Especially, Henry Carter saw a gray seal in the lower left corner of the first page of this scripture, which made him pause for a moment.

This scripture being stamped with a seal meant that it was once someone’s private possession, and that person must have valued it greatly. Now that the seal had turned gray, it indicated that the owner who left the seal had died, and even the four characters within the seal...

“Qingyang Edward Gu!”

Henry Carter’s expression immediately became somewhat complicated: “Could this be the original copy that the Qingyang Sect’s Supreme Elder obtained back then?”

Having been harmed by the “True Explanation of Dao Origin” to such a state, after entering the Immortal Sect, Henry Carter was unwilling to think about this matter, but he had still heard bits and pieces of rumors about this “True Explanation of Dao Origin,” and learned of the twists and turns over the past centuries...

Ever since a thousand years ago, when the top cultivators of all the great sects jointly created the “True Explanation of Dao Origin,” every sect had wanted to find it. But when the scripture appeared, there were suddenly over a hundred copies, which immediately threw the cultivation world into chaos. Even though it was hard to distinguish the true explanation, the sects still fought fiercely over it. The Qingyang Sect’s Grand Elder Gu Song had, more than seven hundred years ago, stumbled upon a copy of the True Explanation by chance, and after a bloody battle, seized this scripture. Even his Dao companion perished for the sake of this scripture...

Since then, this Supreme Elder became obsessed with studying this scripture, determined to uncover its secrets. He even established the triennial Immortal Sect examination because he trusted the words of a diviner from the Yi Tower.

But in the blink of an eye, another three hundred years passed. Now, within the Qingyang Sect, no one still hoped to unravel the secrets of the “True Explanation of Dao Origin.” It was only because Grand Elder Gu Song’s cultivation was deep and his seniority high that, with him standing there, no one dared to openly oppose it.

For this reason, when the other four great Immortal Sects of Yue Kingdom had already begun selecting disciples by other means, only the Qingyang Sect still focused solely on the True Explanation of Dao Origin. The result was that, generation after generation, the true disciples selected by the Qingyang Sect could not compare to those of the other four great Immortal Sects. Once the foremost of the five great Immortal Sects, it had now fallen behind the other four in the quality of new blood.

Some speculated that Elder Gu Song simply could not accept that his Dao companion had died for a fake scripture, and so he kept deceiving himself. He firmly believed the scripture was real, because he did not want his beloved Dao companion to have died in vain...

But the future of the Immortal Sect was worrying!

So many talented people were left unchosen, while a bunch of muddle-headed bookworms were admitted, occupying the positions of true disciples, yet unable to bring hope to the Immortal Sect, nor gain any advantage in the competition with the other four great Immortal Sects. Wasn’t this a waste of resources?

For this reason, as soon as Elder Gu Song passed away, the Qingyang Sect immediately issued a decree to abolish the True Explanation of Dao Origin as a subject!

And Henry Carter was the biggest victim of this decision!

Realizing that the scroll in his hand was the culprit that had landed him in such a predicament, Henry Carter remained silent for a long time.

He had wanted to tear it to pieces, but subconsciously, he just opened the book and started reading.

“Dao flows and is used, yet never overflows. Deep, it seems to be the ancestor of all things...”

Familiar words appeared before his eyes, as if pulling Henry Carter’s mood back to the countless days and nights before the great examination.

This was indeed the “True Explanation of Dao Origin” that he had read countless times. Henry Carter not only knew the scripture by heart, but was also thoroughly familiar with all the annotations related to this “True Explanation of Dao Origin” over the past seven hundred years, those of the Qingyang Sect, the four great Immortal Sects of Yue Kingdom, and even other versions. His understanding of this scripture even surpassed his knowledge of his own palm lines...

Yet vaguely, something seemed different.

At first, Henry Carter did not notice. He just subconsciously read on. Because he was so familiar with the scripture, the reading experience felt very strange—as he saw the words on the page, the content had already appeared in his mind...

It was no longer like reading a book, but more like conversing with an old friend!

Gradually, Henry Carter became completely absorbed in reading!

Seeing the “True Explanation of Dao Origin,” he became immersed in it, forgetting everything else. This had almost become his instinct over the past ten years!

In these ten years, apart from the “True Explanation of Dao Origin,” almost nothing else had appeared in his life...

And this gradually brought him into a mysterious state...

It seemed as if everything around him faded away, leaving only him and the scripture in his hands in this world. It was hard to say whether the scripture had entered his mind, or he had fallen into the scripture itself. He simply could not sense the existence of anything else, only that he was enveloped by a mysterious and profound power, with faint chanting sounds around him, coming from afar and growing closer, echoing in his heart...

“It’s happening again, that feeling from half a year ago...”

He didn’t know how much time had passed when Henry Carter suddenly felt a jolt in his heart, realizing that something was happening.

Half a year ago, after he had studied the “True Explanation of Dao Origin” and drifted off to sleep with lingering thoughts, he had experienced this same feeling—half-awake, half-asleep, suddenly feeling his Dao heart become clear, bells and drums ringing in unison, as if he had entered the world of the scripture, enveloped by a mysterious and profound power...