A vague method of cultivating the Dao of transactions surfaced in his mind.
It was gradually perfected. This path leaned toward exchange, rooted in the exchange aspect of the supreme mechanism's principle of equivalent exchange.
As for equivalence, it was not actual equality of value, but rather both parties to the transaction feeling, in their hearts, that they had profited. This was another kind of equivalence—an idealistic equivalence of value.
The nine major directions of his Way of Civilization were not a complete imitation of the Eight Great Mechanisms. Instead, he drew upon what was useful within them and deduced the principles best suited to his own Way of Civilization.
It was related to the eight great manufacturing mechanisms, yet it was neither copying them wholesale nor subordinate to them. It was a branch relationship.
In the end, a complete Civilization Equivalent Exchange was deduced.
The Jade Tablet recorded it, and before long, an entirely new Civilization Equivalent Exchange scripture was restored.
This scripture was even more perfect, pointing directly to the Dao of evolution. It had restored at least one-third of the original version's essence.
Li Qing's Past Body silently observed the new version, constantly comparing it with his own before carefully checking and deducing the flaws between them.
Way of Changes operated at its limit, ceaselessly plugging gaps and remedying omissions. Vaguely, Li Qing's Past Body seemed to sense a difference in algorithms.
The Jade Tablet involved an unknown algorithm of extreme profundity, one that far surpassed the current Way of Changes.
Li Qing's Present Body could only vaguely sense it; it was impossible for him to perceive its foundation.
Yet through the comparison, he also gained greatly. As he plugged gaps and remedied omissions, he reverse-engineered certain flaws in the underlying algorithm of Way of Changes.
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