The Dao That Can Be Spoken Is Not The Eternal Dao

Gaoxin lifted a two-hundred-kilogram weight, despite his own body weight being only seventy kilograms.

In other words, his strength was at least 2.9 times his body weight, possibly even 3 times, reaching the human limit.

Luo Yan felt a bit dizzy and sat down, leaning on something to catch his breath.

Adrenaline wouldn't keep him this strong all day.

After a long pause, Luo Yan said, "Did you really become a Superior Glass Person? Did you really unlock the potential of a normal human?"

"You really didn't get enhanced?"

Gaoxin grinned, "No, it's because of your blood."

"When I was in that state yesterday, I trusted you completely, truly believing I had taken a potential development drug."

"Then, at the last moment, I gained the strength of a Superior Glass Person. I deliberately waited for Daishan Beida to get close and used my last moving hand to kill him!"

Luo Yan slapped his own face, "I just made that up! The placebo effect, is it really that strong?"

Gaoxin grabbed his arm, "It's that strong!"

"But it's not some placebo effect, stop thinking about those useless principles. You need to cast aside that illusion and see the essence of the phenomenon!"

Luo Yan finally asked curiously, "Then... tell me, what are the answers to the three ultimate questions?"

Gaoxin immediately gestured, "How to put it... the universe is conscious, and all of our consciousnesses are a part of it."

"Just think of it as an incomparably vast Great Holy Spirit, and we all come from it. We live in the material world through our bodies, and after death, we return there."

"..." Luo Yan was speechless upon hearing this.

Gaoxin excitedly continued, "So, every one of us is that Great Holy Spirit, and in terms of spirit, we are all equally perfect."

"What differentiates us is the material world, but it's okay. As long as the spirit is strong enough, one can control their own body."

Luo Yan waved his hand, "No... you're... isn't this metaphysics? It's too far-fetched?"

"What spirit, what consciousness, can you really distort reality?"

Gaoxin replied very seriously, "Distort reality? I tried, but the Physical Laws are too powerful."

"Perhaps the Great Holy Spirit can distort the material world, but we are not enough. We are just one of its countless branches, trapped in physical bodies, and can only influence this body."

Luo Yan frowned, "Does this metaphysical stuff you're talking about have any direct connection to your extraordinary placebo effect?"

"Why do you think unlocking your potential with my blood proves your so-called Great Holy Spirit?"

"Souls and all that are too far-fetched."

Gaoxin said earnestly, "I just used the word 'soul' for your understanding. In fact, I didn't know how to describe it when I was a child."

Luo Yan pursed his lips, "Fine, I won't quibble over words, but I still can't understand the connection between the two. Perhaps your brain was just enhanced, making it particularly susceptible to the placebo effect?"

Gaoxin chuckled and waved his hands repeatedly, "Your logic is flawed there."

"It's the universal Great Holy Spirit first, and we are all part of it, which is why I could unlock my potential with your blood."

Luo Yan was taken aback, scratching his head, "No... huh? Ah?"

"You say my logic is flawed? You've got it backward! I admit you unlocked your potential, but why do you assume it's because of the Great Holy Spirit's existence? Couldn't it be for other reasons?"

Gaoxin stated definitively, "No! That's the reason! Otherwise, I wouldn't have succeeded. Why don't you just believe it?"

Luo Yan's features contorted, "I want to believe it too, but these things don't connect! Your reasoning makes no sense."

Gaoxin was anxious and stomped his foot, "It makes sense!"

"It's an obvious thing."

Luo Yan asked, confused, "Tell me, explain it to me."

Gaoxin's expression turned solemn, and he spoke animatedly, accompanied by gestures.

Sometimes his voice was loud and resonant, other times it was a mumbled whisper.

He pointed at the air, then picked up nearby objects to illustrate, giving the impression of a madman.

Yet, he didn't seem to be talking nonsense; his words carried a profound sense of mystery, as if he were truly expounding the Great Dao.

"No... I understand every word you say, but when you put them together, I don't understand. It feels like there's no logic at all!" Luo Yan grabbed his hair.

Although he didn't understand, he also felt a sense of profound mystery, as if some ultimate truth was hidden within, driving him to the brink of madness.

Gaoxin was also frantic, "Why can't you understand? This logic truly exists, it connects with countless phenomena, so it's not 'illogical'."

"It's also very correct, so it's not 'anti-logic'."

"This is a form of positive logic, you just haven't understood it, but I have! That's why I call it Dark Logic!"

"As long as you think of that Dark Logic, combining these phenomena becomes very simple!"

His earnest and serious demeanor was driving Luo Yan crazy, "Why are you so certain? I just don't understand!"

Gaoxin let out a sound and said, "I have to be certain! If you understood that logic, you would understand too! You would be certain as well!"

"It has to be the Truth that everyone originates from the Great Holy Spirit first, for me to be able to trigger that method and produce such results."

"Didn't you say it yourself earlier? All personalities are equal. Since you know this principle, why don't you believe it?"

"And about this placebo effect you mentioned, why don't you combine it with other phenomena? Shouldn't all phenomena in the world operate according to a single set of truths!"

"If this truth is wrong, how can I combine it to create a technology? And achieve it with my own consciousness?"

"Yes! Technology, I'm using the word 'technology,' do you understand?"

Gaoxin took a deep breath. "Alright, alright, let's all calm down..."

"Technology, right? Since it's technology, it's knowledge, then it can't be that only you can do it, I should be able to do it too, right?"

Gaoxin nodded frantically. "I've been saying it all along, everyone can do it, everyone is divine, it has to be this way, otherwise it wouldn't be this result... My logic can't have even one missing link! It's a chain of one link after another! Extremely rigorous!"

"Alright, alright..." Gaoxin interrupted. "I don't care about your principles anymore, okay."

"It's like AI technology, I just need to know how to use it. Didn't you say there's a method? Teach me."

Gaoxin pondered for a moment, then began his mysterious explanations again.

This time, Gaoxin was even more confused because Gaoxin quoted many terms from Taoist classics.

Each term alone was profound and unfathomable; strung together, they were even more indescribable.

"What is 'Abandon Sagacity and Discard Wisdom,' 'Abandon Cleverness and Discard Profit'? What is 'Heart Manifestation'? 'Heart Fasting'? What is 'Heavenly Heart to the Right,' 'Mechanical Heart to the Left'?"

"Didn't you not go to school? Where did you learn these terms?"

Gaoxin was stunned. "I heard these from my Aunt Yao. She tells fortunes for people, and some words felt very fitting, so I used them. So, you understand when I describe it like this, right?"

Gaoxin frowned. "'Abandon Sagacity and Discard Wisdom,' 'Abandon Cleverness and Discard Profit' come from the Tao Te Ching, meaning to reject cleverness and wisdom and return to natural simplicity..."

"'Heart Manifestation' comes from Zhuangzi, Discussion on the Equality of Things: The heart is not wood or stone; it responds and connects, manifests through emotions and actions, and reacts to changes in events."

"It means that after the heart feels a certain emotion or thought, the body will naturally produce corresponding actions or expressions."

At this point, he himself was stunned.

Gaoxin exclaimed excitedly, "Ah, yes, yes, yes, that's the meaning, you get it now!"

Gaoxin frowned in confusion. "No, what did I get? It has that meaning, but the author didn't mean it the way you said."

Gaoxin stomped his foot. "I don't care what the author meant. I haven't read this book, but this is the only way I can describe it to you."

"Try it, it's very simple!"

Gaoxin stared blankly. "Try what? You haven't told me the method."

"With your heart! Just believe," Gaoxin said earnestly.

Gaoxin gritted his teeth. "Okay, I'll try!"

He directly found a cup, preparing to cut his finger and drink his blood.

Gaoxin stopped him. "Your blood is inside you, what's the point of drinking it!"

"Drink this!"

He directly took a bottle of liquid from the warehouse, no idea what it was.

"This is..." Gaoxin asked.

Gaoxin said, "This is the potential development drug. Just drink it."

Gaoxin didn't ask anymore and drank it in one gulp.

He waited for a long time and tried to move heavy objects, but there was no effect at all.

"No, I really believed it," Gaoxin shouted.

Gaoxin gritted his teeth. "You believe nothing! You drank it without any joy."

"..." Gaoxin's mouth twitched. "Because it tastes awful, what is this?"

Gaoxin pointed at him. "See, your instinct is questioning and thinking about what this liquid in the meat locker is..."

"If you truly believed, you would be overjoyed, deeply moved, and your first reaction would probably be to thank me for giving you this medicine."

Gaoxin was frantically chanting to himself to believe, but after being told this, he recalled that he actually hadn't believed just now.

For a moment, Gaoxin became frantic. "No, this is too mystical."

Gaoxin said, "It's not mystical, you need to control your instincts."

Gaoxin scratched his head. "No, control instincts? How do I control them?"

Gaoxin tapped his heart. "There are techniques! Can't you put some effort into it!"

"This kind of technique doesn't require external instruments or equipment; you can operate it directly with the human heart and body, just like suddenly realizing how to swim when drowning. The barrier to entry is low enough!"

Gaoxin didn't understand. "You didn't tell me the technique, what technique is it!"

"Didn't I tell you?"

"Did you?"

"Didn't I?"

"Did you really?"

"Aiya, it's just... like this... it's just..." Gaoxin gestured wildly and spoke incoherently.

He spoke words that seemed illogical as he ran in front of Luo Yan, gesturing wildly. Then he'd run behind him, holding up the frozen mouse.

He even started dancing and chanting, constantly explaining something with great seriousness.

He was genuinely trying to teach Luo Yan a method, to help him understand a certain technique.

However, the more Luo Yan listened, the more confused he became, as if struck by a profound mystery.

"What are you even talking about?"

"I understand every word you say, but when you put them together, I just don't get it!"

"Even though I don't understand, it sounds amazing!"

Gaoxin grabbed Luo Yan and shook him violently. "It's so simple! It's really so simple!"

"Why can't you understand! Why don't you get it?"

Luo Yan was about to go crazy. "I really don't understand! What on earth are you talking about? I feel like you're just messing with me!"

"I seriously feel like you're making it all up!"

"I seriously, seriously, seriously feel like you're seriously making it up!"

Gaoxin glared at him, then suddenly rolled up his sleeve, gesturing for him to look. "Look! Look! This oven is getting hotter and hotter! Don't you feel the heat?"

Luo Yan thought he was hallucinating again, but the moment he looked, he froze!

Gaoxin's outstretched arm appeared to be scorched, his skin turning red, quickly blistering. Large areas of burns and scalds were visible.

"Holy crap!" Luo Yan was stunned.

They were in a cold storage room, yet Gaoxin had somehow inflicted burn injuries on himself as if he'd been roasted!

"It's so simple! Brother!" Gaoxin was demonstrating a peculiar human ability, yet he spoke as if explaining a straightforward phenomenon like freefall.

"You just have to believe you're being burned, and your brain can make your body manifest actual burn injuries. I call this technique Imagination Embodiment."

Luo Yan's eyes widened. "Imagination Embodiment?"

He remembered another experiment where a condemned prisoner's eyes were blindfolded, and their wrist was lightly scratched with the back of a knife. In reality, the skin wasn't broken, but warm water was trickled over it, making the prisoner believe they were bleeding. After some time, the prisoner died without having sustained any actual injury.

Although it was different from Gaoxin's current situation, the ability of the brain and nerves to influence the body was indeed powerful.

He could sense that what Gaoxin was demonstrating had a basis in reality, that it wasn't something humans had never discovered. In fact, the outward manifestations had been observed long ago. It was just that their application and development hadn't reached Gaoxin's level. The power of related effects was astonishing in him.

It was as if Gaoxin had grasped the true relationship between mind and body, had seized some essence, some profound secret. Yet, this secret was something Gaoxin couldn't teach, and he himself couldn't understand it.

Luo Yan stared blankly for a moment, then suddenly snapped back to reality, exclaiming, "Stop! Brother, stop it quickly!"

Gaoxin stopped. The wounds ceased worsening, and he gestured for Luo Yan to try.

Luo Yan, however, wore a crestfallen expression, staring at his own arm for a long time.

Finally, he said dejectedly, "No... I can't do it!"

"Tsk..." Gaoxin was frustrated, looking at the bizarre, illogical diagrams and images he was hallucinating.

"How can I explain this to you... How do I explain it to you..."

He sighed to the heavens.

When consciousness fully shifted into Emotional Mode, the stage of logical processing for external information seemed to be skipped.

External information directly impacted him in a very rudimentary data form. He could only process it with emotion, with imagination, with feeling.

He found it difficult to describe this sensation using human logic, and the more he thought about it, the more uncomfortable he became.

It was stifling, oppressive, as if ants were crawling all over him! Or as if something was tangled inside his skin, yet he couldn't break free or scratch it.

Luo Yan watched Gaoxin go frantic, twitching occasionally, his hands and neck contorting, his face looking like he was constipated.

"Why can't you understand..."

"You have a mouth and can speak, but you can't learn to sing? It's really so simple!" Gaoxin groaned.

Good heavens, this complaint was sharp enough to make Luo Yan feel depressed, as if he were an idiot.

Seeing how distressed Gaoxin was, Luo Yan quickly said, "Forget it, forget it, forget it. I won't learn. You don't need to teach me anymore. Just consider it your superpower, okay?"

Gaoxin was helpless. "It's really not a superpower. You can do it too!"

Luo Yan didn't care anymore, waving his hand. "Alright, this Dark Logic thing, I really don't understand it, but I believe it, okay? I'll remain respectful!"

"Let's both calm down first."

Gaoxin nodded, shifting his consciousness back to his left brain.

He regained his rational thinking, pondered for a moment, and sighed, shaking his head. "As expected of Dark Logic, I still can't teach it."

"Brother, if you get it, you get it. If you don't, there's nothing I can do."

"The Dao that can be spoken is not the eternal Dao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name."

p.s: Sorry.