Chapter 946: Ancient Secrets: The Origin of the Dao (Part 2)

Jiang Lu kept talking about the ancient times.

Since the birth of the demon, the reopening of the universe has become a matter of course.

All living beings fell into great pain, because the demon would easily destroy everything as nothingness, and then reshape a brand new world.

In addition, new three-grade began to appear. In addition to those who were born with the third grade and the second grade, mortals also began to touch the power of the third grade.

After reopening again and again, every real existence began to make their own choices.

The universe has become unimaginably complex. When a real existence faces multiple choices, it will choose all the options. In this way, there are many different time dimensions and different cosmic histories.

In the evolution of this universe, there are many different creatures at each stage, and each creature faces many possible paths at each moment. Combined with this, this universe will produce countless small cosmic possibilities at each stage and at each moment.

These original intentions with reality can perceive the entire physical universe from multiple time and space perspectives, or even from all possible time and space perspectives. Creatures that can perceive the universe from all possible spatial perspectives are consistent in the range of space they perceive, and their differences are reflected in their insight.

This insight depends on the individual's intellectual talent and ability. These real beings not only have a full range of perception, but also a full range of decision-making.

They can perform their fists and feet in various places in time and space. Of course, according to the different intellectual talents of individuals, they will vary in strength and accuracy.

In a sense, these three-grade beings are non-material, metaphysical beings, struggling in the material universe like chess players.

Although there is a material aspect, there is no systematic physical world that we are familiar with. The entity of the entity depends entirely on the influence of each other. Each individual emits a tide of feeling "images", and the psychological laws of mutual influence between minds determine the nature and results of these images.

The complexity of the universe has been raised to an unparalleled level.

Haotian's initial choices ultimately created such a being, and they even shaped a universe without any objective physical essence. As metaphysical beings, they cannot have any substantial influence on each other.

Under the influence of the demons, another mind-based system emerged, where those with real existences conceived of their own physical world, which was illusory but reliable and practical. The world was filled with their own imaginations. These subjective worlds were connected to each other through their extraordinary and precise calculations, forming a perfect system.

The spiritual path and the demon path were thus stabilized, and the birth of the "heaven" also appeared.

However, some people had enough.

Some people were tired of being manipulated like this, being entangled in the big net of all things, unable to be freed, being constantly rewritten, and constantly pulled, just like a puppet.

Moreover, when the puppeteer controlled the puppet, the puppet was also pulling the puppeteer with its meager power. No one could be freed, and everyone was pulling each other.

He felt extremely unfree, bound by this net, tied by this net, dragged, rolling around in it, but he could never get out of it. Mortals who were trapped in the mortal world could not detect it, but he used his wisdom to detect the existence of this net, and was particularly painful because of it.

In order to escape from this net, he resolutely gave up everything.

So, this young man gave up his wealth and glory, and under the Bodhi tree, he began to think about where old age, suffering, sickness and death, and all kinds of unsatisfactory things come from?

On the Bodhi tree, the moon rises and sets, and the tide rises and falls.

Under the Bodhi tree, he sits cross-legged and meditates.

In the end, he realized the reality and mystery of the universe and life. Through this method, the complexity and nothingness of the universe today can be eliminated.

The demon felt threatened, because this is a way to eliminate evil thoughts, so the demon came to the door, trying to stop the other party from becoming enlightened, surrounded by demons, and invaded by evil thoughts.

However, in the end, he failed, and the first "Buddha" appeared. Buddha means the enlightened one. He was called "Buddha", which means the ancestor of all Buddhas, yes... all Buddhas.

There is more than one Buddha.

He declared that all beings are Buddhas, all things, all beings with higher wisdom, can obtain his liberation, forever free from upside-down dreams, forever free from old age, suffering, sickness and death, and never be troubled by evil thoughts and wars in the outside world.

He even said that he should have left here because he had already found a way to get rid of everything, but he didn't want to leave because he still had one last obsession.

This obsession was his "compassion".

He didn't want to be liberated by himself alone, he wanted all living beings to be liberated from suffering together with him, so he gave up the final step of transcendence and chose to stay, spread his wisdom, and save all suffering.

If the self-nature is enlightened, all living beings are Buddhas.

At the same time, there was another wise man in the human race, and he also found a similar answer. He found that... there are too many constraints in this world, and these constraints are all given to ourselves.

To achieve true freedom, we must give up the constraints we have given ourselves.

But some constraints exist naturally in heaven and earth.

The heaven and earth move on their own without anyone pushing them, the sun and the moon shine on their own without anyone lighting them, the stars are arranged on their own, and the animals are born on their own without anyone creating them. This is all natural, so why bother?

The reason why people are born, why they have nothing, why they are honored, and why they are humiliated are all due to the natural principles and the natural way.

He found that this "nature" is a more noble existence than "Haotian".

He found an existence that surpasses Haotian, Taiyi, Tianmo, and Buddha.

He thought about it and called it "Tao".

And if you want to get closer to the existence of "Tao", you need to practice "virtue" in yourself. In this way, Tao runs in heaven and earth, and virtue is in Tao, which is called "morality".

So he was called "Taozu", and there was another existence in the universe that could stand shoulder to shoulder with Haotian, but he was still not satisfied. Although he was much freer, he was still not free.

However, he did not deliberately pursue unfreedom again.

Because, wandering in the beginning of things, within the heaven and earth, outside the universe, the heaven and earth, people, sun, moon, mountains and rivers, all have different forms and natures, but the same thing is that they all follow nature to be born and die, and all follow nature to move and stop.

Unfreedom seems to be a part of nature, absolute freedom, take it slowly, just let it go.

After that, all living beings seemed to have found the existence of the "Tao", but some of these "Tao" are profound, some are superficial, some can really interpret everything, and some are just nonsense, forced together.

But, different Taos seem to be somewhat incompatible with each other? Obviously everyone can interpret the same thing, but put together it seems so disharmonious.

However, the emergence of the "Tao" began to accelerate the progress of the practice method.

With the Tao, the progress of the law and art began to explode on a large scale.

The cultivation method and various techniques that use the cultivation method have all increased horribly under the guidance of the ‘Tao’. In the past, they could only be exhaustive, but now there is a guide, just like having a map. As long as you follow the map and complete all the tasks that are flashing on the map, the techniques and methods will soon reach the peak, and the blind people on the dark continent will start to light up and find the way.

But... there is a problem.

That is, although the method and technique are easy to explore,... the exploration of the ‘Tao’ is far more difficult than the method and technique.

At this time, hybridization began.

Some wise men in the human world found the Taoist ancestor, hoping to learn his wisdom, and later became an important branch of the human world.

For some reason, there was a lot of communication between Buddha and demon, which led to a lot of transformation.

The original witches and shamans borrowed from each other and developed the concept of ‘nature’ together, separating the witches and shamans from the position of ‘servants of gods’.

The warriors learned how to beat various people, and they also began to think about ‘why they fight’.

In the final analysis, the reason why the martial arts was developed was to facilitate the previous wars. It was a set of methods developed by the warriors while exploring martial arts. Before that, no warrior would think about why.

Why think so much? They practiced for fighting.

However, after this time, they found out... were they practicing for fighting or for something else?

On the other hand, the monsters found that compared with the gods, humans, real dragons, various beasts, and other gifted creatures, they were too weak. They had to find a better way to survive.

So, the monsters began their own great attempt.

Monsters, monster gods, monster dragons, and monsters appeared one after another, and even the monsters themselves were divided internally. The last fatal monster even went crazy and chose to stir up the world, which was called "Monster Chaos". In this catastrophe, demons, humans, gods, Taoists, Buddhas, monsters, etc. fought in a group.

This time, it was the first "Taoism Struggle" that swept the entire universe. In the end, the human way completely broke with the divine way, and the witches also broke away from the original shackles of the human race. The real "Human Emperor" began to appear. At the same time, the third vein of the gods, the "human ghosts", also began to appear, and the mortals became gods.

Since then, the pattern of gods, earth gods, and human ghosts has been completely established.

The Arctic demons broke away from the demons. They gave up their bodies and became another kind of existence, called "spirits", or "ghosts" and "souls".

Humanity also appeared in the true sense. The human race that worshipped the gods was destroyed, and humanity embarked on the road of self-reliance. Later, the "Emperor" appeared.

Not an emperor, nor an emperor, but an existence that surpassed all of them.

It's just that this emperor didn't make it to the end.

Of course, Haotian still didn't interfere in all this.

It's hard to say whether this is gentle or cruel. Haotian's non-interference caused so many tragedies and massacres, but if he intervened... what would happen?

In short, the complexity of the universe this time far exceeds that of previous creations, but all the lives here end in tragedy sooner or later.

Although intelligence is a very powerful ability in essence, if this power is too strong, it seems not so good, at least not so good in terms of the results.

Now, these creatures have super intelligence beyond the past, their magical powers are enough to control physical energy, and they can also have the sharpness of intellectual activities.

In Jiang Lu's narration, this caused a disaster, life had the ability to control physical energy, and a certain fanatical nature was generated. The sharpness of intellectual activities went to the extreme, that is, the fanaticism of analytical thinking and abstract thinking, which would completely ignore things that intellectual activities could not explain. And emotions, without the criticism of intellectual activities and the constraints of daily life, would drown in daydreams, and eventually give birth to the ultimate daydreams, namely the "Spiritual Path" and the "Demon Path".

Li Qi did not comment. He did not think that the Demon Path or the Spiritual Path was a daydream, but he did not stop Jiang Lu from continuing.

After that, the universe soon ushered in an important "reopening".

Under the leadership of Buddhism, the universe ushered in "bad" and "empty", which they called "quantum catastrophe".

Buddhism tried to create something called "the other shore" to allow everyone to "survive" the reopening of the universe again and again, and avoid the unlimited refresh of the Demon Path.

Wu sha joined this attempt, and there were also interested gods.

Thus, the "underworld universe" corresponding to the real universe was born. Buddhism believes that in this way, sentient beings have enough time to think about what they are, instead of dying without figuring out anything.

The Tathagata, the Buddha, wants to "awaken sentient beings". This is his final goal before transcendence and the ultimate "great karma".

The so-called "karma" in Buddhism refers to the behavior of sentient beings, especially those behaviors that can lead to future results.

The original meaning is: creation, behavior.

In Buddhism, "karma" is regarded as the driving reason for everything, the "cause" of creation, and the "result" that can cause happiness or pain.

There are three types of karma, namely, body karma, speech karma, and mind karma, that is, what you do, what you say, and what you think are all considered "karma".

And the Tathagata's great karma is his ultimate, the greatest behavior in this world, and the "last karma" he created.

Reincarnation is forged, and sentient beings can no longer "die". For mortals, death is not disappearance now, but the beginning of a new journey. Although they may be ignorant, this is the compassion of the Buddha.

The witches were curious about the consequences, while some gods thought that losing death might be a good thing. The three sides came together and started the "reincarnation".

Humanity disdained reincarnation, but did not interfere with it. There was no need.

Placing hope in the afterlife was just what mediocre people did.

Then, the world gradually got back on track.

The sects fought each other, fought each other, and... made progress.

In the process of pulling each other back, they actually became stronger and stronger.

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