"You've lost your magic power?" Mei Xuan asked in surprise. After all, Li Chen had brought about the power of Dharma's Decline; he himself should not have been affected by it.
"That's hardly surprising. It was only ever my incarnation that achieved Union with the Dao. Perhaps this is the price of remaining lucid, rather than merging completely into the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth as those illustrious predecessors did."
Li Chen seemed utterly unconcerned as he calmly explained.
"Besides, you've misunderstood one thing."
Mei Xuan asked, "What have I misunderstood?"
Li Chen glanced at her and said, "I haven't lost my magic power, nor have all beings lost theirs."
"Thought and consciousness are magic power. Carrying firewood and hauling water are divine abilities."
"Dharma's Decline doesn't mean losing divine abilities and magic power. More precisely, it changes their outward manifestations."
"True divine might will never disappear. It remains within the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, waiting for intelligent beings to uncover and harness it."
Mei Xuan seemed to grasp something. Suddenly, she realized that although Li Chen had displayed no magic power earlier, he had still crossed a distance of nearly a hundred million li with a single leap.
That certainly was not something a mortal stripped of magic power could accomplish.
Considering the properties of the power of law, along with the many aspects of the Rune Script Dao and the Way of Mathematics, she could not help strongly suspecting that Li Chen had already mastered something deeper. Even when he employed divine abilities and spells, they behaved like laws themselves, consuming nothing and producing no fluctuations.
Could this be the ultimate expression of the mind-only transformation? It's so much like those natural forces in the world-no, this is the power of nature itself!
"Fellow Daoist