Chapter 253 - 174: The Arrival of the Golden Core Demi Immortal’s True Form
The voice boomed like thunder, shaking Baidi Xun’s spirit. The rage in his tiger eyes was extinguished in an instant, as a hint of clarity emerged.
The difference between a genius and a mediocrity is comprehensive; they are boundlessly arrogant but certainly not lacking in the wit to discern danger.
Before him, Gu Wen gripped the Immortal Sword within its sheath, his eyes sharp as an unbeatable three-foot Qingfeng, instilling in Baidi Xun a desire to retreat as if the sword was piercing into his vitals.
"If I retreat like this, how can I ascend to immortality with an invincible heart in this great era?"
A surge of aura suddenly swelled; the intent to retreat in Baidi Xun’s eyes vanished, his breathing steadied, and the rate of his dharma form’s healing abruptly increased.
The Dao heart is an entity formed after birth and stems from one’s true nature; external forces can hardly perceive it, and even oneself might struggle to discern it clearly. Is your Dao heart driven by some desire, or is it sunk in the unwillingness to accept failure?
Mortals may study until they are seventy years old to become a learned scholar; cultivators too are not lacking those who die of old age at five hundred years as Golden Core practitioners.
Only in the face of life and death can one truly discern the Dao heart.
Better to die than to retreat, better to fail than to flee!
With mentality and mana interconnected, Baidi Xun’s mana flowed like a raging river, seemingly reclaiming the elegance of thirty thousand years past in an instant.