Innate Opportunity Is Called an Innate Foundation; the Path to Pure Yang, the Candle Dragon Slough

"This thing came into being through a twist of fate."

"I gave someone a talisman, and they returned a strand of fate to me."

"The workings of karma truly are wondrous beyond words."

As Jiang Sheng spoke, he opened his wooden box and took out the dull, lightless scale within, utterly devoid of spiritual nature.

"This object neither accords with the Five Elements, connects to the Four Images, links with the Three Talents, nor merges with yin and yang."

"To ordinary eyes, it has neither spirit nor nature; discern it, and there is neither effect nor cause. It is no more than an ordinary scale, its mysteries impossible to see through."

"Yet though it does not accord with the Five Elements, it can abide in wood, burn in fire, sink into earth, vanish in water, and melt into metal. Though it does not connect to the Four Images or link to the Three Talents, it hides with wind, rain, thunder, and lightning, and shines with sun, moon, and stars. Alas, ordinary people see only its plainness and cannot grasp its miraculous nature."

"To uncover this object's mystery, one must observe it at the changing of sun and moon, when yin and yang intertwine, viewing clarity and turbidity together. Only then can one perceive its true nature."

As Jiang Sheng spoke, he activated his magical power and shifted the workings of yin and yang. As yin-yang power poured into the scale, the palm-sized piece faintly radiated the light of sun and moon, then began to change continuously. In the space of a breath, it grew from palm-sized to the height of a person. When Underworld Lord Shaobai and Four Seas True Lord looked over, they saw a dense chart of the starry sea faintly reflected upon its surface.

Underworld Lord Shaobai