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Updated: June 28, 2025
"Sun Wei," said the voice of Leou inwardly, "the position you have chosen is a desperate one, and we of the Upper Air who are well disposed towards you find the path of assistance fringed with two-edged swords." "It is well said: 'He who lacks a single tael sees many bargains," replied Sun Wei, a refined bitterness weighing the import of his words.
In such a manner Tian continued his progress from the town until he came above the Temple of Fire and Water Forces, where on a high tower a strong box of many woods was chained beneath a canopy, guarded by an incantation laid upon it by Leou, that no one should lift it down.
How this shall be accomplished will be revealed to you in a dream: take heed that you do not fail by the deviation of a single hair." Having thus prepared his discreditable plot, Leou twice struck the walls enclosing him, so that Sun Wei coughed violently.
Yet it is to be doubted whether this last detail deliberately hinged on the policy of Leou or whether Sun Wei had not rather been drawn into some wider sphere of destiny and among converging lines of purpose. The ways of the gods are deep and sombre, and water once poured out will flow as freely to the north as to the south.
"In ordinary cases some such arrangement is generally possible," conceded Leou; "but not idly is it written: 'There is a time to silence an adversary with the honey of logical persuasion, and there is a time to silence him with the argument of a heavily-directed club. In your extremity a hostage is the only efficient safeguard.
Becoming invisible, the demon entered a date that Sun Wei held in his hand and took the form of a stone. Sun Wei recognized the doubtful nature of the stone as it passed between his teeth, and he would have spat it forth again, but Leou had the questionable agility of the serpent and slipped down the other's throat. He was thus able to converse familiarly with Sun Wei without fear of interruption.
"There is a void in the unanimity of our council," remarked the Supreme, his eye resting like a flash of lightning on a vacant place. "Wherefore tarries Ning, the son of Shin, the Seed-sower?" For a moment there was an edging of N'guk's inquiring glance from each Being to his neighbour. Then Leou stood audaciously forth.
"To mark their sense of your really unsupportable behaviour it has been decided that all seven shall return to the humiliating scenes of their former existences in admittedly objectionable forms," replied the outrageous Leou.
Seize the person of one of the gods themselves and raise a strong wall around your destiny by holding him to ransom." "'Ho Tai, requiring a light for his pipe, stretched out his hand towards the great sky-lantern," quoted Sun Wei. "'Do not despise Ching To because his armour is invisible," retorted Leou, with equal point. "Your friends in the Above are neither feeble nor inept.
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