Chapter 1603 — The Turning Wheel and the End
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 4
"Only, how to unify such a Way of Reincarnation is the crux. With the birth-and-extinction reincarnation of life alone, there is the bewilderment of the womb, and I can use the Sutra of Immeasurable Kalpas' entering the Way in a dream to avoid it. But for the reincarnation of matter and energy, even the cosmic cycle of birth and extinction, it is all too easy to lose oneself. I must find a principle eternal and unchanging, untouched by birth and extinction, so as to ensure that I do not sink into confusion within reincarnation..."
Shen Mu's eyes suddenly brightened. He halted his steps. The domain of the Divine Treasury opened, and behind him the World Tree emerged and stood towering at his back.
"The World Tree can endure the great kalpa of the cosmos' birth and extinction without perishing. With the World Tree as the root, such a great unification can be achieved!"
He sat down beneath the tree and fell into utter silence, comprehending the Way of Reincarnation, seeking to raise this Way to a higher level.
Above his head, his primordial spirit, vast and great, sat within his heavenly court and continued to expound the Way of Reincarnation.
And Shen Mu himself had sunk into extinction, as though he had become a Guixu, collapsing upon himself.