Light Fortress
Chapter 329 - 24: Seeds of the New World (Major - , Seeking Monthly Votes)

Chapter 329: Chapter 24: Seeds of the New World (Major Chapter, Seeking Monthly Votes)

Gu Shen always felt that something was missing here.

Since it was spring,

then... it shouldn’t be so lifelessly quiet. After the Jingzhe Guyu, this world should be bursting with life, and all things revived.

He finally knew what was missing from this wilderness.

It was vitality!

Gu Shen stretched out his finger, touching the droplet.

The moment he touched it, reality and illusion intertwined... One moment he seemed to be in the Four Seasons Wilderness drenched by a downpour, and the next moment he seemed to be back in the Taoist School reading ancient scrolls, except the "Spiritual Guidance" left by Gu Changzhi was gradually erased from his mind as Gu Shen deliberately visualized!

He wanted to forget the guidance left for future generations by Mr. Gu Changzhi—

He was to walk a new path, one that belonged to himself alone!

Gu Shen suddenly looked up.

Time, which had been still, resumed its flow at that moment!

Above the Four Seasons Wilderness, countless droplets fell!

The pitter-patter of rain enveloped the entire wilderness, and in the squinted eyes of Gu Shen, the shadows of long, slender rain threads falling were reflected; he could clearly feel the texture of the materials of the world as he touched the parchment scrolls.

Is this... the true visualization?

He seemed to have become a fluctuating state of detachment and cohesion, his consciousness wavering between the extremes of the Spiritual Dream and the physical world.

Countless spiritual powers exploded, like a fog, no longer having boundaries.

To walk a whole new path,

one must forget the footsteps of the predecessors. Gu Shen once again touched the ancient texts but not following the textual trajectory left by Gu Changzhi, instead following the sensations of Chi Huo.

He started visualizing again.

And this time... what he saw was a world that was solitary, desolate, and dark.

The moment he began visualizing, he became the sole master of this Spiritual World, and even the form of Chu Ling, who had accompanied him, disintegrated.

This is a... lonely world.

Perhaps because the entire visualized world was being reshaped by Gu Shen, everything in this wilderness was erased—no wild grass flying, no droplets falling, just a desolate and dreary land.

Yes.

There was originally nothing here... it was Gu Changzhi who sculpted a "Spiritual World."

And this time, Gu Shen was going to create his own "Four Seasons Wilderness" from the Grain Rain Volume.

Gu Shen released the Chi Huo from his palm.

The small flame darted merrily through the air, like a child in a frenzy of excitement, a sight both comical and amusing... This tiny fireball, which finally grew to the size of a baby’s fist, trailed a slender tail of flames as it whizzed through the darkness.

Gu Shen spoke softly, saying, "Let there be light."

The dim, chaotic Heavenly Curtain, in response to those words... spawned a glimmer of light.

Chi Huo shuttled back and forth, scattering its "afterglow," which in fact were the Extraordinary Essence laboriously gathered by Gu Shen in Da Du, some of which came from tasks, and the rest collected from Transcendents of the Changjiu Foundation.

The small fireball quickly burned through most of its "reserves."

The world within the Grain Rain Volume seemed vast, but the range within which the fireball zigzagged was merely a few hundred meters in radius, yet after only three passes in the narrow expanse above the wilderness, the originally fist-sized "Chi Huo" had halved in size.

With the advent of light,

the dim wilderness gained a hint of "vitality."

Gu Shen continued, "There must also be water."

The original "Grain Rain" was a torrent of raindrops condensed by Gu Changzhi’s spiritual power. Now... Gu Shen began to condense "water" within his own Spiritual World. Chi Huo continued to toss out its Extraordinary Essence, this streak of flame, usually as stingy as a mythical gluttonous creature that only swallowed and never spit out, became surprisingly generous, squandering its Extraordinary Essence to sprinkle raindrops over the wilderness.

Just after one pass, Chi Huo shrank to the pitiful size of a fingernail.

That was the "scale" of Gu Shen when he had just started his cultivation.

Scattering water was something the "Chi Huo’s" Extraordinary Essence was not supposed to do, but the moment Gu Shen conceived the thought "let there be water," the parchment scroll seemed to resonate.

A force emerged within the Spiritual World, as if by instinct.

The mists scattered by Chi Huo condensed at a rapid pace... and formed a spring rain.

Watching this scene...

Gu Shen was somewhat enlightened.

This is the true purpose of the Grain Rain Volume... If someone shapes a Spiritual World and gets to the step of "calling down the spring rain," the parchment scroll will offer tremendous help, and Mr. Gu Changzhi’s Spiritual Wilderness, seemingly guiding Transcendents step by step forward.

Yet, if one truly journeyed far enough, they would realize.

The entire Spiritual World could be shaped by oneself!

The real "mystery" of the Grain Rain Volume lay not in what sort of visualized world it was, but in the rain that hung in the sky... a thousand people contemplating it could condense a thousand different Grain Rains.

"Lastly..."

Gu Shen recalled his meeting with the Tomb Guardian.

It was a wilderness just like his own.

But what was different... in that world, there was an ancient tree.

Gu Shen murmured softly, "This world... needs trees."

"It needs many trees, towering trees."

"There should be flowers, grass, rivers, and also... people."