I Cultivate Immortality With Scientific Thinking

Chapter 203 Real Dream

Xu Yue frowned slightly as he looked at the scene in front of him. He glanced at Lin Chen and felt something was wrong, but he didn't know what the problem was.

The old Taoist priest smiled slightly, raised the freshly brewed green tea on the table, slowly poured it into three teacups, and said with a slight smile: "Please."

Lin Chen nodded, with a slight smile on his face, walked over and sat down beside him.

Xu Yue was slightly startled, but still walked over.

"According to the reports from my disciples, there should be three young friends who came to the Taoist sect. Why don't I see one of them?" The old Taoist priest stroked his white beard and said with a smile.

"I left him at the foot of the mountain." Lin Chen said casually, raised the tea cup with his hand, took a sip, and couldn't help but sigh, "The Taoist master is really good at it."

"My little friend, I'm so impressed. How can I compare to you?" The old Taoist priest couldn't help but shook his head when he heard this. "You can actually completely change a person's soul. This kind of method has never been heard of by a real Taoist."

"Taoist Priest is not bad at all." Lin Chen put down the teacup in his hand and walked around in a circle, "He actually used the memory in Primordial Spirit and the collection of concepts in Consciousness to construct a story that seemed true but not true, and seemed false. A world that is not fake.”

"No, what on earth are you talking about?" Xu Yue on the side couldn't help but ask.

Lin Chen glanced at him and said, "The purpose of your coming here is not only to unite, but also to explore the Immortal Law. In that case, why not give it a try now?"

"This..." Xu Yue was stunned and looked at the old Taoist priest. He found that the latter also nodded, and couldn't help but clasping his fists and saying, "In this case, I will show my shame."

The next moment, surging and turbulent Gang Qi, like tidal waves, swept through his body layer by layer. Then, it turned into a huge Gang Qi hand and grabbed the old Taoist priest fiercely!

"Taoist Master, be careful with this move of mine, but...huh?!" Xu Yue originally wanted to warn him, but the next moment, his pupils suddenly shrank.

With one grab of his powerful hand, he could kill Innate Martial Artist at will and break through a thousand-man army formation. Originally, he thought that if the opponent wanted to resist, he would have to put in a lot of effort.

But Xu Yue never expected that the powerful hand of Gangqi would dissipate directly when the old Taoist priest was alive, turning into wisps of breeze.

"Are you kidding?!" Seeing this, Xu Yue's expression changed and he showed an incredible look.

"No matter how powerful you are, you can't easily neutralize my powerful hand with just a few tricks... Wait!" Xu Yue looked around and seemed to understand something, "I understand, it's not me who has the problem, but It’s here…”

"This...should not be the real world!"

"My little friend is really sensitive." The old Taoist priest nodded approvingly, "This is not the real world, but a dream!"

"Dream?" Xu Yue frowned and asked in confusion, "Taoism uses the method of entering dreams to invite immortals. I have always heard of it, but how can it be possible to construct such a real dream?"

"Since everything has already appeared, there is no point in questioning." Lin Chen laughed at the side, and then looked at the old Taoist priest, "But I really want to know how the Taoist master walked out of this path?"

"This road..." After hearing this, the old Taoist priest raised his forehead slightly, his eyes seeming to recall a certain moment in the past.

"Ten years ago, ever since the Immortal taught the Dharma in his dream, I have gradually realized that this world and life are, in the final analysis, nothing more than an illusory dream."

After hearing this, Xu Di couldn't help but said: "Reality is reality, life is life, how can it be confused with dreams?"

"Really?" The old Taoist priest smiled nonchalantly and asked, "What was it like when you woke up from your dream? Can you remember the memory in your dream?"

"This... I can remember, but it's very vague." Xu Yue hesitated for a moment and replied.

"Then in your life, can you still recall your memories from more than ten or even decades ago?"

"...I can only recall some of the important parts."

"When you wake up from a dream, you can only recall very few things. How many things can you remember during this life? So do you think this life itself is like an illusory dream?"

Xu Yue was silent, and after a while, he said in a deep voice: "But at least today is real, and everything he is experiencing now is real."

"Is it real?" The old Taoist priest smiled again and pointed around, "Then do you think everything is real now?"

"This..." Xu Yue hesitated for a moment and performed a series of operations such as sensing, touching, and listening, but he was surprised to find that he could not sense anything unreal here.

"The feeling is no different from reality, but now you are in a dream."

Xu Yue was silent for a while and continued: "Dreams are dreams, and dreams are fake. How can they be confused with reality?"

"Then how can you be sure that the real world really exists and is not an illusory world formed by your perception?" The old Taoist priest asked again.

"The real world is real. What's there to be confused about?" The more Xu Yue listened, the more confused he became.

"This is really not necessarily true." At this time, Lin Chen suddenly said from the side.

"Um?!"

"We humans think that the real world is actually a world constructed by relying on our own perceptions..." Lin Chen said softly.

"We cannot see the essence of things and can only rely on our own perception to construct its information concept. But if one day, someone can inject corresponding information through all your perceptions to form everything in your subconscious concept, then you How can we be sure that this world is real?"

"For example, like this." As he spoke, Lin Chen raised his right palm, and a twisted air suddenly appeared in his palm, and a bit of gold gradually expanded.

"Color." Either intense or bright gold, twisted in Lin Chen's hands.

"Shape." Among the gold, the outline of a flower appeared, and there was really no clue.

"Weight." The golden flower fell into Lin Chen's palm.

"Texture." Lin Chen handed the little flower to Xu Yue, and Xu Yue felt the almost real touch.

"Temperature." Xu Yue felt a faint coolness in the little flower in his hand.

"Smell." The breeze brought the fragrant smell of flower petals.

"Taste." Lin Chen picked off the petals and handed them to Xu Yue's mouth. He hesitated, opened his mouth, and chewed carefully. A bitter taste filled the tip of his tongue.

"This, this!" Xu Yue held the flower in his hand with a look of disbelief on his face.

"So we can never be sure whether the real reality exists or can be obtained through our personal observation. Unless we can find the underlying laws of the real world and make inferences..." Lin Chen sighed lightly.

In front of him, the old Taoist priest looked at him with the same surprise, and his face immediately became solemn: "Fellow Daoist's understanding of dreams really exceeds my knowledge. I just put countless people's understanding of this thing into perspective." The perceptions gathered together form today’s dream..."

"But Fellow Daoist can create an almost real illusion through his own understanding, so he should join my Daoist!"

"Forget it, I don't want to create a real dream, but I want to explore the real world." Lin Chen shook his head and refused.

"But the real world may be a dream of a powerful person, and there is nothing to explore. Maybe everything is someone else's layout. We might as well create a real dream that is unique to us!" The old Taoist priest quickly advised.

"Even if the real world is illusory, I am still willing to keep exploring, because for me, even if this world is illusory, there are still endless unknowns to explore. This is comparable to creating a small dream. It’s much more interesting among them.” Lin Chen said with a smile.

"But..." The old Taoist priest wanted to say something more.

But before he could finish, he was interrupted by Lin Chen.

"It is my long-cherished wish in this life to use my limited life to pursue the endless unknown. For this, I am willing to die on the way."

Lin Chen looked at the old Taoist priest and said word by word: "Taoist Master, for people like us, we can listen to the Tao in the morning and die at night, so why bother forcing others? You know, the Tao is different, and Don’t conspire against each other.”

Hearing this, the old Taoist priest was obviously stunned: "You can hear the Tao in the morning and die in the evening. The Tao is different, and you don't want to conspire against each other..."

He chewed these two sentences carefully for a long time before laughing and saying: "What the Fellow Daoist said is very true. We have different paths and we don't want to work together. It's because I'm a fellow Daoist!"

"We are all Fellow Daoists now! We all have our own path to follow. Even if we die nine times, we will never regret it. Now that we are reunited by fate, why should we drink tea? We should choose the Immortal Court wine to make things clear!"

Then, he waved his hand, and the scene in front of him changed, and the scene of the Immortal Ascension in Yunmeng Zezhong ten years ago appeared!

Flowers fall from the sky, golden lotuses surge from the ground, stars descend into the world, and jade towers hang among them.

The old Taoist priest waved his hand again, and the next moment, they seemed to have entered the Immortal Court directly. The surrounding moonlight was cold, there were clouds and mist, and there was even fairy music playing, which was completely in line with mortals' imagination of immortals!

"I also invite two Fellow Daoists to visit our Taoist Immortal Palace!"

Then, the three figures disappeared directly into the Qiong Tower under the moonlight!

(End of chapter)