Chen Jue paid no attention to the Attribute Panel that had just finished updating. Instead, he gazed in every direction, from the dissipating clouds and mist to the mountain ridges where silver dragons danced wildly, from the sun and moon shining together to the faint pinpricks of starlight behind the blue sky and white clouds, and then to the lone birds taking flight and yaks lying in the snow within his sight.
At that moment, Chen Jue felt as though his eyes could see the rhythms of everything in the world. His desire to explore and understand heaven, earth, humanity, living creatures in nature, and the universe began to expand without limit.
This was the evolutionary thirst for knowledge etched into humanity's genes since their ancestors ate raw flesh and drank blood, made fire by drilling wood, and held their first meteorite tools. It was also the true meaning of cultivating one's life that Chen Jue had been seeking ever since he began his practice.
If the Dao heart of the mortal world that Chen Jue had found in his ordinary life before was a lesser path, then what he had now comprehended was the all-encompassing great Dao of exploration and the pursuit of truth.
As the Book of Changes said, "All under heaven reach the same destination by different paths, arriving at one end through a hundred deliberations."
Whether Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, martial arts, or modern science, the three thousand great paths all led to the same destination by different routes. The lesser paths lay within the great Dao, just as the mortal world lay within heaven, earth, and the universe.
This was a transformation and elevation of spirit, mind, and will, a crucial step forward in Chen Jue's cultivation of the mind.
From that moment on, his cultivation