A highly spiritual sparrow with a white belly and red back perched on Xu Xing's shoulder as he followed the crowd toward a livelier area.
A few people's gazes lingered briefly on him along the way, only to quickly shift elsewhere.
Compared to the Charm Cultivators of the Joyous Union Sect, the sparrow on his shoulder was unusual as well, but far less eye-catching.
A way to dispel 'Dao Delusion'...
"That's rather simple." Xu Xing looked toward a stall ahead that sold antique objects. "This 'Dao Delusion' begins with one's original self-conceptions. As you said, it is the manifestation of past karmic imprints."
"Since that is the case, sever every thought, leaving behind only a single thread of obsession to preserve the True Self, and 'Dao Delusion' will naturally dissipate."
The rise of deluded thoughts stemmed from the stirring of the heart, yet so long as one remained in the mortal world, fluctuations of thought were unavoidable.
So long as this could be avoided, Dao Delusion would become duckweed without roots, no longer able to imprison one within oneself.
When all thoughts vanished, all deluded thoughts would fade.
That was roughly the idea.
"Of course, if I truly did that, I would no longer be myself."
And when that obsession was fulfilled, he would inevitably dissolve into the Dao—or transform into a Dao Slave, bringing boundless calamity upon the Great Profound Realm, even the Chaos Sea.
"A method that hardly counts as a method," the Charm Ancestor remarked.
This went far beyond merely carrying great hidden dangers. It was no different from courting death. In a sense, it had already betrayed their original purpose as "immortals," drawing closer instead to "Heaven."
"This method is a shortcut. Naturally, it cannot be flawless in every respect."
Cultivation had never been accomplished in