Luo Nan decided on a preliminary direction, but he wasn't in a hurry to get started. Just like a qualified painter, Luo Nan would never hastily put his brush to work. What he faced was not a blank piece of paper, but a deep and complex starry sky.
He flipped through the split page notebook in his hand, found a blank page, and wrote solemnly with a pen:
The first rule begins with me. Push yourself to others.
Looking at the current situation, the easiest and smoothest choice to correct the Life Sketch was external clairvoyance. Driver Qin was a good example. At that level, the answer was already laid out before his eyes.
But Luo Nan was fully aware that this was not enough. Without the link of self-reference, it would be hard to estimate what kind of flaws would exist in the work. The first version of the Life Sketch was limited by Luo Nan's level of understanding at the time. It practically lost the space for further refinement. Luo Nan needed to take this as a warning.
But it must be known that self-reflection had always been a difficult part of cultivation. It was said that the most important thing was to know one's self. Gym Master Xiu had emphasized this last night with similar words, and Luo Nan had said early on that he wasn't good at self-portraits. These were not words of modesty.
Of course, looking at it from another angle, high consumption often represented high returns. Although this method was difficult, it was a process of defining principles and standards. Only by polishing oneself would one be able to reflect external objects more clearly. The essence of the root receptacle, root nature, and root trigger subdivision techniques taught by Gym Master Xiu were here.
Luo Nan chose a path that was difficult at first, then easy at the end. He needed to climb the steepest peak. Only in this way could he solidify his foundation and avoid the fatal danger of Formatting Theory's uncontrollable growth.
Luo Nan paused for a moment, then wrote another line:
The second rule: Observation comes first. Multidimensional reproduction.
Luo Nan used his drawing techniques to take a picture of the living starry sky. Whether it was sketching or sketching, neither was a skill that relied on imagination. He needed to have a real object of observation.
There was nothing much to say. Luo Nan's object of observation was himself. This was not a simple drawing in a mirror. Instead, he needed to probe the frame of body and soul. He needed to take the form and the soul, and he needed to correspond with the form of the star atlas.
Most of the various elements involved the mental plane. Thoughts were chaotic, and it was easier said than done to seek them. Perhaps he could only use the God Wheel, Body Wheel, visualization diagram, root receptacle, root nature, root trigger, and other levels of reference to find the greatest common divisor.
This would undoubtedly increase Luo Nan's workload. But since he had already given up the easy and chosen the most dangerous path, he didn't mind adding a few more burdens.
Luo Nan had some thoughts in his mind after he finished writing these two lines. They seemed to be clear, but they weren't. It was hard for them to be fully expressed. He subconsciously twirled his pen, and his other hand lifted up the slightly yellow pages that were smeared with sweat.
Luo Nan's gaze streaked across the pages of the notebook one by one. He once again swept his eyes over the dozen or so records of inspiration that contained an enormous amount of information. A moment later, he casually flipped through his previous handwriting. This included a limited number of paintings on paper.
If he didn't include the records of his inspirations, although his notebook was thick, there weren't many meaningful things in it. Among them, the most valuable should be the two psychic diagrams.
The other one was slightly smaller. It was the outline of the Wraith Sign that he had drawn at school. It was more abstract.
As for the other one, even though it had been painted into a mess by the glitter pen, the overall structure and the relevant details were much more specific, but there were also rich symbolic meanings.
Yes, that was the Prison Sketch. It was the diagram that Luo Nan drew when he was imprisoned in the confinement room on Ship Lanshan under the catalysis of inspiration. He comprehended the profoundness of 'My heart's a prison' from this, truly obtaining extraordinary power.
'My heart's a prison'?
Luo Nan's mind suddenly stirred, and his dark thoughts suddenly brightened. Since he was going to revise it, how could he skip over these important points?
He immediately moved his pen, forming words on the previous page:
Third principle: Concreteness. Crucial links.
The three principles on the paper were arranged in order, and the scope of their expressions shrunk one by one. By the time he reached the third principle, he had touched upon the substantive level. He could begin to work on it.
'My heart's a prison' had a special role in Luo Nan's Formatting Theory research process. If Luo Nan really wanted to make a move, choosing this node was quite suitable.
After experiencing the impact and sharpening of many events, Luo Nan now had a relatively clear concept in his heart. 'My heart's a prison', including Formatting Theory itself, was essentially the materialization of some sort of compelling rule. It was just like what he sensed from the depths of the mental plane during the incident at Frost River Reality. It was an inconceivable order frame. It was internalized into the structure of a person's body and soul to achieve the final result.
Luo Nan found a more appropriate explanation of Eastern metaphysics during the time he was learning from Gym Master Xiu.
One with the world.
There was a similar statement in the classical scriptures. It was said, "Man follows the earth, the earth follows the heaven, the heaven follows the dao, and the dao follows nature."
All right, he had to admit that the words of Eastern metaphysics were far too rich in meaning. There were often many interpretations. It was very likely that he would be led into a ditch if he were to chew on the words one by one.
He simply used this kind of imagery to draw a classical visualization diagram on his notebook. It was a combination of a tetrahedron, an inscribed sphere, and an outer-scribed sphere.
The inscribed sphere symbolized the Self-Format, the outer-scribed sphere symbolized the Heaven and Earth Format, and the tetrahedron in the middle represented the Societal Format.
From the perspective of a pure cultivator, he could temporarily discard the Societal Format. He could pay more attention to the relationship between the Self-Format and the Heaven and Earth Format.
However, this topic itself was far too large. It didn't conform to the principle of concreteness.
Luo Nan simply discarded it. He no longer considered the overall framework. He only sculpted the details. In other words, he gave up on the large topic of how to create the Heaven and Earth Format. He chose the following branch.
How to manifest the creation of the Heaven and Earth Format with the Self-Format?
... It seemed to be too large. Then he continued to choose. As he went down the levels, Luo Nan's mind became clearer and clearer. The basis for his choice became clearer and clearer.
He didn't even need to think about things like fundamental theories. Right now, he had yet to reach the level of explaining phenomena and forming theories.
Discovering problems, observing phenomena, collecting data, and then summarizing basic logic was everything he could do for now and for a period of time to come.
If he were to start from the basic phenomena, there was a fact that was very clear. What was Luo Nan's most substantial gain after comprehending 'My heart's a prison'?
A low crashing sound rang in the quiet bedroom.
The answer was the heavily chained crow.
This inconceivable materialized image had helped Luo Nan's soul leave his body. It had subdued the Human-Faced Arachnid's avatar. It had accumulated his first bucket of gold. It had also grabbed Luo Nan and set him on the fast track of uncontrollable development.
In that case, why would there be … … Oh, let's give up on the 'why'. Right now Luo Nan just wanted to know what sort of shape the heavily chained crow would take after he pulled it out of the Format Pyramid after the star atlas transformation. What sort of changes would occur!
This was the first lesson of his observations.
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