One must reach Zhi San to wield the Human Tao True Skill and contend with the Heavenly Dao, not to be killed at its whim.
Even upon reaching Zhi San and enacting the Human Tao True Skill, it's still a nine lives lost out of ten situation.
This was the true reason why Emperor Xin, after a century of reign, wore white robes and entered the Snowfield.
He understood he was making an enemy of the Heavenly Dao.
He knew everyone around him would be subjected to Heavenly Punishment.
He refused to implicate others.
He wished to use his own strength to defy destiny for billions of the Human Clan!
Based on this, he left behind the Dynasty that he spent his life building, departed from his Capital and millions of citizens, and even forsook his three millennia companion: the Tianhu Ancestor.
The abandoned Tianhu Ancestor harbored boundless resentment, so much so that in her handwritten "Heavenly Fox Secret Manual," she left a poem that clashed with the principle of cultivation, reciting:
