217: True understanding of resonance, silent ruins devouring patterns

Medusa cast aside all distracting thoughts. Her Soul Power, like the finest silk threads, carefully enveloped and transmitted the Dao Concepts of the seven fragments of the "Nirvana True Understanding" she had forcibly memorized. It was like walking a tightrope over a bottomless abyss, slowly sending them towards Li Ao's silent Sea of Consciousness.

She couldn't understand the specific meaning of these patterns, only treating them as a pure "Concept," an imprint of a great Dao's trace, reflecting them exactly as they were.

Initially, there was no reaction. Li Ao remained like a withered tree, lying quietly there, and the dark golden light on his brow also became silent.

Medusa did not give up. She firmly believed that her previous intuition was not an illusion. She continuously and patiently, over and over again, sent the Dao Concepts of those seven fragments, like a trickling stream, flowing towards Li Ao.

Time seemed to lose its meaning in this dead silent ruin.

After an unknown period, just as Medusa felt her Soul Power somewhat depleted and her mind weary—

"Om..."

An extremely faint, yet clear vibration, emanated from within Li Ao's body!

It wasn't from his mouth or nose, but originated from the depths of his Dantian Qi Sea, from the "silent ruin" that was intimately connected to his life!

With this vibration, the dark golden patterns on the blade of the "silent ruin," which originally depicted the birth and death of stars and were previously silent, suddenly lit up! The light wasn't dazzling, but it carried a sense of hunger and joyful anticipation.

At the same time, Li Ao, who had been as still as a rock, his body in a state of "Nirvana," seemed to be awakened by this blade's hum from the deepest Nirvana, stirring a faint trace of "vitality."

Even stranger, the Dao Concepts of the seven fragments of the "Nirvana True Understanding" that Medusa had transmitted, as if attracted by some powerful magnetic force, no longer required her strenuous maintenance. They spontaneously and rapidly surged towards Li Ao, and... directly bypassed his Sea of Consciousness, completely submerging into the vibrating "silent ruin"!

The "silent ruin" was like a greedy glutton, actively beginning to "devour" these Nirvana Dao patterns from ancient times!

The light on the blade flickered erratically. Those already profound patterns, upon contact with these external Dao Concepts, began to undergo subtle adjustments, evolutions, and even... growth! Some entirely new, more complex and profound fine patterns began to derive from the existing foundation, making the Nirvana aura emanating from the entire blade become even more ancient, purer, and closer to the Origin Dao Concept of this desolate land!

A weapon devouring the Dao to complete itself!

The "silent ruin" could actually directly absorb and analyze these ancient Inscription that even Medusa couldn't understand, and transform them into nourishment for its own growth!

Medusa watched this scene in shock. She could clearly feel that the "silent ruin" was undergoing some kind of fundamental transformation, its spirituality growing at a slow but steady pace. And with the transformation of the "silent ruin," the life-bound connection between it and Li Ao also seemed to be continuously strengthening and deepening.

Strands of extremely pure, new energy, far closer to the Origin than Li Ao's own Nirvana Dou Qi, began to feed back from the blade of the "silent ruin," like a sweet rain, moistening Li Ao's parched, shattered Meridians and dim Soul.

This energy was not vibrant with life; instead, it carried the cold implication of an ending. Yet, it perfectly resonated with Li Ao's "Way of Blade Silence" and merged seamlessly with his current "Nirvana" state.

Under the nourishment of this energy, although the grotesque cracks on Li Ao's body still hadn't healed, a faint dark golden luster began to appear at their edges, as if sealed by some power, no longer showing a trend of worsening. His originally extremely weak Soul fire also seemed to solidify slightly, no longer giving a fragile feeling of possibly extinguishing at any moment.

Most importantly, Medusa felt that in the depths of Li Ao's consciousness, which had been as still as dead water, there seemed to be an extremely faint ripple.

That wasn't a sign of awakening; it was more like a seed buried deep in endless darkness and cold, which, after absorbing the right nutrients, finally... had an extremely faint, nascent stir of life!

He was still sleeping, in Nirvana, but his "Dao," his "True Self," was being pulled back, little by little, from the brink of complete oblivion, thanks to this external ancient true understanding and the feedback from the divine weapon!

Medusa held her breath, not daring to disturb him in the slightest, her heart filled with unspeakable excitement and anticipation.

She succeeded! These fragments of the "Nirvana True Understanding" really worked on Li Ao! And the effect far exceeded her imagination; it wasn't just simple healing, but more like a completion and sublimation of his "Dao"!

However, she also keenly noticed that after devouring the Dao Concepts of the seven fragments, the "silent ruin" seemed unsatisfied. The blade still emitted a trembling of longing, pointing towards the deeper parts of this desolate land.

"It seems... these seven fragments are far from the entirety of the 'Nirvana True Understanding,'" Medusa's eyes flickered as she looked towards the distant, mist-shrouded horizon. "To completely awaken him, and even allow him to break through and rise from this, I need to find more Inscription, and perhaps even... the complete version of the 'Nirvana True Understanding'!"

She glanced at Li Ao, whose condition had clearly improved but was still far from awakening, and then felt her own considerably recovered injuries and Dou Qi. A decision formed in her mind.

She could no longer passively wait.

She must take the initiative to search for more fragments of the "Nirvana True Understanding" in this perilous desolate land!

This would be a gamble, but to wake him, she was willing to take the risk.

Medusa gently placed Li Ao in the safest corner of the cave and set up a small warning barrier with her own Dou Qi. She stood up, Seven-Colored Dou Qi flowing over her body. Although not fully recovered, the coldness and sharpness of the Medusa Queen had rekindled in her beautiful eyes.

She stepped out of the cave, her figure resolutely disappearing into the boundless desolation and dead silence of the periphery.

For him, even if ahead lay a Dragon's Den, a Tiger's Lair, or the Nine Serene Yellow Springs, she would go.