Chapter 992
Chapter 992 - 978 New -
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The long and boring journey is a torment for most professionals.
Accustomed to a fast-paced life, this idle time inexplicably fills them with anxiety.
But for Lu Ping’an at this moment, it was an opportunity...
"It’s truly, so beautiful...."
Xia Qin’s absent-mindedness, her occasional glance at the sky, Lu Ping’an was actually reminiscing, reshaping that beautiful and majestic figure in his memory.
That great existence, by merely calmly and safely witnessing her, was Lu Ping’an’s this time... no, perhaps the greatest gain of his professional career.
Existence is the result.
And the latter comers, by observing and witnessing feats, can naturally attempt to imitate.
The precondition, of course, is to have a pair of eyes that can see clearly.
"...there really is no fundamental difference..."
In Lu Ping’an’s eyes, the Firebird’s existence was actually quite simple, or rather, pure.
"...the same as ordinary professionals, still using ’Order’ to tame ’Chaos,’ using tamed, regulated ’Contamination’ to construct their own rules."
The principle is always the simplest.
But, how to achieve it, that’s the hardest part.
"The vessel, you have to be a big enough vessel to absorb more contamination, and then to regulate it into a part of yourself..."
The process for a professional is essentially one of continuously enlarging the "vessel."
First-tier, second-tier, third-tier, step by step, expanding one’s own rules, but at the same time, also expanding the limit to which you can contain "Contamination" and "Chaos."
So-called losing control is actually when the absorbed contamination exceeds your limit; it spills over and shatters your vessel.
Looking back, Lu Ping’an, with a superior vantage, has an ever clearer view of the "principle."
As the source cannot be contained or even traced, contamination is always infinite.
Since the power of chaos is also endless, in the darkness of an unlimited multi-universe, to withstand the infinite deluge, one’s own "bulk" must be large enough, so one must continuously enlarge one’s vessel.
Then, the question returns to the beginning, how to enlarge one’s "vessel," how to keep enlarging, endlessly enlarging...
"...If it was before, I would answer, just promote to the next order. But looking back now, that’s just a trap; blindly promoting only makes oneself mottled and narrow; what truly binds ’Contamination’ to forge a vessel, has always been ’rules’..."
In the face of infinite nature, the "rules" formed by the proactive consciousness of intelligent life are the origin power of transformation.
Blindly accumulating too many others’ rules, professions, concepts, will only make the vessel chaotic and disorderly; while it seems increasingly enormous, it’s always disorderly and shaky at its foundations and shatters at the slightest touch.
A thread is needed, or possibly a string, to tie it all together.
"And the Firebird, is so pure and unblemished..."
The Firebird, just by being, showed Lu Ping’an what the highest form of "Order" and "rules" looked like.
She exists within the infinite multi-universe, yet as if not in any concrete universe at all.
She doesn’t have a tangible massive Divine Boat like a deity does, yet with her own "existence" she encompasses endless worlds and divine boats.
She herself is a rule, an order, a will...
"...that stabilized ’Contamination’ is part of her, she contains infinite universes..."
Such an existence, Lu Ping’an couldn’t possibly get an overview of the whole picture, but just sensing all that he did, allowed him to discard all his so-called common sense of the past.
The Firebird, she doesn’t need to construct a so-called Tower of Babel; she herself is the heavens.
"I can’t do it, but I can try to imitate, to pursue..."
Vision determines goals, and goals determine behavior; behavior determines results, and a series of results, piece together what’s called fate.
Just like how previously, Lu Ping’an delineated his organization’s "behavior" and "composition" with "projects," essentially, it was the same thing.
"...it’s all about building oneself into a stable and growing ’behemoth’."
𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺
Having determined the goal and direction, when looking back at needs, Lu Ping’an could see clearly where he stood, and recognized past gains and losses...
"...I almost made a misstep, following in the old ways of Big Cat."
The Courtyard is Lu Ping’an’s keystone, even said to be his very self.
Its core components are three.
"Life system, Gardener, Garden, Zoo..."
"Soldier system, Raider, Warlord..."
"Scholar series, Lawyer, Great Library...."
When Lu Ping’an listed these three core elements, while surprised at their close combination with the "Life system," he also noticed a problem.
"...these are all Big Cat’s."
Chris, Kerdalais, whose main profession is Beast Tamer, also possesses a considerably high-class level of Black Knight (Soldier), Healer, Scholar, and Fighter (Specialty).
She is a standard four-plus-one (Battle-profession) model, with four (Beast Tamer, Healer, Scholar, Soldier) forming the keystones of her core foundation, layer by layer, reaching the sky.
In this aspect, Lu Ping’an, who was persuaded from the beginning "not to exceed four," is indeed her disciple.
Her argument is correct, overly mottled "keystones" will make the rules Chaos, and it also means cutting off the path to ascend further, but....
"...her vision is no longer as good as mine. In her memory, ’Runner,’ a part of the Constant Motion system, has nothing to do with the ’Life system’ and simply cannot combine, but in my eyes, the Eternal Moving Spirit is inherently one..."
Vision determines consciousness, and it is the personal perception formed by consciousness that can transform reality.
If he discarded the "Constant Motion system," and entered the fifth-tier using the past three (or four) keystones, Lu Ping’an would never have the chance to construct his own foundation of pure Order.
Then, he would just be retracing Big Cat’s path, which is the root of his statement, "If lucky, I could reach ninth-order, tenth-order," because that’s the limit of Big Cat’s path.
To surpass Big Cat, it’s necessary to start from the foundation, adding bricks and tiles to make the base big and stable enough to construct a higher spire, forming a more stable "container."
"Runner... no, it’s the ’Runner,’ ’Tamer,’ ’Dancer’ represented by the ’Constant Motion’ system that I must master..."
How to do it? What is needed?
Lu Ping’an was thinking, staring blankly, calculating, reading...
He was not in a hurry, he knew some things can’t be rushed.
But he knew even more that once he had the answer, ascending to fifth-tier would just be a simple task of leaping over.
More importantly, from that step onward, he would no longer be on the same path as Big Cat.
"Kerdalais’s endpoint, is my starting point..."
But how exactly to achieve it? Mere daydreaming is meaningless. Lu Ping’an’s spread-out notebook, the countless pieces of knowledge accumulated in the Library, are the "accumulations" necessary in this process of validation.
"...it’s still not enough, I need more."
Tamer, Runner, Dancer, in Lu Ping’an’s eyes, it was no longer necessary to differentiate between them.
They are all "motion," a state, a vibration, a peak.
Whereas Life is "stillness," an existence, a static state, a valley.
"I need to test, to find answers, to have... more keystones."
How to do it? Lu Ping’an had already given up the Runner’s fourth-tier.
Now, he planned to first raise both the Dancer and the Tamer to a quite high standard, then combine them with the "Runner" into a Three-in-One, together constructing a rule system on par with the "Life Bank."
Kerdalais created her "container" using four "pillars," but all of this in Lu Ping’an’s hands was just one of the two core pillars.
"The continuation of life is the only and primal pursuit of life forms. Life is sacred and noble, unique and selfish, usurping others to evolve oneself is the innate privilege of every living being. Fusion, Devour, Evolution, the stronger will carry on evolving with everything of the Weaker, but in the end, all life shall return to one, return to the bosom of the mother..."
This is the "Law" of Kerdalais, the "container" she used to hold "Contamination." She interpreted and regulated the boundaries of these pillars, rationalizing them into a force she could wield.
In the end, her "Law" bore everything.
The limit of the Law determines her limit, which is the string that ties and encircles the "container"...
"Life is neither sacred nor unique, it is a miracle of the favor of destiny, and as an entity, it can naturally be traded, it can be treated as a kind of Currency, if the entire Society is viewed as a human body, there is a need for such Currency transactions between individuals to promote prosperity...."
Using Kerdalais’s keystones, combined with past concepts, Lu Ping’an deduced this first half of the "Law."
Is just this enough?
No, it is not enough.
"...Life is a state, its essence bears no difference from non-life, it can be treated as a kind of Energy, a universal Constant, the vibration of the world generates energy, and the solidification of energy fluctuation produces Substance, as well as Life in small probabilities. Do not dwell on the intrinsic shape of life, even a Flame can become a living, towering Deity, and I..."
Lu Ping’an began attempting to write the latter half... but he couldn’t continue.
His accumulations were not enough, with just the current three pillars he could not deduce a new Chapter!
But at that moment, as Lu Ping’an began to write the continuation, he and Kerdalais were no longer on the same path.
"...Such a claim, such behavior, is too much, Lu Ping’an." Even Kerdalais felt distressed being denied her "path," her "Law."
"So, should I not do it? Don’t you want to see the view ahead?" Lu Ping’an, smiling, had already seen the answer.
"Isn’t that a stupid question? Of course, I want to see. Go on, Lu Ping’an, whatever you need, I support you fully." The tone of Big Cat was unmistakably filled with joy and excitement that she could hardly conceal.
— End of Chapter 992 —