"If my body is truly mine, then life and death should be free."
The words were plain and easy to understand, yet upon careful reflection, they proved endlessly thought-provoking.
Like the Zen riddles of Buddhism, they carried different meanings when placed upon different people and circumstances.
But how should they be understood when applied to a Dao Definitive?
Ever since entering Asking Dao City, Su Yi had been pondering this matter.
When the Dao Definitive had left those words upon the city wall, he likely had yet to participate in the Heaven Sealing Competition, much less leave his name upon the Heaven Sealing Stage.
In other words, the Dao Definitive of that time was not yet the foremost figure upon the Heaven Sealing Stage, nor was he the greatest victor of the Path Defining Conflict.
Then why had he left such words upon the city wall?
Could it be that, back then, even he had been unable to control his own fate, with life and death beyond his command?
That was the most straightforward interpretation.
Yet in Su Yi's view, the sentence clearly carried a different meaning.
Perhaps the Dao Definitive had always been searching for his original heart.
Perhaps he had been unable to penetrate the secrets between life and death, leaving a knot in his heart that prevented him from truly seeing through the path of the true self.
Or perhaps, for the Dao Definitive of that time, the greatest obsession upon his Dao Path had been probing the mysteries of "self and non-self" and "life and death"!
And such mysteries already touched upon the secrets of Life Pathways!
"If my body is truly mine, then life and death should be free..."
Su Yi recalled his many past lives and looked back upon the Dao Path he had