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Chapter 393: Chapter 390 What You See Is What You Get
The heavens spun and the earth revolved.
Compared to entering the Human World, or even the last time crossing the Star Gate, this space traversal impacted Gu Jinlai immensely.
He felt as though he’d been tossed into a colossal tumble dryer, with his thoughts and consciousness spinning wildly.
His sense of space and time were completely lost at this moment.
After an unknown period, Gu Jinlai’s form shuddered, and he once again perceived the concept of all directions.
Before he had time to survey his environment, he already felt the vibrations of his True Spirit.
Demon Spirit.
There was a Demon Spirit eroding his True Spirit.
Gu Jinlai looked up and spotted a mid-sized Demon Spirit incessantly gnawing on him.
But his True Spirit was already crystalized and exceedingly stable. It wasn’t just mid-sized Demon Spirits that couldn’t shake it; even large Demon Spirits wouldn’t be able to disturb his True Spirit in the slightest for some time.
"Buzzing!"
Gu Jinlai quickly practiced the Visualization Great Sun Core, and suddenly, Spirit Light burst forth brilliantly.
Several mid-sized Demon Spirits around him, along with dozens of small-sized Demon Spirits, melted away like snow under the fierce sun, vanishing in an instant.
Only then did he have the opportunity to clearly see his surroundings.
This was a place vastly different from the island where the Aries Star Palace was situated.
A cave resembling Qiushan Mountain.
Next to him, a Demon Realm Rift was clearly present.
It was evident that this cave had been carved out by that very rift from the Demon Realm.
"The worst scenario did not occur."
Gu Jinlai breathed a sigh of relief, as if unloading a heavy burden.
A mistake in the connection to the Star Gate during transmission had thrown him out through a Demon Realm Rift instead of into the midst of the Demon Realm itself, which could be considered a stroke of fortune amidst this misfortune.
Under certain conditions, the purple merit indeed brought good luck.
However, as he visualized the Great Sun Core and unleashed the Great Sun Eternal Radiance Technique to incinerate all surrounding Demon Spirits, he suddenly sensed something.
In the vacuum created by the Wall of Nihility, a Spiritual Seed rapidly absorbed the spiritual energy that he had dissipated and was activated.
At the same time, he felt a surge in the True Spirit Realm as if some terrifying entity was casting its gaze in this direction.
The words of the Aries Star Lord flashed through his mind immediately.
"The moment my gaze falls upon you, your life is predetermined, as long as your True Spirit exists, you can never escape my Perception."
True Spirit?
Gu Jinlai’s expression changed, and he immediately ceased the casting of the Great Sun Eternal Radiance Technique.
Yet even so, spiritual energy still welled up within the Spirit Realm, and the spiritual power seed within the Wall of the Void, like a beacon, was slowly guiding that fearsome existence from the Spirit Realm in this direction.
"It’s the Aries Star Lord!"
Gu Jinlai immediately guessed the identity of that fearsome existence.
His expression changed for a moment, and with decisive haste, he turned and stepped towards the Demon Realm Rift behind him.
After a familiar sensation of blurring, Gu Jinlai’s figure directly descended into the Demon Realm.
Like the Qiushan Rift, the Demon Realm Rift that had flung Gu Jinlai out wasn’t large, being a newly formed rift, which meant the number of Demon Spirits behind it was also exceedingly sparse—no more than three to four hundred.
Among these three to four hundred Demon Spirits, there were hardly any large ones, and not a single Catastrophic-level Demon Spirit.
Upon entering the Demon Realm, Gu Jinlai quickly drew the attention of several hundred Demon Spirits. One after another, they charged at him as if to devour the spiritual energy within his True Spirit.
But Gu Jinlai paid them no heed, instead focusing his Spirit directly on that Spiritual Seed.
This Seed had taken root outside his True Spirit, drawing on the power it leaked to grow continuously and guiding the Aries Star Lord towards him.
That phrase "your life is already predetermined" wasn’t an empty boast.
"Thus, unless I remain forever in the Demon Realm, where the True Spirit Realm is hard to perceive, as soon as I activate the power of the True Spirit... No, even with this Seed here, even if I don’t activate the True Spirit power, the Aries Star Lord can still sense my existence and descend from the Spirit Realm to refine me into an incarnation."
Gu Jinlai’s heart sank at once.
Facing a creator...
Especially a marked creator.
He had nowhere to run.
Nowhere to hide.
"Aries Star Lord, Zi Yang, Mu..."
Gu Jinlai muttered these three names, his eyes cold as ice.
In the Qiantian World, south of Tianhe, he had a promising future ahead, having established a bright foundation. All he needed to do was to continue steadfastly. Using Tian Nan and Qiantian as his foundations, holding high the Heavenly Master Torch, developing the Heavenly Master’s Holy Land, slaying Devils and banishing Demon Spirits were not out of reach.
But due to the inheritance of the Aries Star Palace, this thousand-year-long deception, his excellent situation had collapsed.
He himself was in grave danger, targeted by the Aries Star Lord, who, having transformed into a Spirit Realm Life, had not completely perished even over a millennium.
"Whether it’s Zi Yang, Mu, or even Palace Master Yu Xin from Bai Ze Palace, to them, I’ve never been a person, but a Dao Mark, a vessel to channel the Aries Star Lord’s descent from the Spirit Realm..."
Gu Jinlai’s gaze turned to the entrance of the cave.
His resentment over the ruined bright prospects. 𝑛𝘰𝑣𝘱𝑢𝑏.𝘤𝑜𝘮
His hatred for Zi Yang, Mu, Yu Xin for not treating him as a person.
And...
His rage at being utterly disregarded by the Aries Star Lord as though he was inconsequential.
Ultimately, this resentment, this hatred, this anger—all boiled over, transforming into a blazing desire to kill.
"Aries Star Lord? Do you really think you can dominate my life the moment you lay eyes on me?"
The creator is not a god!
And I, Gu Jinlai...
Am certainly not a lamb to be slaughtered at will.
"Anyone who knows me will leave a trace, and all that I know are mine to possess."
Gu Jinlai declared with a frosty expression.
He sensed that Seed in his spiritual world.
The next moment, a burst of Clear Light State infused into the little figure, seated on Qing Lian in his consciousness.
Instantly, numerous memories associated with this "Seed" surfaced.
Indeed!
Memories related to this "Seed"!
And the true owner of these memories...
Was none other than the Aries Star Lord.
For an ordinary person, it would have been impossible to glimpse the memories of the Aries Star Lord mixed within those spiritual fluctuations in such a short span of time.
But for Gu Jinlai...
He didn’t need to observe closely or look in detail.
All he had to do was touch with his own spiritual power, just a sense, like a subconscious contact.
It was as if...
All things have spirits!
An exchange of information between spirits.
Without the Aries Star Lord or Gu Jinlai themselves noticing, these memories already existed deep within Gu Jinlai’s soul.
On any normal day, he would rack his brain without being able to figure it out.
Just as an ordinary person, no matter how hard they think, cannot imagine how a designated neuron in their brain sends signals to complete the exchange of information with another neuron, but that doesn’t mean such a scene doesn’t exist.
And through the mysteriousness of Qingguang...
What I know, I possess.
What I see, I receive.
"Endless Spirit Seed."
"Feeding on all spiritual power, and since all things have spirits, it will never wither unless in a completely spiritless realm of death."
"Even if the host dies and their spiritual essence dissipates, as long as there is still life nearby, the Endless Seed can survive. Finding the corpse of its planter is only a matter of taking more time to accumulate spiritual power and send out guidance."
"Even a creator of the same realm cannot uproot the Endless Spirit Seed."
Countless pieces of information about this seed emerged in Gu Jinlai’s mind.
However, upon understanding the trouble with the Endless Spirit Seed, his pupils shrank drastically.
Seemingly insolvable.
"There must be a way."
Without hesitation, Gu Jinlai injected a beam of Qingguang into his consciousness.
In an instant, his brain operated again in a super-boosted state.
Self-explode True Spirit?
No.
Soul Secret Technique?
No.
Soul scattered to the winds?
That won’t work either.
The Endless Spirit Seed could even absorb the spiritual energy that dispersed when its host’s soul scattered.
Gu Jinlai, with eyes closed, eyelids trembling continuously.
Finally...
Under the state of clear light, a viable solution flashed through his mind.
"Demon Spirit!"
Gu Jinlai opened his eyes.
At the edge of his vision, a Catastrophic-level Demon Spirit sensed his True Spirit aura and hurried over.
Farther away, more Catastrophic-level Demon Spirits and large Demon Spirits were rushing towards him at full speed.
"The Heavenly Master is the nemesis of Demon Spirits, and Demon Spirits are likewise. The relationship between the two is like water and fire; water can extinguish fire, but if the flames are fierce enough, they can also evaporate water streams, and the blazing sun can burn the ocean."
With this thought, Gu Jinlai let down his guard of his True Spirit, allowing these large Demon Spirits to draw away and strip his spiritual essence from his True Spirit.
It was just like the lifeline he had calculated using Qingguang.
While the Demon Spirits drew away his spiritual essence and stripped his True Spirit, the Endless Spirit Seed, formed by spiritual energy, was also eaten away by these Demon Spirits.
Though only a very small part, but...
It was indeed drawn away, stripped, devoured.
After all, to the Demon Spirits, they didn’t care about True Spirit, Spirit Seed.
All things have spirits?
They devoured the spiritual essence of all things.
They could consume everything.
"Deplete!"
Gu Jinlai let the large Demon Spirits, as well as the Catastrophic-level Demon Spirits that came after, continue to strip away strands of spiritual essence from him, while using Qingguang to restore and maintain his True Spirit from collapsing.
With this most primitive, most brutal method, he forcefully stripped the Endless Spirit Seed inch by inch from within himself.
And to ensure that his True Spirit didn’t completely collapse during this stripping process, he had to infuse strand after strand of Qingguang into his True Spirit for recovery.
One Catastrophic-level Demon Spirit, three Catastrophic-level Demon Spirits, ten Catastrophic-level Demon Spirits...
Half an hour later, even a Spirit Venerable was attracted and came over, taking large bites at Gu Jinlai’s True Spirit.
In the midst of this devouring, Gu Jinlai’s Qingguang was rapidly consumed.
And the spiritual essence of the Endless Spirit Seed was also stripped away inch by inch.
A hundred strands, eighty strands, sixty strands, forty strands...
Finally, when there were only twenty-two strands of Qingguang left on Gu Jinlai, the Endless Spirit Seed, mixed with his stripped True Spirit, was completely devoured by the approaching Spirit Venerable.
"Spiritual power a hundred times mine?"
Gu Jinlai reconsolidated his True Spirit, his expression indifferent: "That’s all it was."
Again and again stripped, again and again devoured, his True Spirit had become even more flawless and round than before.
The crystallized True Spirit seemed to have transformed into a new structure, becoming more stable.
It didn’t even have spiritual essence spilling out anymore.
Primordial Chaos flawlessness.
Ordinary Demon Spirits probably can’t even "smell" the aura of his True Spirit now.
Sturdy True Spirit could accommodate more spiritual essence, Spiritual Sense, and could also withstand the stronger burst of a Soul Secret Technique.
A thousand hammers, a hundred refinings, there’s nothing beyond this.
The moment the Endless Spirit Seed dissipated, he stepped out into the Void, instantly dashing towards the rift.
And during this process...
Quite a few Catastrophic-level Demon Spirits surprisingly did not pursue.
No way, they were too full.
They felt a bit scared after eating so much.
This human’s spiritual essence was so strong, what if he fought back with a Soul Secret Technique? Who could withstand that?
Even the Spirit Venerable stayed put and watched as Gu Jinlai disappeared into the Demon Realm Rift, with a flash of wariness in its eyes, pondering something.
