Bonus update: Shift Stars and Transpose the Dipper, the star river hung upside down, heaven's will was the heart's will
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The Seventy-Two Paths of Smoke and Dust churned, softly lapping at the air with sounds like ocean waves.
The many sounds mingled, settling the mind.
Wang Quan did not cultivate. Instead, he lay on the smoke and dust, listening to the waves as he drifted into a light sleep.
He had never rested like this since reaching Foundation Establishment.
In his dreams, he sometimes saw a crowd of Bump Spirit Monsters accusing him, sometimes saw Ying Jiaren polluted by incense offerings and turned into a cold, unfeeling incense-making machine, and sometimes saw heaven collapse and earth split, with endless evil descending from the sky to devour everything.
Just then, a Great Sun slowly rose within his dream.
The Great Sun rose, its light illuminating the firmament, the earth, and the Underworld.
Wherever its light passed, be they ghosts, monsters, anomalies, or evil, they all turned to ash and smoke in an instant.
Under the Great Sun's radiance, Wang Quan's unsettled mind grew calm.
After an unknown amount of time, Wang Quan woke from his dream.
He stretched, his sinews and bones crackling all over:
Within his inner landscape, his purple mansion rotated. The golden core inside rose from the Foundation Establishment Dao Platform, roamed through the purple mansion and inner landscape, then finally returned to the Foundation Establishment Dao Platform.
The sight resembled the Great Sun rising in the east and setting in the west, repeating in an endless cycle.
Wang Quan stood, feeling refreshed in body and mind.
Was the Great Sun in my dream a manifestation of this golden core?
No, this is a [Bright Moon Golden Core], a special kind of golden core called [People today see not the moon of ancient times, only the bright moon of that year first shining upon people].
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