Amid flickering rays of light, countless thoughts slowly gathered before the Golden Lotus Incarnation, gradually condensing into a dazzling orb of many colors.
Yet scenes shifted within its radiance, the Image of countless lives rising and falling. Slowly, signs of disorder appeared again. Its colors mingled and swirled together, threatening to turn black and sink into Chaos.
"So that's it. Unless I keep watch over them at all times, these entrusted thoughts will gradually drift toward Chaos. They seem naturally inclined toward disorder. But there is another way..."
With a turn of his thoughts, Chen Cuo raised his hand, and three clusters of light descended. Each held a consensus!
"Ling Mei mentioned that the formation of a Thought Beast is itself a kind of consensus, a shared thought. But thoughts entrusted from afar have no one to guide them, like a host of dragons without a leader. If I use a consensus under my control as their core, things will naturally be different..."
As the thought settled, a character appeared within each of the three clusters of light—
Absoluteness!
Deception!
Oblivion!
They were the three Human Thought Consensuses Chen Cuo had drawn from the notion of "knowing nothing of the Han Dynasty, much less Wei-Jin."
Once the characters grew clear, the three Human Thought Consensuses descended and merged into the orb of stray thoughts that had begun to turn chaotic.
The orb shuddered. As though it had found a backbone, its thoughts began to fall into order, gradually taking on a human outline.
The figure looked much like Chen Cuo, with long hair and dark robes, though its face remained indistinct.
What the Dao Body radiated, however, was a jumble of shifting impressions, ever-changing within.
"Another incarnation is taking shape!"
Chen Cuo nodded at the Dao Body, unsurprised by the