Hidden moth

Chapter 223: Step by step into the cloud

"Then how do we verify the identity of the secret disciples?" He Kao finally asked a very concerned question.

Gu Chun smiled. "For secret disciples, their masters also need to be reported to the sect for registration and filing. According to the tradition of the sect, only the head of the sect is qualified to review the specific information, and it will not be made public."

He Kao: "For example, if I were your secret disciple, and someone applied to the clan law hall to verify my identity, what would be the result?"

Gu Chun: "The result is that I can't find you. You don't appear in the public disciple list. Otherwise, the so-called secret disciple would lose its meaning."

He Kao: "Wouldn't that make me a wanderer in the martial arts world?"

Gu Chun: "Being a wandering Jianghu person is not breaking the law, nor is it violating any of the sect's rules!"

He Kao: "What if I did something bad?"

Gu Chun: "No matter who uses magic to commit evil, the Zongfa Hall will punish them as soon as they are discovered. If you are my secret disciple, I will be the first to kill you... What do you think, are you afraid?"

"I'm just giving an example!" He Kao asked with a grin, "So, under what circumstances can you ask for verification of my identity as a secret disciple? For example, if there are rumors in the martial arts world that I am your secret disciple."

Gu Chun: “Even if you go to the archives bureau to check someone’s file, you must have a legal reason and it must be signed and confirmed by the supervisor. Otherwise, who would allow you to check it at will?

The identity of a secret disciple can be verified, but sufficient reasons must be provided. Otherwise, it will be an enemy! Not only an enemy with you, but also an enemy with me.

After all, you're still worried about yourself. To tell you the truth, you're not only my secret disciple, but also Jiang Daozhen and Li Xiuyuan's secret disciple. The Xinpan Sect, Lingxi Sect, and Xingshen Sect all have your registration and archived information."

He Kao was slightly taken aback. Something was amiss. When had he become a true secret disciple, and even been registered? The three elders hadn't even spoken to him. Was this considered acting without prior approval?

But on second thought, spiritual practice focuses on karma and the law of karma. From the perspective of karma and the law of karma, he is indeed the secret disciple of these three elders... Since ancient times, the secret disciples have been so particular that sometimes even the disciples themselves are kept in the dark at the beginning.

He had once kowtowed to Elder Jiang as a teacher... Thinking of this, he immediately stood up and kowtowed to Elder Gu on the spot, but he just kowtowed without saying anything.

Gu Chun didn't stop him, but sat there watching with a smile on his face. The more he watched, the more satisfied he felt. This child was very insightful. He knew what to do without even needing to be told.

Seeing that He Kao had finished his formal greetings, Gu Chun waved his hand and said, "Hurry up and get up. Stop being so weird! It's not easy to come all this way. Is there anything else you want to ask me, old man?"

What do you mean it's not easy to come all this way? He Kao is a hidden moth, able to teleport here instantly. But he didn't refute it. After standing up, he asked in a tone of inquiry: "What about those three rumors from a thousand years ago?"

Gu Chun glared slightly and said, "Are you the Hidden Moth or am I the Hidden Moth? I should be the one asking you this!"

He Kao: "But I don't know what a tracking imprint is, and I don't have the ability to do it."

Gu Chun: "No, you should have!"

He Kao: “I really didn’t!”

Gu Chun spread his hands and said, "Then I don't know what happened. Anyway, I have already told Fabre everything I know."

When the old man told Fabre, he was equivalent to telling He Kao, because he had just relayed the details of his communication with Fabre to He Kao through his mind seal.

He Kao: "Then you just said - I should have it?"

Gu Chun: "Perhaps it's because your cultivation isn't good enough yet. You're only at the fourth level right now. Why don't you wait until you break through to the sixth level and see?"

He Kao: "Isn't what you said the same as what Fabre said?"

Gu Chun: "But we are different. I have no ill will towards you. On the contrary, I am very curious about you."

He Kao scratched his head and said, "I'm confused by you. Do you really believe what he said?"

Gu Chun: "It doesn't matter whether I believe it or not. I just know that the rumor is not true, but thousands of years ago, many people believed it."

He Kao: "Why? Are there problems with their brains?"

Gu Chun glared and said, "Don't talk like that, those are the ancestors!"

He Kao: "But those ancestors are fighting among themselves, especially a group of ancestors who teamed up to kill the ancestor of my Yin E Sect. Who should I speak up for?"

Gu Chun: "Before the truth is revealed, you can keep silent." Then he pondered, "That Fabre is not a good person, but with such a high level of cultivation, he is definitely not a fool. The ancestor from a thousand years ago was definitely not a fool either.

They actually believed the rumors, which led to internal strife within the sect. There must be a reason for this. I can now confirm that even if the masters of the various sects controlled the cave heavens, they would not be able to leave any tracking marks for their disciples.

Perhaps only the cryptic moth can do it.

Or perhaps it was the Hidden Moth's ability that threatened many people in the sect at the time, which led to the civil unrest... Of course, it could also be that the Hidden Moth did something that angered heaven and man."

He Kao sighed and said, "What you said is the same as not saying anything... What exactly happened a thousand years ago?"

Gu Chun also sighed, "It's been so long and the records are missing, it's hard to figure it out. Old Man Jiang has been sorting through the sect's classics and collecting various scattered rumors over the years, and he's done the most in-depth research on this.

He believed that the rumors might be somewhat untrue, but they might not be entirely groundless. Since ancient times, the disciples of the Yin'e Sect, whether Yinniang or Kong'er, were indeed extremely skilled in tracking.

If the Hidden Moth himself could cultivate the Hidden Moth technique to a high level, perhaps some of his magical powers would be similar to the legend. Old Man Jiang is very interested in this, but if he wants to verify it, he must cultivate a real Hidden Moth.

He Kao sighed, "Mr. Jiang's ideas are completely different from Fabre's!"

After hearing the same rumor, Fabre didn't want someone who could track him at any time; while Jiang Daozhen wanted to train a hidden moth again to see if he had the ability as rumored.
Gu Chun inexplicably changed the subject and asked, "Fabre said that the world is a cage. What do you think?"

He Kao: "That may be true, but people are born in a cage and exist because of it. It all depends on how you define that cage. For people, ignorance, incompetence, and lack of conduct are the cage. It is precisely because of the existence of the cage that it provides the possibility of transcendence."

Gu Chun waved his hand and said, "Let's not talk about Rousseau and Kant." He Kao: "You know them too, don't you?"

Gu Chun rolled his eyes and said, "I was a college student in the 1960s!" He paused and continued, "I have talked with Old Man Jiang many times over the years and I understand his thoughts very well.

If the rumors are true and Hidden Moth really has a way to find every warlock in the world, then the most important thing to do is to figure out how he does it?
This is the secret of the hidden moth, and also the secret of heaven and earth. None of us can do it, but the hidden moth can. This is also a kind of transcendence.

The purpose of spiritual practice itself is to seek transcendence, transcendence of what already exists, transcendence of what is already possible, transcendence of what is known. Even if one cannot verify the secrets of heaven and earth in this lifetime, it is good to be able to get some glimpse of it.

You know, the sorcerers of Lingxi Sect like to ponder these things all day long..."

He Kao said with some embarrassment, "If the rumors are false, then wouldn't I have disappointed him? If the rumors are true, aren't you afraid of a repeat of the chaos in the Shu Sect a thousand years ago?"

Gu Chun chuckled, "What's there to be afraid of? The inheritance of the Shu Sect isn't just a thousand years old. The Yin E Sect has existed since ancient times. Didn't the Shu Sect always exist in the thousand years before that?

It can be seen that the root of the chaos in the Shu Sect did not lie with the Yin Mo, but with what the people at that time did. Although there has been no Yin Mo in the past thousand years, the Shu Sect has not been without chaos.

By rebuilding the Hidden Moth lineage, perhaps we can clarify what happened back then and avoid repeating the same mistakes."

He Kao said with a bitter face: "I somewhat understand what you mean, but I really don't have the ability, at least not now."

Gu Chun reached out and patted his shoulder, saying, "Don't feel any pressure. Just practice as you should. It's a pity that no one has practiced the Hidden Moth Technique in thousands of years, and we don't know how to guide you.

But what I saw yesterday was a little strange. You were able to stop the escaping assassin with just one turn. This seems different from the stealth moth abilities you've displayed in the past."

He Kao: "Did you see that?"

Gu Chun: "Tell me what happened."

The ability of the cryptic moth allows it to instantly reach places it has visited and remembers. The premise of "having been there before" is a significant limitation.

Even if someone settles down in one place for a long time, he may never have been to a place very close to his home, such as the upstairs neighbor's house, even if the actual distance is only a few meters away.

Given He Kao's ability, it would be easy for him to go to his neighbor's house. He could just stealthily unlock the door and walk in. But as long as he hadn't been there before, he couldn't use teleportation to get there.

So when He Kao did a lot of things in the past, which seemed to be elusive, he would actually scout the locations in advance, that is, leave behind various anchor points for passing through the space.

However, after he broke through the fourth level of cultivation, his Hidden Moth ability also evolved. For example, he could teleport directly to a neighbor's house, and it could be any neighbor's house in the entire community, provided that the community was not too large.

He Kao still cannot build residential areas like Pingjing Tiantongyuan and Qianyang Huaguoyuan.

What kind of profound theory is this? As long as his spiritual consciousness is within reach, people can be teleported there instantly, which was previously impossible. Of course, the limitations of the hidden moth's power are still the same, that is, it cannot be stared at by others.

For example, in the fight last night, although the boomerang man ran very fast, he didn't have time to run out of the range of He Kao's spiritual awareness, so He Kao appeared directly in front of him and shot him.

He Kao explained, and Gu Chun looked surprised and asked, "How far can your spiritual sense reach now?"

He Kao thought for a moment and said, "If it's open and unobstructed, it's probably about one kilometer."

The maximum distance He Kao could reach by concentrating his spiritual consciousness into a beam was currently around one kilometer. Not to mention the consumption of spiritual energy and mana, what if he stood on flat ground and scanned in circles like a radar?
If you draw a circle with a radius of one kilometer, its area is 3.14 square kilometers, which can cover a small town. In other words, as long as it is within this range, he can theoretically teleport to any place.

Of course, this is in an open and unobstructed environment. In actual towns, there are various buildings and other obstacles, and the range of spiritual detection is greatly limited.

Take an ordinary brick-concrete wall as an example. At close range, He Kao's divine sense could only penetrate a little over a meter. But divine sense was like an invisible hand extending outwards; it could turn corners and bypass obstacles in open areas...

Gu Chun narrowed his eyes and said, "This is interesting. Theoretically, you can track anyone as long as your spiritual sense is strong enough, such as covering the entire world!"

He Kao couldn't help but laugh and said, "You can just call me God."

Gu Chun: "I'm talking about theory, the reality is another matter. But as your cultivation becomes higher and higher, and your spiritual awareness becomes stronger and stronger, the range of your instantaneous movement will become larger and larger in the future. This is beyond doubt."

He Kao suddenly asked, "How far can your spiritual awareness reach?"

Gu Chun pondered for a moment and gave a relatively modest answer: "It must be at least ten times yours."

He Kao gasped! His answer was definitely reserved, so even with the most conservative estimate, a circle with a radius of ten kilometers would have an area of 314 square kilometers.

What does this mean? The Pingjing Fourth Ring Road has a circumference of 65 kilometers, and the area within the ring is 302 square kilometers, which is roughly the size of the main urban area of the capital of the East. The population within the Fourth Ring Road is also in the millions, equivalent to a small country.

At this time, Gu Chun frowned again, looking thoughtful, and seemed to be talking to himself: "I can teleport wherever my spiritual consciousness reaches, but I still can't find someone or something accurately."

This is the truth. Although the theoretical range of spiritual consciousness is very large, it is not that easy to find people or things in reality.

You must know that whatever you investigate with your spiritual consciousness will appear in your primordial spirit's mind, and you need to concentrate to cast spells.

Just calculate based on a distance of one kilometer. Not to mention the influence of buildings and terrain, searching from the front to one kilometer away, even if it is just the things on this line, is already very time-consuming and tiring.

So if He Kao were to exhaust himself to investigate everything within the 3.14 square kilometers, even if he worked himself to death, he would not be able to do it... If this area were to be expanded a hundred times to 314 square kilometers, Gu Chun would not be able to do it even if he worked himself to death.

In such a large area, trying to find someone at any time is like looking for a needle in a haystack. It is only feasible if you can know the exact range and pattern of the person's activities.

After finishing his words, Gu Chun fell into deep thought again. He Kao didn't want to interrupt him, so he waited for a long time before cautiously asking, "What are you thinking about?"

Gu Chun seemed to come back to his senses, turned his head and looked at He Kao and said, "If you teleport continuously, you can move at high speed, faster than high-speed trains and airplanes.

You can even fly in the sky by teleporting continuously in the air... Why don't you fly into the sky?"

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(End of this chapter)