Chapter 1 The Wind is Rather Noisy Today

Tie Wu woke up slowly from his long slumber. He felt a breeze caressing his cheek, indescribably refreshing, and instinctively stretched... immediately, a feeling of being pierced by the wind all over his body swept through him.

He paused.

Why did he feel like he was leaking air?

Tie Wu lowered his head, somewhat dazed, and then a flood of memories rushed in.

He seemed to have slept for a long time... in this... wilderness...

A moment later.

Having recovered all his memories, Tie Wu's expression was complicated. He looked at his hands.

A cool breeze blew past.

Through his hands, his hair, his chest.

He was now a lonely ghost wandering in the wilderness, how could he not leak air? There wasn't a single place on his body that could block the wind, and that flimsy garment swayed and fluttered like a clump of seaweed soaked in seawater.

"You're awake?"

A gentle laugh rang out.

In the empty wilderness, countless scraps of grass swirled and condensed into a "throne."

A young man sat on the throne, his eyes closed in contemplation, seemingly resting, but in fact, with each breath, wind swirled around the wilderness, and each long breath was a spiritual cultivation.

Tie Wu felt as if he had only slept for a while.

Surely not much time had passed in the outside world?

Why had Gu Shen's aura become even more unfathomable?

That vaguely flowing wind seemed to carry the artistic conception of "the revival of all things," as if he was bathed in the warm spring sunshine of melting snow... but when Tie Wu thoroughly saw the environment of the wilderness, his expression became even more complicated.

If he remembered correctly... before he fell asleep, this was a vast and serene wilderness.

Why was it now... so desolate?

As far as the eye could see, there were large patches of mud, with weeds growing sparsely, full of desolation, as if it had been bombed.

Tie Wu had too much to say, and for a moment, it was stuck in his chest.

"What... is going on?"

He pointed to the ground beneath him.

Before closing his eyes, he thought he was using heaven and earth as his bed, and the long wind as his blanket.

After opening his eyes, he discovered that he had been using mud as his couch all along.

Although he was just a soul, a gust of wind could easily pass through his body, but this wilderness now looked too terrible, even for a soul to endure.

"This is... a new world."

Gu Shen, sitting on the throne, rubbed his forehead, his tone sounding somewhat weary.

In reality, he had not been meditating for a long time, as Tie Wu had thought.

Gu Shen had just found a place to settle down in Snow Forbidden City, a secluded little courtyard. He used some mundane items, preparing to stay for a while... and after inspecting the courtyard environment and ensuring its safety, he immediately activated the "Spring Breath" and entered this spiritual world.

Because of the existence of [Wind Eyes].

His every move in Changye was destined to be seen, and it wouldn't be long before a new group of people came looking for him... so it made no difference where he lived. The troubles that were destined to come would always come.

After comprehending the Guyu Scroll, Gu Shen wanted to find a quiet place to properly introspect his "new world."

He didn't follow Gu Changzhi's guidance on the sheepskin scroll to visualize the Spring Breath.

He had walked a path that belonged to him!

"New... world?"

Tie Wu paused.

The last scene remaining in his memory was the wilderness being rained on, Gu Shen reaching out to him, and at that time, his spirit was about to dissipate, and his transcendent source essence was about to scatter...

He said he wanted to live.

And Gu Shen told him that he could live.

So... when he woke up from this sleep, he really survived, his spirit exceptionally full, as if he had been reborn.

This was something even a god could not do, right?

Tie Wu thought seriously... at least, the Drunken God Throne couldn't do it.

"Is the [New World] a miracle like [Resurrection]?" Tie Wu raised his head and asked with a sincere expression.

Gu Shen paused.

He remembered what he had said before Tie Wu sincerely surrendered...

In order to guide Tie Wu's belief in the Source Tower to collapse, Gu Shen half-lied and half-deceived, portraying himself as the Eighth God Throne who came from afar in the [Old World].

Precisely because of this heaven-defying miracle of "collecting souls"... the Drunken God Throne's apostle really believed in the persona of the so-called Eighth God Throne.

Now.

Gu Shen found it difficult to tell Tie Wu... that this was actually the spiritual world he had created after comprehending the Jingzhe and Guyu scrolls of breathing techniques, and even using the term spiritual world was not quite appropriate.

This place couldn't even be considered a spiritual domain.

Large swaths of desolation and mud were simply an undeveloped, savage world.

"You can understand it as... a world with nothing." Gu Shen thought for a moment, and said, "This is a pure land just born from chaos."

Although it didn't look like a pure land at all now.

Tie Wu was a little confused, pretending to understand, and nodded seriously.

"So... what do you need me to do?"

Tie Wu was not a person who liked to beat around the bush.

This was too direct.

Gu Shen was silent for a moment. He turned his hand over and took out a seed... sitting on the throne, he lightly flicked his sleeve, and the seed floated up in the wind and landed in Tie Wu's hand.

"Help me cultivate."

"Cul... cultivate?" Tie Wu paused again.

He was an apostle of the Source Tower, and after being reborn here... his first task was actually to cultivate crops?

"Since it is a new world, cultivation is natural." Gu Shen said in a low voice, "Sow today, and you will reap tomorrow."

It seemed like a very reasonable statement... Tie Wu fell into deep thought.

But he quickly raised his head and asked seriously, "What should I call you in the future?"

Gu Shen asked in return, "What do you call the Drunken God Throne?"

Tie Wu still felt a subconscious palpitation when he heard this name... his greatest struggle at the beginning was between life and death. Becoming an [Apostle] required great faith, but the collapse of faith happened overnight.

And after the faith collapsed, Tie Wu only felt fear and horror when he thought of the Drunken God Throne reaching out his palm to him.

He was now considered to have betrayed the Source Tower. What would his fate be if the Drunken God Throne found out?

He quickly said respectfully, "Understood... Master."

Gu Shen frowned, puzzled, "You call the Drunken God Throne 'Master'?"

Tie Wu was a little dazed.

He looked up at the young man on the throne... silently thinking that Gu Shen's public face was the same as the Drunken God Throne's, young and childish, but beneath this skin was a soul of unknown age.

Traveling from the [Old World] must have taken many, many years, right?

"When carrying out missions outside, we call him 'Lord God Throne,' and when serving in the Source Tower, we call him 'Master.'"

Tie Wu replied cautiously, while glancing at the desolate and barren spiritual wilderness. He thought that although it couldn't compare to the Drunken God Throne's magnificent residence in the Source Tower, it was previously a place of beautiful scenery and pleasant moods.

"Don't call me Master."

Gu Shen frowned and said, "I am not your master, and no one is qualified to be your master."

This was the first time Tie Wu had heard such words.

In the past, in the Source Tower, the Drunken God Throne often said to him...

If he hadn't appeared, then he would have been an unnoticed corpse in a slum alley.

If he hadn't reached out his hand, then he would have long been trampled on, ravaged, and destroyed.

If not...

Because of so many "ifs," Tie Wu was able to survive, and all of this was a gift from the "Drunken God Throne." He gave Tie Wu new life, and this life was given to him.

Calling him anything wouldn't be too much.

Tie Wu also thought so, and had always thought so, until later, he met Gu Shen.

"But... you gave me this life."

Tie Wu recalled the "past teachings" of the Source Tower, and said in a low voice, "This is the grace of giving life..."

"When a child is born, the parents are like guides." Gu Shen shook his head and said, "It was not me who gave you the grace of giving life, it was your parents."

"I don't have parents..." Tie Wu smiled and said, "They died long ago."

The emotions in Gu Shen's eyes were a little complicated.

Some pity.

Or... for a moment, he saw similarities between Tie Wu and himself.

"You can call me 'Sir.'" Gu Shen thought of the most common title he heard in Changye today.

Little Gu Sir.

Snow Forbidden City had a long history, and the local customs were also relatively classical. The word "Sir" had completely different meanings when placed in Dadu and Changye.

"Gu Sir?" Tie Wu's expression changed slightly. He thought of the guy sleeping in Qingzhong. It was said that Gu Changzhi didn't like others calling him Lord God Throne, so Changye uniformly referred to him as "Gu Sir."

Was this a coincidence? Or...

"Just 'Gu Sir.'" Gu Shen nodded and said, "This title sounds pleasing and comfortable."

"Gu... Sir."

Tie Wu found it a little awkward to say it for the first time.

"Will I... always stay here in the future?" He asked carefully again, a little nervous.

Gu Shen saw his nervousness.

"Do you want to go out?"

"No, no, no..." But to his surprise, Tie Wu quickly shook his head, shaking his head like a rattle drum, "I don't want to go out. If possible... I want to stay here all the time."

As he said this, he glanced at the desolate wilderness, and then subconsciously clenched the seed in his palm: "Sir wants to sow seeds here, and in the future, many trees, grass, and flowers will definitely grow... and later, maybe there will be more people here."

The more he spoke, the less confident Tie Wu became.

Not only because he only had one seed in his hand.

But also because he remembered halfway through... could those who really came to this place still be considered "people"?

If not.

Then he was not considered a person now, right?

"No one would want to stay here forever..." Gu Shen was a little helpless. This place was desolate, and even he was unwilling to stay for too long while meditating, but perhaps there would really be a day like what Tie Wu said.

But, why would Tie Wu want to stay here all the time?

After a slight thought.

Gu Shen saw through it and said, "Are you afraid of the Source Tower?"

Tie Wu was a little embarrassed.

He scratched his head awkwardly and said, "I don't know why... I always feel very unsure."

Reason told him that the divine being in front of him who controlled the art of "resurrection" should be the eighth throne who crossed the [Old World]. No matter how he looked at it, he was clinging to a thick thigh.

But intuition told Tie Wu.

The thigh he was clinging to didn't seem to be working.

If he went out and was sensed by the Drunken God Throne... he would probably be truly annihilated, right?

"One good news, one bad news."

Gu Shen was silent for a moment and said honestly, "The good news is that you can stay here for a long time... The bad news is that the reason you are staying here is that I haven't thought of a way to let you out yet."

Tie Wu was a little surprised, not knowing whether he should be happy or sad.

"One last question--"

"I don't understand, Sir, why did you save me?" Tie Wu took a deep breath, looked at Gu Shen, and said seriously, word by word, "What exactly does Sir want?"

"I don't like the Source Tower."

This question was the easiest to answer, and Gu Shen said bluntly, "As for what I want... it's very simple. I want you to rebel against the Source Tower and become my believer."

Rebel against the Source Tower and become my believer!

These words were powerful and resounding.

"After today, you can pick up your confidence." Gu Shen said calmly, "This new world will become a true pure land in the future."

A true... pure land...

Tie Wu clenched the seed and nodded vigorously.

He also firmly believed in it.

However... there was a very serious problem in front of him.

"Sir, but does the new world currently only have this one seed?"

Tie Wu raised his head, his expression blank.

Only to see a gust of wind sweeping past, and the throne had disappeared.

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"Huff... it would be difficult to answer if I were asked any further."

Gu Shen slowly exhaled a long breath.

He had not left the wilderness, but had used his mental power to "hide" himself in the wilderness.

Here, he was the true master.

All the rules of this [New World] were defined by Gu Shen, and the source essence stored in Chihuo was the foundation supporting his writing of the rules. If there was wind, rain, or light here, there was whatever he wanted, as long as he paid the corresponding "source essence."

He slowly stroked his fingers.

Using himself and Tie Wu as the boundary, the wilderness was divided into two.

On that side, Tie Wu was holding the seed, looking down and thinking about where was a good place to cultivate, where the soil was fertile, suitable for planting the only seedling in this new world.

On this side, Gu Shen was silently recalling the trajectory of the flow of his spirit when visualizing the Guyu Scroll.

This was a world born in accordance with his will.

Everything here was under his control...

In a sense, he was worthy of Tie Wu's faith in him here... because, he was a god.

"First... let's try a rain?"

Gu Shen slowly waved his hand.

Above the wilderness, rain clouds slowly emerged, and spring thunder was already resounding continuously.

At this moment.

Gu Shen felt that the source essence in his brow was being consumed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Fortunately, he had just had a full meal at the Divine Shrine Mountain, and the source essence stored in Gu Shen's brow was still quite abundant.

Every day that passed, a portion of these source essences would be used for digestion... after digestion, Gu Shen's own strength would be enhanced, but this was a very long process. If Chihuo was hungry, then the speed of becoming stronger would be slowed down.

But no matter how full Chihuo ate, the speed of digestion was fixed, and it wouldn't be much faster no matter how fast it was.

There was never a shortcut in the matter of cultivation.

Even if "Chihuo" could store a large amount of source essence, it was not something that could be eaten in one bite to become a big fat man.

It was not that Gu Shen could have a few full meals at the Divine Shrine Mountain and then leave the dust behind and directly crush his peers.

This was the "characteristic" he discovered after fighting against Han Dang... Chihuo's characteristic was quite powerful, and very reasonable, like a living "being", a subconscious survival consciousness.

The swallowed "source essence" would be partially digested, and the vast majority would be used for storage.

If he encountered a mental attack, such as the previous [True Words], [Thorn Dream]... as long as it was a force that could be offset by burning source essence, Chihuo could do it by consuming reserves to complete the response.

This was almost a "savior" characteristic that was tenacious to the extreme, or rather... this was a "self-preservation" characteristic!

Tie Wu, holding the seed, heard a sound of thunder.

He paused.

He was looking for a place suitable for cultivation, and suddenly a large rain cloud floated from the top of his head... Obviously, this was the guidance of the "god."

Immediately afterwards.

"Boom!"

A thunderous sound rang out.

Snow-white lightning exploded above the wilderness. This wilderness was already too barren to be more barren... Tie Wu watched the lightning mixed with a large pool of mud pass through his body, and the lightning struck the center of the wilderness, carving out a huge pothole.

This pothole was like the hand extended by God.

And what Tie Wu had to do was to plant hope for this new world.

Heavy rain was coming soon.

He squatted down and slowly floated into the pothole in the pouring rain... with both hands, he put the seed down.

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Zero Zero One.

The train was running smoothly.

The girl was no longer sitting and reading a book. She was curled up on the seat, seemingly asleep...

A large amount of data roamed through the carriage.

Millions of files were opened.

Millions of files were closed.

And there was also a young man in the carriage waiting quietly. Gu Shen empathized with the feeling Tie Wu had in the Seasons Wilderness. He was like a lonely ghost, his body pierced by countless files.

This feeling... seemed not bad?

On the side of the Seasons Wilderness, "sowing" had been completed.

Gu Shen had released iron elements into the wilderness. After being reborn, Tie Wu was able to use the "Iron Throne" after receiving Gu Shen's will, but his strength was very weak. He could only condense a shovel, and relying on a shovel... Tie Wu began the cultivation of a grain seed and the long contemplation.

After thinking about it, Tie Wu believed that it was the dissipation of his transcendent source essence that caused his current weakness.

Even if he was only left with a soul, he could slowly rebuild it.

In fact, his thinking was only half right.

In Gu Shen's spiritual world, he could indeed "cultivate"... after all, source essence flowed here, and this was the fundamental way for transcendents to become stronger.

But in the current situation, no matter how much Tie Wu cultivated, his power was limited.

It was like that seed.

It needed a long time to grow.

The entire new world had just been born, and these source essences had just been condensed... most importantly, the source of all this, Gu Shen, was not a true "throne." His own power was only at the fourth level of the deep water area.

After ensuring that his new world could operate smoothly, Gu Shen came to Zero Zero One.

In the real world, Chu Ling's "self-seclusion" was approaching overnight.

For normal people, this was the time to close their eyes and sleep... but for the deep sea [Source Code], one night was enough to perform billions of calculations.

Was it because of the "Wish Technique"?

Gu Shen still remembered that Chu Ling had told him that she felt that Li Qingsui looked familiar, but the results of the database search... showed that the two had never met. This kind of thing that did not conform to the deep sea's cognition was only possible as a transcendent phenomenon.

And now, the deep water area contained a large number of explanations for "transcendent phenomena."

If the search had not yielded an answer so far... the most likely indication was the Li family's incomprehensible and unpredictable "Wish Technique."

"It seems like she's going to sleep for a long time."

Gu Shen stood in the carriage, quietly accompanying her for the entire second half of the night. He did not speak, nor did he disturb her. He just watched quietly, accompanied quietly.

In many past nights.

Chu Ling was also like this.

While he slept, she remained awake.

Perhaps in his dreams, Chu Ling was accompanying him like this, while thinking about endless trivial matters... but what did the [Source Code] think about? Was it a great concept to guide the future of mankind towards the light, or was it using data to deduce and solve the computational problems that plagued mortals?

Suddenly, Gu Shen thought of what Chu Ling had said to him.

"I'm hungry."

Or.

The things that [Source Code] thought about were not so lofty, great, or incomprehensible.

She could see the puzzles that humans could not understand or see through at a glance.

But the things she pondered and could not think of an answer... were the "feelings" that everyone was born with.

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A gentle knock on the door woke Gu Shen up.

He slowly opened his eyes and found that it was already bright outside.

This night was very short.

This was the first operation of the Spring Breath. Gu Shen fell into an unprecedented deep sleep. He had never "slept" so fully or so steadily.

Fatigue was swept away.

Replaced by abundant energy.

When he only cultivated the "Jingzhe" in the past, Gu Shen had already been able to do without sleep. Under normal circumstances, he had enough energy every day... but now it was very different.

The single Jingzhe Breath only maintained it to the "stable" boundary.

And the Spring Breath allowed his spirit to recover to "fullness."

"Someone came to the door?"

Gu Shen's first reaction was this... After all, a night was enough for those guys waiting at the Gu family's small villa to get the news and rush to the new location to block him.

But after his mental power swept out.

He was a little surprised.

The courtyard was not as "bustling" as he had imagined. It seemed that the Bai family and Han Dang had not released any information about him... The former's reaction was understandable, while the latter's was beyond Gu Shen's expectations.

The Bai family valued their identity and would not do anything that would lower their status.

But Han Dang was not someone who cared about face.

He had made a harsh statement last night that he would never let him go... This guy held the [Wind Eyes] authority and should know where he had escaped to. As long as he released a message, a large group of flies would come to harass him.

How could he not do this kind of thing that harmed others and did not benefit himself?

Perhaps it was because of last night's warning?

Gu Shen didn't have time to think too much.

Because his mental power had condensed on the "guest" who came to visit...

After seeing who the other party was, Gu Shen's expression became a little wonderful.

"Wait a moment..."

His voice had just come out.

The other party had already "pushed the door open."

The "uninvited guest" who had knocked on the courtyard door three times as a greeting directly reached out his palm. Although this residence was located in the old city, it was equipped with a fairly thick iron gate... The palm pressed against the iron gate.

There was no resistance.

The iron gate was instantly dissolved. He passed through the iron gate, and after he left, the thick door was reshaped like a lump of mud, slowly returning to its original state... except that some places had become uneven, looking more like a block of iron.

"Changye is really a place that values civilization and promotes new customs."

Gu Shen came to the small courtyard, looked at the other party, and frowned, "Couldn't you wait a few minutes? How can you enter the courtyard without the owner's permission?"

This time, upon seeing Shen Li again, he seemed different from last time... He was no longer a ruthless character who wore several iron suits to fight. The hostility on his body had also been reduced a lot, and he looked a little thinner.

"I only pushed the door after you spoke."

Shen Li frowned, a little uncomprehending as he said.

"I said 'wait a moment', not 'please come in'."

"What's the difference? In the end, I will still come in."

"The difference is... I rented this courtyard, and now this door has become an iron lump, and I have to pay extra money." Gu Shen sighed helplessly.

"Why do you value mundane things so much?" Shen Li couldn't understand this freak even more.

"Because mundane things are very important, and even more because it was you who broke the door, but in the end, I am the one who has to pay. In short... remember to settle the bill before you leave." Gu Shen picked and chose in the courtyard, and finally threw an iron folding stool over, instructing, "Don't become a statue, otherwise I'll have to pay for that too."

There were clearly wooden chairs in this courtyard... Shen Li raised his eyebrows, looked at the iron chair, and felt a little itchy.

"I heard that the people detained by the Federal Security Committee take at least a week to be 'bailed out'." Gu Shen looked at the time and said, "From the time you were taken away to now, only twelve hours have passed."

Shen Li said calmly, "The person who took me away was called Du Wei. He really wanted to lock me up for ten and a half days, but in reality, he only locked me up for one night, because the person who bailed me out was called Bai Chen."

Hearing this, Gu Shen already understood.

It was a certainty that Shen Li would not be detained by the Security Committee.

Mr. Shan had already spoken out in the dojo. No matter how reliable Fatty Luo's friend was, how could he withstand this level of pressure?

He sighed softly and said, "I guessed that you would leave, but I didn't expect it to be so fast... and I didn't expect that you would come to me as soon as you left."

What was he going to do?

"I want to fight again." Shen Li said word by word, "Right here, you and me."

Gu Shen was silent for a long time.

He looked at Shen Li as if he was looking at an idiot.

There was nothing more beautiful than waking up and seeing a peaceful courtyard.

But this did not mean that [Wind Eyes] was no longer paying attention to him.

Gu Shen knew why Shen Li had found him... Bai Chen, a top figure in the prison, disdained wasting time monitoring him.

Then it goes without saying——

It must have been some crazy woman who pointed the way.

It was highly likely that Bai Lu was watching him now.

Thinking of this, Gu Shen looked up at the sky and slowly raised a middle finger.

"Turn right after leaving the door and keep going straight..." Gu Shen said seriously to Shen Li, "After leaving Snow Forbidden City and heading south all the way, with your stubbornness and speed, it will probably only take three days to reach Dadu."

Shen Li was a little confused.

"I have a friend there who specializes in treating iron heads like you." Gu Shen thought about it and used the term iron head to describe Shen Li as very appropriate, "You go find him, give my name, and say you want to be beaten up. Oh, his name is Song Ci."

"I've heard of Song Ci, the [Apostle] of Qingzhong, but what does all of this have to do with me?" Shen Li frowned, "I don't want to fight him, I just want to fight you."

Gu Shen said, "Let me reply to you in your words... what do all of these have to do with me?"

"Don't you understand yet... I don't want to fight you."

Shen Li was stunned. On the way here, he had never thought that there would be such an ending.

Because none of the people he knew in Changye were like Gu Shen.

Now he really wanted to ask, why?

"Do you see this courtyard? Aren't these flowers and plants very beautiful?" Gu Shen saw through what this straight-talking guy was going to say at a glance, so he preemptively asked, "Now that you're here, why not drink tea and enjoy the flowers? Why do you have to fight?"

Shen Li held back a lot of words.

He was silent for a long time, and finally spat out a sentence stiffly, "You're afraid of losing."

Gu Shen smiled and nodded with a smile.

So Shen Li was even more painful. This trick was useless on Gu Shen at all...

"You seem to really want to fight me, why?"

Gu Shen looked at Shen Li, who was lying on a grandmaster's chair, basking in the warm sunshine of the ancient city, smiled, and asked, "Is it because you lost to me yesterday and your reputation was damaged, or is it because you simply want to fight?"

Hearing this, Shen Li's eyes lit up with a strange light: "Why do you need so many reasons to fight? All I know is that if I do it again, I will definitely not lose to you!"

Well... he really was a martial arts fanatic.

Shen Li didn't care about his reputation at all. No wonder he was willing to go to the dojo to fight while facing the Federal Security Committee's review.

No wonder Mr. Shan was willing to come forward to contact the senior management of the Security Committee for him.

On the path of transcendent cultivation, martial arts fanatics like Shen Li, who were full of sincerity, often had considerable achievements.

Gu Shen squinted his eyes and said softly, "If you really have to fight, it's not impossible..."

Shen Li's eyes lit up.

Gu Shen slowly got up from the grandmaster's chair and said with a smile, "I won't take advantage of you. If you lose this fight, you have to promise me one request."

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