Advance or retreat, take or forsake—turn inward and examine oneself.
Su Che sat upright within the Hall of Spiritual Flourishing. Rarely, he carefully sorted through his own path of cultivation once more.
He had always lacked a touch of devotion toward advancement. More often, he had simply been a pragmatist, using whatever proved useful.
Put nicely, it was called embracing all schools of thought. In truth, it was letting mud and sand flow in together.
When he had first entered Shanyin County and prepared to follow the path of Sword Cultivation, it had all been dictated by circumstance.
When he encountered his benefactor-master and received his teachings, compared to the Dao Path of the Secret Register of the Yin Heaven of Zhoujue itself, he had valued the Yellow Heaven Sect's backing more.
The Life-and-Death Spiritual Root that was the Ruomu Seed, the Black Emperor Lineage imparted by the Yin-Yang Dharma King, the Tai Hell Avici Sword obtained from the Beimang Ghost Ancestor, the true intent of the Scripture of the Future Astral Tribulation from the Buddhist School, and the Five Weapons Sword Gu, which could not be disentangled from the Devil Sect...
Anything that could serve his purposes, regardless of its origins or foundations, had been incorporated into his Dao Foundation.
Any one of these, if not enough to point directly toward the great Dao of Longevity, was sufficient to allow its possessor to step into the Void Step realm. Yet the principles contained within them ran as far apart as south and north, and their irreconcilable conflicts were too numerous to count.
As these countless problems and contradictions continued to pile up, compounded by his own choices, they had ultimately brewed the current situation.
Over time, they had finally brewed into shackles forged by his own hands.
Thus, today's