"What did it feel like in the Heaven-Human state?" Ye Qingyu asked casually, her abacus clicking away as she stared at the thick ledger, jotting down an entry or two from time to time.
Jiang Wang... watched her use the abacus.
Watching Ye Qingyu use an abacus gave him a deeply conflicting feeling. Like one plus one suddenly becoming three.
It was not that she calculated poorly, lacked fluency with the beads, or held herself without grace.
It was that her bearing simply did not suit the task of accounting.
She was a fairy maiden above the clouds, untouched by mortal smoke and fire, meant to dwell idly in the mountains, detached and indifferent to the World Apart. Yet here she was, suddenly opening a shop in the bustling city, sleeves rolled up as she counted every last penny.
Copper coins that had rolled through the Mortal World one by one now rolled across her dustless hands...
Tsk.
It had a peculiar sort of charm.
"I'm talking to you!" Ye Qingyu glanced up at him amid her busy work.
Jiang Wang immediately sat up straight. "As for what the Heaven-Human state feels like... that has to be addressed from two angles. In cultivation, so long as one can let go of oneself and commit to the Heavenly Dao, one can leap ten thousand miles in a single bound and reach the summit with a single thought. Transcendence is not beyond hope either. In terms of combat strength, one can easily wield the power of the Heavenly Dao, surpassing all True Insight throughout history..."
He leaned a little closer and lowered his voice. "Taking down Pavilion Master Ye would be no trouble at all."
Ye Qingyu raised her gaze from the ledger again. "Taking down who?"
"No one." Jiang Wang scratched