Put Away Your Divine Techniques Now! Chapter 1318 - 391: [Following Heaven? Defying Heaven?]

Chapter 391 [Comply with Heaven? Defy Heaven?]

"That means you’ve provoked the Heavenly Dao; the Heavenly Dao is like a guardian of order.

If something goes against order, the Heavenly Dao will suppress that existence.

At worst, suppression; at best, eradication!"

The little girl’s tone was very stern.

Chen Yan furrowed his brows in thought: "Well, not necessarily, right?"

As he spoke, he pointed at himself and then at the little girl.

"You and I, cultivators, in cultivation, aren’t we all defying heaven?"

He paused, organizing his words: "I’ve read a saying that us cultivators, practicing cultivation, are all defying heaven.

Originally, the rules of this world grant people a lifespan of only a hundred years, but cultivators defy heaven to become immortal, aren’t we just..."

The little girl sneered: "Cultivation is defying heaven? Who told you such a fallacious theory?"

Uh...

Chen Yan really wanted to say it was those web novel cultivation authors...

"Generally speaking, human lifespan is no longer than a hundred years. That’s common knowledge.

But if you say cultivating to break through the life limit is defiance of heaven...

Then I ask you, if someone dies young at birth, is that defying heaven? Should they be punished by the Heavenly Dao?

If someone dies unexpectedly in their prime, is that defying heaven? Should they be punished by the Heavenly Dao?

Completely wrong!

The reasoning and causality are not calculated like that."

Chen Yan looked at the little girl, waiting for her to continue speaking.

The little girl smiled, cracked open a peanut shell, peeled out a nut, tossed it into her mouth, chewed a bit before continuing: "The normal lifespan of humans is just common knowledge.

But it’s not reasoning, not causality.

What is causality?

Primordial Qi can nourish the body, and cultivators, using Primordial Qi to nourish the body, strengthen their physique, thereby extending life.

This is reasoning!

In other words, if a person does nothing, is just an ordinary person, yet lives past two hundred years, that’s monstrous, the Heavenly Dao will surely eradicate them!

But if a person uses Primordial Qi to nourish the body, strengthening it, and thus gains longevity, then that is reasoning permitted by the Heavenly Dao.

Because ’Primordial Qi nourishing the body can strengthen oneself’ is part of reasoning!

When ’common human lifespan’ collides with ’Primordial Qi nourishing the body can strengthen’ this reasoning, under mutual influence, the latter prevails, and the former ceases to count."

Chen Yan understood.

"So... causality?"

"So, cause! Effect!"

"So, all cultivation isn’t really defying heaven, but conforming to the Heavenly Dao?"

"Yes, you can understand it as all cultivation activities are in search of the rules allowed by the Heavenly Dao, finding the reasoning within the boundary of rules that benefits oneself the most, using it to strengthen oneself!"

Chen Yan looked at the little girl but suddenly shook his head, furrowing his brows: "Then why does the Heavenly Dao of this world need to suppress cultivation? Since ’Primordial Qi nourishing the body can strengthen oneself’ is reasoning, why does the Heavenly Dao of this world..."

The little girl was momentarily stunned, shook her head with a wry smile: "I don’t know either."

Chen Yan bowed his head in thought for a while, then lifted his head, his eyes suddenly flashing with a peculiar look: "I think... I seem to understand something."

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Heavenly Dao, that is reasoning, the reasoning of all things operating in this world.

But were all these endless ’reasonings’ present from the start?

Take humans for instance, what rules apply to humans?

For example, ten months of pregnancy, the moment of birth. Humans are mammals... and so forth.

Yet, were there humans in this world from the beginning?

When humans were not yet humans, still apes? Or further back when all life was still in the oceans?

Since the inception of this world, it has been constantly changing.

With each new change, a new rule, a new ’reasoning’ emerges!

The Heavenly Dao of this world suppresses cultivation, does not allow the emergence of higher-level cultivators, perhaps because some ’change’ occurred in this world, leading to the emergence of new rules, new ’reasoning’!

And the Heavenly Dao is strictly enforcing this rule.

·

The little girl watched Chen Yan, who seemed to be deep in thought, and furrowed her brow: "I feel like you’re contemplating some very dangerous things."

"Hmm, not very dangerous, I guess." Chen Yan smiled.

"You want to break through the realm."

The little girl stated not as a question but with a tone of firm certainty: "You want to become a Realm-Breaking Celestial Being, you want to break this world’s cultivation barrier set by the Heavenly Dao."

Chen Yan sighed: "Am I that obvious?"

Then he smiled at the little girl: "But after talking to you today, I do have some new thoughts—Hmm, originally before today, I already had a plan, but now it seems that plan may need some tweaking."

The little girl scrutinized Chen Yan for a while, increasingly finding something off, and couldn’t help but say: "You weren’t planning to use me to help you become a Realm-Breaking Celestial Being, were you?"

Chen Yan chuckled: "My original plan was to seek some assistance from you."

"How do you want me to help you?"

"I want to use that mahjong tile that can shield from the Heavenly Dao..."

The little girl immediately shook her head: "That’s impossible. That mahjong tile can shield from the Heavenly Dao, but only if you don’t actively provoke the Heavenly Dao will it not see you.

But once you break the rules, that magical treasure mahjong tile won’t be able to shield the Heavenly Dao’s perception, it won’t protect you then.

You are deluded to break the cultivation barrier of the Heavenly Dao, how could the Heavenly Dao not sense it?"

"So my original plan was to also leverage your power to assist."