Observation

In the plaza of Tiger Slaying Gate, Li Qi smiled and said, "It seems you've gained something."

"Thank you for your guidance, sir. I think I understand what you meant now."

Li Qi nodded slightly. "Everything you do should have a purpose. Cultivation is merely a means. To arrive at that purpose, you should have your own set of standards for judging the world. Only then will you know what is good and what is bad."

"I will think on it." Ju Ye bowed in gratitude.

He understood what Li Qi meant.

To judge good and bad, one first needed standards. Without standards, all things were the same, and there would be no distinction between good and bad.

And those standards were the standards by which people viewed the world—the manifestation of Dao within a person.

Such standards did not necessarily accord with the external objective world, so they needed tempering. Either one ground the outside world flat and changed the entire world, or the outside world ground one flat and changed one's standards.

But no matter what, the first thing one had to establish was one's own standards. With standards, one gained the qualifications to examine this world.

Yes, those without standards had no right to examine the world, because to them, everything in the world looked the same. Good and evil, strength and weakness, all seemed to exist naturally. In the end, they could only be steeped in the ways of the world, letting those ways become their sole standard, drifting with the current.

However, to establish one's own set of standards required a great deal of practical experience, thought, and observation.

Ju Ye was still too young and had experienced too little. It was difficult for him to establish standards that belonged to himself. In other words,