Fortune and High-Interest Loans
He Ping had spent quite some time researching before he gradually came to understand the true function of the Supreme Ego Wheel and the Calamity-Fortune Wheel of Creation.
In his view, the Supreme Ego Wheel was wondrous beyond compare. It could invert and alter the reality of things—truth or illusion, being or nonbeing, neither being nor nonbeing—all could be made to flow and transform.
He Ping was currently in a state of "apart from being and nonbeing, neither being nor nonbeing; being yet rendered nonexistent, nonbeing yet rendered existent."
This was an even more wondrous state of meditation than the Zen Heaven Great Seal's Heaven of Neither Perception nor Non-Perception. Using the power of the Second Heavenly Dao to set the Supreme Ego Wheel in motion, he became misty and unfathomable, yet not wholly absent—like a shadowy existence clinging to Long Bahe.
At the same time, this strange power also enveloped Great Sage Lieyun. The two of them entered this traceless, formless state; even the threads of their fates had been severed, as though they had been placed within some bizarre condition.
It was a state that could neither be sensed nor detected. Yet while in this state, even one's own fate drifted without anchor, and He Ping required a "point of reference."
Long Bahe's fate was exceptionally powerful. A cultivator with such extraordinary talent and immense personal strength could serve as an anchor for his fate, allowing He Ping to maintain this state of neither being nor nonbeing—silent, traceless, and formless, beyond anyone's calculations, grasp, or discovery.
That was why He Ping felt that if Long Bahe died so easily, it would affect him to some extent.
"After all, finding another person with a fate like Long Bahe's..." He slowly turned the Dharma wheel in