"Withering and Flourishing!"
As Luo Chen brought down one finger, his thoughts seemed to return to that earlier experience, hazy and chaotic.
Within the Vitality Ocean that had felt so intimately familiar, he had followed the Wither Bloom Fire Spirit's guidance and found the so-called Law True Intent—Withering and Flourishing!
It was not spiritual energy or Primordial Qi, nor was it any kind of tangible energy. It was more like a realization.
The moment he grasped it, he had somehow understood the countless changes in all things tied to the Flourishing Decay True Intent!
Flowers bloomed and fell; clouds gathered and drifted apart.
The sun rose, the moon ascended; living things were born, aged, sickened, and died.
Everything was simply one face or the other of withering and flourishing.
Within the Vitality Ocean, understanding came hundreds, even thousands of times faster than it would have on his own. It was as though the entire world had laid every change connected to the Flourishing Decay True Intent before Luo Chen and let him take his pick.
Unfortunately, Luo Chen had borrowed an outside force.
It was the power of the Wither Bloom Fire Spirit's advancement and transformation.
He had drawn in little Spiritual Opportunity himself, so he could not remain in this world's Vitality Ocean.
A consciousness both cold and strangely familiar had pushed him out.
By Luo Chen's reckoning, that consciousness could be called the World Consciousness, or perhaps the soul of the planet. In the abstruse terms of the ancient texts, there were two more familiar words for it.
The Heavenly Dao!
Because he had had so little time, Luo Chen had gained only a shallow understanding of the Flourishing Decay True Intent before the Heavenly Dao pushed him out of the Vitality Ocean, cutting short any further insight.