CHAPTER 76: CHAPTER 39: MOTHS CAN FLY (PART 2)

Including that woodcutter, how did he escape from the secret room, precisely when everyone had retracted their divine sense? This leads to a hypothesis, that is, the ability of the Hidden Moth may be subject to certain limitations, like it cannot be "seen" when triggered.

This should be the weakness of the Hidden Moth; otherwise, the Divine Nun of that year could not possibly have been exterminated. With the power of the Hidden Moth, she should have always been able to escape, right?

Six pages of scrolling flashed by, and the chessboard immediately returned to normal. Jiang Daozhen had already made a move, surprisingly a cannon directly at the head, the classic Youth Palace opening, then laughed: "It’s your turn."

Gu Chun, without a thought, moved a horse: "Are you compiling a list of antinomies here?"

Jiang Daozhen: "The last one doesn’t seem to be, does it?"

Gu Chun: "The last one could also be! Since it can’t be seen, how can it be proven? Since it can’t be proven, how can it be confirmed?"

Jiang Daozhen shook his head and said: "The unseen and the unproven are two different things. Phenomena are the law itself, the phenomenon of the Hidden Moth exists, we just need to list the facts.

And the facts I listed are all things you could have known before. It doesn’t violate logic; you’re a modern person, you should have heard of the observer effect.

No matter how you explain it, the observer effect exists, so it might exist in the Hidden Moth as well."

Gu Chun: "Being unseen is likely the weakness of the Hidden Moth, I have also had such speculations."

Jiang Daozhen: "Some things, even if you guess them, I suggest you don’t say it."

Gu Chun: "You want to protect the Hidden Moth?"

Jiang Daozhen: "What is the Hidden Moth’s crime? Don’t you think it’s necessary?"

Gu Chun: "Looks like you already know who he is."

Jiang Daozhen repeatedly shook his head: "You are wrong, I don’t know, nor do I want to know."

Gu Chun: "I just want to make it clear, why?" As they spoke, the two of them made several more moves, with the Earth Master taking the opportunity to capture one of Old Man Jiang’s pawns.

Jiang Daozhen insinuatingly said: "You’re really shameless."

Gu Chun: "Today I’m letting go of this old face."

Jiang Daozhen: "Once all the facts are listed, even a blind person can see that the most important change happened twelve hundred years ago, after the inheritance of the Insect Concealment Skill was severed!

One point can be almost confirmed: the later Hidden Moths probably never practiced the Insect Concealment Skill."

Gu Chun nodded and said: "Yes, the possibility of the Hidden Moth Technique being passed down from the Yin Niang and Kong’Er who left twelve hundred years ago is almost nonexistent."

Why was he so assertive? Because according to the remnants of the Magic Sect’s records, the Insect Concealment Skill was extremely hard to cultivate, resulting in very few disciples throughout the ages. Before the Yin Niang turmoil, apart from the Sect Leader, there was only one Yin Niang and two Kong’Er in the Hidden Moth Lineage.

Yin Niang and Kong’Er left the Magic Sect and concealed their identities. Without the strong backing of a large sect’s resources, they could keep passing down the Technique at home, but the chances of the next generation disciples entering the sect were slim, and the possibility of passing it down for a thousand years until now was almost zero.

Another important background is that after the woodcutter’s turmoil, major innovations occurred in all sects’ techniques.

At that time, due to the decline in inheritance, the cultivation of techniques became increasingly difficult. The elders of the Ancestral Hall worked together to reorganize and transform the techniques and techniques, making them easier to cultivate, effectively standardizing and simplifying them.

The progression ceremonies of each sect’s techniques were also explored during that historical period, and they summarized the most appropriate gate-breaking methods after repeated trial and error.

Since then, the cultivation of the Magic Sect shifted from the Ancient Technique era to the Modern Technique era. And the cultivation of ancient techniques was much more difficult than modern techniques, let alone the notoriously difficult Insect Concealment Skill?

Jiang Daozhen continued: "Therefore, from twelve hundred years ago, the way Hidden Moth was inherited changed. Hidden Moth Sect sorcerers have disappeared, and it has become the inheritance of the Hidden Moth Object."

Gu Chun: "Can the existence of the Hidden Moth Object be confirmed?"

Jiang Daozhen: "Assuming its existence, everything can be explained. Do you know why the Hidden Moth is named such? Because moths can fly, it can fly from one person to another, or from one object to another.

Why can’t we find the Hidden Moth? Because what we find is merely the person who became the Hidden Moth. By the time we find him, the Hidden Moth might have already flown away from him... The same applies to the Hidden Moth Object."

Gu Chun took a deep breath and said: "The Divine Artifact is shapeless, only its spirit?"

Jiang Daozhen: "The answer lies on the surface of the puzzle! But we still don’t know, under what circumstances will this moth fly away, or how it seeks its next host?"

Gu Chun: "Host? You actually use this term!"

Jiang Daozhen: "Don’t you think it’s akin to a parasitic model? The later Hidden Moths did not practice the Insect Concealment Skill, yet they used the Hidden Moth’s abilities, which would deplete their original vitality.

This phenomenon also exists, I have personally experienced it."

Gu Chun suddenly realized something and blurted out: "Could it be the ability of the Calculator..."

Jiang Daozhen interrupted him: "You guessed right! As the saying goes, man’s calculations are not as good as heaven’s calculations, the art of man’s calculation is trivial, but the way of heaven’s calculation depletes lifespan.

Although I am a few years younger than you, I can still claim to be an old man in front of you, for this reason, in truth, my age has already surpassed yours."

Gu Chun: "Then today..."

Jiang Daozhen: "Today’s words are all attributed to man’s calculations."

Gu Chun sighed deeply: "I didn’t know before, otherwise I wouldn’t always have come to you for matters."

Jiang Daozhen: "This is the secret of the Calculator, known only to Calculators. You also have secrets as Earth Masters, which you cannot disclose to outsiders, not even to other Magic Gate Elders in the Ancestral Hall.

I tell you today, so you’ll stop bringing certain matters to probe at me. However, if some people knew, they might use it to set traps, causing me to squander my life force.