Merit, Fortune, and Letting Go of His Inner Knots

"Nuwa had a great merit and virtue to accomplish in the future and was destined to become a Sage. Whether Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling had given up competing for the cushions or lent a hand during the First Lecture at Purple Firmament Palace, the outcome would have been the same!"

"The remaining two Sage Positions were fated to belong to the West. This was both to maintain balance and because the Dao Ancestor Hongjun had destroyed the Western Continent during the Dao-Devil War with the Ancestor of Demons Rahu, thereby owing the Western Continent immense Karma. The Dao Ancestor Hongjun needed to repay that Karma this way."

"If, before the First Lecture at Purple Firmament Palace, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, Yuan Ling, and I had governed and restored the Western Continent to its present prosperity and claimed the majority of its Fortune, then we would certainly have obtained the two Sage Positions belonging to the Western Continent."

"But we had not accomplished that then, so at most we could have obtained one Sage Position. Jieyin and Zhunti were the only two remaining Top-Tier Innate Divines of the Western Continent and were favored by its Fortune. The final Sage Position was destined to fall to one of them. Moreover, that was only because we had made contributions in governing and restoring the Western Continent, gaining its Fortune. Otherwise, both Sage Positions of the Western Continent should have belonged to them."

"As for you, what was not fated was simply not fated. Just like Hong Yun, even if you had sat upon a cushion, you would have lost it in the end!"

"Therefore, there is no need for you to blame yourself! The loss of the Sage Position was not your responsibility, but the decree of fate!"

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