Leaving, Different Customs and Traditions

Master of White Cloud Mountain wore a somewhat wistful expression.

"Mountain Master, meetings and partings are fated. There is no need to dwell on them too much."

Elder Zhang offered a reminder.

After all, his Mountain Master had received guidance in cultivation and broken through a threshold. He should have been happy.

That senior's departure might also have brought an end to the Cause and Effect of the past several days.

Master of White Cloud Mountain said, "This old Daoist is not troubled by that."

"Excessive greed leads to no good end. Those who cultivate must cultivate their hearts—how could I not understand such a principle?"

"It is only now that I understand the meaning of cultivating one's heart in those words. Before this, I was far too impetuous."

"That I could make a breakthrough now was indeed beyond expectation."

Elder Zhang also muttered inwardly, let alone you—not even I expected that the Mountain Master could continue breaking through.

With this breakthrough, he seemed to have been infused with brand-new vitality, like withered wood meeting spring. He carried an added trace of life now, no longer possessing that sense of someone in the twilight of his years.

"I wonder where that person will travel next."

White Cloud Taoist Temple had merely been Lu Qing's first stop after entering this era of the Primordial Era.

Now that the first stop had passed.

Lu Qing continued onward in the direction indicated by his own Heavenly Secret Deduction divination.

The heavens and earth of the Primordial Era were different, yet a cultivation environment was not formed solely by the environment of heaven and earth. It also included the environment created by countless cultivators.

Heaven, earth, and people—people were living beings, cultivators were living beings. When gathered together, they formed a trace of Mortal