“I’ve said it again and again: cultivation isn’t a dinner party where everyone politely takes turns. Its essence is the survival of the fittest, where what you have, I don’t. It’s the brutal plunder of one realm by another, the struggle of cultivators from countless realms for the riches of the myriad worlds!”
An artificer uses the living beings of an entire realm as weapons. At a single thought, ten thousand weapons rise.
A puppet master refines puppets into immortals, builds a celestial court of puppets, and has all living beings chant the gods’ names.
A talisman artist paints mountains, rivers, and seas with the first stroke; heaven, earth, and all living things with the second; and with the third, a Great Sage who rides a seven-colored cloud and battles heaven and earth.
Su Qing starts out as a village bumpkin and competes with the prodigies of countless worlds.
With martial arts, he fishes for whales, banishes dragons, slays gods, and kills immortals. The martial artist makes others yield through strength!
With the Dao, he breathes qi and drinks dew, living forever and at ease. The cultivator who follows the Dao is free and unrestrained!
With talismans, he turns all techniques into talismans, and talismans into all techniques. Talisman masters are a cut above the rest!
“I’ve said it again and again: cultivation isn’t about fighting and killing. It’s about human relationships. I’ve lived for so many years, raised so many people, spread martial arts throughout the heavens, and sold talismans across the myriad worlds. I don’t seek empty fame, yet everyone calls me the Martial Saint and Ancestor of Talismans, a kind and benevolent man.”
