innate spiritual treasures containing the same Dao rules. Finally, the Dao rules of the three corpse avatars are merged, making it equally unattainable.
Innate spiritual treasures are extremely precious. Cai Yun, as the first disciple of the third generation of the Intercepting Sect, doesn't even possess one, let alone three treasures with the same origin. This is even more challenging.
Thirdly, the method of achieving sainthood through strength might be the hardest, but unfortunately, its threshold is also high.
In the current Primordial World, due to the suppression of the Heavenly Dao, it's almost impossible to comprehend any Dao rules.
“Uncle Master!! To put it simply, all three methods are essentially useless! Compared to the Great Golden Immortals in the Primordial World, isn't it now a "dead end"?! Even with the limited number of innate spiritual treasures, the number of Quasi-Saints will only decrease.”
A sense of despair arose in Cai Yun's heart.
Because of Shi Hao's explanation, Cai Yun's understanding of the method of severing the three corpses became profound. She felt that as long as she possessed innate spiritual treasures, she could quickly sever one corpse and break through to the Quasi-Saint stage.
“Yes! That's why the path to achieving sainthood is not easy. Otherwise, wouldn't there be saints everywhere and Quasi-Saints like dogs?”
Shi Hao nodded. After the Conferred God War, not to mention Quasi-Saints, the number of newly promoted Great Golden Immortals would also drastically decrease.
In the end, it might become an era of decline, just like in his previous life.
Cai Yun thought about the River of Destiny that her Uncle Master summoned, wasn't that a complete Dao, and the essence of Dao rules?
Hope resurfaced in Cai Yun's eyes: “Uncle Master, if you have reached the peak of the Great Golden Immortal stage and can also comprehend a Dao, then how do you actually achieve sainthood through strength to break through the bottleneck of the Great Golden Immortal?”
“Me?”
Shi Hao was speechless. He was a mere mortal, how could she expect him to provide a solution to break through the Great Golden Immortal stage?
Shi Hao wanted to tell her to stop messing around, but to his surprise, both Fǔqín Zhēnrén and Nüwa Xiānzǐ cast curious glances at him.
Although they all had a general understanding of the method of achieving sainthood through strength, besides comprehending the Dao rules, they didn't know anything about the specific steps required to break through.
For example, the method of severing the three corpses requires severing one corpse to break through from the Great Golden Immortal to the early stage of the Quasi-Saint.
So, what would be the state of a Quasi-Saint achieved through strength? How would they be different from other Quasi-Saints?
“Me?”
Shi Hao pondered for a moment and decided to share his thoughts. After all, Shi Hao came from an era of information explosion. Even if it was just speculation, he could still say something.
Shi Hao would also divide the comprehension of Dao rules into three stages, corresponding to the three levels of the Quasi-Saint.
First stage, a glimpse into the Dao. It is best to choose a Dao that aligns with your cultivation techniques or divine abilities as a stepping stone to accelerate comprehension of the Dao.
Second stage, after initially understanding the Dao rules, you can try to "capture" them.
Third stage, use a similar method to “observation methods” to visualize the Dao rules with a powerful primordial spirit.
According to Shi Hao's knowledge from his previous life, observation methods are a technique that can be explained scientifically.
Because the principle of observation methods is to use your soul to visualize a certain thing, adjusting your own soul to match the magnetic field and fluctuations of the other, synchronizing with them!
Scientifically explained, every energetic thing in the world has its unique magnetic field or fluctuation, even photons have unique light waves.
Therefore, according to Shi Hao's understanding, achieving sainthood could be done by having your primordial spirit capture the Dao rhythm and then continuously comprehend and visualize it, gradually synchronizing your primordial spirit with the Dao.
Finally, merge with the Dao!
Merge your primordial spirit (reside in) the Dao, becoming immortal and achieving sainthood as a Primordial Great Golden Immortal.
“Hey, hey, just consider it as me talking nonsense, don't take it seriously, and don't spread it around. Especially you, Cai Yun, you are at such a low level of cultivation, knowing too much will be detrimental to your future practice.”
Seeing that all three of them were engrossed in listening, Shi Hao had to clear his throat and interrupt them.
“Unc… Uncle Master, I understand, Cai Yun won't easily spread it around.” Cai Yun stammered, unable to express her current feelings in words.
“Master, please accept my bow! I will never forget your kindness in teaching me today.”
Fuxi's eyes were filled with shock, he bowed respectfully to Shi Hao.
“He is truly an existence above the Primordial Great Golden Immortal.”
Nüwa's beautiful eyes were lost in thought. She, as a saint, understood more than Cai Yun and the others.
She could understand the method of achieving sainthood through strength that Shi Hao taught, even more profound than the three teachings from her master.
If there was a Dao that aligned with her in the Primordial World, Nüwa would even consider giving up her saintly status and use the method of achieving sainthood through strength that Shi Hao taught to achieve sainthood as a Primordial Great Golden Immortal!
Although Nüwa was a saint and considered to be at the top in terms of strength in the entire Primordial World, unfortunately, she achieved sainthood through merit.
Moreover, since achieving sainthood, no matter how hard she cultivated, Nüwa’s realm hadn't improved even slightly.
She also understood why sainthood achieved through merit was considered the weakest type of saint, because merit saints had a shallow understanding of the Dao rules.
If she lost the protection of the Heavenly Dao, Nüwa felt that she wouldn’t even be a match for some old-time Quasi-Saints. Like the ancient Zu Long, the Twelve Ancestral Witches, and so on!
Compared to achieving sainthood through merit, the method of achieving sainthood through strength has infinite possibilities. It is also immortal, not only is the strength stronger, but you are also not bound by the restrictions of the Heavenly Dao.
Furthermore, the Primordial Great Golden Immortal is not the end. If you can fully master a Dao, you can even transcend to the Primordial Infinite Great Golden Immortal.
“Shi Hao is indeed my brother’s fortune. After learning the method of cultivating through strength today, my brother will soon break through to the Primordial Great Golden Immortal stage.”
It happened that he controlled the entire Dao of Destiny, and happened to teach Fuxi the method of cultivation.
Therefore, my brother meets all the conditions for achieving sainthood through strength.
“No, no, I was just rambling, how can I be your teacher?”
Shi Hao quickly pulled Fuxi up. Then he chuckled: “We are equals, maybe someday I’ll have to call you brother-in-law.”