You don't want your secret to be revealed by others, right?-Chapter 168 - 8. If the heart is boundless, the path is endless

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In the evening, as the sunset lay in the west.

Inside the Qinghu Inn, under the illumination of a Long Bright Pearl, a handsome man clad in a white scholar’s robe sat opposite Lin Yue. The touch of frost at his temples added a hint of age, while the faint smile at the corner of his lips lent him the gentlemanly elegance of jade.

He was none other than Jun Changge, a Guest Elder of the Duke of Heng’s mansion, a Confucian Great Cultivator.

Between Lin Yue and this Confucian Great Cultivator was only a table, and behind him stood Baili Fengzhi.

"I’ve met Master Jun."

Lin Yue coughed and said, "Though Lord Qi invited you to teach me, I still don’t know what Master Jun intends to teach me, writing and reading?"

Jun Changge smiled faintly and said warmly, "Before that, I’d like to ask, is Prince Muyue the Prince whose bloodline awakened last month? Is he called Lin Yue?"

Lin Yue raised an eyebrow slightly, but he wasn’t bothered about being recognized. He just countered, "How did Master Jun guess?"

"Lord Qi told me," Jun Changge said with a smile.

Lin Yue asked suspiciously, "Lord Qi?"

If Lord Qi had revealed it, he should have informed him in advance, just like Miss Wu.

"Of course, Lord Qi did not explicitly say."

Jun Changge smiled and said, "But since Lord Qi treats you with such respect and even specifically invited me to teach you, naturally you are someone of high status and power, and since Lord Qi said you are the son of an old acquaintance, came to Di Hong City to marry, and the eldest lady is marrying into rather than taking a son-in-law, your identity is not hard to speculate."

Lin Yue nodded slightly and said, "For someone intelligent, it’s quite easy to guess."

After all, he was just using this guise temporarily to avoid his titular identity as a prince, as long as most people didn’t know or weren’t sure, and he didn’t admit it.

"Your Highness is a Prince of the House of Xiahong, destined for cultivation reaching the heavens."

Jun Changge smiled and said, "When it comes to martial arts, Wu Nu is there to teach, so there’s no need for me, a scholar, to worry. I’m guessing Your Highness doesn’t know what Lord Qi invited me to teach either, do you?"

"Please enlighten me," Lin Yue nodded.

With a barrier in place, there was no worry about being eavesdropped on.

Jun Changge smiled and said, "Enlighten doesn’t apply here, I only wish to ask Your Highness a few questions, which might seem dull."

"Please ask," Lin Yue coughed a few times.

Jun Changge asked softly, "Every cultivator has certain goals for cultivation. Some seek immortality, some seek freedom, others seek power and position, or pursue strength... What does Your Highness cultivate for?"

Lin Yue pondered briefly and said, "Initially, it was a yearning for the unknown, but now...for change, I suppose."

"Change."

Jun Changge smiled and said, "That’s the simplest yet hardest goal to satisfy. As one’s vision, status, and experience change, there’ll always be new realizations and perspectives on the world, with more and more things desired to change. It seems Your Highness is destined to never live in idleness."

Lin Yue coughed and said, "Everyone wants to change the things they find disagreeable. Isn’t that ordinary?"

"What Your Highness says isn’t wrong."

Jun Changge nodded lightly and said, "But Your Highness is different. I can tell that originally you should have been someone with little ambition and desire, perhaps content with a simple and plain life, so even the purpose of cultivation was so straightforward and general."

He looked at Lin Yue and said, "But now Your Highness has entered Di Hong City and even allied with Lord Qi in marriage, the intent so strong, it likely isn’t your original intent, but rather for a compelling reason, isn’t it?"

The image of that thunder tearing through the darkness flashed in Lin Yue’s mind, and he fell silent.

He did not answer, only coughed, and Jun Changge did not press him further.

"It seems Your Highness’s goal is high and far off."

Jun Changge said softly, "But if one day Your Highness actually achieves your goal, what then would cultivation be for?"

Lin Yue frowned slightly and said, "That day is far off, and I don’t know if I can achieve it. Even if I did, I’d still need to live, wouldn’t I? The purpose of cultivation... Is this very important?"

His goal was simple, to kill the Twelfth Prince.

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He had never thought of it, nor cared.

"It’s very important."

Jun Changge said slowly, "The road is long and arduous, even if Your Highness is of extraordinary talent and achieves being a Great Cultivator, to go further, what then? If mere cultivation could achieve Your Highness’s goals, there’d be no need to come to Di Hong City, right?"

Lin Yue remained silent.

"In the initial stages of cultivation, the heart is not that important."

Jun Changge said, "To break the Five Elements Heavenly Barrier and the Four Symbols Heaven Barrier, mental willpower is required, but the heart is not of importance. However, each school of cultivation has concepts like the Dao Heart, Bodhi Heart, Vast Energy, and so forth. Has Your Highness thought why?"

"Does cultivation at higher levels also require the heart?" Lin Yue asked.

"Indeed."

Jun Changge nodded and said, "The Five Elements Heavenly Barrier and Four Symbols Heaven Barrier are, in essence, applications of earthly essence. But starting from the Three Talents Heaven Barrier, it requires the acknowledgement of the world by one’s own small self, creating an envisioned world within one’s heart."

"However, the world seems finite, yet is infinite. Without a sufficiently firm and strong heart, how dare one compare one’s tiny self to the world?"

Jun Changge said, "Everyone is small, but the heart is infinite. Only with an infinitely large heart for the Dao can one encompass the world. If the Dao Heart is damaged, at best progression is difficult, at worst cultivation may regress, or even lead to death on the spot; this is no exaggeration."

Lin Yue pondered silently.

So, the heart was also a part of cultivation.

"Down to the lowliest of men working for a better life for their families, the exhaustion of the body can be eased by the satisfaction of the spirit."

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