Chapter 391 Spring and Autumn Writing Style

(Correct an error. At the end of the previous chapter, when Meng Zhou ended his retreat at the age of ninety-four, his cultivation status was "6765/10,000". The original text read 4765)

Just when Meng Zhou ended this retreat, Kou Chong also "just" finished his rest, and returned to his peak state, both physically and mentally.

Now that Kou Chong had fully recovered physically and mentally, of course he continued to dive into the library hall.

After that, Kou Chong spent another half a year carefully reading all the books on the bookshelves in the area mentioned by "Uncle Zheng", and memorized the contents in his heart like a brand.

In the bookshelves in these areas, Kou Chong did read a lot of texts related to "Xingxiu Tianchi".

And every similar discovery would make Kou Chong excited for a long time.

However, these discoveries only gave him a clearer understanding of the "Xingxiu Tianchi".

As for how to solve the problems it caused, Kou Chong was still at a loss.

All the books in the collection did not clearly point out the solution to the problem, but they only made him see the problem more clearly and profoundly.

Kou Chong, who was confused, went directly to ask "Uncle Zheng", hoping to get some advice from him.

But in the face of his inquiry, "Uncle Zheng" showed a look of confusion as if he was suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

I don’t make it!

I have never read these books!

I just gave you a little bit of kindness, please don’t rely on me because of this!

Finally, "Uncle Zheng" whispered softly:

"Are all young people today so impatient?"

Faced with "Uncle Zheng's" attitude, Kou Chong was helpless.

And after hearing "Uncle Zheng's" "soft whisper", Kou Chong was also touched in his heart.

"Is it possible that the real answer is actually hidden in it, but it is hidden behind those words and has not been directly recorded."

"If I want to find the answer, I must not only read all the books I should read, but also think deeply."

With this idea in mind, Kou Chong, who returned to the book collection area, did not continue to look through the new collection of ancient books, but sat down quietly.

He first carefully recalled all the texts that he had read that directly related to "Xingxiu Tianchi".

After completing the re-memorization and sorting out of these contents, his thoughts gradually "spread" away to those records that did not directly involve the "Xingxiu Tianchi", but had some relationship in content.

Then it spreads outward little by little, spreading to all the ancient books seen in this library hall.

He worked hard to unravel the isolated information that existed in different ancient books bit by bit.

With this sorting, the ancient book information that was originally isolated in the mind slowly turned into something that seemed to be alive, growing gradually, and even able to eliminate certain hidden dangers in the process of "growing".

——Some wrong information will be falsified by information in other classics.

Some one-sided information will also be more improved in this process.

Gradually, Kou Chong felt "fascinated" and was immersed in the thinking activities of his brain.

…

After guiding Kou Chong in the right direction, Meng Zhou fell into thinking.

While Kou Chong was still trying to find the answer that might exist but was hidden deep in the text, Meng Zhou had already extracted all the content related to the "Xingxiu Tianchi" from the information in these ancient books.

Although Meng Zhou had long been mentally prepared to accept the "shock", when the truth about "Xingxiu Tianchi" was completely revealed to Meng Zhou, he was still very surprised.

When talking about "Xingxiu Tianchi", we must first say "Xingxiu Sea".

An issue that should be realized, but is often ignored by Xingxiu Palace monks, and even less considered by outsiders like Meng Zhou——

"Xingxiu Sea" and "Xingxiu Palace", who comes first and who comes last?

This may sound like a silly "which came first, the chicken or the egg" question.

But if we dig deeper, many historical truths lie in it.

There is no doubt that under the premise that "Xingxiu Palace" has not changed the world and directly created a fourth-order spiritual vein like "Xingxiu Sea", and under the premise that "Xingxiu Palace" has not been "born together with the heaven and earth", , it is not difficult to answer this question.

It must be that "Xingxiu Sea" precedes "Xingxiu Palace".

However, the "Xingxiu Sea" at that time was not called Xingxiu Sea. It might have been called some other sea, or it might not have had a name at all.

But not having a name doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

This only means that this fourth-level spiritual vein has not been discovered by the "Star Palace" and claimed sovereignty.

According to ancient classics, this fourth-level spiritual vein already had an owner long before the first ancestors of the Xingxiu Palace came here and used it as a base to carve out the foundation of the "Xingxiu Palace".

That was an extremely powerful and extremely intelligent true spirit-level being.

——In terms of levels, non-human creatures of the first and second levels are collectively called monsters, the third level is the great demon, and the fourth level and above are "true spirits".

Regarding "demon", whether it is a first- or second-level demon beast or a third-level big demon, due to their intellectual shortcomings, no matter how strong they are, practitioners will treat them with a condescending superiority.

This superiority stems from the huge gap in wisdom between the two sides.

Even though the "demon"'s strength is still higher than that of the monks, it still occupies a lower position in the monks' cognition.

There will never be a cultivator who treats it as equal to himself.

But the "True Spirit" is different.

The strength of the fourth-level True Spirit is not inferior to that of the Yuanying True Lord at the same level.

——This is actually suspected of flattering the face of the Yuanying True Lord. The real situation is that every "True Spirit" is the darling of heaven and earth, and even the embodiment of some laws of heaven and earth. Such a "True Spirit" has a completely overwhelming advantage over the Yuanying True Lord at the same level.

Only those true demon-level cultivators are qualified to compete with them at the same level of cultivation.

In terms of wisdom, which human cultivators are proud of, the fourth-level True Spirit is not inferior at all.

Moreover, the fourth-level True Spirit with fully opened wisdom has an unexpected special advantage over human cultivators.

Although the wisdom of the fourth-level True Spirit is fully opened and its IQ is not inferior to that of humans, it is clean and pure, like a baby, without any distractions, delusions, or evil thoughts, and has the word "true".

Such a mentality, if placed on a human cultivator, is a natural seed of cultivation, a rare and precious material.

But this is standard for a fourth-level true spirit.

Some fourth-level true spirits may be very cruel and terrifying to humans, like the embodiment of disasters, but they still do not change their "true" nature.

Because of these reasons, the non-human life that was originally at a lower level in the first, second and third levels has already stood at the same height as the Yuanying Zhenjun at the fourth level, or even a little higher.

At that time, the owner of this fourth-level spiritual vein, which was not yet called Xingxiu Sea, was a strange true spirit with a long lifespan and whose strength was said to have reached the peak level of the fourth level.

According to the records in ancient books, this true spirit is close to water and is a natural "water spirit".

Although its strength is extremely powerful, its temperament is extremely peaceful. It has no hostility towards human cultivators and has a strong curiosity about knowledge.

The first generation ancestor who founded the "Xingxiu Palace" here is not only powerful, but also a rare "scholar-type cultivator" among practitioners.

"He is proficient in hundreds of schools of thought, traces back to ancient times, knows the future, and knows the sun, moon, and stars, and everything in the world."

This is a record of the first generation ancestor in an ancient book.

Looking at this comment, it is so exaggerated that it seems like a myth.

However, no matter how much exaggeration there is in it, it is certain that the first generation ancestor must be very capable and knowledgeable.

And this is also the most attractive trait in the eyes of the original owner, the fourth-level true spirit.

A demon-level human and a powerful fourth-level true spirit, how the two interacted, how they gradually approached each other and became close partners, there is no record in the ancient books.

This is a blank fragment missing in all ancient books. The story suddenly jumped to the result that the two became close partners and the first generation ancestor founded the "Xingxiu Palace" here.

Although it was not mentioned in the ancient books, Meng Zhou could roughly make up one or two in his mind.

After talking so much, the question returns to this powerful fourth-level true spirit.

The first generation ancestor of "Xingxiu Palace" first discovered this fourth-level true spirit, and it was also the place where the two of them got along and communicated, in a so-called "sea in the sea", which was later called "Xingxiu Tianchi".

In other words, "Xingxiu Tianchi" existed long before the appearance of "Xingxiu Palace".

It was originally the residence of a fourth-level peak true spirit to live, practice, and comprehend the world.

Its characteristics were also established as early as the period of that fourth-level true spirit.

There are two speculations in ancient books about the specific reasons.

One speculation is that this is the process of the fourth-level true spirit practicing, growing, and touching the world, and in its complete unconsciousness, "Xingxiu Tianchi" has undergone such a special change.

This kind of situation where a certain individual is too powerful and brings special changes to the place where it has lived for a long time is not uncommon.

Once the residence of the third-level big monster exceeds a certain number of years, some wonderful changes will also occur imperceptibly.

Another guess is that the characteristics of "Xingxiu Tianchi" come from the deliberate design of this fourth-level true spirit.

Its power is already too strong. Although Xingxiu Sea is vast, it may just be enough for this fourth-level true spirit to eat.

Although it has a peaceful temperament, it is impossible for it to sit back and watch new "food snatchers" appear when it does not have enough food.

Because of this thinking, the fourth-level true spirit made a very targeted transformation with its residence "Xingxiu Tianchi" as the core.

When it practices in "Xingxiu Tianchi" and feeds on a large amount of fourth-level spiritual energy, all the fourth-level spiritual powers within the Xingxiu Sea will be either banned or concentrated on "Xingxiu Tianchi".

In short, in one sentence, "No one can grab it before I am full."

When sorting it out to this point, in fact, the answer to the question has already loomed.

"Although the 'Xingxiu Tianchi' existed long before the Xingxiu Palace, it was not a malicious design by someone with ulterior motives."

"However, in the subsequent inheritance of the Xingxiu Palace, someone with ulterior motives must have maliciously tampered with the 'Xingxiu Tianchi'!"

Because the characteristics of the "Xingxiu Tianchi" extracted by Meng Zhou from those ancient books are that when there are beings practicing in it, for the purpose of "protecting food", all the spiritual powers of the fourth level within the scope of the fourth-level spiritual vein Xingxiu Sea are "forced to manage".

"No one can grab it before I am full!"

In other words, as long as the fourth-level true spirit finishes practicing, the characteristics of the "Xingxiu Tianchi" will disappear.

The fourth-order spiritual power that was forcibly restrained by it will also be free again.

But the characteristic of the current "Xingxiu Tianchi" is that once a Yuanying cultivator enters the "Xingxiu Tianchi" and mobilizes the power in it to practice, then before these Yuanying die, all the fourth-order spiritual power within the Xingxiu Sea can no longer be "consumed" by other Jindan cultivators.

There are only two possibilities for this subtle difference.

One is that the records about the original "Xingxiu Tianchi", the fourth-order true spirit and the first generation of ancestors in those ancient books are wrong.

But this is not a record in a certain ancient book, but a common record of many ancient books!

These ancient books were written by different people and at different times, with a time span of hundreds of years.

Single evidence is not enough. If only one ancient book uses this set of words, there is a possibility of error or lie.

But if multiple different authors with a span of hundreds or even hundreds of years use the same set of words, the possibility of "error" or "lie" is very low.

The original "Xingxiu Tianchi" is probably the one recorded in these ancient books.

As for why it became what it is now, it can only be that in the process of the inheritance of Xingxiu Palace, some "smart person" with ulterior motives took advantage of the original characteristics of "Xingxiu Tianchi" and cleverly changed it to become what it is now "evil".

At this moment, Meng Zhou thought of Yan Zhuang, Lian Ziling, and "Zheng Bo", and he almost came to a positive judgment in his heart.

"None of them are good birds!"

"Such a trend is not formed in a day or two. Isn't it natural for such a bad seed to appear?!"

Meng Zhou felt that this kind of thing happened in the "talented" Xingxiu Palace, and it was not worth making a fuss at all. It was a very normal operation.

With this idea in mind, Meng Zhou looked at those ancient books again and found that those so-called "deeply hidden, unspoken secrets" were actually not hidden deep at all.

In these ancient books, there is no bad word about Xingxiu Palace.

All the words mentioned were full of praise. After all, if there were insulting and slanderous words, how could Xingxiu Palace spend so much effort to preserve them, and how could there be a chance to meet the descendants?

Therefore, some truths are not that the author does not want to write them directly, but there is really no way.

But if you are willing, the information hidden between the lines is not difficult to find.

Thinking of this, Meng Zhou thought of another group he knew.

In the memory of the previous life, those historians who were oppressed by the imperial power, didn’t they use this writing method to hide many facts and truths under the calm words? (End of this chapter)