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Chapter 61: Converting magic power
"Boom!"
The instant the azure wood spirit seed condensed, Chen Beiwu's mind shuddered, and a drop of water slid down before his eyes.
"Pitter-patter!" Rain fell in a shower.
Chen Beiwu looked up and discovered that these droplets were no ordinary water, but essence secreted by the Heaven-Piercing Jianmu, bearing the Dao resonance of evergreen heaven and earth.
The highest goodness is like water. Water benefits all things without contention, and thus can give birth to wood.
Water flows without fixed form, the fluid of vital energy, embracing all things. Wood can bear the Dao of water's virtue, and thus wood can also give birth to water.
As this realization arose within Chen Beiwu, heaven and earth began to change.
The boundless sea was no longer calm, instead unleashing a roar that shook all things.
As the sea level surged ever higher, submerging everything, countless streams transformed into a host of dragons, racing to coil around the Heaven-Piercing Jianmu.
At that moment, the world became a realm of water.
The next instant, the canopy that blotted out heaven and earth began to collapse inward. Its hanging branches dissolved into blue-gold sap and mingled with the ocean currents, and the Jianmu that spanned heaven and earth crumbled as well, merging into the boundless abyss.
Amid this, Chen Beiwu's mind alternated between becoming the Jianmu, untouched by flourishing or withering and enduring through the ages, and becoming the hundred rivers Jingliu, vast through its capacity to embrace, accommodating the birth and destruction of all things.
"Whoosh!"
As the echoes of the Jingliu reached Chen Beiwu's ears, a clear vast spirit seed quietly appeared within his dantian.
"Whew."
Chen Beiwu exhaled a breath of stale air, a trace of surprise flashing through his eyes.
Wasn't a Heaven-Grade