The Auspicious Central Palace

"..."

"Gulp! Gulp!"

The Fate Dice he had thrown came to a stop. Gold: 4, black: 3, white: 6.

They formed an equilateral triangle across the central palace, the Qian palace, and the Kun palace of the Bagua Diagram.

Yin Ming calculated how the three dice influenced one another, using their distances and values in the Four-Forms Eight-Directions Diagram.

A coin had two sides, while dice had different values. Very little needed changing to make them work.

The Fate Dice alone could only offer a simple judgment of fortune or misfortune. Yin Ming could deduce auspicious and inauspicious positions, favorable and unfavorable times, gates of life and death...

With more information, or a stronger aura from the "fate" Law Fragment, he could deduce even finer details.

"No River Diagram, no Luo Writing. I have to calculate everything in my head! Tap, tap..."

Yin Ming let out a long sigh.

According to ancient cultivator texts, before the End of Dharma, cultivators had two shared computers—the River Diagram and Luo Writing—for divination and deduction.

In the Wizard World, he had only his brain.

"..."

Fate Studies!

It was an extraordinarily profound discipline.

Even setting aside the supernatural properties of the "fate" Law Fragment's aura, it was a remarkably subtle model of thought.

Mortal thought generally fell somewhere between two and three dimensions.

Understanding good and evil, yin and yang, and right and wrong was enough to reach two dimensions. Humanity as a whole had attained that level after emerging from ignorance.

Understanding the shifts between yin and yang, knowing that good and evil could change, and recognizing that black and white were not fixed brought one to three dimensions.

Those who understood these things and acted on them, steering events toward better outcomes, were the elite among mortals.

In the Bagua Diagram,