Chapter 73: Flying

It was late at night, and although the darkness affected my vision, I thought I could not be mistaken about the shadows of the rolling mountains under my eyelids. I looked up and felt that the moon and stars were so close to me. Yes, I was in the sky!

For a moment, I was silent, but this silence was accompanied by a slight trembling of my whole body, including the muscles of my face. This was a manifestation of excitement to the extreme, but I could not speak!

I always thought that being able to fly freely in the sky was the dream of mankind. In order to realize this dream, mankind has been making unremitting efforts. It was not until the birth of various flying devices that mankind’s dream was realized to a certain extent.

However, this kind of assisted flight is completely different from the feeling of flying on your own. This can be said to be a small but significant regret. Today, although I am being carried by Jenny, the experience is completely different.

Flying in the sky is a feeling of letting go of the body and mind. It is a feeling that will excite people from ancient times to the present鈥攆reedom!

Yes, it is a feeling of endless freedom, a feeling of being free from all constraints. I don’t know why I feel this way.

However, this is only one aspect of my current feelings. More, I still feel that my three views have been destroyed. Although I am now in the sky, I still cannot accept this reality. I even think that Jenny has used some method to make me fall into a certain illusion.

This thought made me bite my tongue unconsciously. If it were a state of the soul, I wouldn’t feel pain, but in fact I did, my tongue was sore! The facts proved that my body was in the sky, or else Jenny’s illusion was too powerful, powerful enough to simulate the five senses, but that was something only real immortals could do!

Realizing that I had woken up, Jenny suddenly said with some difficulty, “I’m not very skilled, so I can’t talk to you too much at this time. Just keep quiet.”

So, I really had to keep quiet, but I was so uncomfortable!

I tried to convince myself to accept this fact, just as my master once told me when I was very young that Taoism had declined. In its glorious era, many powerful people could actually soar through the sky and shrink the earth to a few inches.

In that era, people’s hearts were relatively pure, resources were relatively abundant, the world was relatively clean, and many people had strong beliefs. Many powerful Taoist people did not have to hide from the world, but sought peace and quiet. So in that era, it was also an era of myths and legends, and there were many strange and unusual things in the folk culture.

From ancient times, whether it is the “Classic of Mountains and Seas” or “The Record of the Strange,” there are many strange things in it. What is flying? I took a deep breath and thought… Besides, whether it is the East or the West, in any corner of the earth, when it comes to powerful people, when it comes to immortals, the first thing is flying? Flying in the true sense! You can’t say that this is a coincidence of human imagination, can you?

I am a Taoist priest, and I have seen even the sudden interweaving of space. But at this moment, I am still constantly building up my own psychological defenses. After all, my learning process was also accompanied by the process of learning science at school. The process of growing up and absorbing knowledge is a process of self-contradiction. What my master often said in my ear was to corroborate each other, not to exclude each other.

This is what I did, and the uncomfortable feeling of contradiction slowly disappeared. But at this moment, a fact in the sky is in front of me, and I can’t do my own psychological construction no matter what. I always think of a physical law鈥攖he law of gravity… To get rid of gravity, you need a strong braking force. For example, airplanes rely on their own powerful power, while hot air balloons rely on certain laws of nature to transform into power and get rid of gravity!

How can a person do that?

In my rambling thoughts, my mood was extremely unsettled, and I had forgotten to experience the feeling of flying. After I had built up a strong psychological foundation, I was able to calm down and feel how I was flying. But when I calmed down and felt it, I realized that it wasn’t entirely about speed. How do I describe this feeling? It was actually like jumping in the sky, not a straight line of flight…

It is a very strange feeling to talk about, and I am afraid that many people cannot understand this experience. I felt that when I could see the surrounding scenery, I felt that Jenny was gliding, which is similar to the feeling of gliding. That is, after an object has run at a very fast speed, it will still rush out a certain distance due to inertia, and then slide, and the speed will slowly slow down.

When I couldn’t see the surrounding scenery, it was just an instantaneous force that was exerted on us, and then in an instant we rushed out a large distance at great speed. I had a feeling that it was because the speed of this process was too fast that I couldn’t see the surrounding scenery clearly.

But the scientific knowledge I have learned from childhood to college tells me that when the speed reaches a certain level, it will produce great resistance. If the speed reaches a great level, the person should be torn apart by the resistance. How can he bear it?

I was confused, completely beyond my understanding. For example, in my previous Taoist practice, I was always able to find a little scientific explanation to confirm it, so as not to make myself live in pain. Including the most mysterious step, I can also think of it as a special kind of step that triggers the resonance of heaven and earth, just like the simplest circuit, which can be electrified according to a certain arrangement. The mantra and meditation are the ability of man to attract heaven and earth as the spirit of all things, which is like a switch.

Cultivation is the cultivation of the laws of heaven and earth. If you can dissolve yourself into heaven and earth, you must be able to follow the laws of nature with a single heart. After all, the laws of heaven and earth are contained in the natural artistic conception. The closer you are to nature, the more you dissolve yourself into heaven and earth, and the more you can act as a switch.

The self is the world, and the world is a part of the self!

I understand these principles very well, but flying, what is flying, I can hardly explain this feeling anymore!

I can’t tell if this is a dream or reality. Gradually, I just feel like I’m the wind, drifting freely under the moonlit night sky. I want to shout, even if it’s just a dream, I suddenly miss this feeling!

No wonder people say that immortals are good, immortals are really good…

However, there are some feelings that, no matter how much you linger, will eventually come to an end. For example, after Jenny was in the gliding state I mentioned, she began to slowly descend. In my eyes, there was a continuous mountain range, and in the middle of the night, insects were chirping and animals were roaring. Under the cold moonlight, the old trees cast a shadow, which made people feel a little creepy. However, Jenny slowly descended in such a place.

I was still in a daze. I didn’t even know where I was. I just felt that there was a lot of decaying air in the forest. The leaves under my feet were so thick that I felt like I was sinking in them. They were slimy, and I thought that the leaves below had already rotted.

I had a lot of questions to ask, but Jenny wouldn’t let me ask them. She yelled, “You little brat, what are you doing on my back? You’re so big, you think it’s easy for me to carry you, don’t you?”

I was embarrassed. After all, no matter what Jenny’s identity was, I was a big man hanging on a “petite” woman, which was not very good-looking. I quickly got off Jenny’s back.

The way I stuck out my tongue was just caught by Jenny, who said with a helpless look, “All the men in the Li family are silly children. Look at how old you are, and you’re still sticking out your tongue! To put it nicely, it’s a childlike heart, but to put it bluntly, it’s a problem with your IQ.”

While she was talking, she suddenly flipped her hand, and before I could react, another pill was forcibly shoved into my mouth. She took one herself and said, “This place is full of miasma. This pill is a miasma-avoiding pill. Although I’m not afraid, it’s not good to inhale it into the body. It takes a lot of effort to remove it. Wait for me for a while. I have to meditate for a while. It was too exhausting just now. I have to carry you back later.”

After that, Jenny grabbed me by the collar without asking my opinion and dragged me up the tree. She was very strong and agile like a monkey, and in a few seconds, she hung me between two wide tree branches, letting me sit there. As for herself, she miraculously climbed to the top of the tree, sat on a branch that looked very “weak,” and began to meditate facing the moon.

I groaned helplessly. I thought to myself, I don’t want to be with this Jenny, the leader of the group. I don’t want to be with her and her three views, her scientific ideas, or whatever.