Chapter 852: Seal Saint Society

“Of course it’s real. Master Kong was consecrated here, but… given such a massive mountain, do you know the exact spot?” Luo Ruoxi asked, seeing through his thoughts with a smile.“This…” Zhang Xuan blinked.

The mountain’s summit was flat, covering tens of thousands of acres. Master Kong, when consecrated, sat cross-legged on the ground, taking up no more than a square meter. To find one square meter within an area of tens of thousands of acres… that would indeed be extremely difficult!

“Why do you want to find the exact spot where Master Kong was consecrated?” He understood her intention but was also puzzled. Master Kong’s consecration had imbued the entire mountain with a vast aura, so what was the use of finding the precise location? Besides, even if they found it, tens of thousands of years had passed, and the Otherworldly Demonic Tribe had ravaged the area multiple times. What could possibly be left?

“I want to prove a theory I have,” Luo Ruoxi explained. “Moreover, Master Kong’s lingering will must be present at that spot. If we find it, it will be greatly beneficial to you as well!”“Let’s try then!” Seeing her resolve, Zhang Xuan nodded. His Eye of Insight swirled as he looked directly at the rock wall before him. His gaze was like lightning, analyzing everything in his surroundings.

As expected, the characters were later copies; the aura they contained was clearly different from Master Kong’s. After a while, he couldn’t help but shake his head.“These characters are merely copies. Master Kong’s original traces are gone… I can’t see anything!”

“You can’t see anything?” Luo Ruoxi’s delicate brows furrowed.That made sense. After multiple attacks by the Otherworldly Demonic Tribe, any traces left by Master Kong had mostly been erased. Even the Eye of Insight would likely be powerless. While the Eye of Insight could detect traces and track auras, it couldn’t bridge tens of thousands of years of time.

“What about the surroundings?”“The surroundings are the same… too many people have come here, and their auras are too chaotic!” Zhang Xuan shook his head. Countless people ascended the Consecration Platform every day to cultivate and gain insights, causing various energies to intermingle. After tens of thousands of years, it was almost impossible to detect any traces left by Master Kong.

“In that case, you should first examine the content on the rock wall. Perhaps you can find something there!” Luo Ruoxi suggested after a moment of hesitation. Since they couldn’t find any physical traces, they could only start with the text. Even if the characters were copied by later generations, the content was from Master Kong, so they should be able to find some clues.

“Alright!” Zhang Xuan nodded, looking up at the content on the rock wall before him.“Deficiencies!” he murmured inwardly. In the blink of an eye, a book appeared in his mind. Picking up the book, a strange expression immediately appeared on Zhang Xuan’s face.

“What’s wrong?” Luo Ruoxi asked, noticing his change in expression.“Nothing much, I just feel that… the insights and methods for breakthrough left by Master Kong… don’t seem to be entirely correct!” Zhang Xuan replied.The content written on the wall, after being recorded, immediately revealed deficiencies. Though not many, there were nearly ten of them.

For a set of insights, not even a cultivation technique, to contain so many errors—if it were anyone else, he could accept it; even for a 9-star master, it would be taken for granted. But coming from Master Kong, it was somewhat unbelievable. Although these errors were subtle and difficult to detect, they were still errors nonetheless. For the revered Teacher of Ten Thousand Generations to have such flaws, was it real or fake?

“Not entirely correct? You mean… these insights have problems?” Luo Ruoxi was startled.“Yes, this set of insights, totaling 3,324 characters, has nine errors,” Zhang Xuan explained. “While harmless, they do not align with the correct cultivation methods…”

On the way up the mountain, he had collected and extracted the Heaven’s Path cultivation technique for breaking through from Saint to Saint Realm. Comparing the two, the errors were obvious. Although Master Kong’s writings were merely insights and not a cultivation method, if the errors were not corrected, they would similarly mislead people. Even if a breakthrough was achieved, it wouldn’t be optimal.

“You can see errors in what Master Kong left behind?” Luo Ruoxi interrupted him, her bright eyes fixed on him. Who was Master Kong? The Teacher of Ten Thousand Generations, who founded the Master Teacher profession, drove away the Otherworldly Demonic Tribe, and revitalized humanity. His achievements were countless! For such a figure, let alone an entire article, even a single character he left behind was an object of worship and study for countless people. Yet this guy was claiming the insights before him had nine errors! Saying it in front of her was one thing, but if word got out, he would surely be beaten black and blue by enraged master teachers.

“Oh… I was just looking casually. Perhaps my understanding is incorrect…” Zhang Xuan froze, realizing he had said too much, and quickly gave an awkward smile. There was no doubt he could see the errors, but he was currently just a minor figure in the Guiyi Realm. To blurt out that the celestial Master Kong was mistaken, it would be strange if people didn’t suspect him.

“Your understanding isn’t bad. These insights indeed have nine errors!” Instead of pressing further, Luo Ruoxi nodded, her eyebrows furrowed. “There are two possibilities for this situation. First, Master Kong left this right after he broke through to the Saint Realm. At that time, he hadn’t yet become the Teacher of Ten Thousand Generations, nor had he reached a level of universal reverence. It’s normal for errors to appear then!”

Zhang Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, unable to help but nod, seeing that she didn’t press the issue. When Master Kong first broke through to the Saint Realm, his strength wasn’t much higher than Zhang Xuan’s current level. No matter how gifted he was, how could he compare to Zhang Xuan, who possessed the Heaven’s Path abilities? It was normal for his understanding to have errors. For someone who had just reached the Saint Realm, to have only nine errors in his understanding of cultivation was already incredible.

“And the second?” Zhang Xuan asked.“Second,” Luo Ruoxi continued, “he intentionally left them there. Those who come to the Consecration Platform to learn and gain insights are a mixed bag. There’s no guarantee that there aren’t malicious individuals or powerful members of the Otherworldly Demonic Tribe among them! If they were allowed to learn these perfectly, wouldn’t they gain benefits for free? Therefore, he intentionally left a few errors so that all master teachers would know: ‘It is better to have no books than to believe everything in them.’ Even if he was the Teacher of Ten Thousand Generations, his words shouldn’t be entirely trusted. One must discern and think for oneself!”

“This…” Zhang Xuan was stunned. To be honest, he truly hadn’t thought that deeply. What she said was not without reason. Students could learn knowledge from their teachers, but even when learning, they shouldn’t believe everything unconditionally. One must possess a spirit of doubt and the ability to question to surpass limits and go further. Could it be… that Master Kong had intentionally left those nine plausible yet harmless errors to make future generations question? Daring to question even Master Kong would undoubtedly be greatly beneficial to one’s future cultivation. However, if one believed everything entirely, even if a breakthrough to the Saint Realm was achieved, their future path would likely be blocked.

“If it were the first possibility,” Zhang Xuan considered, “Master Kong, after founding the Master Teacher Pavilion, would likely regret his flaws and very likely return to correct them. But… he didn’t do so, which indicates that the second possibility is much greater!”“Precisely!” Luo Ruoxi’s eyes lit up upon hearing his analysis, and she couldn’t help but nod. If the errors arose from a lack of understanding, he would certainly regret them and modify them after becoming the Teacher of Ten Thousand Generations. Since he didn’t, it strongly suggests the second possibility.However, the correctness of these insights probably had little to do with finding Master Kong’s exact consecration spot. Even extensive research would be useless.

“I’ll study this first. If I can’t figure it out, I’ll look around,” Zhang Xuan said. Not wanting to continue this topic, he waved his hand and immersed his mind in the insights left by Master Kong. These insights meticulously described his process of breaking through to the Saint Realm. Although it didn't include a specific cultivation technique, it detailed every aspect of the breakthrough. If one were to compile these details and circulate true qi accordingly, it could perfectly form a complete cultivation technique.

Of course, others were not Master Kong, nor were they saints blessed by Heaven. If they were to truly cultivate according to this method, they would likely not achieve a breakthrough but rather suffer qi deviation. It was similar to Zhang Xuan’s Heaven’s Path cultivation technique, which only he could practice; if anyone else tried it, they would bleed from all seven orifices before even succeeding.

After half a day of study, he found nothing. He stood up helplessly, his Eye of Insight swirling as he searched the surroundings. The mountain summit was broad and vast. Except for the area in front of the rock wall, which was crowded with people, other places were quite empty. The patterns in his eyes swirled as he quickly completed a full scan, but he still shook his head in resignation.

It seemed the exact spot where Master Kong was consecrated was not so easy to find. No wonder. If it were easy, it would have been discovered by the Otherworldly Demonic Tribe long ago and would never have remained hidden until now.

Returning to the rock wall, just as he was about to look for Luo Ruoxi, he saw that the previously quiet area had become very lively. Countless people were discussing animatedly, a complete contrast to the previous silent contemplation.“Friend, what’s going on? Wasn’t it very quiet here just now?” He couldn’t help but ask a middle-aged man nearby.

“Oh, it’s time for the daily Consecration Platform Academy’s lecture and teaching session!” the middle-aged man explained, glancing at him. “Everyone is preparing in advance to receive knowledge and consolidate their questions, so they can inquire better later!”“Consecration Platform Academy?” Zhang Xuan was bewildered. “What’s that?”

“You don’t know?” The middle-aged man shook his head, seeing Zhang Xuan’s astonished look. “The Consecration Platform Academy is an organization dedicated to studying these insights. It comprises over a dozen 7-star master teachers, along with hundreds of high-grade 6-star master teachers. They’ve studied it for countless years and understand these insights inside out. If we study it ourselves for a month, we might not gain much, but listening to their explanations is different. They can deeply unearth Master Kong’s intended meaning, allowing people to know the true thoughts of this celestial master during his breakthrough!”

“There’s an organization like that…” Zhang Xuan clicked his tongue in amazement. It sounded complicated, but in reality, it was like the Red Chamber Society, Gold Chamber Society, and those who studied the Three Kingdoms in his previous life—all created by people with too much time on their hands. When people could barely feed themselves, who cared about your Red Chamber, Gold Chamber, or Three Kingdoms? Master Kong was consecrated and, out of joy, left his insights behind, and that was it. What was there to study? And so many master teachers had studied it for countless years… The thought alone baffled him.

“Indeed! Look, they’re here…”As he was wondering, he heard the middle-aged man mutter, and then saw three elders approaching through the air, their robes fluttering like immortals.