togophonebook Chapter 470 Following the natural order leads to becoming a human, going against it leads to becomin
Chapter 470 Following the natural order leads to becoming a human, going against it leads to becomin
This entire process is a tiny yet complete cycle of life and death. The soil after the fallen leaves decompose nourishes the tree roots and promotes the sprouting of new leaves. Death becomes the nourishment for new life.
There was a nest of ants in the corner of the courtyard wall.
With a slight sweep of his divine sense, Chen Fan was able to clearly perceive the activities within.
The queen ant continuously lays new eggs, while worker ants work diligently to feed the larvae. Some ants die accidentally during transport, and their bodies are either dragged away by their companions, discarded, or may become some kind of nutrient.
The life of an ant colony as a whole continues and grows through the continuous birth and death of its individual members.
These observations, though trivial and ordinary, gradually deepened Chen Fan's understanding of the meaning of life and death.
In his previous cultivation, he always thought about how to control life and death, and how to reverse yin and yang. But now he understands that life and death are not about control, but about going with the flow.
Follow the cycle of heaven and earth, follow the natural flow. Be born when you are born, die when you die, without resistance or attachment.
As the saying goes, going with the flow makes you human, going against the flow makes you immortal!
Like Shi San, he is immortal, but he has never deliberately pursued immortality. He simply lives naturally, so he is free and happy!
Like Little Die, she haunted the world, yet never resented death; she simply existed quietly.
This acceptance of the natural order is the highest realm of the philosophy of life and death.
Day after day, under Chen Fan's divine sense, the tremors of his own life and death intent became more and more obvious.
The black and white colors were no longer distinct, but intertwined into a chaotic gray. That gray was not lifeless, but contained infinite changes, as if it could separate into yin and yang at any moment, and then return to oneness at any moment.
"Life and death cycle, yin and yang complement each other... So this is the true meaning of life and death..." Chen Fan suddenly understood.
He slowly opened his eyes.
The greyish-white light in his eyes seemed even deeper than usual.
The light was no longer the contrasting black and white, but a blended gray, which contained infinite variations, as if it could evolve all things.
Chen Fan looked down at his hands. The lines on his palms remained the same, but in his eyes, he saw something deeper!
Every line on your palm is a life trajectory, with a beginning and an end, yet connecting to a new beginning at the end. The cycle of life and death is endless.
"Quite a harvest..." Chen Fan murmured to himself, a smile appearing on his lips.
This unintentional observation deepened his understanding of the meaning of life and death. Although he did not deliberately try to break through, he has laid a solid foundation, which will surely make his future cultivation twice as effective.
As his understanding of the meaning of life and death deepened, Chen Fan couldn't help but wonder if he could also integrate the meaning of life and death to create a unique supernatural power or technique, just like he had previously integrated the meaning of cause and effect into his swordsmanship to create the Cause and Effect Slash, and comprehended the sunset to create the Rising Sun and Sinking Yin.
He recalled the birth of the Causal Slash.
That was the fusion of the concept of cause and effect with the sword intent he had comprehended. The sword was the extension, and the intent was the foundation. With one sword strike, the cause was sown and the effect was bound to arrive. It was sharp and decisive, severing cause and effect.
The rising and sinking of the sun, on the other hand, is a technique that comprehends the rising and sinking of heaven and earth, based on the concept of cause and effect, forming a domain of yin and yang circulation that combines offense and defense.
The concept of life and death is essentially a kind of understanding of rules.
Its core lies in circulation and flow, rather than simply life or death.
Chen Fan once again entered that almost detached, contemplative state.
Three more days passed in the blink of an eye.
Under the dragon beard fruit tree.
Chen Fan sat cross-legged, his eyes slightly closed.
Through introspection, one can clearly perceive that one's understanding of the meaning of life and death has changed.
It was no longer a contrast of black and white, but a chaotic gray that blended and flowed, containing the changes of yin and yang, and subtly conforming to the principle of the cycle of heaven and earth.
"The concept of cause and effect has the 'Cause and Effect Slash,' and the dynamics of rising, sinking, floating, and rising have the 'Rising Sun and Sinking Yin'..." Chen Fan pondered, "Now that I have grasped the concept of life and death to this extent, I can try to integrate it into my magic and create a unique supernatural power."
Creating laws is no easy task, especially rules concerning the fundamental principles of life and death.
It requires calm contemplation and gradual progress.
"Our family will set a limit of six hundred days," Chen Fan muttered to himself.
Six hundred days in the bowl, two months in the outside world.
Given enough time, he will reflect, organize, and elevate his understanding, attempting to transform the artistic conception into supernatural power.
Time flies, and the first hundred days have passed.
During this period, Chen Fan did not rush to close his eyes and ponder, but instead, as usual, walked around and observed the world in the bowl every day.
He watched the leaves fall from the dragon whisker fruit tree, watched the spiritual seedlings grow and wither in the spiritual field, watched Shi San and Xiao Die's auras merge, and even watched Hei Huang and Xiao Hua playfully chase each other.
The vibrancy of life and the tranquility of death are both reflected in them.
For 100 days, Chen Fan completely immersed himself in the role of an observer.
He didn't think about how to create a method; he simply observed and felt with his heart the flow of life and death in all things.
Watch the fallen leaves detach from the branches, twirl and drift in the air, and finally return to the soil.
This process gradually slowed down in Chen Fan's eyes.
He saw the moment the leaf detached from the branch, life began to slip away, and death quietly began to grow.
As the leaves fall, life and death intertwine and transform until they reach the ground, where death dominates. However, the decaying leaves become nutrients, thus becoming the starting point for new life.
"Life and death cycle endlessly, without beginning or end..." Chen Fan murmured.
By the end of the hundredth day, he had a vague outline in his mind.
The study of life and death should not be merely a technique for attack and killing, but rather, like life and death themselves, it involves both the nourishment of life and the decay of death, with the two circulating in a self-contained cycle.
Time flies again, and another two hundred days have passed!
Chen Fan began to meditate and contemplate.
He no longer merely observed, but attempted to corroborate his observations and feelings with his own understanding of the meaning of life and death.
As his consciousness penetrated his body, he could clearly sense his own vibrant life force, yet with each breath, there was a barely perceptible loss of vitality and the growth of death energy. However, cultivators possessed profound cultivation, and their vitality far surpassed that of death energy, thus granting them long lifespans.
But even he will eventually run out of life and be filled with death.
This is the manifestation of the cycle of life and death in an individual.
"If we were to incorporate the concept of life and death into magic..." Chen Fan pondered, "how would we embody this cycle?"
He thought of the Karma Slash.
The sword that severs cause and effect severs the connection between cause and effect. The cause has been sown, and the effect will surely come.
Its core lies in connection and severance.
The concept of "ascending to the sun and sinking to the yin" refers to creating a domain. The rising element represents yang, which is aggressive and fierce. The sinking element represents yin, which is defensive and robust. Its core lies in the interplay of rising and sinking.
What about the supernatural powers of life and death?
"Life and death are not severed, but transformed and cyclical." Chen Fan gradually understood, "Supernatural powers must have a life aspect and a death aspect, and the two can transform into each other in an endless cycle."
He tried to sketch it out in his mind.
A wisp of divine consciousness transformed into grayish-white energy, slowly rotating in the center of the sea of consciousness.
The gray and white hues blend together, sometimes giving rise to fresh vitality, like spring buds sprouting; sometimes condensing into a silent deathly aura, like autumn leaves falling.
Life and death transform into each other in the rotation, with life turning into death and death turning into life, forming a constantly flowing cycle.
"This is the prototype of the cycle of life and death." Chen Fan thought to himself.
But he was not satisfied.
This is merely a manifestation of the concept, far from true supernatural power. Supernatural power requires a concrete form, a method of execution, and a display of might.