"Immortal Path's life was likely not the beginning of entering the Immortal Path..."
Otherwise, countless living beings still struggling and scrambling through the mundane Mortal World, or rushing about in their busy lives, would all brush past this Immortal Path.
"Is it the beginning of life? Yet that does not seem right either. The beginning of life is birth, but there is also the matter of karmic affinity between past and present lives. If an Immortal Cultivator from a past life reincarnated in this one, yet lacked a measure of fortune, they would likely not be reborn as a Human Cultivator, but cast into some other place.
"By that reasoning, this birth should also be connected to karmic affinity..."
Lu Qing's thoughts gradually became clearer. The deeper he delved into karmic affinity, the more profound and wondrous it became.
And the more profound it became, the more he wished to continue onward, to witness the marvels of karmic affinity in this world.
"The life of the Immortal Path should fall at the beginning of a karmic affinity. Being born into the world is an affinity of heaven and earth's reincarnation; giving rise to Wisdom Light and entering the Immortal Path is likewise a karmic affinity of birth..."
Lu Qing did not cultivate only a single Dao, so he needed to distinguish them from one another.
In his view, the source of all things was Dao. Every law and Divine Ability possessed its own fundamental principles.
Within life and death, one could see reincarnation, and Cause and Effect; one could likewise observe the distant, elusive karmic affinity.
Within one Dao lay other Daos; within other Daos lay my Dao.
One heart, one Dao; one heart, Myriad Dao—all were Great Daos upheld through the cultivation of the Dao Heart.
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