Having reached perfection, Shapeshifting turned Lu Yun into whatever he wanted to be. He hesitated as he gazed out over the paradise that was the Divine Temple of Nothing. Although he said that he would resolve things with his own methods, that he would search out a solution from the patch of real existence, he knew that it was impossible.

Existence was born from nothing and slowly grew until it occupied all of nothing. It would return to nothing when it touched the barrier—this was a cycle of reincarnation.

The six orders of the highest degree. Inception, ethos, burgeon, creation, opposition… and nirvana!

This was the objective rhythm that all things followed. Lu Yun was...