Ever since returning from consulting Zhuang Zhishi, Zhang Yu had been pondering how to reduce his burdens. The path he intended to take was naturally not some method of withdrawing from the world and eliminating all entanglements, but the path of repaying what he owed.
He had boarded Celestial Xia's great vessel and crossed over upon it, only then attaining his present realm of cultivation. Thus, he had inevitably incurred Celestial Xia's burdens.
Therefore, reducing those burdens naturally had to rest upon repaying Celestial Xia.
Simply put, anything that benefited Celestial Xia's overall strength or helped Celestial Xia overcome Origin Xia could potentially reduce one's own burdens.
In truth, he had been doing this all along. What he cultivated was the Profound Method, and the Profound Method was originally a method for entering the world. As the Profound Method flourished and the number of profound cultivators increased, Celestial Xia's strength continued to rise. Thus, he had unknowingly been making such repayment all this while.
Yet as one's realm gradually rose, the burdens one accumulated were far beyond anything from the past.
He believed that when cultivators of old reached a sufficiently high level of cultivation and broke through another realm, what was called leaving all past burdens behind merely meant that their abilities had grown too great for those past burdens to entangle them. It did not mean those burdens truly no longer existed.
Every advancement for a cultivator was difficult, yet they were seldom held back by burdens. This was because they could receive aid from their sects and fellow cultivators, making it comparatively easier for their cultivation to climb.
But once they ascended to a higher realm, their past burdens could be suppressed, only for even more burdens to surge in. This forced those with aspirations toward the