Langya Pond, Sun Wukong sat atop a three-foot duckweed, bathed in a hazy radiance.
All the Spiritual Energy and the essence of heaven and earth converged towards him.
Thus, seven days later, strands of Auspicious Light spread from the bottom of Langya Lake, the air thick with Spiritual Energy that couldn't dissipate.
Immortal Zhenyuan and others watched this scene with joy.
"The Spiritual Energy has been restored."
The Goddess was overjoyed.
She was surrounded by Auspicious Light, vibrantly alive and more powerful than ever before.
The Spiritual Energy of Langya Pond had been restored, returning to the era of the Brahma Void Heavenly Court.
"Is there enough Spiritual Energy now?"
Immortal Zhenyuan asked the maiden.
The maiden nodded, looking at Sun Wukong with admiration: "It should be enough."
Half a month remained until the night of the Full Moon, and Sun Wukong had recovered the Spiritual Energy of Langya Pond ahead of time.
Sun Wukong woke from meditation, looking towards the Goddess.
"Come here."
He said.
The Goddess, startled, hurried over without delay.
"Although the Spiritual Energy is restored, you are transformed from a residual soul, and your Divine Soul is unstable."
Sun Wukong squeezed out a drop of Essence Blood, saying: "Eat this, I will help you consolidate your Divine Soul."
The Goddess had already merged with Langya Pond and could not detach from it.
He wanted to stabilize her Divine Soul to ensure she would not be scattered when she left Langya Pond.
The Goddess stretched out her hand, receiving Sun Wukong's Essence Blood with a spell, hesitated for a moment, then merged it into her body.
Instantly, she felt Immortal Power surging within her like a tidal wave, almost overwhelming her, her whole body trembling violently.
The Goddess, panicked, sat down and began absorbing the Essence Blood.
Watching this scene, Immortal Zhenyuan couldn't help but ask: "Noble brother, with your blood, can she leave Langya Pond?"
"No."
Sun Wukong replied: "But it can allow her to temporarily detach from Langya Pond and transfer to another Magical Treasure."
He guarded the Goddess by her side.
The Goddess meditated for several days, the duckweed on the lake surface absorbing the power she emitted, also radiating a hazy Immortal Light.
That night, while everyone was deep in sleep, Sun Wukong guarded the Goddess by the lake, gazing alone at the vast and boundless Chaos.
Having left the Three Realms for so long, Sun Wukong had never retreated or feared, but when facing the Chaos, he would occasionally recall the clear starry sky he saw in his youth.
Is the path I'm taking correct?
He often reflected on this question, wondering if he had betrayed his initial promise.
A shadow of an Immortal stood up behind him.
Sun Wukong collected his thoughts and turned around: "You noticed?"
"I noticed."
The Wushan Goddess nodded, looking at the duckweed on the lake: "Is this the Magical Treasure I am to reside in?"
Sun Wukong gestured, and the duckweed on the lake shone brightly, transforming into a horsetail whisk and falling into his hand.
"This is the Immortal's horsetail whisk, transformed from my own hair."
Sun Wukong said: "It has been refined by the Spiritual Energy of Langya Pond and nourished by your Immortal Power, thus it should be capable of accommodating your Divine Soul."
The Wushan Goddess gazed at the horsetail whisk, her ivory-like body suddenly kneeling down: "I hope Your Majesty will fulfill this."
"I can offer you a chance to reconsider."
Sun Wukong looked at the Goddess: "You know the risks involved."
"I know."
The Goddess nodded.
"The Immortal wholeheartedly pursues the Tao; wanting to be with him is extremely difficult."
Sun Wukong once again pointed out the Goddess's intentions, saying: "This is an impossible task."
"I know."
The Goddess's expression turned somber as she nodded.
Through their days together, she had come to understand that Immortal Zhenyuan was to her like the moon in the water, desirable yet unattainable.
Yet even so, having seen such a figure, the Goddess could no longer be interested in any other man.
"Though unattainable."
The Goddess said, "I also want to try."
Sun Wukong then asked, "Even if it takes thousands, tens of thousands of years?"
"Even if it takes thousands, tens of thousands of years."
The Goddess said, "Having found the Tao, why should I mind thousands, tens of thousands of years?"
Sun Wukong felt reassured in his heart.
It has to be like this; if she doesn't even possess this bit of courage, dreaming of moving Immortal Zhenyuan is nothing but a fool's dream.
In Sun Wukong's view, if the Goddess lacked even this bit of persistence, she would not be worthy of the Immortal.
"Such great benevolence."
Sun Wukong was impressed by the Goddess of Wushan.
Even though it might consume thousands, tens of thousands of years, as long as the Goddess persisted, he believed there would eventually be a day when persistence could carve through stone.
"Come here."
He picked up the horsetail whisk and summoned the Goddess over.
The next moment, a powerful surge emerged in Langya Pond, sweeping across the entire Wushan like a hurricane.
Numerous birds and beasts hiding in the mountains, trembling, dared not move.
After the surge subsided, Sun Wukong's horsetail whisk sparkled with radiant light, flowing with obscure auspicious colors.
"Isn't it too beautiful?"
Sun Wukong was about to obscure the brilliance on it when he suddenly remembered that the one he was giving it to was Immortal Zhenyuan.
He might prefer it this way.
Sun Wukong immediately abandoned the idea.
"Junior brother!"
Immortal Zhenyuan, awakened by the turmoil, came over and saw the horsetail whisk in his hand.
"Did you refine this for me?"
He joyfully took the horsetail whisk.
The horsetail whisk, bathed in Divine Radiance, radiated infinite vitality, giving off a sense like the rising dawn sun and the birth of all things.
"Eh?"
Immortal Zhenyuan suddenly noticed a sleeping Artifact Spirit within the horsetail whisk, and upon closer inspection, he frowned, "Why is she inside?"
"This is the way to save her."
Sun Wukong replied, "I let her reside in the horsetail whisk, so even if Langya Pond is destroyed, she still has a sliver of hope for survival."
Immortal Zhenyuan felt something was off and wasn't sure whether to accept it or not.
"Don't you want it?"
Sun Wukong asked.
After thinking, Immortal Zhenyuan waved the horsetail whisk without using any spells, and immediately, Langya Pond was inundated with amazing vitality, Immortal Texts surfaced, and Taoist Lotuses bloomed.
"You win."
Immortal Zhenyuan sighed.
The horsetail whisk, transformed from Sun Wukong's hair and supplemented by the Goddess of Wushan, in terms of Divine Skills and strength, was second to none among Divine Weapons.
Immortal Zhenyuan knew Sun Wukong had found him a little follower, but he really did not want to give up such a treasure.
He channeled immortal power into the horsetail whisk, waking up the Goddess of Wushan inside.
"I take you as my disciple."
Immortal Zhenyuan asked inside, "If you are willing, from now on, follow by my side."
His two statements were both an invitation and a rejection.
The Goddess of Wushan's heart was heavy, but she still nodded, ready to agree.
"Don't be too quick to agree."
Immortal Zhenyuan displayed his immense immortal power, boundless and vast, infusing it into the heart of the Goddess.
This was the ultimate Immortal Dao, magnificent and majestic, filled with the philosophy of all things, like an unimaginable sea.
This was the foundation of the Ancestor of Earth Immortals and the soul of Immortal Zhenyuan.
The Goddess trembled within that vast power, realizing the vast difference between herself and Immortal Zhenyuan.
Her fragile Divine Soul nearly shattered, barely stabilizing after a great struggle.
The Goddess clenched her teeth.
"I am willing."
She answered Immortal Zhenyuan's question.
Immortal Zhenyuan, having received the answer he desired, stored away the horsetail whisk.
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