Xue Qingcheng's situation was very special. Rather than saying that her failure to prove the Dao had destroyed her Dao heart, it would be more accurate to say that her original Dao heart had already been on the verge of collapse. That was why she had been unable to complete the process all along—the path to proving the Dao had been blocked, leaving her to search bitterly without success.
Tian Jiu'er had succeeded in proving the Dao, and Zhao Qian had succeeded as well, because their Dao hearts were firm. My wife-sister had accompanied me as I grew. Though she had gone through countless painful struggles, tribulations, and changes, she had built a solid Dao heart just as I had. That was the fundamental reason she had succeeded in proving the Dao.
There was no need to mention Zhao Qian. She had walked out of Earth with me, and after enduring the cleansing of her Dao heart through countless years, her pure Dao heart had paved the easiest road for her to succeed in proving the Dao. Only Xue Qingcheng's path had been full of twists and hardships. She had tried to prove the Dao several times without success, but that did not mean she had no Dao to prove. It could only be said that a Dao heart was something exceedingly precious.
That was why I felt that Deep Snow, who had now appeared before me, was Xue Qingcheng's final hope of mending and completing her Dao heart. She had not poured all her memories into it in one go. Instead, she had delivered the memories Deep Snow needed step by step, at the moments they were most needed, nourishing her Dao heart like charcoal delivered through the snow. That was Xue Qingcheng's ultimate goal.
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