THE CLUE FROM THE HEAVEN

"Your Highness! Your Highness!"

Chen Xinyi shouted loudly while waving his hands. He was standing far below, at the gate, with Wu Qi and several San Hu Wei soldiers on his side.

"We have found the objects that make the flood come here! And we've taken out some of them!"

It was as if Zhu Su just got awakened from the magic petrifying him. He could move his body and mind freely again. "Well... great. So what is it?"

Chen Xinyi pointed at several large boats behind them.

"These boats clogged the small rivers and waterways which flows from the Yellow River to here. They made the water flow blocked. Now our team is working with every district security to remove other obstacle objects!"

"Big boats clogged up rivers and waterways?!" Zhu Su was stunned to hear such absurd statement. "How come?!"

"We've not yet found about that. Now our priority is to remove the blockers in all waterways. And to do that, we should ask for your permission to include the entire San Hu Wei to maximize our work."

"You get my permission! I order San Hu Wei to lift all the obstacles that cause this flood!"

Every chief of all San Hu Wei divisions carried out Zhu Su's orders in the short run. In just a matter of minutes, the soldiers on a massive scale was swiftly marching their way to the waterways in all directions, overturning whatever obstacle objects there. Big rocks, logs, tree trunks... whatever stuck the rivers, they lifted them all up.

How miraculous. The speed of flood soon decreased. The water flowed into the waterways. In a short time. And the situation had recovered as before.

Chen Xinyi and Wu Qi smirked at the report of every division chief. Chen Xinyi brought a good report to Zhu Su. "Your Highness, everything is going well! The flood has been successfully under control!"

Everyone cheered, including the princesses and Zhu Youdun. Hu Nayin smiled and said, "Thank Heaven!" And about Zhu Su, he felt his knees buckled. His tensed entire body was filled with great relief.

"I have to thank You, Heaven, for your protection to us!"

***

But although they could prevent the flood from destroying the Kaifeng Palace, it did not mean that the floods had completely disappeared. The flood still existed, the disaster still made people miserable. And Zhu Su felt that his problem got more serious as he learned that the flood which could almost hit his palace was caused by sabotage.

"It must be Huan Shikang's work! Who else can do such awful thing?!" Zhu Youdun growled.

Zhu Su replied him, "It's surely his work."

"But why don't the people know about their crime?! They even still support them?!"

"No. They are afraid of Huan Shikang. This incident is exactly like what happened when I was exiled to Yunnan... what?!"

Zhu Su was suddenly stupefied. He was like a person who had just been cursed to stone. His peculiarity made Zhu Youdun confused.

"Fu Wang... what's wrong?" Zhu Youdun asked worriedly.

"I get it..."

"Fu Wang?..."

"Yes... I get it... I should have gotten it from a long time ago..." Zhu Su got to his feet, he went out of the room. Yet his eyes were still blank, unfocused.

"Fu Wang, where will you go?! Let me follow you!" Worried with his father, Zhu Youdun also stepped out of the room.

Zhu Su was walking like a hypnotized person. He did not realize that Zhu Youdun was following him, even when they had been outside, and were now heading to the gate.

"Your Highness, where will you go?" They accidentally met with Hu Nayin.

Zhu Su turned his head. Yes, it is all the same like before, when I was looking for a way out and almost got there, Nayin thus appeared. Is it also the same augury? "Nayin, I want to go to the Iron Pagoda to meditate. Do you want to come with me?"

"Yes, Your Highness!" Hu Nayin said firmly.

Zhu Youdun snorted. He thought to himself, He just ignores me like I'm nobody, but towards Madame Nayin, not only he answers her questions, he also enganges her to come with him. But he did not complain about his father anymore. Smiling, he said, "Then Fu Wang, let's go."

***

Meditation! Letting go of the attachments that controlled our mind. From the previous time, he always could get the Way to solve problems by doing meditation. So many times he had come up with a useful solution with meditation, for example when he fought Xie Wang. It was the same with the zouyu, also because of the meditation. He indeed should have made the meditation as an effective way to find a solution every time he faced difficulty.

Zhu Su's intuition led him to meditate in the Iron Pagoda. Although there was a very comfortable garden for meditation in his palace, yet somehow he did not feel comfortable to meditate there. He felt that the palace was keeping him away from the "Way" of which Gao Qing let him search, while it was that "Way" which could only solve his problem right now. What he needed was True Ultimateless, not Fake Ultimateless. Although he still had no idea about the way Iron Pagoda would use to lead him to reach the True Ultimateless.

"What Sir Gao means is actually meditation, right? I still didn't get the point before, but now I'm sure that it is indeed the answer," Zhu Su explained as they had arrived at the Iron Pagoda.

It had been dusk, but the sky was still cloudy. And the wind was still blowing hard like before. But a few gray clouds sometimes stepped aside and let the twilight sunlight shimmer, as if to imply that a glimmer of hope will always appear no matter how difficult a problem is.

"We can't orient merely to Yin or Yang, which means we can't let ourselves bound with our perception or feelings. We can't let our mind get influenced easily. We should make our mind neutral, that is exactly what Sir Gao means by the Ultimateless. Hence, the Way will appear... and it will always be. When Turgen tricked me with his Manduoluohua tactics, I solved it with the help of meditation. When the riot first blew up in Kaifeng, I also used meditation to solve it. This time will be the same. I am sure, we'll get the Best Way to finish this."