“Y-you can’t exactly say that. Cultivation emphasizes work-life balance. As they say, extreme stillness breeds restlessness. When you stay in a place for too long, you can’t help but want to go out and take a look.0

“Little Yun, think about it. Isn’t cultivation all about achieving immortality and carefreeness? If one spends all their time in seclusion and sitting in a meditative position to cultivate, wouldn’t cultivation become a prison sentence? That’s putting the cart before the horse,” the Taciturn Daoist Priest advised earnestly.0

As a frequent visitor of the prison, I have the right of speech toward imprisonment that no one else has.1

“Besides, isn’t cultivation divided into secular cultivators and secluded cultivators? I’m the typical secular cultivator. Only by mingling around in the mundane world can I comprehend the Immortal Dao and break through!”0

Lu Yang had heard of this viewpoint before. For instance,...0