Chapter 822 – Light and Heavy
Chapter 822 – Lightness and Heaviness
This feeling was marvelous, like complete emptiness, and also like extreme meditation.
It was mesmerizing and sobering.
Gradually, Xu Chuniang forgot that she was in the Pool of Creation.
She drifted in the ocean, curiously observing everything around her.
Every droplet of water was like a tiny law.
Countless laws were born beside her, colliding with each other, then transforming into each other, and finally dissipating.
They went from nothing to something, and from something to nothing, week after week, seemingly chaotic, yet implying a certain law.
Most of the laws were unfamiliar, ones Xu Chuniang had not seen before.
Only a small portion of them gave her a sense of familiarity.
Xu Chuniang drifted on the sea, floating and floating, not knowing how long she had been adrift, until she finally saw the familiar Laws of Life and Death.
She saw a droplet of pale golden water being thrown up onto the surface of the sea, blossoming with the faint Laws of Life.
Soon, this droplet of water intertwined with other droplets and gave birth to other changes.
The Laws of Life continued to recede, and there were Laws of Death that arose from within it.
Not long afterward, the fragile droplet shattered and merged back into the sea as if it had never existed.
Thousands of laws, infinite changes ……
Xu Chuniang, of all things, memorized the trajectory of this droplet of water jumping, and her right hand unconsciously gestured along this trajectory.
But her gesticulations, seemed to be meaningless, nothing happened, the sea and the water bead were not affected in any way.
Xu Chuniang didn’t sense anything wrong either, and continued to drift forward with the sea breeze, seeing more water beads and trajectories.
Until one day, the boat suddenly sank.
Her body was instantly submerged, sinking towards the depths of the water.
The weight of every droplet of water was like a mountain, weighing her down, but it couldn’t hurt her life.
It was a bad taste, and Xu Chuniang’s consciousness, finally recovered from the pain.
What the hell was going on here? Didn t she enter the Creation Pool, could …… she still be in the pool?
Xu Chunniang surveyed her surroundings, which were empty except for the water.
She wanted to leave the bottom of the water, but she struggled to even move a finger.
The water droplets pressing down on her were no longer filled with subtle laws, but pure power.
These water beads gathered together and converged into an extremely powerful force, making it impossible for her to move.
And inside and outside of her body, she was under immense pressure at all times, a feeling that was suffocating and oppressive.
Xu Chuniang probed out her divine sense, but she couldn’t shake the seawater around her, they were a whole, and it was hard to be shaken.
However, after releasing her Divine Sense, perhaps because the Divine Sense had shared away some of the heavy pressure, the force that her body was enduring lessened a bit, and that suffocating and oppressive feeling lessened as well.
Xu Chuniang tried releasing more of her divine sense, and it really felt a lot better, and although her body was still unable to move, that sense of suffocation and oppression completely disappeared.
But this wasn’t a long term solution after all, one had to think of a way to get out of this state.
Xu Chuniang thought hard for a long time, but didn’t come up with any good methods.
The only thing she could use now was her divine sense, and the aura in her body couldn’t be called upon in the slightest because of the water pressure, let alone using a magic domain or formation.
She suddenly recalled the feeling of lightness when she had just entered the Pool of Creation, at that time, she felt that her body and divine soul were very light, as if they were floating high above the sky, and that she and heaven and earth were both empty.
Now the situation was the opposite, the seawater was heavy and her body was equally heavy, she couldn’t even move a finger. Light and heavy, what did they represent respectively?
Xu Chuniang suddenly came to a realization, she no longer struggled, no longer resisted, and withdrew all of her divine sense.
After her divine sense was withdrawn, the familiar feeling of suffocation and oppression surrounded her anew.
Recalling those experiences after her body and divine soul had become lighter, Xu Chuniang did not reject these sensations anymore and tried to unconditionally accept everything around her.
Her approach proved to be right, as the weight of the water seemed to lighten after she tried to accept it all.
No, it wasn’t that the weight of the water became lighter, but rather, she gradually adapted to this water pressure and her body’s ability to withstand it became stronger.
It turned out that all this weight together was the limit of this body of hers.
That’s why when enduring this, she would feel uncomfortable and suffocated, but not in danger of her life.
Xu Chuniang finally understood what lightness and heaviness represented respectively.
She closed her eyes, feeling the heavy pressure around her without any distractions, and adjusted her breathing rate.
Sure enough, as her body’s ability to withstand it increased, so did the weight of the water.
Burst after burst of darkness lapped quietly at her body, making it tougher and more solid from the inside out.
Until one day, the weight of the water stopped increasing, and Xu Chuniang was finally able to move.
But when she opened her eyes, she realized that the place she was in had turned into a deep well.
She was at the bottom of this deep well, and when she looked up, she could only see a small wellhead.
After Xu Chuniang took a closer look at the deep well, she had an idea in her mind.
“First it was the change of thousands of laws, and then the extreme hammering and forging of the body, and now it’s finally the turn of divine sense?”
She recalled the words spoken by the temple guardian girl before she entered the Pool of Creation.
She said that there were thousands of creations in the Creation Pool, and how many they could obtain depended on themselves.
That was indeed a good point, and those experiences she had had before verified it.
However, if one did not have enlightenment and could not suffer, it was likely that they would not be able to obtain anything at all.
Xu Chuniang probed out her divine sense, and indeed, it tugged at the changes in the well, the walls of the well instantly growing sticky moss and vines that climbed up her divine sense.
Once the divine sense was attached to these mosses and vines, it would become very troublesome, these things were difficult to be stripped clean, they were attached to the divine sense and would gather more and more.
There was only one way to clean these things off, and that was to grind away the old divine sense along with the moss and vines, and then regenerate a new divine sense.
The newborn divine sense was undoubtedly stronger, and its resistance to the moss and vines would also increase, a process that was not only long and painful, but also prone to harboring heart demons.
Xu Chuniang surveyed the tainted strand of divine sense, separating out a strand of soul power and slowly wearing down the strand of divine sense, as well as the moss and vines on it.
It did hurt a bit, but she could bear it.
After the old divine sense and the moss and vines were all worn down, it was transformed into a slightly stronger soul force, only this soul force, because of the moss and vines mixed in, was slightly refuted.
Xu Chuniang thought for a moment and released the Laws of the Void, pointing at the refutation.
This way, the soul force she obtained was pure.
The new divine sense that was born after absorbing such soul power had indeed become not quite the same, as if it had some sort of resistance to the moss and vines.
It was just that to this extent, it wasn’t enough.
Xu Chuniang raised her head slightly, releasing more of her divine sense and probing towards the wellhead.
(End of chapter)