Every test or every tribulation is related to the matter of either progression or regression in cultivation. It is already difficult, yet still you add this self-imposed tribulation. How can you overcome it? You might come across hardships or troubles as a result of it. Your altered path of life is not allowed to be seen by others. If it is seen by others or if you are told when you will have a tribulation, how can you cultivate? Therefore, it is not permitted to be seen at all. Nobody from other schools of cultivation is allowed to see it, either. Even fellow disciples from the same school of
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