Second, even if the Wujian energy was fortunately expelled, the seed's source life force had been corroded for so long that it was nearly exhausted. It would require an enormous amount of pure life-creation power to nourish and restore it before it could regain vitality and have any chance of taking root and sprouting.
Finally, there was the most crucial step—spiritual awakening!
Even if the seed successfully sprouted and grew into bamboo, it would still be nothing more than ordinary bamboo if it could not awaken its intelligence and comprehend a cultivation method.
During its cultivation, perhaps even from the seed stage, it would need to be supplemented and imprinted with fragments of Great Dao laws and spiritual catalysts suited to the cultivation of the Hollow Valley Clear-Song Bamboo race, guiding its life form toward evolution into an "intelligent lifeform."
In short, reviving and cultivating this Dao Seed was far from easy.
No wonder even an Eternal True Divinity like Renxiao Divine Venerable, despite gathering the wisdom of the divine venerables of all heavens, had remained helpless for countless years!
Zhang Shuai did not act immediately. Instead, he closed his eyes once more and pushed the perceptive power of the Heavenly Dao Law Eye to its limit. At the same time, the profound meaning of the Withered-and-Flourishing Reincarnation Formula flowed slowly through his mind, confirming and merging with the Great Dao of "life and reincarnation" that he had comprehended.
Withering and flourishing turn in cycles; new life is conceived amid annihilation... Reincarnation never ceases, and life force never dies... Perhaps there is no need to forcefully expel it. I can try transforming and guiding it...
A bold yet exquisite idea gradually took shape in his mind.
"Fellow Daoist Renxiao, please open the jade platform again," Zhang Shuai said calmly as