Should he preserve True Insight battle strength that surpassed all of antiquity and the present?
Should he attempt the path to Transcendence that someone had already clearly walked through?
The long road of cultivation was also a long journey of cultivating the heart.
Every cultivator climbing the mountain must first subdue their desires.
But however scorching the seven emotions and six desires might be, how could they compare, for a cultivator, to "the end of cultivation"?
That was the ultimate future one gazed toward from the very first step. Transcendence was already an unfathomable eternity.
Zuo Guangshu and Qu Shunhua both silently watched Jiang Wang, not knowing what choice he would make.
Jiang Wang picked up a piece of fish with his chopsticks, his tone easy. "Seal it."
Zuo Xiao let out a breath, somewhat gratified. "At your age, having achieved what you have, I thought you would choose the third path—resisting the heavenly-human state while searching for another way forward."
Holding his chopsticks, Jiang Wang said calmly, "My emotions have been fading more and more. By now, I barely have any emotions left. Even when I eat a bite of delicious fish, I cannot taste satisfaction. Even when I repeatedly mock Dou Zhao, I cannot chew out any pleasure. Though I respect you, I can scarcely feel any affection or reverence for you in my heart. Seeing Guangshu and Shunhua, I should be happy—but I only know that I should be happy. In my heart... there is no feeling. From the moment I burst out of Fallen Immortal Forest until now, everything I have said and done has been based on my memories, expressions that a shell called 'Jiang Wang' might make—I myself have had no particularly strong urge that I must do anything. I need powerful emotional stimulation,