"I think I suddenly understand what I'm missing."
As Wang Qi spoke, the rippling phase waves around him gradually vanished. The snowball came hurtling toward him again.
This time, however, every snowflake automatically changed direction several feet away from him, circling around his body. Only the occasional flake struck his face.
It was only when Wang Qi raised a hand to brush the icy things from his face that Zhen Chanzi asked, "What did you think of?"
"I haven't been living recklessly enough."
Perhaps Wang Qi's statement was too shocking; for a moment, Zhen Chanzi did not even know how to judge it. After a long while, the Great Vehicle cultivator finally said, "If this old man still had a body, I'd spit right in your face—have you no shame at all?"
He had never seen a more suicidal little expert at courting death! And now, this number-one death-seeker under heaven actually thought he was not good enough at courting death?
Wang Qi waved aside the clump of snow rushing at his face and laughed. "Recklessness and seeking death are not the same thing."
"Before I met Li Ziye and the others, back when I was staying in Dabai Village, I was a madman. My head wasn't quite right. I lived more recklessly than anyone, and only then did I not feel much heartache."
"'Are madmen happy?' That sounds like metaphysics, doesn't it?" Zhen Chanzi asked. "You Modern Dharma Cultivators don't seem to like that sort of thing."
Wang Qi did not explain. Instead, he asked another question. "Old man, what do you think of 'casting away sagacity and abandoning wisdom'?"
Casting away sagacity and abandoning wisdom was an Ancient Method concept, an unparalleled method for seeking the Great Dao and deepening one's mental discipline. Its purpose was simply to