Too Coincidental

"Where... is the soul?"

Chu Mu pondered. Then, as if something had occurred to him, a wisp of Divine Sense slipped into his Sea of Consciousness.

Before he could probe any further, everything seemed to have become clear.

Not long after he had embarked upon the Immortal Path, a Divine Soul Blade had appeared in his Sea of Consciousness, suppressing it like a needle that steadied the sea—untainted by dust, safeguarding his mind and divine soul.

When he had previously refined the Thread-drawing Gu to heal his divine soul injuries, it had formed a great web in his Sea of Consciousness, akin to the World Veins. With the Ink Black Great Sun transformed from the Thread-drawing Gu as its core, it blanketed every corner of his Sea of Consciousness.

The main order of his Sea of Consciousness remained unchanged, but that Ink Black Great Sun had now been tinged with a few traces of lush, verdant vitality.

Upon the Thread-drawing Gu itself, he could actually discern the Divine Soul Aura of the Saint Spirit Gu...

The vanished soul of the Saint Spirit Gu seemed to have slipped into his Sea of Consciousness, lodging itself within the shell of the Thread-drawing Gu.

"Not lodging itself... but fusion?"

After sensing it for a moment, a rough judgment surfaced in Chu Mu's mind.

It seemed it was not as he had guessed—the Saint Spirit Gu's soul had not lodged itself in the Thread-drawing Gu's shell and seized its body. Rather, it looked more like the result of the Thread-drawing Gu and the Saint Spirit Gu having fused.

The original Thread-drawing Gu evolved countless divine soul threads. It acted upon the divine soul, protecting and stabilizing it. Through the unique effects of those countless divine soul threads, it could even sort through injuries to