my weird life.

Chapter 1500: The Twenty-Four Hexagrams of the I Ching
What Su Wu asked directly hit the crux of the problem.

When the old man heard his question, he smiled approvingly and said, "In my opinion, everything does not rely solely on heaven to develop, and all principles can be called 'the way of enlightenment', which is the change of human nature.

Since all things do not revolve around the sky, they must have their own laws of operation. For example, the sun rises in the east and sets in the west;
For example, no matter how high or far a stone is thrown, it will eventually fall to the ground.

For example, people are born, grow old, get sick and die, and plants grow and wither in cycles.

However, I feel that this so-called "divination" actually requires the person doing the divination to understand the development laws of all things in the universe, and to add one's own education to the original development laws of all things. This is the correct way of divination.

I have followed the changes of Fuxi Bagua and combined my own observations of the laws of development of all things in the world to develop the twenty-four hexagrams.

These twenty-four hexagrams, under different circumstances, combined with the fortune teller's own understanding and the "education" of the laws of things, may not necessarily guarantee that the fortune teller is always correct, but at least they can ensure that the fortune teller is completely infallible.

This way, we can start competing with the heavens for the authority of divination."

Being right all the time and being completely correct are two completely different concepts.

Being error-free does not necessarily mean being correct, but as long as you are error-free, you can at least be invincible.

Su Wu was very curious about the twenty-four hexagrams summarized by the old man. These twenty-four hexagrams should be the original prototype of King Wen's sixty-four hexagrams.

But after all, this was something the old man had learned through his own practice. Even though he was curious, he couldn't ask for it rashly.

Therefore, Su Wu did not say anything for a while.

But the old man looked at Su Wu and laughed, and asked him, "I see that you are trapped in a situation now, like a beast falling into a pit full of spikes, or like a fly caught in a spider web. You can see the situation in front of you, but you can't see the overall situation outside.

It seems that there is still a way forward, but at the end of the road, you may not be able to break through the net and get out of the situation.

My twenty-four hexagrams should be useful to you.

Are you willing to learn?

Su Wu was stunned.

What the old man said completely hit the nail on the head about the dilemma he was facing today.

He knew that his five internal organs were missing, and the human way and the earthly wheels no longer existed and were nowhere to be found. He also understood that he was now trapped in a trap set by Xianger, but now he had no way to search for any trace of the five internal organs and the human way and the earthly wheels. Now as he entered Yindu, he was still at a loss as to what had happened before and didn't know where to break the trap.

"I have never met you before. Why are you willing to pass on your unique skills to me?" Su Wu asked the old man seriously.

"The reason is actually obvious." The old man stroked his beard and smiled, "Can I, alone, completely replace Heaven and make Humanity completely embrace Heaven?

Even if I have thousands of descendants in the future, can this be accomplished?
The Ji family alone and the millions of people in the Zhou Kingdom cannot accomplish this.

Humane education naturally requires the participation of all people in the world and joint construction, so that it can become completely complete and eventually replace heaven.

You look quite different, like a bright pearl that still shines even if it falls into the mud. I want to pass on what I have learned, and naturally I need someone like you."

At this point, the old man paused, he looked at Su Wu carefully for a while, and then said: "Moreover, I see that you also have traces of the 'Yi Dao' on you. It is precisely because I sensed the breath of 'Yi' from you that I took the initiative to come and make friends with you.

Although I don't know where the aura of Yi Dao in you comes from, since we have met, doesn't it just illustrate the wonders of Yi Dao's changes?"

Is there still the aura of Yi Dao lingering in my body?

Su Wu was slightly stunned when he heard the voice, and reacted the next moment.

The 'Yi Dao aura' and 'Yi Principle changes' that 'Chang' sensed from him should be derived from the 'Wheel of Heaven' that is now in his body and is growing stronger and stronger. The 'Wheel of Heaven', one of the three fundamental elements of his physique, mixes many strange and weird things with the charm of Heaven's Principle into one. The Yi Dao aura that Chang discovered from him should have come from the wisps of 'Charm of Heaven' that were forged into the Wheel of Heaven!
Is the source of the charm of heavenly principles the result of King Wen of Zhou’s teachings on the Dao of Changes?
Or maybe, the charm of heaven is actually the result of the changes of King Wen's sixty-four hexagrams in the Book of Changes stolen by heaven?

Regardless of which possibility it is, if he can learn the "Dao of Yi" from King Wen of Zhou now, he can correct the "Wheel of Heaven's Dao" in his body and incorporate it into the education of humanity and the changes of Yi principles!

"The aura of Yi Dao that you said I sensed in my body should be this kind of charm." Now that they have traced it to the brink of the ancient source, the origin of humanity, every hero they meet here has left a strong mark in the history of humanity. Facing them, Su Wu has no intention of hiding anything - he doesn't need to deliberately hide anything now. He talks to Chang, his mind turns, the wheel of heaven deep in his body slowly turns, and a ray of heaven's charm is wrapped around his fingers.

The natural charm that seemed nothing in the eyes of ordinary people was so dazzling in the eyes of Su Wu and Chang.

Chang stretched out his hand and drew the dragon-like divine charm of nature from Su Wu's fingers. He looked confused, and then suddenly realized.

What is confusing is that this kind of natural charm has a deep connection with his Changes of the Dao of Yi, but he can't remember when he had passed on the Changes of the Dao of Yi to Heaven.

Moreover, the changes in the Yi Dao within this ray of natural charm are more subtle than his own Yi Dao.

He listed the general outline of the "Book of Changes" and pointed out the direction of change of the Book of Changes. The current ray of divine charm of heaven should be the part of the content that is filled in with details under the general outline, and it is a certain line of change in the concrete manifestation of the Book of Changes!
What made him suddenly realize was that the changes in the Yi Dao that he had created and that were deeply rooted in him had not actually spread far and wide.

The reason why it appeared in the hands of 'Wu', a person whom Chang had never met before, was fundamentally due to 'Wu'!
"This ray of change in the way of Yi makes me feel the passage of time." Chang raised his head and returned the ray of divine charm of heaven to Su Wu. The old man looked at Su Wu steadily and said, "You are... a latecomer?"

Su Wu's heart skipped a beat.

Before he could answer, Chang continued, "No wonder, no wonder... I see that you are clearly in the game, but you seem to be out of it.

You are out of tune with the world we live in, but you are deeply trapped in this world.

Could it be that the god who could use a whole world as a trap was the sky itself?
Have those who came after you finally understood the dangers of Heaven?"

Su Wu nodded silently.

The old man heaved a sigh of relief, and his posture became much more relaxed: "I am an old man who is about to die, and it is really lucky for me to receive news from later generations while I am still alive.

I am already satisfied knowing that there are still people alive in the afterlife.

I won't ask about other things - the well and the surface are two different worlds. People like us who are in the well, no matter how tall we are, can never break through the well mouth and climb out of the well. I can't help you defeat your enemies outside the well, but now that you are in the well, I can always help you.

I will teach you the 'Changes of the Way of Changes', do you want to learn it?
Once you have learned it, you should be able to see through this well and see the serious situation that the enemy outside the well has set for you."

"Please teach me!"

The old man had said this, so Su Wu naturally had no hesitation and immediately bowed down to the old man and kowtowed in reply.

Afterwards, the two of them continued to sit on the ground.

He also stood guard beside the two of them.

Chang took out eight tortoise shells from his pocket, handed them to Su Wu one by one, and explained the patterns on the tortoise shells to Su Wu: "This is Qian Gua, this is Kun Gua..."

"Fuxi, the ancestor of mankind, somehow locked onto the essence of the 'sky' and created the 'pre-heavenly eight trigrams'. The eight trigrams contain the fundamental laws of the changes in the way of heaven. With this as the foundation, he was able to create the 'Dao of Changes' and make the eight trigrams change with each other..."

The old man explained Fuxi's innate Bagua to Su Wu in detail, and he didn't care that he was eavesdropping on him.

However, even though he exhausted all his energy, he finally only understood one of the changes in the "Kan Gua" from the old man.

As for later on, no matter how detailed the old man's words were, no matter how hard he pricked up his ears or how attentively he listened, he was completely unable to remember what the old man said in his heart. A word went in through his left ear and out through his right ear, without leaving any trace in his heart.

Then it dawned on him.

——It is rumored that 'Tianchen Nuo' can take over 'the sky', make the sky attach itself to itself, and descend to the world.

How vast is the truth and wonder of the heaven's tolerance? Therefore, after the celestial minister Nuo received the heaven and returned to his heart, some of the heaven's wonder would remain in his body.

The more magical things they retain, the more it proves their genius.

On the contrary, it also shows that Nuo, the heavenly minister, was too poorly endowed to allow heaven to leave more miracles on him.

The 'Dao of Yi' that the old man is now imparting to the master should be a 'Taoism' as great as the Dao of the Heaven. Only someone like the master can fully inherit the changes of the Dao of Yi that the old man has taught him. Even if one only obtains one level of change in the Kan hexagram, he can benefit from it for the rest of his life!

When he thought of this, he not only did not feel frustrated, but was very happy.

There have always been many people who go to a treasure mountain and come back empty-handed. He was able to pick up a piece of gold from the treasure mountain, which is already very precious and he should be satisfied!

"The application of Yi Dao is a step-by-step process, from the initial "borrowing the power of heaven and following human power", to the later "transforming the power of heaven and integrating human power", and finally to "using human power to educate the power of heaven and make them both return to Yi Dao".

However, because of the innate Bagua created by the ancestor of mankind, the first step of 'taking advantage of the power of heaven and following the efforts of human power' could come into being.

If there is one, there will naturally be two, three, and so on, up to hundreds and thousands, without end..."

Several groups of customers came and went at the wine stall. The wine in the cups in front of Su Wu and the other two were emptied and refilled. Until the setting sun slanted down over the city and the red sky in the distance was gradually covered by darkness, Chang's teaching finally came to an end.

"It is a good fortune for a good teacher to meet a good student." Chang said to Su Wu contentedly, "I have only evolved these twenty-four hexagrams from the innate eight trigrams. The wonders of the changes of the Yi Dao have not been fully excavated by these twenty-four hexagrams.

There should be sixty-four hexagrams to truly reflect the wonder of the "Dao of Changes".

However, you have only learned these twenty-four hexagrams, which is enough for you. If we have the opportunity to meet again in the future, I will pass on the remaining hexagrams to you. "

"Yes." Su Wu agreed, and watching Chang stand up from the ground with his knees supported, he also stood up and asked Chang, "You came all the way from the distant Zhou Kingdom to Yindu, you must have something extremely important to accomplish here, right?
I heard that Kao, the eldest son of Fangbo of Zhou, was taken to Yindu by the army of the King of Shang and became a hostage.

Are you here for the exam? "

The old man nodded and said, "Kao is my son. Although the Shang army is strong and cannot be matched by the current Zhou Kingdom, I have no choice but to offer my eldest son to appease the king's anger and temporarily suspend the war.

But as a father, how could he watch his son being bullied in a cage and remain indifferent?

So I am heading to the capital of the Shang Dynasty to rescue Kao.

——I am not only the father of Kao, but also the Fangbo of Zhou State. I must be responsible for the Zhou people and cannot involve them in this fight. That is why I came to Yindu alone. If I die trying to rescue Kao, my second son 'Fa' will be the next Fangbo of Zhou State.

My affairs will not implicate the Zhou Kingdom."

When he heard the old man claiming to be Ji Chang, the governor of Zhou State, and that he had come alone to rescue his eldest son Kao, he widened his eyes and looked at Ji Chang with disappointment: "If your whereabouts are exposed and the rescue of Kao fails, not only will you die, but your eldest son Kao will also die.

And there was no way that the Zhou Kingdom would not be implicated.

You are the governor of Zhou State, known for your virtue. Even our tribe, Ge Chang, has gone to your country. But as the ruler, how can you be so willful and ignore Zhou State and its many allies for the sake of one person's gain or loss? "

Su Wu glanced at him and said with a smile: "The sons of the governors of the nine countries are all held hostage in Yindu.

If we turn a blind eye to the hostages of the nine countries, the reputation of the wise Zhou Fangbo will be tarnished. If the King of Shang has a wise decision, he will adopt a strategy of sowing discord among the nine countries, causing civil strife in the nine countries, clipping the wings of Zhou, and then intimidating Zhou, forcing it to drive the tiger to devour the wolf, and completely isolate Zhou from the people of the world.

Under such circumstances, according to him, should we rescue the hostages of the nine countries or not?

Save, how to save?

If we don't save him, we will be in a passive position. How will we deal with the King of Shang's next plan?"

He looked confused and shook his head.

He is not the governor of Zhou State, so how can he know the correct way to deal with the situation?

However, Fangbo of Zhou State had already arrived in Yindu and had already made a response - judging from the expression of his master, could this response be correct?