Chapter 1473 The Essence of the Hexagram
Facing Chen Changsheng's words, Wu Yu's mouth twitched, but in the end she chose to remain silent.
Seeing this, Chen Changsheng continued, "There are many ways to do divination, and the hexagrams of each method are different. Which one did you learn?"
Hearing this, Wu Yu said softly: "The junior is learning gossip."
"Innate Bagua or Acquired Bagua?"
"The Xiantian Bagua is too mysterious. I am learning the Xutian Bagua."
"Since you are learning the Later Heaven Bagua, do you understand the essence of Bagua deduction?"
Hearing this question, Wu Yu thought for a moment and said, "I understood it before, but now I don't understand it very well."
After receiving this answer, Chen Changsheng placed a piece on the chessboard and said, "Since you don't understand, you must listen carefully now."
"A long, long time ago, so long ago that all the things we have learned were not yet born."
"A genius has appeared among the human race, a genius that transcends countless eras."
"When he faced many natural and man-made disasters, as well as uncertainty about the future, he came up with this idea."
"That's how people can predict the future and respond to future disasters in advance."
"Do you know how great he was when this idea came about?"
Looking at Chen Changsheng in front of him, Wu Yuluo shook his head and said, "I don't know."
"You don't know, which proves that you didn't even see his back."
"The future is always illusory. Predicting future events is as difficult as conquering time."
"Especially the process by which he figured out how to predict the future was a stroke of genius."
"When faced with this unsolvable problem, he discovered that everything in the world follows a certain pattern."
"The tides rise and fall, the moon waxes and wanes, as if everything is a cycle."
"Since the world is a cycle, then everything has a traceable origin."
"If we create a smaller and simpler world for ourselves, we can get a glimpse of the future from the deduction of this small world."
"Snapped!"
Hearing this, the chess piece in Kirisame's hand fell.
Because at this moment, he was already too absorbed in listening.
Picking up the chess pieces and placing them on the chessboard, Wu Yu asked, "So the essence of deduction is to create a small world?"
"That's right!"
Chen Changsheng calmly made his move and said, "The essence of deduction is to create a small world."
"Qian represents heaven, Kun represents earth."
"So the hexagram of the Xiantian Bagua is Qian on top and Kun on the bottom."
"Gen represents mountains, Dui represents the sea, Zhen represents thunder, Xun represents wind, and Li and Kan represent water and fire."
"Heaven and earth, mountains and seas, wind and thunder, water and fire, these elements combined together are not the basic elements of a world?"
"Combine these elements together, add, subtract, multiply and divide according to the direction you want to deduce, and you will naturally get the hexagram you want."
After hearing what Chen Changsheng said, Wu Yu was completely stunned.
Because he had never thought that the hexagrams of the Eight Trigrams could be interpreted in this way.
Thinking of this, Wu Yu hurriedly said: "Since the Xiantian Bagua is so perfect, why are there other ways to deduce it?"
"Other deduction methods appeared naturally because other sages observed the world from different angles."
"Although the Xiantian Bagua is mysterious, it is not suitable for ordinary people to use."
"Because the Xiantian Bagua can calculate a large world, and it can also calculate an era."
"Such a high-intensity calculation is not something that ordinary people can do. Even if someone forcibly deduce it, their hexagrams will not be accurate."
"That's why Xiantian Bagua is shelved because not many people can use it."
"Snapped!"
After saying that, Chen Changsheng's black piece fell, and Wu Yu also lost the game.
Looking at the messy white pieces on the chessboard, Wu Yu said blankly: "The innate eight trigrams calculate the changes in heaven and earth, and the acquired eight trigrams calculate the changes in human affairs."
"The so-called divination is nothing more than creating a..."
Halfway through his speech, Wu Yu was at a loss for words, because he didn't have a word in his mind that could describe this situation.
"Model!"
“Under certain assumptions, something that simulates the structure, function, attributes, relationship, and process of the original thing is called a model.”
"I came up with this word, you can use this word to describe it."
Facing what Chen Changsheng said, Wu Yu thought for a moment and said.
"The Imperial Master is the Imperial Master. When it comes to creating a new path forward, no one can rival you."
"So what we have worked so hard to learn is just a simple model?"
"Simple!"
Chen Changsheng's tone suddenly became louder, and then he stood up suddenly.
Wu Yu was also startled by the sudden momentum.
"You think it's simple because what you hear now has been simplified by our ancestors and then simplified again by me."
"If you were willing to spend a little more time to study the essence of it, you wouldn't say such stupid things."
Looking at the furious Chen Changsheng, Wu Yu stuttered, "I... that's not what I meant. I wanted to say."
“Can something so direct and easy to understand really predict the future?”
Glancing at the stuttering Wu Yu, Chen Changsheng sat down again and spoke.
"The ancient sages passed these things down so that later generations can learn them."
"Since the purpose is to let future generations learn, then these things must be easy to understand."
"And why do you think these easy-to-understand things can't predict the future?"
Facing Chen Changsheng's question, Wu Yu thought for a moment and said, "I can't say for the moment."
"If you can't say it, I'll say it for you!"
"Because you people are impatient and never think about keeping your feet on the ground."
"In your mind, you always hope to get an answer suddenly in some way, and then win everything step by step according to this answer."
"Since there is no way to satisfy your fantasies in reality, you have turned your attention to the sages of the distant past."
"You always think that the sages' methods of predicting the future will give you what you want."
"Little do you know that the sages who have lived through the ages were much more pragmatic and down-to-earth than you."
"They never expect an accurate answer to fall from the sky. They just use their own methods to deduce the world."
"To put it bluntly, they only believe in their own efforts!"
"And you definitely don't understand what 'Forty-nine Heavenly Evolutions and One Missing' means."
"This is what the ancient sages are telling us: don't rely too much on hexagrams, because hexagrams can sometimes be wrong!"
"Now you know why divination and deduction are gradually declining."
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PS: I am typing the second chapter like crazy!
