Chains Of Heaven

"Teacher, please help me." I said as I approached the campsite. Teacher was drinking a cup of tea as I approached and just raised one eyebrow as I got close with the little bird in hand.

"Help you with what exactly? Turning this precious medicine into proper pills?" He ask and I froze in place before guarding the little bird more carefully on my bosom.

"... What do you mean, teacher?" I said carefully and he continued talking without even looking at me.

"This you have in hand is an Emerald Swan. The Emerald Swan is known as a rare-type of profound beast as it has an inherent healing art. However, the most interesting is that an Emerald Swan flesh, blood, feathers, and anything else can create very high-grade medicines that can potentially save tens of thousands easily of even the most grievous of sickness and injuries. As such they are known for being used as simply medicine by everyone." He explained before turning to look at me. "So, I ask again, did you bring this one here to become medicine? It is already too injured and treating it to full health would be exceedingly hard and it would likely either die from another profound beast or die from humans' greed anyway, treating this one might be just an exercise in futility."

I clench my teeth hearing this and take a deep breath.

"Regardless, I want to save her. She cannot be blamed or left to die as if inevitable just because she was born what she is." I say and teacher nodded at me after a little while, his face now smiling slightly.

"Good, but you will have to take care of it yourself. The treatment to her would take too long and we have many places to go, you can use our stored medicinal herbs as you wish and your medical knowledge should be enough to heal her. If you have any doubts you can ask me as well."

Teacher really is quite strict, but definitely a good person.

--...--

In the end, it took the better part of two months to heal Ji Ji completely. Jiji, even the name sounds funny to me but it is the name she wanted according to herself and if she liked it then so be it.

I think she may have spent too long with peac.o.c.ks as she likes compliments too much and react very badly to any insult to her appearance.

In one of our visits to a town she was almost kidnapped and killed, it was quite a disaster, to be honest, and she got even more fearful of the situation. The solution, in the end, was to paint her in black and use some powders to disguise her unique medicinal smell. It worked but she would be disgruntled and need a lot of cajoling to get her to not be too sulky to be around.

Teacher would only laugh at this all.

During these months I noticed teacher starting to get for payment some profound stones as well, cultivation resources that when we began to travel never bothered with taking now are being acc.u.mulated at a frightening speed. I didn't really mind, I was too busy taking care of Ji Ji during this time and in visiting many libraries for their knowledge.

We have visited many sects and all important places like the great sects and the guilds for many jobs were all visited during this time. It took us one year to do so and it was worth it, my library now had more books than I could count and jade slips with cultivation techniques and profound arts are equally numerous.

"Enkidu, come here boy I have something to talk to you about." Master said one afternoon when we have just left the capital of the Southern Border Holy Land (a decent place with actually functional sewer system and with some proper care for the citizens, not as good as it can be but definitely on the right path) and I quickly went to him. He continued the same as always but his eyes had a unique shine to them.

As I got close I opened my mouth.

"Teacher, is there something you need of me?"

"Yes, I watched you this last year and I am sure that while my decision back then might have been extremely impulsive it was definitely the right one. Here, I will let you keep this," He said as he put a wood box in my hands. "I can't go any further in understanding this than what I did until now and am getting on my years, you will accompany me while you master what you can from this and when you are done you shall be the new Medical Saint of the continent and make your own name." Master said and while I was stunned. "I also noticed how you would look at cultivation techniques whenever we went, I have prepared enough profound materials for you to cultivate when you d.e.s.i.r.e to start. Remember that even a doctor must have strength in this world, but I have a feeling you will be amongst the best soon enough. Your comprehension speed is decidedly amazing after all and there is nothing wrong with your profound veins, you really is my pride and joy." After he said that, and before I could even say anything, he left while smiling.

Beyond shocked.

It was a medicinal scroll with a lot of information on it but there were hardly any mistakes.

Normally, even a book with not even a thousandth of the amount of information this one has would have at least a few thousand mistakes, but this manual teacher left with me have very few mistakes.

This is a divine scripture created by Li Suo, the Life Creation Goddess, by referencing the life inscriptions in the Primordial Seal of Life & Death. It has all her knowledge of healing and life in it as well as her understandings of Light Profound Energy.

It was, however, only the second half of the manuscript and thus incomplete.

Well, regardless of that I still have an advantage in that I want this for two things that are not the same.

The cultivation technique and the medical knowledge inside.

There is also a mention amongst the flaws of this manual that the person needs to have completed the trial of Li Suo, the Life Creation Goddess, and obtain her inheritance blood and spirit essence before they can truly master what is in her manual, there is also a mention of the first half and its current location. There are also some tidbits of the location for the Inheritance of Li Suo and it is in this world, not only that but it is on this very continent! It is not close by, not by a long shot, but it is something I can get to one day, preferentially before I get too strong since it is entirely possible I would go through the whole 'getting all energy back to zero' thing that happened to Yun Che in CANON when he got the profound veins.

But anyway, that still means I have the chance to get the inheritance of one of the four creation gods, that is awesome. And this one is good for Light Profound Energy no less.

Also, I am not entirely sure that what Li Suo put as Light Profound Energy understandings is all there is to Light Profound Energy, it is a power that equals Darkness Profound Energy and thus must be its equal, how could it only have purifying and healing powers? I don't believe it so at all.

I take a deep breath as I look at my own book, my own markings of defects and positives. I need to see if there is any mention of me having a pure heart or pure body.

-...-

Enkidu

Defects:

- Too trusting

- Body transformation into weapon unavailable (to fix this visit page 157 to 170)

- No current practiced Profound Cultivation

- Devil Blood contaminated by nature energy, making it unique in that it can't handle Darkness Profound Energy as it is. To be able to master Darkness Profound Energy it will be needed to receive the bloodline inheritance of at least one God-level member of the Heaven Smiting Devil Clan (locations and ways to obtain it are on pages 20 to 25).

- Has great hate against current society;

- Don't know how to interact with people normally;

- ... -

Positives:

- Capable of empathy with others;

- Pure Heart;

- Due to body being in contact with extremely pure Nature Energy from the start, has great affinity to Earth, Water, and Wood types of Profound Arts and the Laws of Earth, Water, and Wood to the point it could be considered more talented than even a Creation God who focuses in those three aspects, especially in the Earth he can be considered the most talented being regarding Earth laws in existence;

- Capable of generating chains that can seal the profound strength of someone up to two whole realms above him, physical strength can still be used but the stronger Enkidu becomes the sturdier the chains also become. That also makes Enkidu able to cultivate Metal Profound Arts and weapons profound arts;

- As the body is based on a weapon of the Gods, Enkidu can take in any and all Divine Bloodlines without them canceling each other or backlashing on him;

- As was born under contact with extremely pure Nature Energy Enkidu has adequate talent to all elements, even those he is not particularly talented at he still can compare with those who can be called geniuses in the lower realms in them;

- ... -

There was quite a lot of information besides that, including information over small defects in my profound veins and other such matters but those are too high level for me to be able to do anything about them.

However, the important part is that yes, I do have the Pure Heart needed to cultivate Light Profound Energy.

Well, let us begin then.

I look at my library with a few tens of thousands of books and call out.

"Congregate."

As I say that the books started vanishing and concentrating on just a few short books.

Heaven's Path Cultivation art

Heaven's Path Water art

Heaven's Path Ice art

Heaven's Path Wind art

Heaven's Path Earth art

Heaven's Path Thunder art

Heaven's Path Light art

Heaven's Path Body Cultivation Art

Heaven's Path Soul Cultivation Art

Heaven's Path Disguise Art

Heaven's Path Leg Art

Heaven's Path Fist Art

Heaven's Path Sword Art

Heaven's Path Spear Art

Heaven's Path Saber Art

Heaven's Path Whip Art

Heaven's Path Alchemy Art

Heaven's Path Medical Art

Heaven's Path Poison Art

Heaven's Path Movement Art

Heaven's Path Appraisal Art

Heaven's Path Blacksmith Art

Heaven's Path Painter Art

...

Wow, there really is quite a lot. I honestly thought there would be quite a bit but this is a bit much even for me.

Well, at least I have something to work with for now. There are about 30 books in total, they all the peak of perfection when it comes to whatever it is they deal with, with the information available that is. If I have more manuals they would complement and improve these books further, improving what I have now to higher levels and to even more perfect books.

Also, I may have gone a bit over the top when it comes to obtaining any and all books I could put my hands on, just touching the cabinet where they are was enough so it really was quick work.

... And this is because I am only using one of the four treasures right now. When I can use them all, well, I can only say that reaching the level where I can create my own King Realm or go beyond is not impossible by any stretch of the word.

After all, the Purple Crystal Origin, the Grandmist Spirit Bead, and the Magic Cube are not in any way inferior to the Library of Heaven's Path. If anything, when I can fully use them as I wish, I doubt anyone in this entire universe will be able to match me.