When I was a child, I thought myths were just stories to fool kids.

Growing up, I learned science, formulas, evidence, logic and started to believe those were the real tools. Later, I encountered religion and saw it as a system designed to help people place their fears somewhere.

In recent years, I moved on to structures, frequencies, models, frameworks which taking the world apart layer by layer, thinking I was finally walking a “clearer” path.

Then one day, something felt off.

I noticed that the more someone truly knows, the less they insist on reasoning things out loud. Those who really understand start speaking in stories instead, myths, metaphors, characters, absurdity. They talk about dragons, reincarnation, heavens, descents to earth.

Not because they’ve regressed, but because speaking plainly no longer works. They explain structure to us, we don’t get it. They explain principles, we find it's annoying. But tell us a myth, and somehow, we remember.

It turns out that in the 3D world, the way we learn cultivation always looks linear: Myth → Science → Religion → Structure.

But the way the universe actually operates is the reverse. Once we truly understand structure, the language we choose returns to myth.

Not because myth is inferior, but because it can contain the truth. Myths aren’t for people who don’t understand, they’re for those who aren’t yet able to know directly.

That’s when I began to understand why our ancestors used stories, and why real secrets were never written as manuals.

It wasn’t because they feared us wouldn’t understand. It was because understanding too quickly might send us the wrong way.

So this is what “returning to simplicity” really means, not going back to knowing nothing, but knowing so much that we choose not to explain everything anymore.



—— XC Scribbles · 伍拾陸 LVI 🐉