The journey is difficult, the journey is difficult, and the heavy load makes it difficult to walk.
The baggage on my back and the leather bag in my hand are getting heavier and heavier. The light body talisman, cloud climbing talisman, cloud sliding talisman, magic walking talisman, armor and horse talisman, etc. The paper that can save labor has been used up, and the talisman in the distance is
The distance between the bronze gate and Zheng Qing seems to have never changed.
A journey that never ends in sight.
Not only that, the road underfoot seems to be getting harder and harder to walk.
Every time I took a step, my ankles would sink into the grass holes, or my shoes would step into a mud puddle that appeared at some point. Every step was very hard.
"It's really a desperate race against the mountain."
When the young wizard was panting again, he pulled his feet out of the mud puddle, glanced at the blurry but clear bronze door in the distance, and couldn't help but smile bitterly.
Then he suddenly froze.
Because he thought of a similar sentence he had heard before - the ocean of desire is as endless as the abyss. If desire is as endless as the ocean, then it will face an abyss.
Zheng Qing was horrified and shocked.
He stopped, was silent for a moment, and dropped the two leather bags in his hands.
With a crash, the colorful and crystal-clear gems in the leather bag were scattered all over the ground, shining in the gray sky and casting an alluring halo.
I lifted my feet and walked forward again, and it really felt much easier.
Not only that, when Zheng Qing looked up at the huge bronze door, he suddenly found that the distance between the door and him was getting closer - he had just seen it a few minutes ago, and there was no mistaking it.
Zheng Qing stopped again.
He took out the gray cloth bag hanging on his waist.
He took out a blue cat's eye from the cloth bag and threw it on the grass.
The cat's eye rolled in the air and disappeared into the soft soil. From the beginning to the end, Zheng Qing didn't even look at it. He just stared at the tall bronze door intently.
The moment the cat's eye landed, Zheng Qing knew it was not an illusion - the bronze door was really a little closer to him. Since he didn't move, it was natural that the door had moved.
One beautiful gem after another floated out of the gray cloth bag and fell into the wilderness.
The black grass became soft and docile again, and the soil under his feet became much firmer, no longer a trap for people. Of course, more importantly, the door was getting closer and closer to Zheng Qing.
Until the last handful of gems were left, Zheng Qing was about to throw them all away in one go, but suddenly stopped.
"Where is this?" He stuffed a light blue moonstone into a gray cloth bag.
Then a green peridot: "Who's the guy in yellow?"
A deep obsidian: "What does He want?"
A beautiful cat eye: "What can I get?"
A clear topaz: "How should I go back to school...with Zhu Si. Safely." For this problem, Zheng Qing would prepare an extra gem every time he added a prerequisite.
There were seven gems in total, and Zheng Qing felt that he would not be able to use any more, but just in case, he also picked up a few golden beans and played with them in his hands, just in case.
After all, the guy in yellow clothes doesn't look reliable enough.
After sorting it out, the young public-sponsored student no longer hesitated, looked up at the bronze gate that was just around the corner, and ran away without caring about the gems scattered on the ground under his feet.
…
…
When Zheng Qing ran towards the bronze door.
In an area extremely far away from him, in an area shrouded in endless emptiness, Mr. Wu was also walking towards a door. However, compared with Zheng Qing's simple and heavy bronze door, the door in front of Mr. Wu was much more ornate.
.
Said to be a ‘gate’, it is actually just the incarnation of the concept of ‘connectivity’.
Just like the "Tao" in the practical sense and the "Tao" in the philosophical sense.
Therefore, the door does not have components such as 'threshold', 'door leaf' and 'door leaf' in the popular sense. It is composed of countless spheres emitting different brilliance, and each sphere of light is an entrance to a universe.
, every ray of light is a link connecting self and existence.
Endless brilliance illuminates this abyss that even darkness threatens to swallow.
Mr. Wu stood in front of the gate, raised his head, looked at the 'gate' built by billions of radiant spheres, and sighed: "Even for me, sometimes it is hard to imagine that you still have self-awareness now."
Countless light balls trembled because of His words, and countless lights flickered because of His words. The tremors and flashes came together and twisted into a thick word, full of vibrato and complicated information flow: "I think, therefore,
I am here."
Mr. Wu put his hands behind his hands, looked at the lights and spheres, and nodded:
"It seems that you are very close to the last step... At this step, you have gone further than Nayako and Sabu."
The voice coming from the 'gate' gradually became clearer from the rich and complex: "All things bear the yin and embrace the yang... When you converge into one and cross the chasm, our 'divergent' way will naturally become
It’s clear.”
"So you should thank me for preventing you from falling into a chaotic state like Azathoth."
"……Thanks."
Mr. Wu's mouth twitched for a long while before he spoke again: "Thank you is not something you can just say."
The infinite light ball emitting different brilliance trembled slightly, and immediately, countless pictures flashed in front of Mr. Wu - different worlds, different universes, different Sanyou Bookstores, and Mr. Wu of all ages and conditions.
, a group of aggregates resembling rainbow bubbles emerged.
They formed a vaguely human-like state and bowed respectfully to the gentleman.
This is a gratitude expressed across time and space, in countless dimensions and worlds.
Very solemn.
Mr. Wu sighed.
"Let's talk about something practical." He waved his hand, and all the rainbow bubbles in the countless pictures disappeared: "I don't like this kind of nonsense... I want to know about you - like Nico
Lasi, Hasta, Mhisha, and even that lazy guy from Tsathogua—what are they doing, and why are they violating the agreement between the Alliance and Starry Sky by constantly appearing in school. Especially in front of my students!"
"They are not my people," the voice from the door said with a hint of annoyance: "...should not cause trouble for me. Like Mhisha, who always covets my authority, why should I wipe his ass.
"
"Because you exist in all 'him'. Because your tentacles extend to the endless universe and cover everything. And I am too lazy to go through the timelines... It is most convenient to find you for this kind of thing."
The endless light and sphere trembled slightly under this explanation, seeming to be angry and thinking.
for a long time.
Or just a moment later.
The last words came from the gate: "They just put their hope in the future."