Chapter 665: The Wisest Tower
"What"s this supposed to mean?" I muttered to myself as I entered the first floor of the tower.
The number one was written on the floor of the room suggesting this was the first floor.
But the room itself struck me as something that is a bit simple.
No, Simple is an understatement. It was nothing more than a small wooden room that had a table in the middle with a piece of paper and a pen.
"Really? A law Quiz?" I sighed as I took a look at the paper.
There were three questions on the paper, and all three of them were pretty much beginner level.
How to enhance a certain type of formation.
Figure out the mistake in this inscription.
And correct the Qi flux of this inscription.
Three simple questions that wouldn"t take a cultivator who knows even a bit of inscription a few seconds to answer.
However, before I answered them, I noticed a small shelve with several books in it.
I went toward it and began reading the books. They were a few books describing inscriptions and how to solve and make them. Perhaps a.s.sistance for those who have weak knowledge of the inscription.
But then it hit me, this can"t be right. This is what probably everyone would think. I mean, everyone here is at the Void Stage at least, and they had enough time to read up and study some formation. I"d find it even harder to find someone with no knowledge of inscription at the void stage.
So, what"s the point of these tutorial books?
I kept reading until I finished all the books. Though I didn"t find anything out of the ordinary, something piqued my interest with the books themselves.
They were not in the correct order, so I replaced them in their right order and suddenly a door opened up behind the bookshelves.
Behind the door was a larger room that had many more papers with even more questions on them. Questions that delved into the deeper part of the inscription. Stuff that would take a cultivator an entire lifetime of studying to even come up with the question, not to mention the answer to such difficult and delicate topics.
I began answering some of the formulas and questions that seemed to hide the secrets of the laws of the very world itself.
As I was answering these dilemmas I came to understand a bit more about the creator of this tower the Wisest Sun.
He isn"t a person who tackles an endeavor directly, but rather takes his time and tries to realize the entire aspect of such a problem. Why did it come to exist and what would happen once solved?
He took his time in answering, and so did I.
I didn"t really care about the time dilation between here and the outside world as I was fully immersed in solving some of these problems.
Sooner than I thought, I was almost done with the majority of the questions. A good portion of this stuff was things I had already realized a long time ago, and the rest were things I understood from solving the five elemental keys and creating the Synthetic Meridian.
However, I was stuck with one final question that seemed to not have a single attempt at solving.
Perhaps other cultivators were also stuck here.
The question was simple. Why is it that if you use the same primordial laws as the heavens, your attempt would result in failure to create life, while the heavens could easily create life?
The answer is rather simple. And at the same time complex.
I then jotted down a simple sentence.
"One shouldn"t seek to mimic the heavens in creation, for they shall fail to understand its greatness. We live to seek a Dao that is already preordained and made, to try and recreate it one must be at the level of the heavens, and if one is already at that level, creating it would be moot and pointless.
Seeking knowledge and Dao is the path of a cultivator, yet trying to wrest the very notion of Dao as if to own it is something that isn"t allowed to man, it is only allowed to those of divinity."
It was rather simple. To recreate the same atmosphere and s.p.a.ce to make life is easy, but to breath something intangible such as life into a being is in the realm of creating something out of nothing.
Which does in fact heavily clashes with the heavenly law of the world. All matter exists only to transform and change. One cannot make something out of thin air. And to create life, one must give something of equal value.
Without noticing I had finished everything in this room, so I tried to find a way out but could do nothing but return to the former room.
I then realized that a small portal had already opened up for me in there.
I took a step inside it and found myself in another room.
Yet, the number on the floor was not two, but instead, Nine.
Which should have been the final floor of the tower.
I frowned at what just occurred and was about to check on my bracelet to see if there was a mistake.
"Don"t bother, you don"t need to clear the tower anymore," I heard.
Looking up ahead, it was the Wisest Sun himself. Or an apparition that looked like him.
"I had left that room there specifically for cultivators who can see through simplicity. So far, very few have managed to find it, and those who did, didn"t even solve a fraction of the problems in that room," he said.
"What was that? It feels a bit low level compared to your knowledge, I"ve seen the keys…" I said.
"It is indeed a bit less than what I can currently do, I have far surpa.s.sed my former self. However, those questions did plague me a lot when I was younger. To see someone capable of answering them like that made me reminisce on my journey as a cultivator," the Wisest Sun said.
"So, it was your study… I see, what about the rest of the floors?" I asked.
"They would have been nothing but a waste of time for you. Most of the floors are nothing but inscriptions and formations that require one to solve. You already far surpa.s.s the level where stuff like that can even entertain you. Anyway, tell me, I was very intrigued by your answer on the last paper," he said.
"Oh, you mean abut the Heavenly Law. It is what I have written, one shouldn"t seek to replace the Heavens unless they"re ready to be the Heavens themselves, and I don"t think that you actually think you can replace the heavens," I said.
"You don"t? a lot of other cultivators think otherwise," he said
"Indeed, they may think you"re their heaven, but do you honestly believe that you can take on that role? Let"s not talk about how you should become the very providence and religious and spiritual belief of the entire world itself. But do you think that you can see and guide existence itself? For better or worse," I said.
The wisest sun shook his head as he smiled, "No, I don"t dare to say I can. It is indeed a responsibility that is too great for man to take on."
"That"s why we"re not given the right to birth life out of nothing. One cannot create what is not there. Even though your attempt at creating life in the Vast Expanse was a partial success, you still failed to produce life in that domain. Everything came to exist from the fragmented piece of the exiled palace of the Darkest One. And some other pieces that fell along the way.
So without them, the Vast Expanse would still be as dark as the depth of abyss itself."
"I have come to realize that later down in my life. I admit that I had no will or ability to make life or create it. After all, all I did was recreate already existing laws, and throw them there to try and create life. Even if life did exist, it wouldn"t be me who made it, but the Heavenly Providence that created the laws themselves," he said.
"Indeed, however, I do admire the fact that you still attempted it. Not many would think of something like that," I said.
"That is the reason why I am called a Sun, though now I can see why the Lord of Lords had said that he sees hope in you too. You see not with your eyes, but with your mind, and I admire that. Now, tell me the answer to this question and you will be considered to have pa.s.sed." He said.
"Ask away," I said.
The Wisest Sun smiled and said, "What came first, the egg or the chicken?"
"…" I didn"t answer.
"Do you not know the answer?"
"I do, technically speaking the egg came first due to evolution and all that c.r.a.p, but your question isn"t something that I should answer like that, in fact, I refuse to answer that question."
The wisest Sun smiled and said, "You may proceed forward."