One flower, one world

When I woke up with a jolt, I realised that I was really in the middle of ice and fire at this moment.

　　Underneath my body was cold snow, and inside my body was sizzling spiritual marrow. It turned out that I had fallen asleep before taking a few bites of the pancake because I was too tired, and as a result, the energy in my body could not keep up and my fat started burning again, and the heat of that spirit marrow was released again.

　　This situation made me nervous, so I hurriedly gnawed on the pancake and swallowed it whole, while quickly running the secret technique of Spiritual Birth to channel that heat into the Purple Mansion.

　　After suppressing the heat, I was able to get up and check the situation around me.

　　At this moment, the sky was hazy and it seemed to be almost dawn, which meant that I had slept for a long time. I stood there for half a day looking for the place where the old blind man was, and then I lifted my feet and walked towards the hut.

　　In the process, I heard the roar of a car in the distance, and when I looked at it, I saw some bright lights sliding at the end of the horizon, which seemed to be a road.

　　I was delighted by this discovery, because if there was a road, it meant that we could give up walking and take the car to catch the road, or at least walk down the road and find someone else if we couldn't.

　　When I arrived outside the hut, I found the old blind man snoring loudly, sleeping soundly, which made me feel helpless.

　　I fumbled around and took out some dried food from my parcel and ate it, then sat down on my knees and started to practice the Spiritual Birth Technique to recover my energy.

　　During this process, I thought of the dream I had earlier, and then I felt a little curious. I always felt that the dream was a kind of revelation, that it seemed to be Yun Qingyue conveying some message to me.

　　But what was she trying to tell me? That she was drowning in water? But how was that possible? Wasn't she sleeping deep in my Purple Mansion? How could there be a pool of water there?

　　My heart was puzzled, unable to understand what was going on, so in the end I could only put it aside for now and concentrate on starting my cultivation.

　　Meditating and concentrating, the whole person entered a state of meditation, and the Spiritual Birth Secret Technique worked silently, without realising it, a lot of time had passed.

　　When the first bright sunrise of the morning dawned, the old blind man finally yawned and burst out of the straw hut.

　　"Gee, that was a good night's sleep," Old Blind Man said to me as he stretched, "How was it, did you get any results?"

　　"No," I sighed.

　　"No effect? How is that possible?" The old blind man frowned, "Is it because the method you cultivated didn't work right?"

　　"How can it be that the method is not right? I did exactly what you said, I channeled all the yang energy emanating from that spirit marrow into the purple mansion, but I just couldn't see any effect, Yun Qingyue didn't respond at all, and didn't even give me a single response." I looked at the old blind man with a bit of distress and said.

　　"Oh, then it must be your posture that is wrong!" Old Blind Man said thoughtfully.

　　"Master, can we be more serious?" I was speechless.

　　"Oh, don't worry, take your time, anyway, if you follow this method, it will definitely work," the old blind man reassured me.

　　When I heard this, I could not help but feel helpless, I could only carry my things on my back, and then I said to him, "Let's not talk about that, let's go, I see a road over there, let's follow it, we should be able to find people. When you came here, you said you had a big job to do, didn't you? Let's hurry up now, we can't delay your big event."

　　"You brat, I haven't eaten yet. Besides, what are you in such a hurry for, it's my business, not yours," the old blind man said to me.

　　"I just want to find a decent place to rest," I said to him, and then asked curiously, "By the way, what is the big deal? When you came here, you said it was as if it was true, but why did you stop being anxious when you came out?"

　　"This is a heavenly secret that must not be revealed-" The old blind man used his usual routine again.

　　"As I spoke, I put my things down again, walked to the roadside, picked up a handful of snow and washed my face, then sat down with the old blind man to eat breakfast.

　　As we ate, the old blind man asked me, "Is there really no reaction at all?"

　　"No, not only that, but I also had a very strange dream - wait a minute -" Here, I couldn't help but feel moved, and immediately told the old blind man about the scene in my dream. I immediately told the old blind man about the dream.

　　After hearing my story, the old blind man smiled and said, "You are still too inexperienced and lacking in experience, how can you not see through such simple things?"

　　"What do you mean?" I asked curiously.

　　"What else can it mean? The place you saw in your dream was not somewhere else, it was your purple space, how come you can't even recognise your own purple space?" The old blind man asked me in confusion.

　　"Impossible, I have seen my purple space before, there is no water pool in there at all," I said.

　　When I heard this, the old blind man laughed and said, "Buddha said, "A flower is a world, a tree is a floating life, a blade of grass is a paradise, a leaf is a Buddha, your purple space is also a world. see it clearly, or your Purple Mansion world has just had a big rainstorm."

　　"Pfft... cough cough..."

　　The old blind man's words almost made me choke to death, so I couldn't help but wipe my nose and tears while saying to him, "Master, you are a Taoist, what a leaf and a Rudra, those are the words of a bald monk, have you changed your faith to Buddha?"

　　"Brat, you're just a poor talker, I was just making an analogy, what Buddhist Taoist, didn't I tell you long ago? Buddhism and Taoism are not separate." The old blind man reprimanded me.

　　"Alright then, let's not talk about that," I took a few deep breaths to calm down, and then asked him, "So it seems that according to you, the place I dreamt about last night was my Purple Mansion space, and what happened in the dream was Yun Qingyue conveying a message to me, right? "

　　"Not bad," said the old blind man, nodding his head.

　　"But what message is she trying to convey?" I asked, looking at the old man.

　　Hearing my words, the old blind man grunted a little and said, "That's for you to ask yourself, how can I know if you ask me? I'm not a roundworm in your stomach."

　　"Ask myself?" Hearing this, I was struck with a sense of contemplation.

　　I remembered that last night in my dream, I first fell into a cold pool of water, then I was chased and bitten by a big snake, then after that I found Yun Qingyue's sunken corpse, then when I got close to the corpse and tried to pick her up, she let out two golden lights from her eyes and woke me up with fire.

　　What message was this series of events intended to convey? Could it be that there was something hidden here?