Sage Brainstorm! The Little Ancestor's Bizarre Plan!

Nuwa and Houtu clasped hands together.

Two completely different yet fundamentally connected supreme paths converge here.

Nuwa's Creation Great Dao is the ultimate form of "life," the origin of all things sprouting from nothingness.

The Dao of Earth of the Houtu, Houtu, is the foundation of "inheritance" and the final destination to which all things go after their flourishing.

Life and death.

Beginning and end.

The greatest distance in the universe has been forcibly shortened and seamlessly connected because of a common goal.

An indescribable Daoist aura flowed from the clasped hands of the two goddesses.

That Daoist rhythm possesses both the vitality of creation and the compassion of the earth.

It transformed into invisible ripples, gently brushing across the Nether Abyss.

Within the rift valley, the countless lingering souls that gazed upwards in adoration had their ancient resentment and malevolence, accumulated within them, purified by a barely perceptible trace.

For the first time in all of history!

Houtu and Nuwa were both deeply shaken.

They both glimpsed a completely new world they had never explored before through each other's paths.

Nuwa saw it; at the end of the creation of life, there was a tranquil place called "homecoming."

Houtu saw it, at the end of the cycle of life, the seed called "new life".

Creation without an end is incomplete.

A vessel without new life is lifeless.

"So... our paths are originally one." Nuwa's eyes trembled as she murmured in a daze.

"Yes." For the first time, Houtu's eyes, which had held eternal loneliness, Houtu opened up.

The two exchanged a smile, and the confrontation that had arisen because of Lin Shen completely vanished.

Instead, there is a mutual appreciation and understanding among kindred spirits.

"Sisters, what are you laughing at?"

Lin Shen tilted his little head back, looking curiously at the two pretty older sisters who had suddenly become good friends.

"We're laughing because we've found a good friend to play with."

Nuwa smiled, squatted down, and gently patted Lin Shen's little head, her tone more tender than ever before.

"So... can we help these gray-haired children now?"

Lin Shen immediately steered the conversation back on track, his little face full of anticipation.

"Can."

Nuwa and Houtu exchanged a glance, their expressions simultaneously turning solemn.

"But this is difficult," Nuwa patiently explained to Lin Shen.

"Look, these gray children are like wisps of smoke, they don't have bodies, so we can't just give them candy."

With a flick of her fingertips, the power of creation flowed, and a crystal-clear candy appeared out of thin air, slowly drifting towards the rift valley.

The moment the candy entered the rift valley, it was instantly consumed by the dense resentment and reduced to nothingness.

"Moreover, they were locked in a dark, unseen room and couldn't get out, so they couldn't see the big house dancing."

Houtu added that the Earth Laws extended beneath her feet, attempting to construct a passage through the rift.

But as soon as the passage took shape, it was instinctively torn apart and rammed by countless frenzied remnant souls, causing it to collapse instantly.

"What should we do then?"

Lin Shen frowned again, feeling that he might not be able to keep his promise.

This made him very sad.

Seeing Lin Shen's disappointed expression, Nuwa and Houtu felt a pang in their hearts.

"Don't worry, the older sisters are trying to figure something out."

Two of the most powerful goddesses of the Primordial World, on the edge of this Nether Abyss, began a "brainstorming" session at the level of Sage (Quasi-Saint).

"With my Dao of Creation, I may be able to reshape their souls, but without a foundation, they will ultimately be like rootless duckweed."

"My earth can be my 'root.' But if resentment is not quelled and karma is not eradicated, the earth will also be polluted and sink into ruin."

"Creating independent spaces and forcibly relocating and purifying them?"

"No, this is going against the rules of Heaven. Under Heavenly Punishment, our foundations will surely be damaged."

"Imitating the Minghe, building a 'Game Paradise' to dispel resentment?"

"Absolutely not! The number of souls here is in the hundreds of millions, and the depth of their resentment far surpasses that of the newly born souls in the Blood Sea. If this gets out of control, the entire Primordial World will be dragged into purgatory!"

Hundreds of options arose and disappeared in their Sage's Heart deductions, only to be rejected one by one.

This is a deadlock.

Any attempt to change the status quo of these remnant souls is tantamount to challenging the ironclad laws of life and death established Pangu Creates the Heavens.

The atmosphere became heavy again.

Lin Shen listened from the side, though he didn't understand anything about the Way of Heaven or karma.

But he understood one thing.

The gray children are trapped in a dark room from which they cannot escape; they have no bodies and cannot eat.

This reminded him of his time as Ginseng Doll in the Kunlun Mountain.

At that time, he was also trapped in a small plot of land, unable to go anywhere. His happiest moment each day was waiting for the First Master to come and water the plants.

He thought for a moment, then spoke cautiously, using a childlike, innocent logic.

"Elder sister."

"Hmm?" Nuwa and Houtu looked at him at the same time.

"I have an idea."

Lin Shen counted on his chubby little finger and said with a serious expression.

"We could give each of them a 'bowl'!"

"Bowl?"

The two goddesses looked at each other in bewilderment; the Sage's mind was completely caught off guard by this leap.

"Yes!" Lin Shen vigorously. "Just like when we eat, everyone has their own bowl. We should give each gray-haired child their own little bowl."

"And then?" Nuwa pressed, her tone subtly guiding the conversation without her even realizing it.

"Then," Lin Shen's eyes sparkled, "We made the candy, roast meat, and Mapo Tofu into fragrant 'gas-gas' and put them in a bowl!"

"They don't have mouths, but they can smell! By smelling, they won't be hungry anymore, and they won't be sad anymore!"

"And another thing!" he said, getting more and more excited. "We'll draw pictures on their bowls! Just like Uncle Fuxi did! Let them see big houses dancing and kittens rolling around in their bowls!"

"Now they all have their own new homes! Although they're small, they're much more fun than staying in that dark and cramped room!"

"Finally!" Lin Shen concluded, his small face filled with undeniable affirmation.

"Once they've all had their fun in their own bowls, we'll have them line up and come out of that dark room one by one!"

"Where are we going?" Houtu asked instinctively.

"To a new place!" Lin Shen said matter-of-factly, "A place where I can grow back and eat real candy again!"

His words were incoherent and full of childlike whimsy.

However, this was what Nuwa and Houtu heard.

Boom!

A tremendous storm was brewing in the hearts of both goddesses!

They stared at each other in horror, each seeing in the other's eyes a completely new vision of creation, ripped open by these words!

Give each soul a "bowl"?

Isn't this based on the Dao of Earth and the power of creation, shaping each true spirit into an independent "vessel" to bear its own form?!

Transforming food into "aroma"?

Isn't this the "Spiritual Food" that uses supreme merit and vows to nourish the soul and cleanse resentment?!

Draw pictures in the "bowl" and watch the kitten roll around?

Isn't this creating a spiritual realm for them within an independent vessel, helping them to dissipate their karma amidst the cycle of illusion?!

Are we queuing to leave the dark room and go to a new place?

This...

This is clearly a complete and unprecedented creation plan concerning "soul transcendence" and "reincarnation"...

Naïve, outrageous, yet it gets straight to the heart of the matter!

It perfectly avoids all direct conflicts with the rules of Heaven!

This... it really works!