Because one might not even notice the problems in one's own cultivation.
Problems with one's own Dao Heart.
But if others pointed them out, or struck straight at the heart of the matter, then if it concerned cultivating Dao arts or Divine Abilities, it would still be fine, because one could improve and gain something from it.
But if it concerned the Dao Heart, or the Great Dao, one might end up unable to win the argument—yet one must never be argued into defeat.
Denying oneself was even more terrifying than a Heart Demon.
A Heart Demon was a bewitching thought, while oneself was a righteous thought. Once that righteous thought believed one's own Great Dao could not be traversed, could not be followed, had no path forward, then the road of cultivation had already become perilous beyond measure.
This was not Dharma Combat or killing, yet the destruction of one's Dao Heart was even more dreadful.
The Immortal Path had always occupied most of the Nine Heavens' territory through the Nine Sects.
As a result, such a grand gathering had drawn quite a few Outer Dao cultivators.
Thus, although this Dao Debate Assembly had been circulating for several years and had yet to openly emerge from all sides or settle on an official date,
it had already gained a measure of bustle.
Though it was nominally an Immortal Cultivator Dao Debate Assembly, in truth, it was not only Immortal Path cultivators who had heard of it. The Spirit Path, Divine Path, Demon Domain, and the Six Demonic Paths of the Four Lands had all caught wind of it.
When Lu Qing heard this news, he had just emerged from seclusion.
He pinched his fingers and calculated this news, only to pause slightly.
A Dao Debate Assembly, such a Dao