"You heard it just now as well. The path Fellow Daoist Hundred Flowers walks is the principle of the flourishing and withering transformations of grasses and trees, the growth and decline of all things. If she can forsake one lifetime in exchange for peace in another, that too counts as a form of life-and-death transformation, and may be called close to the Dao. What is there to regret? Bring me the medicine."
Lü Yue's words made Chen Geng's expression change. "Eldest Brother?"
Li Ping too looked at Lü Yue in surprise. "Eldest Brother, since Hundred Flowers has already made her decision, why are we still in such a hurry to find a cure?"
"Why did we come to this world?"
Faced with Lü Yue's question, Li Ping replied, "Naturally, for cultivation."
"Since that is so, the Great Dao is already before your eyes. Why do you linger? It is merely the body of one lifetime. What is so precious about it?"
Before Li Ping could react, Chen Geng had already bowed to Lü Yue. "Please enlighten us, Eldest Brother."
"What do you think the Dao of plague is?"
Lü Yue gave the two no time to think and said directly, "Once, while Teacher Yu Chen was expounding the Dao, he told us that the Dao of slaughter has nothing to do with good or evil. Rather than a means of ending life and sending it toward death, it is better described as a method of forcibly ending an individual's contradictions and conflicts. Thus, one direction in which the Dao of slaughter may be elevated is to halt the motion of all things. Yet the Dao of slaughter is always accompanied by secondary products such as death, blood, resentment, and fear, which is why slaughter became synonymous with evil and error."