Chapter 942 Space-Time Diagram
The Buddha of Burning Light and the demon of death had been confronting each other for a long time in the past.
No one knows how long it has been.
All living beings are like dust, and one dust is one kalpa. According to the calculation of Buddhism, one kalpa is about 1.2 billion years.
Then, one living being is one 1.2 billion years, and there will be reincarnation. Each living being has been subjected to hundreds of thousands of nayutas of asamkhyeya kalpas by the demon of death.
How many living beings are there in the universe?
One living being, hundreds of thousands of nayutas of asamkhyeya kalpas, you can imagine how long this struggle in the past lasted.
"What's the point?" The Buddha of Burning Light smiled and said, "In the past, I transcended the sea of life and death in eight kalpas. Now, no matter how many times I repeat it, it's just your time that is wasted."
"Time? As long as I let you retreat, I can immediately return to the time point I want to go, without delaying a second." The demon of death said so.
"That's not necessarily true. Humans, witches, gods, and the four sides of the natural evolution will not let you go to that time point. They finally pushed the status quo to this point after much effort and huge losses. It's not that easy for you to change it." The Buddha of Light answered easily.
"Oh, that means they did push it forward, right? You stopped me here just to create a fait accompli? Then you don't care about the demons?" said the demon of death.
As they spoke, countless and inexpressible "events" occurred around them.
These events included eternity and true infinity.
But in eternity, there are a large number of time sequences with clear boundaries.
All time appears in eternity, infinite power, perfect, and even has reached the complete achievement of all possible creations.
This is incredible, because unless the infinite and absolute spirit conceived and executed this entire series of creations in a finite and temporary creative mode, all this would not be possible.
But it happened. In order to create, the eternal and infinite spirit added time to eternity and included this long series of creations.
Such a wonderful reality, but...
Destruction is also coming.
All the ‘events’ were isolated, like stones that could not affect each other.
Because all changes stopped, the strict sense of time in every desolate universe also stopped.
This should be the end of stillness and eternity, even eternity would be exhausted.
Unimaginable and unfathomable power.
What kind of existence can give birth to such a scene?
Death?
Impossible, how can a mere death create such infinity? The power of the Death Demon is definitely not death.
Or... the target of the Death Demon is death, but his existence is not maintained by death.
Death is just a small footnote of him, not his true foundation.
What about the Burning Lamp Buddha? Where does his power come from?
It is difficult to understand and unimaginable.
But it does exist and affects enough things.
However, at this moment, the power of the Burning Lamp Buddha gradually faded.
The silent death engulfed everything around.
There was no fanfare, no huge sound or light.
All they had was... they all fell into a sluggish state, and finally, without exception, they all fell into sleep, which is what we call death.
The Death Demon escaped.
He left the past and returned to the 'present'.
Although to him, he actually just came from one place to another.
For beings above the third rank, there is no time in the universe. There are only independent events one after another. Although these events are related, there is no fixed causal order.
Something happened in the past, and I know the coordinates of that event, so I go to the place where that event happened.
The so-called 'time' is just a coordinate axis on the time-space map.
Knowing the coordinate axis of the spatial orientation and the coordinate axis of the time orientation, you can just go to that place directly, just like going shopping to a store.
Go there and do what you want to do.
It's that simple. The so-called time travel is not mysterious at all. If it is drawn like a map, it is just an extra T axis on the map.
It's just adding a time axis to the coordinate axis, which is no different from the previous XYZ axes, and different events are distributed on this space-time diagram, at different points defined by the four axes.
Go to any point and you can witness what happened at that point, and then you do something and change it.
Since you have made changes, there will naturally be corresponding changes, just like if you push a cup off the table, the cup will naturally fall down, it's normal, everything is logical.
There is no metaphysical part at all.
All "events" are distributed on the same space-time diagram at the same time, and each event is independent, just like the cup and the table.
The cup stands on the table, so aren't the cup and the table independent of each other? I don't think anyone would say that the cup cannot exist independently without the table, right?
Although, if the table disappears, the cup will fall and break, but this thing also exists independently, no one will think that "the cup is broken", so the complete cup does not exist, right?
Everything exists independently, which is also a way of existence, especially for existence with reality.
The dead demon returned to this world again.
She looked at her hands.
Delicate and white.
She looked down at her body again.
The human body of the world, only twelve or thirteen years old, looked pitiful, and looked like she was about to cry at any time, but with the indifferent expression of the Death Demon, there was a different feeling.
Her relationship with the Heavenly Demon was not good, but the Heavenly Demon proposed a very tempting condition, as long as she put on this body, the Heavenly Demon would help him.
It was simply a free profit.
The Heavenly Demon always did these inexplicable things, but it didn't matter, the Death Demon didn't care about its affairs.
The Death Demon himself felt that there was nothing meaningful in this world.
Emptiness, extinction, all of this is the essence of this world.
There is no meaning in arguing about good and evil, right and wrong, what Tao and non-Tao are.
There is no right or wrong, good and evil without a standpoint. There is no right or wrong, good or evil in anything, but there is right or wrong with a standpoint.
Things just exist. To say that mountains, water, wind, stars, and the sun are good or evil? Is it good or bad?
It has no meaning.
Everything in this world has no meaning.
Meaning is given to things by subjective will, and subjective will is the source of everything.
The magic way has many ways to prove that this world originates from subjective will itself, and the death demon is naturally the same.
All the meanings in this world are given by "I", so is there any need to pursue "Tao"?
If truth, or... the ultimate way exists, then the meaning of the existence of the ultimate way must also be given by "I".
Suppose a mortal who believes that the love between him and his wife transcends everything, and he is willing to give up contact with the existence of the "ultimate way" for "love", can you say he is wrong?
Obviously, no.
In this example, because the "meaning" is given by "I", for "I", the ultimate way may not be more important than "love".
Subjective will gives value to all existence in the world. In other words, it means that everything in the world is worthless.
If the existence of subjective will is stripped away, then all things are equivalent.
A piece of stone may not be cheaper than a piece of gold, because the value of both gold and stone is given by subjective will. Only when subjective will recognizes value can it be valuable.
Therefore, the "Tao" may not be really higher than other things. That is just the value given to the "Tao" by those "subjective wills", not that the "Tao" is really important.
So, in this case, do all things really have any value of existence?
The answer is no.
Since the value of existence is given by "I", then if "I" think there is no value, then there is no value.
Since there is no value, then it is natural to destroy it.
If there is no meaning of existence, then there is no need to exist.
For things that do not need to exist, it is also natural to destroy them.
The dead demon walked in the empty space, looking around, and wherever he could see -
galaxies were dying and civilizations were extinct.
He did nothing, nor did he deliberately perform magic, he just passed by.
But inevitably, the decline of all things began.
In each world, the economy and production are becoming more and more difficult, and the population has to be reduced again and again. The population has dropped to a level that is not enough to maintain the collective of its own world.
As we all know, there is such a number as the "minimum population of civilization". In order to maintain the normal operation of various systems such as medical care, energy, education, transportation, and industry, many workers are needed.
When the population is too low, the technological level of civilization itself will not only be locked at a certain level forever, but will even regress.
Just like the nerve center in the brain, if one link degenerates and can no longer bear its task in development, the brain as a whole will also degenerate rapidly and become dementia.
It would not be like this originally. Civilization has a tendency to "sustain itself" and will do its best to survive.
But for some reason, they lost this thing.
These civilizations are no longer willing to "reproduce". They themselves don't know why. Anyway, they think it doesn't matter if they perish.
In this way, civilization is dying step by step.
The galaxies and observable universes that the death demons pass through, the civilizations in them, all functions are declining, and the constantly declining society seriously erodes their already declining courage.
Perhaps there are still some pioneers or leaders in some civilizations who still have vague memories of their past history of striving and progress.
However, they cannot stop all this from happening.
At this moment——
Another pure white girl with almost the same appearance hugged the Death Demon from behind affectionately and said happily: "Hey, you are back?"
Almost instantly, the girl's body began to wither.
But soon revived again.
If the world has no meaning...
Then "I" can't give it meaning?
The meaning of this world is defined by "I", "I" is the meaning of all existence, isn't it?
It's the same "I".
But, the Death Demon and the Heavenly Demon are like two sides of the same yin and yang.
Starting from the same perspective, they came to completely opposite conclusions.
The demon doesn’t think that this world is meaningless. On the contrary, she thinks that she is the whole meaning of this world. She herself is of course very meaningful, so this world is also very meaningful.
The logic is completely smooth and completely in line with the cognition of the demon.
In this respect, the "decay" of the dead demon can not affect the body of the demon at all.
But it is obvious that the dead demon does not want her to hold him all the time, so the dead demon pushes her away and still keeps an expressionless look and says: "I have been resurrected, so next, do you want to help you get out of trouble?"
"Help me get out of trouble, it is not necessary. The one who suppressed me is the Tathagata. Now he can't leave the formless world. I still have a lot to say to him~, hum~." The demon is very happy to make a nasal sound, like a cat.
"Then what are you going to do? According to your temperament, I should be rewarded, right?" The dead demon said.
If possible, he doesn't want to get involved with the demon too much.
But if it is agreed in advance, when the demon comes to collect the debt, even the first rank will feel a headache.
As a first-class demon, the dead demon knows very well how difficult the heavenly demon is.
He has been ‘killed’ for so long, but the heavenly demon… has never died.
The heavenly demon is the ‘enemy of the way’.
He likes to use temptation, coercion, intimidation, inducement and other methods to try to hinder the practitioner’s path to the way.
He has infinite power, and his image is changeable. He may appear in a ferocious face, or in a kind form, and sometimes in a seductive posture. However, his purpose, whether it is threatening or tempting, is to make the practitioner deviate from his own way and fall into the evil way.
It does not have to be the demon way, as long as it deviates from the original way, it doesn’t matter if it makes people become witches, monsters become dragons, or Buddhas become demons.
She just thinks it’s fun.
Although it is actually quite difficult to encounter the heavenly demon.
Those who are not great practitioners and have firm willpower are not easily troubled by the heavenly demon.
Ordinary laymen, who roll in troubles and the five aggregates all day long, and also flow in life and death, how can they be attacked by the heavenly demon? It is not their turn for the demon to attack.
To put it bluntly, the demon only plays high-end games and provokes powerful people.
The mere existence of the demon has caused headaches for countless practitioners, and no one knows whether their thoughts are their own.
Such bad behavior, and even worse reasons, so the demon has many enemies, not much worse than the dead demon.
But it has been alive, making trouble, and has not been killed.
It is enough to show how strong she is.
At this moment, the demon that even the dead demon is afraid of laughed cutely and showed a mischievous face.
"Hehehe~, if you want to talk about rewards..."
"Then help me make a big fuss~."