The root cause of this matter—
Was that He Song was simply far too cautious.
The various frustrations ordinary cultivators encountered along the path of cultivation would all become nourishment for their Heart Demons.
But such things simply never happened to He Song.
As a result—
The Heart Demon born from He Song's life of silently cultivating without the slightest dissatisfaction in his heart—
Was naturally countless times weaker than the Heart Demons born from others after they had suffered countless injustices.
While others faced their Heart Demons with nine chances of death for every one of survival—
He Song could erase his Heart Demon merely with his own aura.
That was precisely because the Heart Demon born from He Song had never received any nourishment at all.
Its strength was naturally weak enough to sink into the dust.
It could be said—
If He Song had not always followed the path of caution—
This Heart Demon Tribulation of his would likely have been countless times more terrifying.
As He Song came to understand this—
And realized that he had seemingly stumbled into avoiding a Heart Demon Tribulation that was practically nine deaths and one life for other cultivators—
His Dao Heart became even firmer with the shattering of the Heart Demon.
"The cultivation world is fraught with dangers."
"One careless step, and one dies with Dao extinguished."
"If they are not cautious, ordinary cultivators would likely have already died in some remote corner during the Qi Refining stage."
"Yet the shackles of a cultivator's lifespan force them to endlessly fight over all manner of things."
"If one's lifespan runs out before one has successfully raised one's cultivation to a level that can extend one's life once more—"
"Then all that awaits is death and the extinction of Dao."
"Thus,