socalfunplaces Chapter 385 A Place of Entrustment, The Foundation of the World
Chapter 385 A Place of Entrustment, The Foundation of the World
Chapter 385 A Place of Entrustment, The Foundation of the World
The concept that "the Dao Ancestor did not omit the fundamental truth of self" when he preached the Dao is also evidenced in the fragments of memory of the "Transcendent One."
"However, it seems that in the subsequent development of the immortal cultivation system, the 'true self' was proven to be unable to exist independently, thus the path of 'ascension of the primordial spirit' was declared bankrupt."
Since the "true self" cannot exist independently, this concept becomes unnecessary. Therefore, it was subsequently merged with the "Dao." Consequently, the foundation of cultivators in the Immortal Alliance today is the "Dao," not the "true self."
"This wasn't due to differences in the laws of the world, but rather—the humans of the galaxy at that time were unable to access the [Gateway to the Heavens]!"
Ye Yang thought about it more and more clearly: "The true self is not something that cannot exist alone."
"By using the gates of the heavens, pausing briefly between life and death, that is the state of the true self's fundamental nature—a state of having nowhere to rely on! That is, the state of the true self's fundamental nature—free from all constraints and influences, existing independently!"
"Refining one's true intentions and achieving rebirth is the process of strengthening the foundation of one's true self," triggering a transformation of that fundamental self!
"So—the True Meaning Martial Arts created by Master is actually a kind of cultivation method?"
Ye Yang had a series of wonderful ideas popping into his mind, but he suppressed his desire to try and verify them and continued reading.
Elementary Textbook, Introduction to Spiritual Practice —
Intermediate textbook: How to prove the truth and attain enlightenment, how to strengthen the foundation of your true self —
Advanced teaching material: Once the true self has grown to a certain extent, how to seek emptiness within illusion —
Everything has a traceable path; we only need to follow the path pioneered by our predecessors.
But at the end of this path of cultivation, the final step is the end of inheritance and the pinnacle of civilization. There are only theoretical realms left, but no actual successful cases.
"When you first begin your spiritual practice, all phenomena are illusory, but the laws are real. What you need to do is see mountains as not mountains."
"When one attains enlightenment and becomes a true being, the laws are false, and my way is true. Traversing all the heavens, mountains are mountains, and water is water."
"When seeking emptiness within falsehood—all things are false, the heavens are false, and even my own path can be false. Only by casting aside all the superficiality and illusion can true emptiness be revealed."
"Only after everything is reduced to zero can one seek truth in emptiness and cultivate the primordial spirit. The true self is fundamentally entrusted to the primordial spirit! Proving the reality of the true self is a reality that transcends everything and transcends all things within the heavens!"
The "primordial spirit" here does not refer to a special state of the soul in the history of the exploration of immortal cultivation theories in the main world.
Rather, it refers to a special existence that is neither energy nor matter, outside of time and space, outside of cause and effect, constant and free, and whose existence is eternally proven once proven!
It is also the ultimate goal pursued by the mainstream cultivation system of the Multi-Human Federation.
Ye Yang read through the entire set of textbooks in one go.
At this moment, all the concepts and practices described in the book flashed through my mind—
"Although the laws governing the world differ, the underlying principles can still be conveyed."
"I can fully understand these three steps: entering the path of spiritual practice, realizing the truth, and strengthening the foundation of my true self. I have benefited greatly from them and they have also clarified the direction for my next step."
"However, the next two steps, seeking emptiness within illusion and seeking truth within emptiness, are like two paths: one is a road with no end, and the other is an ideal goal that exists only in theory and cannot be reached by any known path at present."
"Seeking emptiness within falsehood is a path developed based on the concept of the primordial spirit. Its goal is very clear, but there is an insurmountable chasm within it—"
"It's like asking people to put an elephant in a refrigerator." Based on this goal, it's easy to see a path: open the refrigerator, put the elephant in, and then close the door.
"But this path is not a path for humans to walk on at all!"
Ye Yang sighed.
Seeking emptiness within falsehood is too far-fetched. To consider everything as false, to eliminate it all, and to attain true emptiness—then where should I exist before I attain truth?
The idea behind this path of cultivation is that everything is false, and the process of cultivation is to seek truth through falsehood.
The ultimate goal is to replace the "false" that carries me with the "true," thereby gaining a status and power that transcends all things within the myriad realms.
However, the operation is missing at the moment of this replacement; no one knows how to do it, and can only get infinitely close.
"Is it the completely wrong path? No, not necessarily, but at least it's not entirely wrong."
Ye Yang compared the current mainstream views of the Immortal Alliance on the future direction of cultivation.
Their paths of spiritual practice diverged after they "attained enlightenment and became true beings":
"The multi-human federation begins to strengthen the true self," and then moves towards eliminating falsehood and preserving truth.
The Celestial Alliance of Stars plunged headlong into the main world's law system, refining Taiji, refining Taisu, and then aiming to refine Taishi. When they found that this was not feasible, they planned to use refining Taixu as a stepping stone to refining Taishi.
So what is the root cause of their different development paths?
Ye Yang rummaged through his vast knowledge base, which included some materials he had found in the Eastern Paradise Library, such as the Five Primordial Ladders of the Star Alliance, which clearly originated in the late developmental era, and the "Star Ascension Method."
When it developed to the point of refining white dwarfs.
At that time, people turned their attention to neutron stars and black holes, which gradually led to the rudimentary form of the Five-Stage Theory of Primordial Chaos.
Going back further, it can be seen that as early as when the "Tao Ancestor" was spreading his teachings, he had already incorporated the Five Primordial Theories of the Primordial World into the basic understanding of the main world within the Taoist cultivation system.
Ye Yang guessed, "So it should be the one who passed on the fire at that time. Because of his extremely high level, even though he didn't have time to focus on studying the world laws of the main world, he still glimpsed a lot of the essence of the world. That's why he incorporated the hypothesis of the Five Primordial Elements when he passed on the Dao."
It can be said that the development of the Immortal Alliance's cultivation theory was primarily based on the main world, with the main world at its center.
The multi-human federation's shift in theoretical development towards the exploration of "the true self" also has its own reasons.
Ye Yang searched through the records in the inheritance and quickly found the reason: "It actually stems from the exploration of the essence of the myriad worlds?!"
He was somewhat surprised, and then eagerly read on, wanting to know what the final result of this so-called exploration of the essence of the world would be.
"Regardless of the world's level, the fundamental status is the same—the essential truth of a level ten world and a level one world is the same, and there is no difference because one is finite and the other is infinite."
"What does that mean?" Ye Yang frowned and went back to read it repeatedly.
After reading several research papers on "world destruction experiments" cited in this article, he finally understood.
"To use an analogy—it's like a building and its foundation."
"The myriad worlds are essentially a single, infinitely large rocky foundation, and the foundation upon which each world rests is identical and absolutely solid. The size and height of buildings that can be erected upon this foundation depend on the structure of each individual building."
"What determines the size, or rather, the level, of each world is the amount of information in that world."
"The world's legal system and world structure, including its spacetime and material structure, together determine the maximum amount of information that a world can generate and maintain."
"The world of the storyline has a complete cause and effect, and the amount of information is conserved. However, the world of the free world has an incomplete cause and effect, and the amount of information is not conserved. Therefore, the world level will gradually increase or decrease out of control."
Uncontrolled shrinking naturally leads to eternal nothingness.
If it grows out of control, it will enter an eternal genealogy of explosive growth.
In short, anything out of control is never a good thing.
The "Multi-Human Federation" realized that its true nature was built upon the "false" world and all things because it discovered the existence of the "foundation." To become "true," it must come into contact with that foundation and carve out a territory for itself.
"Cultivate the primordial spirit, which becomes the place where the true self resides."
"At this moment, everything in every world of the heavens becomes relatively false," an illusion that the primordial spirit can twist and change in an instant!
Ye Yang clicked his tongue; this ideal was indeed very beautiful.
But in reality, it's too difficult to achieve.
The solution devised by the people of the Multi-Human Federation was to seek emptiness within falsehood, and then seek truth within emptiness.
The analogy is that a person is a resident in an apartment building—and this resident wants to embed themselves into the foundation.
However, the places that can be reached by using the building's stairs or elevators—a system of world laws—are limited.
The world's legal system determines the heights that living beings can reach, much like how there are special, mysterious areas or floors in a building that cannot be reached by stairs or elevators!
But the "residents" weren't pushovers either. Through the "Gate of the Heavens," they gained the ability to travel to other buildings. So they gathered various materials and parts, assembled a drilling machine, and planned to drill through each floor slab to reach the foundation at the bottom!
However, the drilling machine became increasingly difficult as it went deeper, creating narrower and narrower tunnels that required residents to sacrifice a small part of their bodies to squeeze through.
As they went deeper, the more they abandoned, and they were often injured by the drilling machine until their bodies were broken and they were unable to control themselves, and were eventually smashed by the drilling machine.
It collapsed before it even penetrated the actual foundation.
This is the dilemma faced by the top cultivators of the Multiverse Federation of Humans.
As for whether it's possible to find another building that's "not so tall" so that residents can more easily reach the foundation—it is indeed possible.
But reaching the foundation does not mean that it can take root in it.
Tall buildings are both obstacles and advantages!
Although everything in the world is relative and false, the most fundamental essence of the world is true.
Without this support, the "fake" can never shake the "real"!
Through practice and verification, the cultivators of the Multi-Human Federation believe that only in the tenth-level world, that is, the infinite world, is it possible to cultivate the primordial spirit!
This is easy to understand.
The three levels of infinitesimal, finite number, and infinity cannot be crossed without going through operations related to "infinity".
Whether in a finite or infinite world, the "weight" of reality is equal.
So, as part of the world, in a finite world, the "realm" one needs to rely on to cultivate a primordial spirit is finite. Although it may be very small, it is still finite.
If one wants to cultivate a primordial spirit in an infinite world, then the weight of the "real thing" that one must rely on is infinitesimally small!
The difficulty has been reduced by an infinite order.
Even an infinitesimal "true" is not comparable to a "false" that is zero.
However, despite their tremendous efforts in pursuing this goal, the cultivators of the Multi-Human Federation have yet to see any results.
Until outsiders took everything away.
"The material used to create the Heritage Stone Tablet—to be precise, it's not a single material at all. It's a product of the World Destruction Experiment, a state closest to 'emptiness.'"
"That's a state," not actual matter; the Multiverse Federation of Humans simply imposed that state onto the white jade tablet. The Immortal Alliance's technique of using Dao Foundation Dust to refine Profound True Dao Treasures is essentially a transfer and utilization of this state.
Ye Yang used the "Level 1 Network" to view the cultural heritage that had been attributed to him.
Among them, there are 41 units of "weak boundary base materials".
"World Foundation, short for the foundation of the world, is the result of almost completely destroying a world, leaving only the last traces of information. At this point, a weak world foundation can be extracted from it."
After the top cultivators of the Multiverse Human Federation seek "emptiness," they can obtain a strong realm foundation, and the "emptiness" they aim for is the true realm foundation.
Utilizing a large amount of weak foundation materials, the Multi-Human Federation developed the "Omnidirectional Law Domain" technology, which is a law domain that can enhance any Great Dao Law to near the foundation strength.
Even if they travel to another completely different level 10 world, they can still maintain their original power under the pressure of that terrifying world law!
The one who came to the main world to pass on the torch maintained his original strength by relying on the power of the Omnidirectional Domain.
"The techniques for modifying and using the Omnidirectional Domain in the Inheritance Treasury are much more refined. In comparison, the method for refining the Xuanzhen Dao Treasure seems very crude. However, I will not rush to refine the Dao Treasure. I need to learn more about other aspects."
He continued to browse through the theories of other niche cultivation schools in the Multiverse Human Federation, and then went on to read the contents of the inheritance libraries such as [Laws of Space-Time], [Laws of Soul], [Intelligence Science], and [Life Science].
Ye Yang absorbed this endless ocean of knowledge with great eagerness, but with his abilities, even after ten, a hundred, or a thousand years, he could only extract and transform a single drop of it.
Three hundred years later, Luo Yunru seemed to have finished her business and came to the Forest of Inheritance Steles again.
"How was the harvest?" she asked, smiling broadly.
"I have benefited greatly." Ye Yang opened his eyes and sighed, "It's just unimaginable that such a glorious and prosperous civilization could be destroyed by the enemy in such a short time."
Luo Yunru's smile gradually faded.
"Don't try to investigate that enemy!" she said with an extremely serious expression.
After a pause, Luo Yunru sighed softly, "Since you have fought against the 'Transcendent Ones,' you should have some understanding of the 'Thinking Algorithm Theory,' right?"
",——
Ye Yang was not surprised that Luo Yunru knew these secrets of the Immortal Alliance's high-ranking members, so he nodded: "Indeed, it once tried to tamper with my consciousness information and seize my body, but I countered it and seized a part of its precious knowledge."
Luo Yunru pointed to the three thousand stone tablets and said, "Among these stone tablets, there are many pure mathematical and logical principles, similar to thought algorithms, which are accessible throughout the heavens."
"For example, life blueprints, chaotic succession, and regression systems —"
"These theories are highly abstract and do not become invalid due to changes in the underlying laws of the world; they will simply exist in another form. As long as the most basic mathematical laws remain valid, they will continue to exist."
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