Desperate Measures

Chapter 70 Desperate Measures

Time flies like an arrow, and a thousand years pass in the blink of an eye.

A thousand years have passed since Guang Chengzi came to the West, and during these years, Guang Chengzi has tried every means to revive the West.

However, for the first seven hundred years, Guang Chengzi gained nothing. No matter what methods he came up with to turn the tide, they were all in vain in the seemingly dead West.

Even if there are some ways to change the lifeless nature of the West, it's just a drop in the ocean; the speed of improvement can't keep up with the speed of decline, it's just delaying death.

However, Guang Chengzi did not gain nothing. Despite his seemingly futile efforts day after day, he also figured out why the West was the way it was.

As the saying goes, spiritual energy is the foundation of everything. Only when spiritual energy gathers and nourishes the earth can the life force that has been destroyed in the West be awakened.

The biggest problem in the West is not the collapsing earth, the destroyed sky, or the apocalyptic ending. The biggest problem in the West is its inability to retain spiritual energy, and the remaining spiritual energy is migrating eastward.

He desperately tried to repair it here, but the spiritual energy he repaired immediately went to someone else. This is why Guang Chengzi believed that the West was doomed.

The repaired area becomes a tool for others to benefit, which in turn causes the West to expel its spiritual energy more quickly, thus accelerating its demise.

This is a tangled mess that's impossible to unravel, no wonder nobody wants to come here. Even those powerful immortals don't want to look at the West.

Apart from the two remaining Lords of Mount Sumeru who are still tirelessly saving the West, many of the original great gods of the West have long since migrated to the East or to the four seas, the sky, and the starry sky.

Even the Western Military Supervisor, White Tiger, remained hidden in the Western Desolation, never once glancing at the West, clearly knowing that the West was doomed.

But after Guang Chengzi realized this, he was not afraid at all; on the contrary, he became even more excited.

Just because others can't do something doesn't mean he can't do it. As a cultivator, one must have the awareness that what others can't do, one can definitely do!

It is also where Heaven has a glimmer of hope. Heaven cannot bear to see the West destroyed, and Heaven will not hesitate to bestow any reward upon anyone who is beneficial or attempts to save the West.

In the darkness, the Way of Heaven merged with Guang Chengzi, adding brilliance and wings to him, and inspiring his wisdom.

While racking his brains, Guang Chengzi actually came up with a solution that was hardly a solution at all.

That is to increase the number of monks in the West!

This idea seems far-fetched, even fantastical, for no other reason than that cultivators are, of course, practitioners of cultivation.

What does cultivation require? Spiritual energy, of course. But even spiritual energy is fleeing from the West. What can cultivators cultivate here? This lifeless energy? Are you sure you won't accelerate the collapse of the West?

However, Guang Chengzi felt that the West had reached the brink of collapse. Rather than continuing to hesitate and try to heal slowly, which only addresses the symptoms and not the root cause, it would be better to take drastic measures directly.

Even though this might lead to the West's immediate demise, it could also be a chance for a resurgence.

Moreover, in addition to adding a broader source to the world, the very existence of cultivators also serves as a stabilizer for the spiritual energy.

When a cultivator inhales and exhales spiritual energy, he will naturally gather all kinds of spiritual energy into his body. In other words, a cultivator is like a small magnetic field, constantly attracting all kinds of spiritual energy to gather in his body.

In such a sacred place as the East, the magnetic field effects of cultivators are naturally insignificant, since there are numerous ley lines that can stabilize spiritual energy far better than these cultivators.

The key point is that the West cannot generate ley lines. There are probably only one or two small ley lines at the foot of Mount Sumeru, the ancestral source of the West. For the West as a whole, that is not a big deal.

Therefore, in this situation, the cultivator's ability to gather spiritual energy becomes very important.

Guang Chengzi has realized that the most urgent task is to bring back the vast amount of spiritual energy lost from the West. If this problem is not resolved first, no matter how much effort is put in, it will be in vain, and we might as well just wait to die.

"Since that's the case, your destiny lies here; be reborn in this world!"

At Guang Chengzi's command, a huge golden light, the size of a wheel, began to rise again behind him; it was none other than the Golden Wheel of Merit he had previously obtained.

The Golden Wheel of Merit shines with boundless golden light, symbolizing virtuous people in the world. Naturally, many cloud-like images descend, praising the merits of this virtuous person and singing hymns of praise for him.

Furthermore, the black and white moral energies rotate, which is the merit of education, even more precious than the golden wheel of merit. Only teachers in the world can receive the descent of morality, educate the world, spread wisdom, and achieve merit for all ages!

With the combined power of morality and merit, countless golden raindrops instantly fell, mingling with the scattered Western spiritual energy, giving birth to perfect, pure white bodies.

As these physical bodies appeared, countless wronged souls emerged from the Golden Wheel of Merit and immediately entered these bodies. Moments later, these bodies opened their eyes. Although there was confusion in their eyes, it quickly transformed into agility and naturalness, turning them into brand-new cultivators.

Guang Chengzi's Golden Wheel of Merit contains countless souls from all over the world. He first broke the 108 Heavenly Maiden Formations of Chang Er Ding Guang Xian, saving tens of thousands of female cultivators' wronged souls. Later, he went to Jin Guang Xian's Daoist temple and rescued the souls of cultivators who had been trapped for even longer. Those souls were even more immeasurable.

Even Guang Chengzi had forgotten how many people he had saved, but a rough count at this moment showed that the number was no less than tens of millions!

Each of these wronged souls possesses magical power and is at least a member of the immortal family. Now, as long as their physical bodies are reconstructed, although it is impossible to regain their immortal cultivation, there is no need to start cultivating from scratch. Achieving immortality and ascending to heaven will be incredibly easy.

Of course, in order to reshape these tens of millions of physical bodies, even if it wasn't done with all his might, Guang Chengzi almost collapsed from exhaustion.

The pot of Creation Wine bestowed by the Primordial Celestial Venerable had long been used up, with only a few drops left. Guang Chengzi kept these drops and put them into his wine bag, intending to regenerate them in the future.

Even the twelfth-grade lotus seed sent down by the twenty-fourth-grade Creation Green Lotus required Guang Chengzi to extract some of the essence of creation. Only by combining the two, along with the spiritual energy transformed from the golden light of merit, could he finally accomplish such a great feat.

Guang Chengzi is now devoting himself wholeheartedly to the West. After all, this is no longer just about seeking merit; it has become part of his path to achieving Taiyi.

He had also considered whether he should follow the example of the Holy Mother of Wudang and cultivate to the Golden Immortal realm nine times in a row, thereby achieving the Taiyi cultivation level.

But after careful consideration, Guang Shengzi put aside the decision.

The reason is simple: this method is too slow and not suitable for him at all.

The reason why the Holy Mother of Wudang can be used is because she is the first ape in the world, with noble origins and profound essence. Moreover, she was born in Kunlun Mountain. If it weren't for the presence of the Three Pure Ones and the Queen Mother of the West, the Holy Mother of Wudang would probably have become the new Kunlun Mountain God.

That's why the Holy Mother of Wudang was able to advance to the Taiyi realm using the Nine-Refined Golden Immortal realm, because her accumulation was already sufficient, and now she was just releasing some of it.

However, Guang Chengzi did not have such sufficient accumulation. After all, his foundation was not that deep. Even if he achieved the status of a post-natal saint at this time, he did not have the countless tens of thousands of years to accumulate.

So after much thought, he decided to use this method to fill all his shortcomings.