Chen Shouyi lay there for a while. Once he had recovered a little, he got out of bed and drew open the curtains.
"Thwap, thwap!"
Outside, the streetlights cast a dim yellow glow. A few moths kept bashing into the lampshades, making soft thwapping sounds.
"This optimized Entering Tranquility to Refine the Self is incredibly strange. It seems to have evolved all the way to the roots of the mind. My entire consciousness, including the mysterious subconscious, holds no secrets from me anymore. Everything is laid out before my eyes." Chen Shouyi pondered.
"So this is more or less what it means to understand oneself."
"And that ray of light was probably... divinity!?"
It wasn't as though Chen Shouyi had never seen divinity before, but what he'd seen had always belonged to others.
He had never laid eyes on his own divinity, nor had he ever sensed it.
It had always been hidden in the depths of his consciousness and soul, ethereal and elusive, as if it didn't exist at all.
Only today had he seen it with his own eyes.
Of course, "seen" wasn't quite the right word.
He had sensed it with his mind.
The experience was more shocking than seeing it with his eyes, and it was filled with endless information.
The eyes, limited by their biological senses, couldn't perceive the true essence of things.
For example, the human eye could only receive two-dimensional information. It couldn't see a three-dimensional image.
The reason a person could look at a ball, perceive its depth, and form the concept of a sphere in their mind was entirely due to the changes in light and shadow across its surface.
If the ball gave off a blinding light, or was in absolute darkness, the human eye could no longer tell whether