Cultivation of power was the foundation to self-preservation, but cultivation of the mind was the key to ascending to greater heights.0

Regardless of how one chose to pursue the Great Dao, occasionally, there would come times when they would need to make way for others.0

Chen Ping'an stared blankly into the distance with a sullen look on his face. The world was so massive, yet he had no one to speak his thoughts to and could only keep them bottled up.0

All of a sudden, a thought occurred to him, and he pulled a piece of charcoal out of his minimization treasure.0

He then drew a large circle onto the dock before crouching down in the circle and drawing a line that split the circle up into two sections.0

From there, he crouched beside the line and remained silent for a long while with his brows tightly furrowed.0

After a long pause, he removed the Sword Nurturing Gourd from his waist and took a swig of crow caw wine from it, and only after that did he write down the words "good" and "evil" on the opposing halves of the circle.0

On this night, he was determined to make a breakthrough on the concept of the singularity, a concept that he hadn't been willing or able to consider deeply in the past.2

Chen Ping'an remained in a crouched position, straddling the line between good and evil as he wrote down the phrase "put people first," then murmured to himself, "That's all I can think about for now."0

He closed his eyes and took another sip of wine, then opened his eyes and stood up as he made his way around the edge of the "good" semi-circle. From there, he walked straight through the circle to the other side, drawing a line as he went. He repeated the process once more, and in the end, the circle was split up into six parts, with all of the...1