This "Lu Qing" was gentle and refined. He spoke his second sentence. "May I ask: you have already attained longevity, and Fortune Source is at your side. Why concern yourself with external matters? You may as well go stir up a storm in the mortal world. This method is clean and decisive. Just as I said before, when the Longevity Heavenly Tribulation descends, with Fortune Source's protection, you will surely pass through it safely."
His expression was calm and elegant. As he spoke, it was as though he walked amid a spring breeze, neither hurried nor flustered, simply laying out his words at an unhurried pace. Listening to him, one could not help feeling that he had a point.
Lu Qing saw several wavering "Lu Qing"s beside him and instinctively nodded along with those words.
Clearly, their thoughts were not much different from this Lu Qing's.
The moment they agreed, they too vanished like the cold and arrogant Lu Qing before them. Yet the scattered motes of spiritual light they left behind fell onto this refined Lu Qing.
It was plain to the naked eye that this debate was also a tribulation won without shedding blood.
As Lu Qing listened to this elegant version of himself speak slowly, he praised the other's bearing and also saw the changes in those wavering versions of "himself."
These mind apes were all thoughts that had arisen from his original heart throughout his cultivation. They were also himself. Yet with Lu Qing's true self present here, these were merely stray thoughts stirred into turbulence.
But in this Restless Mind Tribulation, the power these stray thoughts could wield came from within his Dao heart.
Lu Qing gradually came to understand why those who traveled farther along the path of cultivation grew ever firmer in mind