The word figure Momo writes only becomes a small puddle probably because her personal ability is still not good enough. The puddle she made is too far away from the sparkling lake with jumping fish and shrimp in it. The little girl has worked very hard and Lin Luoran really appreciates her efforts. This little girl clearly lacks personal ability but she still wants to get a better result. Lin has a feeling that something bad will happen.
One evening, Momo sneaks out to practice. The last word “Lake” she writes is almost to jump out of the paper. That word is similar to the word the man in robe writes.
Lin Luoran watches the word figure on the white paper coming alive. The ink marks fade away and water droplets blow out. A gurgling water sound is ringing. Momo first feels very happy. However, her strength is like to be drained out of her body. She vomits dark red blood and falls to the ground.
Lin Luoran is so anxious that she wants to pull her. However, her hand can only go through Momo’s body.
She can’t even touch Momo! What should she do? Momo is frowning and moaning. Lin Luoran can feel how painful she is.
Lin wants to find the man in robe but there is an endless forest in front of her.
Even if she finds him, what can she do? Lin Luoran watches Momo struggling on the grass. She feels the cruelty of the law of time for the first time. Lin Luoran is totally invisible now. With the power of the book “Tao”, she gets the chance to peep into what happened thousands of years ago.
However, it’s not backwards time in the Tower of Babel. What she sees is just like a movie made by modern technology, the technology of light and shadow. She is just a spectator. The only difference is that what she is experiencing is far more immersive than the so-called 3D movie before the New Era… Even so, Momo and the man in robe whom she sees no longer exist in real life.
The moon slowly rises and Momo passes out in pain.
Lin looks at the bright moonlight thousands of years ago. However, in real life, moonstar has long been covered with cold alloy.
Lin Luoran stays with Momo for a night until the next day. The man in robe finally comes to the lake and takes her back.
They are so close to her that Lin can even hear a slight sigh when the man in robe picks up Momo.
She feels that the sigh is kind of meaningful and even thinks the sigh is coming for her. Lin turns her head and sees the man in robe holding Momo and leaving slowly—this scenery has always been a lifelong mystery which Lin Luoran can’t figure out even a few years later.
Momo is injured carelessly. She doesn’t come to the lake for a long time to practice writing. Lin Luoran is trapped within a radius of 100 meters near the stone. She can only stay in the lake area and she can’t even go to the distant forest.
She is not thirsty, hungry or tired at all.
In addition to practicing words, she counts the ants on the ground as entertainment when she gets bored. Anyway, ants can’t see her so they won’t be scared and run away.
She often stares at the lake and feels confused. The longer she stays, the more she can feel how special the golden word figures are.
It is easy to make a lake. Even a Laying Foundation cultivator can use the Water Spell to make a small pool into a lake. But a real lake also contains fish, shrimp, crabs, shellfish, aquatic plants, plankton and so many other things. This kind of creativity about living creatures cannot be done by Spells of the Five Elements.
If the power of personal ability can be graded, the hierarchy should be spells, arts of nature, holy spells and then theurgy. Immortals are the truly free branch in this world while gods have to take responsibility. Theurgy should be above holy spells.
The art of nature the ancestor of the monsters of wood cast which can turn Yang Lisha into the size of petals and carry her around is similar to “Mini World in the Robe”.
“Substitution” wood wolf once used is also an art of nature.
Arts of nature are above spells but they can still not do this. Is it a holy spell? The power of faith is really magical and it can even shape the Taoist root for mortals. However, that kind of power is still from the belief of mortals. Although it has a magical effect, it still has some limitations.
What about theurgy? Lin Luoran has only seen “changing the time” and she doesn’t dare to make an assessment.
The golden word figure is totally different from these things. It can make a complete lake ecosystem out of nowhere. This is just like the power of Western gods who have the ability to create a world—or maybe, this belongs to the force of the laws of the universe?
Does it just borrow the power of the law or maybe it has already been above the law?
The man in robe said that Momo’s personal ability is not good enough to write a real “lake”. In this case, Lin Luoran feels that the former presumption should be right. This golden word figure can’t be used endlessly and casually. Momo is also promoting her personal ability. Maybe personal ability as an introduction is the only way to connect the laws of the world so that the words can be used at people’s will?
How about the man in robe? His personal ability should be enough.
In the dream, the word figure he wrote is extremely powerful. Lin doesn’t even know what kind of personal ability he has.
In such a quiet environment, Lin Luoran now can calm down. She sorts out the doubts and the messy knowledge she has encountered since the beginning of her personal ability enhancement.
She suddenly breaks through the bottleneck she thought in the past when her personal ability is better now.
Having mastered the basic knowledge, she can also connect it with the new realm. It makes her feel that besides learning writing, she also benefits a lot. This ethereal state is really suitable for making elixirs, planting magic circles, or even refining weapons.
Unfortunately, she doesn’t have the jade stairs now and she has no way to make elixirs or refine weapons.
Fortunately, the grass is soft enough for her to lie on. The sky above the lake is also very wide. Stars are always there every night.
Except for tonight.
The night sky is not clear as usual and all stars disappear. The moon is lonely like a large disk, shining brightly over the surface of the water. It looks so close as if people can touch it.
She doesn’t expect to see Momo tonight who she hasn’t seen for a while.
The man in robe also comes to the lake with her. Momo looks fine. She is always jumping and her colorful dress seems to be more gorgeous in the moonlight. It is actually a dress which looks more beautiful at night.
“Once every 60 years. I will never miss this.”
The man in robe stands motionless on the grass and the night hides some of his cold feelings. Momo is very excited tonight. Lin doesn’t know what is about to happen.
The moonlight is so beautiful. Lin Luoran is kind of familiar with the 60 years stuff. She is still thinking about it when the round moon changes.
The moonlight sprinkles down as if the moon is cut off. It shows a pink gloss as a semi-solid mist cluster.
The forest was quiet but now it becomes noisy. Many animals that have been hiding appear. Well… they can fly so they are actually monsters. Those monsters either fly or jump, all scrambling to snatch the moonlight fragments.
Moonlight fragments? They are clearly Diliu Syrup! Lin stands up all of a sudden. Diliu Syrup which only appears once every sixty years is the key for monsters to humanizing and incepting!
Diliu Syrup hasn’t been found since Reiki on the Earth weakens mysteriously. Lin Luoran doesn’t expect to have the chance to witness this! She feels extremely sorry that this is just a scene recorded in history and she can’t take it back—she really wants to see what clumsy cyan little fox looks like after it is humanized.
Momo also feels very sorry, “It will be 60 years later when I see this next time. I will be an old lady. Can we keep some Diliu Syrup?”
Of course, Lin Luoran has never seen that the man in robe rejects Momo’s request. It is said that Diliu Syrup cannot be stored. She is looking forward to seeing how can the man in robe does it.
The man in robe waves and many pieces of pink moonlight fly towards him. They turn into a pink round beads necklace in his hand, which is brighter than pearls… He just hands it to Momo casually.
Sure enough, in the face of absolute strength, the rules can totally be ignored—he just imprisons Diliu Syrup easily without any other tools. This is the gap!
It only lasts a while that Diliu Syrup pours down. Momo leaves with satisfaction and Lin Luoran has a hunch that she can see this little girl practicing writing again tomorrow.
Lin Luoran falls asleep tonight unusually. She wakes up the next day against the big rock but the surrounding has changed.
She is now in the mountains.
What the man in robe teaches Momo today is definitely not the word “mountain”. The word “lake” is too complicated so Momo was injured. The man in robe can now only teach her some simple stuff first.
Thanks to Momo, Lin Luoran has learned the eight characters of wind, rain, thunder, electricity, ice, frost, snow, and fire.
These words have great power but Lin Luoran feels that they only have a single structure, which is actually much simpler than the inclusive word “lake”.
After a long time, Momo grows much taller. She now looks in her thirteen or fourteen as Lin met her for the second time. The man in robe finally decides to teach her the word “mountain”. In a few years, Momo’s personal ability improves at an amazing speed. She has the personal ability of the late Bearing Essence. Lin Luoran is surprised by the coincidence and she continues to learn new words happily.
Momo can hardly write the word “mountain”. Her handwriting is so weak. Lin Luoran, a bystander, also feels that it is a mound rather than a mountain.
Sure enough, Momo doesn’t make any progress for a long time. She is about to cry anxiously. The man in robe has no choice but to tell her, “You have to see the nature of the mountain.”
“You have to see the nature of the mountain.”
Lin Luoran feels that some invisible mist has dispersed and she seems to have heard a kind of unexpectedly enlightening voice.
You have to see the nature of the mountain…
Cultivation, cultivation of truth…
Eliminating the false and keeping the true… is it the same thing? Lin Luoran feels all clear and suddenly opens her eyes.
