Lu Yan immediately lifted his spirits, reaching out to leaf through the tome mostly burnt by flames.
The contents were already blurred, but upon careful discernment, Lu Yan could still vaguely confirm that this seemed to be a spell, complete with a cultivation route map and corresponding spell instructions.
Lu Yan attempted to run the cultivation technique according to the cultivation route map. Upon modification, the "Red Lotus Karma Fire Scripture" was triggered, and Lu Yan immediately sensed the trace of merit within being invoked.
Lu Yan was overjoyed. Ordinarily, spells could not possibly invoke merit. Only exceedingly rare merit divine techniques could borrow the power of merit to derive endless wondrous uses.
"I suppose the person who organized the tomes back then had no merit, and running the cultivation route map yielded no feedback. Coupled with the tome being mostly scorched, this led to it being seen as an incomplete tome and discarded on the third layer."
