"Senior... Senior Brother? What are you doing here?"
To be honest, Li Xingkong was quite surprised to see that it was Jiang Ziya who had come.
The fact that he called him "junior brother" made Li Xingkong even more confused. No matter how you arrange the seniority, he couldn't possibly be of the same generation as him.
"Hahaha, in this vast and Primordial World, our meeting is fate, and your choice of my Moonlight Record is even more so. Good."
"However, the first time you used the Moonlight Record to travel through time, it was truly quite a long time ago, more than ten thousand years ago."
Jiang Ziya, carrying a fish basket, slowly walked through the void, step by step, until he reached Li Xingkong.
"Uh, I didn't expect the time span to be so long."
Li Xingkong was also somewhat taken aback. It was his first time jumping through timelines, and who would have thought something like this would happen?
"Wow, it's gone! The Heluo Fish is gone!"
Just then, Jingwei, from a great distance, saw the giant Heluo Fish disappear, and a deep abyss appeared before her. Overjoyed by the disappearance of the Heluo Fish, she rushed directly towards Li Xingkong.
From a distance, she saw Li Xingkong and another person standing in the air, talking about something, so she quickened her pace and rushed over.
"Haha, this must be Jingwei, I've heard of her for a long time."
Upon meeting, Jiang Ziya recognized him at a glance.
"So powerful! Are you also an immortal from the future?"
Jingwei flew around the two of them a few times before landing on Li Xingkong's shoulder.
"That's true. It's good that you've come; the fish we just caught is very fresh. You're lucky to have such a delicious meal."
Jiang Ziya stroked his beard and laughed.
"Senior brother, what about this abyss..."
The fish were caught, but the vast ocean here has not recovered.
"Don't worry, this rain will last a long time."
Although the Heluo Fish was captured, the rain it summoned showed no signs of abating.
The torrential rain has left behind a series of small pools at the bottom of the deep pit Heluo Fish were caught.
"This rain..."
Speaking of this, Li Xingkong was still somewhat puzzled about the origin of this rain. It seemed to defy all the laws of nature, like a piece of code that had been directly embedded into this world.
"Let it rain for now. The raindrops may be big, but they nourish all things, which is a good thing."
"Little Jingwei, would you like to try some grilled fish?"
Jiang Ziya smiled, stroked his beard, and then turned to look at Jingwei.
"I want to eat it, grilled fish is so delicious."
"Hahaha, let's go then, let's have some grilled fish first. These little fish we caught are at their best, not bad, not bad."
Peeking inside, I saw that besides the Heluo Fish, there were no other fish in Jiang Ziya's fish basket.
Tsk.
Li Xingkong could only silently mourn for it in his heart; meeting his senior brother was a way of giving it a quick death.
To avoid being slowly torn apart by your own dull knife.
Reaching the shore, Jiang Ziya found an open space, and with a wave of his hand, a set of picnic equipment appeared before him.
The two men and the bird sat down around the cooking utensils, and then Jiang Ziya leisurely picked up the small fish from the fish basket and skewered it onto a string of sticks.
"Alright, alright, just wait a little while, and the fish will be grilled."
"White-bearded sage, is this one fish enough for the three of us?"
Jingwei clearly didn't know what kind of fish this little fish was; she only knew that its head was large enough to feed more than one person.
Hearing this, Li Xingkong couldn't help but want to laugh.
"Alright, alright, you'll find out soon enough. Let's wait for your senior brother to finish baking."
"This kind of fish is hard to find; it's a once-in-a-millennium opportunity."
"Are such small fish really that hard to find? But come to think of it, I've never seen this kind of fish before. Are there really such strange fish?"
Having lived by the sea for decades, Jingwei had never seen this kind of fish before.
"Grilling fish is an art; these fish are hard to catch and hard to grill."
Jiang Ziya skewered the fish and then brushed it with some seasonings from the side.
Different types of fish require different types of fire, but where does that fire come from?
After placing the skewers with the fish on them, Jiang Ziya reached out and wrote the character for "fire" on the ground.
Then, he simply reached out and grabbed, and a ball of flame leaped out from the written words and landed in his palm.
"Ordinary people can only start a fire by rubbing sticks together or using flint. With cultivation, one can start a fire with Magic Power."
"And having reached this level, one can now extract a flame from the concept of the word 'fire'."
Jiang Ziya raised the fire in his hand, bringing it closer to Li Xingkong.
"Look at this fire. It has no source, no fuel, no firewood. How do you think it started?"
Li Xingkong used his Divine Sense to examine the fire for a while. Jiang Ziya did not provide Magic Power to maintain its burning, and Li Xingkong could not find any igniters or accelerants around the fire.
"Here, take a closer look."
Jiang Ziya tossed the fire in his hand to Li Xingkong.
Li Xingkong quickly reached out and caught it.
This fire possessed all the attributes that fire should have, whether it was temperature, combustion, or any other properties, it was exactly the same as the flames that Li Xingkong knew.
The only problem is that he himself doesn't know how the fire started.
"That's just the concept."
Seeing that Li Xingkong was engrossed in his research, Jiang Ziya did not interrupt him. Instead, he took another ball of fire and threw it under the fish.
"The so-called concept has nothing to do with reality or cultivators. It's like a switch for the universe; once you turn it on, it will keep running until someone turns it off."
"So, you see, this fire, even if I ignore it now and just leave, it will still burn. Just like this rain, even though I caught this little fish, the rain it summoned won't stop."
Li Xingkong looked at the ball of fire in his hand, kneading it over and over. Even Jingwei, who was standing next to him, became curious and reached out to warm her hand over the fire.
With Li Xingkong's protection, it wasn't injured, but the scorching heat still enveloped it.
"It's really hot!"
"So, when you come to this Primordial World, the so-called rules may change. Nothing is immutable. All cultivation methods and spells will eventually encounter times when they don't adapt to the new environment."
"But concepts are something that can be used anywhere, regardless of whether there are corresponding rules."
"How do you learn concepts like that?"
"Man follows the earth, the earth follows heaven, and heaven follows nature. All cultivation practices are not born out of thin air; they are developed only after witnessing the desolation of heaven and earth."