Departure I

Wisps of smoke slowly swirled through Lu Sheng's palm.

He drew a deep breath, slowly inhaled the smoke through his nostrils, then simply closed his eyes and entered meditation where he stood.

Time trickled by.

Suddenly, he snapped his eyes open and looked beneath the final box of Deep Blue. A blurry new box had abruptly appeared there.

"Let's call it the Smoke Soul Way." He casually gave it a name. God-Entrusting Power began its deductions according to the technique he had just comprehended, one that entrusted the soul to smoke.

One unit, two units, three units. Thread-like God-Entrusting Power continuously poured forth, breaking down into a peculiar transparent energy. The energy underwent several further transformations before finally seeping out through Lu Sheng's body surface, gathering behind him into a hazy humanoid cloud of smoke.

In the blink of an eye, the Smoke Soul Way had been deduced through several hundred layers. In merely a few hours, Lu Sheng's insight and understanding of smoke had reached an unprecedented height.

The soul-smoke constantly drifting from the volcano no longer held any secrets in his eyes.

Once the realm was there, once the level was there, before Deep Blue, so-called power and cultivation were nothing more than converting vast amounts of God-Entrusting Power.

"Let's begin. Let me see what the true essence of this Heart-Image World is!" Lu Sheng spread his right hand.

Dense white smoke spread out from behind him. Above his head, it formed a small white vortex.

The vortex emitted a mournful wail as it spun faster and faster, more and more frantically. It began absorbing the scattered, drifting smoke around it in great quantities.

The smoke souls floating from the volcano were almost dragged into the vortex the instant they emerged, merging into it.

The white vortex grew