Watching Fortune Like Tides, Choosing Matters by the People

Thoughts and qi were like tides, rising and falling with the times.

In Qiu Yan's eyes, the scholars in the courtyard were Fire Seeds for spreading the Human Divine Path, so naturally he kept an eye on them. Before this, he had made many preparations, refining the Human Divine Path's deductions ever further.

On this return north, the Meng Clan had arranged this lecture to cater to his tastes. It was like delivering a pillow just as sleepiness struck, saving Qiu Yan considerable trouble.

Thought was different from incense-wish thoughts, yet similar to them.

Incense was entrusted to a specific deity in hopes of gaining protection, whereas thought was the spiritual strength condensed from the learning and knowledge accumulated by scholars.

The difference between the two determined that the Human Divine Path would not, like the traditional Divine Path, harvest believers' thoughts and emotions to strengthen itself and twist reality. Instead, it would expand its influence through another method.

"Incense-wish thoughts must be entrusted to deities. They influence the deities' thoughts and alter their inclinations, which in turn feed back into the bodies and minds of believers, unconsciously placing them under divine constraint. In this respect, they are quite similar to the conduct of scholars."

Within Qiu Yan's sight, thought merged with Fortune, revealing the future prospects of the scholars. Of course, this was not absolute. There were many ways to change a person's fate. Even his lecture today could influence the futures of the attending scholars to some extent.

"A scholar's learning and knowledge do not arise from thin air. They often rely on the classics of sages and Grand Confucians. Nor did these Human Dao Canons simply spring into existence for no reason—they were principles distilled from the changes of Heaven, Earth, and the Human Path. Like the