What did the moon mean?
As in his previous life, this world truly had a small celestial body that revolved around it.
After heaven and earth had shattered, who knew what methods the Mysterious Capital Palace had used to keep a body of such mass following its old course without causing further upheaval in this world?
But the moon could not be understood as merely a celestial body that kept circling.
In cultivation, the moon meant far more. Just as the sun was certainly no mere ball of fire undergoing endless fusion.
The moon represented yin. It watched over every ghostly being in the world, transforming Sun Essence into Moonlight Essence they could absorb.
The moon represented decline and death. It waned with each cycle until only a thread of light, thin as a breath, remained for the world.
The moon represented rebirth. At the very end of its decline, it always found the spark of renewal, until it shone across the world and turned the long night white.
It ceaselessly drew the waves and tides, creating the most delicate balance within the law of motion and stillness. The moon tugged at the earth, influencing everything upon it with a force at once immense and subtle.
It was also subject to the Law of the Grand Void: its form, its composition, the path of its orbit...
It was a symbol of solitude, too. The thoughts in countless hearts had bestowed endless meanings upon the moon...
This bright moon illuminated all Nine Heavenly Human Arts. It encompassed everything and excluded nothing.
It was like a cross-section through the Nine Heavenly Human Arts, laying their inner mysteries before his eyes and leaving him to choose among them.
Strangely, Su Che had no idea how much the mighty figure who forged this iron