Enjoy the world

The last chapter of this book is quite long, so it is updated in three parts: upper, middle and lower. After the end of the six hundred main chapters, there are several postscripts that tell some stories that happened in the country of Huanxiang in the future.

The origin of the story in this book is a dream Hua Zhenxing had, dreaming of a fantasy world five hundred years later. But he did not travel through time in a dream, but woke up in reality.

From the beginning, I did not intend to write five hundred years later, but to the starting point where he can realize his dream.

Although the book describes Hua Zhen's experience of overcoming delusion, the story itself can be a huge realm of delusion and at the same time a process of overcoming delusion.

Okay, to be honest, in fact, my original idea was that the whole story of the book was a complete delusion, and the ending was like this -

"The moonlight seemed to be able to dissolve everything, and everything in the world, including time and space, turned into nothingness in the moonlight. A gust of wind blew by, and Hua Zhenxing opened his eyes and looked up at the starry sky between the low eaves.

Last night, he and the big man Heishiel went to a bar frequented by local aborigines. When they came back, they sat for a while in an alley not far from home, leaning against the wall.

Fiso Port was still the same Fiso Port. He stood up and walked towards the grocery store. His eyes were no longer drunk and he was no longer confused. The world under his feet seemed to be heading for a new life. "

Hua Zhenxing thought that all his experiences after waking up from the dream turned out to be a delusion, including what he called "breaking the delusion" in the delusion. If I really wrote it like that, many readers might scold me.

"After reading two to three million words, you finally told me that not only was the protagonist having a dream at the beginning, but the entire story was also a big dream for the protagonist!"

Hehehe, so I didn’t write it like that and made changes to some of the content in the serial. Otherwise, except for old book friends who are very familiar with the world view of my series, other readers may be angry.

But it’s hard for me to explain. Dreams and delusions are two different things.

In my previous works, I described many so-called delusion-breaking experiences, but the depiction of the delirium, limited by the length and storyline, always seemed to be just a shadow, and did not allow readers to experience the reality.

What is delusion? It can be like this, it can be like this, I use this "Huanxiang World" to answer.

If you are more accepting of such a story, please make up your own mind and add the ending I wrote above to the end of the text of the book. I will not write it myself.

As for why I want to write such a story, since it is already so unserious, I won’t talk about the serious stuff and will only talk about some off-topic gossip.

There is a long-lasting hot topic on the Internet, which is what would a world where all people practice immortality look like?

Many fairy tale novels give fictional descriptions and imaginations, but they are basically different from the world we are familiar with.

Sometimes I just wonder, how would this happen in the world we live in? If it happened, why did it happen?

In a sense, people's imagination of a world where all people can cultivate immortality in online articles is a bit like the ancient people's imagination of an ideal world nearly three thousand years ago. It can be a pure utopia, or it can have a spiritual core that supports the belief.

When I was a child, I read a passage describing immortals: "Mountains, rivers, geography, and everything in the world can be read on the palm of your hand." I didn't see it at that time, but I just felt it was magical and envious. Looking back now, isn't that what we are today scrolling through our mobile phones?

With a few clicks in our hands, we can even take in items thousands of miles away. Some of them will be delivered to our door, while others may need to be picked up at a courier station. This is how the ancients described immortals, but have we become immortals? of course not.

This is the result of technological progress and the evolution of the social production system. Some people say it is because of the progress of the times. But the so-called era will not progress on its own. All of this is human creation.

Even if someone stays at home all day long and does nothing, he can still enjoy the fruits of the times, just because someone else provides him with all this.

The original intention of all people's efforts is undoubtedly to make themselves better off. People have more means to achieve their goals and their abilities have become stronger. So are they living a better life?

This question is difficult to answer, because we must first answer how to live a better life? Dating back to the Enlightenment era of civilization nearly three thousand years ago, we will find that ancient thinkers were trying to answer it.

There is a question or premise that is very important to them, that is, what is the meaning of human existence?

In a desolate and dead universe, what is the necessity for the birth of life and intelligence? Where does the concept of "meaning" even come from?

This may not be a physics question, because physics can only study the causes of life. It may be probabilistic events that appear in massive samples to answer the principles of probability.

But the principle itself is not meaning, and may even lead to nothingness.

That’s why theologians take advantage of the void and construct the meaning of human existence from the transcendent perspective of divine revelation, which can be used to comfort themselves when facing the vast universe.

Later, when people wanted to bypass gods and first find meaning for human existence, they used another argument:

Even if I don’t know what the existence of human beings means to the world, my existence is meaningful to me, and it even means everything to me.

This leads to another premise question, what is "I"?

On the basis of this answer, it is argued that it is because I exist that I can think about what meaning is; then it evolves to the point that existence is meaning itself; and then it further evolves to the point that the meaning of life lies in being able to decide how to exist.

When someone points out that "how to exist" is the "meaning of life", the discussion process is exquisite, but further answers are needed - how should we exist?

Confucius, Mencius and Ma En were both doing this.

If you switch your perspective to the East, or the Age of Enlightenment in China, you will find that almost all thinkers at that time were answering "how people should exist" from the beginning, and evolved all the above-mentioned processes.

The emergence of consciousness and even wisdom is the "escaped one" in the evolution of the universe; it is the three born of the two in "one is born with two, two is born with three, and three is born with all things".

The significance of human beings to this world is to "reverse the movement of Tao".

Apart from their differences, do the various schools of thought have any common spiritual core? Why can Mo Shangtong, Yang Tehong, and Ke Mengchao sit at the same wine table and quarrel, learn from what they learned more than two thousand years later, and at the same time let Hua Zhenxing cook for them?

Although the pre-Qin "schools" had different opinions, they almost all had the same core -

They do not presuppose the "ideal world", do not transcend "absolute spirit" a priori, and do not isolate sensibility and rationality. Instead, they regard sensibility as the source of rationality and argue that the birth of human rationality is the inherent requirement for the development of sensibility.

In their view, reason comes from sensibility, and the so-called "ideal world" and "absolute spirit" are also derivatives of sensibility and are the delusion of "I".

Delusion is not meaningless, it is the ultimate of sensibility; reason is the reflection of sensibility and the process of destroying delusion and realizing it.

They further pointed out that the understanding, control and application of desires are the inner needs for the realization of desires. On this basis, we deduce the different propositions of each company, and then seek ways to implement them to answer "how to exist."

The answers they gave at that time may not be the most important, but the ideas for solving the problems are more important.

I have always wanted to specialize in this topic, but I feel that my knowledge is far from enough, so I can only tell stories first, such as the story of Hua Zhenxing, which seems to be a serious and absurd story.

Everyone has a world of fantasy.