Do not die

(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 his body and mind had been fully recovered, Kou Chong naturally 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 a living thing that was gradually growing, and could even 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 the monks of Xingxiu Palace, 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 having no 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 monk who will treat him on the same level as himself.

But "True Spirit" is different.

A fourth-level true spirit whose strength is not inferior to that of the Nascent Soul True Lord at the same level.

——This is actually suspected of putting gold on the face of True Lord Nascent Soul. The real situation is that every "true spirit" is the darling of heaven and earth, and is even the embodiment of some kind of law of heaven and earth. Such "true spirit" "True Spirit", its strength has a crushing advantage over the Nascent Soul True Lord at the same level.

Only those truly evil monks are qualified to compete with him at the same level of cultivation.

And in terms of wisdom that human monks are proud of, the fourth-level true spirits are not inferior at all.

Moreover, fourth-level true spirits with fully opened wisdom have an unexpected special advantage over human monks.

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 an innocent baby, without any distracting thoughts, delusions, or evil thoughts, and it has the word "true".

Such a mind-set, placed in a human monk, is a natural seed for cultivation, a rare and precious resource.

But this is standard equipment for fourth-level true spirits.

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

Because of these reasons, the non-human beings who were originally at the lower level at the first, second and third levels have already stood at the same height as the Nascent Soul Lord at the fourth level, or even a little higher.

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

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

Although he is extremely powerful, his temperament is extremely peaceful. He is not hostile to human monks and has a strong curiosity for knowledge.

And the legendary first-generation ancestor who established the foundation of "Xingxiu Palace" here is not only powerful himself, but also a rare "scholar-type monk" among practitioners.

"Knowledge of hundreds of schools of thought, tracing back to ancient times, knowing the future, reaching up to the sun, moon and stars, and down to all phenomena in the world."

This is the 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, what is certain is 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.

There is no record in ancient books about how a monster-level human being and a powerful fourth-level true spirit interacted with each other, how they got closer and became close partners.

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

Although it was not mentioned in the ancient books, Meng Zhou could probably figure it out.

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

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

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

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

Its characteristics have been established as early as the fourth-order true spirit period.

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

One guess is that this is the process of the fourth-level true spirit practicing, growing, and touching the heaven and earth. Such special changes occurred in the "Xingxiu Tianchi" while it was completely unconscious.

It is not uncommon for a certain individual's excessive power to bring about special changes to the place where it has lived for a long time.

The place where a third-level demon lives, once it passes a certain age, will undergo some subtle and wonderful changes.

Another speculation is that the characteristics of "Xingxiu Tianchi" are derived from the intentional design of this fourth-order true spirit.

Its strength is already too powerful. Although the Xingxiu Sea is vast, it may be just enough to feed this fourth-level true spirit.

Although he has a peaceful temperament, he cannot just sit back and watch new "food grabbers" appear when he doesn't even have enough to eat.

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

When he practices in the "Xingxiu Tianchi" and feeds on the massive fourth-level spiritual energy, all the spiritual power of the fourth level within the Xingxiu Sea will either be blocked or concentrated in the "Xingxiu Tianchi".

In short, just one sentence, "No one can rob me before I'm full."

When sorting it out here, in fact, the answer to the question is already looming.

"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 Xingxiu Palace, someone with ulterior motives must have maliciously tampered with the 'Xingxiu Tianchi'!"

This is because the characteristics of the "Xingxiu Tianchi" that Meng Zhou extracted from those ancient books are for the purpose of "protecting food" when beings are practicing in it. All were "managed by force".

"No one can rob me before I'm full!"

In other words, as long as the fourth-level true spirit ends its practice, the characteristics of the "Xingxiu Tianchi" will also disappear.

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

But the characteristic of the current "Xingxiu Tianchi" is that once a Yuanying monk enters the "Xingxiu Tianchi" and mobilizes the power in it to practice, then before these Yuanyings die, all four levels of spiritual power within the Xingxiu Sea will be destroyed. It can no longer be "eaten" by other alchemy monks.

There are only two possibilities for this subtle difference.

One is that there are errors in the records in those ancient books about the original "Xingxiu Tianchi", the fourth-order true spirit, and the first ancestor.

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

The authors of these ancient books are different and the writing time is also different. The time span can often be hundreds of years.

Isolated evidence does not stand up. If only one ancient book uses this rhetoric, there is a possibility of making a mistake or lying.

But if multiple different authors using the same set of rhetoric spanning hundreds or even hundreds of years, the possibility of "mistakes" or "lies" is very low.

The original "Xingxiu Tianchi" was probably what it was 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", took advantage of the situation, and cleverly changed it, making it become He looks so "evil" now.

At this moment, Meng Zhou thought of Yanzhuang, Lian Ziling, and "Uncle Zheng", and he almost came to a certain conclusion in his heart.

"They are not good birds!"

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

Meng Zhou felt that this kind of thing happened in the Xingxiu Palace where "there are many talented people", and it was not worth making a fuss about. It was a very normal operation.

With this thought in mind, Meng Zhou then read those ancient books and discovered that those so-called "deep, unspoken secrets" were actually not hidden at all.

There is not a single bad word about Xingxiu Palace in these ancient books.

Any mention of it is a compliment. After all, if there were those insulting and slanderous words, how could Xingxiu Palace put so much effort into preserving them? How could there be a chance to meet future generations?

Therefore, for some truths, it is not that the author does not want to write them down, but that he really has no choice.

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

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

In the memories of previous lives, those historians who were oppressed by the imperial power, didn't they use this kind of writing to hide many facts and truths under the words without any ripples? (End of chapter)