Daoist Wang had not expected the aftereffects of sending off the Heroic Spirits to be this severe.
He had only wanted to rest for half a day, clear his mind, skip meditation and cultivation, and process this wave of grief.
Who could have guessed—
Even after four or five days, he had not recovered!
It was Zhou Zhengde who noticed Wang Jixuan looking so downcast and hurriedly filed a report requesting Ling Tong's return from the border rotation. Only then did Daoist Wang gradually pull himself free from those emotions.
He had never gone through this in his previous life.
Wang Jixuan had originally thought all he lacked was experience in the mortal world, and his sweet cohabitation with Ling Tong had already made up for that.
But he suddenly realized—
There was no end to the insights of the Dao heart.
What one had not experienced, one should experience; what one had not felt, one should feel. Each could bring different insights, allowing one to better understand the essence of the Dao.
This time, his realization was that the more fragile living beings were, the more tenacious life became.
Still, he truly needed to pull himself together.
He needed to seize this hard-won period of stability to improve his cultivation and break through from the Core Formation Realm into the Golden Core Realm!
There was something Wang Jixuan had never actually mentioned.
His original plan for "breaking his precepts" had been after reaching the Golden Core Realm, when Primordial Yang would have become completely useless anyway.
But...
By a twist of fate, swept up in surging emotions, he had not suppressed his desire and had broken his precepts early in the Core Formation Realm.
The before-and-after effects would not be too significant.
Entering dual cultivation life early would be