Tian Gang Chapter 158: Surprise (2)
Are you surprised that I didn't mention us to you before I came here? The old man asked.
No... I shook my head. That girl is crazy. It's lucky she could bring me here. How could she explain things clearly to me?
Haha, that's conceivable. Making friends with her is not something that most people can bear. The old man laughed and said, "My name is Liao Youxuan. You are Fanran's friend. If you don't mind, you can call me Grandpa Liao like her."
Uh, okay.
Fanran hasn't been here for a long time, why is he here with you, the descendant of Basuo? Mr. Liao asked curiously.
It's the old Taoist... uh, the Zhang Shoudao you mentioned. We went through some things and went back to the Five Elements Taoist Temple to rest. The old Taoist said he had something to do and asked me to take her out for a walk. I explained, but I always felt a little embarrassed in front of this old man, and for a moment, I couldn't even speak clearly.
Did you experience it together? Mr. Liao became even more curious and asked: What the Five Elements and Eight Ropes did together is not a trivial matter. Can you tell me about it?
Yes, you can. Do you want to listen to it from the beginning or halfway through? It's quite long anyway.
Do you think it would be more fun to start climbing from the middle of the mountain rather than from the foot of the mountain? The old man smiled and said: I don’t have anything to do now, so I still have a lot of time.
Well, let me start from the beginning... I have to start with a jade pendant left by my father. That jade...
It took a long time to tell the whole story. Although it didn't take many days in reality, there were so many stories in these days.
I’m not a very good storyteller, so I told the story as I was thinking. It took me a whole afternoon to finish it.
No wonder… the old man muttered to himself after listening to my story.
What's wrong? I asked.
Oh, I forgot to tell you. Although I don't practice, I still have some research on these. I spent a lot of time and energy to make a machine that can monitor the energy movement of this world.
It’s so amazing... I’m very surprised.
This is nothing, just like humans monitoring the amount of seawater. The old man smiled modestly and said: It just takes some time. A few days ago, the monitoring results of the machine showed that the entire world... Oh, this word is not quite accurate. Due to the limitation of manpower and material resources, this machine can only monitor our Huaxia region. And a few days ago, the machine monitored that the energy of the entire Huaxia region was rising in a steady curve.
What's the meaning?
This means that the energy density in the area of China where we are located has increased. I was very surprised at first, and used my connections to find some practitioners to ask. However, they had no idea about it, let alone the reason for this strange phenomenon.
Uh...you mean, this has something to do with the underworld?
Perhaps, because from the perspective of time, it is a coincidence. The old man nodded, took out a pen from his jacket pocket, moved the paper prepared on the coffee table to his side, and then drew a gradually declining curve, saying: This line is the monitoring result of the past ten years. China's energy has been decreasing, and with the development of the times, this speed is getting faster and faster. But a few days ago...
After the gradually declining curve, the old man lifted the tip of the pen and drew a fairly obvious upward line: the energy began to increase, and according to the curve, the speed was accelerating.
This is a good thing, I think.
According to the theory of practitioners, if the energy of the world increases, their practice will be easier because they can absorb more energy molecules and merge with themselves. You should understand that matter is composed of molecules, and the larger their area, the more things can be attached to them. Therefore, the closer the molecules in the practitioners' bodies are to energy molecules, the stronger their power will be.
Molecule, where have you heard this before?
Looking at the old man's serious expression when he drew the curve, and thinking about what he said before, a light bulb went off in my head: Grandpa Liao, you can't be the physicist that the old Taoist was talking about!
Did he mention me to you? Mr. Liao also seemed a little surprised.
Well, if he hadn't met the second physicist who studied practitioners, then it would definitely be you. I was a little excited because the physicist mentioned by the Taoist priest was an ordinary person, but he gave the simplest and most direct explanation of practice. Even the Taoist priest couldn't forget his explanation, which shows that it makes a lot of sense.
So, it's not that some things cannot be explained by science, but sometimes our explanation method is not science, but technology. Science has derived technology, but they are completely different.
When technology can't accomplish this, we always say: Oh, this is not scientific.
In fact, it is because we do not pursue it from the essence.
Haha, I didn't expect that he could still remember me after such a long time. Mr. Liao put down his pen happily and asked: Did he say anything else?
No, I just told me what you said about the relationship between practice and molecules. I think what you said makes a lot of sense.
Hahahaha...Mr. Liao laughed happily.
I looked at the curve on the coffee table and asked the same question again: If the increase in energy is really related to the underworld, then it means that the seal not only seals the underworld, but also the energy of China... uh...
I'm a little stuck because I don't know what to say.
I understand what you mean. You mean that the so-called fiefdom lock is a tool that causes the gradual reduction of China's energy. However, its method is to extract and consume it, or no longer transmit it to the outside world.
Well, that's about it. And what I find even more strange is that if the reduction of energy is not good for practitioners, why did my ancestor two thousand years ago arrange to repair the sky and seal the earth?
This is indeed something that needs to be thought about, but I think the key point is what the so-called heaven and earth are. Earth, perhaps, represents the underworld, then what about heaven? Mr. Liao picked up the pen again and first drew a horizontal line: This represents the underworld.
He drew another horizontal line: This represents the world we live in, because according to what you said, the underworld may be hidden deep underground, or it may be a layer of the world beneath the surface, somewhat like a virtual parallel world.
Then, he drew a semi-arc line, which completely wrapped up the bottom: This arc is the sky as we know it now, including the atmosphere and the ozone layer.
Finally, Mr. Liao pointed a few times outside the arc: Going further out, we can also count the sky. Because the ancients paid attention to the universe, their view of the universe may be our limited worldview.
What's the meaning?
In other words, the ancients’ heaven might be the space beyond the atmosphere, Liao explained.
Huh? This is unlikely. Could the ancients have left the Earth? Even gods...
I didn't finish my sentence because what I said next would be like slapping myself in the face.
Mr. Liao seemed to have understood my thoughts. He laughed and said: In ancient mythology, the universe was created by Pangu. This myth is actually contradictory, because what Pangu created was probably just a small world.
If we look at the origin of the myth, Pangu was born from an unknown egg with an axe in his hand as a weapon. The egg was dark and empty, which is similar to the explosion origin of the universe, both of which were born from nothingness. But the key point is that Pangu split the heaven and earth, and then supported the heaven and earth to grow every day.
What does the myth say? Oh, Pangu was in it, changing nine times a day, being more divine than the sky and more holy than the earth. The sky became one zhang higher, the earth became one zhang thicker, and Pangu grew one zhang taller every day, and this lasted for 18,000 years. The sky was extremely high, the earth was extremely deep, and Pangu was extremely long. Later, there were the Three Sovereigns. The number started from one, stood at three, became five, flourished at seven, and was at nine, so the sky was 90,000 miles away from the earth.
According to current research, the ancients' li was shorter than today's li in most cases. But what does 90,000 li mean? Even if 10 li is one li today , the distance between heaven and earth is more than 4,000 kilometers. You have to know that today's earth satellites generally have a low-Earth orbit at an altitude of several hundred kilometers. This altitude is beyond the coverage of the atmosphere.
Therefore, the height of 4,000 miles is completely different from our understanding of the earth. If the concepts of the sky being extremely high and the earth being extremely deep are the same, then using modern scientific and technological measurement methods to calculate, the thickness of the earth is somewhat close to the depth of the earth in ancient mythology.
From this we can draw an answer. If the myth is not completely fictitious, then the sky in ancient mythology is different from the sky we know. Sometimes I wonder if the so-called sky refers to other planets very close to the earth. But the myths all mention that the sky is clear and light, which is obviously inconsistent with the planets composed of pure matter.
You mean... Mr. Liao's talk of mythology has completely confused me. I vaguely understood only one thing, that is, the heaven and earth in ancient times are not the same as the heaven and earth we talk about.
What I mean is that the so-called mending the sky may be mending the layer of sky that ordinary people cannot see or understand.
Just like the underworld may be hidden underground or in a fictitious space in the strata. Mr. Liao once again drew a horizontal line between the stars and the atmosphere, and between the atmosphere and the surface of the earth: the so-called heaven may be in these two locations.
This... I found it a bit shocking because what I heard was completely different from what modern science explains.
Ancient people practiced cultivation and talked about ascending to heaven and becoming immortals. In modern records, there have been many strange incidents of high-altitude aircraft suddenly disappearing in the clouds. If we look at it comprehensively, I think... Mr. Liao pointed at the horizontal line between the atmosphere and the surface of the earth: the so-called sky is probably hidden in this position, not too far from the ground.
From this point of view, the legends of Kuafu chasing the sun and Dayi shooting the sun in ancient mythology are easy to understand. Because the sky is not far from us, the sun is not far from us either.
If it is the sun as we know it today, it is more than 100 million kilometers away from the earth. At such a long distance, Kuafu and Dayi must be very tall and big, and the earth cannot withstand their trampling.
