Chapter 88: Feeling

"Time is just an illusion." In the end, the Patriarch summed up his story like this: "The so-called 'cultivation time' is especially so."

"Illusion..." Lu Xiaoqian looked at the black spot in the distance.

That is a group of people with a lifespan of only two days, and it is the hometown in another time that the extremely tiny shepherds watch over.

Or, it is another hometown in an illusion.

"But you are torn apart by illusions..."

"Yes, who wouldn't be torn apart by illusions?" The Patriarch said: "Language, Shinto beliefs, noble and humble blood, courtesy, righteousness, integrity... These are all illusions, and are made up things."

After a moment, he emphasized: "In fact, time is also."

Lu Xiaoqian stopped talking.

In fact, she knows "time" better than anyone else.

In the field of the way of heavenly circulation, time is really an insignificant concept. The way of comparison cannot assert the difference between "past" and "future". And in the formulas of advanced physics, "time" is really a very insignificant thing.

The only things that can prove the existence of "time" are "irreversible" causality, entropy, and human subjective cognition.

But entropy is not absolute. Even the order of causality is not unbreakable.

And it is well known that no seeker likes to mix "subjective cognition" into his theory. This is usually the source of error.

Many irreparable errors come from this.

Of course, time does participate in many concepts. Many concepts are established because of time.

For example, the concepts of "fluid" and "rigid body". "Fluid" is not equal to "liquid plus gas". "Fluid" and "liquid" are concepts in two completely different fields. "Solid" and "liquid" are concepts of material phases, while "rigid body" and "fluid" are mechanical concepts.

Many substances have a concept of "viscoelasticity". The measurement parameter of "viscoelasticity", "Deborah number", is a concept based on "force action time" - in layman's terms, to measure whether an object is a fluid, we often have to look at the time the object is subjected to force. If a force is applied for a long enough time - such as geological movement, then rocks should also be treated as fluids. If a force acts only for a moment, such as falling from a high altitude into the sea, then the water should also be treated as a rigid body.

In other words, whether an object is a rigid body or a fluid actually depends on the observer's concept of time.

If there is a creature that only changes its mind every few million years, then in its eyes, rocks are fluids. Mountains in front of it are also things that flow endlessly.

In the final analysis, "fluid" and "rigid body" are also concepts set up for the convenience of human beings to study mechanics.

Nature does not mark concepts such as "rigid body" and "fluid" on materials.

Can you imagine? Brother Tiandao took a stack of sticky notes and put a "rigid body" on a stone and a "fluid" on a ball of water?

Can't you?

There is no absolute boundary between rigid bodies and fluids. In fact, plasticine can show the characteristics of a rigid body at ordinary times, but once enough pressure is applied to it, it will show the properties of a "fluid". This phenomenon is called "yield".

Many rigid bodies know how to "yield" to become fluids in the face of strong forces.

Many concepts themselves do not exist. It's just that humans need to use these concepts to understand the world, so they invented those concepts.

Humans' poor brains are indeed too weak. Otherwise, they simply can't see through the fog of phenomena and touch the essence.

And these invented concepts will become stumbling blocks for new concepts many years later.

But this is probably just an "imaginary" war.

Perhaps influenced by the story of the Ultra-Micro Shepherd, Lu Xiaoqian's mood was much lower.

Afterwards, the Patriarch enthusiastically took Lu Xiaoqian and the Dragon Clan Eternal to visit their city. It's a pity that the infrastructure of the Ultra-Micro Son is basically the same as that of the Ming Clan, and it is invisible under the visible light wavelength.

Perhaps in the eyes of other races, their cities are magnificent, but Lu Xiaoqian can't see anything.

The water crystal city of the True Flame God, which is like an ice lantern, may be better?

After the visit, the Patriarch took Lu Xiaoqian and the Dragon Clan Eternal to a piece of metal land. This piece of metal ground is so huge that sunlight cannot penetrate it. Its umbra, in the brilliant waves of the solar wind, turned into a dark pyramid visible to the naked eye.

This is the only area on the surface of this star that needs "illumination".

So the Patriarch personally played the role of "light" for the guests.

Of course, not only the Patriarch, but more pastors also came.

So Lu Xiaoqian had to take out the sunglasses she had put away and put them on again.

"The Holy Emperor said that the Holy Envoy will bring a friend to ask us some questions." The Patriarch said: "Then, tell us your questions, new friend."

Lu Xiaoqian took out a piece of inheritance artifact containing the true meaning inheritance - compared to the model processed by Suanjun, this kind of true meaning inheritance is probably more in line with the aesthetics of these Yuanying Faxian. She said: "My problem is related to this method of cultivation. This is a kind of inheritance that our people obtained from an enemy after suppressing an enemy. My problem is related to it."

"Oh..." The Patriarch lifted up this piece of inheritance artifact with his spiritual power and read it for a moment.

"Hmm? This technique is not simple..."

This was the first judgment of this veteran strongman.

Lu Xiaoqian was surprised: "Very strong?"

"No, it is difficult to describe it with 'strong or weak' - such a relative concept is always a subjective illusion. Even if it is explained with 'objective metaphor', it does not have the possibility of bypassing the limit of the combined way... It just takes a very, very... different path."

"Different..." Lu Xiaoqian pondered.

——The path of the True Flame God is so special in the eyes of the Fire People?

"Is this the technique of the Fire People?" The chief herdsman handed the inherited magic weapon in his hand to another extremely micro shepherd.

The second extremely micro shepherd quickly finished reading it, and then handed it to the third one, emitting a positive light: "This is the technique of the Fire People."

"But the most favorite method used by the Fire People's technique should be 'primordial magnetism'." The third shepherd said: "Use light and heat..."

For the Fire People, the primordial magnetism is something that can tear the body apart. And light and heat are just "food". Under the condition of low realm, even if they gather light and heat, they can't be much stronger than the surrounding environment.

The Ming Clan and the Extreme Micro Herders are like this.

But the True Flame God is different.

The core of their practice is "heat".

In the eyes of the Extreme Micro Herders, this is a strange phenomenon.

It's like a world where people are mainly sword cultivators, cultivating the sharpness and killing of gold, and then they suddenly find that the cultivators in another world are mainly cultivating grains and cereals, and they can become stronger just by eating.

And they have also cultivated a lot and completed a very powerful practice.

Just saying this is a provocation to the three views!

However, it is only "shocked" after all.

In this universe, all the knowledgeable immortals know this truth.

You can't use the perspective of one civilization to measure another civilization.

Otherwise, there will be no three views.

In fact, in the pan-universe civilization circle 200 million years ago, the mentality of "abandoning saints and wisdom" was largely derived from this situation - to forget the etiquette and morality that their own civilization already had.

It's just that the mentally retarded can easily understand it as "anti-intellectualism" and "anti-technology".

The Patriarch said: "This is indeed a very powerful technique. We should even thank you for bringing us such a gift. You can tell me any doubts about this technique. If I can answer it, I will definitely answer it. Even if I can't answer it now, I will study this technique and go to the holy land to tell you."

The so-called "holy land" naturally refers to "Source Dragon Star" and "Homeland of Shenzhou".

Lu Xiaoqian said: "I mainly want to understand about a kind of "perception" related to this technique. According to the existing information, the people of fire who practice this technique can obtain a wonderful perception, as if they can directly see through the changes in spiritual power, but I don't know what this perception is... Even in my theoretical calculations, there is no room for this perception to appear..."

Lu Xiaoqian tried her best to describe what she knew in plain words. She concealed the specific information of the person involved, only mentioned the magical power of Wang Qi's fundamental Yuanshen method, and then explained the ins and outs of Wang Qi's report.

However, the Patriarch's entire light became dim.

"Oh, what a pity. Little girl." The Patriarch whispered: "This is not something we can answer - I may be willing to use the form of an incarnation to try to practice this technique. However, for this kind of subjective perception, I am afraid it is difficult to give you a satisfactory answer. This is too subjective."

Lu Xiaoqian shook her head: "Maybe I was too reckless..."

The Dragon Clan Elders translated synchronously: "This form of shaking the head means "negation". Combined with the context, she should be denying herself, or denying your expression of "what a pity", indicating that it is her own fault."

"Subjective perception can only get subjective results." The Patriarch sighed: "After all, we can only get the phenomena of this world through perception. Perhaps in my eyes, this world is like an ocean, or even a puppet show stage for entertaining gods..."

"You may be able to use your wisdom to go deep into the water and enter the mechanical part of the stage. But that is just going from one "elephant" to another "elephant"..."