Jue Ling's expression was solemn. This fruit meant a lot to her.
She looked at Heartless, wanting her daughter to admit that sometimes, the beauty of the scenery did not matter, but its meaning.
Heartless took the Frost Immortal Fruit and smiled faintly, "This is not considered a scenery."
She then looked up at Lu Yin. "But it's also the most beautiful scenery. Your conditions have been fulfilled."
Lu Yin nodded, "Thank you."
This condition was the most difficult one. Whether it succeeded or not depended entirely on Heartless. It was too subjective.
If one really wanted to find the most beautiful scenery, how would one find it?
There were too many sceneries in the universe. The stars were vast and the outer universes were innumerable. There was no such thing as the most beautiful.
To Lu Yin, this Frost Immortal Fruit was his way of expressing his sincerity.
It seemed like a long time had passed in the Frost Immortal Sect. He did not know how the Tian Yuan Universe was doing.
The Unmarried Daughter was still a thorn in his heart.
If he returned to the Tian Yuan Universe now, no one would be able to escape. The Unmarried Daughter, the God of Forgotten Ruins, the Insect Hive, they would all be wiped out.
Heartless was here to see the condition. Once it was fulfilled, she bid farewell and left.
Only Lu Yin and Jue Ling were left.
Lu Yin got down to business, "I want to see the Jue Clan's secret scroll."
Jue Ling was surprised, "The Jue Clan's secret scroll?
Why do you want to see it? "
Lu Yin said, "Just tell me if you can see it or not."
Jue Ling's eyes flashed, "You went to the Yu Clan for this, right? Yu Jing should have told you."
"The Jue Clan has no ill intentions. Please do not harm the Jue Clan."
Since the answer was the same, Lu Yin did not ask further. He showed Jue Ling the portrait of the person who had unlocked the bone. Jue Ling also recognized the person the Cheng Clan had been tracking for many years. Her answer was the same as Yu Jing's, but Jue Ling added one more thing.
"This person is not only being tracked by us, but also by Death Hill."
Lu Yin was not surprised, "Since Li Guo can see the scroll, she will naturally be tracking this person."
"What is so special about this person?" Jue Ling did not understand. She could not see the Cheng Clan's secret scroll.
Lu Yin smiled, "Let's trade. You let me see the Jue Clan's secret scroll and I will tell you this."
Jue Ling said helplessly, "Then forget it. Thank you for your kind intentions."
After completing Heartless' conditions and obtaining the same answer as Madam Yu from the Jue family, Lu Yin immediately contacted Dragoncry and asked her to introduce him to Li Guo.
It would be impolite to visit him rashly.
Although he had a good relationship with the people of Death Hill, it did not mean that the entire Death Hill was willing to make friends with him. The more familiar a person was, the more serious he had to be.
She immediately agreed, as she owed Lu Yin a huge favor.
As for Lu Yin, he had accepted Jue Ling's invitation to stay in the Jue Family. He did not know if Jue Ling had been sincere in his invitation, or if he had simply said it out of politeness, or if it had been some sort of trick. There was no need to think too much about it, as he had always wanted to understand the Jue Family's linear concept.
Intent was an unfathomable power. Out of all the cultivation forces that Lu Yin had come into contact with, aside from karma, the most difficult to understand were intent-type battle techniques, such as Lu Xiaoxuan's Overturning Palm and his own Setting Sun.
Because intent-level battle skills could not be cultivated, they would not become stronger with the passage of time. Instead, they would become stronger as one's cultivation and experience increased.
Sometimes, it was so powerful that Lu Yin was unfamiliar with it. It was as if the more he was excited, the more powerful it became.
The Overturning Heaven Palm had turned the tables on Lu Yin several times when he had fallen into dire straits.
Setting Sun had also saved Lu Yin several times, allowing him to neutralize his enemies' martial arts.
But if he really wanted to cultivate it, he had no idea how to do so.
Perhaps traveling the world and increasing one's understanding of emotions was a path. This path was similar to how he had broken through to the Primordial Realm and stabilized his Absolute Command.
What exactly was intent?
He had an answer, but it was not clear. Perhaps he could find it in the Jue Family.
Lu Yin did not hide his desire to understand intent, and Jue Ling handed him a page from an ancient tome.
Lu Yin glanced at it. There were almost a hundred strange names recorded on it, such as priceless weight, snow-on-wind, copper coin in my heart, and so on. They seemed unrelated, but they gave him a sense of vicissitudes.
"This is?"
"A battle technique that the Jue Family has used to recruit people since ancient times."
"Recruit people?"
Jue Ling smiled. "Sir, you don't think that only the Jue Family's linear concept can comprehend it, do you? That's not the case. In the same environment, in the same group of people, how much difference can there be?
Their understanding of the world and their understanding of life are not that different. The ones who truly comprehend intent are those who wander the universe, experience hardship, and carry deep grudges. "
"The Jue Family recruits the most outsiders out of the three great families. They don't need to fight for the Jue Family. They only need to comprehend intent and then help us create it."
Lu Yin understood. "Then, is the Jue Family confident that they can help recruit people comprehend intent?"
Jue Ling said, "One in ten thousand."
Lu Yin's expression was solemn. "That's very high."
He had been in the Tian Yuan Universe, the spiritualized universe, and the Ninth Heaven Universe. How many people had he encountered with intent?
He could count all of them, but the Jue Family actually had a one in ten thousand chance of helping people comprehend intent. No wonder there were hundreds of battle techniques with intent on the page.
Jue Ling smiled bitterly. "Sir, don't think that it's very high. This is the probability that the recruited cultivators can comprehend intent. In fact, the Jue Family's recruitment process is the strictest and the longest. Usually, we need to observe a cultivator for many years before deciding whether to recruit them. After all, to help them comprehend intent requires a lot of resources."
"It's normal for the Jue Family to not have anyone comprehend intent for hundreds of years. Right now, there are less than ten people in the Jue Family who have comprehended intent, including our own people."
"We can barely maintain the number of spiritual treasure arrays provided to the Cheng Family and the Yu Family. Now that the Cheng Family is gone, we can relax."
Lu Yin raised his eyebrows. "Must we provide it to them?"
Jue Ling nodded. "This is an agreement. It's also part of the agreement between the three families. Of course, in exchange, we will also receive the Cheng Family's spiritual treasure array and the Yu Family's scroll array."
"Why don't we take the initiative to create some experiences for people to comprehend?
We can use the experience of the cultivator who has comprehended intent to replicate, create, and let a group of people experience it. It's much faster this way. "
"We've thought about it and tried, but it's useless. Even if two people experience the same thing, meet the same people, hear the same things, and see the same scenery, it's still useless."
Lu Yin was curious. "Then, how does the Jue Family allow the recruited people to comprehend intent?
Of course, if it's a secret, just pretend I didn't ask. "
Jue Ling smiled. "There's no secret. Many people know about it. It's all because of a palm technique called the Formless Palm."
"Formless Palm?"
"The Formless Palm. With one palm, it can empty a person's cognition. It's a palm technique that contains thoughts and consciousness. Naturally, it's not as strong as Sir's consciousness, but it can empty a person's thoughts and consciousness temporarily. Combined with the person's most stubborn memories, there's a certain probability that the person will be enlightened and comprehend intent."
Lu Yin raised his eyebrows. So that's how it is.
"It's easy to say, but the hardest thing to do is not the Formless Palm, but the stubbornness in the depths of the memories. This requires the Jue Family to have a deep understanding of the cultivator. We observe and record every day. According to our statistics, most cultivators think that their stubbornness is fake. They don't know what they need or care about. It's extremely difficult for us to find it. This is the most time-consuming and resource-consuming thing."
"If we can find the cultivator's stubbornness in their memories, the probability of comprehending intent can be raised to one in a thousand."
Lu Yin looked at Jue Ling strangely. The Jue Family was actually doing such a thing.
Wasn't this his understanding of Bitter Adversity?
Yuan Huo and Kui Niang's experiences made Lu Yin realize that everyone's understanding of their stubbornness might not be correct. They themselves didn't know what they wanted, what they were waiting for, and what Bitter Adversity was. Yuan Huo didn't know, Kui Niang didn't know, and Lu Yin, who had seen through their experiences, didn't know either. Even with the help of karma, he still didn't know.
The result of all of this was in two words: when the conditions are right, success comes naturally. However, these two words stumped almost everyone.
Crossing Bitter Adversity didn't know what one's own Bitter Adversity was, but if success came naturally, one would be able to cross Bitter Adversity and attain eternal life.
"If I'm not wrong, the people your Jue Family recruits don't have high cultivations, right?" Lu Yin asked.
Jue Ling was surprised. "How did you know?"
Lu Yin was amused. How did he know?
How could he not know? In order to observe a person, one had to find their entire life's experiences and stubbornness. Time was of the essence. A normal person's life was only a short hundred years, so it was easy for a cultivator to specifically observe them. However, a cultivator had lived for hundreds, thousands, or even longer. How could one observe them?
Even an observer might not be able to live that long.
If the Jue Family wanted to find the memories and stubbornness of the people they recruited, they had to have lived for a short period of time. They could live for decades, or even centuries, but they couldn't live for thousands of years. Otherwise, even the Jue Family wouldn't be able to bear the cost.
This was only to help someone comprehend intent. Intent and Bitter Adversity were not on the same level, but the process was the same.
To observe a person from birth until they crossed Bitter Adversity, that person would not know that they were being observed. That person would not know about their own Bitter Adversity, but the observer would be able to see through it. If that person was enlightened, that person would have a high chance of entering eternal life.
This was a process that had a high probability of entering eternal life.
But who could do this?
Who could observe a person from birth until they crossed Bitter Adversity?
No one could do it. Only the boundless universe could see through the precipitation of time and record every moment.
The Jue Family's method could not be replicated. Even if the families of the Ninefirmaments Universe learned the Formless Palm, they did not have the energy to constantly observe a person and search for recruits. After all, the Jue Family relied on this method to survive.
Lu Yin sent Jue Ling away and went to the Jue Family's Thoughtless Mountain.
Thoughtless Mountain was a place where the Jue Family helped people comprehend intent.
Lu Yin saw that someone had been struck by the Formless Palm and had fallen into a state of confusion, unable to recognize their surroundings. Someone from the Jue Family took the opportunity to bring a girl out. She called out, "Father!" The person's body trembled, as if something had surged from the depths of his memories. He became excited, and around him, someone else from the Jue Family changed the scene to stimulate him.
Unfortunately, after all this effort, the person still could not comprehend intent.