The Eternal Night Ice Origin is truly worthy of its name. Most of the time of the year, the sky is shrouded in frozen dark clouds, as if immersed in an endless dark night.

But occasionally when the clouds clear and the fog dissipates and the light shines, it has the most brilliant sunshine in the entire ancient sage world, like a colorful rainbow.

On the last day before Li Yao left the ancient holy world, he saw such a magnificent sunshine.

It was like a rainbow waterfall sprinkled throughout the ice field, and countless colorful bubbles burst out from the ground, stirring between the sky and the earth.

With such magnificent and thrilling iridescent light as the curtain, Li Yao saw Master Kuchan sitting cross-legged at the bow of a starship, holding a miniature crystal brain, and chanting the classics with concentration. The indescribable tranquility and calmness, the solemn appearance of treasure, it seemed like there were ten thousand lotus blooming around the monk.

Li Yao was originally a little uneasy and upset, so he came out to walk around casually. This situation made him feel moved, and he couldn't help but fly behind the starship parked on the ice field, and tiptoed towards Master Kuchan.

The cultivation level reached Li Yao's height, his eyesight was far beyond reach. Before he could walk behind the monk, he could see clearly the classic that the master was studying at a glance, which is

"A Hundred Short Stories of Youth and Zen Masters", "Chicken Soup Collection of Souls", "The Sweet Scrolls from the Ancient Wisdom of the Tree Sea Realm", "Women are Born to Be Elegant"...

Li Yao: "Cough cough, cough cough cough."

Master Kuchan: "Since Fellow Daoist Li is here, why don't he stop? The monk listens to your heavy and chaotic steps, but it seems like he is worried?"

"nothing."

Li Yao said, "I mainly want to thank the Master for his kindness of protecting the Dharma that day. If it weren't for the help of Master and other fellow Taoists, maybe I would have been devilish and would never be reborn!

"In addition, the worries are a little trouble. I originally wanted to discuss with the master, but... the master is so busy studying classics, so forget it."

"These classics from the Starry Federation are indeed quite mysterious. Many of the truths make the monk suddenly realize it and gain a lot of rewards!"

Master Kuchan exclaimed and said, "If Fellow Daoist Li doesn't dislike the monk's stupid tongue, you might as well tell your troubles. The monk also tries to explain it with the Zen and Buddhism in "The Soul Chicken Soup". Don't worry, this is considered the monk's practice, and there is no charge."

"……All right."

Li Yao took two steps forward, sat cross-legged opposite Master Kuchan, looking at the colorful and unfathomable sky, and pondered, "Have you ever thought that everything in front of you is illusion, there is a world outside the world, and there is a problem with the universe above the universe? If there is really a universe above the universe, our universe is just a projection of a higher universe, or even just an illusory game, how do we determine whether we are 'real' or 'illusory', what is the meaning of everything we do?"

Master Kuchan smiled slightly and said, "Eat, sleep."

Li Yao frowned: "Master, I sincerely want to ask you for advice. You are not using such ancient jokes to perfunctory me, right?"

This "eating, sleeping" is a small story, saying that a young man asked the Zen master what "worry" is, the Zen master smiled and said, "eating, sleeping", and the young man asked what "practice" is, the Zen master still said, "eating, sleeping", and the young man was confused, but the Zen master explained, "The so-called troubles are to sleep when it is time to eat, and to think about eating when it is time to sleep; the so-called practice means to eat attentively when it is time to eat, and to sleep without distraction when it is time to sleep, that's all."

This is a very ancient spiritual story. It has become a stinking street in the Xingyao Federation. With Li Yao's extensive knowledge and strong memory, it is naturally clear.

Master Kuchan coughed dryly, cleared his throat and said, "Although the case is old, the truth is new. What is 'real' and 'illusion'. This is really the most unexplained thing in the world and the least necessary to distinguish.

"In the Starlight Federation, there is even a story about the 'Brain in the Cylinder' that is circulating today when practicing magical powers and virtual magic weapons is so developed, it can create a lifelike, nearly 100% realistic and illusory realm. Even if someone has only one brain left and is placed in a water tank filled with nutrient solution, and connects thousands of crystal lines to the brain, it can make him mistakenly think that he is full of limbs and lives in the real world.

"So, how should this person tell whether he is living in the real ‘real world’ or a ‘brain in the tank’ and living in an artificially created illusion?

"And how should we distinguish it? The so-called 'Three Thousand Great Thousand Worlds' is the ultimate reality. There is no higher-level existence above our world. We have created and designed everything. Our entire world is a huge 'brain in the tank'?"

Li Yao nodded repeatedly: "Yes, this is the problem. How should we distinguish and prove it?"

"It's impossible to tell, and there's no need to prove it."

Master Kuchan said, "Of course you can suspect that the three thousand worlds we live in and the endless three-dimensional universe are all higher-level existences. Well, for example, a 'brain in the tank' created by a certain kind of 'four-dimensional life' in the laboratory is just a small projection of the four-dimensional world, and it is just an experimental topic of this 'four-dimensional life'.

"But even if this four-dimensional life really exists, it is the legendary god and demon. Is the four-dimensional world in which it is located the so-called "real"? Will this four-dimensional world that we cannot understand also be a projection of a certain five-dimensional world, a painting drawn by a painter in the five-dimensional world, when he is excited, splashing ink?

"And the five-dimensional painter in this five-dimensional world is the ultimate reality? Will the entire five-dimensional world be ultimately a long poem sung by a frustrated poet in the six-dimensional world? And this six-dimensional world is a crystal clear dewdrop on a small petal in the seven-dimensional world? And the seven-dimensional world is a strange creature in the eight-dimensional world, a beautiful dream when he is napping?"

Li Yao was stunned: "This, is this possible?"

"If you think the 'brain in the tank' is possible, then four-dimensional labs, five-dimensional drawings, six-dimensional poetry, seven-dimensional dewdrops and eight-dimensional monster dreams... that's all possible."

Master Kuchan said, "Even if their probability is slim, even if they are in eternal time and space and endless dimensions, even the small probability is destined to happen.

"What our Futu Sect said about 'one sand, one world, one tree, one Bodhi' is this principle. In terms of transcending time, space and dimensions, a grain of dust is the same as the three thousand great worlds. No one is more ‘real’ than anyone else, and no one is more ‘illusory’ than anyone else.

"The world doesn't matter whether it is true or false. What can distinguish between true or false is your heart and your vision of the world. If you hold the mentality of "eat when eating, sleep when sleeping", then every world is true; if you are clearly eating, but thinking about sleeping, clearly in our three-dimensional universe, but you are distracted, confused, entangled in the so-called "truth" and pondering about the things in the four-dimensional world, then what if you reach a higher level one day? After you arrive at the four-dimensional world, you will doubt whether everything in front of you is a picture of the five-dimensional world; after reaching the five-dimensional world, you will worry about the existence of the six-dimensional poet... When you break it layer by layer and never feel satisfied, where can you find the final truth?"

Li Yao was stunned for a long time, touched his nose, and smiled bitterly: "When I was a child, I was full of confusion about the world, and I had ten thousand questions in my mind. I thought that as long as I practiced hard and became the most powerful cultivator in the world, I could find the answer.

"Who knows that the strength is getting stronger and stronger, and the realm is getting higher and higher. The answers to the past ten thousand questions were found, but there were 100,000 new questions, and one million new questions were emerging, and they became more and more confused!"

"It's nature, like a tiny bubble."

Master Kuchan spread his palms, and a trembling flash bubble appeared in the palm of his palm. As his spiritual energy was injected, the bubble became bigger and bigger. "Fellow Daoist Li, look, the bubble became bigger and bigger, and there were more and more 'ans answers' inside it, but the 'surface area' it contacted with the outside world was also getting bigger and bigger, and he sensed more 'unknown' and 'confusion'. Every point the bubble was bigger, just as soon as it uncovered a confusion, it came into contact with ten new confusions. How could it be so big that the entire planet and the entire universe were swallowed? Therefore, these 'unknown', 'confusion' and 'troubles' were endless!"

Master Ju Chan's palm trembled gently, and bubbles flew towards the sky, and under the sunlight, they burst into bright colorful brilliance.

The monk narrowed his eyes, looked at it with great concentration, and murmured: "Although this is the case, although the more you practice, the more you are confused, it is endless, but you should continue to practice, because... look, how beautiful these bubbles are!"

Li Yao and Master Kuchan watched silently as the bubbles flew higher and higher, gradually flying into the colorful clouds. After thinking seriously for a long time, he said, "Master, I think what you said is so profound, mysterious, and reasonable, but when you think about it carefully, you feel... you seem to have said nothing."

"nonsense."

Master Kuchan said, "You use the unanswered question of the 'brain in the tank' to entertain the monk. The monk did not curse you and kick you off the starship. Instead, he was willing to say a few words perfunctory words. He has finished his benevolence and righteousness, so what can I do?"

Li Yao was not annoyed and said, "So master, in your opinion, the bubbles will fly higher and higher, where will they fly?"

"How do I know?"
Chapter completed!