Time Stopped
Lu Yang looked at Meng Jingzhou with a strange expression. "Your Meng family has quite a few tricks up your sleeve when it comes to making money."
"Why are you looking at me like that? It wasn't me who drove up the price of the Ten Thousand Year Ice. It was the Meng family, the Meng family from tens of thousands of years ago." Although Meng Jingzhou kept referring to "our Meng family," when it came to matters of his reputation, he still wanted to distance himself from the Meng family.
Although the claim that the "Ten Thousand Year Ice" was maliciously hyped up by the Meng family, that only applies to ordinary ice. Items like Xuanbing Marrow and Ice Embryo are still quite useful after a certain age.
For example, those ancient cultivators who were in slumber often used tens of thousands of years of Xuanbing marrow to freeze their bodies, and now that they have awakened, they have walked right into the trap of the Great Xia Dynasty.
Even worse, some used Xuanbing Marrow that wasn't aged enough, or even fake Xuanbing Marrow at all, melting halfway through freezing and forcing premature birth. The ancient Nascent Body Integration Realm that Lu Yang encountered in the strange tales of Buyi Town were in this situation.
"Why would I need the Myriad-Year Profound Ice Marrow? If it were up to me, a single Immortal Fruit would be enough to guarantee they sleep until the end of time, never to awaken prematurely."
"But isn't your Immortal Fruit for the dead, Fairy? Can it guarantee that the corpse won't rot?"
"They're pretty much the same. Those guys who froze themselves with Xuanbing Marrow are practically dead. Otherwise, why do you think they're not limited by lifespan and can sleep until now? It's because they were in a state of suspended animation when they were frozen."
"Well, calling it a state of suspended animation isn't quite accurate; a more accurate description would be a near-time stop."
"Time stopped?"
The Immortal Fairy nodded seriously. At this moment, she thought of Yun Ya's warning to her not to tell Lu Yang too many extraordinary things. She thought of herself laughing at the High Antiquity, roaming the world, carefree and unrestrained.
She doesn't even consider Yun girl a threat!
Speak!
What I'm about to tell you is top secret, so don't tell Yun!
Wisdom, like that of an immortal fairy, quickly came up with a solution that would satisfy both parties.
"Fairy, you're right! You don't know me well enough. I'll keep my mouth shut!" Lu Yang patted his lips, assuring everyone that he was absolutely reliable.
Although Lu Yang still remembered his senior sister's warning, Lu Yang couldn't suppress his curiosity when he heard the Immortal Fairy talk about these things.
Of course, if the Immortal Fairy wants to recount the dark history of High Antiquity, that's a different story.
The first and second leaders exchanged a knowing smile, having already forgotten the infighting of three days prior.
"If you cultivate your Heavenly Eye and develop extraordinary eyesight, you will discover that all matter in the world is in motion, whether it is a person, an object, a speck of dust, or even the smallest particles that make up matter, as seen with your Heavenly Eye."
Everything is in motion.
"The Nine-fold Immortal possesses the Yin-Yang Dao Fruit and has mastered the ultimate temperature. He discovered that movement is not absolute. If you lower the temperature to the limit, even the smallest particles will be frozen and unable to move."
"The Nine Heavens Immortal inquired about this situation with the Time Immortal, who, after studying it, said that under extreme cold, the Nine Heavens Immortal could also stop time by utilizing the extreme cold."
"So? Even the Time Immortal can stop time?"
"Of course, the Time Immortal can stop time in the entire world, and its range is far wider than that of the Nine-fold Immortal."
"Later, the Nine Immortals discovered that the movement speed of the smallest particles would increase under high temperatures, so they adjusted the temperature to the highest level, which far exceeded that of the sun."
"At extremely high temperatures, the speed of the smallest particles reaches its limit, which is the speed of light. This is the realm of the Dao Fruit of Time."
Lu Yang secretly pondered the story he had just heard and felt he had gained a lot, "Fairy, do you mean that no matter what kind of Dao fruit one attains, they all lead to the same goal?"
The Immortal Fairy stared into Lu Yang's eyes for a while. She had only remembered this matter after seeing the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice Marrow; she had no other intentions.
"Yes, that's exactly the principle I wanted to tell you, but I didn't expect you to figure it out on your own!"
As they spoke, the group arrived at the gold mine.
As soon as they stepped into the Golden Vein, everyone felt a tingling sensation on their skin. The Golden Core automatically protected its master, covering the surface of their bodies with a thin layer of Spiritual Qi, and the tingling sensation disappeared.
"This is the unique, invisible golden energy of the Golden Vein. According to Elder Tong, who is also the Golden Vein Elder, the Golden Vein is composed of countless precious fine stone veins. These precious fine stones have their own unique pride, which does not allow them to coexist with other minerals. The collision between these fine stones causes the golden energy to leak out, which is why the Golden Vein has this unique phenomenon."
The land of the gold vein rarely grows vegetation. Even when there are Spirit Plant, they are those with a metallic luster, assimilated under the influence of the gold vein.
The fact that these Spirit Plant can grow in an environment filled with golden energy speaks volumes about their power.
Lu Yang's Sword Spirit Root is a variant of the metal Spirit Root. He can best sense the active metal energy in the metal vein. If he refines the metal energy, it will become the most basic Sword Qi.
Man Gu saw many disciples of the Five Elements Sect sitting cross-legged on the golden vein, with many Law Treasure Law Treasure floating above their heads, rising and falling as if floating on the sea.
Others operate in pairs, manipulating various Law Treasure to compete. These Law Treasure can even coordinate with each other to form powerful arrays. Such exquisite control demonstrates the strength of their Divine Sense.
Bai Ming smiled and said, "The Golden Vein excels at manipulating metal, which can be compared to sword control."
"If we're talking about the most skilled at manipulating metals, then it has to be the first Golden Vein Elder. His cultivation was earth-shattering, and every move he made conformed to the laws of nature. He was incredibly powerful. If it weren't for him moving several mines here at the beginning of the sect's founding, the Golden Vein as it is today would not have been formed."
"... So your Five Elements Sect stole its gold veins from somewhere else?"
"It can't be called stealing," Bai Ming corrected. "It's called illegal mining."
"Moreover, the first Golden Vein Elder had studied law. At that time, the Great Xia Dynasty had just been established, and the legal system was not yet perfect. There wasn't even a draft of the criminal law. He took advantage of this gap to quickly contribute to the sect and stole a few mines."
Since there is no draft criminal law, a crime cannot be established.
Lu Yang: "..."
"The first Golden Vein Elder said that as cultivators, every word and deed should conform to the laws of nature. This means that cultivators themselves are part of the laws of nature. Therefore, his relocation of the mine to the Five Elements Sect is not illegal mining, but a natural change of the mine. It's just that with his help, the change was faster, so it cannot be considered a crime."
"Then what?"
"The imperial court has not sent a letter."
I think so too.
"Later, he took out a loan from the Meng family and bought these mines."
Bai Ming glanced at Meng Jingzhou and added, "As for the loan from the Meng family, it was repaid off 60,000 years ago."
Still writing the second update