Though the time was not long, Lu Qing experienced scenes he had never truly experienced before.

Even with his Dao Heart facing it directly, his inner cognition had clearly told him.

The Great Dao is singular; one must advance with a single mind. All the fame, fortune, prosperity, and beautiful women are but fleeting clouds on the path of the Great Dao, easily dispersed with a flick of a sleeve.

His cognitive Divine Sense and his state of mind since cultivating his heart had always been as stable as a mirror, unmoving and unthinking, because he knew that all of this was merely fleeting, like passing clouds and flowing Xia, incomparable to the eternal Great Dao.

Yet, having always cultivated on the path of the Great Dao, he knew, and he was calm, but he had never truly faced this level of worldly cultivation's splendor.

It was not the worldly fame and glory, or being remembered by future generations, but a kind of glory displayed within a Dao Sect formed by various Karma in the Cultivation World.

“Fame and profit are useless to me. I stand firm, abandoning them, and go forth to seek my boundless immortal path.”

Lu Qing's subtle changes in his state of mind at this moment were even noticed by White Crane Boy.

He did not continue to disturb Lu Qing, but instead quickly stood guard nearby, not allowing any streaks of light, people, or Spirit Beasts to come and disturb Lu Qing.

“Oh, Old Ancestor, Old Ancestor, it seems you were right. Lu Qing is comprehending the Dao again.”

“I also need to work hard slowly; at least I can't be left behind.”

In a mysterious space, an enormous White Crane, covered in divine light, suddenly had a golden gleam flash in his crane eyes.

“Who is thinking of this Old Ancestor again?”

“Oh, I'm getting old, those juniors really… making an old man guard this place…”

After being startled awake, the White Crane spoke with dissatisfaction.

He saw a equally vast Formation beneath him slowly rotating, like the stars in the firmament.

However, compared to the starlight of the night, the Formation here was covered by a layer of black mist that was extremely dense and extremely filthy.

It seemed to encompass all things in darkness, and also seemed capable of devouring everything, no less terrifying than the nothingness of the the void beyond the boundless sky.

The White Crane sat in the center above the Formation, its divine light continuously flowing into the Formation. Within that thin, misty black Qi, there seemed to be a passage leading to an unknown, extremely dangerous and ominous place.

However, before those dangerous auras could even appear, they were washed away by the divine light here, leaving no trace.

On Dao Field Mountain.

The figure of a young Cultivator had at this moment fallen into seven days of Dao comprehension in his heart.

These seven days were neither confused nor obsession, nor were they confusion or fixation.

Lu Qing was merely using this rare opportunity to calmly and peacefully engage in another discussion of the Dao with his spiritual platform's restless mind.

Though called a discussion of the Dao, their respective Daos had become completely different after the Golden Core stage.

The restless mind on his spiritual platform now was no longer the restless mind of the past.

Things had changed, and the state of mind on his spiritual platform was also constantly shifting.

Also, because Lu Qing's cultivation path had always been steadily forward, neither looking back nor retreating, the restless mind left in the past naturally had no way of arriving in the present.

Lu Qing felt a certain sense of the passage of time.

During the period when the divination symbol appeared, Lu Qing experienced different things than before, which caused unusual changes in his Dao Heart and spiritual platform.

“Hmm, after this experience, I no longer have to worry about this mental obstacle appearing again in the future.”

Lu Qing thought of the tribulations that would arise when passing the third stage of Void Illumination Realm.

However, when Lu Qing had previously passed other cultivation stages, he had always crossed them smoothly. This time, for the third stage of Void Illumination Realm, Lu Qing estimated it would still be some time before he could reach it in his cultivation, but he had also gained an unexpected harvest.

“Fame and profit are worldly things; I can obtain them at any time, so I naturally don't care. I hadn't experienced the prosperity here before, and my heart was stirred, which I thought was normal. In cultivating the heart and mind, I am my true self, not defined by purity, not by peace, nor by a single word.”

Lu Qing's thoughts slowly loosened. He indeed rarely killed, and he indeed cultivated in tranquility, but Lu Qing realized that he was ultimately not a true Cultivator of supreme tranquility and non-action.

Everything he did was merely to avoid danger in advance, and merely to better step onto the Great Dao.

The Dao of cultivation takes cultivation as its original intention, but until today, after Lu Qing was suddenly moved in his state of mind, he understood even more clearly that one should cultivate naturally.

Naturally, others' unity of Heaven and man is natural, seeing worldly Cultivators seeking their respective Daos is also natural, and seeing his own self is also natural.

“Heaven and man are natural, Heaven and man are natural.”

A gleam of light appeared in Lu Qing's eyes, and the Qi around him became somewhat different from before.

Cultivating with nature, with his natural self, seeing the Dao of nature.

In the long river of Dao Seals.

With a roar, the two Dao Seals, which had previously been slightly out of sync, now subtly possessed a natural aura.

Lu Qing had walked out his own Great Dao, but in terms of his Dao Heart and spiritual platform, it was only today that he truly reached Perfection, flawless and clear-minded.

“The spiritual platform is originally without dust, and without a single thing.”

Western Heaven Continent.

Spirit Heaven Buddhist Land.

As Lu Qing softly recited Buddhist verses.

Buddhist chants resounded, and golden lotuses fell.

“My Buddha, what is this?”

On the Buddha platform, the Buddha showed compassion for all beings.

The Buddha's light revealed the myriad forms of all living beings, the boundless sea of suffering, which must be crossed with great compassion and great vows, seeing the immeasurable living beings, seeing the immeasurable true Buddha.

“It should be for a fated person, whose fate has fallen to my Buddhist Land.”

The Buddha sat cross-legged on a lotus golden platform, speaking compassionately and slowly.

But before the last word of the prophecy fell.

Suddenly, the Buddha's light shone ten thousand zhang, and countless sentient beings, believers, and Buddhist Cultivators in the Buddha Kingdom raised their gaze.

They saw a terrifyingly bright sword light, extremely distant and grand, descend upon a sliver of heavenly secret, spanning tens of thousands of miles and thousands of zhang.

“Amitabha.”

The Buddha closed his eyes, and tremors subtly emerged within the Buddha's light. After several breaths passed, the Buddha Kingdom's mountains collapsed and the earth crumbled.

“Buddhism.”

South Heaven Continent, Profound Heaven Dao Sect.

The ethereal figures on the cloud platform saw the future Buddha's light and heard the Buddha's true words.

A figure opened his eyes, and a sword light cleaved a sliver of heavenly secret.

“When did it become Buddhism's turn to covet my Xuantian disciple?”

Even the other few figures had slightly cold expressions.

Profound Heaven Dao Sect did not have any disciples entering Buddhism for cultivation.

However, Supreme Heavenly Dao Sect, which had a very good relationship with Profound Heaven Dao Sect, had a Supreme Heavenly Dao Sect's Envoy from eight hundred years ago who was converted and entered the Buddhist Land, becoming an Arhat Venerable.

Now, Buddhism dared to make small moves on the heavenly secret again, which immediately caused the expressions of these several Xuantian Sect Masters to turn cold.

After all, they had seen Lu Qing, and if he could grow, he would surely make a name for himself in the years to come.

If it were a junior's battle, it would be one thing if he was no match for others among his peers, but for a Venerable of a dignified Buddha Kingdom to personally intervene and manipulate the heavenly secret with a prophecy, this touched their reverse scale.

“We need to teach them a lesson. Buddhism has always been cunning. If they see his Buddhist Dharma, they will follow his Dao. Now, at a time of change, we can use this to cut off one of their Buddha Kingdoms…”

Sun Qidao slowly spoke, his words also carrying a hint of indifference.

Non-action is supreme; it's not that he doesn't initiate a killing tribulation, but rather that there's no necessity.

On the Dao Field, Lu Qing raised his gaze.

In the ethereal realm, he saw a Colored Glaze Buddha Kingdom in Lingtian, with seven treasures in the sky, splendid and magnificent.

But in an instant, the Buddha Kingdom trembled and fell, and countless Buddha lights shattered.

He glanced at his Sea of Consciousness; the divination symbol was as steady as an old dog, completely motionless.

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