Wedge: Yuan Hong's three questions
There is a spirit in the sky, giving birth to the original life, the first life opens the heavens and the earth, determines the heavens and the earth, and incarnates the chaotic sea.
Since then, after countless reincarnations of heaven and earth, the Chaos Sea is no longer silent, and some space-time interfaces have appeared one after another, commonly known as the source. The source, like bubbles in the water, is also like soap bubbles flying in the air, rising and falling, life and death, floating or sinking in the sea of chaos. There is a cosmic starry sky in the interface, and the stars are twinkling, and the creatures on them are constantly repeating birth and annihilation......
Human beings are only one kind of life in the universe, individual life and death, race reproduction, and civilization change...... They have created countless miracles and solved some mysteries of heaven and earth. Countless eras have passed, and cultivators have left countless cultivation inheritances in the Chaos Sea, and they have also refined pieces of heaven and earth treasures, scattered in all time and space......
Pursuing the ascension of the cultivation realm and obtaining cultivation resources and treasures is the instinct of life in the universe. Experience the sea of chaos and look for opportunities; The source realm fights for each other's resources; The birth of the source realm is shattered, and the cycle repeats...... This is the eternal theme of the Sea of Chaos.
Since ancient times, there has been a saying in the sea of chaos: heaven and earth are chessboards, all spirits are chess pieces, gossip is turned into square inches, and reincarnation plays the sky; The law is the soldier, the rule is the general, the sky is handsome, and the will is the king.
Yuan Hong was originally a monk in the Flood Desolation Realm, and after cultivating for hundreds of thousands of years, he realized the twelve basic laws of heaven and earth, and he was based on the five elements and eight trigrams, combining yin and yang, and the formation evolved space, and comprehended the rules of space; After another ten thousand years, he understood the rules of time again; went to the Chaos Sea to train for hundreds of millions of years, collected strange things in the universe, and obtained the creation resources by luck after a fight; Returning from serious injury, time and space merge, evolve the source point of chaos, and finally create a new time and space, the Source Realm, and become the new master of time and space.
Standing at the pinnacle of the universe, coldly watching the creatures in the realm go from birth to death, and the soul dissipates, but it never realizes reincarnation, making the realm a cycle of its own. In this way, he needs to constantly consume the source to maintain. With the passage of time, the Yuanhong Realm has become heavy and difficult to return, and his burden has become heavier and heavier, and he can barely maintain his consumption, causing the realm to fall...... If you lose your master's source point, you will sink into the Sea of Chaos, and then the source of the Flood Realm will also be shattered; And the enemies of the past will come to the door at any time...... Yuan Hong was desperate, he never figured out the rules of reincarnation, and his cultivation could not make an inch; Moreover, the long practice made him almost forget his own existence, and he only felt very tired, bored, and lonely.
Hundreds of millions of years have passed, and he still can't comprehend the reincarnation of the heavenly rules to perfect the Yuanhong Realm and further improve the realm, and his injuries are getting worse day by day, and the crisis is approaching step by step!
Spells are the application of laws, and the origin of laws is rules, and rules are derived from heavenly rules.
For practitioners, the higher they go, the more important their comprehension becomes. Yuan Hong is also a human being, and the step of cultivating to the master of time and space has squeezed out his last trace of potential; He is powerless against the unattainable heavens.
He boiled down the reason why he couldn't comprehend the rules of reincarnation to three questions:
1. Is it better to be inside the cage or outside the cage?
The two tigers gave the answer at the cost of their lives: both are good and both are bad. There are two tigers, one in a cage and one in the field. The cage has no worries, and the cage is free and comfortable, and they envy each other's freedom or comfort, so they switch places; Soon both tigers died. The tiger that came out of the cage was freed but did not gain the ability to prey, and died of hunger; The tiger that walked into the cage gained comfort but did not gain the mood to live in a small space, and died of depression.
The humans of Earth gave a similar answer: 'Those outside the city want to come in, and those inside the city want to go out,' and those who could not recognize rushed in and fled, and the sober stood on the walls in a dilemma.
In the third chapter of "The Siege", Chu Shenming said that there is an old English saying: "Marriage is like a gold-lacquered birdcage, the birds outside the cage want to live in, and the birds in the cage want to fly out; So the knot and the separation, the separation and the end, there is no game. Su Wenjun said: "There is also such a saying in France. However, not a birdcage, but a besieged castle, people outside the city want to rush in, and people in the city want to escape. Later, Fang Honggradually brought up the matter again and commented: "I have this feeling about everything in life recently. ”
The extension of this problem is: the authorities are confused, and the bystanders are clear. Is it better to be inside or outside?
This is a game between the entrant and the setter, it is an antagonistic relationship, but also a cooperative relationship, and it is difficult to say whether it is good or bad.
The participants are in the game, perhaps vigorously; The bystanders are on the outside, perhaps deserted. Insiders make history, but outsiders can rewrite it......
Characters and authors, authors and editors, editors and readers, works and viewers, actors and directors, on-stage and off-stage, etc., just like those two tigers, both playing their own roles, may envy each other, and finally enter or exit...... To get means to lose, and to lose ~ is not another kind of gain?
2. Which is more important, process or result?
Process or outcome, which is more important? It has been said that the process can give you a wealth of experience, and the result can give you a profound impact. As long as the process is processed, it will always live in an endless question mark; As long as it bears fruit, it will never grow. So, both are important, and both must be had.
Ku Ding solves the cow, is at ease, and enjoys the process. Therefore, many people believe that the process of pursuit is full of hardships and ups and downs, but it is very fulfilling; And the pursuit of results...... It often backfires. Therefore, it is believed that the most important thing is the process, regardless of the result...... The enjoyment process is more important than the result, and people who have experienced the complete process of love, marriage and family have experienced that there are so many things that happen without getting married or cheating after getting married.
We recognize the importance of the process, but all processes are directed to the outcome and serve the result. Sometimes, the result is more important than the process!
The great English writer William Shakespeare once said: All love that is not aimed at marriage is a hooligan. Therefore, the world is always shameful of men and women who have abnormal relationships, but most of them are duplicitous.
As long as the process is not about the result, it will definitely not work. Don't say anything about winning or losing, focusing on participation, just focus on hard work and don't care about the harvest, that's self-deception!
Successful people stand at the pinnacle of their careers, aren't they pursuing wealth and status? Actor star not for applause and flowers? Aren't the Olympians here for ultimate glory and glory? Students have been studying hard for more than ten years, not for the college entrance examination? …… Day and night, sweat and hard work, but no perfect result, will make all the process more full of helplessness.
Lawyers fight lawsuits, doctors save lives, firefighters extinguish fires...... Are they there to enjoy the process or for a result?
Therefore, the process should be guided by the expected result, as Hegel said: "If the boat of one's life does not know where to go, its voyage is doomed to be painful and futile." ”
3. Which is closer to the avenue, the incomplete or the complete?
Defective means change, there are countless possibilities for choice, plant withering indicates new life, the lack of the moon and the full moon, the rotation of day and night, the beginning of the four seasons, and the mutilation is also a process; Perfection, on the other hand, means stability, which tends to be closed...... And consummation is a short moment, just like people's youth and appearance are only a short moment, the tide rises and falls, and the peak is always only a moment.
The avenue of heaven and earth, the law of nature. - Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are used as dogs; The saints are unkind, and they use the people as dogs. Between heaven and earth, what is it? Void but unyielding, moving and out. It is better to be in the middle than to talk too much......
…… For this reason, Yuanhong thought about it for hundreds of millions of years, and finally sighed: "Being in the game, you are ignorant, seeking in the busy, and having the goal of striving for, which is in the cage and the process; Being on the outside, having long been aware of everything, but doing nothing, this is outside the cage and the result. But when you're on the outside (outside the cage) and enjoying the results, you're all right? The temporary result seems to be just a node in the process...... Heaven and earth set up a situation, how can there be a distinction between inside and outside? ”
Yuan Hong understands that he can't comprehend the consequences of reincarnation, not only can he not escape from reincarnation, but he can't escape the destruction of heaven and earth, and the Yuanhong Realm that he has worked so hard to create cannot be preserved, and hundreds of millions of living beings will be wiped out. Not to mention the looming crisis that premonitions...... He learned from the pain and finally made up his mind - to leave the inheritance and choose to solve himself! Maintain the Yuanhong Realm for a period of time with his own scattered origin, and expect his successors to solve this problem.
Yuan Hong was unwilling to trust him to be a non-person, which made the results of his life's efforts come to naught, so he erased a wisp of source thought, as a treasure artifact spirit to be refined, named 'source', and set the assessment conditions for 'source', so that it could choose a successor for itself. After making all the preparations, Yuan Hong refined a piece of mirage stone that he accidentally obtained into an hourglass bottle, turned his body and soul into time sand, and injected all the rules he comprehended into the bottle, refining the universe treasure 'Time and Space Hourglass Bottle'.
The space-time hourglass bottle fell into the Yuanhong realm, and the Yuanhong itself completely dissipated between heaven and earth......