Fang Chen studied the golden flowers closely. He found writing on every petal, and no two petals bore the same words.
"Was the Secret Method of the Heavenly Buddha Flower inscribed on these flowers?"
Fang Chen was secretly astonished. The flowers were so enormous that he had no idea how he could read all the words on them, much less where to begin.
Just then, a breeze swept past, setting the golden flowers swaying. Suddenly, Fang Chen saw a petal break free. The character for "heaven" was written on it. It danced through the air with the wind, and then a second petal fell.
The second petal bore the character for "man."
Then came a third, a fourth...
Fang Chen watched the falling petals and instinctively began arranging their words in the order they fell...
After a while, Fang Chen's eyes lit up. He finally understood how the words on the petals were arranged: in the order the petals fell.
As time passed, the wind carried away more and more petals. Fang Chen discovered that they did not fall to the ground. Instead, they gathered in the Void, forming a winding, spiraling avenue that stretched to the very end of the Void.
Thock, thock, thock...
Fang Chen heard someone striking a Wooden Fish. The sound seemed to come from the end of the Golden Flower Avenue, and it jolted his spirits awake.
He looked toward the far end of the Golden Flower Avenue and decided to fly along it to see what lay there.
When Fang Chen reached the Golden Flower Avenue, a powerful pressure bore down on him. He was not there in a body of consciousness; this was his true body.
He stepped directly onto the Golden Flower Avenue. The moment his foot touched the golden petals, a