Unwavering Determination

Chapter 69 Unwavering Determination

Desolate.

This is Guang Chengzi's only impression of the West, and also the only thing the West has left.

Exhaustion, death, annihilation—countless words representing decline can be applied to the West.

Unlike the magnificent waves of the four seas, the boundless expanse of the nine heavens, the ever-changing starry sky, and the myriad phenomena of the East, the Western world can only be described as desolate. It is a world of death, devoid of any vitality.

Looking around, Guang Chengzi saw only yellow sand everywhere. The sand flying in the sky was yellow sand, the sand covering the ground was yellow sand, and there was yellow sand everywhere. He inexplicably felt a deep breathing sound.

Like a dying person, unable to swallow even a drop of medicine, only able to breathe deeply, inhaling and exhaling, like a bellows pumping, but to no avail.

This only shows that he is not dead yet, but he only has this last breath left. Once this breath dissipates, he will be completely dead.

In this place, there wasn't even the aura of death.

Because where there is life, there is death; the presence of death energy represents the presence of life, otherwise where would death energy come from? But in the West, even death energy has vanished without a trace, which is true despair.

Guang Chengzi's face was solemn. He naturally knew that the West had suffered a great calamity, that everything had been destroyed, and that all living beings had died. It was a world close to death. But seeing is believing. Only after seeing it with his own eyes could he understand just how desolate the West had become.

It's no wonder that everyone knows that saving the West will bring immense merit, and that Heaven will forever favor those who save the West, yet no one does it, because everyone knows it's an unsolvable problem.

Everyone knows that a major undertaking is necessary to remove the rotten flesh before new flesh can grow. But the problem is that the West has now declined to an extreme point, so weak that even a slightly larger move could directly end its last breath.

If anyone becomes the one who ends the West, they will surely incur the wrath of Heaven. At that time, forget about merit; even if the karma doesn't crush you to death, you'll be condemned to be a pig or a dog for thousands of lifetimes.

The saying goes that inaction is worse than action. No one is sure whether the West will be unscathed after taking action, nor whether it will recover or be destroyed as a result. Therefore, it is better to do nothing than to make a mistake.

Everyone is mindful of potential dangers even in times of peace, and naturally, no one wants to take risks. This has led to the situation where the West is dying out day by day, yet no one is taking care of it.

The Heavenly Dao wants to govern, but it cannot only govern the West. Realms such as the East, the Four Seas, the Netherworld, the Nine Heavens, and the Starry Sky all need the Heavenly Dao's management. In addition, the spiritual energy inhaled and exhaled by all living beings also needs the Heavenly Dao's evolution.

The laws governing the rise and fall of stars, the rhythm of surging tides, the principles of the earth's veins, the mysterious maintenance of the Great Dao, and so on, are all matters that the Heavenly Dao must attend to, and it is as if it is overwhelmed with its own affairs.

In addition, the very existence of many powerful beings influences their surroundings to varying degrees, causing the Heavenly Dao to expend considerable effort to alleviate the disharmony caused by these beings. Naturally, the Heavenly Dao is busier and more powerless than before.

Ultimately, the only way to entice sentient beings to manage the West is through supreme merit. After all, as the prehistoric world expands, the Heavenly Dao has more things to manage, and naturally there are not many ways to help maintain the West.

Guang Chengzi sat inside the Eight Treasures Jade Flying Chariot, quietly flying over this land of death.

It seems to be influenced by the West. Even the grandeur of the Eight Treasures Jade Flying Chariot has been greatly reduced. The numerous rainbow-colored divine lights are no longer able to cover the sky and sun. At most, they can only maintain a rainbow bridge to run through. Although it is still majestic and extraordinary, it no longer has the grandeur of the previous chariot where the sound precedes the person.

In this process, Guang Chengzi naturally used his magic to try to fill one or two veins in the desert.

However, whenever Guang Chengzi constructs a ley line, under the spontaneous twisting of the boundless yellow sand, these ley lines are like a mantis trying to stop a chariot, unable to affect the yellow sand at all, and are directly broken by this twisting force.

Without the protection of the earth's veins, the remaining essence of the earth in the west can only evaporate in vain, making it impossible to nourish the western world.

The so-called earth veins are the veins of the earth. When the earth veins rise, mountains will appear. When the earth veins sink, sinkholes will appear. However, most earth veins are very calm, so they will appear as plains.

The reason why you have to set up the earth veins or take root in the natural earth veins before setting up the formation is that the earth veins naturally gather a large amount of earth essence. In addition, with the earth veins as the leader, the surrounding mountains and sinkholes will move in coordination with the earth veins.

In other words, in the East, the earth's veins are the primary focus, acting like a leading sheep that gathers the scattered essence of the earth to create a blessed land.

The earth veins themselves are also a collector of vital energy, hiding a great deal of earth's vital energy deep underground. As the earth veins surge, this vital energy will also surge, preventing the vital energy from dissipating and making the earth more expansive.

But the West is exactly the opposite.

Perhaps in ancient times, the West also used ley lines to govern the earth's essence. But now, the western ley lines have been almost completely destroyed, and the earth's essence is scattered everywhere. It is also contaminated with the demonic energy left behind by the Demon Ancestor Luo, so it has become extremely violent and is almost impossible to be ruled by the ley lines.

Moreover, after such a long period of time, the Western world has its own set of operating logic, which is these yellow sands.

Unlike soil, yellow sand is not sticky and can easily bind together, eventually forming stone veins and a cohesive continent.

Yellow sand is naturally very loose. Even if water drips down and temporarily sticks them together, once the water evaporates, the yellow sand immediately becomes very scattered again.

These yellow sands are the embodiment of the earth's essence, showing that the earth's essence in the Western world has become extremely loose, and can be regarded as a desert ocean, with each grain of yellow sand being a drop of water.

Within the ocean, how can one perfectly control the waterways?

Guang Chengzi's headache lies here. If this were truly an ocean, it would be easy to handle, as he could construct water veins. However, the key issue is that this place exudes the essence of the earth, much like water veins.

If they are similar but not the same, then it is impossible to deal with them using the same method.

"Difficult, difficult, difficult! Compared to other things, repairing the earth is already the simplest one, but even so it is incredibly difficult. How painful would it be to enlighten living beings? No wonder everyone is unwilling to come to the West; it's simply asking for trouble!"

Guang Chengzi sighed, but then quickly rallied his spirits, knowing that this would be a tough battle, and only in this way could he achieve the path to becoming a Taiyi Golden Immortal!

We are not afraid of hardship and difficulty, but only of the lack of light on the road ahead.

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