"On this continent, if a hundred Guixuan experts all came to a halt at the threshold of Flying Heaven, then in the end... at most one or two would survive this tribulation! The others would remain before that gate for hundreds or thousands of years, or even until death, unable to cross that final barrier!"
"The foremost reason is that they owe too much and cannot repay it!"
"Do you understand now?"
As Qin Fangyang watched the bewilderment in Zuo Xiaoduo's eyes give way to clarity, he could not help smiling in relief.
"I understand."
"Perfect your cultivation, and leave no flaw in your state of mind. The saying about not entangling yourself in karma has never been mere empty talk."
Qin Fangyang gently stroked Zuo Xiaoduo's head and said gravely, "From another perspective, this is also for your own sake... If you let all this meat rot rather than take it out... I think that, in the future, it might instead leave a flaw in your own state of mind. You would keep dwelling on it, unable to let it go."
"And that flaw would become a regret you could never make up for."
"Your youthful selfishness would have cost tens of thousands of people their chance to advance another step. Once you understand more, every time one of those people dies on the battlefield, you'll think: if I had given him King Beast meat back then... perhaps that one advancement would have made him stronger today, and he wouldn't have died..."
Zuo Xiaoduo's hair stood on end!
Because that was very likely to happen!
Qin Fangyang sighed softly.
As he explained these things to Zuo Xiaoduo, Qin Fangyang even felt as though his own soul was undergoing a transformation alongside Zuo Xiaoduo's.
Zuo Xiaoduo's eyes shone. "I understand,