Ancient Geniuses

Chapter 735 Ancient Geniuses

The Taoist priest held a compass in his hand and muttered something, while the compass automatically rotated with a click, changing symbols one by one.

The monk held a string of prayer beads in one hand, which kept turning. When two beads collided, a light clicking sound was made. In the other hand, he held a black iron bowl with a few elixirs in it. I wonder if they were obtained from begging.

Both of them were wearing tattered clothes. The Taoist's clothes were washed white and had a few patches, but they were still clean. The monk's clothes seemed to have never been repaired and were leaky everywhere.

It seems that these two people are not having a good time.

Qin Mu couldn't help but wonder: "Are there already Taoist priests and monks in this era?"

Kaihuang also noticed the monk and the Taoist priest and was also stunned.

Qin Mu came forward, and Kaihuang also hurried over, but heard the monk and the Taoist priest talking. The monk said, "The Yaochi Festival is still good. I have made a few elixirs, so I can at least have food and clothing."

Qin Mu looked strange.

The Taoist said, "Don't talk yet. I just thought of a problem in numerology. Let me calculate it."

The monk laughed and said, "What's the point of you calculating those things? Why don't you just follow me? I entered the Tao in a dream. In the dream, there is everything. The world is ever-changing. You can find the true meaning of Tao from it."

The Taoist priest did not even raise his head, still urging the compass, and said: "The Spring and Autumn Dream is ultimately illusory. Only numerology is the real way. I think everything in the universe is built on the basis of numerology. As long as I master numerology, I can understand all the mysteries of the universe. Numerology will surely shine in the future!"

The monk was about to speak when he saw Qin Mu and Kaihuang coming forward. He quickly handed the black iron bowl to the two of them and shook it. The several elixirs in the bowl made a clinking sound.

"Whether you are destined to be together or not, please give it to the two of us. We brothers have been hungry for several days." said the monk.

Kaihuang had a strange look on his face. He rummaged through his bag, took out a few elixirs and put them in an iron bowl.

"Good people will be rewarded." The monk smiled and looked at Qin Mu.

Qin Mu also took out some elixirs and filled the iron bowl.

The monk shook his head and said, "I don't need so much. I beg for alms for cultivation. I only need one day's food. If you give me more, it will delay my cultivation for the next few days." After that, he took out the extra elixir and returned it to Qin Mu.

Qin Mu refused and said with a smile: "Master, this is what you deserve. We are destined to be together. When you meet someone named Mu in the future, you will understand."

The monk looked at him and asked, "Why don't you tell me clearly, benefactor?"

Qin Mu shook his head and said, "The dream lasts for thousands of years. How do you know that you are not in a dream now? Why bother to say it clearly? There is a world in the dream, and there are countless living beings in the dream. The monk will understand it in the future."

The monk was puzzled and said with a smile: "A thousand-year dream? It is quite the Samadhi of my way."

Qin Mu looked at the Taoist who was studying hard. The Taoist's compass was extremely complicated, and the mathematical changes had already involved the core issues of the Taixuan Mathematical Classic. However, it was naturally extremely difficult for him to create a mathematical classic out of thin air.

Starting from scratch is the most difficult thing, not to mention that no one in this era can deduce a complete book of numerology.

Qin Mu reached out and dialed the compass.

The Taoist priest was about to knock his hand away, but when he looked at the compass, he was startled and overjoyed: "Ah, the difficult numerology problem that has troubled me for many days has been solved just like that! How wonderful, how wonderful! Brother, how did you come up with this solution?"

He looked at Qin Mu with eager eyes, waiting for Qin Mu to tell him the solution to the problem with great interest.

Qin Mu said seriously: "It was thanks to the Taoist's advice that I came up with this solution. Thank you very much!"

He bowed in thanks.

The Taoist priest hurriedly asked, "You helped me solve the problem, why are you thanking me?"

Qin Mu smiled and said, "You will know in the future. Taoist, when you meet a man named Mu in the future, he will mention this to you."

The Taoist was stunned.

Qin Mu smiled slightly, left them and walked towards the palace complex in front.

Kaihuang hesitated for a moment, followed Qin Mu, and whispered: "You are a person with evil intentions. You are too scheming. The monk and the Taoist priest just now, are they the two beings in the future? You gave them a few elixirs and adjusted the compass now, hoping to borrow their power in the future. If you use these thoughts..."

Qin Mu interrupted him: "If you don't use all this time to guess my thoughts, but use it to think about your future, then maybe you won't..."

Kaihuang was stunned for a moment and said, "No what?"

Qin Mu's face was gloomy, and he shook his head and said, "Nothing. I speculate that they are the future Brahma and the Taoist master. You should make friends with them, and they will repay you for this good relationship in the future."

Kaihuang seemed to be thinking about something, and asked tentatively: "You know me? You know what I will encounter in the future? Are you from the era after me?"

He was extremely smart. Although Qin Mu only said one or two seemingly insignificant sentences, he was able to infer more useful information from these sentences.

Qin Mu shook his head and said, "I don't know which one is the real you. I have never seen you. Go back and find them both."

Kaihuang hesitated and shook his head: "I am not like you. I will not do it deliberately. If I deliberately make friends with them, it may change the future. If the future changes, maybe I will not be born and will no longer exist. I said that I am just a passer-by. I came to witness history. I really want to meet the founder of future civilization."

Lao Niu followed behind them and frowned when he heard their conversation. Just now, these two people looked like they wanted to beat each other to death, but now they were talking to each other in a heart-to-heart talk.

"A man's heart is like the weather in June, it changes at any time."

The old cow hesitated for a moment, looked at the monk and the Taoist priest, and thought to himself: "Should I go and make friends with them? Maybe I can get some benefits from them in the future..."

Qin Mu and Kaihuang had already walked far away. He did not bother to make friends with the monks and Taoist priests, and hurriedly caught up with Qin Mu, thinking: "Anyway, I have a few months. After their emotions have stabilized, I will make friends with these ancient sages and reap great benefits! Hehe, by then, the master will look at me with new eyes..."

The monk and the Taoist priest watched them go away, shaking their heads. The Taoist priest said, "What a weird guy. But his attainments in numerology are probably even higher than mine. But he doesn't seem to be interested in this. Brother, after his guidance, I think I'm about to find my way!"

The monk nodded and smiled, "I will soon find my way."

The two looked at each other and laughed.

Qin Mu, Kaihuang and Lao Niu entered the palace of the Yao Chi secret realm, but saw people coming and going, and it was bustling, but they still couldn't find Emperor Yin. They thought that Emperor Yin should go to find Emperor Yu.

Yu Tianzun invited him to attend the party, so the relationship between the two must be very close.

A lot of people came to the meeting this time, and many of them were discussing the big event that Yu Tianzun was going to announce. Some said that Yu Tianzun was going to create the eighth divine treasure, some said that Yu Tianzun had found a way to make his soul immortal, and some said that Yu Tianzun was planning to get married, and so on. There were all kinds of opinions.

Qin Mu looked around and saw many people with supernatural powers gathered in groups of three or five. They spoke passionately about their insights and experiences in recent days and practiced the supernatural powers and Taoism they had comprehended in front of everyone.

He and Kaihuang listened for a while. The current Taoist magic powers were still very crude and simple, far less sophisticated than those of later generations, and did not have much meaning to them.

However, for this era, it is of great significance.

“If I were to tell others about our future generations’ skills and magical powers, I’m afraid it would cause a huge shock.”

Qin Mu shook his head. The Taoist magic powers of later generations were too sophisticated. If they were to tell the people of this era, shocking the world would be a small matter, but the changes it would bring to the future would be too terrifying.

He couldn't take the risk.

He looked at Kaihuang, and after Kaihuang guessed that he was also a person from the future, he told him not to try to change the past. Now thinking about it, Kaihuang's words did make sense.

Everyone who attended the meeting was fascinated by the talk, and one person kept expounding on his own Taoist magic and supernatural powers. It was truly a scene of a hundred flowers blooming and a hundred schools of thought contending.

Some of the bizarre ideas suddenly stunned Qin Mu and Kaihuang. They listened carefully without realizing it. Those were forms of Taoist magical powers that they had never even thought of.

People in later generations, because they are in the established Shenzang cultivation system, do not need to use their brains but only need to follow the steps of their predecessors to achieve high achievements. As a result, they lack creativity.

However, people in this era do not have so many rules and regulations. Instead, they can easily break out of the Shenzang cultivation system and possess magical powers that seem incredible to Qin Mu and Kaihuang.

However, the reason why these magical powers and techniques are not seen in later generations is not because these lost magical powers and techniques are bad, but because they failed in the competition with the Shenzang cultivation system and were therefore lost.

The Shenzang cultivation system is the easiest to learn and the most easily accepted cultivation system. It has withstood the test of time. When most people practice Shenzang, those who practice other paths become a minority. The inheritance will become more and more difficult and eventually lost.

Qin Mu and Kaihuang squeezed in the crowd, trying to get more useful ideas from these ancient people. At this time, they heard a voice saying, "Ling Tianzun! Ling Tianzun! What's the reason for you just saying that time does not exist?"

Qin Mu and Kaihuang looked there almost at the same time, and saw many people with magical powers surrounding a woman. The woman was dressed very simply and rustically, with a peach wood hairpin casually inserted in her hair, straw sandals on her feet, and a leopard skirt and a short jacket on her body.

Although she is unkempt, she has a unique beauty and appears wild.

"Ling Tianzun, who opened up the Six Directions Divine Treasures, is a woman?" Qin Mu and Kaihuang were slightly stunned.

The woman was explaining her own principles, and she said slowly, "Everything, including space, is also matter. Divine power is also the arrangement and sequence of matter. Different combinations are formed by vital energy particles to explain the principles of the Great Dao and form might. Is time a substance? No, you cannot touch time, so time does not exist."

Everyone seemed to be thinking about it, some shook their heads, but could not think of any words to refute.

Qin Mu stepped forward and said, "Ling Tianzun, then why do we grow old? People are born, grow old, get sick and die. Don't we grow old as time goes by?"

Ling Tianzun looked at him and suddenly pulled out his hairpin. The peach wood had dried up.

"Brother, do you think this hairpin is old and dead?" she asked.

Qin Mu nodded.

Ling Tianzun activated his magical powers, and the peach wood began to slowly turn green, then red, and then sprouted branches and produced tender flower buds. Peach blossoms bloomed from the revived dead branches, and a few peach leaves also sprouted.

"Is this me going back in time?" Ling Tianzun asked with a smile.

Qin Mu was stunned, shook his head and said: "You just used the magical power of creation to change the structure of the dead tree and bring it back to life... Wait a minute, I understand what you mean!"

He showed a look of disbelief and said in a lost voice: "You mean, time is our illusion! Our birth, aging, illness and death are actually changes in the material of our flesh. Time does not exist, it is an illusion caused by the change of matter!"

Ling Tianzun looked at him in surprise and joy, and said happily: "I finally met someone who can understand what I said! I told Yu Tianzun and the others about my thoughts, but they said I was joking! You are my fellow Taoist! That's right, time does not exist. If time existed, then there would be time magic in the world! But there is no time magic in this world, there is only an illusion caused by the change of matter! You call the magic power I just used the magic power of creation? The word creation, it's a good choice! Really good!"

She has a simple mind, and when she says "it's great", the emotion she expresses is "it's great" from the bottom of her heart, without any extra adjectives.

Qin Mu was shocked and stood there dumbfounded, muttering, "So is it possible that someone could go back to the past?"

"The past does not exist, only changing matter exists."

Ling Tianzun's eyes sparkled: "If there is matter that can return to its past form, then we can go back to ancient times. That's what I think. Can you understand me?"

The people around her still couldn't understand her. There was a buzz of discussion, mostly criticism. Someone whispered, "Ling Tianzun has gone mad..."

Ling Tianzun was furious and shouted, "In the future, I will definitely create a magical power that can make matter solidify forever. As long as you step on this matter, you can see the past, present and future of the entire universe!"

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