The Dao Guides the Star Hub

My name is Lin Shen, and I'm a deep-space observer.

I used to think the universe was nothing but cold equations and data, until I found an ancient bronze talisman deep in the Qinling Mountains.

Quantum waveforms matched the patterns of its runes.

Dark energy strings corresponded to what Daoists call qi.

Wormhole jumps turned out to be the legendary “ascension.”

So the Dao isn't mysticism or superstition.

It's the universe's most fundamental law of physics.

When I drew qi into my body and resonated with the stars;

when I used a talisman as a key to open a door between the stars;

when a civilization billions of light-years away recited the Qingjing Jing to me

At last, I understood:

The Dao and I were always meant to be connected.

The universe and I were always one.

Quantum theory in my left hand, talismans in my right.

Here in the mortal world, I knock upon the gates of the universe.