In the end, Yue Wen still did not take the Dragon Pearl with him.
But he had met Immortal Lord Biyue's Taiguang Body... perhaps he could no longer put it that way. She was now a complete Zhang Biyue.
Daoist Ye had seen through her fate. His way of helping her escape karma was to give things up, leaving only a relatively pure Taiguang divine soul, then using that as a foundation to grow new Shuangling and Youjing souls.
That way, all her worries and sins were cast into the past.
Precisely because of this, Zhang Biyue, with her brand-new divine soul, often displayed a childlike innocence, yet would reveal a trace of the Demonic Cultivator Boss's air at the drop of a hat.
Yue Wen had also gained a rough understanding of Daoist Ye's methods.
Cultivating the Karmic Great Dao could indeed help change someone's fate, but it could not be forced. The changes had to be small, gradual, and planned.
Take Zhang Biyue, for example. Because of the causes she had sown as a demonic cultivator, she was destined to die and have her cultivation extinguished. If Daoist Ye had simply swung his sword and severed the threads of those evil consequences, Zhang Biyue could indeed have lived, but Daoist Ye himself might have died immediately.
Whether enemies came knocking or heavenly lightning struck him down, heaven would have to get him somehow.
Karma was constant. Helping someone change their fate was cheating, so you had to bear it in their place.
Thus, Daoist Ye had first untangled her karmic entanglements bit by bit. As it happened, she had split into three Dharma Bodies. The Shuangling Body handled decisions and was entangled in the most karma, so it was discarded outright; the Youjing Body handled killing and had