Chapter 252: Revised - 105 [Mirror World] (6800)_4
Seeing Chen Yan staring at her with wide eyes, the girl frowned and said, "What are you looking at me for? I told you to look into the mirror! Through the mirror, look at the outside world, look at this car!"
Reminded by the girl, Chen Yan immediately looked into the rearview mirror in his hand: In the external real world within the mirror, he quickly found the car!
This car was also split in two in the outside world, and the front half of the car was several meters away!
Chen Yan’s heart stirred, and he began to think quickly.
"This is the mirror world!" The young girl said seriously, "Everything in this world is a projection of the real world outside. Similarly, if you move something here, the same object in the outside world will also change!"
Chen Yan thought and nodded, "I understand what you mean. But... is there a problem with that?"
"A problem?" The girl suddenly jumped up, pointing at Chen Yan angrily, "If you ate the food on someone else’s table in the restaurant just now... what do you think would happen?
If there was a dish of fish on their table, completely untouched, and you took a bite first when they hadn’t touched it yet...
Then the previously untouched fish would suddenly have a piece missing!
Isn’t that scary?!"
Scary?
Chen Yan was stunned for a moment.
If you say it like that... it does sound scary.
But...
"But that’s not a big deal, right? You said something about not being afraid of death... Is it that serious? It would at most just scare someone..."
The girl looked at Chen Yan with a foolish expression, then shook her head helplessly, "It seems you really don’t understand anything. I’m really curious how you managed to cultivate to the Guiyuan Realm. Do you not understand this?"
Chen Yan, being good-natured, cupped his hands to the girl and said, "Please enlighten me, fellow cultivator."
The girl sighed, sizing Chen Yan up and down, then said in a low voice:
"It would be detected by the Heavenly Dao!"
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Heavenly Dao... detected?
Chen Yan’s heart moved as if he had captured a certain idea.
The young girl, biting into a cold pizza, slowly spoke, "Guiyuan Realm boy, what do you think the Heavenly Dao is?"
"Heavenly Dao..." Chen Yan thought for a moment, recalling his lectures at the Academy, then spoke slowly, "Visible yet unseen, audible yet unheard, traceable yet undefinable — that is the Dao!"
The girl was stunned for a moment, then after some thought, she raised her head seriously and shook it, "What you said is right, but also wrong."
After a pause, the girl spoke solemnly, "Invisible because it doesn’t want you to see it! Audible because it doesn’t want you to hear it! Undefinable because it doesn’t want you to grasp its rules!
The Heavenly Dao is a will! It is the highest will of a world!"
Chen Yan remained silent, quietly looking at the girl, waiting for her to continue.
"The will of the Heavenly Dao is not an individual or an entity. It is the collective will of all sentient beings in a world. Every being with wisdom and spiritual sense, you, me, everyone’s will is within the Heavenly Dao.
You can think of it as a composite of all the wills of sentient beings in a world. It is the amalgamation of all consciousnesses, where everything is under the rules set by the Heavenly Dao, under its control and perception!"
"Like a god?" Chen Yan asked.
"No, the Heavenly Dao is not a god, nor is it the consciousness of a single entity as you may think. The Heavenly Dao has no emotions, no bias, no mood. It is merely a will, a set of rules formed by the convergence of all things."
The girl, while chewing her pizza, spoke unclearly, "Earlier, if you ate someone else’s fish, it would frighten the diners.
Imagine oneself seeing their dish, untouched, vanish right before their eyes.
Such an occurrence isn’t just simple fright.
It transcends the rules, defies them!
If people witness such a scene, they would become aware, they would recognize: This is not normal!
And when it’s not normal, it breaks the rules of the Heavenly Dao.
Then...
It could be a diner, it could be a whole family, and soon the entire restaurant would know, and word would spread, today you tell a friend, tomorrow he tells a relative.
Gradually, more and more people would know about this bizarre, extraordinary event.
And each individual’s awareness would eventually feedback to the Heavenly Dao.
In the end... the Heavenly Dao would detect it!"
Chen Yan listened, furrowing his brow.
The Heavenly Dao has its own set of rules, which cannot be violated!
It is as if the Heavenly Dao of this world rejects and suppresses cultivation.
Thus, the cultivation resources are scarce, and the Primordial Qi is thin. Even the ceiling for cultivation is very low, potentially not surpassing the Celestial Human Realm!
"So, if the Heavenly Dao detects it... what would be the consequences?" Chen Yan frowned, "There are many things in the real world that defy the norm, like us cultivators with our grand divine techniques, those things also defy worldly rules."
"That’s why I say you’re foolish! When I say defying the rules, do you think it’s that trivial?" The girl shook her head in discontent, "Even if you openly flew in the real world, it wouldn’t anger the Heavenly Dao.
Because small breaches of the rules are merely peripheral— the Heavenly Dao suppresses cultivation, but does not completely prohibit it.
However, if you destroy something in the Mirror World, and it projects back to the real world, that is stepping on the Heavenly Dao’s bottom line!
Because only the real world can project to the Mirror World!
There can be no reverse projection from the Mirror World to the real world!
Do you understand this principle now!"
Chen Yan pondered deeply...
Projection should be from the real world to the Mirror World!
It must not be in reverse projection!
Suddenly, Chen Yan understood the crux of the issue!
Cause and effect cannot be reversed!
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