I Received Messages From Future Self!
Chapter 376 - Chapter 376 Chapter 372 Xiaocaos Reasonable Doubt and Bold

Chapter 376: Chapter 372 Xiaocao’s Reasonable Doubt and Bold Conjecture Chapter 376: Chapter 372 Xiaocao’s Reasonable Doubt and Bold Conjecture Looking at the things inside the cave, Fang Xiaocao found herself plunged into deep self-doubt.

“Did I pick up the wrong script?” she wondered.

“That shouldn’t be the case, right?”

“Why would it appear here?”

Fang Xiaocao stood in place, muttering to herself.

Brainless squatted nearby, cocking his head curiously at his princess, who had suddenly gone offline.

After a long while, Fang Xiaocao sighed.

She stepped into the cave, confronting a statue clad in golden chainmail, wearing a sky-piercing crown, stepping on lotus silk boots, with a hairy face and thunderous mouth, holding a Jingu Bang.

Being able to see a statue of the Great Sage Equalling Heaven underground in the vast desert of New Province was something Fang Xiaocao had not anticipated, and for a moment, she doubted herself, wondering if she had picked up the wrong script.

She had just been outside the stone chamber, where she had obtained the personal Taoist tool of Zuo Ci, the master illusionist from the Late Eastern Han Dynasty, the Blood Jade Ring.

From the moment she laid eyes on the Blood Jade Ring, Fang Xiaocao had assumed that this eerie ancient tomb should be the tomb of Zuo Ci, although she did not understand why Zuo Ci’s tomb would be here, but the appearance of a statue of the Great Sage Equalling Heaven in the tomb was utterly absurd.

Wasn’t the image of the Great Sage devised by a Ming Dynasty novelist based on the Tang Dynasty’s “Great Tang Records on the Western Regions”?

How could it appear in the tomb of a famous Taoist Priest from the Late Eastern Han Dynasty?

Could it be that this tomb did not belong to Zuo Ci?

But was constructed by someone from the Ming Dynasty?

Did the person who built the tomb have a special liking for “Journey to the West” by Wu Cheng’en, hence they sculpted a statue of the Great Sage Equalling Heaven in the tomb?

Wasn’t that a bit far-fetched?

Looking at the statue of the Great Sage Equalling Heaven before her, Fang Xiaocao was bewildered, feeling an unreal sensation. She couldn’t help doubting whether she was truly in the real world.

Or perhaps, she had been hypnotised?

Was everything in front of her an illusion?

With this thought, Fang Xiaocao activated her hypnotism, trying to use her spiritual power to discern the authenticity of everything before her.

But no matter how many times she tried, the statue of the Great Sage Equalling Heaven remained.

Nor did she feel any trace of having been attacked by spiritual power.

At that moment, Fang Xiaocao felt a tingling on her scalp.

She refused to believe this was real.

It was too mind-blowing!

She would rather believe it was an illusion.

“Wait a minute!”

“Illusion?”

“Illusion Technique!”

Suddenly, a light dawned on Fang Xiaocao.

She looked down at the Blood Jade Ring in her hand.

“Could this thing be causing the trouble?” she murmured, gazing at the eye within.

But she did not feel any energy attacking her from the Blood Jade Ring!

Instead, holding the Blood Jade Ring, feeling the faint energy emanating from it, was a rather comfortable sensation for her.

Her spiritual power was even more active than usual.

It was as if she was always in a state of meditation.

Her spiritual power remained active every moment, slowly increasing.

As a master of hypnotism, she could not possibly misjudge whether she had been attacked.

This was not the sensation of being attacked.

Fang Xiaocao furrowed her brows and shook her head.

The problem should not lie with the Blood Jade Ring.

“Then what could it be?”

Fang Xiaocao muttered, her gaze rapidly scanning everything inside the cave.

The cave was not large; aside from the statue of the Great Sage Equalling Heaven and a stone table, there was only a stone gate behind the statue.

The Stone Gate was carved with the pattern of an eye.

Similar to the Blood Jade Ring in her hand.

Emitting a faint spiritual radiation.

But before the spiritual radiation could reach her, it was absorbed by the Blood Jade Ring in her hand.

Fang Xiaocao felt that the Blood Jade Ring in her hand was like a mythological artifact from legendary stories, not only amplifying her spiritual power output but also automatically protecting her from spiritual power attacks.

Incredibly magical!

But then again, considering that the Blood Jade Ring was personally carved by Zuo Ci, a Taoist Priest known for his immortal reputation, Fang Xiaocao no longer found it strange.

She didn’t understand, but she respected it.

After all, with thousands of years of civilization and cultural heritage, archaeologists have even discovered the language of Yu, and it seems the Super Civilization of Sanxingdui is about to be unearthed. It’s understandable that there would be extraordinary characters and magical abilities in the ancient times.

Even she herself could converse with her future self and had learned hypnotism.

With such outstanding precedents, anything that defied common sense did not surprise Fang Xiaocao in the least.

As for what was not in accordance with science…

Aren’t there plenty of things in this world that science can’t explain?

Didn’t scientific giants like Newton and Einstein start studying theology in their later years?

There’s a saying that the end of science is mysticism, and it’s not entirely without basis.

Take gunpowder, one of the Four Great Inventions; wasn’t it developed by a group of alchemy-practicing Taoists?

Is this science or mysticism?

If you say it’s science, the ancient practitioners who accidentally created gunpowder while practicing alchemy would be the first to disagree.

They devoted their lives to mysticism.

They dedicated their entire lives to the pursuit of the alchemy for immortality; why should a discipline invented by modern people negate their lifelong quest?

There are far too many things in the world that science can’t explain, and Fang Xiaocao felt that understanding them through mysticism might yield different fruits.

Take, for example, her companion Brainless.

Brainless’s condition could be explained by science, sure, but it could be equally explained by mysticism!

“Wait a minute?”

“Brainless?”

Fang Xiaocao suddenly froze.

She looked at Brainless and then looked up at the statue of the Great Sage Equalling Heaven.

Covered in fur?

No tail?

A large monkey that could walk upright?

Though beast-like in appearance, its behavior was akin to that of humans…

Fang Xiaocao suddenly entertained an absurd thought.

What if…

The character of the Great Sage Equalling Heaven was not a figment of Wu Cheng’en’s imagination?

Could it be possible that there indeed existed such a character as the Great Sage Equalling Heaven in the Ming Dynasty, or even earlier in the Tang or Han Dynasties?

Could it be that when Xuanzang journeyed to the West, he was accompanied by a disciple or a protector who was covered in fur, playful like a monkey, and highly skilled in martial arts?

Then having such a statue resembling the Great Sage Equalling Heaven here would make sense!

If this hypothesis held true, the transformation of Brainless and Cang Luan into this half-human, half-monkey wild appearance wouldn’t seem strange at all.

Thinking this, Fang Xiaocao suddenly experienced an epiphany, with her thoughts becoming clear.

All her unfounded suspicions were just preconceptions she had built up herself.

Her preconceptions had led her down a rabbit hole again.

Croak croak croak–

Just then, a series of frog croaks emanated from Fang Xiaocao.

Fang Xiaocao was stunned at first, but then she realized it was her phone’s message tone.

In such a godforsaken place, the only person who could make her phone ring was Hot Noodles. Fang Xiaocao immediately reached into her pocket and pulled out her phone, which was inside a waterproof case.

She unlocked the screen to see, as expected, a WeChat message from Hot Noodles…