"The Heavenly Ghost..."
Li Chen frowned in thought.
In truth, he could no longer perceive his body or Primordial Spirit, so whether he frowned made no difference.
Strangely, however, instinctive habit and past understanding still allowed him to imagine the act of frowning through his brain. This was the marvel of cognition as a power of the mind.
At that moment, Li Chen was contemplating what this state of his meant.
"To the Great Universe, the Heavenly Ghost is no different from ghostly monsters to mortals. It is an abstract, conceptual entity that utterly transcends experience and logic, unknowable and impossible to encompass through any cognitive power or means of observation."
"Or perhaps it can be equated with the Dao!"
"Some theories of the Puppet Dao and studies of the origins of life in this world arrived at the saying, 'Man is Heaven's ghost.' They attribute human life and cognition to the Great Dao origin itself..."
"Conceptually, it is the origin of all things, the cause of all effects, the mother of all living beings."
"For natives inside the box, this is an absolute bottleneck. Even if they exhaust a lifetime's effort probing mysteries and comprehending the Dao, reaching a point where they can search the azure heavens above and the Yellow Springs below, nearly omniscient and omnipotent throughout the Myriad Heavens and Worlds, all they can do is unite their bodies with the Dao and merge into it."
"They can only draw infinitely closer, never reach it, much less become the Great Dao itself."
"But seemingly because I was a transmigrator to begin with and naturally possessed practical experience, I actually transformed it into a Dao Fruit of mental certification so easily, experiencing this state of merging with the Great Dao while still retaining the ability to think!"
"That