The wise roam freely, while the mediocre bind themselves.
In Zen Meditation and Daoist practices, true freedom has always been about the liberation of the mind, yet people prefer to imprison themselves within a concept, maintaining the stability of that concept to preserve their own sense of existence.
Without such anchors, they often feel uneasy and without purpose.
Moving from one cage to another is considered absolute freedom by many, not realizing that it's merely fate swapping out their storage box.
Ishida Hideko saw through this; her journey to 800 years ago wasn't a tour, but an experiment.
The thoughts of such a person make one shudder merely to contemplate.
"What experiment are you going to do?" Shen Yue asked, feeling inwardly alarmed.
"I want to attempt to see if in the quantized evolution of the world, there is genuine change in space-time."