Chapter 459 The Realm of Reality (Asking for Monthly Votes)

At the top of the snowy mountain, the cold wind scraped the bones, as if it could freeze the blood first, and then tear off a layer of skin.

Huang Liang's hoarse voice did not dissipate at all, and he said slowly: "I have practiced hard for many years, and I have finally broken the void with martial arts, but I appeared in this world, which is different from the past."

"Ascension"? Meng Qi suddenly felt inexplicably funny in his solemnity.

"The difference between the two worlds and my own experience made me think about more fundamental questions. If I break through in my practice and break the void again, where will I go? One after another, where will I finally arrive? How is it different from the past world? Why is it the end, why is it the limit?" Huang Liang's voice was hoarse and wild, as if he was asking questions to the sky.

Shangguan Heng was overwhelmed by what he heard, and said casually: "'Tao', of course it is 'Tao'."

Although the times of the nine Taoist masters, the five ancient emperors, and the Buddhist 'masters' are long gone, and what happens after the Dharma body is probably only known by a few aristocratic families such as the Wang family of Jiangdong or the Su Nu Dao, but after all, it is to seek the Tao through martial arts, and the final goal will not change.

Huang Liang glanced at it and said calmly: "Stupid as an ox."

Shangguan Heng's face flushed red, but he knew that people who have been on the top of the mountain for years without eating or drinking are definitely not what he can reach, so he can only lower his head, grit his teeth, and stare at the ice and stone with a tyrannical look.

Layer after layer of "ascension"... Meng Qi suddenly felt a toothache, and after a moment of consideration, he said: "See the Tathagata? Return to the original?"

He was afraid that his answer would not be good, and Huang Liang would be dissatisfied like Shangguan Heng, lose interest in talking, and be driven off the mountain by him, so he was a little nervous.

"If you seek with your heart, you will find Tathagata." Huang Liang nodded gently. As for "Yuanshi", he did not comment, as if he did not have a deep understanding of Taoism. "I often wonder, if the heaven and earth were false in the past, is what we see today true? If the past was not false, why did we break the void and leave?"

"While I was puzzled, I happened to meet a strange man who taught me the great way. I finally understood what is real and what is false. I spent all day thinking and observing the sky, just to find that ray of truth."

"Real?" Meng Qi took a breath, and Shangguan Heng felt a headache more and more.

Huang Liang's voice slowly spread out: "There is a real world above the heavens and the earth. Its core cannot be described by our thinking and understanding. There is no before and after time, no space, no cause and effect, no life and death. In short, everything that can be realized by us is not the real thing. It is all fake content because of our different minds."

"Taoism calls it 'Tao', Buddhism calls it 'Tathagata' or 'Bodhi', and Brahmanism calls it 'Shangfan'."

It's an interesting idea... Meng Qi began to listen with interest, because part of the description was the same as his understanding of "Yuanshi". Regardless of whether Huang Liang's statement contradicted Buddhism or how far it was from the correctness, it was possible to polish jade with stones from other mountains.

"Outside the core, there are various interpretations, with countless changes, forming a realm, which is the condensation of law and reason, and does not change due to external objects. The Taoists call it Daluo, the Buddhists call it Pure Land, and the Brahma I call it 'lower Brahma'. My sect calls it the 'real world' together with the core, which is true and unchanging from ancient times." Huang Liang's eyes showed fanatical emotions.

He exhaled lightly, and suddenly a strong wind rolled up, turning into a long sword, blowing away the ice mist: "Outside the 'real world', feel the different auras, derive different laws and principles, combine the earth, fire, wind and water, gold, wood and five elements, and generate different worlds. Perhaps in a certain world, a strong person becomes an immortal and lives forever, but as long as the aura exposed in the 'real world' changes, the laws of heaven and earth will change, and the immortal will fall into dust and no longer have any power."

"I know you won't believe it too much, but only in this way can we explain why there are such big differences between the various worlds, and why the life span of the Dharma body is declining from generation to generation..."

Huang Liang's previous words were purely regarded by Meng Qi as a novel and interesting "brain hole". It was not until he mentioned that the life span of the Dharma body was declining from generation to generation that he was shocked. This conjecture may not be without a little reason.

But he immediately had many doubts. The life span of the strong in the world of Journey to the West seemed to have not changed much? And why did it overlap with many historical figures in his own world?

Huang Liang continued, "... This can explain why in some worlds, creatures live in the stars and orbit the sun, while in other worlds, the sky is round and the earth is square, with Fusang in the east and Kunlun in the west..."

"Live in the stars and orbit the sun?" This shocked Meng Qi more than the previous words.

Huang Liang laughed a rare laugh, full of desolation: "My past world was like this. After breaking through the void, this world is similar to the latter."

"Are you sure that you live in the stars?" Meng Qi asked solemnly.

The world Huang Liang came from is a world for practicing martial arts, which is completely different from the earth. It is very likely to be one of the reincarnations. If it is really living in the stars, his idea is not without basis!

Shangguan Heng was stunned by what he heard next to him. He felt that he was not a madman and could not understand their words.

"Of course I can. There were many powerful people in my past. Some of them once circled around and returned to a distant place. Some who were skilled in numerology calculated that our stars were orbiting the sun through the changes of the stars..." Huang Liang's tone was flat.

Shangguan Heng couldn't help but interrupt: "Can everyone fly? Otherwise, except for a few places, other creatures would have fallen into the boundless void long ago."

"How can a child understand the mystery of the power of the stars?" Huang Liang said disdainfully.

Shangguan Heng's face flushed again and he clenched his teeth.

Meng Qi's heart moved: "Does the sun also have the power of the stars?"

"Yes." Huang Liang showed a little joy, as if he thought the boy was teachable.

But he immediately closed his eyes again, as if he didn't want to talk about it in depth.

Meng Qi didn't take it as a problem, laughed loudly, turned around and left.

Shangguan Heng had been eager to leave this place, and followed closely. After getting off the peak, he frowned and asked: "Do you believe what Huang Liang said?"

"No." Meng Qi looked at him with a smile.

"No?" Shangguan Heng almost spit out a mouthful of blood. He didn't believe that he was still so excited to ask and answer questions with him?

Meng Qi smiled but said nothing. For him, the most important thing was to know two things. One was that Huang Liang came from another world, and the other was that there were indeed other worlds that were not round and flat.

Although Huang Liang was called a madman by Shangguan Heng, he did not see any signs in his conversation with him. At most, his description of the real world and the various worlds was close to "delusion", and his origin and things in the past world were somewhat credible.

Of course, the possibility that he was daydreaming could not be ruled out. Anyway, he was just a circumstantial evidence. It was basically the earth and the reincarnation world where he came from.

Next, he would fully comprehend the "Tathagata Palm", "Nine Destructions of the Divine Sky", "Original Golden Seal", "Eight Nine Mysterious Skills", etc., to add bricks and tiles to his ideas and find a preliminary way.

Ignoring Shangguan Heng's reaction, Meng Qi alternated his hands and quickly went down the mountain.

From that day on, Shangguan Heng found that Su Meng had become a different person. Every day he looked like a dead tree, with no spirit in his eyes. No matter it was sunny or rainy, he would move forward step by step. He would not enter the city or make a fire. When he was hungry, he would pick fruits. When he was tired, he would sit on the ground and meditate. A beard grew on his face and his hair became messy.

Moreover, his appearance was withered, and his spirit and spirit seemed to be completely retracted in his body, not revealing a single bit, making it difficult to sense.

Ascetic monk? Shangguan Heng had this thought inexplicably.

In this way, he watched Meng Qi walk from early autumn to early winter, all the way north, gradually reaching the border between Northern Zhou and the grassland.

"The front is Tianjie Mountain, do you want to go to the grassland?" Shangguan Heng finally couldn't help asking.

Tianjie Mountain, a mountain range on the border between Northern Zhou and the grassland.

It was just before dawn, and it was still quite dark around. Shangguan Heng didn't want to rashly enter the grassland and be hunted down by the masters there.

Heaven... these two words entered Meng Qi's ears, and suddenly he was alert, and thought of a few more words:

"Nine Heavens!"

There are rumors that there are heavens, nine heavens, and thirty-three heavens in many worlds. Isn't this similar to the description in Buddhist scriptures, that there are four meditations and nine heavens above countless worlds, and four empty heavens... Meng Qi suddenly found a similarity between the descriptions of heaven and earth in Buddhism and Taoism, and the problem that he had been thinking about before was immediately solved.

In other words, my understanding of the multiverse, compared with the descriptions of the predecessors of Buddhism and Taoism, even if it is wrong, it will not be too wrong, and I can slowly correct and deepen it in the future...

Just then, a faint orange-red color emerged from the intersection of heaven and earth in the distance, and the first ray of sunlight in the morning shone into Meng Qi's eyes. It was so brilliant and so brilliant.

To accommodate changes, the body becomes immortal, everything is empty, and the mind proves Bodhi. Meng Qi had a further understanding of the meaning of these two sentences. His eyebrows suddenly became hot, and he felt that he was in a vast void, surrounded by stars, floating continents, golden crows, chaotic caves, and various creatures. All these things were changes.

Shangguan Heng suddenly felt that Meng Qi in front of him seemed to have changed into a different person, ethereal, like the sky, as if he could accommodate everything.

This was not intentional, but came naturally.

Heaven and man sympathize? He thought in amazement, and at this moment, he saw Meng Qi turn around and saw his eyes.

This was a depth that could not be described in words. It seemed that there was a scorching sun, a flying golden crow, a bottomless black, and dazzling and charming stars...

Shangguan Heng couldn't help but take two steps back, and with difficulty pulled his eyes away. Then he turned around and left without looking back.

"Not following me anymore?" Meng Qi was a little puzzled.

Shangguan Heng uttered a few words in a sullen voice:

"I am no match for you."

He took a big step, walking firmly and easily.

This chapter is a bit long-winded, so I won't write more than 3,000 words. The extra words are for everyone