"What is this?"
Feeling the strange domain enveloping him, Chen Cuo's thoughts raced.
After I swallowed that fruit, neither wholly real nor illusory, it completely dissolved inside me. The Heart God then put it to use. In an instant, it merged with the Jade Belt Peach Paradise and formed this strange barrier around me...
With that thought, he reached out to Dream Marsh with his mind.
Amid the dense Mist sat the Jade Belt Peach Paradise.
Now, Buddha Light rolled in from the Eight Directions and poured into the Jade Belt Peach Paradise, gilding the already complete Peach Paradise with a faint layer of Golden Light.
The outline of a strange fruit, neither wholly real nor illusory, gradually appeared in the soil at its center.
The next moment, the entire Peach Paradise seemed to grow clearer, more alive!
Even the living beings dwelling within it sensed the change.
It was not only the ordinary people who had lived there since the days of the Peach Paradise Fragment. The Peach Paradise Land God, the old man of the Black Banner, and even the three Incomplete Dao Masters felt a flash of Spirit Light and sensed a surge of vitality erupting within themselves.
"The aura rising from the soil is remarkably like what I sensed on Golden Turtle Island years ago!" The old man of the Black Banner's expression changed drastically. He looked around at the gathering golden light and felt the purest accumulation of the Humanity Path within it. Understanding gradually dawned. "I see now. I finally see why every time I tried to deduce the Lord's identity, I was off the mark. My horizons were too narrow. I started from far too low a vantage point!"
At his words, the Land God beside him felt his thoughts jump, but he