After immersing himself in cultivation for three months, he returned to find that the flowers, grasses, and trees around the little mountain lodge had not changed at all.
A thought stirred in Lu Qing's mind. "No wonder they say cultivation knows no passage of years. It was only three months, yet to my senses, it felt like an instant."
Now that he had broken through, he could vaguely sense that the lifespan gained through his cultivation had increased again.
"Three thousand years is not fixed. If I reach Golden Core Perfection, perhaps I could live for five thousand years."
Thinking of how three months of cultivation had felt like a mere instant, he found this sense of time brought by cultivation rather profound.
"Three thousand years... How many dynasties would rise and fall in the world? If I had not resolutely sought immortality and remained that ordinary mortal, then a mortal's whole lifetime might someday be no more than the time I spent in a single period of seclusion." This breakthrough in cultivation had brought not only visible advancement, but also an exceedingly wondrous transformation in his state of mind.
Lu Qing suddenly understood, in part, the subtle wonder of Karmic Affinity.
"If I had not seen those flying cultivators that day, I might have remained trapped there. No matter which path I took—glory and riches, fame and profit—I still would not have escaped the shackles of being a mortal..." Lu Qing sat cross-legged beneath the Star Tree, beside a slab of blue stone.
Ever since setting foot upon the path of cultivation, he had heard of Karmic Affinity.
After arriving at the Profound Heaven Dao Sect, Karmic Affinity was valued even more highly here.
Countless great predecessors had also left behind scattered words on the matter.
Some said Karmic