If you are looking for fairness in the world, this may be the fairest thing.
It transcends wealth and poverty, transcends the ordinary and extraordinary, and transcends life and death, yin and yang. This is what the Tao Te Ching says, heaven and earth are not benevolent, and treat all things as rotten dogs. Time, or it can be regarded as one of the law enforcers of heaven and earth.
Xu Tonghui felt its ruthlessness.
I felt it deeply as early as when I was a bookmaker in Qingshui City.
After leaving Qingshui City, he also had the so-called "luck path", which did not make him forget that ruthlessness.
On the contrary, whether it was the progress of his own practice or the big bosses in the outside world who seemed to be sinking in the mud compared to him, he deeply felt something that was difficult to describe.
And all the emotions along the way finally merged into hard work.
Only by working hard can you live up to this destiny.
Only by working hard can you live up to this life.
Only by working hard and moving forward as far as possible on the path of spiritual practice can it be possible, even a little bit possible...
Approach the young master.
Xu Tonghui hasn't seen his young master for a long time.
Now, the only way he can "meet" the young master is in a dream.
From being unaccustomed to getting used to it, Xu Tonghui felt a sense of remoteness inexplicably. This remoteness even became more and more obvious as his practice progressed.
It's a distance, not a strange relationship.
But if it continues to be far away...
"Master, at what level do I need to reach a level of cultivation before I can get close to you?"
Apart from practicing, this should be the question Xu Tonghui wanted to ask the most, but of course he didn't ask it out loud, but just told himself again and again in his heart, work hard! Try your best!
After about a few days, the second dream came again.
This time, Leng Qingyun has been practicing for decades in a place called the desert.
Long stretches of yellow sand and sparse vegetation.
The scorching and merciless sun, the vast and far-reaching starry sky.
There were no fireworks, no sign of human beings, not to mention not a single bird flying in the sky, let alone on the ground.
Leng Qingyun has been alone here. The only things that accompany him are the sky, the earth, the sun, the moon, and the long stretches of yellow sand.
And every day when the yellow sand was scorched, and when night came and the yellow sand quickly turned into a cold night, the only thing that stayed with him and never left him was the silent energy and blood in his body.
It is said to be speechless, but in fact it can speak.
Day after day, night after night, from its tranquility and its rapidity, Leng Qingyun gradually understood it.
Then they joined hands and passed through the stage of Tongmai Realm.
Leng Qingyun is Xu Tonghui, and Xu Tonghui is Leng Qingyun.
The experience in the dream was so profound that in just one night, Xu Tonghui really felt like he had lived in the desert for decades.
And the next day, when he finally broke away from this immersion, he couldn't help but think about, what are the differences between Xu Tonghui and Leng Qingyun?
This kind of thinking gave Xu Tonghui more thoughts about spiritual practice.
In the next short period of time, during the day and in his free time, Xu Tonghui continued to receive visitors at home or go out for appointments as usual.
The exchange and compilation of exercises among Sihaimen and other companies are continuing, and Xu Tonghui is actually taking on the task of being the general judge. It is only at the level of Qi condensation, but with Xu Tonghui's level and knowledge at this time, he has realized what it means to be like this.
Palm lines.
Days passed and the third dream never came.
Just when Xu Tonghui was a little doubtful that he was here, the next dream came.
And this dream was very bizarre.
It's different from the previous two dreams.
It is different from what Xu Tonghui has experienced, seen, heard and even imagined in these decades.
The houses here are not made of wood.
Some are made of wood, but most are not.
The houses here include one-story and two-story buildings, but there are also ten- and twenty-story buildings, and even... one hundred and two hundred-story buildings...
Standing on the top of that very high building, it seemed as if we were close to the sky.
However, this is just Leng Qingyun when he was a boy.
Leng Qingyun here is not in the Ye family, not in the family school, but in a place called school. What he is learning is not called practice, but has nothing to do with practice at all.
More than ten years later, he was admitted to university, and his major was called astronomy.
An unimaginable world unfolds like this.
The blue planet, the fiery red planet, the asteroid belt existing in the form of billions of fragments, the rotating galaxy with a black hole as the center, the galaxy isolation circle that looks like a vast white mist...
He sat on a huge tourist boat with many people and circled the planet where they were.
He and a few friends were walking on a strange planet.
Teenager, youth, middle-aged, old.
Vision and knowledge are enriched little by little with learning and experience, and the body we are born with also ages and decays little by little with this experience.
He is a great achiever.
He is the recipient of the country's highest medal.
"Do you have any unfulfilled wishes in this life?"
When the end of life finally comes, the country asks this question.
"I remember back then, when I was just admitted to college." He twitched the corners of his mouth with difficulty and smiled with memories, "The first star I observed was called the Walnut Star. It is very close to our planet.
Only 1.4 billion light-years away."
"I can't get there while I'm alive."
"And now, I want to go there and see it."
Getting on a special spaceship named after him, he left the planet he had lived on all his life, left the extremely familiar small star system, and flew in the direction of a star 1.4 billion light-years away...
Not long after, his life ended in flight, in deathly silence and darkness.
…
After waking up this time, Xu Tonghui stayed in a daze longer than the previous two times.
Much longer.
It was even difficult for him to fully come out of that experience.
All those things are bizarre and seem real and illusory.
And, at the end of life, that journey into space that feels like exile and home.
Xu Tonghui spent the whole day in a daze.
Until, night falls again.
Just like any other, very normal night.
The crescent moon, the bright stars.
There is also a huge light band inlaid with many stars, but it is not very clear at this time of year.
A very normal situation.
But this time, Xu Tonghui raised his head.
In the past few decades of his life, from his ignorant childhood to the present, Xu Tonghui has raised his head to look at the sky countless times, either intentionally or unintentionally, or for a long time, or just for a short glance.
But at this time, under the calm gaze, there was a thrill in the heart.
"Is every star so huge that it's indescribable?"
"Is this one I stepped on also a 'stone'? If it were placed in the sky, it would be very inconspicuous, very inconspicuous, and even completely invisible."
…
Lying by the pavilion, Xu Tonghui watched the stars all night long.
And when the morning light came again and even the last star seen by his eyes disappeared from the sky, Xu Tonghui was stunned for a moment, then suddenly shook his head and smiled.
Stand up.
Clear heart.
Convergence.
Stretch your palms.
Lift your feet.
Slowly, he opened his stance, and Xu Tonghui began to perform the open-frame training boxing that he had done countless times.