Snow swirled across the Pure Land, while Su Xuan Wood stood tall and majestic.
Its long leaves swayed like Flowing Fire, tinkling like bells.
Gu Shen opened his eyes as if he had slept for a very long time. The world before him was new and bright. The Flowing Fire leaves had wrapped around him, but once he opened his eyes, they unfurled one by one and released their embrace.
"God's Throne, you're awake?"
Tie Wu's concerned face came into view.
The fellow had been sitting across from Gu Shen for quite some time, carefully studying the Throne of God's face.
"Mm..."
Gu Shen instinctively made a sound through his nose.
His mind was still completely blank.
Gu Shen instinctively braced himself against Su Xuan Wood's trunk and slowly rose to his feet.
His spirit was extremely weak. Even within his own God's Kingdom, he felt unable to support himself. At that moment, even standing was a struggle.
Tie Wu saw it all.
When he first saw Gu Shen awaken, he had already breathed a sigh of relief.
But upon seeing this, the heart he had just set at ease was hauled back up again.
"God's Throne, did you have a nightmare? You looked to be in great pain just now..."
A nightmare...
Those two words reminded Gu Shen.
Feedback from the Real World gradually reached him.
Gu Shen's face turned somewhat pale as he began recalling what had happened before.
Memories of the Old World surged in like a tide.
Gu Shen opened his eyes again, and the Pure Land before him was gone.
The entire world was pitch-black, bursting with countless brilliant arcs of light. It was as though a blacksmith had struck heaven and earth with a bold, magnificent hammer blow, only for the God