855 Are You Number Fifteen? (1/2)

Speaking to here, Jun Mo Xie actually still needed to thank the three Holy Lands!

If not for the three Holy Lands' Saint level experts teaming up to injure the Nine Nether Fourteenth Young Master, and if not for the fact that there were so many experts in this Chrysanthemum City, preventing this fellow from acting rashly… How would the Nine Nether Fourteenth Young Master possibly sit here and endure his anger?

If not for this fortuitous encounter this time, who knew how long it would take for Jun Mo Xie to comprehend this realm…

True Self, Origin, did not mean living as one pleased, without care for consequences. Because no matter how unrestrained one was, there was always one rule to adhere to: they must have absolute power! Only when a person had absolute power could they act as they pleased, without a care for others' opinion.

But imagine a newborn infant who'd just come into the world. Even if a magnificent and powerful tiger loomed over it, threatening to eat it, the infant would still cry and create a tantrum if it was hungry and wanted milk…

It wouldn't feel any fear!

This was the truest, natural default that everyone was born with! If these natural reactions were amplified many times and applied to any areas, when every area of a person was changed to that natural level of instinct and behaviour, one would have truly reverted to nature!

Jun Mo Xie spat out a long breath…

So the truth is actually like that!

No wonder so few people in this world succeeded. So the main reason is this.

All the people who practice martial arts in this world, pursued either increased strength of their physical bodies or spirit powers cultivation which could contend against great strength. Yet, they neglected the existence of their ”self”, which is the so-called True Self, or the Origin. But even of one reached the apex of strength, or if their cultivation reached the very limits, what then?

Even the greatest of strengths had a limit. Apart from needing to be complemented with an equivalent level of spirit power, it required a sufficiently stable body to hold this great strength.

And this body was unquestionably the self!

As Buddhism often said, the physical body, was the treasured cage that one must break free of to transcend beyond!

Most people would deviate further and further from this path in their pursuit for more power, until finally, they've lost themselves, losing the original meaning of their True Self!

Such people were no longer using and controlling power. Rather, their bodies were being used by the power, turning them into nothing but vessels with only the mindless craze to seek more power!

This was the kind of dangerous development always depicted in fantasy stories. People who pursued only power would eventually be consumed by power!

That way, the order had been completely reversed. It would be a wonder if they could achieve anything! These people were already at the verge of suffering from cultivation deviation; wanting to ascend to an even higher realm? That was simply a fool's dream.

Now that Jun Mo Xie had a rare flash of comprehension, he was naturally reluctant to let it go as he meditated seriously. If he began progressing with this state from the start, what would be the results?

Without a doubt, the Nine Nether Fourteenth Young Master and the other Nine Nether Young Masters all trained like this from the beginning, which was why the results were so good. But there was also one major drawback: the endless magnification of their self confidence!

Although it was good to be confident in oneself, but this kind of over confidence would instead cause a person to whether intentionally or not, become wild and uncontrollable! Because all of them felt that in this world, there was nothing that they couldn't do; they were the strongest and were invincible. Everyone should rightfully be bowing under their feet, worshipping them, and serving them!

That way, this problem was actually incredibly severe!

After all, not everyone could reach the level of the Nine Nether First Young Master. A peerless character like him was something that only appeared once in history thus far.

Although the Nine Nether Young Masters after the Nine Nether First Young Master were also shockingly amazing characters, but their strengths were still far from reaching the terrifying levels that the First Young Master had achieved back then. When a person's confidence and arrogance were not backed up by equal levels of strength, the results would only be a tragedy!

This was also the reason why among all the Nine Nether Young Masters, only the Nine Nether First Young Master had achieved such glorious results. The other Nine Nether Young Masters were all buried in history! Actually, even the Nine Nether First Young Master had met certain bumpers in his journey as well. Wasn't he eventually also defeated at the hands of another peerless expert? Compared to the other Nine Nether Young Masters, perhaps his luck was only a bit better to not have been attacked by the entire combined force of Xuan Xuan Continent's experts like the other Nine Nether Young Masters.

Young Master Jun had never lacked in self confidence as well. However, he was not so overly confident like the Nine Nether Young Masters!

Confidence was a good thing, but excessive confidence was actually a detriment! How should one find a balance between confidence and over confidence? To have enough so as not to inhibit one's own progression, and at the same time be able to face trials and challenges while believing in oneself, recognizing one's position and drawing strength from within to continue growing?