Chen Cuo's spirits rose.
That name opened the door to far too many things.
Hum!
As he pondered it, his mind suddenly shuddered. His thoughts fell into chaos, and a haze crept over him.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The entire Mind Palace rumbled as though it were about to collapse. The Mind Daoist seated atop the Human Thought book blurred, as if he might vanish into smoke at any moment.
Chen Cuo's heart jolted. He steadied his mind.
"Don't think about it!" Qiuyuzi's gaze fell on Chen Cuo, and he noticed the disorder in his Human Thoughts. "I told you because I knew your Mind Thought was firm and you had mastered your thoughts. Some names carry cause and effect. At your current level of cultivation, dwelling on them will do you no good! Cast those thoughts out at once!"
Chen Cuo's heart tightened. He nodded and gathered his mind. The Mind Daoist raised a hand, drawing many thoughts together into a Wisdom Sword, then slashed and severed those few thoughts.
They were the thoughts of the Primordial Heavenly Venerable that Chen Cuo had just formed—the source of the disturbance in his Heart Shrine.
Sure enough, once those thoughts were cut away, his teetering mind steadied at once. The shaken Mind Daoist grew clear again.
But after everything settled, Chen Cuo did not destroy the severed thoughts. He gathered them, expelled them, and followed a faint connection to place them within the Human Thought Network.
*If the Evil Ghost can follow human thoughts to strike at me, I can do the same to it. It's hiding like a turtle with its head tucked into its shell, so I can't easily find it. But it'll surely look for another chance to spy on me. If I keep these Thoughts of Primordial Beginning