"Huh?"
A surprised and questioning voice rang in Feng Bingwen's mind. Feng Bingwen recognized the voice; it was the spirit born from the Five Elements Heavenly Wheel.
"Where did this little thing come from?"
"Little thing? What are you? Do you know how long I have existed in this world?"
Upon hearing the Five Elements Heavenly Wheel's voice, which carried a hint of disdain, Feng Bingwen immediately retorted with a boastful tone.
"Oh, I was just about to ask you, how many years have passed since you were born spiritually?"
When he asked this question, the Five Elements Heavenly Wheel was very confident. There were countless spiritual artifacts in this world that were more ancient than it, but if the scope was narrowed down to the human race, there would be very few with more seniority than it. He was quite confident about this.
"I was born before Mount Jiuwei was even built!"
"oh!"
Wu Xing Tian Lun gave a perfunctory reply, appearing completely unconcerned.
"I have existed for ten thousand years. What are you? What right do you have to call me a little fellow!"
That calm yet slightly contemptuous attitude completely enraged the voice.
"I was born a little earlier than you, around the medieval period, so it shouldn't be a problem for me to call you 'little guy' out of seniority!"
As the Five Elements Heavenly Wheel's light and casual voice faded, Feng Bingwen's heart immediately fell into silence. Feng Bingwen could sense its presence, but he remained silent at this moment.
Feng Bingwen did not interrupt rashly, but quietly pondered the rich information revealed in those simple words. At the same time, he also multitasked with Xu Yuanshan, visiting the many Kongdong Immortal Islands.
"Are you not trying to deceive me?"
A voice tinged with doubt rang out. He thought he was old enough, a living fossil witnessing the changes of the times, but in the case of such a young cultivator, he encountered an even more ancient relic!
"What good would it do to fool you, little guy? Besides, are you mistaken? You came here out of nowhere; we weren't planning on paying any attention to you!"
Wu Xing Tian Lun laughed, though his tone was still as disrespectful as ever. Feng Bingwen could sense that the old man seemed a bit more active, but he could understand it, since this old fellow was one of his kind.
"Are you really from the Supreme Dao?"
The voice rang out again, and I was still doubtful.
"Of course, how could something like that be fake?"
"So what brings you here?"
"Just looking around!"
At this moment, Feng Bingwen spoke up. He felt that things were not quite as he had thought. This guy had not come to claim a master, but rather because their background had touched something.
"Just looking around?"
This time it's filled with distrust and suspicion.
"What else can you do? As Peak Master Xu right next to me has already said, you are just a half-finished product refined by the Nine Peaks Ancestor!"
"What half-finished product? Nonsense! What does this young man know? He only knows about me from bits and pieces of gossip. How could he possibly understand me?"
At this moment, the being that suddenly appeared no longer referred to himself as "this one," after all, he really had little reason to be proud in front of the old guy hidden on Feng Bingwen's body. However, his tone sounded somewhat exasperated.
"Isn't that right? Although I don't know how you became spiritually connected, you probably belong to the category of mountain spirits or island spirits, and you can't be considered a spirit of a celestial artifact, since you shouldn't have such a large celestial artifact!"
At this moment, Feng Bingwen, filled with a sense of novelty, enthusiastically communicated with this special will.
The speed at which good deeds burn in the Heavenly Book almost points to the target. This sum of nearly three million good deeds is to be applied to these thirty-six caves, but it is unknown in what form it will take. Perhaps it is some kind of special inheritance, rather than the good deeds themselves.
“I told you, that kid next to you doesn’t know anything at all. What immortal artifacts? Xuanweizi had more than a dozen immortal artifacts back then. He didn’t lack any immortal artifacts at all!”
At this point, the spiritual entity that had been nurtured from the Thirty-Six Caves suddenly became somewhat arrogant. It seemed to be a product created by a powerful immortal capable of establishing a sect during a grand project, but unfortunately, it was only a half-finished product.
"Since you say that Peak Master Xu doesn't understand, could you please explain it to me in detail and clear up my doubts?"
Feng Bingwen adopted a humble and eager-to-learn attitude, and given his current revealed identity, this attitude undoubtedly pleased the spirit of the cave.
"..."
While he enjoyed the benefits, when it came to revealing his origins and background, the spirit of the cave hesitated.
"This senior?"
After a long silence and no response, Feng Bingwen, who could sense the other's presence, tentatively asked a question. However, his humble tone and attitude greatly displeased the other old man inside him.
"If you want to know, why don't you ask me?"
The Five Elements Heavenly Wheel was extremely frustrated. The spirit of the Void Cave before him was only a fraction of his own age, yet this kid was so humble towards such a small thing, but treated him with complete indifference. It was truly infuriating!
You know?
Feng Bingwen's tone revealed deep surprise, as if he had encountered something strange and rare.
"Kid, who do you think you are!"
"No, what I mean is, how did you know about such a private matter?"
Feng Bingwen was somewhat puzzled. He wasn't surprised that the Five Elements Heavenly Wheel, this ancient immortal artifact, knew those ancient secrets of the human race, nor was he surprised that it knew the important deeds of the Supreme Dao from its founding to the present.
However, these thirty-six caves were secretly practiced by the founding patriarch of Jiuwei Mountain, the Venerable Xuanwei, without any public announcement. Even the disciples of the sect did not know about them. So how did the Five Elements Heavenly Wheel find out?
Could it be that this Five Elements Heavenly Wheel is some kind of "three-surname slave"? Did it fall into the hands of that Xuanwei Shangren at some point, and thus know this secret?
"I recognize the Venerable Xuanwei that this guy mentioned!"
"Um?!"
"I forget exactly when it was, but I remember that a very powerful immortal visited the Supreme Dao and was received by the current Dao Master. I happened to be there, and I don't know what price I paid, but the Venerable Xuanwei was able to observe the sect's blessed land!"
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"Are they those left behind by the Daoist Master?"
Feng Bingwen asked tentatively.
"Otherwise, the blessed lands created by celestial and earthly immortals were of no use to Master Xuanwei at that time!"
"The Daoist's blessed land!"
Upon learning of an ancient and secret message, Feng Bingwen abruptly stopped. Under the astonished gaze of the Earth Immortal beside him, he looked around at the thirty-six immortal islands that numbered in the Heavenly Gang. In a flash of inspiration, a bold idea came to mind.
"I think I know what Master Xuanwei was planning back then!"
"What do you want to do?"
Five Elements Heavenly Wheel pressed on with great interest, but Feng Bingwen felt that this old guy already knew everything and was only cooperating with him now to provoke him, still paying attention to their Sky Cave Spirit!
"Transcendence!"
What else could it be? Feng Bingwen immediately thought of those beings whose cultivation level had reached the limit that this world could contain. Well, not all of them, but at least more than half of them were thinking about how to transcend this world.
Perhaps the Venerable Xuanwei, who established the Daoist lineage of Jiuwei Mountain, was at this level, or at least close to it; otherwise, there would have been no need for him to spend so much effort observing the blessed lands left behind by the Daoist Venerable.
"That venerable one must have wanted to emulate the Daoist Master's path, but unfortunately, he must have failed!"
"Not bad, you guessed it!"
The tone of Wu Xing Tian Lun was tinged with surprise and admiration. It was indeed impressive that he could come up with these ideas based on the information he provided, but what was most admirable was that he dared to think in this direction.
"Therefore, these thirty-six empty caves should be the failed product of Master Xuanwei's imitation of the Daoist Venerable's path!"
Feng Bingwen made a crucial summary at the end, but as soon as he finished speaking, Kong Tong, who had been silent all along, couldn't hold back any longer. Who could tolerate such sarcasm?
He just thought this kid was pretty good and wanted to get to know him, but before they could even exchange two sentences, he started calling him a half-finished product and a failed attempt. It's infuriating!
"Boy, how dare you speak like that? Are all cultivators of the Supreme Dao this rude?"
The spirit of the cave questioned him aggressively, and although there was some discrepancy between the facts and the actual situation, it was almost entirely true.
This fact is actually quite cruel to him, especially when someone says it to his face, which is like rubbing salt into a wound. And when the person is from the Supreme Dao, the pain is doubled.
"Politeness? Senior didn't say a word the whole time, no matter how I asked, he didn't respond!"
Feng Bingwen was no longer so polite, because he already knew what the Heavenly Book had arranged for him.
The failed creation of a powerful immortal attempting to transcend, it might still have some use, and the Heavenly Book thought it was very suitable, but he himself had little interest in it.
Because transcendence was too far away for him, he felt it was unnecessary to worry about it before he reached that point.
"I can't be bothered with your nonsense and fabrications about my background!"
The spirit of Kongdong tried to salvage its reputation, but some things cannot be denied. Those who know of its existence and its origins are now few and far between in this world, yet those who do know it are almost immortal and indelible.
"So, senior, did you create this by imitating the thirty-six grotto-heavens of my Supreme Dao?"
Feng Bingwen asked curiously, "It's perfectly acceptable for later generations to imitate the successful cases of their predecessors. There's nothing wrong with that."
He wasn't interested in the failed products, but he was very interested in the half-finished products that imitated the cave.
"You guessed right, kid, but I have to correct you on one point. I'm not a failure, just an incomplete product. Back then, Master Xuanwei himself lacked the ability, yet he wanted to imitate the Daoist Master, which ultimately led to my creation!"
The spirit of Kongtong solemnly corrected Feng Bingwen's judgment that he was a failure, his tone revealing a deep sense of regret.
His current state is exactly like that of his original creator: lacking ability and being unprepared.
If he were the Daoist Master, he would never be in this state—reduced to a symbol of being a true disciple.
"When my original body was first created, I did not exist. It was only after a long period of time that I came into being. After learning about my origins, I contacted the current leader of the Nine Peaks Mountain Sect! I want to use the power of the Nine Peaks Mountain to perfect myself!"
"Then what?"
The missing and omitted history now appeared before his eyes, making Feng Bingwen even more interested.
He rejected me!
"Hmm!"
"At first he was quite interested, but after he learned what I needed, he directly rejected me, sealed my spirituality, and left me here, turning me into the cave dwelling of a true disciple!"
At this point, this peculiar spirit revealed a sense of depressed and resentful anger.
Is it wrong for him to perfect himself by relying on the tradition left by his original creator? It was a perfectly reasonable request, yet it was rejected.
"It would be strange if they agreed. Don't you even look at what kind of request they made? Unless the sect leader at that time was out of his mind, they would never have agreed!"
The Five Elements Heavenly Wheel couldn't help but join in the fun, after all, the goal set by that Venerable Xuanwei back then was indeed very grand, even though it was only to replicate a part of the achievements of the Supreme Daoist.
Thirty-six Heavenly Grottoes!
However, even this part of the achievement is almost impossible for the world's top beings to accomplish, as the resources required are simply too enormous.
"Back then, Daoist Master also killed many innate gods and demons. He used their corpses to complete the creation of the Thirty-Six Heavenly Caves and Seventy-Two Blessed Lands. If you want to imitate this, you have to imitate this part as well!"
"You overestimate that Master Xuanwei. Although that little guy is not bad, asking him to kill innate gods and demons is simply asking him to do something difficult!"
The Five Elements Heavenly Wheel laughed and joked with Feng Bingwen, which was also a fun thing for him.
"Xuanwei, that guy is utterly useless. He doesn't have the power to slay gods and demons, yet he wants to imitate the path of the Dao Venerable!"
At this moment, under the stimulation of Feng Bingwen and the Five Elements Heavenly Wheel, Kongtong couldn't help but complain about his creator.
"Hey!"
Upon hearing this sarcastic remark, the Five Elements Heavenly Wheel couldn't help but burst out laughing.
"Young cultivator, you are the current Supreme Dao Child, right? Don't you want to follow the path of the Dao Venerable? Now there is a shortcut laid out before you!"
Suddenly, the spirit of Kongdong spoke, and although its words contained a great deal of information, they were within Feng Bingwen's expectations. However, this excited the Five Elements Heavenly Wheel.
"Kid, don't listen to this piece of junk's nonsense, it's simply impossible to complete!"
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