"There has always been such a fixed perception in people's hearts: There are rules for everything."
Sol Hannigan and Char walked slowly side by side in the jungle, surrounded by potentially dangerous chaotic territories, but the two of them seemed to be just strolling leisurely.
His words were calm, as if he was just stating some of the simplest facts: "For example, water must flow down from a high place, winter must be colder than summer, snow must be icy... A horse, a lion must give birth to a lion..."
"People must be born to the mother." Xia suddenly replied strangely.
Sol Hannigan glanced at Xi Ya silently, and then continued: "These rules, from the moment we were born into this world, surround us everywhere, surround us, and bind us. People can only Living on land, fish can only live in water. When your mind is bound by these understandings, when all your concepts have been fixed... You have actually fallen into it and can no longer jump out. already."
Char did not interrupt this time, but carefully savored Sol Hannigan's words in his heart.
"...But if all the rules in this world are fixed... Then, why are there changes?" Solhannigan's tone changed, and the original calm words seemed to have become a bit more. Color comes: "If all the rules are fixed, then the world we live in should also be the same. But... look at the world."
"For example, all living beings." Sol said slowly: "Actually, I have seen some interesting things in Odin. These are some ancient documents preserved by the Odin royal family, and these documents are not recorded. We humans, but... a race that has almost disappeared, a civilization that has been wiped out."
When Xia Ya's heart moved, he immediately guessed that Sol's words must be referring to...
"It's a goblin." Sol glanced at Xi Ya and sighed: "The ancient goblins once had a splendid civilization, they ruled this world, and this world once had their era. The documents are some of the civilization relics of goblins preserved by later people."
"what is that?"
Sol glanced at Xiaya and said with a smile: "The ancient goblin civilization, they are said to have passed the textual research, and believe that all the creatures in the world now come from the ocean... All our creatures, including humans, It's all from the ocean."
"There is also an interesting saying that the ancestors of our human beings are actually... monkeys." When Sol said here, he couldn't help but smile: "At first I didn't believe this ridiculous statement, but... The description of the document was so interesting, so interesting that even if I thought it was nonsense, I couldn't help but read it. In the end, I went from unbelief at first to half-belief."
"Humans evolved from monkeys." Char smiled bitterly.
"I once did a boring thing." Sol Hannigan said slowly: "I once observed a group of monkeys and found that their survival mode is really similar to that of humans... There are leaders, and powerful leaders have The right to mate, the right to allocate resources, the higher and lower classes, and also the survival of groups. All of these are really very similar to human beings.”
"and then?"
"Then I made a hypothesis." Solhannigan smiled. "If the ancient goblin's guess is true, then... it shows one thing."
"what?"
"The rules can be changed," Thorhannigan said slowly.
He looked at Char's somewhat dazed expression and continued: "If monkeys can become humans... Then, we must first overthrow a religious assumption that God created the world."
"I don't believe this for a long time." Xia said lightly.
"Yes, I don't believe it either." Thorhannigan said lightly: "The so-called gods are just more powerful beings. After breaking through to a certain level, they have powers that mortals cannot understand - this is considered a god. already."
After a pause, he said again: "Going back to what I just said - since monkeys can become humans, then it means one thing, the theory that God created the world is not credible, and since there is no so-called 'creation theory', Then the rules of this world are not made by anyone, but can be changed.”
"for example?"
"For example, there is only one moon in the sky." Solhannigan said lightly: "I used to fly to a very high sky...to a height that you can't imagine, that place started very, very cold, and then passed through A very, very thick airflow, where it was impossible to breathe, and then... I found that I was standing in a place where there was no air at all, and everything seemed to be forbidden. It was as if I was standing in a chaotic world, That darkness and nothingness... and the moon I saw was not a beautiful disk like it was originally seen on the ground, but a dark, ugly huge sphere."
Xia's eyes widened.
"I can't go any further." Sol sighed: "In that chaos, everything is forbidden, and I can't use any power."
"So... what about the sun?"
"Another very big ball with an almost endless source of power." Sol recalled: "I can't detect all of it."
After a pause, he continued: "Maybe, in that chaos, there are still many, many such huge spheres, but they are too far away from us and their size is too small to be seen at all. And we live in This world is actually a sphere, and at that time, it was trampled under my feet."
Xia Ya couldn't believe it.
After hesitating for a moment, he couldn't help but ask: "So... how do you think all the rules in our world came from?"
"Maybe, it's just a coincidence." Sol Hannigan said an answer that surprised Char.
… coincide? Just a coincidence
"It's just a coincidence." Sol said lightly: "For example, the moon, if there is one more sphere like this in the chaos outside our world, wouldn't it become two moons? Or... If one day, I suddenly feel in my heart. I'm irritable, fly into the chaos, blow it up with a punch, wouldn't there be no moon?"
Xia was puzzled.
"Have you ever seen a bear?"
"... Of course." Xia nodded.
"The Odin Empire is in the north, a land of bitter cold, and in the north of the Odin Empire, continuing to the north, there is a bear with all white fur and thick fur. This kind of bear is larger and more ferocious than the black bear in the south. They dig snow caves to survive. Southern bears, mostly brown-black fur, live in forests."
Char seemed to vaguely understand what Sol Hannigan was trying to convey.
Sure enough, the Emperor Odin slowly exhaled and continued: "I couldn't help but think... The reason why those white bears are white bears is probably only because they live in the cold northern country. And the reason why black bears are black bears , and only because they live in the warm South."
Char's eyes lit up: "The reason why the Odins are Odins is because you live in the north. The reason why the Byzantines are Byzantines is only because they live in the south."
"These are not static." Sol said lightly: "It's like monkeys and people. Maybe our ancestors, in ancient times, for some special reasons, then gradually changed, little by little. became the human beings today.”
"The reason why we always think that these rules are naturally fixed, that these rules exist for granted... It's just because we live in this world, in this space." Solhannigan said his own Answer: "As long as you understand this, at least in thinking, you have jumped out of the trap you were born with."
Xia seemed to be lost in thought.
We think rules are rules only because we happen to be in this world.
Maybe... In other worlds, water doesn't flow from high to low.
Maybe... In other worlds, fire isn't hot.
Maybe... In other worlds, there are not four seasons in a year.
Maybe... in other worlds, monkeys are intelligent creatures and humans are fucking beasts, hahahaha!
"These...is your understanding of the rules?" Char looked at Sol Hannigan.
Sol Hannigan gently folded a branch next to him, plucked the leaves one by one as he walked, and finally selected the best green and tender one, put it in his mouth, and chewed slowly.
He smiled and said, "Xia Ya, in your heart, what kind of concept is a strong person, Yuanjing?"
"Let's change the rules of power." Xia Ya thought for a while, brewed his words, and then slowly answered: "The realm of the strong is to begin to master the rules of this world, because once you master these rules, you will You can use these rules to use the power of this world for your own use. Just like a lever, if you master the rules of the lever, you can leverage power far beyond your own limitations. To put it bluntly, this is actually a kind of cheating. Cheating after the rules, opportunistically borrowing some powers that do not belong to oneself. This is the huge gap between ordinary people and strong people - no matter how one cultivates and accumulates personal power, it is limited and insignificant. "
"What about Yuanjing?"
"Original realm... It means that after you have penetrated all the rules, you can see the essence of the world, the essence of power, and after mastering all the rules, you can completely integrate the small world in your body with the big world outside. , at that time, power is power, and the power of the world can be used for you - this time it is no longer cheating. Because you not only master the rules, but also make yourself a part of the rules and the world a part of."
Sol Hannigan just sighed lightly for Char's answer: "Did you think of these ideas yourself?"
"... Half and half." Xia Ya thought for a while, then suddenly smiled: "It's a bit funny to say, I've only recalled it little by little in the past two years, a long time ago, when my adoptive father, the old alcoholic was alive. , he would often tell me these mysterious and mysterious things."
"The Holy City lineage, I must have always understood the rules of power this way." Sol Hannigan shook his head: "Your adoptive father is also of the Holy City lineage... Your biological mother is also. You inherited their Holy City lineage. It's not surprising that Mai's perception of the rules of power is just a pity... If you just think this way, then... I'm afraid that in your life, you can only break through to your mother's realm and stop at the realm of great yuan."
Xia Ya's face moved slightly.
He took a deep breath, bent over to Sol Hannigan, and said sternly, "Please advise!"
Sol Hannigan looked at Xi Ya: "Have you read the book?"
"..." Xiaya seemed to be stunned, then smiled bitterly: "Although I am a rough person, at least I have read some books."
"The world we live in is a book." Sol said lightly: "The rules of this world, everything in the world, are the words and sentences in the book."
"Um."
"Of course, this book is very, very profound. Most people will never be able to finish reading this book, let alone understand this book. For the strong, there are very few people who can read this book roughly. A rough reader."
This step is not difficult to understand.
Xia Ya nodded, indicating that he understood.
"And the completion of the Yuanjing is the second step." Sol smiled lightly and said: "Not only did I understand this book, but I understood it thoroughly. People in Yuanjing understood how this book was written, They will try to pick up the pen and write their own book. However, their understanding is also affected by the original book, and under this influence, even if they write a new book, they will not But it's a parody of the original book... maybe similar content, similar words..."
"Similar rules!" Xia added immediately.
"... That's right." Sol took a deep look at Char.
"What about above the Primordial Realm?" Xia Ya's eyes flashed and he asked closely.
"Above the Yuanjing." Sol took a deep breath, then spit it out, and gave Xia Ya a thoughtful look.
Then, he gave the answer.
"People above Yuanjing... will suddenly understand one thing."
"Understand what?"
"Why write a book? Then throw the book away at will and do other things, maybe paint a picture, maybe make a sculpture, maybe cook a dish... In short, a book or something, It can be thrown aside."
Xia Ya was completely stunned.
"You have a book in your heart, everyone has it." Sol looked into Xi Ya's eyes and said word by word: "If one day you can completely throw it away and focus on other things... that's the time. already."