Chapter 90: Evolution of the Universe

The scenery at dusk is like a golden carpet spreading across the mountains and rivers.

The open grassland by the river not far from the Sihan Tianshi Mansion attracted a large number of people in Taoist robes.

These Taoists all had white hair and some of them even walked unsteadily. Logically speaking, they should be people of high moral character.

However, amid the puzzled looks of some tourists, this group of virtuous people surrounded a young man.

Everyone stopped at the river bank.

Taoist Master Qiu, who was one of the most senior people present and had the courtesy of being the host, asked in confusion, "Master, what is your purpose in bringing us here?"

Taoist Priest Li, Taoist Priest Xu and others all expressed their doubts.

The same is true for Xu Xiaoli and Lu Shisheng.

Fang Yi put his hands behind his back and smiled slightly, "What is Tao? Tao is everything in the world. Since you want to listen to me talk about Tao, how can you not get close to nature?"

"Oh, I see."

"I said bring us here."

Because of their preconceived ideas, the Taoists actually took Fang Yi's refusal as a sign of his profound understanding of Taoism.

Yes, Fang Yi was refusing.

Just now, he tried to release his spiritual sense to investigate in the Tianshi Mansion and discovered the existence of a divine domain.

If he stayed inside, he wouldn't be able to "preach and discuss the doctrine" because he would need to use his magic power of illusion later.

Fang Yi looked at the Taoists and asked, "What do you think Tao is?"

Zhang Tianshi was startled, then smiled and said, "Didn't you just say that Tao is everything in the world?"

yes.

Didn't you say that?

Why are you still asking this question?

The other Taoist priests also looked confused.

Fang Yi was not satisfied with his answer and looked at the Quanzhen master, Taoist Li, "Master, what do you think?"

Taoist Priest Li pondered for a while, then said tentatively: "Laozi said: There is a thing that is mixed and formed before the heaven and the earth. It is silent and lonely, independent and unchanging, and it moves around without end. It can be the mother of the heaven and the earth. I don't know its name, so I force it to be called Tao, and I force it to be called Da. So it is called the Great Dao?"

Fang Yi nodded slightly and said, "Yes, there is a thing that was created before heaven and earth. Tao is the mother of heaven and earth. Have you ever thought about what Tao... looks like?"

“I don’t know.”

"Please enlighten me, Master."

The Taoists knew that the immortal was going to talk about some "dry stuff", so they all pricked up their ears and listened.

What surprised them was that Master Fang didn't tell the story at all, but just stretched out his hand and snapped his fingers.

Then, the scenery in front of me changed rapidly.

Originally, everyone was standing on the open grassland by the river. The sun was setting and the sunset was picturesque.

However, at this moment, the air seemed to ripple, spreading in all directions.

Wherever the ripples went, the scenery changed, and they unexpectedly appeared in a place of nothingness.

There is no light to be seen, no sound to be heard, no thing to be found, and no color to be seen.

It is boundless, yet seems as small as a particle.

Even Xu Xiaoli, Lu Shisheng, Zhang Tianshi and others could not feel their own existence.

Where is this?

Who am I?

Everyone was in deep confusion.

The next moment, the calm voice of the real person was heard in the "ears" of Master Li, Master Xu and everyone else.

"Before the universe was formed and chaos was not divided, there was something in the universe that was the Tao. What you see now is what Laozi called the Tao."

"ah?"

“Is this the Tao?”

"No light, no color, and even no sense of time and space?"

Everyone was slightly stunned.

Fang Yi didn't care what they thought, and continued to explain: "Tao gave birth to one, what is one? Observe it."

As soon as the voice fell, the scenery in front of him changed dramatically again.

From the void emerged endless amounts of matter, whether gaseous, solid, tangible or intangible.

These substances are in a hazy state, filling the endless nothingness, just like an egg.

Everyone, who were originally confused, suddenly seemed to have thought of something and their expressions suddenly changed.

chaos?

This is chaos!

Taoist Priest Li was stunned!

Taoist Master Xu was dumbfounded!

Zhang Tianshi was even more shocked and said: "Is this chaos?"

He was shouting very loudly, but his voice couldn't be heard anywhere.

The remaining hundreds of Taoists all looked extremely astonished. They simply could not believe that in the blink of an eye, the Immortal actually brought them to Chaos.

Lu Shisheng couldn't help swallowing and turned his head to look in the direction of the real person's voice. Although he didn't see anything, his eyes were still full of awe.

Even though Xu Xiaoli had once been led by Fang Yi to witness the Big Bang, she was still deeply shocked at this moment.

Fang Yi's calm voice sounded again, "Hunlun means that all things are in harmony with each other but have not separated from each other. It cannot be seen, heard, or followed, so it is called Yi. Yi has no form, and Yi changes into one. One is the beginning of change."

His voice had not yet completely fallen.

Everyone then witnessed an even more shocking scene!

There was a flash of light in the chaos.

Immediately afterwards, a deafening roar suddenly rang in everyone's ears.

Everyone stared in amazement as the clear air continued to rise and the turbid air continued to fall.

"The light and clear is Yang, the heavy and turbid is Yin. This is what Laozi meant by 'One gives birth to two'."

Fang Yi "explained" again.

At this time, everyone saw Fang Yi suspended between the clear air and the turbid air, just like the ancestor of the creation of the world!

At this time, there were only two kinds of air currents in the world, and heaven and earth had not yet been created.

The Taoists gradually became excited.

Because they know that next, Master Fang will definitely let them experience the formation of heaven and earth!

As expected, Fang Yi's voice rang out in everyone's mind again, "Two gives birth to three."

After saying this, three wonderful sights came into view: the intersection of Yin and Yang Qi, the complementation of Yin and Yang Qi, and the combination of Yin and Yang Qi.

The Taoists watched with their own eyes as the clear air turned into the sky, the turbid air turned into the earth, and drops of water were born in the world.

It seemed like a blink of an eye.

But whether it was Zhang Tianshi or Master Li Daochang and others, they all felt as if they had experienced billions of years.

At this moment, the world consists of only heaven and earth.

There is no sun, moon, stars, rivers or mountains.

Even wind, clouds and thunder do not exist.

Desolate and lonely.

Just when everyone couldn't tell whether they really existed or not.

Fang Yi sighed softly: "Three gives birth to all things."

What you say is what you do!

The sun, moon and stars gradually appeared in the sky.

The sun rises, the moon rises, and the stars are everywhere.

The three constantly alternate, shining brightly in the primitive world.

Slowly, clouds appeared in the sky.

At first, these clouds were very sparse and almost invisible to the naked eye.

However, in the blink of an eye, or perhaps ten million years passed.

It was a sunny day.

The dense dark clouds covered the sky and obscured all the light.

The world became extremely dark.

Boom.

Rumble.

Dull thunder continued to sound in the clouds.

Suddenly, there was a loud cracking sound.

A huge bolt of lightning fell from the sky and struck the earth hard!

Then heavy rain came suddenly, bringing moisture to the dry earth.

The floating mist in the sky continued to roll with dull thunder, giving birth to bright flashes of lightning.

Accompanied by heavy rain and thunder, it seemed to awaken the earth and the potential vitality.

The Taoists all looked stunned as they watched lush greenery emerge from the earth.

The heavy rains seemed to have lasted for millions of years, completely changing the structure of the earth.

Some places have been washed into vast oceans and rushing rivers.

In some places, mud and rocks pile up to form one continuous mountain range after another.

Some areas are covered with sand and gravel and have become deserts.

At the same time, the earth became more and more active.

At first there were only a few spots of green, and later all kinds of algae, mosses, ferns and even flowers, plants and trees appeared. They grew on every inch of the earth, making the world full of vitality.

At the same time, the earth is also giving birth to various animals.

From the Paramecium at the beginning, to the corals, sponges and even fish, insects, birds and thousands of wild animals later.

Even including... humans!

The crowd was not very excited when they saw that the heaven and earth gave birth to all things in the world.

But when they saw the birth of the first human, they were finally shocked. A feeling of being moved arose from the bottom of their hearts, and goose bumps appeared all over their bodies.

Is this... the ancestor of mankind?

Be it Zhang Tianshi, Taoist Qiu, Taoist Li and others, or Xu Xiaoli, Lu Shisheng and others, none of them had expected to have the honor of witnessing the birth of the first human being.

That inexplicable feeling is really indescribable.

Some are just shocks that touch the soul.

They were so shocked that they forgot that Master Fang was preaching at that moment.

Just when everyone was about to get lost, Fang Yi's gentle voice came.

"I don't know what Tao is. I only know that its great power can create the world, and its subtle power can give birth to all things in the world. Perhaps, this is what I understand as Tao. Since I don't know how to explain it, I will let you watch it."

As the sound fell, everything in the world suddenly collapsed.

Just like a small stone thrown into a calm lake, ripples began to appear again and all the scenery gradually disappeared.

A cool breeze blew by.

Zhang Tianshi, Taoist Priest Li, Xu Xiaoli, Lu Shisheng and hundreds of Taoist priests present all returned to reality, but each of their faces was filled with confusion.

Clearly, the moment before, we were still in the world where the heaven and earth were just created and all things were born.

The next second, we were back to the beautiful evening scene of sunset.

This huge change made it difficult for everyone present to distinguish between reality and illusion.

For a long time, no one said anything.

Whether it was Taoist Priest Qiu or Taoist Priest Xu, they all had frowns on their faces, as if they were deep in thought about the Immortal's Taoism.

Fortunately, a car horn sounded from Far EasTone, which brought everyone's souls back from Eternal Time.

They were sweating profusely, knowing that they had almost lost themselves in the path of truth.

Is this the true way?

Magnificent, magnificent!

At this moment, all those who were looking at Fang Yi's back as he stood calmly by the river realized that this seemingly young man had the universe in his mind and his magical powers were so amazing that he could swallow up the heaven and earth!