Hospital.
Chen Yun stared at the familiar faces of his father, mother, and grandparents who were all confused.
He looked down in disbelief, realizing that he was wrapped up like a mummy.
He had yet to feel anything before seeing this scene, but the excruciating pain began to spread from all his limbs and reached him.
Chen Yun almost fainted from the pain.
Or, given the severity of the pain, he should have fainted.
However, even though the pain was excruciating, he had no desire to faint, which was very unusual.
"What's happening to me?"
Chen Yun, extremely weak, opened his mouth to ask his family members.
"Finally, you've come to consciousness!" The mother cried out in joy and worry, saying with concern: "You, can't you look out when you cross the street? You were hit and thrown out over ten meters. By the time we got to the hospital, the doctors said there was no hope for you. However, after a surgery that lasted for twenty or thirty hours, we managed to save your life."
The father said with a look of relief, "It's all thanks to Dr. Xu's skillful medicine."
"Just waking up is enough."
"We were all terrified."
Grandpa and Grandma echoed that.
At this moment, Chen Yun suddenly had a sudden flashback to the scene before he lost consciousness. He was hit by a car and lost consciousness.
Oh, I had an accident.
But what was I training before and what happened?
Is it really a dream?
He tried to run the "Mr. Chen's Internal Dan Technique" in disbelief, hoping to see the flow of true qi inside his body.
Unfortunately, not only was there no flow of true qi, but as soon as he had that thought, his body began to ache in an almost unbearable way.
"Could it be that I have transported to a parallel world, and have actually become a disciple of Zhongli Quan? This must be some strange and bizarre dream!"
Chen Yun was truly shocked. How could this be a dream when it felt so real?
Yet no matter how he manipulated the technique, there was no reaction at all.
This forced Chen Yun to believe that it was indeed just a dream.
Perhaps it was the "long-awaited reunion", despite the severe pain throughout his body, Chen Yun tried his best to use his weak body to chat with his parents and grandparents constantly.
As time went on, it grew late and the sky was about to grow dark.
Suddenly!
The bizarre incident occurred!
Chen Yun saw a man with a body shining with intense golden light hovering outside the hospital window.
The man looked ordinary, but the feeling he gave off was like the earth and sky, so vast and awe-inspiring.
Especially his eyes, which seemed to contain the changes of yin and yang.
It appeared that he was not just a person, but the embodiment of a path in the world.
Chen Yun stared fixedly at that person.
Even the voices of his parents and grandparents talking were ignored.
His instinctive mind asked, "May I inquire, who are you, the esteemed one?"
The young man suddenly passed through the glass, coming to the bedside.
However, next to Chen Yun, his parents and grandparents had no idea at all about what was happening. It was as if they didn't see a live person coming in from outside.
The young man smiled, his features exuding an aura of a cultivator, not of the ordinary. His every move was in harmony with his path, and his smile conveyed a deep sense of tranquility and inner peace. It seemed as if he had merged with nature, and every gesture of his hand and foot was an embodiment of the great Tao.
"Esteemed teacher." The young man suddenly transmitted a message, "You have fallen into demonic possession. If you cannot regain consciousness, you will fall into reincarnation again."
Esteemed teacher?
Is he calling me 'esteemed teacher'?
Chen Yun's whole person became increasingly confused.
Although he had many disciples, he actually didn't have any of them.
How did he suddenly have a disciple?
He hurriedly asked, "Who are you?" without worrying about whether he was going crazy or not.
The young man blinked his eyes, "I am your descendant in the future world. There are many things that you may not understand now, but one day when you ascend to the realm of the Great Dao, you will fully awaken. Meanwhile, taking advantage of your demonic possession, I have met you and brought you to experience the vastness that you have never seen before."
The young man's voice became ethereal and faint as if he was not truly present, "The Laozi says: There is something that is mixed together, born before heaven and earth. It is silent and desolate, standing alone without changing, circulating around without danger; it can be the mother of heaven and earth. I do not know its name, so I forcefully call it 'Tao.' I forcefully call it 'Great,' thus the name 'Great Tao.' There is something that is mixed together, born before heaven and earth; the Tao is the mother of heaven and earth. Have you ever wondered what... the Tao looks like?"
Hmm?
What does the Dao look like?
Chen Yun was extremely confused. Since the Dao is formless and intangible, how could it have a specific appearance?
Just as Chen Yun was in a state of confusion, the young man in front of him suddenly bent his fingers and clicked them.
Then, the scenery before his eyes changed rapidly.
He was originally lying on the bed, watching the sunset glow penetrating through the glass.
However, at this moment, ripples seemed to ripple through the air, spreading in all directions.
Wherever the ripples reached, the scenery changed. To Chen Yun's surprise, he found himself in an empty void.
Here, there is no light, no sound, nothing at all. One cannot see anything, hear anything, or even sense anything. There is a complete lack of color.
Endless yet small like a particle.
Chen Yun even felt as if he did not exist.
Where is this?
Who am I?
Chen Yun fell into deep confusion.
The next moment, a voice from his "ear" once again came from that nameless young man.
"Before the Hengmeng was divided and the Chaos was separated, there existed a substance that was mixed together which is the Dao. The picture you are seeing right now is what Laozi referred to as 'the Dao'."
Ah?
Is this the Dao?
No light, no color.
Even time and space cannot be felt?
Chen Yun's whole body couldn't help but be slightly stunned there.
The young man continued to explain without caring about Chen Yun's thoughts: "The Dao gave birth to one, what is one? Look at it."
As the words fell, the scenery in front of Chen Yun changed dramatically once again.
In the emptiness, an endless amount of undefined matter appeared, whether it was gas, solid, formed or non-formed.
These matters appeared in a vague state, filling the endless emptiness, just like an egg.
Chen Yun, who had been looking puzzled, suddenly seemed to think of something, and his expression changed dramatically.
Chaos?
This is chaos!
Chen Yun was taken aback and exclaimed, "Is this chaos?"
He shouted loudly, but the sound couldn't spread out at all.
He was really shocked and couldn't believe that the young man had taken him to chaos in a blink of an eye.
Chen Yun couldn't help but swallow his saliva and looked towards the direction of the young man's voice, but saw nothing at all.
In the next second, a bright light flashed through the chaos.
Following that, a thunderous boom echoed in Chen Yun's ears.
Chen Yun gaped, watching the clear qi continuously rising and the murky qi constantly descending.
"The clear and light qi is the Yang, and the heavy and thick qi is the Yin. This is what Laozi referred to as 'the generation of two'."
The young man continued to "explain" once again.
At this moment, Chen Yun finally saw the young man hovering between the clear and murky qis, as if he were the ancestor of heaven and earth creation.
At this moment, the world only had two kinds of currents, before heaven and earth were born.
Chen Yun, however, gradually became excited.
Because he knew that the young man would soon allow him to experience the formation of heaven and earth!
As expected, the young man's voice rang in Chen Yun's mind once again, "Three is born from two."
After that, three marvelous landscapes of yin and yang qi combining, yin and yang qi supporting each other, and yin and yang qi merging appeared in front of his eyes.
Chen Yun watched with his own eyes as the clear qi turned into heaven, the murky qi into earth, and droplets of water emerged in the world.
It happened so quickly like a blink of an eye.
However, Chen Yun felt like he had experienced billions of years.
At this moment, the world only had heaven and earth.
The sky and the earth are the only things to be seen, without mountains, rivers, and stars.
Even wind, clouds, thunder, and lightning did not exist.
Desolate and lonely.
As Chen Yun couldn't tell if he was truly existing or not.
The young man sighed lightly and said, "Three generates ten thousand things."
The words follow the law!
The sky gradually appeared with sun, moon, stars.
The sun rose, the moon ascended, and stars were densely populated.
The three continued to alternate, shining in the primitive world.
Slowly, clouds appeared in the sky.
At first, these clouds were very sparse, almost invisible to the naked eye.
In a flash of time.
Or it had passed a million years.
It was a sunny day.
The densely populated dark clouds covered all the light.
The world became overwhelmingly dark.
Thundershowers.
Thunder roars.
The thunderous sounds kept resonating in the cloud layers.
Suddenly, there was a loud crack.
A huge thunderbolt came down from the sky, striking the earth fiercely!
Following that, torrential rain poured down, bringing moisture to the drought-stricken land.
The swirling clouds continued to roll with the thunder, nurturing one after another sparkling bright lightning bolts.
With the torrential rain and thunderstorm sweeping across, it seemed to awaken the earth and the latent vitality it harbored.
Chen Yun stood there, staring blankly as sprouts of lush greenery emerged from the earth.
The pouring rain seemed to have lasted for millions of years, completely changing the structure of the earth.
Some places were eroded into vast oceans and rushing rivers.
In other places, mud and stones piled up, forming one after another continuous mountain ranges.
Some places were covered with sand dunes and turned into deserts.
At the same time, the earth became increasingly active.
Initially, only a few patches of greenery appeared. Later, various algae, mosses, ferns, and even flowers and trees emerged, growing in every inch of the earth, bringing vitality to the world.
At the same time, the earth was also giving birth to various animals.
Starting from the simplest paramecia, to corals, sponges, fish, insects, birds, and countless wild beasts in later times.
Even including... humans!
When Chen Yun saw the earth giving birth to all things of the heavens and earth, he wasn't that excited.
However, when he saw the birth of the first human, his heart finally experienced a great impact. A wave of emotion rose from the bottom of his heart, and goose bumps appeared all over his body.
Is this... the ancestor of humans?
Chen Yun really didn't expect to be so fortunate to witness the birth of the first human.
The inexplicable emotional stirring.
It's really impossible to describe with words.
It's only a soul-stirring impact.
The impact was so strong that he forgot the young man was talking about Dao at that moment.
Just as Chen Yun was about to lose himself, the young man's gentle voice came through.
"The Dao, grand enough to create heaven and earth, yet subtle enough to nurture all things in the heavens and earth."
With the voice fading, everything in the heavens and earth shattered suddenly.
It was as if a small stone was thrown into a calm lake, causing ripples to spread out again, and all the scenery gradually faded away.
A refreshing breeze blows across.
Chen Yun suddenly found himself back to reality, not in the hospital, but in the Ruyi Grotto.
A look of confusion appeared on his face.
He had just been in a world where the heavens and earth were born and nurtured all things.
The next moment, he returned to the Ruyi Grotto at midnight.
This great change made Chen Yun a bit confused about what was real and what was illusion.
Chen Yun fell into deep thought, pondering the words of the young man.
Suddenly, a click of ice breaking sound in his ears pulled his soul back from the ancient times.
Chen Yun was drenched in cold sweat, knowing that he had nearly lost himself in the Dao taught by the young man.
Is this what is meant by the Great Dao?
Tremendous and magnificent, grand and splendid!
At this moment, Chen Yun remembered the figure of the young man, realizing that the one who claimed to be his future successor had a heart that encompassed the universe and whose abilities were astonishing, capable of swallowing and expelling heaven and earth!
But... who is he really?
Chen Yun was deeply confused, really unable to believe that he had a disciple with godly abilities in the future world.
The most shocking thing for him was that this future successor of his seemed to be far beyond the great ruyi realm.
Could it be... the manifestation of the Great Dao?
(End of Chapter)
