The more Naisha explained, the more Aksai started to understand what it meant for a Spirit cultivator to experience tribulation.
The so-called tribulation was the Great Dao's way of making someone qualified to possess great powers.
It was why cultivators would find themselves in a pinch every now and then, even if they chose safe methods to succeed in their cultivation journeys.
Aksai guessed that he had avoided countless traps and sure-death scenarios that were meant to test him by choosing to stay on his island. It had enabled him to stay unaffected by the ways of fate for the most part.
However, it had also made him a prime target in the Eyes of Fate as his "tests" kept getting rescheduled for later dates.
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