Chapter 192
“Besides, if you die, no one will teach me math anymore.”
“So, Senior Sister Zhang, are you crying because your cultivation hasn’t progressed, and you can’t take revenge?” Senior Sister Yuan blinked and summarized.
“No, it’s because it’s been eight hundred years, and only now do I dare to think about the fact that he’s dead.”
“…”
Senior Sister Yuan was taken aback, then suddenly felt frustrated. “I shouldn’t have asked!”
“Then, Senior Sister, you are…”
“I heard you giving a lecture.” Senior Sister Zhang smiled. “During the Heart Demon Tribulation, a person can actually hear the sounds from the outside world. It’s just that the heart demon confuses your senses, making you think it’s all just your imagination.”
“Then how did you hear it?”
“The things you talked about, they don’t… they tried really hard, but they just can’t, it’s all nonsense… I saw through it.”
“…”
“Speaking of which, I made a discovery with this breakthrough to the Yuanying stage.”
“Hmm?”
“The Five Elements Child Talisman seems to be resonating with something.”
“Resonating?”
“Yes, this resonance comes from the heavens.” Senior Sister Zhang’s eyes were also filled with confusion. “Though it was just for a moment, I felt it.”
(End of this chapter)
**Chapter 187: Talisman Foundation**
“From the heavens?”
Zheng Fa looked up. The golden crow had already dipped in the west, and the mountains were growing quieter. The sky looked no different from usual.
But at this moment, the vast and ordinary dome seemed to be shrouded in a layer of mysterious veil in his heart.
“Senior Sister Zhang…” He pondered for a moment and asked, “Are there any descriptions of the scenery beyond the heavens in the records of the Xuanwei Realm?”
“No.” Senior Sister Zhang gently shook her head. “At least, I haven’t read any. No one knows how high the heavens are or what lies above.”
“That’s not right… There’s someone who should know.” Zheng Fa suddenly recalled something. “The Tianhe Venerable once tried to break the shackles of heaven and earth.”
When Zheng Fa first discovered the jade pendant in his sea of consciousness, he had seen someone flying toward the sky, never to return, leaving only a jade pendant behind.
He had always suspected that person was the Tianhe Venerable.
Senior Sister Zhang nodded gently, seemingly agreeing with Zheng Fa’s judgment.
“This…” Zheng Fa frowned and shook his head. “So, there might be some secrets above the sky, but those secrets cost the Tianhe Venerable his life.”
Senior Sister Zhang’s expression grew heavy.
Zheng Fa couldn’t help but feel a bit solemn as well.
The shackles of heaven and earth…
What had the Tianhe Venerable truly understood at that time?
Was he really left with no other choice, which drove him to attempt to create a new world?
“You’re only at the Qi Refinement stage now, and I’ve just barely advanced to the Yuanying stage.” Senior Sister Zhang saw the confusion on his face and shook her head. “If the Tianhe Venerable couldn’t solve the problem, there’s nothing we can think of.”
Hearing this, Zheng Fa set aside his doubts and turned to ask Senior Sister Zhang, “You mentioned that the Five Elements Child Talisman resonates with the heavens. What’s that about?”
Senior Sister Zhang furrowed her brows, as if recalling her feelings at that moment.
“I can’t quite explain that feeling… When I was forming my baby, you all saw those heavenly tribulation eyes, right?”
“Yeah.”
“At that moment, I felt like it glanced at the Five Elements Child Talisman on my Yuanying. For a brief moment, that talisman even seemed to detach from my Yuanying… but then it settled back down.”
After hearing Senior Sister Zhang’s description, Zheng Fa fell into thought.
Seeing that he still looked puzzled, Senior Sister Zhang comforted him, “At least I’ve proven that the current Talisman Foundation Method for forming a baby is worry-free.”
“Hmm…”
The two were deep in conversation, while Senior Sister Yuan had already finished her wild fruits and was now fiddling with the grass beside her. She seemed to be lost in thought, her expression filled with contemplation.
This unusual expression on her face piqued Zheng Fa’s curiosity.
“Senior Sister Yuan, do you have any thoughts?”
“Thoughts?” Senior Sister Yuan looked at the two of them blankly, blinking. “I don’t have any thoughts; I don’t understand.”
“…Then what were you thinking just now?”
“I was thinking about the Heavenly Stele.” Senior Sister Yuan’s eyes lit up as she spoke. “The Heavenly Stele is quite fun.”
“Fun?”
Zheng Fa glanced at Senior Sister Zhang. He had been preoccupied with Senior Sister Zhang’s predicament and hadn’t paid much attention to the Heavenly Stele.
But for most people, the most important thing in the Thunder Pool was indeed the Heavenly Stele.
“Yeah, now the Heavenly Stele is called the Fengshen Stele!” Senior Sister Yuan said.
“Fengshen?”
Zheng Fa was taken aback.
The Xuanwei Realm was devoid of gods.
He had only heard this term in modern times.
“Yeah, that’s what they all call it.” Senior Sister Yuan explained. “It seems there’s a small world within the Heavenly Stele, and the powerful beings in that world are referred to as gods. Anyone who enters the Heavenly Stele—seems to be conferred as a god.”
“Conferred?” Senior Sister Zhang frowned. “Like how a mortal dynasty confers titles to its subjects? So, can these so-called gods also be conferred?”
“I don’t understand either; that’s just what they say.” Senior Sister Yuan shook her head. “I’ve heard that there are ranks among the gods, and each person entering the Heavenly Stele starts with a different rank. After entering, it can even change—what’s more fun is that the ranks are displayed on the Heavenly Stele for everyone to see.”
“…”
Zheng Fa could already imagine why Senior Sister Yuan found this amusing.
A leaderboard!
In the modern world, even the rich list can make headlines every day.
“I go to the Heavenly Stele every day to watch the excitement, and there are people betting on the rankings.” Senior Sister Yuan said excitedly. “Right now, Yan Wushuang is temporarily in first place, but it’s not stable.”
…
In the Five Dragon Heavenly Palace.
Uncle Pang’s banquet was still ongoing, and the hall was still very noisy.
Zheng Fa, however, didn’t join the revelry.
He sat in his room, eyes closed, his consciousness focused on the yin-yang fish jade pendant in his sea of consciousness.
Today’s conversation with Senior Sister Zhang and Senior Sister Yuan had sparked many thoughts in his mind.
Senior Sister Zhang said she didn’t know what lay beyond the heavens.
But Zheng Fa knew that the Tianhe Venerable had gone beyond the heavens, yet had thrown down this jade pendant.
And this pendant allowed him to traverse back and forth.
So… the things beyond the heavens were likely highly related to the modern world.
Especially the two words “Fengshen” that Senior Sister Yuan mentioned.
The impact on Zheng Fa was significant—
In modern times, immortals and gods were often mentioned in the same breath.
But in the Xuanwei Realm, there was only the inheritance of the Immortal Sect, and he had never heard of gods.
This term had a greater connection to the modern world than to the Xuanwei Realm.
After pondering for a while, he smiled and set aside his thoughts. Senior Sister Zhang was right—problems that even the Tianhe Venerable couldn’t fully resolve were not something he could understand through mere speculation.
He directed his consciousness into his dantian, watching the Talisman Foundation floating above it.
In fact, he still had some thoughts about Senior Sister Zhang’s words—
Chiral objects in three-dimensional space cannot be flipped.
But higher dimensions are different—because with each additional dimension, there’s an extra degree of freedom in mathematics, so chirality in higher-dimensional space can indeed be flipped.
If the mysterious sky is considered a higher-dimensional space, Zheng Fa’s heart stirred, and the Talisman Foundation within him began to change.
The ring formed by the Five Elements Child Talisman detached from the lotus platform and fell to the center of the lotus platform.
“What is a mirror…” Zheng Fa furrowed his brows, contemplating the old man Bai’s question, and began to manipulate the ring.
A mirror…
A mirror image… is ultimately a kind of shadow…
A shadow… projection?
Is the chirality of the talisman diagram actually a projection of a higher-dimensional object from different angles?
Is his Talisman Foundation… essentially a mirror?
Zheng Fa suddenly raised his head, as if he could see the boundless night sky through the roof.
With this thought, the spiritual energy surrounding the Five Elements Child Talisman slowly condensed, transforming into a gel-like substance, like jelly. This gel gradually deformed and hardened, truly resembling a mirror surface, or rather, a ring-shaped double-sided mirror.
Now, the appearance of this Child Talisman ring looked like a bracelet inlaid with mirrors on both sides, and the Five Elements Child Talisman seemed to swim within the mirror, taking on an ethereal form.
A double-sided mirror—one side yin, the other yang?
A thought flashed through Zheng Fa’s mind.
But the essence of yin and yang unification might be because this is the same higher-dimensional object.
But why does this phenomenon also occur in the dantian…
And even the two “mirrors” on the inside and outside don’t intersect at all.
Intersect?
His heart stirred, and the “bracelet double-sided mirror” suddenly fractured in the middle, twisting slightly before rejoining.
A Möbius strip…
The inside and outside mirrors, through this structure, perfectly adhered to each other. If that’s the case…
Zheng Fa frowned.
If the talisman diagram has different projections because of different angles of “mirrors,” then these inside and outside mirrors indeed do not distinguish between each other through this configuration, and one could even say they are yin and yang in unity.
But… is this really correct?
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