Shi Yanxin heard the other man voice exactly what he had been thinking. Seeing him extend an invitation, with faint hints of the true meaning of the Great Dao in his words, Shi Yanxin suddenly felt that if he truly followed this man and went to behold the principles of the true Great Dao, there would be no harm in taking a look. If only...
But at that thought, he took a breath, steadied his mind, and drove the notion from his head.
He admitted frankly, "Indeed, I fear that everything in this world may be an illusion. But whether it is or not is something I must seek out for myself. To ask the Dao is to pursue the Dao; my own Dao will find its own answer."
Daoist Zhen Yu directly refuted him. "You cannot find it with your present Dao. The higher Dao transforms without trace; there is no boundary between the real and the illusory. If you see reality in your heart, how can you see illusion? If you doubt illusion in your heart, how can you see reality? Only the Dao endures forever. Only by seeing through the barriers of divergence can one understand its true meaning."
Shi Yanxin said, "Nothing in this world endures unchanged—not even Dao methods themselves, for they too lie beneath the Great Dao. Thus, my Dao method holds that the end of all things with substance lies in nothingness, and that nothing possesses an immutable nature. That does not mean I truly believe all things in this world are nothingness. Their end lies at the end, not in the present!"
Daoist Zhen Yu nodded. "With such insight into the Dao, this invitation today has not been wasted on you. Indeed, nothing in this world can endure unchanged, not even the