Seventeen monoliths, tens of thousands of lines, innumerable dots, without any pattern. They looked like a rain of ink on a piece of white paper, a pattern that no one had ever seen before. Then why did it feel familiar? Chen Changsheng silently thought. He felt that this pattern gave him the feeling that he had often seen it, but he had never carefully looked at it. Just what was it?
The monolith inscriptions had already been simplified into countless dots. The formless paper in his sea of consciousness only had countless dots, and no matter how he looked at it, it was only dots.
Dots, dots, dots … a multitude of stars?
Even though he was still observing, he seemed to feel that his lips had become somewhat dry.
Because of nervousness.
The pattern formed by the Heavenly Tome Monoliths of the front mausoleum … could it possibly be the starry sky?
In the next moment, he felt an intense lack of confidence and doubt towards his own conjecture. Because there were too many dots in front of him, even more than the number of stars in the night sky. If the Mausoleum of Books of the front mausoleum really did have some sort of connection with the starry sky, then the starry sky was actually more monotonous than the pattern on the monoliths.
According to the simplest logic, there was no reason to use a more complicated pattern to describe an even simpler thing. More importantly, if the Heavenly Tome Monoliths of the front mausoleum really did describe the starry sky, then there was no way to simplify it. Unless, these Heavenly Tome Monoliths depicted many starry skies.
But, there was only one starry sky in the world.
Chen Changsheng was silent for a very long time, then he pushed his thoughts back for a while. A few lines slowly appeared between those dots. If those lines were used to describe the movement of the dots, then the seemingly countless dots on the pattern were actually the positions of a few dots at different times. Then everything could be easily solved.
Yes, it should be like this.
But now he was faced with another problem. This problem was so difficult to solve that it even made the situation even more dangerous.
Because, the stars could not move!
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The brightness of the stars might change slightly, but their positions in the night sky were eternally unchanging. This was a fact that had been proven countless years ago. The countless stargazes of the continent all produced star charts that were basically the same. The focus of observation was also completely concentrated between the brightness and the darkness.
No one had ever dared to question this point of view, because this was the truth witnessed by countless people over countless years. Just like how the sun always sets in the west, just like how the moon is always far away and can only be seen by the devil, just like how water always flows downwards, this was the truth that could never be overthrown.
When he saw Wang Zhi Ce's notes in the Pavilion of Ascending Mist, Chen Chang Sheng's confusion and doubt towards changing the positions of the stars to defy the heavens and change his fate originated from this. Even after he saw with his own eyes that the Zi Wei Emperor Star caused the positions of the surrounding stars to slightly shift, he still didn't believe it because it was an illusion and not something he saw with his own eyes.
It was just that … … Xun Mei's notebook had mentioned several times that when viewing the monoliths, one could see the truth. However, he had been viewing the monoliths in the Mausoleum of Books for dozens of years, but he had never seen it. In the end, in order to ascend to the top of the mausoleum and see the truth, he had even paid the price of his life. So what truth did he want to see? What was real? Is what you see with your own eyes the truth?
Chen Chang Sheng stopped observing himself.
He opened his eyes and looked at the real stone tablet.
It was late at night, but there were still many people in the monolith hut. Different from what Chen Chang Sheng thought, Tang Thirty Six, Zhexiu, Gou Han Shi and the others never left. They had always been here watching the process of Chen Chang Sheng comprehending the monolith, from morning to dusk, until the stars appeared in the night.
At dusk, they saw Chen Chang Sheng spit out blood and were very worried.
Then, they saw Chen Chang Sheng clench his fists and raise his eyebrows, as if he had discovered something and seemed a little excited.
Now, they finally saw Chen Chang Sheng open his eyes and wake up.
Tang Thirty Six let out a sigh of relief and prepared to go forward, but then he stopped.
Because he realized that Chen Chang Sheng didn't see him.
Chen Chang Sheng was still looking at the monolith, still comprehending the monolith. His expression was so focused that it made people's hearts palpitate and people didn't want to disturb him.
Chen Chang Sheng had already looked at this monolith for more than twenty days.
Morning light and sunset, light rain and clear sky, in different environments, the changes of the monolith inscriptions were all in his mind.
He had also looked at this monolith under the starlight and didn't find anything strange.
Tonight, the stars were still bright and didn't seem to be any different than a few days ago.
But, his eyes suddenly lit up.
That light came from a very thin, unnoticeable line in the lower left corner of the monolith.
There was nothing special about this line, it was just that its position and angle were just right, reflecting the starlight falling from the night sky into his eyes.
So his eyes lit up.
Twenty days of focused observation and contemplation had already allowed him to approach the truth. Tonight's light finally made him understand everything.
If the lines on the monolith were to appear or disappear with the natural light, they could become countless words or pictures. Then where did the changes in brightness of the stars come from? That was because the stars were moving. But, if the positions of the stars could move, why had no one ever seen it before?
The seventeen Heavenly Tome Monoliths once again appeared before his eyes.
Those monolith inscriptions overlapped. The lines on the last monolith and the lines on the first monolith were connected in many places.
At least in his eyes.
But in reality, there was still a very long distance between those lines.
The reason why his eyes didn't see this was because his line of sight was perpendicular to the monolith.
The monolith's surface was the starry sky.
When people stood on the ground and gazed at the starry sky, because the distance between the stars and the ground was too great, it could be said that when gazing at the stars, one's line of sight was always perpendicular to the plane of the stars. So when the stars moved forward or backward, the people standing on the ground naturally couldn't see them. They could only sometimes see them dim or brighten.
Yes, it was just like that.
Chen Changsheng withdrew his gaze from the monolith, and then realized that there were many people around the monolith hut.
Tang Thirty-Six looked at him and said with some worry, "Are you alright?"
Chen Changsheng looked at him and said, "Positions are relative."
This was the first sentence he had seen when he had opened Wang Zhice's notebook in the Pavilion of Ascending Mist. Only now did he understand what it meant.
Tang Thirty-Six did not understand why he would say such a sentence without rhyme or reason, and subconsciously replied, "And then?"
Chen Changsheng thought it over, then pointed at the sky full of stars above the Mausoleum of Books. "Do you see? The stars can move. "
The surroundings of the monolith hut were quiet, not a single sound could be heard. Everyone believed that Chen Changsheng had viewed the monoliths for too long, that his mind had been greatly exhausted, and that his mind was somewhat muddled. But for some reason, when they saw the serious expression on his face as he spoke, they felt a vague sense of unease, as if something terrible was about to happen.
Ji Jin sternly rebuked him, "What kind of nonsense are you saying!"
"But, they really are moving."
Chen Changsheng calmly said, his tone and expression incomparably certain.
Because this was reality.
This was reality.
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