The sun and moon are both wrong; who made him seek the Dharma

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A golden fruit tree filled the entire field of vision.

The trunk was so thick it defied description.

It did not grow from any particular piece of land.

Instead, it spreads continuously from the depths of the void.

Tree roots penetrate into countless unobservable corners.

The branches penetrate one isolated world after another.

Even with Xia Chuan's current eyesight.

And you can't see the end of it.

On the golden branches.

One fruit after another hangs there.

Within each fruit.

They each represent a completely different world.

In some worlds, the sky is flat and the earth is square.

The heavy earth floats in the void, and the sky is like an inverted bowl, pinning the sun, moon and stars to it.

Some worlds have no planets.

Countless continents float in the ocean, and the sun is dragged across the sky by a golden crow every day.

Some worlds are remarkably similar to the universe that Natsukawa is familiar with.

The galaxy rotates.

Stars are burning.

A blue planet floats in the solar system.

However, the shape of the continent, the history of civilization, and even the laws of physics all differ slightly from the world he knows.

Xia Chuan casually picked a fruit.

The instant your fingertips touch the fruit peel.

A flood of information entered my consciousness.

530 AD.

The battle of cause and effect.

May all endeavors be victorious.

Jiang Mingzi was defeated and killed.

Its primordial spirit and Dharma body were tainted by the true blood of myriad karmas, transforming into a Dharma corpse in the Corpse Realm.

Xia Chuan let go of his hand.

The fruit hung back on the branches.

Then I looked at another one.

1939 AD.

The battle of cause and effect.

May all endeavors be victorious.

Hai Shan was cut down by the Black Hole Sword, and his body fell into the hands of Wan Ye.

then.

The corpse of the sea mountain appeared.

These are not just false possibilities.

Within the realm of corpses.

They are all true historical events.

This is the world that arose after Wanye's victory in 1906.

Precisely.

It is another outcome that should not have existed in that battle of cause and effect.

The nascent Wanye, which arrived in 1906, should have been killed.

The possibility of belonging to it may collapse.

All causes and effects have converged again on the result of the defeat of all industries, and this has continued all the way to the present day, 2020.

But Xia Chuan used the [Spirit Binding and Commanding] skill at that time.

Instead of killing Wanye, they forcibly pulled that potential being into the cycle of reincarnation.

Wanye did not achieve victory, nor did it truly perish.

then.

The law of causality cannot determine the sole outcome of that war.

A cause-and-effect relationship continues into 2020, the year Xia Chuan lived.

Another cause-and-effect relationship continues to grow along the possibility that "all endeavors have not yet failed".

Ultimately, it transformed into the realm of corpses.

There is no time in the usual sense here.

There was no cause or effect.

The event did not occur at a specific point in time.

Instead, it exists eternally first in the form of a result.

The so-called time is merely an auxiliary line drawn by later generations in order to understand these results.

The so-called cause and effect is merely an explanation used by humans to connect one event with another.

In the realm of corpses.

Something will happen.

Simply because it has already happened.

The result will exist.

Simply because it has been witnessed.

【witness】.

That's the only reality here.

An era in which the sun and moon were never witnessed by any living being.

Then there would be no sun or moon.

No one realized that there was a universe beyond the stars.

There would be no need for the universe to have been born.

If people at that time believed the world was flat and the sky was round.

Then the King of Nirvana, who controls everything, will truly create a world with a round sky and a square earth, as the stage for that period of history to unfold.

If later humans discover that the Earth is a sphere...

That new testimony will then sprout another branch.

Another fruit.

Another completely different, yet equally real world.

History is not a river.

It is a tree.

Every time a great undertaking is witnessed, it is a result of the efforts of the people.

Every victory in all endeavors is a battle of cause and effect.

Every human being's understanding of the universe.

They will all become a branch.

A new fruit has been borne.

Therefore, the war of cause and effect in 530 AD is real.