God-Devil Li Qingshan's first ten years of contemplation left him utterly mired in difficulty!
Whenever he tried to fuse the powers of life and death, the two powers clashed violently!
Life repelled death, and death devoured life. Like fire and water, the two simply could not coexist!
Every attempt at fusion triggered a terrifying backlash, inflicting pain as though his soul were being torn apart!
He endured that unimaginable agony, gritted his teeth, and continued his contemplation!
In the twentieth year, he finally found a glimmer of insight!
He discovered that life and death were not entirely opposed!
At the peak of life's greatest vitality lay the seed of its eventual death, while at the deepest end of death, the possibility of new life was nurtured!
Life and death were two sides of the same whole, like the alternation of day and night, like the cycle of the four seasons!
He began trying to view life and death not as opposing powers, but as two forms of the same power!
In the thirtieth year, he condensed the first embryonic life-and-death Dharma wheel!
It was a Dharma wheel woven from the powers of life and death. One half held emerald-green life force, while the other held ink-black death force. The two slowly revolved within the wheel, like a miniature cycle of samsara!
But the Dharma wheel was extremely unstable. The powers of life and death clashed constantly, making the wheel swell and shrink, turn emerald green and then pitch-black. It could collapse at any moment!
He spent another twenty years before finally stabilizing the life-and-death Dharma wheel!
The two powers revolved harmoniously within it, like yin and yang in a taiji diagram, generating and restraining each other in an endless cycle!
As the emerald-green life force revolved, it gradually transformed into