Returning to the Mortal Realm: Light and Everyday Life Amidst the Mundane
After employing their diamond-like righteous thoughts to shatter the matrix of the Formless Old Deity, the resplendent golden gateway slowly closed. The divine essences of Tri Nhat, Tieu Nguyet, Minh Ngoc, My Cam, and the elder Hung Co traversed time and space, returning to their physical forms in the earthly realm.
The macrocosmic five-colored radiance gradually receded into microscopic realms, revealing once more the simple thatched cottage and the familiar dense pine forest of Indigo Cloud Mount. The purifying fragrance of herbal medicine gently drifted from the porch, the silver resonance of the pipa echoed with the wind, and the Pristine White Broadblade flashed sharply under the pristine sun. Countless earthly beings still flocked to the medical clinic to seek herbs for their physical ailments, while accepting righteous principles to purify their hearts and transcend their painful karma.
Tri Nhat and Tieu Nguyet continued to diligently practice their healing arts in the mundane world. By day, they scaled rocky peaks together to gather spiritual herbs and brew medicine to deliver sentient beings. By night, they sat in deep meditation, maintaining steadfast righteous thoughts to support the grand process of cosmic rectification. At the edge of the ancient pine forest, Minh Ngoc tirelessly practiced his swordplay, each movement unleashing an aura from his Minh Tam Golden Sword that severed all deviant notions and malevolent possession. My Cam raised her sacred Luminant-Sound Pipa, its silver melody echoing through layered dimensions, awakening the primordial goodness of sentient beings to prevent them from creating further karma.
Practitioners of the Great Fa: The Light of Faith and the Erosion of Time
The forces of the practitioners remained steadfast in their grand battle against the dark elements of the human world. However, under the relentless flow of secular time, the unified righteous will of some practitioners began to show signs of erosion and fragmentation.
There were those who developed selfish attachments regarding the end of the tribulation, leading to a complete loss of their original faith. Some grew weary due to immense physical suffering and tribulations, losing the depth required to maintain their lines. Others allowed doubt to invade their consciousness, causing the inner light of their faith to wither and die. Still others failed to pass microscopic character trials, falling into constraints of the old restrictions and suffering tragic failures.
The tragic, epic loss of the collective became increasingly apparent. Spiritual couples who had once stood firm against tempests succumbed to temptation, causing their true selves to fade into nothingness. Voices that had once vibrated through the heavens with verses of rectification suddenly fell silent, like unnumbered stars falling from the celestial vault of the grand epoch.
Witnessing this cruel fragmentation, Tri Nhat fell into a deep silence, his voice bearing the weight of the cosmos:
“The Great Fa is eternal and immutable, but if a practitioner cannot maintain righteous thoughts as unyielding as diamonds, they will inevitably be eroded into ash by the currents of secular time.”
The Everlasting Light: A Warning in the Night of the Final Era
Tieu Nguyet spoke, her compassionate voice as gentle as a spring wind from a pristine paradise:
“We must support one another, strictly maintaining our grand faith through every single instant. If our thoughts falter, the flame of the Great Fa within us will surely fade.”
My Cam held her Luminant-Sound Pipa close, its strings releasing a melody that shook the consciousness of all, serving as a grand warning to unnumbered worlds:
“This divine resonance does not exist merely to soothe pain; its true purpose is to shatter the matrix of delusion and awaken the great enlightened ones who sleep within the illusions of the human world.”
Minh Ngoc raised his Minh Tam Golden Sword, its azure radiance cutting through the sky:
“No matter how devastating the losses, our collective must stand firm. The ultimate cause of the Fa-rectification allows not a single thought of retreat.”
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The elder Hung Co cast his penetrating gaze toward the macrocosmic horizon, his voice echoing like an ancient bell from the dawn of the universe:
“This is the most prolonged and rigorous trial of all. It is not a mechanical battle fought in a single moment, but a journey that requires an eternity of existence to uphold and validate our true faith.”
Heroic Postlude: The Undying Epic
In the deluded mortal world, the sublime light of the Great Fa continued to spread, purifying all creation. Countless sentient beings were saved, as illnesses and karma dissolved. The silver resonance of the pipa steadfastly awakened humanity’s inherent goodness. The light of the broadblade and golden sword continued to tear through matrices of dark thoughts, preserving peace for the ancient villages. Day by day, more lives across various realms came to understand the grand truth of the Righteous Fa, and those with predestined relationships continuously stepped forward to obtain the Fa, making the forces of cosmic rectification ever more powerful and unshakable.
Yet simultaneously, the destructive shadow of the Old Forces continued to lurk. A number of practitioners fell, leaving heroic voids within the ranks of the collective. Though the collective endured profound losses, the remaining diamond-like immortal beings pressed forward, leaving transcendent traces for the history of the new universe.
Tri Nhat, Tieu Nguyet, Minh Ngoc, My Cam, and Hung Co formed the grand mudra of rectification before the solemn altar, chanting the sacred incantation that reverberated through unnumbered layered dimensions:
“FA ZHENG QIAN KUN — MIE!”
(The Fa Rectifies the Cosmos — OBLITERATED!)
“FA ZHENG TI DI — MIE!”
(The Fa Rectifies Heaven and Earth — OBLITERATED!)
The resplendent golden radiance released from that vow spread macrocosmically, like an eternal lighthouse maintaining the flame of true faith for all practitioners standing firm amidst the grand cataclysm of the cosmos.
The mortal epilogue officially transitioned into a heroic, unprecedented epic—containing both the painful loss of fragmentation and the burning hope of exalted purification—an eternal reminder that the path of assimilating with the Great Fa is one of ten thousand aeons, allowing not a single instant of wavering.
CANTO XXI: THE MORTAL EPILOGUE
To Indigo Cloud, the thatched roof calls once more,
The Healing Arts through sun and rain endure.
The sword-light severs shadows at the door,
As divine resonance makes the spirit pure.
Through the erosion of time, the heart remains as gold,
The steadfast vow, through ages, shall be told.
The heroic epic shines with Buddha’s light,
As Chang'e Descends to decree the celestial right.
(END OF VOLUME I)
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
❖ The Great Fa (Dafa): The supreme cosmic Law and fundamental principles governing all existence and all levels of the cosmos.
❖ The Fa-Rectification: The monumental cosmic process through which all dimensions, realms, and sentient beings are restored to their original, pristine, and righteous order.
❖ Fashen (Law Body): A higher-dimensional spiritual body generated in a practitioner's dantian through cultivation in the Great Fa at high levels, possessing cosmic power and the capacity to manifest across dimensions to protect practitioners and perform divine deeds.
❖ Divine Land: The ancient land of China, regarded within this epic as a sacred realm where Divine Beings from different generations of the cosmos first descended into the mortal world to establish and nurture successive civilizations—most notably the cultural heritage that shaped the five-thousand-year civilization of the present human era.
❖ Three Realms: The three realms of existence—the Realm of Desire, the Realm of Form, and the Formless Realm. It is the lowest realm of the cosmos in which sentient beings remain bound by reincarnation, karma, and the suffering of mortal existence.
❖ Xinxing (Mind-Nature): A practitioner's moral character, mind-nature, heart quality, and spiritual purity, encompassing forbearance, compassion, sacrifice, and the capacity to let go of human attachments.
❖ Primordial Child: The diamond-like, higher-dimensional spiritual body cultivated through high-level righteous practice, indestructible and capable of traversing macrocosmic and microscopic dimensions.
❖ Primordial Spirit: The true, eternal, and core spiritual essence of a sentient life, transcending the physical body and mortal reincarnations; capable of traversing macrocosmic dimensions, pursuing higher truths, and manifesting divine prowess beyond the constraints of secular matter.
❖ Old Forces: Ancient, high-level beings representing the obsolete laws, selfish mechanisms, and mutated notions of the old cosmos.
❖ Righteous Thoughts: Pure, selfless, and powerful mental energy generated by a practitioner whose mind is completely aligned with Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance.
❖ Truthfulness • Compassion • Forbearance: The three fundamental, supreme characteristics of the Great Fa, serving as the ultimate standard for evaluating good and evil in the universe.
❖ Karma: A dense, black negative substance created through wrongdoing, selfish deeds, vice, and harming others, causing suffering and illness across reincarnations.