After they talked about their feelings after parting, Ye Zhenji looked at Mo Tiange and mumbled. He wanted to say something but couldn't.
Mo Tiange was puzzled. "What? Is there something you want to say?
What can't you say to me? "
Ye Zhenji looked at her awkwardly and said carefully, "Auntie, you're back, so I should also come back. But master treats me so well. If I leave as soon as you come back, wouldn't that be bad?"
"So that's the problem." Mo Tiange smiled. "It's good that you have the heart.
Now that you're not a child and a Foundation Building cultivator, there's no reason for you to live in my small cave.
Besides, he's your master, so you should serve him. "
"But Auntie, you …" Ye Zhenji hesitated. "I don't want you to live alone."
Mo Tiange shook her head. "I'm not a child. Besides, I'm about to enter Closed Door Meditation to advance to the Core Formation realm, which will take at least 20 to 30 years. Even if you come back, I can't take care of you."
"This …"
"You don't have to feel embarrassed. You should go back," Mo Tiange said faintly.
"Since your master treats you well, you should also fulfill your filial duties as a disciple. I'm busy forming my Gold Core now, so I really can't take care of you."
"… Alright." Ye Zhenji was in a dilemma, but in the end, he listened to her.
"Alright, you've been here for a long time. You should go back now."
"Got it, Auntie.
You just came back, so rest well. I'll come and see you when I have time. "
Mo Tiange nodded with a smile and watched him leave.
Mo Tiange was the only one left in the room. Her smile disappeared and she sat in silence for a while.
All kinds of feelings flashed through her heart, but in the end, she just sighed.
Forget it, forget it. In fact, it's better for Zhenji this way, and she'll have fewer worries.
Lord Daoist Jinghe waited for a long time, but no one came. He couldn't help but mutter, "Strange, why isn't she here yet?"
Mingxia, who was waiting on the side, asked, "Grandmaster, what are you waiting for?"
"Waiting for that unfilial, dead girl!" Lord Daoist Jinghe waved his hand impatiently. "She's still not here? Did she really change?"
"Martial Uncle Mo?" Mingxia was puzzled. "Grandmaster, why did Martial Uncle Mo come?
Don't you want her to rest? "
"If I give Zhenji to that brat, he'll definitely be angry!"
Lord Daoist Jinghe, who was holding a cup of tea, said with a frown, "According to her previous personality, she'd definitely come to throw a tantrum if she was angry, but why didn't she come today?"
"…" Mingxia was speechless.
Having served this grandmaster for decades, she certainly knew what kind of personality the grandmaster had. But to wait for his own disciple to denounce him … Was this something a Nascent Soul grandmaster would do?
"What kind of expression is that?" Lord Daoist Jinghe glared at his maid.
Mingxia said, "Grandmaster, why do I feel like you just want to make Martial Uncle Mo angry?
What good will it do her to be angry? "
"Sigh, you don't understand!"
Lord Daoist Jinghe shook his head and said, "I've lived for almost a thousand years; if I don't find some fun for myself, life would be boring!
Besides, that girl is a cultivation maniac. I don't want to teach her to be like our stinky brat. Failure once is enough, but she still taught such a disciple. That's my biggest failure! "
Mingxia blinked her eyes. "Why do I feel like you actually want to be a matchmaker?"
Lord Daoist Jinghe was speechless for a long time after Mingxia hit the nail on the head.
Seeing that there was no one around, Mingxia mustered her courage and asked, "Grandmaster, didn't you say in the past that the people of the Dao Sect who don't engage in dual cultivation have their own benefits? Without any worries, their mental states will be more peaceful?"
Lord Daoist Jinghe rubbed his nose and said, "Dual Cultivation also has its advantages … Besides, this matter has to be looked at in detail. That stinky brat obviously has a knot in his heart, so I might as well help him."
"Knot in his heart?
Help him? "
Mingxia didn't understand, but Lord Daoist Jinghe didn't plan to answer. He scratched his head and said, "Enough. Go take a look at what that girl is doing. Is she really not angry at all?"
Angry?
Mo Tiange asked herself.
Of course she couldn't not be angry. This master of hers clearly wanted to scheme against her.
But after thinking about it carefully, she felt it was better to entrust Zhenji to someone else in her current state.
Now that she was about to form her Gold Core, there were too many things she had to do. Zhenji was already in the Foundation Building realm, so there wasn't much she could do for him.
That being the case, why should she be angry with that unreliable master?
It wouldn't benefit her and would only make other people happy for nothing.
Mo Tiange collected her thoughts and rested for a few days. During this time, she casually dismissed the maids who came to inquire about her.
After the incident at Bixuan Court, she had never longed to advance and become stronger as much as she did now.
Later, Ye Jingwen, Luo Fengxue, Han Qingyu, and even Kuang Zhu and the others all sent her Summoning Talismans to ask about her.
Mo Tiange went to visit them one by one.
Ye Jingwen's cultivation went smoothly and he was already in the late stage of the Foundation Building realm.
Although Luo Fengxue didn't make any progress in her cultivation, she became the chief steward of Sweet Dew Peak and was like a fish in water.
Like her, Han Qingyu and Kuang Zhu were already in the peak stage of the Foundation Building realm and were waiting to form their Gold Cores.
Zhan Bai couldn't advance, so he was in Closed Door Meditation. His two sworn brothers and sisters, Xiaoguzi and Xiaozui, failed to build their foundations several times and were now ordered by Kuang Zhu to enter Closed Door Meditation. They weren't allowed to leave until they built their foundations.
By the time she finished her visits, Mo Tiange already had a better understanding of the reason why all Foundation Building disciples were summoned back to the school.
Martial Uncle Xuanyin moved to Sweet Dew Peak. As his disciple, Luo Fengxue was also good at managing things, so all the affairs on Sweet Dew Peak were now handled by her.
Regarding this matter, Luo Fengxue secretly leaked some information to her.
As it turned out, during the school's major competition twenty years ago, when two Core Formation martial uncles were having a competition, they accidentally caused the mountain wall to collapse and unexpectedly discovered that there was an extremely secret magic formation hidden in the valley of the main peak.
After some investigation, the school head and several Core Formation elders believed that this magic formation was set up at least more than a hundred thousand years ago, so they immediately reported this matter to the grandmasters of each peak.
Xuanqing School had been established for several tens of thousands of years, and it had produced countless astonishing and outstanding people. This formation was actually located deep inside the main peak of Mount Taikang and hadn't been discovered for several tens of thousands of years — this was too inconceivable.
Mo Tiange pondered for a moment then asked Luo Fengxue, "More than a hundred thousand years ago … could it be left behind from the Middle Ages era?"
Luo Fengxue nodded then shook her head. "Several martial uncles have seen it. That's indeed what they think, but they're not sure."
According to legend, after several million years in the Distant Past era, the human world was almost destroyed during the great war between the immortals and the devils. Only a few people survived, and the immortals and devils were separated from the human world.
From then on, it was known as the Middle Ages era.
Mo Tiange once heard Lord Daoist Jinghe talk about this ancient legend.
Lord Daoist Jinghe believed that the world came from nothing and that God had always been adjusting the rules of the human world.
In the Distant Past era, God was also in the human world. Later, they discovered that it was best for God not to interfere with the development of the human world, so God left the human world.
Then, at the end of the Distant Past era, the great war between the immortals and the devils led to a catastrophe. This period of time was known as the Death of Gods. Because the etiquette in the human world collapsed, demons and devils ran amok, but God didn't care, so the human world was almost destroyed. In the end, the immortals and devils who cultivated and achieved the Dao also left the human world.
Then came the Middle Ages era. There were no God, immortals, or devils, but there was abundant spiritual aura and resources like in the Distant Past era. As a result, cultivators and devil cultivators developed too fast, so the righteous and devil cultivators fought again. This time, the world changed and the sea turned into mulberry fields.
Later, the human world finally stabilized. There was no more rich spiritual aura and natural treasures that could be seen everywhere.
Whether it was cultivators or devil cultivators, they all struggled to survive. There was no longer any news of people ascending. Righteous and devil cultivators still fought, but they no longer had the power to destroy the world.
In the end, Lord Daoist Jinghe said, "God is the ruler of the world, while immortals and devils represent good and evil. Good and evil can't coexist since ancient times, so they're natural enemies.
Although God doesn't care about the human world anymore, everything in the human world is in their hands.
The power of immortals and devils is too great, so they separated the immortal world and the devil world and let the world be destroyed.
Cultivators and devil cultivators are too powerful, so when the Middle Ages era ended, the world changed and the world no longer had abundant spiritual aura.
From the moment the world was born, if the development of the human world wasn't satisfactory, it would be destroyed and rebuilt.
Hmph, we're all puppets in God's hands. Even if we're successful in our cultivation, we'll just be higher-level puppets. "
These words were indeed shocking to Foundation Building cultivators.
Mo Tiange thought for a long time and asked, "Then why do we cultivate?
What if we can't achieve the Great Dao in the end? "
Lord Daoist Jinghe said, "Silly girl, even high-level puppets are better than low-level puppets.
Besides, the Great Dao isn't necessarily hopeless. This is just Master's deduction. You've seen Deification cultivators. Are they happy? "
She remembered Zhong Muling and Yuan Bao and said hesitantly, "They said … they're already equivalent to God in the human world."
"Correct.
The world will always be destroyed and rebuilt, but what does that have to do with us?
The Distant Past era has been millions of years, and the Middle Ages era has been hundreds of thousands of years. Can we live that long?
We're not Deification cultivators, so how do we know we can't achieve the Great Dao?
After we become Deification, if we can become immortals and reach the immortal world, can we seek the next step?
Can we cultivate and become God in the end? "
In the end, Lord Daoist Jinghe said, "As long as there's hope for the Great Dao, it's worth fighting for.
What does the change in the world have to do with us? "
"In the Middle Ages era, the spiritual aura was as abundant as in the Distant Past era. Many things were inherited from the Distant Past era and were extremely powerful.
After discovering this magic formation, several martial uncles and I immersed ourselves in studying it for more than ten years.
In the end, we finally discovered that this magic formation was used by a certain cultivation group in the Middle Ages era to train its disciples. "
Luo Fengxue pulled Mo Tiange back from her thoughts. She pondered for a moment and asked, "What can we get from here?"
Luo Fengxue said, "Spiritual plants."
Mo Tiange was stunned. "After so many years, these spiritual plants can't be used anymore, right?"
Luo Fengxue smiled. "That's not true. In fact, this magic formation doesn't reward disciples with spiritual plants. After more than a hundred thousand years, those things can't be used anymore. Instead, the spiritual plants growing inside might be very ordinary at that time, but after more than a hundred thousand years, they're the most precious treasures."
"I see …" Mo Tiange pondered for a moment then asked, "In the Distant Past era, there must've been a lot of high level cultivators. Why did they want us, Foundation Building disciples, to go?"
Luo Fengxue said, "Tiange, don't forget that high level cultivators back then were much more powerful than they are now.
This magic formation automatically adjusts the difficulty of the disciples who enter according to their cultivation levels. Several martial uncles have tried it, but Nascent Soul and Core Formation cultivators couldn't pass many tests. Foundation Building disciples, on the other hand, managed to pass a bit more. "