Hidden moth

Chapter 230: I Want to Fly into the Clouds

Gu Chun was still sitting in the main room, concentrating his consciousness to avoid disturbing He Kao from performing the Invisible Moth ability. Suddenly, he saw a ray of light shooting out from the void in front of him, and a door appeared out of thin air.

This gate is interesting, as it overlaps with the main door of the main hall. What was originally seen through the gate was the front yard of the small building, but now it is a valley with a stone archway and a stone bridge in the distance.

He Kao's voice came, "Master Gu, please come in!"

Gu Chun stepped into the gate, and the light disappeared, as if he had vanished from this world out of thin air. The next place he appeared was the stone niche at the end of the valley. Standing in the niche and looking out, he saw a colorful field covered with flowers.

Gu Chun turned around and saw a naturally formed stone niche, stone wall and incense table. The patterns on the stone wall looked like a landscape painting. Hanging on the wall was the painting of "Tan Xian Holding a Cane", and He Kao was standing beside it.

Gu Chun was quite surprised and looked at He Kao and asked, "How did this painting end up in your hands?"

Since he was determined to tell the truth, He Kao no longer concealed anything and introduced the origin of the painting and its magical features.

Initially, this painting was able to suppress the power of the Hidden Moth, and Immortal Tan's gaze felt like someone observing him. However, when He Kao reached a higher level, he sensed the call of the Cave Heaven, and the location of the Cave Heaven was surprisingly the mountains in the painting.

As a hidden moth, He Kao can enter the world in the painting, which is the Piaocai Cave Heaven belonging to the Yin Moth Sect.

The significance of this painting does not lie in whether He Kao himself can enter the cave. He doesn't even need to actually get this painting, nor does he need to know where it is. But it is different for other people.

He Kao once conducted an experiment in which he caught a monkey deep in Gushan Mountain. He not only brought the monkey into the world of the painting, but also brought it to the Kingdom of Sawa through the world of the painting.

What does this mean? As long as the hidden moth takes action, theoretically a monkey can teleport through space. This is completely unscientific! It's not even metaphysical.

After hearing this, Gu Chun's eyes widened. He Kao had never seen him with such an exaggerated expression. Fortunately, Elder Gu had great concentration and quickly returned to normal.

Gu Chun: "Seeing the painting is like seeing the Immortal Tan. I must pay homage to the ancestor first!"

Gu Chun was not only the head of the Xinpan Sect, but his first master when he was young was also a sorcerer of the Danding Sect. He practiced the Danding technique and broke through to the fourth level. Later, he was intercepted by He Kuanzhong, the head of the Xinpan Sect at that time, and was forced to join the Xinpan Sect.

On the other hand, Master Tan is not only the founder of the Danding School, but also the founder of the entire Shu School.

He Kao set up the incense table, brought out the white jade candles and incense to wake up the spirit. Gu Chun lit them himself, chanted a blessing, performed a great ceremony of worship, and then prostrated himself on the ground for a long time.

He Kao waited quietly on the side. After several minutes, he saw Gu Chun straighten up. He Kao quickly stepped forward and asked, "How do you feel?"

Gu Chun sighed and said, "It is true that seeing a painting is like seeing the Immortal Tan."

He Kao: "What does the Immortal Tan in the painting tell you?"

Gu Chun: "Like the secondary inheritance of each sect, I have obtained the advanced secrets of the Hidden Moth Technique. It seems to be passed down through the Heart Seal. Rather than saying it was passed down by Immortal Tan, it is better to say that it was passed down by the divine will of this cave.

But I haven't practiced the Hidden Moth Technique, and I can't interpret the high-level skills I obtained out of thin air. Besides that, the Immortal Tan in the painting seems to have told me something, but unfortunately my cultivation level is too low, so I can't fully understand it!"

His words revealed an important piece of information. The secondary inheritance of each major sect did not necessarily require the teachings of a venerable elder; instead, it could be passed down through rituals, receiving the heart seal of the divine will of the cave heaven.

However, in order to decipher the heart seal, the prerequisite is to practice the corresponding technique to a high level. Although Gu Chun has a high level of cultivation, he has never practiced the hidden moth technique, so he cannot decipher it for the time being.

This problem is easy to solve. He Kao can teach him the low-level techniques of the Invisibility Technique.

He Kao: "Your cultivation level is still low?"

Gu Chun smiled bitterly and said, "In front of Master Tan, in front of the great Dao of heaven and earth, what is my cultivation worth?" Along with his answer, a divine thought was sent out, explaining what he had realized during the worship just now -

Even if Gu Chun had never seen many things, he had heard of them, at least they did not exceed his imagination. However, this painting was not the case.

He originally thought that the painting was a cave-heaven artifact, containing a cave-heaven world. A cave-heaven artifact could open different portals leading to different places. Although he had never seen such a thing, he could imagine it, at least in novels.

What Gu Chun found truly difficult to comprehend was how, with only a fourth-order ability like He Kao, he could travel through space through this painting, and even bring the monkey with him. Unless another immortal master cast a spell to aid him, it was unbelievable.

Not to mention that the abilities of a real moth like He Kao are incredible, the abilities of a fake moth like Huang Xiaopang are also incomprehensible.

If he was a god, it would be fine. He could just teleport. You are a god, so you are awesome. But Fatty Huang is clearly just an ordinary person.

So the question that truly puzzled Gu Chun was—what exactly was the power of the hidden moth? During the worship, it felt like divine thoughts descended from the darkness, but its true meaning was beyond Gu Chun's ability to fully understand.

The so-called ability of the hidden moth is that it can reach any place in the world as long as it thinks about it. As for how far it can go, it depends on the cultivation level of the hidden moth.

Why? There's no reason! It's like asking why the speed of light doesn't change. It's a fundamental principle of the universe, like a mathematical postulate.

We can also understand it in a different way, for example, the hidden moth seems to have been temporarily endowed with the power of an immortal... As for whether this understanding is correct, that depends on one's own opinion. Anyway, Immortal Tan did not give a direct answer.

Perhaps the real answer is far beyond Gu Chun's realm.

As for the painting, no matter where it was, Hidden Moth would be able to find it after breaking through to the fourth level. He Kao didn't look for it because he had already obtained it before.

This painting isn't a cave-heaven artifact, or even a divine artifact. Of course, you can interpret it as such if you insist. As for what it is, Gu Chun didn't understand, or perhaps Immortal Tan didn't answer.

This painting was passed down by Master Tan to his disciple Lei Dunzi. At the time, the painting only contained landscapes, but later Lei Dunzi added a portrait of Master Tan himself in the blank space.

This is roughly the information that Gu Chun obtained during the worship and could explain clearly to He Kao.

He Kao asked in confusion, "Why did Lei Zu add the image of Tan Zu to the painting and then let it roam the world?"

Gu Chun nodded and said, "You have indeed thought of it. Unfortunately, I don't know the answer, so I can only make a few guesses..."

Lei Dunzi was the key figure in reorganizing the sect and establishing the clan hall.

This painting is a symbol of the Piaocai Cave Heaven, and only the Yin Moth can open it. Lei Dunzi didn't leave it within the sect, but instead allowed it to roam the world, presumably for the Yin Moth. Such a divine object isn't afraid of damage; even if it appears to be damaged to mortals, it can inexplicably recover in mysterious ways.

At that time, Lei Dunzi should have known that Yin Mo was still being passed down in the world, and the Yin Mo technique was also circulating. He hoped that Yin Mo could practice the Yin Mo technique successfully, so as to find this painting and restore the Yin Mo lineage.

In the era in which Lei Dunzi lived, the conditions and environment for restoring the Yin E lineage were not yet in place. If he acted rashly, the sect that had been reorganized with great difficulty might fall into internal strife again, and he could only leave hope to future generations.

A thousand years later, the painting fell into the hands of Zhang Yanfei, a disciple of the Ruwei Sect. Zhang Yanfei might have figured out something, and the reason he informed the Danding Sect was probably because he wanted to learn more about the painting from the Danding Sect's sorcerers.

Unfortunately, Wan Zhongle and others who came on behalf of Danding Sect had limited knowledge of this painting, which made Zhang Yanfei very disappointed.

Zhang Yanfei did not give the real painting to Wan Zhongle, but only gave him a fake. Then he sent the real painting to exhibitions across the country, probably to find the hidden moth.

If the Hidden Moth doesn't appear, or if it doesn't acquire the Hidden Moth identity, this painting won't be of any real use. Zhang Yanfei must have also harbored the desire to become a Hidden Moth...

Since Zhang Yanfei is no longer around, there is no way to ask him if he thinks so.

But this painting really did attract the hidden moth, which was taken away by Huang Xiaopang and eventually fell into the hands of He Kao. One can only say that there may really be destiny.

All of this is Gu Chun's speculation. As to whether it is true or not, he cannot be sure, but at least he can do a test.

He Kao had already obtained this painting before breaking through the fourth level, but what if he did not have this painting in his hand when he broke through the fourth level?
At this point, Gu Chun smiled and said, "Little test, I'll take this painting out and see if you can find it.

Don't worry, when Old Man Jiang found me and Old Li, the three of us swore an oath not to harm you, not to covet any of your opportunities, and to keep your secrets."

He Kao took down the painting, rolled it up, and handed it to Gu Chun, saying, "If you don't believe me, I don't know how many times I would have died... But didn't we come here today to test the moth wings?"

Gu Chun: "There's no rush, Moth Wing. Let's test this painting first."

He Kao leaned over and said, "If you don't understand, won't your heart feel uncomfortable as if you're being scratched by a cat?"

Gu Chun: "How could an old man like me not have this kind of determination? What's wrong with this kid? Stop wasting time, open the door quickly and send me out. Come back in half an hour to find the painting!"

He Kao: "Where do you want to go? I can only open the door to the place I have been to before."

Gu Chun: "It's right where it was just now."

He Kao opened the door, and Gu Chun returned to his main hall. Then, Yu Qi flew off on a cloud, heading deep into the White Horse Mountain outside the town. Elder Gu found a secluded cave in the mountains and inserted the painting into the crevice.

At the appointed time, Gu Chun was looking towards the cave entrance when he suddenly turned around. He saw He Kao had appeared in the cave and took out the painting.

Gu Chun: "How did you find it?"

He Kao: "I wasn't looking for it at all. I could sense the location of the painting in the Piaocai Cave Heaven. I came over and saw you looking out... You must have restrained your consciousness, otherwise I wouldn't be able to get here."

The test results came out. After Yin Mo broke through the fourth level, he could enter the Piao Cai Dong Tian. After Yin Mo entered the Piao Cai Dong Tian, he could sense the location of the painting and find it no matter where it was.

Theoretically, as long as the hidden moth is there, the painting cannot be lost.

Yin Moe himself did not need this painting to enter and exit the Piao Cai Cave Heaven, so what was the significance of this painting? With this painting, he could be free from the limitations of Yin Moe's power, open the portal in front of others, and even bring the monkey in and out of the cave heaven.

No wonder Lei Dunzi didn't leave this painting in the Shumen. If it was enshrined in the ancestral hall in the cave, there would be someone on duty at all times, and Yin E would have no chance to take the painting away.

Only by letting it wander among the people will it have a chance to be caught by the hidden moth.

The test confirmed Gu Chun's guess, and he couldn't help but feel a little proud. The old man and the young man returned to Piaocai Cave again, and this time it was finally time to test the moth wings.

Gu Chun looked up at the sky and said, "Just teleport to a high altitude, not too high, about 500 meters will do, and try to glide down."

He Kao looked embarrassed: "No, don't play such a big game at the beginning! I haven't tried it yet, don't accidentally fall to death."

Gu Chun: "Are you worried that I can't catch you?"

He Kao: "Let's start with the easy ones and then move on to the difficult ones. I'll try it on flat ground first."

He Kao first chose to run on the flat ground, jumped as high as possible, and used the method of flying weapons. Three pairs of colorless and transparent wings spread out behind him, one big and two small wings, really like a moth, and then he landed swayingly.

He didn't fly, the moth wings only served to cushion his landing.

After figuring out what was going on, he found a cliff nearby, which was only five meters high. With his cultivation level, he wouldn't die even if he jumped down. Then he accelerated towards the cliff, jumped into the sky, and spread his moth wings.

This time he did fly quite far, but it was mostly just gliding, carefully controlling his body position. The magic weapon's clever use could balance the wind pressure, and mastering simple stabilization techniques wasn't difficult.

After trying several times, he began to try to flap his wings, and with a wonderful rhythm, he actually maintained a flying state in the air, but the speed was very slow and difficult, even slower than when he was running at full speed, like a low-altitude electric donkey.

With his current level of cultivation, the maximum wingspan of this weapon can reach ten meters.

Moth wings are invisible instruments, and the method of controlling instruments can control the size of the wingspan. He Kao was unsure at first, so he tried to maximize the wingspan. Later, he gradually realized that this was not appropriate.

Not only does the maximum wingspan consume a great deal of spiritual energy and magic power, but his own form is that of a large moth, not a bird.

Retracting half of the wingspan and keeping it within five meters, that is, more than two meters on each side, is the most suitable way to operate for him with a weight of no more than one hundred kilograms.

Gu Chun didn't say anything, just watched him struggling from a distance. After a long while, he finally put his hand on his forehead and said, "Since you are so cautious, you don't need my protection. Just do it slowly on your own. Just be careful not to run out of energy in the air."

He Kao was having fun. Upon hearing this, he folded his moth wings and landed on the ground, saying, "Don't be in such a hurry to leave, old man. I have something else to tell you. I hope you can help me."

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(End of this chapter)