520: The Secret of Bagua

Under the bright moonlight, Zheng Qiong had completely opened up, spilling out a great deal of top-secret information.

“The Lord of the Temple is too powerful.”

“Even if the Galaxy didn't undergo Qi Resurgence and remained in its pristine state of Perfection, it might not be a match for him.”

“That's why she wants to initiate Qi Resurgence. Rather than waiting for death, she wants to preemptively strike and counterattack.”

“She let Qi bathe this Galaxy full of Miracles to see what changes the Human Race here would undergo after encountering Qi. Perhaps hope lies with the Human Race.”

“But I told her back then that the Infinite Gear conjecture was the only hope.”

“I'm not as rudimentary as Liu Yuan and the others in terms of factory hardware.”

“Huh?” Xiao Fan couldn't help but wonder, what did 'rudimentary factory settings' mean?

“It means they weren't born with a high enough IQ.” Zheng Qiong shrugged and said, “Back to the main topic.”

“To defeat the Lord of the Temple, it's not enough to just shout 'make a comeback'.”

“I calculated back then, even if Miles arranged our Rebirth and the inheritance of the Fire of Resistance.”

“And everyone grew steadily to the God Realm, or even became a Supreme Creator, what were the odds of defeating the Lord of the Temple?”

Zheng Qiong looked at Xiao Fan's serious eyes and sneered, “The probability was 0.01%.”

“There's a greater chance that you wouldn't grow up at all.”

“Even if you did grow up, without enough power, you would still be easily crushed by the Lord of the Temple.”

“The highest Realm of martial arts is the God Realm.”

“False God, True God (or God), are only two Realms higher than you here.”

“But what I can tell you is, let alone the gap of two major Realms, the difference between Gods themselves can sometimes be even greater than the difference between you and a Martial God.”

“Although the Realm has reached its limit, those ultimate powerhouses won't just… give up? Yes, they won't give up; they're always trying to become stronger, so the older the God, the more terrifying their strength.”

“And the Lord of the Temple is the most terrifying one.”

“Of course, I'm not saying this to scare you.”

“I just want to tell you that if the Infinite Gear conjecture can become a reality, the probability of defeating the Lord of the Temple will skyrocket a hundredfold!”

“From 0.01% to 1%.”

“That's not bad.”

Zheng Qiong chuckled and patted Xiao Fan's shoulder.

“Don't be nervous, don't be nervous. Probability never means anything. It's like that idiot Miles back then confidently said the probability of us defeating the Lord of the Temple was 120%, but we still lost in the end.”

Xiao Fan: “...”

Why did he feel even more pressured?

Zheng Qiong's expression was complex as he said, “And I never expected that this probability was something he got by flipping a coin after drinking. He even told me it was 'guidance of fate' until I asked him after we lost, and he told me the truth. He's really a talent.”

Xiao Fan: “...”

At this moment, Zheng Qiong yawned and said, “Relax, take life and death lightly, if you're not happy, just fight.”

“At worst, you die and your bird faces the sky, no need to be nervous.”

Suddenly, he frowned and said, “However, the Infinite Gear I'm referring to is not what you currently have in your body.”

“My research on the Infinite Gear wasn't complete back then; I died.”

“So the Infinite Gear you have in your body now is just a defective product, something the Planet Will imagined based on my wisdom, not my actual achievement.”

Xiao Fan's expression changed slightly as he said, “Defective product?”

“This is just a defective product?”

He felt this power was already strong enough.

But Zheng Qiong dismissed it with disdain. He nodded and said,

“Actually, in my heart, there are no 'complete products' in this world. Everything has no limits; there's always a way to make it better, stronger.”

“Now, let me tell you about my research in the year or so since I awakened.”

“The biggest problem I left with the Infinite Gear back then was that powers couldn't perfectly integrate. Sometimes, it couldn't even achieve 1+1=2, but what I wanted to achieve was 1+1=10.”

“For example, your current Magic Element gear and Fire of Resistance gear. When both spin together, you haven't experienced any qualitative change, and there's even some conflict in the power.”

“For a long time after I awakened, I was thinking about how to solve this problem, how to make the Infinite Gear become the true form I wanted in my heart!”

At this point, Zheng Qiong's emotions suddenly became a little agitated.

“Finally, I found the answer in a painting!”

“This painting is very famous among the Human Race; it's called the Eight Trigrams Diagram!”

“Eight Trigrams?” Xiao Fan raised an eyebrow.

Zheng Qiong sighed, “Yes, it's this painting that your Human Race is accustomed to.”

“The first time I saw this diagram, I felt there were hidden mysteries within it.”

“So I spent some time researching it!”

“It was this research that made me start doubting life.”

As Zheng Qiong spoke, he suddenly seemed to lose his composure, and his emotions became very low.

He clenched his fists tightly and said, “Turns out, the mysteries of the Element were already deciphered thousands of years ago by humans in the Galaxy who didn't even have Qi!”

“The average lifespan of these humans was only forty to fifty years old!”

“Excluding childhood, sleep, and various other times, their effective research time might only have been ten or twenty years.”

“This number, for us, is but a blink of an eye.”

“But they only used such a short amount of time to decipher the secret I had sought for tens of thousands of years without success.”

“At that moment, I felt my title as the so-called Element God was a joke.”

“If there was Qi on Blue Star back then, throwing a brick onto Blue Star could hit ten Element Gods!”

“Human Race, what a great race.”

“The Miracle of the Creator, I believe this title is not an exaggeration.”

“I even determined at the time that the Creator might just be the Human Race!”

Speaking of this, Zheng Qiong took a deep breath, calmed his inner emotions, and then said in a deep voice, “So, the true Infinite Gear has been created by me.”

“It's based on the Eight Trigrams Diagram, but there are still significant differences from a normal Eight Trigrams Diagram.”

Then Zheng Qiong took out a blueprint, pointed to the very center, and said, “First are the Two Poles, which in the Eight Trigrams are Yin and Yang.”

“But in my theory, the powers placed here should be Time and Space.”

“Next are the Three Powers, which are the powers of the Sun, Moon, and Stars. You don't have them yet. For example, Immortal Fire's Sun Fire is a typical Sun Element. The powers of the Moon and Stars are closer to Lilith and Ouyang Guanyue, but strictly speaking, they don't count either. You'll have to find them yourself later; there are many in the Universe! But there's also another solution, which is Light and Darkness.”

“Then come the Four Symbols, referring to Lesser Yin, Greater Yin, Lesser Yang, and Greater Yang.”

“This is undoubtedly Divine Element, Sub-Divine Element, Magic Element, and Sub-Magic Element.”

“Next are the Five Elements; ignore this for now.”

“Then the Six Lines, where Mental Energy, Will, and Physical Body power are placed.”

“The Seven Stars; you can also ignore this.”

“Then the Eight Trigrams; this is simple: the basic eight Elements—Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, Wind, Ice, Lightning.”

“Next, the Nine Palaces are the permutation and combination formulas, corresponding to nine forms. I'll give you the standard answer directly then.”

“Finally, the Ten Directions.”

“The powers placed are Life, Death, Past, Future.”

“Zhou Bai, Zhou Tianlin's daughter, she is Death. Ding Dong, she is Life.”

“Zhuge Tianming, he alone represents both Past and Future.”

“The Human Race also has a prophet; she represents only the Future.”

“Think for yourself, which of these powers I just mentioned do you not have, and figure out how to obtain them later.”