When the light fell upon him, Zhang Yu immediately felt as if he had entered another world.
Yet he had experienced entering the Profound Court's Land of Presenting Books before, and could sense that this was somewhat similar, though not entirely the same. It was as if his body remained where it was, while his consciousness had sunk into this place.
He raised his eyes and saw light flowing all around him. A force here seemed to be trying to push him onward, like surging waves. He felt that so long as he yielded to this force and drifted with the current, he would naturally be able to see what he wished to see.
But he did not follow that force. The so-called "fated opportunity" he had obtained this time had always swayed and lingered between "human resolve" and "heavenly fate."
He had carefully considered the difference between the two. It lay in the different choices made by one's own heart and mind.
When heavenly fate came first, all things were predestined. No matter what one did or gave, it was all arranged by heavenly fate—a passive surrender.
When human resolve came first, one firmly believed that human effort could alter all things. Even heavenly secrets and fated opportunities could be fought for personally—this was active striving.
Take his journey to Stomach Lodge to hear the teachings this time. If fated opportunity were placed first, then it was because the two were destined to meet that he had come here. But from his own perspective, it was because he himself wished to come that he had arrived in this place.
And just now, he had sensed that the obstruction upon the jade lotus would only dissolve after three days. If he followed fate, he could safely wait out the three