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Chapter 76 A Long and Arduous Journey

When Chu Ming came out, the sun was shining brightly and the sky was cloudless, but after one night, it started to drizzle.

The March rain, accompanied by wind and a chill, continued for two days in a row, making the weather increasingly cold.

Along the way, Chu Ming did not take the wide road, but instead followed the country lanes. The time was 2008, and there were many people living in the countryside, unlike the world Chu Ming lived in, where many ghost villages had appeared, and there were hardly any people in the whole village.

The surrounding area was wilderness, but scattered villages were scattered around. In this era, there were not many cement roads between villages, only dirt and stone paths, which became muddy after rain.

Walking on the earth, Chu Ming felt the vastness of the world and the insignificance of humankind.

Even with his current martial arts skills, what does he amount to in the face of the whole world?

Chu Ming had always lived in the city and rarely had the experience of venturing into the wilderness alone. Until this time, when he entered the wilderness to trace the traces left by people, he felt more and more how big the world was and how small he was.

Like this country lane, it's less of a road and more of a path that has been walked on so many times that weeds can't grow.

If no one walks on it for a year or two, the road will disappear. However, as long as people exist, a road will always appear.

Humans are constantly struggling against nature, both striving for survival!

In the city, skyscrapers and bustling traffic showcase the brilliance of civilization, but nature is nowhere to be found. Without comparison, the traces of human presence, though far less than in the wilderness, lack the spirit of struggle and the emotional resonance of the soul.

Having seen nature and the world, Chu Ming had a different feeling when he recalled the various things in his memory.

Chu Ming walked through the muddy ground, the rain hitting him, but he didn't feel cold. The road was difficult to walk on, but for Chu Ming, it was as if he were walking on flat ground.

He had lost his shoes on the very first day, in order to get closer to nature.

However, at this moment, Chu Ming's feet were still smooth, delicate, and fair, without a speck of dirt.

His feet sank into the mud, but when he pulled them out, they remained clean.

In Buddhist scriptures, it is said that only the Buddha's feet are free from dirt. When martial arts are cultivated to the level of Chu Ming, the power bursts forth with every move, creating a similar effect.

If Chu Ming's skills were applied to a remote, underdeveloped place where the people were not well-educated, he could probably gather a large group of believers in a very short time.

The wilderness was vast, and the villages were far apart. Chu Ming passed through one village after another without stopping in any of them.

His martial arts skills have improved, and his sense of time has been enhanced once again. Chu Ming's sense of time had reached the 0.001 level, which allowed him to sleep for 51 microseconds every second, thus achieving the effect of seemingly never sleeping or resting.

However, this time Chu Ming did not do that. Instead, he slept for an hour every day to recover his energy.

That kind of sleep, precise to the microsecond, is only applicable to special circumstances. In that state, Chu Ming's thinking will be briefly interrupted. Although ordinary people cannot perceive that interruption, or rather, ordinary people's thinking is inherently intermittent, it's just that the interruption is so short that ordinary people cannot perceive it at all.

For Chu Ming, however, this interruption would affect his thinking.

After walking for five days straight, Chu Ming only slept for one hour each day and did not eat or drink, yet his energy remained abundant.

It wasn't until the afternoon of the fifth day that Chu Ming finally knocked on the door of a farmer's house and asked for a drink of water.

The farmer was very hospitable, pouring water for Chu Ming while chatting with him.

After learning that Chu Ming came from out of town, she told him about the origins of this place.

It turns out that the place where Chu Ming is now was once a swamp, and more than a hundred years ago, it was a vast lake.

It wasn't until more than 30 years ago that the army came here to reclaim the wasteland, turning large tracts of wasteland into fertile fields. After that, they relocated farmers here, and only then did the area become populated.

In the early years, whenever it rained, the land here would swell and become muddy, making it impossible to stand on. It wasn't until recent years that it became normal land.

Chu Ming listened quietly to the farmer's endless chatter, but in his mind, he pictured a scene.

The lake silted up and became a swamp. Only after the swamp was reclaimed did human traces appear. As time passed, if no one remembered this history, probably not many people would know that this land was once a swamp, and once a large lake.

To reclaim and cultivate wasteland is undoubtedly to fight against nature and transform unsuitable places into fertile lands suitable for human habitation.

One person's strength may be weak, and the strength of a generation may not be enough, but the tireless efforts of generations to transform the world make it more and more suitable for people!

The evolution of life is essentially a process of adapting to nature; survival of the fittest!

But humans rewrote all of this, using their wisdom and strength, accumulating and changing generation after generation, until the world finally adapted to humanity!

If natural selection and survival of the fittest is a natural order, then changing the world and man conquering nature is undoubtedly a reversal of nature!

At this moment, Chu Ming's thoughts drifted, and he thought of the saying in the Taoist scriptures: "Following the natural order makes one a human, going against it makes one an immortal."

In Taoist scriptures, immortals are unrestrained, but as humans transform the world, how much of nature's constraints have they broken free from?

If the human group itself is a living entity, wouldn't this be considered a gradual process of defying the natural order and achieving immortality?

As Chu Ming pondered, his mind became increasingly clear, and he knew that he had found the right direction.

Survival, survival—what in the world could better embody the human will to survive than the world as it is now?

That thought, that spirit, has long been etched into the past and will live on forever!

After a brief stay, Chu Ming bid farewell to the farmer and continued on his way. Although he had already made some gains, his journey had only just begun.

As the ordeal dragged on, Chu Ming's body grew thinner, but his spirit became even more vigorous. Something inexplicable and mysterious gradually filled his mind and settled in his spiritual world.

Originally, Chu Ming's spirit was powerful, but it seemed empty and void, like a wispy cloud that appeared vast but lacked a foundation. It was fine when the wind was calm, but once a storm came, it would drift with the world.

But now, Chu Ming's spirit is gathering from clouds into hills, transforming into the earth, and taking root!

In recent days, Chu Ming has felt that his thinking has become more and more stable, no longer as light and ethereal as before, and he can accurately control his every thought.

In addition, Chu Ming also felt that his will was becoming more and more firm and concentrated, as if it was about to emit light, and nothing could shake it.

(End of this chapter)