Cultivation, Mana.
In the essential sense, it is an extraordinary elevation of the individual, but by no means the only path for a person to become a saint.
Seizing the workings of the heavens and earth to complete one's mana is one path of cultivation, comprehending the supreme principles of the Dao, and aligning with the rules of all laws is another.
Zhang Fusheng, while sifting through all the hidden histories, once witnessed a failed examination candidate become a monk,
who studied Buddhist scriptures for forty-nine years in a Buddhist temple, neither cultivating life and nature nor nurturing essence, qi, and spirit, neither practicing mana nor seeking longevity,
only reading scriptures, chanting sutras, comprehending principles,
yet at the time when a mortal dynasty was eradicating Buddhism, with just the body of a mortal, he wielded a Zen staff, chanted Buddhist principles three times, and thereafter—
