Dream Walker: Feng Shui Master Bai Ya

Shang Muchen stood up in surprise, leaned closer to the projector, and looked closely, muttering to himself, "Brother, do you mean that all these people in the mirror are me?"

"Yes, all conscious intelligent beings, all observers, and all those who are now in the universe are essentially the shadow cast by the same candle."

Only your own infinite imagination can tell you that God created everything, and there is no other God besides you.

You create light, and you also create darkness;

You create peace, but you also create disaster;

You made the earth and man on it;

You have laid out the heavens yourself, and all things in the heavens are ordained by you.

You kill, you give life;

You are injured, and you are healed.

No one can be saved from you.

Because all creation is a reflection or illusion of your imagination.

It was you, with your boundless human imagination, who accomplished all of this.

All dharma arises from your mind; there is no dharma outside the mind, nothing outside the mind, and no god outside the mind.

God is your imagination.

You are the direction, you are fortune and misfortune, you are the master of heaven and earth and all things!

Your imagination, like a potter shaping clay into pottery, creates everything you can perceive and experience.

All the fantastical bubbles you create with your imagination are as illusory as mist and as fleeting as lightning.

But at the same time, it is as solid as a pyramid, standing unshakably on the earth, impossible for mortals to move with their bare hands.

Hearing his brother's words, Shang Muchen became even more confused.

"I...I orchestrated all of this? Why don't I know it myself?"

"Because you were so attached to dreams, in order to experience all of this, you sealed away your true nature and slumbered within your own body," Shang Muming said earnestly, gently patting Shang Muchen's arm.

"Do you remember me telling you before that experience is the truth of life?"

So, what kind of experience you want to have is entirely up to you.

"I still don't quite understand..."

"Let me ask you, after we first met, did you ever think about wanting to live in a big house and live the life of a rich kid like Lu Mingdi, who is worth hundreds of millions?"

I told you that in another universe, you are also a wealthy young master from a billionaire family, wearing custom-made luxury clothes and a globally limited edition watch.

Ever since then, you've started fantasizing about wanting to experience that kind of life, haven't you?

"That's right..."

"So, you did it! You got real estate worth over 100 million, and the inheritance of Sa Sanqi, which is worth even more."

"This..." Shang Muchen scratched his head, feeling that something about his brother's words seemed wrong, but it was indeed the truth.

"This watch belongs to Sa Sanqi. At most, I borrowed it; it's not mine..." Shang Muchen said weakly.

"How can it not be yours? Doesn't the legal document state that you inherit Sa Sanqi's estate?"

"That seems to be the case... but it wasn't earned by me, I just borrowed it..."

"Nothing is something you 'earned'."

Think about it, everything you eat, wear, live in, and use in your life, isn't it all "borrowed" from you?

When you close this life simulation game, will everything you own disappear?

"Hmm, what you said seems to make sense..." Shang Muchen kept scratching his head, feeling an itch in his brain.

"Alright, I'll stop my explanation here for now. Take your time to understand," the older brother said. "Just treat yourself as the protagonist of a first-person life simulation game, or as the protagonist of a novel."

Please step back from the role of 'Shang Muchen' that you're currently immersed in, so that I can better explain to you what happened to Li Qing and how to help her.

"Well, I'll try my best..." Shang Muchen said weakly.

When Li Qing heard the two brothers mention her, she secretly peeked her face out from the gap in the blanket and spied on the two brothers at the other end of the sofa.

"Ivy, get her some clothes," Shang Muming instructed.

"Yes." The black-clad maid named Ivy conjured a pullover nightgown out of thin air, placed it beside Li Qing, and said, "Wear it."

Li Qing took the nightgown, shrank back into the blanket like a snail, fiddled around for a while, put on the nightgown, and finally crawled out again, still like a frightened kitten, timidly wrapped in the blanket, curled up in the corner of the sofa.

"Although I didn't see the whole story, this is roughly how it should be," Shang Muming explained. "Li Qing and Wang Ruolin are good friends."

One day, the two of them went to visit Wangfusi Primary School.

However, what they didn't know was that Joanna Wang was under a curse.

"A curse?" Shang Muchen asked in shock.

"Yes, a curse," Shang Muming said. "From what I've observed, it's a curse that combines shamanic rituals with Japanese Yin-Yang techniques."

Joanna Wang herself was unaware that she was under this curse, and the curse does not occur casually.

I don't know much about curses, but theoretically speaking, this curse is roughly a kind of "reality deprivation technique passively triggered by geographical factors".

In layman's terms, the curse will only be activated when Joanna Wang appears in a specific location, such as a formation, a barrier, or a feng shui arrangement.

When the curse is triggered, her entire reality—including other people's memories of her, evidence of her existence, and everything related to her—will be erased from reality.

"That amazing?" Shang Muchen asked in shock, while turning to look at Li Qing.

"It sounds impressive, but it's actually just average," Shang Muming explained. "I just analyzed Li Qing's 'reality code' and found that she..."

"Wait! Bro, what did you do? What's 'real-world code'?"

"This is too complicated to explain now. You can simply understand it as cause and effect, karma, or something similar."

The concept of karma and retribution is not entirely accurate; a more accurate term would be "real-world code," though it's not far off.

Of course, you can also simply imagine the whole reality as a computer game edited with code.

In short, let me finish speaking first.

"it is good."

Shang Muming continued, "I discovered that the curse on Wang Ruolin is not very powerful and is not very complete."

This curse—to continue describing it in computer terms—is equivalent to pre-packaging Joanna Wang's entire life, and all the related circumstances, into a 'shortcut'.

When this 'shortcut' encounters a trigger button—that is, a specific feng shui arrangement—the 'delete' code within the shortcut is activated, and Joanna Wang is removed from the entire real-world experience.

"Deleted?" Shang Muchen asked in shock. "That's possible? That's terrifying!"

"Actually, it's not scary at all, it's quite ordinary." The older brother asked in return, "Xiao Chen, think about it, how many childhood friends from kindergarten do you still remember?"

How many of your elementary school classmates do you still remember?

Do your close friends from high school still exist in your life experience now?

Do you even forget the names of most of your childhood playmates?

Even if they walked right past you now, would you recognize them?

Undoubtedly, they have long since completely disappeared from your life experience.

You have no idea that you have unintentionally deleted countless people from your life experiences.

We all do this all the time: we delete one, two, or even countless other people from our own life experiences.

However, after deleting it, I couldn't remember it, so I had no idea it had ever happened.