Hidden Moth-Chapter 412 - 230: Yearning to Soar Among the Clouds

Gu Chun still sat in the main hall, withdrawing his divine sense to avoid disturbing He Kao’s exhibition of the Invisibility Ability, when he suddenly saw a ray of light shoot out from the void ahead, and a portal appeared in mid-air.

This portal was intriguing, as it coincided with the main door of the hall. Looking through the main door originally would show the small building’s front yard, but now it was a valley, with a stone workshop and stone bridge in the distance.

He Kao’s voice came through, saying: "Master Gu, please enter!"

Gu Chun stepped into the portal, the light disappeared, and he seemed to vanish from this world, reappearing at the end of the valley in a stone niche, looking out at the field of flowers, the Floating Colors Platform.

Gu Chun turned around, finding a naturally formed stone niche, stone wall, and incense table, the patterns on the stone wall resembling a landscape painting, now hanging with the painting "Tan Xian’s Walking Stick," while He Kao stood by.

Gu Chun was quite surprised and looked at He Kao: "How did this painting end up in your hand?"

Since he had decided to speak honestly, He Kao no longer concealed, introducing the origins and mystical features of this painting.

Initially, this painting could restrain the Invisibility Ability, the gaze of Tan the Immortal was as if someone’s observing. But when He Kao broke through to high-tier, he sensed the Grotto Heaven summon instinctively, and the location was actually the mountains within the painting.

As a Hidden Moth, He Kao could enter the world in the painting, which belonged to the Floating Colors Grotto Heaven of the Hidden Moth Sect.

The significance of this painting was not whether He Kao could himself enter the Grotto Heaven; he didn’t even need to actually obtain this painting, nor need to know its location, but it was different for others.

He Kao once conducted an experiment, capturing a monkey deep in Gu Mountain, not only taking it into the world in the painting but also traveling through to Sawa Country.

What does this signify? If the Hidden Moth acts, theoretically even a monkey could travel through space instantaneously; this is completely unscientific! Not even mysticism.

Gu Chun’s eyes widened after listening, He Kao had never seen the old man express such an exaggerated expression, but Elder Gu, with his profound will, soon returned to normal.

Gu Chun said: "Seeing the painting is like seeing Tan the Immortal; I must first worship the Ancestor!"

Gu Chun was not only the Sect Leader of the Heart Plate Sect; his first master in youth was also a sorcerer from the Alchemy Sect, who cultivated the Alchemy Cauldron Skill to breakthrough Tier Four, yet was intercepted by the then Heart Plate Sect Leader He Kuanzhong, leading him to apprentice into the Heart Plate Sect.

On the other hand, Tan the Immortal was not only the Ancestor of the Alchemy Sect but also that of the entire Magic Sect.

He Kao set up the incense table, retrieving the White Jade Candle and Awakening Incense. Gu Chun lit them personally, chanting prayers, performing great rites of worship, then bowing for a long time.

He Kao quietly waited aside, for several minutes before seeing Gu Chun straighten, He Kao hurried forward asking: "What feelings do you have, sir?"

Gu Chun sighed: "It truly is seeing the painting as seeing Tan the Immortal."

He Kao asked: "What did the Tan the Immortal in the painting tell you?"

Gu Chun replied: "Like the secondary inheritances of various sects, I received the high-tier technique of the Insect Concealment Skill, as if a Heart Seal transmission, but instead of saying it’s from Tan the Immortal, it’s more like transmitted by the Grotto Heaven Divine Intent.

But I haven’t cultivated the Insect Concealment Skill, suddenly acquiring the high-tier technique, still can’t decipher it. Besides that, the Tan the Immortal in the painting seemed to tell me some things, just a pity my cultivation is too low to fully understand!" 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

His words revealed crucial information. The secondary inheritances of major Magic Sects might not require a dignitary’s teaching, but could obtain the Grotto Heaven Divine Intent’s Heart Seal transmission through rituals.

However, to interpret the Heart Seal, the prerequisite is to cultivate the corresponding technique to high-tier, though Gu Chun’s cultivation is high, he’s never practiced the Insect Concealment Skill, so temporarily cannot decipher it.

That point is easily resolved; He Kao can impart the low-level technique of the Insect Concealment Skill to him.

He Kao asked: "Is your cultivation really that low, sir?"

Gu Chun replied with a bitter smile: "In front of Tan Ancestor, in face of the great avenue of heaven and earth, what worth is my cultivation?" With the response came a divine thought, explaining what was comprehended during the worship—

Even things Gu Chun hadn’t seen were at least heard, not beyond his imagination; yet not this painting.

He originally thought this painting was a Grotto Heaven Divine Artifact, within the painting a Grotto Heaven World. Divine Artifacts can open different portals to different places, though unseen, imaginably, at least in novels.

What truly perplexed Gu Chun was, how He Kao with merely Tier Four ability could travel through space via this painting, moreover taking a monkey along? Unless there is another immortal adept casting, unimaginable.

Not only was He Kao’s True Moth Ability inconceivable, even Huang Xiaopang’s Fake Moth Ability cannot be comprehended.

If it were an immortal, instant teleportation would be fine, you’re an immortal, that’s your power, but Huang Xiaopang is clearly an ordinary person.

Therefore the real troubling question for Gu Chun is—what indeed is the Invisibility Ability? During worship, a divine thought seemed to descend from the void, but the true meaning was beyond Gu Chun’s understanding.

The so-called Invisibility Ability, where thought reaches can arrive at any place in the world, to what extent it can achieve depends on the cultivation of the Hidden Moth.

Why? There is no why! Like asking why the speed of light doesn’t change, it is just a basic principle of the universe, equivalent to an axiom in mathematics.

It can also be understood in another way, like the Hidden Moth is temporarily granted the power of the Immortal Family... as for whether this way of understanding is correct, it is subjective, anyway, Tan the Immortal did not answer directly.