The last chapter of the book is quite long, so it is divided into three updated parts: upper, middle, and lower. After the end of the 600-chapter text, there are several postscripts that tell some stories that happened in the future Huanxiang Country.

The origin of the story in this book is a dream that Hua Zhenxing had, about a time five hundred years later. But he did not travel through time in his dream, but woke up in reality.

From the beginning, I did not intend to write five hundred years later, but to the starting point where he can realize his dream.

Although the book describes Hua Zhen's experience of overcoming delusion, the story itself can be a huge delusion and a process of overcoming delusion.

Okay, to be honest, in fact, my original idea was that the whole story of the book was a complete delusion, and the ending was like this -

"The moonlight seemed to be able to dissolve everything, and everything in the world, including time and space, turned into nothingness in the moonlight. A gust of wind blew by, and Hua Zhenxing opened his eyes and looked up at the starry sky between the low eaves.

Last night, he and the big man Heishiel went to a bar frequented by local aborigines. When they just came back, they sat for a while in an alley not far from home, leaning against the wall.

Fiso Port was still the same Fiso Port. He stood up and walked towards the grocery store. His eyes were no longer drunk and he was no longer confused. The world under his feet seemed to be heading for a new life."

Hua Zhenxing thought that all his experiences after waking up from the dream turned out to be a delusion, including what he called "breaking the delusion" in the delusion. If I really wrote like that, many readers might scold me.

"After reading two or three million words, you finally told me that not only was the protagonist having a dream at the beginning, but the entire story was also a big dream for the protagonist!"

Hehehe, so I didn’t write it like that and made changes to some of the content in the series. Otherwise, except for old book friends who know the world view of my series very well, other readers may be angry.

But it’s hard for me to explain. Dreams and delusions are two different things.

In my previous works, I described many so-called delusion-breaking experiences, but the description of the delirium, limited by the length and storyline, always seemed to be a mere conjecture, and did not allow readers to experience the reality.

What is the state of delusion? It can be like this, it can be like this, I use this "" to answer.

If you are more accepting of such a story, please make up your own mind and add the ending I wrote above to the end of the text of the book. I will not write it myself.

As for why I want to write such a story, since it is already so unserious, I won’t talk about the serious stuff and will only talk about some off-topic gossip.

There is a long-lasting hot topic on the Internet, which is what would a world where all people practice immortality look like?

Many fairy tale novels give fictional descriptions and imaginations, but they are basically different from the world we are familiar with.

Sometimes I wonder, how could this happen in the world we live in? If it happened, why did it happen?

In a sense, people's imagination of a world where all people can cultivate immortality in online articles is a bit like the ancient people's imagination of an ideal world nearly three thousand years ago. It can be a pure utopia, or it can have a spiritual core that can support beliefs.

When I was a child, I read a passage describing immortals: "Mountains, rivers, geography, and all things in the world can be read on the palm of your hand." I didn't see it at that time, but I just felt it was magical and envious. Looking back now, isn't that what we are today scrolling through our mobile phones?

With a few clicks in our hands, we can even take in things thousands of miles away. Some will be delivered to our door, and some may be picked up at a courier station. This is how the ancients described the gods, but have we become immortals?

?Of course not.

This is the result of scientific and technological progress and the evolution of the social production system. Some people say it is because of the progress of the times. But the so-called times will not progress on their own. All these are human creations.

Even if someone stays at home all day long and does nothing, he can still enjoy the fruits of the times, just because someone else provides him with all this.

The original intention of all people's efforts is undoubtedly to make themselves live a better life. People have more means to achieve their goals and their abilities have become stronger, so are they living a better life?

This question is difficult to answer, because we must first answer how to live a better life? Going back to the enlightenment era of civilization nearly three thousand years ago, we will find that ancient thinkers were trying to answer it.

There is a question or premise that is very important to them: what is the meaning of human existence?

In a desolate and dead universe, what is the necessity for the birth of life and wisdom? Where does even the concept of "meaning" come from?

This may not be a physics problem, because physics can only study the causes of life, perhaps probabilistic events that appear in massive samples, to answer the principles of probability.

But the principle itself is not meaning, and may even lead to nothingness.

That’s why theologians take advantage of the void and construct the meaning of human existence from the transcendent perspective of divine revelation, which can be used to comfort themselves when facing the vast universe.

Later, when people wanted to bypass gods and first find meaning for human existence, they used another argument:

Even if I don’t know what the existence of human beings means to the world, my existence is meaningful to me, and it even means everything to me.

This leads to another premise question: what is "I"?

Based on this answer, the argument is that it is because I exist that I can think about what meaning is; it further evolves to the point that existence is meaning itself; and then it further evolves to the point that the meaning of life lies in being able to decide how to exist.

When someone points out that "how to exist" is the "meaning of existence", the discussion process is subtle, but further answers are needed - how should we exist?

Confucius, Mencius and Ma En were both doing this.

If you switch your perspective to the East, or the Age of Enlightenment in China, you will find that almost all thinkers at that time were answering "how people should exist" from the beginning, and evolved all the above-mentioned processes.

The emergence of consciousness and even wisdom is the "escaped one" in the evolution of the universe; it is the three born of the two in "one is born with two, two begets three, and three begets all things."

The significance of human beings to this world is to "reverse the movement of Tao".

Apart from their differences, do the theories of various schools of thought have any common spiritual core? Why can Mo Shangtong, Yang Tehong, and Ke Mengchao sit at a wine table and quarrel, learn from the insights of more than two thousand years later, and at the same time make Hua Hua

Are you really good at cooking for them?

Although the pre-Qin "schools" had different opinions, they almost all had the same core -

They do not presuppose the "ideal world", do not a priori "absolute spirit", and do not isolate sensibility and rationality. Instead, they regard sensibility as the source of rationality and argue that the birth of human rationality is the inherent requirement for the development of sensibility.

In their view, reason comes from sensibility, and the so-called "ideal world" and "absolute spirit" are also derivatives of sensibility and are perceptual delusions. (This is just my summary, delusion is also a concept constructed by me, or

Biased fallacy.)

The state of delusion is not meaningless, it is the ultimate of perceptuality; reason is perceptual reflection and the process of destroying delusion.

They further pointed out that the understanding, restraint and application of desires are the inherent needs for the realization of desires. On this basis, they deduced the different opinions of each school, and then sought ways to realize them and provided answers to "how to exist".

The answers they gave at that time may not be the most important, but the ideas for solving the problems are more important.

I have always wanted to specialize in this topic, but I feel that my knowledge is far from enough, so I can only tell stories first, such as the story of Hua Zhenxing, which seems to be a serious and absurd story.
Chapter completed!