Me and My Cold CEO Wife

Chapter 1997 - 1986: Swear on It

This suggests that Wang Chuangui inadvertently entered the Immortal Sect, perhaps even two different sects.After all, the point of entry and the return location are not the same.

Moreover, this Immortal Sect might not be sealed, allowing free passage.

"It seems that Mount Hua is the breakthrough point."

Ning Fan recalls the platform where Taoist Fire Dragon resides.

When Taoist Fire Dragon's master returned from the Earth Immortal Realm, he appeared on this platform.

Taoist Fire Dragon established his position there specifically to find a path to the Earth Immortal Realm.

"Let's discuss this later."

Regarding the Earth Immortal Realm, Ning Fan is not too concerned, since there's still time.

If it doesn't work out, he can always seek out the Heaven-Slaying Divine General.

With the other's cultivation, he must know more secrets.

Of course, that's merely a last resort.

The Golden Core disappeared, so did the Banishment Core Seal.

Aside from courting death, Ning Fan can't think of a reason to actively seek out the Heaven-Slaying Divine General.

The urgent task is to know the whereabouts of the Western cultivators.

Seeing Ning Fan silent for a long while, Vivian couldn't help but say, "Do you have anything else you want to know? Sister Mary is still waiting for us."

"Oh, is that so?"

Seeing Ning Fan staring at her without blinking, Vivian awkwardly said, "Sister Mary said that staring at a girl like that is impolite, it's lecherous."

Hearing this, Ning Fan nearly spat out blood, unable to help but mock, "Your way of diverting attention is quite good, trying to fool me?"

Vivian's eyes flickered, "What am I fooling you about?"

"You haven't said why you want to know my true name."

Upon hearing this question, Vivian's eyes showed panic; she didn't expect things would come back to this question.

"Are you even a man? Why are you so nosy?"

If possible, Vivian really wanted to imprint this phrase onto Ning Fan's face.

Joking aside, concerning her own life and death, how could Ning Fan let it go? He immediately sneered, "Are you plotting to secretly curse me?"

"I really am not."

Vivian was agitated, as if she would prove her innocence with her life in the next second.

Ning Fan sinisterly smiled, "Alright. Then swear by the honor of the Dragon God. If you swear, I will believe you."

For ordinary people, an oath, no matter how vicious, is just empty words.

But Vivian is different. To be precise, no cultivator would easily swear.

Ordinary people are ignorant and fearless, but not so with cultivators.

Stepping onto the path of cultivation and understanding the rules of heaven and earth would make one realize that everything in the world consists of various rules, harboring respect for this world.

Ordinary people can curse the heavens without consequence.

If the heavens don't strike you with lightning, it only means you're insignificant, not yet in the Dharma Eye of the heavens.

But a cultivator wouldn't dare try, the higher their cultivation, the more attention they might receive from the Heavenly Dao.

"Loose lips sink ships" indeed refers to cultivators.

Ever since Ning Fan entered the Golden Core stage, he always felt an invisible eye in the void watching his every move.

Later, through exchanges with Chen Min, he learned that this was an insight into "Heaven rewards diligence."

The Heavenly Dao is akin to a documentary, recording the cultivation path of cultivators.

Of course, this record is not on paper.

Every person, even every flower and stone, has its own trajectory.

All these trajectories are recorded by the Heavenly Dao.

Only by stepping onto the cultivation path and drawing closer to the Heavenly Dao can one's trajectory become clearer.

What Chen Min said back then was extremely profound and convoluted; it took Ning Fan a while to understand it his way.

It's like a person's educational records, detailing childhood actions, grades, and performances from schools...

What's in the records affects your future prospects.

And a Taoist cultivator's pursuit of future prospects naturally pertains to the Great Dao, with grades in the records as their cultivation life trajectory.

In other words, every Taoist cultivator's "Heaven rewards diligence" is linked to their ability to ascend.

Hence, Ning Fan once asked, since this is the case, why differentiate between righteousness and evil? Everyone should simply do good deeds.

Later, with Chen Min's explanation, "Heaven rewards diligence" doesn't fully measure good and evil but is calculated by merit.

As for how merit is calculated, that's even more profound.

Killing one to save a thousand is merit; killing a thousand to save one is also merit.

It's possible that the latter holds more merit than the former.

An evil cultivator, notorious for bloodshed, can suddenly awaken and ascend right on the spot.

While a righteous cultivator with a moral heart struggles for ascension till life runs out.

No one knows how the Heavenly Dao does its calculations.

"Just follow your heart."

That's the advice Chen Min gave to Ning Fan.

In simple terms, it's better not to flaunt or perform gimmicks selectively; such actions are pointless; the Heavenly Dao is not easily deceived.

Doing as one pleases is the true path.

Even though "Heaven rewards diligence" doesn't fully gauge good and evil, it is not unrelated; it involves the cycle of cause and effect, not easily calculated.

If indeed one does evil, karmic debts in the mortal realm are recorded meticulously.

Otherwise, there'd be no saying like "heavenly thunderstrike."

Anyone struck by "heavenly thunderstrike" has no mercy left; they are blackened beyond redemption.

Not only in this life but in lives before they were vile, otherwise, the heavens wouldn't personally intervene as punishment.

"Even I can sense 'Heaven rewards diligence,' no way these Western Divine Spirits can roam free without consequence."

That's the reason Ning Fan wanted Vivian to swear; the promises made may not take effect immediately but will not vanish.

"I..."

If it were the Dark Dragon King, Vivian might curse her father without principles,

but when it comes to the ancestral Dragon God, she wouldn't dare even with immense courage.

Defaming ancestral honor is one issue.

Though the Dragon God has fallen, the rules it comprehended still benefit the entire Dragon Clan through bloodline inheritance, with some even merging into the Origin World.

"Secretly cursing the ancestor would certainly be 'heard' by him."

With this in mind, Vivian stammered, "Didn't I say earlier? Only we Divine Spirits are impacted by true names."

"Why?"

Most Western Divine Spirits follow the path of faith.

Upon comprehending rule power and igniting Divine Fire, the next step is to recruit believers and establish one's own Divine Kingdom.

Then, with the help of believers' Power of Faith, the Divine Kingdom is lifted to become a true Divine Spirit.

This is the Western path to divinity.

Divine Fire, Power of Faith, and Divine Kingdom are foundational to divinity, indispensable.

And the awakening of the true name occurs naturally upon the understanding of rule power and ignition of Divine Fire.

The true name's awakening is a natural progression; as long as rule power is comprehended, it naturally appears.

However, a Taoist cultivator's Primordial Spirit is different.