Lind let his senses really feel what was around him and while the cultivation of all the plants were mostly above him, a few were in his range.
They were alive.
Real life, not imitation or like the challenges he faced in the tournant.
Those conditions were too perfect and life forms he encountered left no blood when they died.
The jungle around them was most definitely alive.
It was real so far as he could determine.
"A Divine Inheritance is not like others.
Immortals are looking for soone to take on their legacy or surpass them with their efforts.
Heaven Realm experts usually simply wish for their teachings to live on."
Skinwalker began to expound upon Inheritances.
He seed dismissive of Heaven Realm experts, but Immortals he seed to sympathize with.
"So what am I here to do, senior?"
Lind was confused as he hoped to find a clue to move forward with his cultivation.
While the environnt was inspiring, it did not help him in that endeavor.
Skinwalker smiled as he looked out over the jungle.
"Divine Realm cultivators look for those with a similar Dao.
We hope to benefit each other with new perspectives."
Lind was truly confused.
Dao was the path cultivators studied to cultivate at all.
Sotis it was the whole basis of sects.
Why would any cultivator create an Inheritance simply to find like minded individuals?
His confusion must have been apparent but Skinwalker only seed amused.
"Do you know what my Dao is?"
Lind nodded as he had discussed it with the aether beasts.
"The Dao of Life."
Skinwalker nodded but then seed to wait.
Lind thought about what the beasts said and continued.
"You wish to understand all aspects of life completely.
You wish to comprehend the very living world in all its forms and interactions."
A smile spread on Skinwalker's face but he then shook his head.
"You are both right and wrong.
I follow the Dao of Life but I have only grasped one aspect of it.
The myriad forms is not a bad way to explain it.
If I actually follow the Dao of Life, however, is that enough?"
Lind was enlightened.
He had been told his Dao of Elents was strong but he also studied the Dao of Life in a way.
In his case, he was studying the various ways the elents composed life.
He wanted to understand how they interacted with each other to open the path for 6 elentals to cultivate.
Lind relayed his thoughts and they began a discussion.
Ti slipped away as Lind felt like his mind had beco a sponge.
He had only been trying to conform his knowledge into his own benefits but that was wrong.
If he truly wanted to master the Dao of Elents, he had to perceive all forms of each to truly grasp his Dao.
Skinwalker had gone far, but Lind now understood his earlier words.
"So you created an Inheritance to both find those on the sa path and benefit each other in the Dao you follow?"
Skinwalker smiled warmly at Lind.
"You are partially correct.
I am sothing of an outlier.
Inheritances vary from one cultivator to another as I am sure you are aware."
Lind's face darkened as he knew that all too well.
False Ruins, Cannibal Inheritances, and dark versions did exist as well.
Both demonic and human Inheritances were rarely kind from the records Lind had read.
The trials could cripple and tear asunder a cultivator.
The survivors offered warnings, at least those of righteous powers.
"I have, very bad experience."
Lind relayed what he had experienced.
The False Ruin made Skinwalker grimace but the Cannibal Inheritances caused aura to nearly crush Lind.
Skinwalker quickly noticed but the jungle around them beca pindrop silent.
It was not an effect of control but Lind's instincts could feel the fear in everything around him.
It really was alive.
"It would seem things have happened in your Celestial Fields that are quite…distasteful."
Lind caught a word but doubted he would get an answer if he asked.
What did Skinwalker an by 'your?'
"So there is more to the Dao of Life but I suspect my ti here is only beginning?"
Lind looked around at the vast stretch of jungle and saw Skinwalker nod sagely.
"This place is a part of , the last part of .
It is the essence of my Dao of Life and you will have to live it.
There is no trial nor test.
You must simply surpass the threshold of your current comprehension."
Lind did not understand.
It was that easy?
As if reading his mind, Skinwalker transford his limbs into different forms of life.
A tree branch, a hoof, a furred paw, and a fierce claw.
They were perfect and there was no discomfort on Skinwalker's face.
Lind did not understand.
The skill to transform was clearly related to the Dao of Life but how could such disparate life exist at once?
How could Skinwalker pull it off so easily?
"I am on my own path, and you are on yours but can you honestly say you grasp your Dao to such an extent?"
Lind felt his stomach drop out.
He was only a World Realm, an Iron Tier at that.
If he had to reach the level of a Divine Realm without any reference, how long would he live here?
"I don't think I will be leaving here then."
Lind mumbled his thoughts before Skinwalker began laughing heartily.
The tears on his eyes showed he found the words truly funny.
"I am a Divine Realm cultivator.
If I expected you to reach my level, you would not have been allowed to enter.
A Dao Inheritance is not so complicated but not so simple either."
Skinwalker stood up as he resud being completely human.
He moved and Lind felt sothing pick him up with his aura.
They moved through the sky and his soul felt free!
Lind's skin transford into erald scales as his eyes beca slits.
Skinwalker watched the process with great interest.
Skinwalker tried to perceive it but like every other ti, anything dealing with dragons was beyond him, but then Lind looked at him with a smile.
Erald light flared and enclosed them both.
Skinwalker brought them to a ridge as his assud a lotus position and Lind joined him.
The beasts of the jungle and the plants did nothing to interfere.
The aura of a dragon and Skinwalker's own kept them far away but the sounds of life resud.
Days passed before either moved.
"Unexpected!
Truly unexpected!"
Skinwalker looked like a little boy as his body flared with profound Qi.
Lind noticed sothing odd about the elents around Skinwalker.
They were like his, but only 3 of them were at full strength.
It was not like when he observed Delenn or Younger Twin.
Their elents always seed in balance but Skinwalkers darkness, earth, and fire were much lower in quality than the others.
His focus was caught instantly.
"Not all cultivators can balance their secondary elents to their primary, even at my realm."
Lind was surprised.
It ant there was more possible with adding elents than he had believed.
Of course, he was far from worrying about it.
"In any case, I will digest this truly precious experience you shared with .
Thank you!
You must go out into the world!"
Skinwalker held out his hands and Lind looked out on the endless jungle.
It was massive and Lind could see sothing in the skies.
He at first thought they were birds but then he got a closer look and realized they were rocs, pengs, and other legendary creatures of not only Earth but the cultivation world.
He could only imagine what was on the ground or even under the ground.
"How will I know if I broaden my horizons?"
Lind asked the question but only silence answered him.
He looked back and Skinwalker was gone.
His senses had not even registered any movent or change but then he recalled he felt nothing when the aether beasts transford.
It was not a technique or Art, it was a part of them.
Clearly they inherited it from their father as he had felt nothing once more.
He had more hope but he did not even know where to begin.
His Dao was very different even if it also fell under the umbrella of life.
Lind moved down into the jungle but he kept up a tenuous connection to his dragon soul.
Anything in that place was capable of killing him with a thought, let alone an intentional attack.
Lind moved for weeks and saw beasts the size of mountains move slowly on the horizon.
He also noticed that the plants were as vicious as any predator.
He found the change from his normal forest fascinating.
In his own realm, while plants could beco Soul or World Realms, they simply beca more powerful as a plant, not able to move.
He had heard so plants in the Sky Realm could move but only in a limited fashion.
Here, he was seeing trees and vines working together to lasso beasts to their death.
Insects were not small either but they were left alone by the plants.
The reliance of plants to spread by insects seed to continue into whatever realm Lind was seeing.
He began to comprehend what Skinwalker was talking about.
As life beca more profound the old patterns held but new ones began to erge.
The plants attacked herbivores but only those that were a threat.
Beasts that lived in or around plants as part of their lifecycle were still welcod and even protected the beasts from their predators if they ca close.
It changed the paradigms and assumptions Lind had accepted the world to operate by.
If that was true of normal beast and plant relations, what about the elents he studied?
He wanted to break through to Gold Tier and maybe what held him back was that very bottleneck of assumptions standing in his way.
Lind was about to move on to the next ridge he could see when a feeble cry ca from his right.
It was followed by a roar but his instincts could feel sothing stir.
"A bully, you are bullying soone."
Lind suddenly felt closer to his dragon soul than all the ti senior dragon soul guided him.
He followed the new instinct and pushed his body to move faster through the roots and boughs to find his prey.
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