Hidden Moth

Chapter 182: The Thief of Hearts—Who Can He Deceive?


So that's how it is! Kucha Zi Gu Jiang can deceive people, but not the heavens.

If Ye Liangcheng breaks through to Tier Four cultivation, he will somehow sense the call of the Micro Realm Sect's Book Observation Grotto Heaven, so the Tier Three Heart Method he teaches is not complete.

This doubt was resolved, but He Kao had an even bigger question.

What is the nature of this phenomenon? According to Wei Luo, even Tier Seven Grand Calculator Jiang Daozhen can't explain it, and he's already the top expert in the current Magic Sect!

He remembers the first time he met Wu Yanjun; Xiaowu mysteriously asked He Kao—Have you ever felt this world is strange and a bit unreal?

He Kao really did have such a feeling; for a while, every morning when he woke up, he felt like he had crossed over...

How to describe it, it's like not remembering things before crossing over, only knowing he became someone named He Kao and inherited He Kao's memories and identity.

This is instinctive, pondering existence and self, yet carrying a sense of absurdity.

He Kao reflects that this might be related to the new work he had just started. He was busy building a virtual city every day, even putting on VR glasses to personally construct and test virtual spaces, causing some confusion.

Now, He Kao is still doing such work, but he hardly experiences cognitive dissonance anymore because he has mastered Divine Sense. Even with VR glasses, he can distinguish virtual scenes from real objects.

Xiaowu feels this world is unreal, as if virtual, and many things seem like predetermined programs. He's currently just a Tier Two Scholar; if he becomes a Tier Four Artisan one day, will he think this more?

But Xiaowu's view doesn't convince He Kao, because in He Kao's view, no matter how strange the phenomena encountered, it does not destroy the reality of the world.

This world still possesses the objectivity, rationality, and consistency required by reality.

The so-called consistency can barely be described as: under the same conditions, using the same methods, the same phenomena can be observed. Xiaowu may not read much, but He Kao reads a lot of various leisure books, especially during those college years.

Besides, He Kao is a professional in constructing virtual worlds; he knows well that even virtual worlds aren't illusory worlds, still possessing reality based on their logical definition.

If a program errors, the virtual world will have bugs, which actually reflects the reality of the virtual world. Because something went wrong in the program, it leads to corresponding bugs in the virtual world.

Back in the real world, various natural laws are the underlying operational logic of this world, which can also be regarded as designed programs... This has been the worldview of many thinkers throughout history.

So Xiaowu's words do not astonish He Kao, it's merely bringing up questions that have long been pondered and summarized again.

Even with the existence of techniques, even with the unique senses of high-tier sorcerers, even with incredible divine artifacts like Tan Xian's Walking Stick Painting, from a philosophical standpoint, it does not damage the reality of the world, but challenges cognitive capabilities.

Then what perplexes He Kao? The question itself is a huge perplexity! Does the inability to negate the world's reality mean people have no doubts?

In a certain sense, doubts might increase; don't forget He Kao is a Hidden Moth who can travel through time and space!

The seven great magic sects each have a Grotto Heaven, but no one has heard that the Hidden Moth Sect has a Grotto Heaven Secret Realm; the Hidden Moth Lineage has long been lost, and there's no one to ask.

He Kao is the first True Moth in a thousand years; if he breaks through to Tier Four cultivation, will he also feel that call from the unknown and find the Grotto Heaven belonging to the Hidden Moth Sect?

Wei Luo greatly enjoyed the meal, though He Kao stopped her from drinking several times, he couldn't really hold her down, so she drank a bit too much. Actually, she just had two shots, but was already a bit wobbly, walking unsteadily.

"Ah, why is your floor so soft?"

"This isn't the floor, it's floor tiles; how can they be soft, you're drunk."

"I don't need your help, I can walk myself."

"You can't even walk straight, don't fall!"

When she got up after eating, Wei Luo stumbled and refused He Kao's offer of support, then rubbed her forehead and said, "I'm a bit dizzy and want to sleep for a while, is there a place to sleep in your home?"

He Kao: "Who doesn't have a sleeping place at home? Both rooms next to here are available... This side is a big bedroom with an en-suite bathroom, and the other is my old small bedroom."

Wei Luo wobbled into the big bedroom where there's a large bed. She sat heavily on the bed but didn't lie down, drunkenly stroking the pillow, as if petting a cat.

As she stroked, her face became even redder... it was already quite red, tilting her head as if sneakily glancing at He Kao at the door, "Ah, you're so capable! Did you cultivate the Chaotic Heaven Skill from the Observing Body Sect?"

Little girl shouldn't drink, saying all sorts of nonsense! What does she mean by 'so capable'?

The Chaotic Heaven Skill she's talking about, He Kao knows it too; it's an applied technique from the Observing Body Sect, said to have the harmony of yin and yang, which can be practiced together by two people, with both serious cultivation methods and not-so-serious ones.

He Kao couldn't respond, just could earnestly say, "If you feel this room isn't good, you can switch."

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