Lu Jie raised his head and looked toward the starry sky.
"Fellow Daoist Jiang Chuan, I differ from you and many of my junior brothers and sisters. I was born in Ziwei City and never witnessed the magnificent mountains and rivers of the Qingyuan Realm. To me, the world is this starry sky above our heads."
Lu Jie's voice was not loud, yet to Jiang Chuan's ears, it rang like thunder exploding.
Jiang Chuan suddenly realized that he had been making a mistake all along.
The Inner Scenery Map was a world that cultivators envisioned and painted, using their blood and qi as paper and their mana as ink.
For cultivators of the Qingyuan Realm, it was difficult to leave the Qingyuan Realm while they were in the Third Realm.
Sect elders and private-school teachers would not teach them about the sun, moon, stars, or the vast universe.
Thus, for the overwhelming majority of Qingyuan Realm cultivators, the "world" they saw was simply the world in their eyes: blue skies and white clouds, green mountains and clear waters.
But Jiang Chuan was different. He came from Earth Star and had learned modern knowledge from Earth Star.
In his understanding, the world was a universe formed by the sun, moon, and stars!
After observing the Inner Scenery Maps of Elder Jingyun, Lu Chenling, and the others, coupled with Bai Mengqiu's and Ancestor Ziyun's guidance, Jiang Chuan had mistakenly believed—
that an Inner Scenery Map should depict nothing more than mountains, rivers, lakes, wilderness, and azure skies.
Elder Jingyun and Bai Mengqiu had not been wrong, but Jiang Chuan's memories and experiences from Earth Star had created a cognitive barrier within him.
That was why Jiang Chuan had been unable to paint his Inner Scenery Map for so long.
Now, upon seeing