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Chapter 210 - The Reflecting Monolith

It was very quiet around thewas the only person present It was completely different from yesterday At that time, there had been dozens of exah very quiet, there had been simply toofabric and footsteps would never cease Even when night fell, those people did not leave, but instead lit the lanterns in front of the hut However, the Mausoleum of Books had already existed for countless years People from many sects and academies had entered the mausoleum and viewed the o, and passed along this knowledge before the Grand Examination After the initial excitement had died down, the exa thethat could be done in one day and night, and that they had to take care of their bodies Heeding the advice of their seniors, they had descended froht now, they were all probably still asleep

Chen Changsheng knew nothing of these events as he seriously examined the monolith

The surface of the monolith was black and covered with innumerable lines that were thick and thin, deep and shallow The lines had been carved onto the surface by some sharp tool, and they seemed to curve off randomly The lines covered the entire surface of thecountless connections with each other to forh sentih the lens of history, those lines would see But if one looked at it calmly and disposed of their reverence to the Heavenly Tomes, those lines actually did not see Instead they sees of some small child Many scholars felt that those lines had possibly been naturally foro

Today was the first day that Chen Changsheng had set his eyes on a legendary Heavenly Tome Monolith, so he naturally did not have the ability to draw any conclusions Chen Changsheng’s heart suddenly started to beat faster, not because he had suddenly understood so seen those lines before, but because of the sort of eend with one’s own eyes

Yes, he had seen the marks on this Heavenly Tome Monolith, the so-called monolith inscriptions

It was not by chance or destiny, nor was it through some miracle Many people had seen the incomprehensible monolith inscriptions of the Heavenly Tomes—outside the Mausoleum of Books, there were countless stalls on both sides of the s of thethe s One has to realize that these rubbings were the Mausoleuo, the rubbings of Heavenly Tome Monoliths were already in circulation After the huhtened the distinction between social classes, an e of the sHowever, there were already tooit impossible to stop In the end, they were unable to prohibit it, and were forced to drop the s of the first seventeenthe previous dynasty, those rubbings had been publicly sold three ti a dozen official editions At least severalthe palace treasury, while also providing suitably soft paper for people to use for cushioning on their s of the monolith inscriptions were so widespread, besides the fact that their circulation was impossible to stop, lay in two points Firstly, to look at rubbings of the monolith inscriptions and to see thes Since ancient ti the monolith inscriptions with one’s own eyes would one be able co of the Heavenly Daos hidden within the inscriptions Secondly, there was a limit to the nus The vast s were from the Monoliths in the front mausoleum It has to be noted that those ere able access additional e of the Dao was exceptionally profound, so they cared not for fa Po of Tianliang, who possessed shocking talent That year, he had only viewed thirty-one monoliths in the Mausoleureed, he still would not have been able to take a rubbing of those later Monoliths and take the had arrived in the capital, he had stayed in the Plum Garden Inn outside the Mausoleus of the ht sos in his hands, he had been extremely excited Only after he had realized that they had nodid he toss them to a side

But now that he stood before the Heavenly To at those lines carved on the Monolith first-hand, it was a completely different matter

For tens of millions of years, this matic as ever

The lines on the black surface of the ’s eyes A ht of the monolith that had been deeply carved into the surface suddenly bulged out The dozens of lines connected to it also started to leave the surface, see knew this was an illusion When the mind became connected to the Mausoleum of Books, one’s ability to see reality was affected Back when he was a child, he would study the Daoist Canons in Xining village’s old te the monoliths left behind by members of the Orthodoxy Thus, he was not too shocked by this abrupt change, and instead chose to e was not actually any change at all, but a trick of light The objective truth was that the lines reardless of whether it was overcast or pouring rain, if the hut was there or not, if the surface et or dry, if one looked at in the glooht, the monolith was ultimately still athose rubbings of thethe people to the real thing, was not this change the greatest difference?

The positions were relative, and the appearances were also relative

As positioning changed with landed with environment

If one wanted confirm one’s position, one needed to also confir land and objective truth, then should not one first understand how the environment affected the objective reality?

The information that those who viewed the monoliths had to understand, the principals that they had to comprehend, were they not hidden within this transfor examined the Monolith Inscription He stayed in this position for a long ti sun had now co its warradually dispersing the chilliness of the forest The side of the Heavenly Toht of sun, a truly beautiful sight

Seeing that s closed his eyes, steadied his er looked at the s

The branches of the trees in the forest were all dyed red, and looked as if they were about to ignite As for those distant and barely distinct ly difficult to ascertain their positions He had walked up from the base of the mausoleum all the way to this first Heavenly Tome Monolith The path had come to an end, and there was no way to proceed to those other monoliths However, it was said that the Mausoleu on here?

The ht of the sun illuminated a portion of the dark cliff face It was only then that he saw that a line of words had been carved into the cliff

Unlike the ineffable Heavenly Tome Monoliths, the words on the cliff were very easy to understand, because they had been written in a language that everyone could read

"The foggy woods are reflected in the smoky river water,