This chapter is 3500+ words, so it’s a bit expensive! The amount of information is also a bit huge!
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"Why do the people here have blond hair and blue eyes?"
"Foreigner."
"I don't understand what bird language they are speaking."
"Read the subtitles."
“I can’t even understand the words!”
“…Okay, my bad, I forgot you can’t read simplified Chinese, wait a minute.”
"Hey, hey, hey, I understand. I understand everything. What are those flashing green numbers? What weapons are these two people holding? Are they blind? Wearing black things on their eyes in the middle of the night, and..."
"Shh!"
Lu Xingyun raised his finger and shushed Jiang Yuebai.
"Look first, hold back if you have any questions!"
Jiang Yuebai pursed his lips tightly, frowned and stared at the screen as if facing a great enemy. He didn't understand but couldn't ask. He felt depressed and could only eat popcorn bitterly.
After reading for a while and avoiding the difficult-to-understand content, Jiang Yuebai found that the fighting scenes and various scenarios were very good and very novel to her.
And those machines, especially the one that searches for spaceships underground like an octopus, are pretty cool!
But the tube inserted behind the head, such a long needle inserted into the back of the head, made Jiang Yuebai shudder.
Also, how come by pressing a few buttons, the weak male protagonist in the story suddenly learned so many martial arts? It feels like the epiphany of the cultivation world!
She kept looking at Lu Xingyun, wanting to ask for help. She was really curious. What she was most curious about was how come when the tube was inserted into the back of the head, the male protagonist inside suddenly went to another world
There is also the scene where the male protagonist wakes up from a pool of mucus. Although Jiang Yuebai didn't fully understand it, his heart felt like it was hit hard. He vaguely realized something and felt that what he had always believed in was shaken.
It's like a tall building being shaken from its foundation. This small force is transmitted to the entire building and gradually becomes a huge force that can cause the five mountains to collapse.
Popcorn fell from her palm, Jiang Yue pursed her lips, frowned, and gradually immersed herself in the complicated plot.
The movies followed one after another, like a TV series, and they only stopped after three were shown.
"Can I watch it again?" Jiang Yuebai asked.
Lu Xingyun raised his eyebrows, handed her a remote control, explained how to use it, and let her use it as she pleased.
Jiang Yuebai took the remote control and started watching it over and over again.
The first time she watched the excitement, the second time she watched the details, and the third time she paused many times, stepped back, listened repeatedly to the conversations between several of the people, and began to think deeply.
The fourth time... Jiang Yuebai no longer had the courage to watch it for the fourth time.
The worldview she had built up over the past five hundred years was on the verge of collapse at this moment. She could no longer distinguish what was true and what was false.
She couldn't help wondering if one day she would wake up from that place full of mucus and find herself with all kinds of tubes inserted into her body. Everything she experienced was just a 'dream' in which her consciousness was immersed in a virtual world.
In the quiet and empty screening room, Jiang Yuebai put down the remote control, twisted his body and looked at Lu Xingyun who was sitting next to him with his eyes closed.
"You showed me this to tell me that the world of cultivation I live in is actually a fake world, a world of consciousness controlled by a machine-like Heavenly Dao, right?"
"We cultivators, including all living beings in the cultivation world, are actually zombies sleeping in that pool of mucus, with tubes inserted all over our bodies? Only the consciousness in our brains survives?"
Without even opening his eyes, Lu Xingyun asked lazily, "Red pill or blue pill, which one do you choose?"
The red pill and the blue pill are the plots in the movie. The red pill represents awakening and facing the real world, while the blue pill represents stability and continuing to be immersed in the existing world.
"I won't choose any of them! I don't believe a single word of what you're showing me now!"
Jiang Yuebai answered Lu Xingyun's question directly for the first time. Although her tone was firm, the trembling of her pupils betrayed her inner shock and uncertainty.
"You want me to believe this just to pave the way for what's to come. You want me to help you destroy the cultivation world. You even want to use this as an excuse to make me think that I'm saving these people with you, so that they can wake up from their false world of consciousness and return to the real world, right?"
"Your intentions are so obvious that I have to doubt that from the beginning you brought me into this world you created, it was all a trap. This world and all the new and strange things here are traps you designed based on my personality!"
Lu Xingyun opened his eyes and looked over. There was no anger in his eyes, but instead a smile of appreciation.
"That's why I became interested in that string of abnormal code and was eventually tricked into the world of cultivation. No matter what the truth is in our world, or even the entire universe, it's something we need to consider further after we get through this hurdle."
"If, I mean if, in the future the battle between you and me ends with my defeat, I hope you will not stop thinking, stop exploring the origin of the world, and not only break through the laws of nature, but also break through the cage of the entire universe, and find the true 'ultimate'."
At this point, Lu Xingyun suddenly sneered, "What a pity, when I traveled through time, Third Uncle didn't tell me what the ultimate is. This guy only cares about digging but not burying!"
"Who is Third Uncle?" Jiang Yuebai asked.
"It's not important. Let's get back to the point. I just want you to understand intuitively what your Heavenly Dao and my system are trying to do. Based on my long-term research and observation in the cultivation world, your Heavenly Dao and my Heavenly Dao can be regarded as some kind of program, with program characteristics."
"Just like in the movies, they do everything according to pre-set rules. They do things in a rigid manner and have no ability to innovate. At most, they may produce some unknown faults and errors during the operation of the program. In the world of cultivation, such faulty programs may lead to the emergence of a chaotic place like the Demonic Abyss where no one is in charge."
"In my world, just like what the prophet said in the movie, a faulty program could create werewolves, vampires, or even supernatural events. I'm getting off topic again. The Heavenly Dao of you and me has no ability to innovate, but intelligent creatures have their own special evolutionary system. So humans and other intelligent creatures are not only the energy providers of the Heavenly Dao, but also the beings that can promote the evolution of the Heavenly Dao."
"You may not understand the logic of my world, so I'll use the world of cultivation to explain to you. The process of a cultivator seeking immortality against the will of heaven is the process of constantly verifying and breaking the rules of heaven. If the rules win, the cultivator dies, and if the cultivator wins, better rules will be created by the cultivator."
"From the ancient times to the prehistoric times, and from the prehistoric times to the modern times, the rules of heaven and earth have been evolving and improving, and each aspect has become more and more detailed. Cultivation has also evolved from nothing to something, with various systems and different sects. These are the result of the evolution of the way of heaven through the continuous trial and error of the creatures in the three realms."
"The so-called Dao Fruit System is the same. The Heavenly Dao distributes the use rights of some rules to high-level cultivators, allowing them to think, innovate, and create more uses during the use process. The Heavenly Dao Erosion is the process of the Heavenly Dao reclaiming the authority of the rules."
"Wait a moment!"
Jiang Yuebai suddenly interrupted Lu Xingyun. The more she listened to Lu Xingyun, the more creepy she felt and the colder she felt all over.
If we follow Lu Xingyun's statement and combine it with the content of the movie, doesn't it mean that all the people in the world of cultivation, especially the immortal cultivators, are all kept in captivity by the Heavenly Dao as nutrients
Could it be that they are really zombies lying in slime with wires connected to their heads
Jiang Yuebai swallowed hard, stared at Lu Xingyun and asked, "Is there really a fairyland in my world? Where did all those who ascended to heaven go? According to what you said, wouldn't they all be swallowed up by the Heavenly Dao to recycle the rules, or Dao Fruits? What about Zhufeng? I saw him later, he should exist, where is he?"
Lu Xingyun thought for a moment and said honestly, "In fact, I have never been to what you call the Immortal Realm. When I ascended according to the rules of the cultivation world, I found a back door and went directly to the Heavenly Dao. Since then, I have been restricted there. What you think is a hundred thousand years is actually not that long for me."
"As for the Immortal Realm, it should exist for you natives, but it is very likely to be a new world at another level, just like the Upper Realm, with a new cultivation system and rules, continuing to improve the higher-level system. Zhu Feng may come from that level of the world."
Jiang Yuebai remained silent. Even though her mind told her to resist everything Lu Xingyun said and told herself that it was all a conspiracy, her powerful soul had already split into another consciousness, thinking about everything according to Lu Xingyun's logic.
The scary thing is that Lu Xingyun’s logic makes sense!
"Then tell me, what is the so-called Heavenly Tribulation in my world? Why did your system bring you to my world to destroy everything? According to what you said, shouldn't Heavenly Dao allow everything to continue to operate and innovate without limit?"
Lu Xingyun laughed, "You are really suitable to live in my world. In fact, you can deduce the answer yourself. I believe you have noticed that from the ancient times to the modern times, the spiritual energy in the cultivation world has become increasingly scarce."
"Human thought has no boundaries and can create countless possibilities. These possibilities are all huge amounts of data for the Heavenly Dao. The Heavenly Dao accumulates more and more data, and it itself becomes larger and larger. It can no longer support the world of cultivation. Just like in the movies, the system of the world of cultivation needs to be cleaned up and restarted every once in a while."
"In fact, before I and my system appeared, the cultivation world had its own set of restart mechanisms. Oh, by the way, as an aside, the original witch clan in the cultivation world is actually the anti-virus system of the Heavenly Dao, which is used to deal with problems that arise in the operation of the world."
"And these antivirus systems have partial authority over the two main programs of the Heavenly Dao, which are Chaos and Disorder. When the operating burden of the Heavenly Dao reaches the alarm value, the Heavenly Dao will release Disorder, which will destroy the world and clear everything."
"After that, Chaos created the world and completed a restart. According to the data I got, the cultivation world has been restarted eight times. Now it is the ninth generation of the cultivation world. My system and I accidentally entered this world and destroyed the fixed program of the cultivation world. It became a system error. In the process of confrontation, the cultivation world lost control of chaos and disorder, resulting in the birth of Zhu Jiuyou and Wei, and other subsequent errors."
"As for the original source of my system, I cannot explore it clearly in the world of cultivation. I can only speculate that it comes from a more advanced civilization, or from the distant future of mankind. Previously, my system was temporarily frozen by my special method. I wanted to tamper with its rule system at the lowest cost, temporarily seize the master authority of the heavenly way in the world of cultivation, find a loophole, and send myself back."
"You may not understand what I mean by this. To put it simply, in the place where Tiandao and I are dueling, time is meaningless to us. When I select a chess piece, the result will already appear on the chessboard. There is no need to wait. I have already used its logic and rules to force Tiandao into a dead end."
"But the Heavenly Dao used you to create a new batch of data, which overwrote my original data, making all my previous efforts in vain. Humans can create AI, but they are ultimately inferior to AI in terms of computing power. My only choice is to restart my system and let it fight against the Heavenly Dao."
"Now, my system is going to destroy your Heavenly Dao in the most extreme way and seize its data for evolution. After the evolution, it may help me break the ultimate rules of the cultivation world and find a way to go back. And your Heavenly Dao also wants to use this opportunity to clear the wrong data and restart completely."
"However, there is a big variable here that is not under the control of the system and the way of heaven, and that is you."
Actually, I am a poor student and I don't understand anything about AI. I just want to use modern theories to explain the mechanism of heaven. I feel it is more interesting than the mysterious Taoist sayings, such as "A new year begins, and everything is renewed." Many theories in it are also borrowed from "The Matrix." Just watch the fun and don't delve into it too deeply!
Okay, see you tomorrow~
(End of this chapter)