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Chapter 247: The Unspeakable Nature of the Yang God?

He watched for a few seconds.

Zhang Feng thought for a moment and decided to meet this Old Sect Leader and the demonic tree to see if they possessed any profound knowledge.

Even if they lacked knowledge, the Opening Spirit wood-elemental rule construct itself was a 'small reservoir of knowledge'.

It wouldn't be a wasted trip.

At the very next moment.

Inside the underground cave abode.

The Old Sect Leader was leisurely sipping tea when he suddenly felt a fluctuation in the spiritual energy within his cave abode.

This fluctuation was not due to the usual use of elemental spells, nor was it a natural arrangement or exchange.

Instead, it was as if the spiritual energy, which had been peacefully residing there, suddenly began to surge towards a specific location.

That location was on the ground several miles away.

Moreover, this 'spiritual energy surge' lacked any spellwork, didn't resemble ordinary wind changes, and certainly wasn't like the sudden emergence of a Heavenly Treasure.

It was a very strange and sudden change.

It was as if something special there was attracting all the spiritual energy.

'Not a Heavenly Treasure, nor a celestial phenomenon, this... what is it?'

The Old Sect Leader, having lived for nearly a millennium, was experiencing such an unusual change for the first time.

For a moment, he was filled with interest and wanted to observe it.

During this time, he felt no fear.

Because in this world, he had already roamed for hundreds of years with the perfected Nascent Soul cultivation, ranking as the 'Second Under Heaven'.

The 'First Under Heaven' was a fellow Daoist from 'Fire Spirit Mountain'.

His strength was at the grand accomplishment stage within perfected Nascent Soul.

He was slightly more formidable than the Old Sect Leader.

However, the two were old acquaintances with a very good relationship.

In fact, the Old Sect Leader had come to this ancient tree to extend his life and continue breaking through his cultivation after hearing about his cultivation method.

Furthermore.

In this world, the Old Sect Leader had already traveled everywhere, meeting all the formidable experts he could find.

He had even journeyed for a long time to the 'Starry Realm' beyond 'Heaven and Earth'.

Which was outer space.

And with such rich experience, such 'Second Invincible in the Universe!'

This was why the Old Sect Leader truly had nothing to fear.

'I must see what is playing tricks outside my cave abode.'

The Old Sect Leader revealed a natural and confident smile, strolling through the long tunnel.

However, after walking several miles, he had just reached the entrance of the cave and looked outside, only to be astonished to see an old man radiating a strange Dao charm standing beneath the majestic and enormous ancient tree.

And in comparison to this old man, the ancient tree appeared very, very small.

Although the old man was clearly hunched and unremarkable in appearance, he was far more 'vast and majestic' than the nearly thousand-zhang ancient tree.

The feeling this gave the Old Sect Leader was as if he wasn't looking at a short old man, but a ten-thousand-zhang giant that had existed since ancient times!

At the same time, although this old man's body was somewhat transparent.

Under the Old Sect Leader's Nascent Soul Spiritual Sense observation, he could clearly see that the old man's eyes were substantial, flowing with various elemental lights.

The eyes are the window to the soul, and the Primordial Spirit is the same, having been inscribed with the 'Elemental Yin-Yang Eyes' by Zhang Feng.

However, it also unintentionally revealed that Zhang Feng commanded all elements in Heaven and Earth.

Zhang Feng could have shielded it, but he forgot at first.

Because he had just exited his body, his aura was somewhat unstable.

Coupled with Zhang Feng flying around, experiencing the freedom of his Primordial Spirit, he didn't concern himself with these trivial matters.

But in the Old Sect Leader's view, this person not only possessed a body of ten thousand zhang but also commanded all elements of Heaven and Earth!

This was clearly the 'Dao!' of creation from folk myths!

However, that was merely a legend, an unverified and outlandish story.

But the transparent body and spirit-like appearance suddenly made the Old Sect Leader think of something.

At that moment, after realizing these things, his heart trembled with shock.

'Gathered, it forms a shape... scattered, it becomes qi?

Is this person... a Yang God True Immortal?!

He... he isn't the Dao, but has cultivated the fruit of a Pure Yang True Immortal with a mortal body?

But... this... this... is clearly also a legend...'

As the Old Sect Leader pondered these thoughts, it was far more terrifying than encountering the 'Dao'.

Because 'Dao' might simply be a matter of good fortune from birth, being born as the Dao, and since the Heavenly Dao is impartial, there's no need to fear much.

But now, a person had cultivated to the 'Yang God True Immortal' stage, which was far more absurd than the Soul Transformation, Void Refinement, Mahayana, and Tribulation Transcending stages, and even more so than normal immortals.

This was problematic, and a major problem at that!

Because this person, suspected to be a Yang God, was a 'person' with thoughts.

Moreover, realms like Soul Transformation and Void Refinement were merely conjectures and deductions by predecessors over millions of years.

These realms had never appeared, but now an immortal had directly emerged?

The Old Sect Leader was stunned, even forgetting to greet the senior.

Such an absurd experience had truly frozen his thoughts.

This feeling was no less than a normal person suddenly encountering the arrival of an alien from a higher-dimensional civilization.

Would they be surprised, would they be stunned? No one knows, because higher-dimensional civilizations are inherently fantasy and speculation.

But the Old Sect Leader was now witnessing this 'fantasy and speculation'.

This immense spiritual impact made it difficult for him to follow normal etiquette.

Just like the Old Sect Leader, he was more concerned with speculating whether this person was real.

He even suspected now if he was nearing the end of his lifespan, and thus experiencing a 'heart demon illusion'?

He completely disbelieved such an incomprehensible event.

At the same time.

When Zhang Feng saw that this person didn't say words like 'Greetings, senior,' he knew that sometimes, having too high a cultivation wasn't necessarily a good thing.

Even this Old Sect Leader was beginning to self-examine for heart demons right in front of him.

All his actions, his Spiritual Sense, and thoughts were as if nonexistent before Zhang Feng.

The complete five-dimensional influence on reality, along with the analysis of cause and effect and seeing the subtle to know the profound.

Made Zhang Feng currently see everyone as humans see a two-dimensional comic page, instantly grasping everyone's psychology and actions.

And he could forcibly rewrite their karma, controlling their Spiritual Sense and psychology.

Thus.

Zhang Feng also gained some key information from his mind.

The most important among them was the phrase, 'Gathered, it forms a shape; scattered, it becomes qi; this is the Yang God.'

This coincided with some Taoist theories in reality.

It seemed this world also had some concepts related to 'refining qi into spirit'.

He had to learn this.

Because although his own cultivation seemed absurdly high, it could also be considered the Taoist foundation building of 'refining spirit and returning to void'.

To be more precise, he hadn't yet formed a 'Golden Core'.

After all, his physical body was gone.

An example of someone who might have a Golden Core would be the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, Sun Wukong.

Completely traversing with his physical body, a single somersault covering one hundred and eight thousand li.

Those who truly formed Golden Cores were the various saints in mythology.

Of course, this was also Zhang Feng's own speculation based on his own system.

But in terms of combat power, he could now slap an entire Earth.

After a few more years of free growth, it would be one slap per solar system.

This combat power system could no longer be used for comparison, but the foundation was the same.

The application of knowledge would deepen the application of rules.

As he pondered, Zhang Feng became engrossed in this fundamental understanding.

At the same time, the Old Sect Leader was also self-examining at the cave entrance.

Whoosh, whoosh...

The Opening Spirit ancient tree was quite afraid; its trunk, which reached almost to the low cloud layer, was trembling, it was extremely fearful of Zhang Feng.

Because it was a wood-elemental rule body, and thus considered one of the Heavenly Dao talismans.

Therefore, as a rule body itself, it could better comprehend Zhang Feng's terror.

In fact, if Zhang Feng wished, he could directly unfold in a higher dimension, transform into a giant ten thousand zhang tall, and then devour it bit by bit.

This was its thought, it felt Zhang Feng was very terrifying.

But Zhang Feng had no intention of eating it, as it would be useless, and he was currently unstable.

If he rashly unfolded and used 'Heavenly Manifestation and Earthly Form', it would be equivalent to 'self-abandonment'.

Because unfolding was easy, but retracting was not possible.

Especially at that size, it would cause spiritual energy within a radius of ten thousand miles to gather.

It would accelerate the formation of black holes, hasten the consumption of spiritual energy, and lead to his earlier demise.

Zhang Feng was now in a predicament: under the blessing of all algorithms, he had pushed his cultivation too high, but his foundation was insufficient.

Currently, there were two solutions.

First, cultivate Taoist qi refining techniques to see if he could stabilize his realm.

Second, since this world had five-elemental rule bodies, he would try to stabilize his Primordial Spirit.

They could endlessly generate life, allowing a massive planet to achieve stability.

Then he should be able to as well.

Moreover, with his high strength, the five-elemental arrays he set up would be sufficient, and being sufficient would also allow him to ascend realms faster.

Thus.

When all his thoughts were complete.

Zhang Feng looked at the Old Sect Leader, who was still self-examining for heart demons.

"Do you know of the Yang God theory?"

Zhang Feng spoke, and then, under the Old Sect Leader's even more trembling gaze, he sat down beside him with a tangible form.

As he sat down, the soil beneath him surged up, forming a stone stool.

'My heart demon wants to discuss Dao with me...' The Old Sect Leader truly hadn't expected a heart demon to speak?

And even cast spells?

So was he currently trapped in his own illusion, or was this reality?

When he thought of these things, it truly scared him immensely.

"I am not your heart demon." Zhang Feng directly pierced through his thoughts, using the water-elemental Clear Heart Art to calm him.

Afterward, Zhang Feng was about to ask again.

But he simply fainted, and his mental waves were dissipating.

A ‘Nascent Soul True Immortal’ fainted like an ordinary person?

Zhang Feng was just thinking it was a bit unreasonable, but then he suddenly remembered that he was a Nascent Soul and could see his own Dao Rhyme.

Then, when he felt that he was a ‘true person and true event’, he became excited and wanted to ‘comprehend’ his own Dao Rhyme.

The consequence was this.

He couldn't comprehend the Dao.

Because when Zhang Feng looked at the talismans (Dao Rhyme) inside and outside his body, he felt a dense, dizzying, and nauseating sensation, similar to trypophobia.

To put it abstractly, he himself had become some kind of ‘unspeakable’ high-dimensional rule body.

But when ordinary people look at him, at most they feel he is very strong, with many special effects all over his body, and a slight dizziness.

However, when people of high cultivation look at him, their thoughts might scatter, leading to ‘consciousness death’.

It's also like the story of ‘Rotten Axe Chess Game’.

Although that story talks about the passage of time, with days and months flying by, a glance spanning decades.

But according to the concept of ‘computing power’.

Any talisman within him is like a chess move.

And when people of high cultivation see this chess piece of his, they are instantly frozen, and all their computing power is drained; they cannot emerge from the ‘maze of thought’ without calculating all the variations of this single move.

Over time, their consciousness dies.

The Old Sect Leader is now in such a state; after glancing at himself, he was trapped by one of his talismans.

Zhang Feng thought for a moment, then pointed a flash of Spiritual Sense at his Spiritual Sense, dissolving this ‘karma’.

Although he was only unconscious for a few seconds, he would need at least several days of quiet rest and sleep to fully awaken and recover his spirit and consciousness.

…

Five days later.

The Old Sect Leader woke up from a pile of thick, huge leaves.

Zhang Feng was still sitting on the stone bench, observing the trembling ancient tree.

Zhang Feng had watched it for five days, and it had trembled for five days, with huge fallen leaves covering the ground.

At the same time.

After the Old Sect Leader woke up and slowly regained his senses, he understood what had happened to him and knew that this Yang God had saved him!

“Thank you, senior, for saving my life!”

He prostrated himself, which was the proper etiquette in the cultivation world.

“Let me ask you about the Yang God matter.” Zhang Feng, however, still asked his previous question, “I began cultivating in my twilight years, and it has only been eleven years.

I am quite ignorant of the cultivation world.”

“You… became an immortal in eleven years?” The Old Sect Leader was utterly dumbfounded upon hearing this.

But he didn't think this Yang God was lying to him.

So, he quickly composed his shocked mind and first explained the concept of a Yang God.

As he spoke, he avoided looking at Zhang Feng.

This wasn't impolite; it was too dangerous.

One glance meant death.

Although he said Yang God, the Old Sect Leader actually considered Zhang Feng a ‘heretic god’ in his heart.

But Zhang Feng exuded a natural aura, a pure Great Sun and Great Yang, which clearly indicated the Pure Yang True Immortal fruit status from myths.

He was so righteous that if Zhang Feng merely stood in a snowy area, the weather within a thousand miles would change, and the entire world's rules would revolve around Zhang Feng, making the place eternally spring-like, with beautiful mountains and rivers.

What the Old Sect Leader saw before was this ‘rule rune’ resembling a spring weather phenomenon.

It was also after Zhang Feng initially enlightened him from his inner demons that he mistakenly believed Zhang Feng was a Yang God, so he thought of Pure Yang, and then he saw Pure Yang-related rules.

To see the Dao is to attain the Dao.

Zhang Feng made no secret of the myriad Dao Rhymes condensed from his myriad knowledge.

But in their previous conversation.

Zhang Feng had actually harbored a bit of personal intention, which was why he said he had only cultivated for a little over ten years.

This wasn't simply to display his power.

It was because he had an identity in this world, and people could easily find out.

Of course, if he were to say he was an ‘Outer Realm Demonic God’ or an immortal reincarnated, people might cautiously question him.

After all, they weren't from the same world, which naturally created some distance.

Zhang Feng could tell that this Sect Leader was relatively upright, so he wanted to minimize any distance and problems.

…

In a blink of an eye.

Two months passed.

Zhang Feng also obtained the Daoist theories he wanted based on the Old Sect Leader's words and applied them to practice.

However, after these two months, although he had supplemented some Daoist insights, the practical effect was minimal.

His primordial spirit remained unrestrained and uninhibited.

The most direct result was that his speed increased from 10,000 li per second to 17,000 li per second.

It had almost doubled.

Of course, some of these Daoist theories helped; while they didn't stabilize him, they made him stronger and even less stable.

This was quite frustrating.

Because what he needed now was stability.

So, Zhang Feng focused his thoughts on these five rule bodies again.

And he wanted to try to forge them into an ‘earth-shattering magic treasure’.

Of course, Zhang Feng's purpose in forging magic treasures wasn't to increase his combat power.

Although it would indeed enhance his combat power somewhat, it was more about gradually integrating the small pieces of Five Elements knowledge within them through their refinement.

It's like building firearms versus using firearms.

Someone with a gun, going 'bang bang bang', is certainly powerful, shooting whoever they dislike with a full clip.

But learning to build firearms means knowing how to manufacture the weapon from start to finish, and being able to produce it elsewhere.

Moreover, the material science, ammunition and chemistry, and various related fundamental applications can all be learned in a ‘systematic’ way.

This is what Zhang Feng is currently focused on.

Using the small techniques of forging and fusion, he wants to learn the basic structure of the Five Elements rules.

These are very solid pieces of knowledge.

Like the Heavenly Dao Talismans, they are the most fundamental structural elements.

Although the Five Elements rules are not as high in rank as the Heavenly Dao rules, they can rapidly increase his combat power and related divine abilities, as well as various calculations and knowledge related to the Five Elements.

Especially the vast quantity of ‘base values’ in the Five Elements rules.

In fact, it's more than the Heavenly Dao knowledge he has currently obtained.

Zhang Feng estimates that a single rule body would be enough for him to digest for ‘tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of years’.

Because if the Five Elements truly combine or undergo individual changes,

As they are the Five Elements elemental rules within the elements of heaven and earth,

There are certainly myriad changes, and they cannot be calculated in a singular form.

Based on this situation,

Zhang Feng also reached a final conclusion.

Forging is definitely necessary; at least he needs to learn a little first.

This is based on his original, earliest theory that ‘it's easier for cultivators to practice talismans’.

Then, by utilizing this ability and prioritizing ‘extensive memorization’.

Ultimately, it still needs to be thrown into reality for calculation, and it can be integrated into the ‘Heavenly Dao Calculation World’, adding five more basic elements for constructing worlds.

Finally, with his memory, ability to draw inferences from one instance to others, and keen insight, combined with the massive computational power of reality's actual evolution,

This can significantly shorten the digestion time.

Theoretically, this is absolutely sound.

Because there are also various applications of Five Elements talismans in reality, there is a certain level of technical support for the analysis of rule bodies.

It can also be seen as a Virtual Small Building paired with a quantum calculation small building, which is equivalent to 0.00001 to 100000 ‘Soul Transformation state’ versions of himself.

The reason for such a large fluctuation is that mathematical logic is deduction, it's about calculating various possibilities bit by bit, and it's about using algorithms to thoroughly solve a problem.

So, it's possible to discover a new variation of a rule right at the beginning, or only at the very end of the deduction.

This algorithm is similar to the initial research on spirit stones.

In scientific, rigorous calculations, everything is a matter of luck and probability.

Of course, if you take an average, concluding that a comprehensive small building is equivalent to 1 of yourself, there's nothing wrong with that either.

But this method of description is actually like flipping a coin with ‘positive and negative mass’ in reality; the probability of heads or tails seems to be 50% each, but in reality, it's not.

It's more about luck.

If the probability of heads and tails were truly 50% each, then Zhang Feng could be certain that the real world is a ‘Virtual World’.

Only a rule-based virtual world would talk about average probabilities and data.

And in a reality where computational evolution relies entirely on luck,

Zhang Feng naturally wanted to learn as much as he could before the Xuan Yun Sect's recruitment period arrived.

This could accelerate the progress in reality, as well as the progress of his Soul Transformation stabilization, and the improvement of Five Elements rules and divine abilities.

Especially in the upcoming learning.

The Old Sect Leader understood that the ancient tree had gained sentience and, guided by Zhang Feng, no longer fed it his heart's blood.

But he didn't dare to presumptuously converse with the ‘Yang God Immortal’.

This caused Zhang Feng to fall back into his usual learning atmosphere, first studying the basic principles and structures of the Five Elements, starting from the atomic arrangement.