Zhao Chenguang continued, "Look at the distribution of the 'Fire Seed'. The people in the Kunlun Mountains are the closest to the truth of the 'Fire Seed' civilization.

Because this is one of the origins of Taoism, many believers have set foot here in pursuit of immortality.

These believers can only be said to have been left with regrets, because there are no gods or Taoist treasures they seek here.

And once you come here, you can forget about leaving.

Speaking of this, let me explain the issue of the Queen Mother of the West and her two servants.

After the 'Fire Seed' descended on Kunlun Mountain, the first person to come into contact with it was a female herder. That female herder is who you call the 'Queen Mother of the West,' and the two servants were the twin cowherds who helped her graze cattle.

The 'Fire Seed' reached an agreement with the herder, a process that was identical to what happened when the 'Fire Seed' descended on the Himalayas.

The 'Fire Seed' promised the female herder immortality and also gifted her three tools that allowed her to regenerate flesh from rotten meat to revive the dead, change mountains and rivers, and have the ability of precognition.

The female herder agreed to the 'Fire Seed's' request to liberate the civilization within the 'Fire Seed' and allow the 'Fire Seed' civilization to spread and flourish on Earth.

Thus, the female herder and her two servants have been worshipping around the meteorite, trying to unlock its mysteries.

Relying solely on the three of them is definitely not enough.

You can understand the iron mask as a kind of probabilistic deduction. It deduces the future based on various factors, but the further into the future the prediction goes, the lower the accuracy of the deduction.

For example, if you use the iron mask to see what will happen a month from now, the probability of that event happening after a month is 99.99%; you can also use the iron mask to see what will happen a year from now, and after a year, the probability of that event happening is 99.97%.

By analogy, if you use the iron mask to see what will happen a hundred or a thousand years from now, when that time node of a hundred or a thousand years arrives, the probability of that event happening may only be 60% or 30%, or even lower.

Therefore, the female herder did not accurately predict what would happen after that.

But she still gained something. She encountered a Taoist priest seeking immortality and showed him her ability to change mountains and rivers and her immortal technique of regenerating flesh from rotten meat.

The Taoist priest thought he had seen a deity, so he kowtowed and bowed, wanting to learn the immortal techniques. The female herder dismissed him on the grounds that the secrets of immortals could not be revealed. The female herder did not force him to stay here, because she predicted in the iron mask that letting this Taoist priest leave would yield more benefits than forcing him to stay.

As expected.

After the Taoist priest bid farewell to Kunlun and returned to the Central Plains, he immediately spread the wonders he had seen far and wide.

Therefore, later generations not only called that female herder the 'Queen Mother of the West,' giving her the image of a Taoist immortal, but also popularized the saying that 'Taoism originated in Kunlun.'

Later, people seeking the origin of Taoism flocked to Kunlun. More and more people traveled thousands of miles to Kunlun Mountain to seek immortality, ask about the Tao, and seek medicine. The female herder also came into contact with the mysteries of Taoism in this process.

From then on, anyone who entered her territory had no chance of leaving alive. The female herder turned these believers who sought her into one humanoid puppet after another and used the energy of the 'Fire Seed' and the connection of the red tree to allow them to reproduce themselves, becoming generations of inexhaustible machines for deducing codes.

Because the future that the female herder saw through the iron mask yielded a solution—the Taoist Bagua (Eight Trigrams).

The Taoist Bagua is indeed very helpful in divination and deduction. The Bagua can be extended to sixty-four hexagrams, and each hexagram has sixty-four possibilities. If positive and negative, one waxing and one waning, all things have a total of two to the sixty-fourth power possibilities. Converted into binary representation, there are sixty-four representation forms.

In other words, the Bagua mastered by the Taoist priest who strayed into Kunlun Mountain can be used to enumerate the civilization code inside the 'Fire Seed,' but unfortunately, the password combination of the 'Fire Seed' exceeded their understanding, because the number of digits in the password is far more than these sixty-four bits. They chose the wrong method and will never get the correct answer. Their deduction efficiency is too slow, and even after hundreds of millions of years, they may not get the correct password.

You saw those humanoid puppets in the dojo just now. These puppets are clones that use the 'Fire Seed' power to achieve human asexual reproduction. The earliest puppet bodies can be traced back to the batch of believers from when Taoism first appeared.

The female herder overemphasized the mythological color of Taoism. It was successful because of the Bagua and failed because of the Bagua. Religion became an obstacle to their exploration of the truth. Now it seems that perhaps different factions correspond to different truths.

The people here could clearly use the power of the 'Fire Seed' to reproduce and used every means to achieve their goals, and they also used the red tree to cultivate the red tree, such a magical plant, but they were still too limited and could not break through the shackles of thought. In the end, they could only reach this point, consuming so much energy, but leaving behind such a mess."