Rain poured down.
Raindrops struck Heavenly Light Peak Summit, raising clouds of dust that quickly turned to mud, then washed down into the sea of clouds below the cliffs.
The fierce wind drove rain against the Thatched Hut with a pattering sound.
Zhao Layue stared at True Person Taiping by the cliff and said, "If everything you said is true, why haven't those Outsider Heavenly Demons come to kill us?"
True Person Taiping continued looking at the peaks through the rain, letting the water stream down his face. "Because there is a barrier between us and the outside world. Or perhaps because we have too little spiritual qi here to attract their attention."
"Even if it's true, what does it have to do with these evil things you're doing?" Zhao Layue wiped the rain from her face, her eyes all the more sharply black and white.
"You presumably intend to ascend." True Person Taiping turned to her and smiled. "Then have you ever considered what you will leave behind when you leave this world? And what you will take away?"
Ascension was not death, so the saying that you brought nothing into life and took nothing away in death did not apply. When Immortal Bairen ascended, she had left the Zhongzhou Sect the three primary, three auxiliary, and six Immortal Registers. But what did his question mean?
Zhao Layue said, "I will take my sword."
True Person Taiping smiled. "Wrong. You will also take the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy inside your body."
Hearing this, some people vaguely began to understand something.
The essence of cultivating the Dao was to put Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy to one's own use.
The higher a Daoist cultivator's cultivation realm, the more Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy their body contained. Those Heaven-Connecting Realm