At Odds

When they opened their eyes, the villagers from East Village all felt somewhat dazed.

It was already dark.

Time really flies!

In the past, they could only cultivate for an hour or two at most before they became restless, let alone cultivate from dawn to dusk like today.

Anyone who can do this every day is considered extremely diligent in their eyes.

It's not that all of them are lazy and don't like to cultivate; the key is that after cultivating for one or two hours on a typical day, they don't make much progress, and even cultivating for another five or six hours yields minimal results.

That's why they gradually became lax in their cultivation.

Most importantly, they discovered that today's cultivation not only allowed them to immerse themselves deeply, but also resulted in remarkable growth in their cultivation! The growth they achieved in just one day was equivalent to the growth they had accumulated over a hundred or eighty days of cultivation in the past!

With this speed, let's not even talk about the Spirit Transformation Stage, which is too far away; they think the closest stage is the Golden Core Stage, which they feel has a very good chance of achieving!

If they had all been as absorbed in their cultivation as they are today, time would have flown by in the blink of an eye, and many in Great Wind Valley would surely have become addicted to cultivation.

After all, there aren't many interesting things to do on a daily basis to consume energy and pass the time.

The group from East Village were quite excited and wanted to ask Lin Xiao if their cultivation would be as smooth as it was today every day.

But they found that Lin Xiao was nowhere to be seen in the courtyard.

Lin Xiao left a message for them from his seat, saying that he had gone to the library to study, and that if they finished their cultivation, they could go home on their own. Classes would resume as usual tomorrow.

The people in the courtyard looked at each other in bewilderment.

They wanted to ask Mr. Lin if he could bring more people tomorrow, but he wasn't there.

The others turned their gaze to Dong Que, the village chief.

Dong Que helplessly spread his hands. "Mr. Lin went to the study to learn, and it wouldn't be appropriate for me to disturb him at this time."

At this moment, Lin Xiao was no longer referred to as "Brother Lin" as he was yesterday, but had become the respected "Mr. Lin."

"How about we go back and talk to the others first?" someone suggested.

Dong Que nodded and said, "Okay, let's go back and talk to the people with higher cultivation levels, at least Foundation Establishment or above. As for Qi Refining, we'll ask Mr. Lin later if we can teach them separately when we get back. We shouldn't take up too much of Mr. Lin's time."

"Old Dong is right," the other person nodded, looking around the small courtyard, "Besides, Mr. Lin's courtyard can't accommodate all of our village's people."

"Alright, it's settled then." Dong Que made the decision. "I'll keep an eye on things tonight, and I'll come over and ask Mr. Lin about it when he gets back later."

The group agreed and dispersed to go home for dinner.

They planned to visit other families in the village who were in the Foundation Establishment Realm stage after dinner.

There aren't many Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators in East Village. In a village of over a thousand people, there are only a few dozen Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators, most of whom are still in the Foundation Establishment Early Stage.

Therefore, it didn't take too long for the group to split up and visit different places to mobilize people for cultivation.

But when Dong Que finished his work in the middle of the night and groped his way home in the dark, he found that Lin Xiao from next door still hadn't returned.

Looking at the completely dark and silent next door, Dong Que felt a little suspicious. Could it be that Mr. Lin had already returned but had gone to sleep?

Unsure, let's see.

He was worried that knocking on the door might disturb someone's sleep, so he stayed close to his fence, intently observing the neighbor's house, trying to find any clues in the darkness to see if anyone was inside.

As a result, they didn't discover anything, but instead attracted his daughter's attention.

"Father, what are you doing here?" Dong Li had gotten up to use the outhouse, rubbed his sleepy eyes and looked at the figure by his fence.

Dong Que turned away awkwardly, walked over, took his daughter's hand, and led her into the house. "It's nothing, Dad just saw a moth by the fence and went to chase it away."

"Oh, is that moth big?"

"It's huge, as big as Dad's palm."

"Next time Daddy sees this, he should A Li to watch it with him."

"Okay, Dad will call you next time."

Lin Xiao didn't return to his room all night; he stayed in the study.

It wasn't until dawn, when the Lock Ring with its newly added alarm clock function reminded him, that he reluctantly pulled himself out of the sea of knowledge.

To be honest, although some of the traditions of the Great Wind Valley are quite ancient, there is a lot to learn, especially the various high-level formations Law Technique, which have opened up a whole new world for him.

Previously, he had always tried to understand things according to his own logic, making it difficult for him to achieve some of the more abstract and profound understandings.

For example, regarding Storage Bag, he can understand the Storage Bag made by the system, and he even feels that the system makes the Storage Bag the way it does based on his understanding, such as determining the size of the Storage Bag according to the area of the fabric used to make it.

The Lock Ring, which he developed himself, was also made according to his own understanding and connection logic of spatial arrays.

He had always thought it was like this.

Even based on the numerous Cultivation Method and mental cultivation methods he obtained from the Immortal Cultivation Realm, as well as the information he gathered from his interactions with the Yuan Household, he didn't find anything wrong with them.

Until he saw the Universe in the Sleeve in the book pavilion.

This is truly Universe in the Sleeve; you can put items into your own void space with a simple gesture. It's a mustard seed space that you can use anytime, anywhere, no matter how you change your clothes or sleeves, rather than just having a storage space inside your sleeve.

Moreover, this void is not the void they tore through during their Spirit Transformation Stage, but rather a mustard seed space that seems to belong only to individual consciousness and spirit.

This mustard seed space does not exist in the void; it exists only as long as the person exists. If the person disappears, it will disappear along with the space.

Simply put, Lin Xiao subconsciously believed that energy is conserved, the world is material, and that the end of science is metaphysics, while the end of metaphysics is also science.

However, after coming into contact with the legacy of the Great Wind Valley, he found that his previous understanding had been challenged to some extent.

According to his current understanding, if he had to summarize and explain it, his previous cultivation logic could be called a concept, while the logic of the Great Wind Valley inheritance was intention.

He felt that much of what he had inherited was difficult to explain according to his original logic, and he could not make logical consistency with it.

For example, if the owner of that mustard seed space were to perish, the mustard seed space would also disappear. So where would the things inside go? Would they be absorbed into the greater universe?

His understanding was that this thing would never completely disappear; it might have simply changed, perhaps transforming into another form and being absorbed into the universe, or perhaps converting into some kind of energy, and so on.

However, if we interpret it this way, it contradicts the concept of the Great Wind Valley's heritage.