This was merit, and it likewise carried an inscrutable intent.
But if one judged both deeds and heart, would not the final cultivator of the path of merit become a sage?
No wonder the difficulty of obtaining merit only grew greater the further one went. If merit were truly granted without restraint, it would only create cultivators laden with merit but lacking the immortal heart to wield it.
Yet Lu Qing had not come here to cultivate merit and Fate Allotment.
Through the streams of merit and Fate Allotment originating from this Black Tortoise Minor Realm, he gradually grasped a trace of this place's laws of heaven and earth. All Great Daos led to the same destination, and laws were no different.
Lu Qing held a mass of merit and Fate Allotment like a yellow cloud in his palm, his gaze examining its depths.
In the unseen, he seemed to sense that this mass of merit and Fate Allotment had been born from heaven and earth.
Yet it also bore a thread of Cause and Effect with the unknowable Heaven's Way.
Lu Qing also noticed that the spiritual essence of this world was exceptionally abundant. Creatures born beneath the skies of the Black Tortoise Minor Realm seemed able, from birth, to perceive faint wisps of merit qi in this world.
"Black Tortoise."
All things possessed names, and True Names carried an unfathomable significance upon the path of cultivation.
As Lu Qing spoke that name, he seemed to catch a wisp of Spirit Light.
"Black Tortoise... This world truly resembles a Black Tortoise. Like a black turtle, dragon, and serpent—then the other one..."
Through that thread of connection, Lu Qing saw countless Heavenly Secrets lines unfolding from his future.
Those Heavenly Secrets churned beneath layers of thick mist and dense clouds,