Put Away Your Divine Techniques Now! Chapter 1317 - 390: [Dao]_3

All of these, I don’t have to ask you about.

I just want to chat with you about something else."

"Something else?" The little girl blinked her eyes.

"Hmm, let’s sit together and discuss the Dao, talk about cultivation, discuss the Cultivation Technique, and talk about..."

Chen Yan paused slightly, gently exhaling the last two words: "...the Heavenly Dao."

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Heavenly Dao is the "reason" of this world.

The "reason" for everything to operate under certain rules.

Since it encompasses everything, the "reason" of Heavenly Dao is extremely vast, extremely complicated, and utterly incalculable.

Because reasons often react with each other in various ways, some merge, some repel, some both merge and repel, layered upon each other, intertwined, influencing, and interacting with each other.

For example, if someone studies diligently, their grades will improve — this is reason.

But if someone moves in the wrong direction, the harder they work, the more mistakes they make — this is also reason.

A person who looks good will naturally find it easier to gain the favor of those around them — this is reason.

But if a person looks good yet lacks brains, the outcome is often rather miserable — this too is reason.

When water boils, it vaporizes, but when vapor cools and solidifies, it turns back into water — this is reason.

However, if pressure changes or the surrounding temperature varies, reactions might change — these are all "reasons."

Heavenly Dao is not a single reason, nor a set of reasons, nor a single book of reason.

Rather, it is countless reasons, countless sets, countless books, perhaps even countless complex domains of reasons.

It is like an omniscient, omnipotent entity controlling all operations.

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For cultivation, before the Third Realm, it is about cultivating oneself.

Move the Primordial Qi, enrich oneself, nourish the body, practice Cultivation Technique, master spells, to harness more powerful forces for one’s own use...

But in the Third Realm, one must begin to cultivate the Divine Sense, which is cultivating the Primordial Spirit.

Cultivating the Primordial Spirit is not for anything else but to perceive heaven and earth, to perceive the Heavenly Dao. Only by having a sufficiently powerful Primordial Spirit can one comprehend the Heavenly Dao.

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"I’ve heard all that before, tell me something I don’t know." Chen Yan looked at the little girl.

The little girl thought for a while: "Cultivating the Primordial Spirit is to perceive the Heavenly Dao, but it’s not that you can ’see’ the Heavenly Dao because the Primordial Spirit is strong.

Instead, only when the Primordial Spirit is strong can you withstand the might of the Heavenly Dao when you try to observe it."

Chen Yan’s eyes lit up: "What do you mean?"

"Using your naked eyes to directly stare at the sun will harm your eyes, and in severe cases, may even blind you.

Therefore, to look at the sun, you need to wear sunglasses to protect your eyes.

Likewise, to play a more complex, larger-memory game, an old, broken computer won’t suffice.

It won’t run smoothly, will crash, will stutter into a slideshow, will flash exit!

So, you need more memory and a better graphics card...

And this is the purpose of cultivating the Primordial Spirit.

Nourishing the body with Primordial Qi makes a cultivator’s body stronger, living longer, providing more time to comprehend the Heavenly Dao, because life is too short. It also allows the cultivator’s body to withstand using and manipulating more formidable powers — if the body is weak, it can’t endure.

And the ’reason’ of the Heavenly Dao requires a stronger soul to learn and feel. Otherwise, the memory won’t be enough, it won’t run."

It’s a very vivid metaphor, easy to understand.

Chen Yan glanced at the little girl: "You are a Great Demon at Primordial Spirit Realm Great Perfection, and you talk to me about memory and graphics cards?"

The little girl rolled her eyes: "I’ve been in this world for quite a while, haven’t I? Ever since you gave me that Mahjong tile that can shield the Heavenly Dao, I’ve been living freely outside, and I even play LOL!

My mid-lane Yasuo is awesome! Gold rank!"

"Hmm, unfortunately, to beat the dark monkeys, you still need to join a Sect."

"...That’s because I was eager to see the next part of the storyline!" The little girl rolled her eyes again.

"Alright, alright, I won’t tease you anymore, continue speaking."

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One plus one equals two, this is reason.

Under standard atmospheric pressure, water boils and evaporates at 100 degrees Celsius, this is reason.

Under standard gravity, objects fall freely from top to bottom, this is reason...

Whether in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, they all seem to be reasons, they are all Heavenly Dao.

They are the operating reasons of this world.

It seems, too complicated.

But...

In the end, there is something that can be considered a rule.

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"Cause and effect."

The little girl looked into Chen Yan’s eyes: "The reason of the Heavenly Dao, though complex, though vast, boils down to two words, cause, effect."

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I slap you, you feel pain.

Slapping you is the cause. You feeling pain is the effect.

A person is good-looking, you like the other person.

The person being good-looking is the cause. Humans favoring appearances is also a cause.

Your liking the other person is the effect.

A person harms you, your hatred for them is cause and effect.

You eat spoiled food, and then have diarrhea, is cause and effect.

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"These are just your perceived causes and effects; Heavenly Dao’s cause and effect is not understood by you this way."

You slapped someone, but perhaps the other person’s face is trained with the Golden Bell Cover, so it’s you who feels the pain instead.

A person looks good, but maybe you don’t like their type, or they resemble your most hated enemy, so you don’t like them but hate them.

A person harms you, but maybe you’re a masochist, so instead of hating them, you become infatuated with them.

The cause and effect of all things are very complex.

And the Heavenly Dao...

"The Heavenly Dao controls all causes and effects, or rather, it doesn’t control.

It monitors, manages, allowing all causes and effects to operate according to their original proper order.

Because the rules and order were not created by the Heavenly Dao itself, but the world was meant to be this way.

Heavenly Dao only supervises and manages, ensuring the rules and order, which were originally meant to be, maintain and continue to operate."

Chen Yan thought a little: "What if one defies it?"

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