Chapter 728
**Chapter 499: Research on Time and Space, Yu Ying Shakes People**
Before long, Zheng Fa had nearly grasped the new function of the Dongxu Spirit Eye:
It was indeed a form of x-ray vision.
But it was more than just that.
Standing in the courtyard, Zheng Fa gazed up at the sky of the Jiushan Realm, shrouded in the purple micro-constellation, his golden pupils fluctuating in size as if focusing.
Pang Shishu stood nearby, scratching his head and grinning anxiously as he watched the changes in Zheng Fa's eyes.
It wasn't until the strange phenomenon faded that he spoke up.
"How was it?"
"This Dongxu Spirit Eye seems capable of piercing through the void."
Before Pang Shishu could respond, Xie Qingxue's face lit up with surprise. "Piercing through the void?"
From her reaction, it was clear that those four words held significant weight in the Xuanwei Realm.
"Shishu, where did you get this Dongxu Spirit Eye?" Zheng Fa asked.
"Where else? I found it years ago," Pang Shishu replied, catching on a bit but still confused. "Is it really that impressive?"
Very impressive.
From Zheng Fa's earlier experience, the Dongxu Spirit Eye could penetrate the Jiushan Realm and glimpse into the Xuanwei Realm.
Although the images he saw were extremely distorted and discolored, lacking in realism, they resembled an abstract painting.
He had no idea what he was looking at or what those images represented.
Just seeing them was already absurd.
Pang Shishu was quite fortunate in his own right.
Zheng Fa pointed to a stone bench in the courtyard and led everyone to sit at the stone table before asking, "Xie Xianzi, doesn’t the Tianhe Sect have any records about the Xuanwei Dongtian or the structure of the Xuanwei Realm?"
Xie Qingxue frowned and shook her head. "There are some, but they’re mostly basic knowledge about Xuanwei, nothing substantial."
Zheng Fa speculated, "It seems like another secret that someone is deliberately covering up."
Xie Qingxue's expression darkened.
Sister Zhang seemed to want to change the subject and interjected, "Haven't we already guessed that there are issues with the structure of the Xuanwei Realm, especially regarding the starry sky? We just can't verify it."
"Perhaps this Dongxu Spirit Eye can help us."
Everyone turned their attention back to Zheng Fa.
"Yes," Zheng Fa mused, though he wasn't entirely sure. "The Dongxu Spirit Eye can penetrate the barriers of the Jiushan Realm, but I don't know if it can clarify the secrets of other Dongtian or even the world."
Like the modern world.
On another note, Zheng Fa had always regarded spiritual energy as a physical law, as something foreign.
That so-called foreign element must have a source, perhaps from other worlds.
Moreover, the layer of celestial membrane in the Xuanwei Realm left Zheng Fa puzzled.
Thus, he understood that to uncover the essence of spiritual energy and pursue the Great Dao, he had to study the temporal and spatial nature of the Xuanwei Realm.
The recent advancement of the Dongxu Spirit Eye might provide a relatively reliable observational tool for this research.
With that thought, he spoke again, "Sister, after observing the Yang God and even the Dao Fruit cultivators, I suspect their cultivation is related to time and space. The main research focus of the Jiushan Realm should shift in this direction."
Sister Zhang and Pang Shishu exchanged glances, realizing Zheng Fa's ambition. She shook her head. "Time and space... isn't that a bit too grand?"
To put it bluntly, the Dongxu Spirit Eye only allowed Zheng Fa to "see."
But interpreting what he saw and extracting knowledge from it was another matter entirely.
To put it in perspective, anyone can see light, but understanding it requires a whole set of electromagnetic theory.
"Just the Dongxu Spirit Eye might not be enough, right?" Pang Shishu began to doubt himself. "It's just a spiritual eye technique that even a Yuan Ying can cultivate."
Zheng Fa understood that what Sister Zhang and Pang Shishu were saying was grounded in experience.
Relying on the Dongxu Spirit Eye to uncover the great secrets of the Xuanwei time and space was indeed wishful thinking, especially since spiritual eye techniques were not rare in the Xuanwei Realm.
He didn't argue but instead reached into his robe and pulled out a commonly used, even more popular than the Tongjian, magical artifact from the Xuanwei Realm.
"A storage bag?"
The three of them were momentarily taken aback, and then Sister Zhang's intuition kicked in. "You want to start researching time and space from the storage bag?"
"Exactly," Zheng Fa nodded. "We don't have a corresponding view of time and space, so the Dongxu Spirit Eye alone is naturally insufficient. In fact, relying on it to study the Jiushan Realm might be quite challenging."
He wasn't foolish.
Even if the Dongxu Spirit Eye advanced, it wasn't omnipotent.
Jumping straight into studying Dongtian or even the world was pure fantasy.
"The storage bag is the most basic and cheapest spatial artifact in the Xuanwei Realm. I thought, why not start our research from it?"
Ever since he had seen the storage bag, Zheng Fa had been fascinated by it.
A not-so-valuable artifact that allows cultivators to have a personal space—compared to modern technology, it was far more advanced than lightning techniques.
Moreover, the storage bag was quite unique; its crafting method wasn't difficult, but the materials were.
Zheng Fa held the storage bag in his hand, noticing the intricate runes embroidered all over it.
Almost every sect could produce storage bags.
However, the fabric used to make these storage bags came from the Four Sects. To be precise, most of the materials for their storage bags were imported from the Taishang Dao.
In other words, the technical complexity of the storage bag lay entirely in the fabric, which could be said to be another business monopolized by the Four Sects.
The Tiangong Pavilion had no means to crack it.
"The storage bag can be considered a small space without time," Zheng Fa said, his eyes gleaming with gold as he looked at the storage bag. "I don't know if this thing is constructed like a Dongtian or a world, but on the other hand, if we want to study time and space, this might be the simplest and easiest sample to understand."
"That's a good point. The storage bag's space is small, nearly static, and devoid of life..." Sister Zhang's eyes brightened as she summarized the advantages of the storage bag. "The research difficulty is much lower than that of a Dongtian."
In essence, what Zheng Fa aimed to do was to first establish the simplest and most basic view of time and space.
Then, using this framework to explain the time and space of the Xuanwei Realm and refine the theory.
The storage bag was far from a true representation of time and space.
It lacked time, life, and even spiritual energy.
To other cultivators, it might not hold much value, but to Zheng Fa, it was the perfect experimental subject.
Starting research on the Xuanwei time and space from the storage bag was akin to studying life forms beginning with single-celled organisms—the difficulty level dropped dramatically.
Sister Zhang and the others exchanged glances, and after a moment, Pang Shishu sighed, "Why didn't I think of that?"
Sister Zhang chimed in, "It's easy to overlook what's right in front of you."
Zheng Fa glanced at Xie Qingxue again and added, "By the way, this spiritual eye not only allows us to study the secrets of time and space, but it should also be quite useful for us in searching for the relics of the Tianhe Zun."
Xie Qingxue was taken aback, not expecting Zheng Fa to be thinking about this. A warmth spread through her heart: she knew very well that Zheng Fa's desire to find the Tianhe relics was partly to perfect the Huangting Jing, but also to enhance her own strength—she practiced the Tianhe method and was currently unable to switch to the Huangting Jing.
Pang Shishu and Sister Zhang were also invigorated.
It wasn't that they were short-sighted, but the urgency of perfecting the Tianhe method outweighed the research on time and space.
They both understood that the secrets of the Xuanwei time and space might point directly to the Great Dao.
However, the Tianhe method was crucial for the advancement of cultivators in the Jiushan Realm; if this issue wasn't resolved, the Jiushan Realm would be in peril.
"Are you planning to have Xiao Yuying and the others cultivate the Dongxu Spirit Eye?"
Zheng Fa nodded. "Once they cultivate it, it will help them find the Tianhe relics."
Pang Shishu looked at the remaining dozens of bottles of Baihua Linglu, his expression a bit forlorn, but he still nodded. "Then let's prioritize them for now."
Zheng Fa glanced at his Shishu and reassured him, "The Baihua Linglu from the Yaochi is so useful; we can just import more."
He thought for a moment and said to Sister Zhang, "Sister, since we aren't very familiar with the sea area and it's quite far, in the future, we’ll need the sect's Yuan Ying cultivators to take turns patrolling the trade route, and I’ll alternate with you to oversee it."
The profits and strategic value, including the Baihua Linglu, made this trade route extremely significant for the Jiushan Sect.
Zheng Fa had invested a lot of effort into it and naturally didn't want anything to go wrong. He even felt uneasy sending a Huashen cultivator, wanting to personally oversee it with Sister Zhang.
He didn't need to mention his own capabilities.
Sister Zhang, wielding the Qingjing Bamboo and utilizing the innate Eight Trigrams, might not be able to defeat a loose immortal, but she could certainly hold out for a while until Zheng Fa arrived to rescue her.
"I want to go too."
Unexpectedly, Xie Qingxue spoke up.
"Huh?"
Xie Qingxue patted the Qingping Sword at her waist. "As long as I’m part of the Jiushan Sect, I’m one of its people. Otherwise, you two would be too busy."
Zheng Fa was taken aback; with Xie Qingxue wielding the Qingping Sword, she might not be any weaker than Sister Zhang.
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