Aspiring to the Immortal Path Chapter 693: Comprehending the Dao

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

"Azure Dragon… Fate…"

Tang Jie lay on the small boat, his hands cushioning his head as he looked up at the sky and muttered to himself.

Ever since that conversation with Lin Xin, Tang Jie realized that Silver Eyes had been right. That green snake really was connected to the Azure Dragon of High Antiquity.

If this was the case, then the entire Verdant Cloud Domain might share some close connection to the Azure Dragon, which would also explain the problem of luck that had confused Tang Jie in the past.

But Tang Jie had never really believed in fortune.

Fortune was too ethereal, unreliable.

Cultivating Immortality was to seek the path of the celestial, but this was not the same as the fantastical or absurd.

All spell arts had their own principle and reasoning that could be followed.

This was why one could advance through diligent cultivation.

If one cultivated something that did not operate on any reason or law, why did one even bother to cultivate? Everyone could just go and jump off a cliff and see if they got lucky.

This was why few cultivators of the Great Stellar Chiliocosm let luck guide their actions or cultivation. As for diviners and fortune tellers, there were such people, but few of them in high places, mostly unaffiliated cultivators who wandered about.

But most cultivators understood that there was a way that fortune could be understood or studied: the Dao of Fate.

Fortune was under the Dao of Fate.

But as the most enigmatic and ethereal of the Twelve Great Daos, the Dao of Fate was just too difficult to comprehend.

Comprehending any Dao was difficult for ordinary cultivators, let alone the Dao of Fate.

It was for this reason that even though Tang Jie had interacted with almost all of the Twelve Great Daos, the Dao of Fate remained unfathomable to him.

Although he had obtained the Fate Standard, he still couldn't comprehend its principles and make it truly his own.

But Lin Xin's words had lifted the veil of mystery by just a little.

Fa

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