"Practicing like this, who wouldn't go mad?" Li Fan couldn't help but murmur after reading the jade slip.
The jade slip recorded the Life and Death Profound Art that Zhong Shentong had mentioned earlier.
It was half a ruined volume, origin unknown, yet its profound secrets were indeed extraordinary.
The scripture began by stating a fundamental principle: everything in the world will ultimately face death.
Birds, beasts, plants, humans, even cultivators, demons, and the heavens themselves cannot escape this fate.
To transcend death, one must reach a state of being neither alive nor dead, simultaneously both.
This was the ultimate realm the scripture sought.
Achieving this "coexistence of life and death" required unparalleled insight into the essence of both.