After the True Persons and True Lords had finished paying their respects, Shi Xuan remarked that he would not save people from Reincarnation like this again in the future, then continued with a smile, "My proving of the Dao of Great Luo was also due to all manner of fortunate coincidences, allowing me to pass through tribulations and clarify my heart. Among you, quite a few surpassed me in both aptitude and temperament when you first began cultivating. So long as you can govern yourselves and hold fast to your original hearts, one day, it may not be impossible for you to become fellow sovereigns with the world, free of decay and tribulation."
"Of course, this road is fraught with hardship and danger, with temptations layered upon temptations. Among hundreds of millions of cultivators, fewer than one or two attain it. Even for me, my path was by no means as easy or meteoric as you all saw. Without the resolve to face hardship and endure temptation, there is only death and no life."
Shi Xuan's words were both encouragement and guidance, and they contained the key to Dao Heart Decay. Yet the key to Dao Heart Decay lay in Daoist magic—the most ordinary and commonplace principles recorded in the scriptures. Meng Nishang and the True Lords and True Persons of the Penglai Sect found nothing strange in them. Even Mo Yuan, who had always opposed undergoing tribulations merely for the sake of undergoing them, did not associate the words with Dao Heart Decay. Some among them were stirred with fervor, some with yearning, some wore resolute expressions, while others remained impassive.
Seeing this, Shi Xuan secretly nodded. No wonder that if someone spoke of the key to Dao Heart Decay without mentioning the four words "Dao Heart Decay," without