The Bagua mirror Chen Jing saw was disc-shaped, with a Taiji diagram inside and the Bagua diagram on the outside. It was made of crystal-clear jade, appearing as if it were uncarved. The mirror was concave, not flat or convex. In Chen Jing's knowledge, concave mirrors were used to gather power and concentrate spiritual energy.

Among the other fragmented images, Chen Jing saw several places where such Bagua mirrors could be obtained, but the only place he recognized was the Meijing Taoist Temple. Moreover, Chen Jing saw that the Bagua mirror he held up during the ritual in the image was exactly the same as the one inside the Meijing Taoist Temple.

In his noise-stealing state, Chen Jing walked through the dangerous city of Meijing as if he were strolling on the street. The hidden hunters, such as the back-spiked crab claw monsters, did not react at all when Chen Jing passed by them.

In the thick, deathly gray fog, this place was Chen Jing's safe haven.

He didn't walk very fast, but moved at a normal walking pace to conserve energy and allow the treatment liquid applied to his hands to take effect.

When a person is in a brief period of safety, many thoughts will naturally pop into their mind, and they will naturally begin to think.

"The Source of Darkness hasn't responded to my question about the 'cultivation method,' but it has responded to all other questions, even those without answers, and deducted usage attempts..."

"In other words, if we assume that the Source of Darkness is a vast database recording all sorts of 'knowledge,' containing predictions about various futures, then why is there no 'cultivation method' among the 'knowledge' it records?"

"This doesn't make sense, because even Mr. or Ms. Luo You know certain cultivation methods. If the Source of Darkness can predict the future, it should be able to predict that I would continue talking with Luo You and obtain cultivation methods. At the time, I didn't ask Luo You what cultivation methods were, partly because I was overwhelmed by a lot of events and had too many complicated things to do, and partly because I was wary of Luo You. After all, she was a Qi Realm cultivator of Dao Qi, and communicating with her too much might expose me..."

"Could it be that the Source of Darkness cannot understand what I mean by 'cultivation method'? It can understand blood sacrifice, disaster, fortuitous encounters, and improved martial arts, but it cannot understand 'cultivation method'?"

"This possibility exists, but it's unlikely. Based on other experiences, the Source of Darkness understands my questions very well. Even for very complex input questions, it can give relatively clear answers. However, the more complex the question, the less detailed the answer becomes. If there are multiple questions, the answers to each question are very vague. But the question I got after using two attempts was very clear, even outlining how to do each step. It's more detailed than the quest system in online games..."

Chen Jing's thoughts wandered, quickly expanding from the question of "why the source of darkness cannot understand the 'cultivation method'" to a summary of the use of the source of darkness.

"The source of darkness is a complete black box to me. I can only judge its operation and principles by inputting questions and getting feedback from the output results, which is quite difficult for me. However, I can try to understand how to use it better, just like I don't understand the internal workings of a mobile phone, but I can still use it and become more and more proficient."

"First, I need to explicitly tell the source of darkness the 'input' I give it while in a meditative state. If I just think about it in my mind without making up my mind, the source of darkness will not pay attention to me..."

"No, there are exceptions."

"The moment I first encountered the source of darkness, which was also the moment I consumed the Black Pill..."

"When I silently asked myself 'Who are you?', I received the same reply..."

"Maybe by then, I would have already used up one of my uses?"

"This raises one question, no, three questions."

"First, the origin of the source of darkness. Where did it come from? Was it in that black pill? Or did it cause my transmigration?"

"Upon closer reflection, my time travel is quite strange. In the online novels I've read, time travel is nothing more than either physical or spiritual transmigration. Physical transmigration means the body travels to a new world, while spiritual transmigration means the soul travels without retaining the body. My time travel is similar to spiritual transmigration, but it's also different. I started slowly 'recalling' my memories from when I was very young, and it wasn't until recently that I fully regained my memories..."

"Well, that's not entirely incomprehensible. A person's memory capacity is limited by the brain; it takes until the brain develops to a certain extent to fully store those memories..."

"But in my memories before I transmigrated, there was no part about my death, nor were there any mysterious elements. I didn't transmigrate by being hit by a car, nor did I transmigrate by reciting some strange spell or performing some strange ritual..."

"It was like, naturally, suddenly, that I traveled through time."

"There are other possibilities, such as the possibility that my memory recovery is incomplete, like missing memories of the time of death, or missing the memory that led me to time travel..."

"The second question is about how the Source of Darkness gains usage counts. This is an old question, and I've summarized it before. Now it seems that it's closely related to my cultivation level. Every time my cultivation level increases, I gain usage counts. But there are also differences; sometimes I gain usage counts even without a significant increase in cultivation level..."

"The third question... Damn, what was the third question I thought of again? I forgot."

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