"What's this supposed to an?" 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 as sothing that is a bit simple.
No, Simple is an understatent. 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 assistance for those who have weak knowledge of the inscription.
But then it hit , this can't be right. This is what probably everyone would think. I an, everyone here is at the Void Stage at least, and they had enough ti to read up and study so formation. I'd find it even harder to find soone 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, sothing 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 lifeti of studying to even co up with the question, not to ntion the answer to such difficult and delicate topics.
I began answering so of the formulas and questions that seed to hide the secrets of the laws of the very world itself.
As I was answering these dilemmas I ca 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 ti and tries to realize the entire aspect of such a problem. Why did it co to exist and what would happen once solved?
He took his ti in answering, and so did I.
I didn't really care about the ti dilation between here and the outside world as I was fully imrsed in solving so 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 ti ago, and the rest were things I understood from solving the five elental keys and creating the Synthetic ridian.
However, I was stuck with one final question that seed 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 sa 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 sa ti 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 sothing that isn't allowed to man, it is only allowed to those of divinity."
It was rather simple. To recreate the sa atmosphere and space to make life is easy, but to breath sothing intangible such as life into a being is in the realm of creating sothing 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 sothing out of thin air. And to create life, one must give sothing 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 forr room.
I then realized that a small portal had already opened up for 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 surpassed my forr self. However, those questions did plague a lot when I was younger. To see soone capable of answering them like that made 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 ti for you. Most of the floors are nothing but inscriptions and formations that require one to solve. You already far surpass the level where stuff like that can even entertain you. Anyway, tell , I was very intrigued by your answer on the last paper," he said.
"Oh, you an 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 beco 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 ca to exist from the fragnted piece of the exiled palace of the Darkest One. And so 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 co 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 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 sothing 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 the answer to this question and you will be considered to have passed." He said.
"Ask away," I said.
The Wisest Sun smiled and said, "What ca first, the egg or the chicken?"
"…" I didn't answer.
"Do you not know the answer?"
"I do, technically speaking the egg ca first due to evolution and all that crap, but your question isn't sothing that I should answer like that, in fact, I refuse to answer that question."
The wisest Sun smiled and said, "You may proceed forward."
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