"Still no sign of him?" Yue Tiannu asked from atop the broad city wall, wide enough for horses to gallop across.
The two nuns of Moon-Washing Nunnery walked and talked, while the ordinary soldiers patrolling the wall with weapons in hand naturally could not hear their conversation.
The nun named Yuzhen merely shook her head. Her graceful figure was hidden beneath a loose gray monk's robe, and the allure that could bewitch all living beings was drowned in eyes as clear and tranquil as still water.
Once, in order to successfully exchange bodies, the two of them had spent a long time together, deliberately cultivating their bond. Later, Yue Tiannu resolved to seek the Dao through a Puppet Body and no longer change bodies, yet their friendship endured.
If there was anyone in Moon-Washing Nunnery who had some genuine understanding of Yuzhen, aside from the patriarch in the painting, it was Yue Tiannu. After all, she was both Yuzhen's friend and someone who had shared the battlefield with Jiang Wang.
As the former chief of Wondrous Existence Hall, though she had once suffered the destruction of body and soul and forgotten many things, some remnants of the insight she had possessed at True Insight still remained, allowing her to see many matters clearly.
As her cultivation grew, fragments of her past understanding had also begun to return.
She was now walking a road that had never been successfully traversed.
She cultivated a puppet on one side and sought the Dao on the other. She explored the path of the Dao while adjusting the components of her body... until one day, when she once again comprehended the true reality of the world, and this Puppet Body came infinitely close to the ideal form of a Dao body, she would have truly