Revelation of the Way of Heaven

Chapter 344 The Truth of Civilization

The change was so sudden that all three of them were shocked. At this moment, the mudslide had broken through Qin Xiaochuan's fire wall and was about to rush towards them. If Zhou's parents fell in, the consequences would be unimaginable. Han Kexin was the first to recover from her shock and immediately spread her wings and flew towards the two of them.

"Watch out!" Qin Xiaochuan suddenly warned. He suddenly sensed something moving underground. Sure enough, before he finished speaking, countless stone spikes shot from the ground toward Han Kexin. Han Kexin raised her Wind Whisper Hand Cannon and shattered the stone spikes. Just as she was about to continue her advance, a black shadow suddenly emerged from underground and pounced on Han Kexin. Before the shadow even reached her, it had already unleashed several claw shadows, clearly demonstrating its formidable power.

"Blazing Dance!" Qin Xiaochuan shouted coldly. At the critical moment, a flame exploded on the black figure, and the black figure was also blown away.

Although the shadowy figure moved strangely and swiftly, it could not escape Qin Xiaochuan's mental perception. It was a monster that looked like an earth-colored wolf. After Qin Xiaochuan helped Han Kexin clear the obstacles, Han Kexin successfully rushed in front of Zhou's parents and grabbed the vines tied to them with one hand.

"Ahhh..." The two people tied to the vines were screaming in terror. They clearly did not understand what was happening and were just screaming instinctively. If Guo Shiyi hadn't tied them up with the vines, Han Kexin would have had a hard time catching them in this state.

Large raindrops fell incessantly from the sky, lightning flashed intermittently, followed by deafening thunder.

Just as Han Kexin was preparing to fly the two of them to a safe place, a huge roar suddenly came from underground. Han Kexin was startled by the roar and her body was momentarily suspended in the air. Then, another dark shadow suddenly sprang out of the ground and bit into the vines that were entangled with Zhou's father.

Han Kexin suddenly felt as if the two people in her hands had become incredibly heavy, and despite flapping their wings, they couldn't fly at all.

"Kexin, come back quickly, it's dangerous!" Guo Shiyi shouted loudly from the side. At this moment, the mudslide was less than a meter away from Han Kexin. If they delayed any longer, she and Zhou's parents would be buried in the mudslide.

"Ahhh..." Zhou's parents screamed in even greater terror.

Hearing the screams of the two, Han Kexin suddenly felt incredibly calm. She raised her hand cannon and fired several shots at the monster below. The powerful wind pressure forced the monster back, but at this moment, the monster that Qin Xiaochuan had just repelled suddenly emerged from the mudslide and bit her arm. The mudslide surged over with it.

At the critical moment, Han Kexin left Zhou's parents with Guo Shiyi, but she herself was dragged into the mud by the monster.

"Sister Kexin!" Guo Shiyi exclaimed loudly.

Qin Xiaochuan opened his mental space, only to find that Han Kexin's aura had vanished without a trace, leaving no trace behind.

Seeing the raging mudslide, Qin Xiaochuan didn't have much time to think. He could only make a quick decision and immediately lead Guo Shiyi and Zhou's parents to escape from this dangerous place. As soon as they reached a safe place, Qin Xiaochuan immediately exited the illusion to check on Han Kexin's condition, only to find that she was unconscious. After checking her over, Guo Shiyi breathed a sigh of relief and said, "She's alright, she just fainted. It should be due to excessive consumption of mental energy."

Qin Xiaochuan breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It seems that the Illusionary Realm of the Past also has certain risks. I wonder if we can rescue Zhou Bin's parents this time."

Guo Shiyi said, "Let's go take a look. I hope we can succeed this time, so that we can also resolve one of Kexin's inner conflicts."

Qin Xiaochuan nodded and loaded the timer for the next day. When they ran into the village with trepidation, they finally didn't see any busy crowds. So they ran to Zhou Bin's house and happened to see Han Keyun there as well.

It turned out that Mr. and Mrs. Zhou had been frightened yesterday and had also been caught in the rain, so they fell ill. That's why they invited Han Keyun over to help them get treatment.

Looking at the two people lying on the bed with pale faces, Qin Xiaochuan and Guo Shiyi couldn't help but smile at each other.

"We finally succeeded," Qin Xiaochuan said with a grin. "We've successfully changed someone's destiny."

"But the cost of this change is too high. If we are not bystanders in this world, and if we keep trying, it will be impossible to succeed," Guo Shiyi said.

"Perhaps this is the meaning of the cycle of life," Qin Xiaochuan said.

"What do you mean?" Guo Shiyi asked.

Qin Xiaochuan said, "As Sister Keyun said before, a person's life is a continuous cycle. In each cycle, we always face a similar choice. This choice is usually between fame and fortune, love, freedom, and family. Only when we make the right choice can we break out of this cycle. Perhaps this is the true meaning of life. Tangible things are just illusions. What traps us is always our own hearts. So life uses its own way to force us to make the right choice that faces our hearts."

Guo Shiyi nodded seriously and said, "I can relate to that."

Qin Xiaochuan looked at her, thinking about her choice before coming to New Moon City, and couldn't help but reach out and flick her nose with his finger.

After so many ordeals, which consumed a lot of mental energy, Qin Xiaochuan and Guo Shiyi were also very tired. So the two of them exited the illusion. Guo Shiyi took Han Kexin back to the bedroom to rest, while Qin Xiaochuan meditated on the training platform to recover.

When his consciousness swept over the magic ring, he was surprised to find that the spiritual power within the ring had actually reached level 9.

"Huh? What's going on?" Qin Xiaochuan examined the spiritual energy in the witch's ring. Not only had the concentration increased by one level, but the total amount also seemed to have increased a lot.

This discovery both surprised and puzzled him. He clearly remembered that the spiritual power in the Witch's Ring was still level 8 yesterday. During this time, he had hardly done anything. The only special thing he did was to interfere with the events in the illusion just now.

"Could it be that changing the cause and effect in the past illusion can also increase the level of spiritual power in the witch's ring?" Qin Xiaochuan couldn't help but guess, but these two things were really unrelated.

Qin Xiaochuan couldn't figure it out, so he got up and took the "Notes on the Original Way" from the bookshelf, hoping to find an explanation for this phenomenon.

Qin Xiaochuan flipped to the place he had last seen. The book had previously recorded that spiritual power actually originated from divine consciousness, which was a channel connecting to the Heavenly Dao. The improvement of a person's spiritual power level was actually widening this channel, thereby obtaining more resources from the origin of the universe. The higher the cultivation realm, the more resources of heaven and earth could be mobilized.

The book then mentions that this kind of spiritual channel not only exists in the human body, but may also exist in other places. When Qin Xiaochuan saw this, he had a flash of inspiration and vaguely felt that this was probably the reason for the upgrade of spiritual power in the witch's ring. So he quickly continued reading, but he did not expect the author to turn to talk about the essence of Chinese civilization.

According to the book, people nowadays think that the word "China" means the center of the world, but this is actually a big mistake. Geographically speaking, this statement is completely wrong. From the legend of Pangu creating the world, the ancients' understanding of geography was linked to the human body. When the Duke of Zhou measured the Heluo region as the center of the world, the real meaning was that this place was the heart of the entire world. The heart is not located in the exact center, but it plays a core central role.

In traditional Chinese medicine, the spirit is the master of the human body. Those who possess the spirit prosper, while those who lose it perish. The heart is the place where the spirit enters and exits, which is why ancient China was also known as the land of the red earth.

It is precisely because of this that the Heluo region became the birthplace of the entire Chinese civilization. The Hetu and Luoshu appeared here during the Fuxi era, the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor were born here, Cangjie created characters here, Leizu raised silkworms and invented silk here, and later the Duke of Zhou established the Zhou rites here. Moreover, this is also the ancestral home of the three religions. All Chinese civilization was born here and spread to various places, just like the heart that sends the blood of civilization to all parts of the body.

The Heluo region is equivalent to the ventricles of the heart, while Guanzhong is the atrium and pericardium that protect the ventricles. Therefore, Guanzhong and the Heluo region together form the entire heart. Extending upwards from the heart region to the Kunlun Mountains, the Kunlun Mountains are where the brain is located. In traditional Chinese medicine, the brain is where the primordial spirit resides. The primordial spirit is the innate spirit that connects to the origin of the universe and governs the acquired consciousness in the heart, thus controlling everything in the human body. The unified system composed of the primordial spirit and the acquired consciousness is what the book refers to as divine consciousness.

Therefore, the entire Chinese civilization was actually deliberately placed in this place by the Heavenly Dao. Through its own evolution, the Chinese civilization has continuously expanded the divine consciousness channels at Kunlun, thus making itself more and more prosperous and powerful.

It is precisely for this reason that all dynasties that established their capitals in the Guanzhong Plain and Luoyang region were incredibly prosperous and powerful, such as the Han and Tang dynasties. These two dynasties opened up the Western Regions, which was equivalent to opening their eyes and ears, becoming sharp-witted and perceptive. It was impossible for them not to become powerful. However, since the Song dynasty, the capitals have been moved away from the heartland, and the entire Chinese civilization began to decline. After the Southern Song dynasty, the rise of Neo-Confucianism under Cheng Yi and Zhu Xi was a sign that the entire civilization began to suffer from various diseases.

Upon seeing this, Qin Xiaochuan reflected on the entire history of China and realized that it was indeed the case. Before the Song Dynasty, Chinese civilization had been ahead of the West for hundreds or even thousands of years. However, after the Song Dynasty, Western civilization gradually caught up with China and even surpassed it in modern times, which was truly disheartening.