Lu Jun: Let Me Give You a Hand

Gou Sen took a deep breath and began trying to communicate with the elusive Rule of Wood.

At first, he felt nothing.

But he did not give up.

He tried again and again.

He comprehended again and again.

He recalled his cultivation over countless years.

He recalled the journey from being a minor cultivator to reaching where he was today, step by step.

He recalled the insights he had gained with every breakthrough.

He recalled the realizations he had gained in every battle.

Gradually, he began to sense something.

It was a... faint, almost imperceptible connection.

It was as if, within the endless void, a gaze was watching him.

That gaze was gentle and vast.

It was filled with vitality and compassion.

Like... a mother's gaze.

"Is that... the Rule of Wood?"

Gou Sen murmured.

He tried to establish a connection with that gaze.

At first, it was difficult.

That gaze seemed to be separated from him by an endlessly vast distance.

No matter how hard he tried, he could not reach it.

But he did not give up.

He continued trying.

Once, twice, three times...

Who knew how much time passed—

Suddenly, he felt it.

That gaze had formed a connection with him!

At that moment, he felt as though his consciousness had been pulled into another world.

It was a green world.

Boundless and endless, filled entirely with green.

That green was not an ordinary shade of green.

It was a green... brimming with vitality.

He seemed to see countless lives being born, growing, and dying within that green.

Then being born again, growing again, and dying again.

The cycle repeated endlessly, full of endless vitality.

That was the Rule of Wood!

That was the power he had pursued for countless years!

An indescribable emotion surged through Gou