Jiang Yi fell into a contemplative silence. He had heard from True Master Xuanmiao that when a Daoist of the Ancestral Sect ascended, they were required to sever their past and erase their karma.
This process was divided into two steps. First, their life lamp would burn eternally, cleansing their worldly roots so they were no longer bound by their former background.
Second, they had to cut all worldly ties and eliminate old traces, exterminating all who had schemed against or been in conflict with them to prevent future complications.
The existence of this tradition was not without reason.
The four great Daoist Lineages of the Yanfu Vast Land had always had a habit of poaching each other's talents, with the Buddhist Dao of the Ximizhou Continent being the most flagrant.
Those bald donkeys often divined the promising prospects discovered by the Immortal Dao and Demon Dao, then deliberately created an incarnation to form a karmic bond with those "Daoists" and "True Inheritances."
