Dao Fruit Simulator of the Myriad Heavens
Chapter 22
Dao Fruit - Shatter the Void and Behold the Indestructible Divine
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[At 214, you felt deeply dissatisfied with the constraints of Buddhism and began to consider how to free yourself from them. You thought of the Precept-Breaking Saber Technique among Shaolin's Seventy-Two Supreme Skills and the Joyful Chan Method of Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism!] [At 234, you discovered that the Precept-Breaking Saber Technique and the Joyful Chan Method were, at their core, nothing but self-deception. The Precept-Breaking Saber Technique severed karma, not people; it took life to protect life, raising the butcher's blade with a heart full of compassion. With the Joyful Chan Method, every moment of bodily pleasure was a tempering of the mind, until the body was overwhelmed with bliss while the heart was ice-cold. You felt this was nothing short of schizophrenia, and you were deeply dissatisfied with these solutions!] [At 244, you remained at Shaolin Temple and retained your status as a Buddhist son, but you had already begun to consider abandoning Buddhism for Daoism!] [At 254, you discovered that, among the Daoist patriarchs known as the Three Pure Ones, only the Supreme Purity Celestial Worthy of Dao and Virtue had been documented with any clarity. You began studying Daoist culture with the Dao De Jing!] [At 264, you discovered a close connection between Buddhist meditation, Daoist enlightenment, and the Confucian practice of sitting in forgetfulness. You tried to combine the three!] [At 274, you discovered that the Visualization Technique seemed capable of serving as a medium for uniting the three!] [At 304, you gathered the essence of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism to create the Record of Supreme Forgetfulness of Emotion. It was the first cultivation method in the National Martial Arts World to reach the realm of Shatter the Void and See the Indestructible Spirit!] [At 334, through the Record of Supreme Forgetfulness of Emotion, you reached the realm of Unity of Heaven and Celestial Person!] [At 344, you had always believed that inner demons existed only in theory, but now you finally knew they were real. The Record of Supreme Forgetfulness of Emotion had nurtured an inner demon that embodied the will of heaven above and accorded with the human way below, and it stood ready to replace your personality at any moment. The inner demon believed that humanity's survival and development had greatly damaged Mother Earth's ecological environment, and that one day humanity's nuclear weapons would turn Earth into a dead planet blanketed in radiation. Only by killing ninety-nine percent of humanity and leaving behind the one percent of believers willing to return to the age of farming could ecological balance be maintained and Earth's eternal survival assured. According to the psychological theories of 2144, however, psychologists believed you were a staunch environmentalist who, knowing that Earth's environment was being continuously destroyed, had developed a powerful aversion to human technology and consequently formed a second personality!] [At 354, your inner demon grew stronger and stronger, and it could replace your personality at any moment, turning you into a devil that would destroy human civilization. The Earth Federation knew you had long since reached the realm of Shatter the Void and See the Indestructible Spirit, so it urged you countless times to ascend as soon as possible!] [At 374, you suddenly thought of Sever the Corpses to Attain the Dao from the Primordial Wilderness and began to ponder how to split off your inner demon!] [At 394, you tried every substance known on Earth but found nothing capable of containing the inner demon. Once again, you felt what it meant for science to go left while mysticism went right, and you grew deeply restless!] [At 404, your inner demon grew ever stronger and had already begun fighting for control of your body. You discovered that the Five Elements Divine Beasts sealed within your five organs could suppress it, and suddenly you seemed to grasp something!] [At 414, the Five Elements Divine Beasts sealed within your five organs had ultimately been created through the Five Emperors Great Devil Divine Ability, which was based on Five Qi Converge at the Origin. You thought of the legendary Three Flowers Gather at the Crown!] [At 424, after countless attempts, you finally split the sarira into three, transforming it into three lotus flowers capable of containing spiritual power!] [At 464, you successfully sealed the inner demon inside one of the lotuses. Once it had left your soul, the inner demon was like rootless duckweed, and the boundless Qi and Blood soon washed it away. The spiritual energy it left behind turned the lotus black!] [At 474, you created the Amitabha Sutra of Guidance according to the principles of the Record of Supreme Forgetfulness of Emotion, then used your Buddhist attainment to create a wholly compassionate alternate personality!] [At 484, you sealed the wholly compassionate alternate personality inside a lotus. After dispersing it with boundless Qi and Blood, you let its spiritual energy dye the lotus white!] [At 494, Three Flowers Gather at the Crown represented the three thoughts of good, evil, and obsession. Two of the three were complete, but you had no idea what to do about the remaining obsession!] [At 514, you searched through all the ancient texts, but still had no clue about the obsession. You began studying scientific knowledge, hoping to draw insight from one field to another!] [At 554, your accomplishments in psychology had reached the pinnacle, and the honorary title of philosopher was added to your personal information!] [At 574, a top scientific research team of the Earth Federation created a virtual gaming pod like those in webnovels. Its virtual realism reached ninety-nine percent, making it impossible to tell where reality ended and illusion began!] [At 584, the online debate over the brain in a vat grew increasingly heated. Many people believed the universe was a virtual game world created by an advanced civilization, and that the vast majority of ordinary people were essentially just pieces of code, no different from NPCs casually added or deleted in a game. Only a tiny number of successful people in high society were players from the advanced civilization!] [At 594, an unemployed young man who firmly believed in the brain-in-a-vat theory called on NPCs worldwide to rise up and kill all the players, resisting the advanced civilization's arbitrary manipulation of the universe. He shouted the slogan, "My fate is mine, not heaven's!" He gained thirty million followers in a short time, then became an influencer selling products online!] [At 604, inspired by the brain-in-a-vat theory, you suddenly seemed to grasp something. You had always regarded yourself as a transmigrator. Although you were in the National Martial Arts World, your heart was not, and naturally, neither was your obsession!] [At 624, you kept recalling memories of your previous life and finally showed signs of schizophrenia, but something crucial seemed to be missing before an alternate personality could form!] [At 664, your alternate personality had not formed, but your schizophrenia grew increasingly severe. You were clearly the world's strongest expert, acknowledged by all, yet you often became absent-minded and mistook yourself for an ordinary person at the bottom of society!] [At 674, your alternate personality was only one step away from forming, but no matter how much you thought about it, you could not find the key!] [At 684, you suddenly thought of a saying: "You are not a fish, so how do you know the joy of fish?" You were now the world's strongest expert, acknowledged by all, while in your previous life you had only been an ordinary person at the bottom of society. Viewing your previous life through your present eyes was like standing beside a pond and watching the fish in the water. You stopped suppressing your schizophrenia, and the moment your main personality lost control of your body, the alternate personality quietly took shape. Not knowing whether to laugh or cry, you discovered that your previous life's obsession had come from reading too many webnovels: you had wanted to transmigrate to another world, unlock a cheat, and become the protagonist. As it happened, you met the conditions for that obsession to take shape!] [At 694, you sealed the alternate personality formed from your previous life's memories inside a lotus and let the boundless Qi and Blood disperse it, using its spiritual energy to dye the lotus azure!] [At 699, you perfected Three Flowers Gather at the Crown. You left behind a final letter, then ascended in broad daylight!] [Based on your life, please select a Dao fruit-] [Shatter the Void and See the Indestructible Spirit] [Record of Supreme Forgetfulness of Emotion] [Amitabha Sutra of Guidance]
Without a second thought, Mo Wenjian immediately chose Shatter the Void and See the Indestructible Spirit.
Shatter the Void and See the Indestructible Spirit involved a state of understanding that was mysterious beyond mystery.
A ceaseless stream of insights welled up in Mo Wenjian's heart.
Mo Wenjian was entranced, as if listening to immortal music.
After an unknown length of time, Mo Wenjian finally awoke.
Mo Wenjian discovered that the sarira had split into three, transforming into black, white, and azure lotuses.
The three flowers at his crown resonated with the five Qi in his chest. The sensation was truly beyond words.
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