Speaking of Fuxi, he sought to gain enlightenment and resolve confusions by telling of the great calamities of the Middle Ancient Times and calculating the number of future tribulations.
Tribulation and fortune are eternal topics among People of the Immortal Path. Tribulation refers to hardships and fortune to luck. Taoism and Buddhism have profoundly deep concepts of causality; intertwined with tribulation and fortune, they rise and fall in succession. Taoism prevailed in the end because Donghua the Great Emperor reincarnated and took up cultivation anew as Lu Dongbin, founding the Complete Truth Sect, which thrived in later generations. Otherwise, the luck of Taoism might have very well been completely suppressed by Buddhism.
