Chang’e shook her head slightly and said, "I’m not sure. Even if Tathagata and the Jade Emperor joined forces at the time, they couldn’t find any cause. They even entered the Inner Image Land temporarily, but something seemed to happen there, and the two ended up in complete opposition, standing on opposite sides."
It’s genuinely complicated.
The Great Wilderness Era is too ancient to mention, but currently, only one Master of the Moon Palace, Chang Xin, has been found. The rest either became Wandering Souls or have completely disappeared in the river of time, leaving no trace behind. Even if they were once grand, nothing remains now.
Lu Ren vaguely understood why these people pursued immortality at all costs.
Time is the greatest enemy. The cosmos is constantly increasing in entropy, time keeps moving forward, and the Power of Time continuously erodes these Extraordinary beings with great power.
Are they afraid that they won’t even leave a trace in this universe?
Lu Ren was thoughtful but didn’t inquire further. Most of the time, he was incessantly questioning Chang’e about trivial details.
"I just want to know if you had things like bellybands back then?"
Standing in the Inner Realm, Lu Ren looked listlessly at his Path of Origin and casually asked Chang’e.
Although his True Body was actually within the Seeking Truth Realm, at this moment, due to the Body Reflection Realm, even the True Wind hadn’t appeared.
Because according to Changxi, if one stayed in the Seeking Truth Realm for too long, the True Wind would eventually come looking.
Strictly speaking, Lu Ren’s realm is just entering and exiting the Seeking Truth Realm. His Physique and Divine Soul need to endure seven tribulations in the Seeking Truth Realm, starting from the most basic True Wind entry to the highest unknown difficulty.
Each experience is a matter of life and death, causing Lu Ren to doubt who created this cultivation system, presenting such a perverse path forward.
"You rogue, you seek death!!"
Chang’e’s face was flushed with anger. If she weren’t forcibly imprisoned in the Inner Realm now, she would have already sought Lu Ren out to fight for her life.
"Ha? Could it be that productivity in your era was so low that you didn’t even have bellybands?"
Looking at Chang’e’s heaving chest, Lu Ren was a bit surprised and intrigued.
"I really want to know what productivity was like in that Mythical Era of yours."
According to the theory from the Security Bureau’s research institute, if a society’s productivity hasn’t developed to a certain level where it can be liberated, and a cultivation evolutionary system arises where all great power returns to oneself, then the entire society’s productivity would be oppressed to an extremely distorted degree.
Ordinary people would starve in large numbers, but the upper class would indulge in excessive luxury. Although the lower class might want to revolt, they often lack the resources to produce cultivators capable of rivaling the top ones of their time.
Except for those with Fortune.
The concept of Fortune has indeed been proven. When a person’s Fortune is strong, things tend to go smoothly, bad situations turn into good ones, and good situations turn into opportunities.
At least according to the Qi Fortune Research Institute, Lu Ren is undoubtedly a person with great Fortune and tremendous luck. If anyone in this world were to rise to power with the revival of the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Mechanism, Lu Ren would definitely be one of them.
Lu Ren didn’t refute this hypothesis at all; getting the system was the greatest opportunity under the heavens.
Chang’e’s expression was indifferent; she snorted coldly, unwilling to engage with Lu Ren. If it were in the past, she would’ve ensured a person like him was utterly annihilated.
Seeing Chang’e unwilling to engage, Lu Ren didn’t mind. He was just making conversation. After some pondering, he asked, "What is the name of the cultivation technique you practice?"
Upon hearing this, Chang’e showed a guarded expression and said, "What are you trying to do?"
Lu Ren said calmly, "Naturally, to accept everything and gather the best of all families, so that I can elevate myself to higher realms."
Lu Ren twisted his lips and shook his head as he walked forward, saying,
"I was just waiting for you to say that."
Watching Lu Ren block off the area with Chang’e, Xu Fu sighed, "Such a pity for a beauty of national renown."
Chen Xuzi rolled his eyes, "Are you even capable now?"
Xu Fu, hearing this, appeared somewhat disheartened, "Back when I asked Emperor Shi for three thousand boys and girls, they were carefully selected. That was my vast harem team!"
Chen Xuzi felt an instant chill, "You make me sick."
Kong Qiu said, "I always knew that the inner workings of your noble families were chaotic, but I didn’t expect it to be this chaotic."
Subodhi’s face was cold, "Harming children is a crime worthy of death!"
Xu Fu sneered, "Your Buddhist Sect isn’t any better. Do you still think you’re a white lotus?"
Upon hearing this, Subodhi wanted to say something, but he remembered seeing the Mani Temple on the Beidou Emperor Star, and the tragic scene left everyone with complex feelings.
Even though they wantonly committed murder and sacrificed people, they never thought of turning humans into livestock through generations of taming.
As a result, they even developed the delusion that they were still good people.
Of course, if Lu Ren knew about this, he would have snorted disdainfully and wouldn’t hesitate to crush these guys.
Eight hours later, Lu Ren opened the shielded area, feeling satisfied as he left the Inner Realm. As for Chang’e, lying on the ground with vacant eyes, she didn’t receive any further attention.
Witnessing this scene, Chang Xin couldn’t help biting her teeth, squeezing out two words through gritted teeth.
Paying a sliver of attention to the Inner Realm, Lu Ren heard Chang Xin’s cursing and smiled faintly.
Who was he kidding? He used some means just to force Chang’e for information, not for any lewd business between man and woman. Lu Ren dared to swear he never engaged in such things.
He wasn’t stooping to that level.
The Wandering Flowing Moon True Technique.
Although it’s called the Wandering Flowing Moon True Technique, it’s not about absorbing the Moonlight Power but about acquiring the Dark Attribute Energy in the cosmos, also known as Dark Matter Energy.
Modern scientific studies reveal that Dark Matter Energy has incredibly terrifying power; once engaged in antimatter collisions and explosions, it could unleash a force more intense than a nuclear bomb.
Refining this material requires extremely strong Spiritual Energy and a sufficiently resilient Physique as the foundation.
But the Wandering Flowing Moon True Technique is indeed about the synergy of body and mind, led by the Primordial Spirit, to construct a Dark Matter guiding bridge to absorb individual dark matter for refining within oneself.
Reading this, Lu Ren pondered. The Breathing and Exhaling Technique he had previously understood - those strange particles seemed to appear out of thin air...