Chapter 70: The Arrogant and Domineering Dandy Generation 2

Chapter 70: The Arrogant and Domineering Dandy Generation 2

Chapter 70: The Arrogant and Domineering Second Generation of Dandies

Cheng Ziwei tugged at Senior Brother Li's sleeve and whispered, "What do those Mahayana seniors want from Brother Wen? How dare he ask for five million spirit stones right out of the blue?"

"It seems that the entrance to this secret realm is sealed by a magic circle. Those seniors are going to pay Brother Wen to remove the seal, right?"

The female cultivator opened her mouth slightly, and said in astonishment: "Five million spirit stones to unlock a seal? This money is too easy to make. Our Qingcheng Sect does nothing all year round, and all the disciples go out to collect and gather, and it only brings in a few hundred thousand spirit stones."

Li Yu shook his head secretly and said, "I think it's just talk. Brother Wen Dao seems to have a righteous face, but his words are exaggerated and he occasionally brags. I think it's also because of his businessman's nature. But he is so disrespectful to Senior Dacheng and angered him. Isn't he afraid of being taught a lesson?"

As Li Yu expected, the Mahayana elder flew into a rage, pointed at Wen Rui's nose and shouted, "Five million? That's too expensive, isn't it? You're getting darker and darker!"

The furious mental pressure from the Mahayana cultivator radiated throughout the entire place. The onlookers all felt as if a huge rock had dropped from their hearts. Their thoughts became unclear and they unconsciously developed a fear that made them want to flee immediately.

Wen Ruize was as happy as a spring breeze, not affected at all, but even more arrogant, with his hands on his waist, he righteously retorted:
"What's so expensive about it? It's been this price for so many years. Don't talk nonsense with your eyes open. Sometimes you should look for the reasons in yourself. Has your cultivation level increased over the years? Have you practiced seriously? If you had studied the knowledge of formations more attentively, you wouldn't have been paid so much by a mere mortal like me for unlocking the door all these years!"

"you!"

"What are you talking about? I always mark the price clearly and never cheat anyone. If you think it's too expensive, you can go and find someone else. It's as if I'm happy to make this money..."

These words made the Mahayana elder's face grim, and he said angrily: "I am so angry, Mr. Wen, don't go too far, believe it or not, I will teach you a lesson!"

"You still want to fight me? Are you trying to play social with me? Do you think I'm an ordinary person?"

Wen Rui was not afraid at all, and leaned forward: "Do you know who I am? You are about to reach the Great Perfection of the Mahayana Stage, right? Are you going to pass the thunder tribulation? Think carefully, which god is in charge of the thunder tribulation!"

The old man's face froze, and all his arrogance disappeared at once. He just couldn't bring himself to face the crowd of young monks who were watching him, so he stood there awkwardly, at a loss as to what to do.

"Forget it, Master Zhang. There's no point in delaying any further. Let's just give him the money."

Another young Mahayana elder stepped forward to explain, "The puzzles on these three stone tablets are really hard to decipher. We have never seen them in the secret records of the formations of the major sects. The more we think about it, the more profound and mysterious it seems. It must be another secret method of Jiejiao. If you don't ask him to solve it, you can only go to the Heavenly Palace and ask a certain star god to solve it."

The old man who was angry with Wen Rui before sighed deeply, and said with a complicated expression: "Brother Sun, how can you ridicule me too? I went to the Heavenly Palace to ask the immortals who were deified by Jiejiao to come down to the earth to open the secret place where the fallen immortals of Jiejiao were hidden. Not to mention that I am in the Mahayana stage and have not passed the thunder tribulation, so I cannot go to the Heavenly Palace. Even if I go up, I will be kicked down if I dare to ask for this!"

Wen Rui said indifferently, "To be honest, the level of your formations is really average. In the past, our Jiejiao immortals have set up the 'Ten Absolute Formations', 'Plague Formation', 'Nine Bends of the Yellow River Formation', 'Immortal Sword Formation', and 'Ten Thousand Immortals Formation'. What formations have your Twelve Golden Immortals set up? Forget about setting up formations. Breaking formations depends on calling parents, calling for external help, reporting to teachers, and accepting traitors. There have been very few times when you have broken them with your own real ability."

"Brother Zhang, I am not the only one who knows how to open this seal even if I searched all over the three realms. In addition to going to the Heavenly Palace, you can also try your luck at Lingshan. Back then, three thousand mortals from Jiejiao joined the Western Religion, and there might be masters of formation among them."

"Or, you can just open the lock physically and use your powerful magical powers to smash it hard to see if the secret realm will be annihilated into nothingness after the seal is broken."

Zhang Zhenren's eyes twitched, and he pulled his white beard and weighed the pros and cons for a long time before he said helplessly, "Okay, okay, I'll give you five million spirit stones, and you can open it!"

"That's right. If you are willing to give, you will get something in return. If you find one or two spiritual treasures in the secret realm, won't you make up for all the losses? If you go to the Western Church for help, I don't know how much profit you will lose. It's not something that can be solved with just 5 million spiritual stones. You got the advantage, but you are still acting cute here. You are so stingy and you are not happy..."

Wen Rui muttered as he took out the jade slip from his bag and handed it over: "As usual, sign the agreement first."

Immortal Zhang from Zi Yang Immortal Sect took the agreement and signed it with embarrassment. Wen Rui then walked forward and carefully examined the words and figures engraved on the three stone tablets. Several Mahayana elders from various major sects gathered around him, releasing all their spiritual senses to closely watch his every move, as if they were planning to steal his skills from him.

The brother and sister from Qingcheng Mountain who were watching from the side were stunned. Only then did they realize that Brother Wen Dao was actually a mortal.

The two looked at each other, unable to understand how a mere mortal could be so arrogant in front of a group of Mahayana masters, and yet the Mahayana seniors did not dare to offend him.

"Just look at it, but don't get so close that you're blocking the inscription!"

Wen Rui pushed aside a Mahayana cultivator, stroked his stubble, and said thoughtfully, "It's not that difficult. I don't know what your ancestors heard when they were listening to the teachings in Zixiao Palace. Why didn't they teach you well? The puzzles on these three stone tablets are all very basic principles. Write down the complete proof process and the seal will be unlocked."

Several Mahayana monks were embarrassed by what they heard, but they could only bear it because they were not as knowledgeable as others in formations. "The first puzzle to solve the formation on the stone tablet is: Try to prove that everything returns to one. Pick a number, any positive integer. If it is even, divide it by 2. If it is odd, multiply it by 3 and add 1. Repeat the steps again for the number you get. In the end, the result is always 1."

"The second puzzle is: Prove that the earth is divided into four parts. Any map can be colored differently using only four colors, so that countries with common borders can be colored differently."

"The solution to the third stele puzzle is: Try to prove that the void has an edge. Any simply connected, closed three-dimensional manifold must be homeomorphic to a three-dimensional sphere."

All things return to one, the earth is divided into four symbols, and the void has an end. These are indeed the most basic principles. Patriarch Hongjun may have really talked about them when he was preaching in Zixiao Palace, but when it comes to the specific problem itself, these Mahayana monks are completely confused. The more they think about it, the more confused they become. They rack their brains and exhaust their energy, but still have no clue.

But they saw Wen Rui with a scornful smile on his face, writing and drawing on each stone tablet, writing a series of symbols and numbers that they could not understand at all. However, it was these symbols and numbers that triggered the resonance of the magic circle seal. As he wrote more and more, and wrote more and more densely, the strength of the seal gradually weakened, and it was about to be broken.

Several Mahayana monks were stunned. They could not believe that Wen Rui, a mere mortal, had a hundred times better understanding of the great principles than they, the extraordinary people who were about to overcome the tribulation and ascend to immortality.

The group of immortal cultivators who were watching Wen Rui breaking the formation also started to talk loudly.

"I have heard Master talk about the principles of 'the great way is simple, all things return to one' and 'the earth is divided into four elements, the void has an infinite limit', but he never told me how to prove it."

"The numbers in the puzzle of All Things Return to One also contain mysteries. You see, there is the principle of 'One gives birth to three, three gives birth to all things', and there is also the principle of 'all things are divided into yin and yang'. Pick out a number at random and calculate it according to this principle, and it will return to one. Although the principle is simple, it is too complicated to prove. We can't exhaustively try an infinite number of numbers!"

"I thought the four directions were east, south, west and north. Now I see that the 'four directions' are not simple. The macroscopic directions and the subdivisions of each plot of land, the whole and the blocks can be divided into four directions. It's so profound and mysterious!"

"I can't understand the riddle of the Void, can someone explain it to me?"

"I'm afraid that the elders are not much better than us. They only know the results but not the reasons."

"Do the disciples of Jiejiao have such a profound understanding of the Great Dao? Wen Rui is just an ordinary man. How could he not ascend to heaven when he has such a thorough understanding of the Great Dao?"

"Be careful, you have only been here for a short time, so you don't know Wen Rui's background. Even though he doesn't follow the right path and always does unorthodox practices, he is still an ordinary ant after all these years, but he has a deep background!"

"It's so great to have a backer. What a joke. He's just a useless playboy with no education! If I had his background, I would have ascended to heaven long ago!"

"Stop talking, for the sake of the respected one!"

"One can learn from others' experience. Shouldn't we search for some of the classics left by Jiejiao and study them? Perhaps we can deepen our understanding of the Great Dao."

"Be careful with your words. Jiejiao is an evil sect. How can we, disciples of Chanjiao, lose sight of the main point and pursue the trivial?"

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In fact, it was not so easy for Wen Rui to prove the "Four Color Theorem", "Poincare Conjecture" and "Ulang Conjecture" on the spot. He just wrote down some of the first few steps of the proof process, and the seal of the magic circle was naturally released.

The reason for this situation is that Wen Rui secretly explored this secret realm alone thirty years ago. After he plundered the most valuable treasures inside, he left some scraps and then spent a lot of effort to set up a new sealing puzzle.

The original seal of this secret realm was indeed difficult to break, as it involved the secret formations unique to the Jiejiao, but it was not so difficult that it could not be solved. If a group of Mahayana monks from the Chenjiao devoted themselves to studying it, it might be possible to break it.

The questions that Wen Rui later locked up were not only extremely difficult, but some of them were temporarily unsolvable in the modern world. If there was really an expert who could solve them completely, Wen Rui would come to him and ask him for some secret codes such as "odd changes, even remains unchanged" and "palace jade liquor".

Plant a seed and wait for it to sprout. Within thirty years, someone sees through the illusion and discovers the secret realm, but cannot solve the puzzle at the door.

So he went from secretly inviting fellow cultivators to help solve the mystery to no avail, to the news leaking out and attracting a large number of cultivators, to finally having to write a letter to invite a lock-picking expert to come, and after a round of twists and turns, the situation ended up in Wen Rui's hands. Didn't he just extort a large amount of spirit stones for nothing?
To untie the bell, you must be the one who tied it. If you install the lock yourself, you should open it yourself. This is called creating demand where there is no demand. It is a very serious way of doing business.

Coming up with this dishonest trick of killing two birds with one stone was not about making money. Wen Rui's real intention was to demonstrate the profoundness of the Jie Religion's magic in front of a group of monks from the Chen Religion and the Ren Religion, publicize the correctness of the Jie Religion's knowledge, improve the Jie Religion's reputation in disguise, and arouse the interest of the disciples of the Chen Religion and the Ren Religion in exploring the Jie Religion's knowledge.

(End of this chapter)