Jiang Yi fell silent in thought. He had heard from Profound Mystery True Person that when a Sect-tier Dao Child assumed his position, he had to sever his past and erase his karma. This was divided into two steps: first, keeping his Life Lamp burning perpetually to cleanse and refine his worldly roots, freeing him from the constraints of his former origins;
Second, severing worldly ties and extinguishing old traces, eliminating everyone who had quarreled with or schemed against the Dao Child, lest unforeseen complications arise later.
This tradition did not exist without reason.
The four manifest Dao Lineages of the Jambudvipa Vast Land had always had a habit of poaching from one another, with the [Buddhist Dao] of the Western Maitreya Continent being particularly rampant.
Those bald donkeys often divined the promising seedlings discovered by the [Immortal Dao] and [Demonic Dao], deliberately forming manifestation bodies to establish ties with those "Dao Children" and "True Disciples."
They might become their parents or relatives in some lifetime, their brothers, or their lovers and bitter rivals.
From there, they spun countless old grudges and lingering affections, fresh sorrows and the pain of parting, until their karma became tangled beyond separation, ultimately converting them to Buddhism to take refuge in the World-Honored One. Were it not for this, how could the immortals and demons later have joined forces and permitted the emergence of the [Sword Dao], whose killing prowess surpassed all other cultivators?
Much less could four Dao Lord Great Powers have successively attained their stations within a mere few eras, advancing the great struggle between Dao Lineages known as the Western Journey to Destroy Buddhism!
Even now, [Buddhist Dao] cultivators were unwelcome wherever they went outside the Western Maitreya Continent.
Moreover, the [Demonic Dao] had later imitated this several times, luring away