novelapdf Chapter 116 Speculation
Chapter 116 Speculation
Chapter 117 Speculation
Xiniuhezhou, a desolate ancient road.
Wearing a bamboo hat and a gray robe, Fan Yuan mingled among a caravan transporting silk and spices.
He rode a black horse, his aura restrained, his appearance drastically changed, like an ordinary, common warrior.
We have been away from the Wanshou Mountain area for several days.
Fan Yuan closed his eyes slightly, his mind completely immersed in his own sea of consciousness.
Some time has passed since the battle at White Tiger Ridge.
The White Bone Demon, a corpse demon who left a deep impression in Journey to the West, was ultimately annihilated by Sun Wukong's iron cudgel.
Deep within the sea of consciousness, the ancient and mysterious [Primordial Myriad Forms Mirror] floated quietly, emitting a faint glow.
Fan Yuan recalled the subtle feedback that had flashed across the mirror's surface.
In the Corpse Demon Cave, he not only managed to extract a portion of the White Bone Demon's core life-saving technique, the Corpse Dissolution Method, by having his clones die one after another, but also triggered a hidden memory feedback from the White Bone Demon during one of his clones' deaths.
"The memory fragments fed back by this [Primordial Mirror of All Forms] are by no means a simple experience before death, but a memory plunder that points directly to the origin."
Fan Yuan secretly made his own plans.
To verify this conjecture, he didn't rest for a moment during the journey after leaving Longevity Hill.
Using some spiritual materials he had plundered, he created four or five low-level clones in succession.
He sent these clones to the mountains, forests, and marshes along the way to provoke the demon kings, spirits, and even some rogue cultivators who committed murder and robbery.
Without exception, all the clones perished.
However, the feedback and settlement from the [Primordial Mirror of All Forms] greatly disappointed Fan Yuan.
After several tests, all the feedback I received was worthless junk.
Let alone fragments of memories involving the secrets of heaven and earth like the White Bone Demon, there isn't even a slightly decent unorthodox or heretical path.
Fan Yuan opened his eyes, his brows furrowed slightly, and he fell into deep thought.
What exactly are the conditions that trigger the hidden feedback?
He repeatedly analyzed the process of these tests and finally came to two most logical conclusions.
The opponent's own status was too low. The wolf demons, snake spirits, rogue cultivators, and so on along the way were nothing more than ants struggling at the bottom.
Their minds are filled with nothing but cannibalism and a desire to survive; they have no secrets whatsoever.
【The Primordial Mirror of All Phenomena】Even the most heaven-defying beings could not conjure up profound supernatural powers and secrets of heaven and earth out of thin air.
Furthermore, there is the threshold of cultivation level. Although the White Bone Demon's combat power is at the bottom among the demon kings in Journey to the West, she has after all cultivated the body of a ghost immortal and touched the edge of the immortal path.
The targets he tested later were far inferior to the White Bone Demon; their spiritual strength and causal connections were simply insufficient to trigger deep-seated, hidden feedback.
"It seems that if we want to really get something for nothing, we still have to get in touch with those who have connections and influence in this Journey to the West calamity."
After reaching his conclusion, Fan Yuan stopped dwelling on it.
He once again focused his attention on the Mirror of All Things.
[Extraordinary Treasure: The Primordial Myriad Appearances Mirror]
[Rank: Unknown]
[Function 1: Myriad Avatars. This ability consumes the host's essence and spiritual materials to create myriad avatars. These avatars can be controlled by the host's divine sense and can be used to cultivate, explore, and face tribulations on the host's behalf.]
[Function Two: Death Feedback. Upon the death or dissipation of the clone, the host can choose one of the following feedbacks: 1. Cultivation empowerment; 2. Cultivation technique insights; 3. Memory fragments]
[Function 3: Unknown.]
Fan Yuan looked at the fog surrounding Function Three. No matter how he tried to probe it with his divine sense, it was like throwing a mud ox into the sea, without any reaction.
If he can unlock the third function, his trump card will undergo a qualitative leap.
"The unlocking condition might be that my cultivation level reaches a certain level, or it might require me to devour some specific rare treasure of heaven and earth."
Fan Yuan suppressed this thought for the time being, for in the path of cultivation, the worst thing is to be overly ambitious.
He calmed his mind and sent his consciousness into his clone, Shen Feng, who was far away at the Wuzhuang Temple on Longevity Mountain.
Longevity Hill, Wuzhuang Temple.
Shen Feng, dressed in a neat blue Taoist robe, was walking steadily on the bluestone path leading to the outer gate's general affairs hall. Since Tang Sanzang and his disciples left, and Zhenyuan Daxian and Guanyin Bodhisattva revived the ginseng fruit tree, Wuzhuang Temple had returned to its former tranquility.
But during this time, Shen Feng had a heavy weight on his mind.
During that upheaval, taking advantage of the perfect opportunity when Sun Wukong knocked down the ginseng fruit tree and the Wuzhuang Temple was in chaos, he took a risky gamble and successfully stole and moved the ginseng fruit.
However, the entire Wuzhuang Temple seemed to have completely forgotten about this matter.
Everything was unbelievably calm.
Shen Feng walked along the road with a calm gaze, but he did not harbor any illusions.
The ginseng fruit is delicious, but the best time to steal it has been completely missed. Now, Zhenyuan Daxian is in charge of the temple, and the mountain-protecting formation of Wuzhuang Temple is operating around the clock.
Let alone a mere outer disciple in the early stage of Spirit Refinement, even a Great Luo Golden Immortal would have to think twice before forcing his way in.
His current status has been elevated to that of a formal outer disciple of Wuzhuang Temple.
Shen Feng arrived at the General Affairs Hall and headed straight for the teleportation array in the side hall.
With a flash of light, he appeared in front of the library at the outer gate of Wuzhuang Temple.
After showing his identity badge as a formal outer disciple and deducting the corresponding contribution points, the disciple guarding the library nodded slightly and released the restriction.
Shen Feng stepped inside.
This time, he didn't stay on the first floor; what was stored there was no longer of any use to him.
He went up the wooden stairs directly to the second floor of the library.
As a formal outer disciple, he finally gained the right to enter this place.
The second floor is much smaller than the first floor. On the rows of bookshelves made of thousand-year-old sandalwood, there are no longer paper books, but jade slips that emit a faint light.
This place contains cultivation discussions and breakthrough insights left by the outer disciples, managers, and even some inner elders of Wuzhuang Temple throughout the ages, as well as the orthodox Five Elements magic outline.
This is exactly what Shen Feng, or rather, his true form Fan Yuan, urgently needs right now.
Shen Feng walked to a bookshelf labeled with the Five Elements Techniques, picked up a jade slip, and placed it between his eyebrows.
As my divine sense probed in, a massive amount of information instantly flooded into my mind.
This is the "True Explanation of Fire Control" left behind by an outer gate steward three hundred years ago.
It doesn't record any world-destroying supernatural powers, but rather explains in detail how to increase the temperature of a fire spell by 30% with minimal spiritual power, and how to change the trajectory of a flame in the air through subtle manipulation of divine sense.
Shen Feng absorbed this knowledge with great eagerness.
He put down this one and picked up another one, "An Initial Exploration of the Water Array Formation".
Next came "Methods for Widening Meridians During the Spirit Refining Stage" and "Purification and Compression of Spiritual Energy".
As Shen Feng read on, he became increasingly engrossed in the story.
The obscure points encountered in cultivation, and the spiritual energy circulation routes that were known only superficially but not thoroughly, have now been perfectly explained in the insights of these predecessors.
Although his cultivation level has not improved, his foundation is becoming increasingly solid.
His control over spiritual power and his understanding of the mutual generation and restraint of the five elements are undergoing a qualitative transformation.
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