A night passed in the spring breeze.
When the younger members of the Gu Family came to pay their respects to the Ancestor every morning, the maid Cui Lan standing at the entrance of the courtyard stopped Gu Weiting, saying: "Clan Leader, please hold. The young lady and Senior Gu are still resting."
Gu Weiting nodded, bowed deeply towards the direction of the Ancestor from afar and then knelt down to kowtow.
Afterward, he nodded to Cui Lan and left.
For several days in a row, Jiang Ruolin did not leave the courtyard where Gu Feng was.
For she had fallen into a coma due to a breakthrough in her self-awareness.
After merging with Gu Feng, the dominant power of the Heavenly Dao’s origin power from Gu Feng was infused into Jiang Ruolin, forcibly breaking through and enhancing her cultivation.
Jiang Ruolin was facing a state where her Divine Sense was breaking through one layer after another.
Meanwhile, Gu Feng played the role of her protector, preventing her from collapsing and perishing during the infusion of his origin power.
After more than ten days, Cui Lan was somewhat worried about the situation inside.
She did not know whether Senior Gu had taken the young lady out or not.
But since the young lady hadn’t said anything and was nowhere to be seen, Cui Lan wanted to check the situation but did not dare to act rashly and break the rules.
She could only wait.
After waiting another month, when Jiang Ruolin woke up, perhaps unable to control the Taoist Body and Dharma Image within her body at first, suddenly the entire backyard of the Gu Family witnessed a rising Dharma Image resembling Jiang Ruolin, a female cultivator War God.
Cui Lan and the guards at the garden gate instinctively turned their heads to look and were startled.
As the Dharma Image grew larger and larger.
Initially, she kept her eyes closed, and only after the Dharma Image stopped growing did she slowly open her eyes.
Immediately after, the light wheel representing her realm appeared behind her. Official source is novel·fiɾe·net
"Miss?" Cui Lan squinted her eyes, and saw at least 10 circles at the base of the light wheel!
Then she carefully counted, and when she counted to 20 circles, her breathing became heavier.
"Twenty-one, twenty-four, twenty-five!"
When Cui Lan counted the 30th layer of the light wheel, she took a deep breath, somewhat unable to believe this was the young lady’s Dharma Image?
But she remembered Jiang Ruolin had a cultivation level of only the Fifth Layer Heaven.
Yet the facial features of this Dharma Image were unmistakably Jiang Ruolin’s.
A person might disguise their appearance, but you cannot fake the Dharma Image and Taoist Body.
At most, it would appear younger than the original, because it sets its appearance when you reach the Nascent Soul Stage, meaning if you cultivate for thousands of years thereafter, the Dharma Image still retains the look from your Nascent Soul Stage, but the light wheel is infallible.
Apart from its visible number of circles, the light wheel also carries an inherent power of realm deterrence.
This deterring power comes from a high-dimensional spatial suffocating sensation.
Similar to Berg at the peak of the 27th Layer Heaven trying to perceive the light wheel of Gu Feng, which is above the 28th Layer Heaven, each circle carries the oppressive sensation of that corresponding microcosmic world.
If Gu Feng wishes, he could shatter the Taoist bodies of these cultivators merely with the oppressive force of his realm.
So, when Cui Lan and the others saw Jiang Ruolin’s high-dimensional Dharma Image with a light wheel, they too felt a sense of dizziness and unease.
Before long, the Gu Family members flocked to the backyard and upon seeing Jiang Ruolin’s Dharma Image at the 30th Layer Heaven, each of them showed a delighted expression.
It meant that the Gu Family had gained another high-level protector.
"This is, the Dharma Image of Ancestor Grandmother." Gu Weiting and others were overjoyed.
They all then stopped at the entrance to the backyard.
Inside the courtyard house, after fusing the memories of her two lives, Jiang Ruolin opened her eyes to see Gu Feng sitting in front of her and her eyes instantly moistened. Recalling the hardships of searching for Gu Feng in her past life, she could no longer hold back and rushed into Gu Feng’s embrace.
Gu Feng also revealed a long-lost smile, holding Jiang Ruolin tightly, who was also Lin Yue, and said, "You’ve suffered."
Lin Yue hugged him very tightly, "This isn’t a dream, right?"
Gu Feng shook his head, "I’m back."
Tears streamed down Lin Yue’s face as she bemoaned, hitting Gu Feng’s chest, "Where did you go? Why couldn’t I find you?"
Gu Feng, filled with emotion, said, "There were some accidents, I was sealed in my 36th Layer Heaven for ten thousand years, so you couldn’t find me with your current dimension."
Now that everything had unfolded, he also decided not to hide anything from his wife anymore and informed Lin Yue about how several Immortal Kings from the Original World schemed to absorb him and replace him as the Taoist Ancestor.
Lin Yue suddenly realized, "So, the disappearance of native cultivators in the Original World afterward is related to these Immortal Kings’ sacrifice?"
"Right," Gu Feng nodded. "But it’s all in the past now, that world isn’t a concern anymore except for the Wild Beasts left behind."
"What about the Compass?" Lin Yue recalled causing the Compass to break, "It’s all my fault. If I hadn’t infused my Spiritual Power to check on you, it wouldn’t have broken."
"It’s not your fault," Gu Feng smiled. "The Compass is a Divine Artifact; the cultivator you were at the time couldn’t have caused it to shatter. The main reason it disintegrated was because I was sealed, and therefore my Divine Power no longer supported its operation, allowing various Powers of Laws to infiltrate and disrupt it."
Lin Yue seemed to realize something, "That Compass is important to you, right? You once said it’s like stabilizing the Laws and Origin of all major barriers and worlds, and that it allows you to control the entire cultivation origin world."
Gu Feng nodded, "Yes, I indeed control the entire Cultivation World, and the Compass is more like an editor, but even if it’s broken and scattered throughout the Cultivation World, it’s fine, as whoever can harness the power to drive it, that’s their fortune."
Lin Yue took Gu Feng’s hand proactively, slightly frightened, "From now on, I don’t want to be separated from you, you must not leave me without saying goodbye, no matter what secrets you have, let me help you share them."
"Never again," Gu Feng smiled and stroked her hair, "Now that you’ve broken through the 30th Layer Heaven, you have my God’s Origin Power in you and possess the physique of an Immortal King. As long as you don’t seek to break through comprehension and rebuild your cultivation in another reincarnation, you will have an endless lifespan, just don’t get tired of me then."
"I won’t, as long as I can be with you, even just sitting and doing nothing, I’ll be content," Lin Yue said, embracing Gu Feng tightly again after recovering what she lost.
"Alright, let’s go meet our great-grandson," Gu Feng said with a smile, patting her back.
Lin Yue continued to hug Gu Feng’s waist, coyly shaking her head, "I won’t go."
Gu Feng couldn’t help but laugh and cry, "Don’t worry, I won’t disappear again and leave you behind. Go and deal with your mundane affairs, and after that, we’ll leave and let our children sort out their own matters."
Only then did Lin Yue gently wipe the tears from the corner of her eyes, looking up at Gu Feng, "You promised, this time no matter what, you have to take me with you."
Gu Feng nodded, "Once you’re done, I’ll take you to live within my 36th Layer Divine Realm."
Lin Yue then let go of her hands and happily turned to attend to the mundane matters she recalled.
Her action of looking back every three steps made Gu Feng chuckle.