There are hundreds of storage bags inside the painting?
What a joke!
That painting is just an ordinary painting, without any Profound Mystery whatsoever. What do you mean 'inside'?
Nonsense!
Absolute nonsense!
Ouyang Ye glared at Gu Qingfeng, displeased. "I say, young man, do you think this Grandaunt is blind, or do you think she's an idiot? To try and fool Grandaunt with such bullshit? Do you really think Grandaunt is a three-year-old child!"
"Why would I bother fooling you for no reason!"
Gu Qingfeng took a sip of wine, rubbing his chin as he looked at the painting on the wall. "You should know these Cave Dwellings are all interconnected, right?"
"Obviously!"
Gu Qingfeng shot her a disdainful look. "Grandaunt has already broken into multiple Cave Dwellings in a row, how could she not know this is a complex Cave Dwelling structure where every cave is linked and every dwelling connects?"
"Then do you know what kind of Profound Mystery structure is used to link these interconnected Cave Dwellings?"
"There are so many interconnected Cave Dwellings, how would I know? Moreover, some of the connected dwellings have been damaged, some have already manifested into the world, and some have even collapsed. How would Grandaunt know what Profound Mystery structure it is? No one under heaven knows what structure this is."
"That's not necessarily true."
Ouyang Ye seemed to catch something in his words, but she couldn't believe her ears and found it somewhat amusing. "Hey, you're not going to tell me you know what Profound Mystery structure these interconnected Cave Dwellings use, are you?"
"What's wrong?
Doesn't it seem like it?"
"You?
Hehehehe..." Ouyang Ye burst into a silvery laugh as if she'd heard a hilarious joke. After laughing, she didn't immediately deny it but instead pretended to be humble, deliberately teasing, "Oh my, oh great expert, I didn't realize you were also a grandmaster in the field of Formations. This little sister would like to ask the great expert for some advice. What kind of Profound Mystery structure is this? I wonder if the great expert could enlighten me a little?"
"At first, I also thought that since most of the connected Cave Dwellings had collapsed, I couldn't tell what structure it was. But when I saw this painting, I finally understood."
Gu Qingfeng looked around left and right as if searching for something. "It's a very complex structure. As for what structure it is, I can't really say. I've never seen it before either. I suppose it must have been created by the master of this Cave Dwelling. It's based on the Profound Mystery of the Nine Palaces, linking a total of eighty-one Cave Dwellings. Moreover, the positions of these eighty-one Cave Dwellings aren't fixed; they change every so often..." Ouyang Ye had been preparing to watch a good show, waiting for this guy to make a fool of himself. But now, listening to Gu Qingfeng explain this so-called structure, she felt a bit dazed.
To be honest, she didn't understand.
Even though she had inherited Yun Nishang's existence and her Formation attainments were high, they were just that—high attainments. She could naturally set up many incredible Formations and solve many clever, complex mechanisms. But regarding the knowledge of Formations, she wasn't too knowledgeable, at least much of it was vague.
She didn't understand Formation knowledge, and it was the same for Cave Dwellings.
Seeing Gu Qingfeng speak so seriously made Ouyang Ye feel a sense of awe without fully understanding. She asked somewhat doubtfully, "You understand all this?"
"You don't?"
"Who...
Who told you Grandaunt doesn't understand!"
Clearly, Ouyang Ye was unconvinced in her heart, but she was unwilling to admit it verbally.
Regarding this, Gu Qingfeng was somewhat puzzled internally. He had thought Ouyang Ye had inherited the accumulated experience and knowledge from Yun Nishang's countless years of cultivation. Now it seemed that wasn't the case. If she had truly inherited all of Yun Nishang's experience and knowledge, she would definitely have been able to see the trick behind this Cave Dwelling.
Perhaps feeling a bit awkward, or perhaps because Gu Qingfeng glanced at her, making her feel guilty, Ouyang Ye said, "Grandaunt can't be bothered to listen to the nonsense you just spouted. Just tell me, what does what you just said have to do with this painting?"
"Didn't I just say? The inside of the painting is the Central Cave Dwelling, the center of all the Cave Dwellings."
"Bullshit!
Why can't I see it!"
Ouyang Ye stared intently at the ghostly-looking painting on the wall, still seeing nothing.
"This painting originally had nothing, so of course you can't see anything. That's the brilliance of the Cave Dwelling's master!"
Gu Qingfeng sighed with admiration. To be honest, he was quite impressed with the master of this Cave Dwelling. In five hundred years of cultivation, he had seen countless Cave Dwellings, and all sorts of structures and Profound Mysteries were beyond count.
To be fair, the structure of this Cave Dwelling couldn't be considered particularly profound or clever, but it excelled in novelty and in going against convention. Not to mention ordinary people, even an old hand like Gu Qingfeng had to look for a long time to figure out its secrets.
But when his words reached Ouyang Ye's ears, they immediately made the little girl unhappy. She said angrily, "What do you mean I can't see it? So you're saying you can see it? Didn't you say this painting has nothing? Then what did you see it from? And what exactly did you see?"
Gu Qingfeng looked rather helpless. Since he didn't know exactly what Ouyang Ye had inherited from Yun Nishang or what her current knowledge was like, even if he wanted to explain, he didn't know how to begin. He shook his head, too lazy to discuss this further with Ouyang Ye, and continued searching for something on the surrounding walls.
"Hey, Grandaunt is asking you a question!"
Ouyang Ye pressed aggressively, feeling she was being looked down upon, her anger burning even hotter. "If you can't give a proper explanation today, just see how Grandaunt deals with you!"
"My dear Grandaunt, I don't even know your current situation, how am I supposed to explain it to you?"
Gu Qingfeng pondered for a moment, then said impatiently, "Let me put it this way: the interconnected Cave Dwellings should all have two teleportation Formations, right? And within this Cave Dwelling, there's only the Formation to enter. Have you found the Formation to leave?"
Hearing this, Ouyang Ye's heart skipped a beat. She had been searching for the exit Formation just now but couldn't find it no matter how hard she looked...
She hadn't believed this guy understood these things, but thinking about it now, she felt somewhat doubtful. She thought to herself: Could it be this guy wasn't spouting nonsense earlier? Does he really understand?
In other words, is the inside of this painting really the so-called Central Cave Dwelling?
She didn't know.
Ouyang Ye didn't dare to be sure either.
Watching Gu Qingfeng tap here and knock there on the surrounding walls as if searching for something, her curiosity got the better of her and she asked again, "What are you doing!"
"Looking for a key."
"Looking for what key?"
"The key to open this painting, of course."
Gu Qingfeng's voice came through, and the more Ouyang Ye listened, the more she felt this guy was talking nonsense.
Saying that an ordinary Mural painting contained the Central Cave Dwelling was one thing, but now he was talking about a key?
Never mind whether there's a Central Cave Dwelling inside the Mural, even if there were, where would a key come from?
Since when does opening a painting require a key?
Taking a step back, even if there really were a key, why would anyone hide it inside a wall?
Does he think this is child's play?
Nonsense!
This guy must be talking nonsense!