The path to ascending Pure Yang required caution with every step.
Jiang Sheng now already possessed the cultivation of Five Calamities; ordinary Great Vehicle cultivators could not contend with him.
Among the Nine Realms of cultivation today, the only ones who could be considered Jiang Sheng's opponents were the top Great Vehicle beings who had walked out from those Pure Yang Sacred Lands across the countless heavens and myriad worlds—those veteran Great Vehicle powerhouses backed by sacred lands, possessed of endless resources, and who had lived for who knew how many tens of thousands of years.
Though Jiang Sheng was now not yet three thousand years old, he had Five Calamities cultivation, with magical treasures and divine abilities all complete. If one were to say what he truly still lacked before Pure Yang, then it was accumulation.
This accumulation was the magic power tempered over thousands of years, the Dao Heart honed through one trial and magical duel after another, it was fortune, it was merit, and even more, it was karma.
If one wished to ascend to that Pure Yang which had leapt beyond the Three Realms and was no longer within the Five Elements, one had to possess the ability to let karma not cling to the body. Right now, Jiang Sheng's fortune and merit seemed abundant, but faced with the Pure Yang realm, they still could not be called enough.
Therefore, no bit of fortune or merit could be easily given up, and no shred of karma could be lightly allowed to cling to him.
Some karma was easy to settle: competing for opportunities, fighting over life and death—once it was cut down, that was that.
After all, when both sides gave rise to the urge to contend, and dragons and tigers clashed, the karma naturally dissolved.