Reincarnation is causality from the very beginning; golden patterns can hardly defy this human world. The old crone frets alone in the night, her painstaking efforts washed away like water.
As the wheel of life and death slowly rotated, it seemed as though all things in the world were bound by its laws. Flowers bloomed and withered; growth led to decay; birth ended in death; creation crumbled into destruction. It was as if countless thin threads connected all things in existence. Many of these threads never crossed paths until the very end, while others intersected in a complex web, linking together in an immense, intricate network.
Every person, every object, every speck of dust had its own specific thread and its own defined trajectory. It was the Great Dao of Time that propelled all development, while the Way of Fate controlled the path of these threads and determined how their trajectories would unfold. Naturally, the threads would also evolve into various bifurcations, and these intersections were the embodiment of the Law of Opportunity. Such profound mysteries were beyond the reach of those lacking sufficient spirituality and comprehension; they could exhaust their entire lives and never grasp the true meaning within.
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