It's Easy to Invite a God, Hard to Send One Away; The Willow Tree's Astonishing Transformation! [Seven Updates; Please Bookmark]

She was sentient but had no strength whatsoever. At this point, even an ordinary person—or a simple fire—could easily cause her to perish again.

"Cultivation. I have to use this Willow Tree Body to embark on the path of cultivation again."

"I can't use the strength or cultivation realm of my Primordial World true self, so I can only comprehend the Primordial Laws of the Great Desolation World!"

"I have to understand the origin of this world and create a cultivation method suited to the Great Desolation World!"

"Only by becoming powerful will I have a chance to explore the secrets of the Great Desolation World!"

Thus, Nuwa began analyzing the Primordial Laws of the Great Desolation World. In other words, she intended to create her own cultivation method!

For Nuwa, this was no pipe dream. Although she had lost her strength and cultivation realm, she still possessed the vision of a Grand Unity Golden Immortal!

And so, time flew by. More than two hundred years passed in the blink of an eye.

Nuwa's Willow Tree Body had long since changed beyond recognition. It had transformed from an initially charred stump into a several-hundred-meter-tall tree that reached the heavens.

Although it was still not as enormous as when she had first arrived, it had nonetheless taken on an entirely new appearance.

One lush willow branch after another swayed in the breeze, forming a striking sight amid the Vast Mountain Range.

However, the thick trunk still bore the scorched marks left by the lightning, making the entire Willow Tree look somewhat strange.

Nuwa had once wanted to shed those scorched marks, but they seemed to retain the aura of the living being behind the thunder. As a result, she could not shed her bark for the time being.

Moreover, that remaining aura was still suppressing the Willow Tree's growth. Otherwise, it could have grown even taller!

Nuwa did not dwell on the matter, however, and remained immersed in the process of creating her cultivation method. Once she became powerful enough, she would naturally be able to dispel the aura from the scorched marks.

Meanwhile, at the other end of the Vast Mountain Range.

Several hundred humans in ragged clothes were making their way through the mountain forest.

Each of them carried a heavy bundle or pack on their back. Their auras were extremely weak, and they supported one another as they walked.

Before long, the group stopped in a mountain hollow not far from where Nuwa was, then began building houses.

After several days, a simple village had taken shape.

That night, several hundred villagers lit a bonfire and gathered around it, singing and dancing in celebration.

After eating their fill and enjoying themselves, an old man stepped forward. He leaned on a walking stick, his face weathered and his eyes sharp. Without being angry, he still inspired awe.

When the other villagers saw the old man, they immediately became orderly and stopped playing around.

The old man looked around and said in a powerful voice, "Our Stone Village has been built, and everyone has a place to live. But this is the Vast Mountain Range, where vicious beasts run rampant. If Stone Village wants to establish itself here, our strength alone isn't enough!"

"We also need a sacrificial spirit willing to protect Stone Village!"

A bare-chested, burly man declared loudly, "Village Chief, rest assured. Tomorrow, I'll go out with the clan members to search for a sacrificial spirit!"

The old man nodded, then continued, "Our Stone Clan guarded the border of the Upper Realm for countless ages. Even though we have been exiled here after being saddled with an unfounded crime, we must not tarnish the glory of our ancestors. Our choice of a sacrificial spirit must never be some treacherous and evil spirit!"

"Understood!" the burly man replied solemnly.

A faint smile appeared on the old man's deeply lined face. He waved his hand and said, "Everyone, carry on!"

The village immediately grew lively again, filled with songs, laughter, and cheerful voices.

Nuwa, however, knew nothing about this...

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Chapter Seven: Easy to Invite the Spirit, Hard to Send It Away—the Willow Tree's Transformation! (Seventh Update, Please Bookmark)

Primordial World, Buzhou Mountain.

Shen Lang looked at the human village that had appeared in the light screen, unable to hide his surprise and anticipation.

At present, the Primordial World did not yet have humans!

As the Holy Mother of the Primordial World's humans, what kind of scene would it be for Nuwa to encounter humans before she had created them?

Unfortunately, Nuwa had shown no reaction. The Simulation Diary merely indicated that she was creating her own cultivation method.

If the one who entered the simulator had been Shen Lang instead of Nuwa, he would not have understood a thing, let alone created any cultivation method.

He wondered what kind of cultivation method Nuwa would ultimately create!

One thing was certain: Nuwa's simulation this time should be able to pass the minimum challenge period.

In other words, once this simulation ended, Shen Lang would definitely receive a reward...

Myriad Worlds Simulator, Great Desolation World, Vast Mountain Range.

Back in the Primordial World, Nuwa would go into seclusion for tens of thousands of years at a time.

To her, several hundred years passed in the blink of an eye, so naturally she would not find it boring.

Although she had yet to create a cultivation method, Nuwa already had a preliminary concept. She only needed to test and put it into practice to complete it.

In essence, the Great Desolation World should be inferior to the Primordial World. Perhaps this was due to the difference in strength between the world-openers.

Great God Pangu was stronger than the world-opener who had created the Great Desolation World!

Of course, this was merely Nuwa's speculation.

Compared with the Primordial World, however, the spiritual energy of the Great Desolation World was indeed ninety-nine percent thinner. Moreover, it was not Innate Spiritual Energy!

The spiritual energy of the Great Desolation World was extremely impure, filled with all sorts of chaotic energies.

Could it be called Acquired Spiritual Energy?

The Primordial World was currently in the early stages of the Witch-Demon Tribulation, and all the spiritual energy between heaven and earth was Innate Spiritual Energy.

Only after the Witch-Demon Tribulation ended, and later the saints shattered the Primordial World during the Investiture of the Gods War, would Innate Spiritual Energy completely degenerate into Acquired Spiritual Energy.

Nuwa was effectively experiencing the age of Acquired Spiritual Energy ahead of time.

The problem now was to create a cultivation method capable of absorbing this impure spiritual energy, thereby strengthening her divine soul and Willow Tree Body!

Time passed leisurely. Eight hundred years flashed by.

As Shen Lang had expected, including the more than four hundred years that had passed previously, Nuwa had now completed the minimum challenge period for this simulation!

But Nuwa did not care about that at all. She devoted herself wholeheartedly to deducing her cultivation method.

During this period, Nuwa created tens of thousands of cultivation methods. However, all of them had one flaw or another, and she discarded them all.

Ordinary cultivation methods came naturally to Nuwa.

But she was a Grand Unity Golden Immortal, an Innate Divine Being. How could she allow herself to cultivate some crude, shoddy method?

She intended to create a perfect cultivation method for herself in the Great Desolation World...

Eight hundred years passed in the blink of an eye for Nuwa.

But to the mortals of this world, it represented the births, deaths, and succession of thirty or forty generations.

During the several hundred years Stone Village had spent in the Vast Mountain Range, the people who had first arrived had long since vanished, swallowed by the passage of time.

Those living in Stone Village now were their descendants.

Even so, the population was not large—around a thousand people.

The main reason was that the Vast Mountain Range was fraught with danger. They made their living by hunting and often encountered powerful vicious beasts, making life and death impossible to predict.

Especially over the past century, Stone Village's circumstances had steadily worsened. The number of young adults had sharply declined, while the elderly, weak, women, and children had become relatively more numerous.

The root of the problem lay with Stone Village's sacrificial spirit!

Back then, not long after Stone Village's ancestors had established the village, they found a powerful sacrificial spirit willing to protect Stone Village.

It was an amber-colored boulder with unfathomable abilities. It now stood at the very center of Stone Village.

At first, after the villagers welcomed the boulder into the village, it wholeheartedly protected them. It drove away invincible vicious beasts and Strange Beasts, and it even used its mysterious power to treat injured villagers. It had practically become Stone Village's guardian deity.

The villagers of Stone Village also worshiped it sincerely, presenting offerings to the sacrificial spirit every day!

These offerings consisted of the flesh and blood of vicious beasts, or spirit herbs and strange treasures.

As time passed, however, this originally kind and righteous sacrificial spirit gradually became greedy. Although it still protected the villagers of Stone Village, its daily demands grew higher and higher. By now, it had even forced the villagers to provide it with large quantities of offerings, doubling their former contributions.

The corpses of vicious beasts and Strange Beasts, countless spirit herbs and medicines—these demands were more than Stone Village could bear.

It was easy to invite the spirit, but hard to send it away!

Overwhelmed by the sacrificial spirit's strength, the villagers could not resist. They could only work desperately to find offerings for it, causing many villagers to lose their lives to the beasts.

Stone Village's overall strength was consequently weakened without cease, until it slowly became home to little more than the old, weak, sick, and disabled.

The sacrificial spirit was not satisfied. Even the old, weak, sick, and disabled had to go out and hunt blood food for it, treating the villagers as tools and caring nothing for whether they lived or died.

If this continued, Stone Village might very well be wiped out!

On this day, the starving villagers of Stone Village were delivering the corpses of vicious beasts to the Boulder Spirit Guardian.

There were three Tusked Boar corpses and one gray bear corpse. All four were enormous, weighing more than a thousand jin each.

The amber-colored boulder suddenly radiated a glow that enveloped the corpses. In an instant, the vicious beasts' bodies gradually shriveled as all their blood, flesh, and vital essence were completely absorbed, leaving behind only hide and bones.

Several villagers stained with blood saw this and could not help revealing heartache on their exhausted faces.

Those four vicious beast corpses had cost them the lives of two villagers. They could originally have fed the village for half a month, yet now they were simply gone.

Suddenly, a force of impact burst from the boulder, violently sending the several villagers flying.