The Lotus Formula

All his life, he excelled at cultivating lotus flowers, but never earned a lasting reputation, remaining obscure instead.

At the dawn of the Nine Heavens, the lotus comes into being.

As the poem says: Two lotus flowers manifest, and the spirit pearl is born into the mortal world for a second time.

The lotus's way: It rises unstained from the mud, washed by clear ripples yet never coquettish.