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Chapter 793 292: None of Them Seem Like Good People
Then there's nothing inhumane about smashing and reassembling.It's just like playing with building blocks as a child.
You are like a little bug, suddenly leaping onto the blocks.
The child would definitely ignore the blocks and smack you dead first.
If the blocks are broken, they can simply be bought again.
Zhang Feng understands and considers this the best way to handle it.
The bandit opposite also doesn't mind, since the world is just an incarnation of himself.
But at this moment, all beings under heaven, seeing the might of the two embodiments of the Dao, feel that their own Dao is 'heartless' while the outsider's is 'compassionate'.
It's just that no one speaks of this, nor does anyone dare to.
Far above the heavens, beyond the universe.
Zhang Feng gestured an invitation and with the bandit jumped into a crevice in the six-dimensional world to converse, uninterested in explaining any of this.
Moreover, he had no intention of saying that the Dao of Heaven is actually like an ordinary person, neither sentimental nor ruthless.
Because even if it were explained clearly, the beings would not understand.
...
The six dimensions are actually another side of the universe.
If the world has a front and back, then this place is more like an 'infinite reverse world'.
Its space is infinite.
But inside, there's no matter, no light, only 'nothingness in the dark'.
"Fellow Daoist, what is chaos? Have you ever seen the 'nothingness' in chaos?"
Just upon arriving here.
The bandit immediately asks this strange question.
Zhang Feng, upon hearing it, finds it a very good question.
Because he finds himself unable to answer.
Even though this world of nothing resembles chaos, it only seems so.
After all, chaos is 'nothing'.
Nothing means even 'nothing' itself cannot be felt.
If described specifically, it should feel like 'the state after death' and 'the state before birth'.
That is nothingness, but since it is nothingness, it certainly cannot be felt.
Zhang Feng was stumped by the bandit.
The bandit did not press further; instead, he sat cross-legged in the reverse world and began to speak to himself:
"Now that this old man has been in seclusion for three epochs, yet still unable to comprehend it."
The bandit's words carry a special resonance of the Dao.
Zhang Feng hears it and knows that the epoch he speaks of is '1,200 trillion years'.
Indeed, that is a long time.
Still, it hasn't been figured out during such a span.
Truly, he seems quite dull.
Yet, knowing he has achieved a dual Dao transformation, perhaps he's reached the end, bound by the world.
Upon realizing this.
Zhang Feng focused on the bandit and found a hint of desolation in his expression.
Clearly, he is aware of his own issues.
"Can one detach from the 'Dao'?"
Zhang Feng, curious since no one else was around, candidly asked:
"The issue of 'nothingness' remains unsolved by us; why not talk about the Dao you have now transformed into?"
"The Dao?" The bandit was silent for a moment, then said: "It is the reincarnation of epoch after epoch."
Saying this, he gazed into unseen time and space,
"If I am not mistaken, in other great worlds, old I have 'cause and effect bodies'.
These are like 'dust corpses'. If I cannot recover them, I surely cannot explore a higher path."
But now, this old man is already bound by the Dao of this place, unable to reclaim the dust corpses."
The bandit spoke, then looked intensely at Zhang Feng,
"If old I am not mistaken, fellow Daoist, you have either recalled all dust corpses, or through some magic descended upon them, fulfilling the wishes of the dust corpses.
Thus freeing yourself from the bonds of cause and effect."
From the previous small skirmish.
The bandit already discerned that Zhang Feng's understanding of the Dao far exceeded his own.
Then, this fellow Daoist having trodden the path of Dao, yet not becoming it, remains 'free-bodied'.
He surely must have severed the dust corpses.
Yet Zhang Feng, upon hearing this, suddenly paused.
As if aware that all the adventurous world figures of the past were indeed his 'cause and effect bodies'.
And understanding that the previous gathering of thoughts was a different form of severing 'thought dust corpses'.
In the earliest Ling Mountain Great Immortal world, he severed the spiritual thought dust corpses and cut off the cause and effect of the rat.
In fact, the earliest texts already hinted at 'severing dust'.
But now, through the bandit's words, he suddenly comprehended.
This understanding of having severed dust was a 'self-awareness' that allowed Zhang Feng to realize he had truly achieved unity from the myriad.
This enlightenment did not enhance any computational ability or realm.
Yet it brought true perfection to Zhang Feng's heart and spirit.
He could even perceive the bandit's fortune and cause and effect.
But before this, Zhang Feng couldn't see through it.
Because when the bandit acted, he felt no sudden premonition.
And the bandit's fortune was merely a golden '8', with the future image being the infinite cycle of the universe's destruction and rebirth.
Zhang Feng saw the golden 8 and found it quite peculiar.
But the next moment, his infinite near-nine-billion fortune also became a golden '8.3'.
"What have you comprehended?"
At the same time, the bandit, sensing that he was seen through, looked at Zhang Feng in amazement.
Likewise, the bandit couldn't initially see through Zhang Feng, so he thought they were on the same level, thus they could battle and chat.
Perhaps within the infinite recurrence, he might find a kindred friend.
But now, he felt a terrifying mood of being deciphered.
This was not merely a self-crisis premonition but a warning from the rules of countless worlds, urging him to quickly distance himself from Zhang Feng!
The present Zhang Feng had now reached the point of infinitely nearing unity.
Apart from past rules, everything was perfected.
"I comprehended dust severing."
Zhang Feng, indifferent to the bandit's astonishment and attempt to flee, said candidly:
"By a stroke of fate, I indeed severed the dust corpses.
I even met your cause and effect body."
"How is it?" Upon hearing this, the bandit halted his fleeing state.
Truly, his urge to runaway mirrored his bandit nature exactly.
Zhang Feng, seeing him and his exploratory demeanor, also knew the true meaning of the bandit's box.
It's the desire to 'escape the box', and also wishing for the box to open, to escape this space.
The box, having six faces, metaphorically signifies 'six dimensions'.
The seventh dimension is akin to an observer like Zhang Feng, unrestrained by the box, thus unbound by the cosmic cycle of birth and destruction.
Zhang Feng now comprehends completely.
Knowing the bandit is, like himself, a seeker of the Dao.
And his cause and effect body, influenced by him, became a 'seeker of the Dao' as well.
"I have seen one of your cause and effect bodies." Reminiscing, Zhang Feng speaks truthfully according to the stone carvings: "They all wish to break free from the box."
"Box?" The bandit frowned, then suddenly enlightened,
"I am not alone on my path."
...
Three months later.
Zhang Feng left the great world.
This discourse on the Dao, if it can be called that, involved many questions but also yielded some answers.
It revealed that guests, Chen Tiancai, and even the bandit, seemed trapped in an unending purgatory.
But in truth, their cause and effect bodies were influenced by their original bodies, striving to escape the cycle, essentially the confines of time.
The sole way to escape time is by returning to the past.
The plane where their cause and effect bodies reside is also the past.
They are all searching for the ultimate answer, the final formula, just through different means.
The bandit was right.
'I am indeed not alone on this path'.
Only now does he see clearly, they all have a 'Great Dao Body' similar to the bandit.
Or, the initial exceptional genius he encountered, the guest.
His first words to him, that letter, actually already provided the answer.
'Though cultivating the Dao is challenging, on this path, there are those like you and me, journeying together with one heart toward the Dao.'
...
Returning to reality.
The remaining years hurried by.
Reaching the time for new adventures.
Only at this moment, even words seem morphed.
For as the countdown concluded.
Zhang Feng found himself not venturing into an adventure world, but remaining in the reality base.
Yet this place had become the adventure world, with words providing world cues.
...
[Adventure Level: 9]
[Survival Time: Infinite]
[Adventure Type: Myth]
[Main Quest: You Are the Myth]