assistirfilmes Chapter 535: Time stoppage
Chapter 535: Time stoppage
Chapter 535: Time stoppage
Lu Yang looked at Meng Jingzhou with a peculiar expression. "Your Meng family sure has a lot of tricks up its sleeve to make money."
"Why are you looking at me like that? It wasn't me who inflated the price of the Ten Thousand Year Ice. It was the Meng family, from tens of thousands of years ago." Although Meng Jingzhou often said "our Meng family," when it came to his reputation, he was quick to distance himself.
Though the Ten Thousand Year Ice was indeed manipulated by the Meng family, it was only for ordinary ice. If it were something like Xuan Ice Essence or Ice Embryo, it would still be quite useful after many years.
For instance, ancient cultivators often used Xuan Ice Essence that was tens of thousands of years old to freeze their bodies, waking up now only to find themselves trapped in Great Xia.
Some were even more unfortunate, using Xuan Ice Essence that wasn't old enough or was outright fake, causing the ice to melt halfway and forcing them to awaken prematurely. The ancient Body Fusion stage cultivators Lu Yang encountered in Buyi Town's Rule's Strange were in such a predicament.
"Why bother with Ten Thousand Year Xuan Ice Essence? According to this Immortal, one Immortal Fairy fruit would ensure they sleep forever, never waking prematurely."
"But Immortal Fairy, isn't your Immortal Fairy fruit meant for preserving corpses, preventing them from decaying?"
"What's the difference? Those who freeze themselves with Xuan Ice Essence are practically dead anyway. Why else do you think they can sleep until now without aging? It's because they're in a state of suspended animation."
"Well, calling it suspended animation isn't entirely accurate. It's more like near-time stoppage."
"Time stoppage?"
The Immortal Fairy nodded seriously. At that moment, she recalled Little Yun's warning not to reveal too much to Lu Yang. She thought of her own carefree days, roaming the ancient world, unrestrained.
Little Yun? She didn't take her seriously at all!
"Listen, what I'm about to tell you is top secret. Don't let Little Yun know!"
Wise as the Immortal Fairy was, she quickly thought of a perfect solution.
"Please, Immortal Fairy, you know me. I can keep a secret!" Lu Yang patted his mouth, promising his reliability.
Though Lu Yang remembered his eldest senior sister's warning, his curiosity was piqued by the Immortal Fairy's tales.
Of course, if the Immortal Fairy wanted to share some ancient dark history, that would be a different story.
Lu Yang, with his sword spiritual root, a variant of the metal spiritual root, could feel the active metal energy of the Metal Vein. If refined, this metal energy would become the most basic sword energy.
Man Gu saw many disciples of the Five Elements Sect sitting cross-legged on the Metal Vein, with artifacts floating above their heads, rising and falling like they were floating on the sea.
Some worked in pairs, controlling multiple artifacts in combat, forming powerful arrays. Their precise control showed the strength of their divine sense.
Bai Ming smiled and said, "The Metal Vein specializes in controlling metals, similar to swordsmanship."
"The best at controlling metals was the first Metal Vein elder. His cultivation was earth-shattering, and his every move conformed to natural laws. He was incredibly powerful. If it weren't for him moving several veins here when the sect was founded, the Metal Vein wouldn't exist as it does today."
"So, the Metal Vein of your Five Elements Sect was stolen from elsewhere?"
"Not stolen," Bai Ming corrected. "It was illegal mining."
"And the first Metal Vein elder studied law. When Great Xia was just established, the legal system was incomplete, and the criminal code hadn't even been drafted. He took advantage of this gap to contribute to the sect by stealing several veins."
Without a criminal code, there was no crime.
Lu Yang: "..."
"The first Metal Vein elder said that as cultivators, our actions should conform to natural laws. This implies that cultivators are part of natural laws. So moving the veins to the Five Elements Sect wasn't illegal mining but natural migration of the veins, just sped up with his help, which isn't a crime."
"And then?"
"The imperial court didn't buy it."
"I figured."
"Later, he took a loan from the Meng family to buy those veins."
Bai Ming glanced at Meng Jingzhou and added, "As for the loan from the Meng family, it was paid off sixty thousand years ago."
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