Chapter 933: Incarnation Outside the Body and the Second Soul
After merging and suppressing the bone claws of time, Ye Zan now has one bone claw in each of his hands, perhaps it can be said that his hands are no longer his own. Of course, due to the suppression of the bone claws and the special shape of the bone claws, this did not have as much impact on Ye Zan's hands as imagined.
Although he came out of the laboratory, Ye Zan did not give up the research on bone claws, but he did not focus on it anymore. The auxiliary chip in his brain has taken on the task of studying the bone claw at this time, and is doing in-depth research on the divine substance in the bone claw all the time.
Ye Zan came outside the laboratory, originally planning to do other research, but saw a few clones that were left as a way out.
Before, Ye Zan was worried about accidents with the fused bone claws, so he deliberately bred a few clones, and prepared to take them away when there was a serious problem with the physical body. But now, the fusion of the bone claws has been completed, and there is no problem with the physical body, so these clones are naturally useless.
These clones don't have any self-will, and they are just for the convenience of Ye Zan when he seizes the house. And having no will means that they are just "it" instead of "he", just clones instead of clones. Therefore, even if it is destroyed now, there is no ethical problem, it is no different from destroying a few corpses.
However, when preparing to destroy the clones, Ye Zan suddenly thought of another problem, or another use of these clones.
You know, Ye Zan is now at the Yuanshen Realm, and he can split his soul and place it on other objects to refine the so-called incarnation outside the body. However, until now, Ye Zan has not had an incarnation outside his body, at most he is distracted and possessed, just like the first time he saw Ye Ping'an.
Incarnation outside the body, to put it bluntly, is a kind of avatar, which can share many things like another self without the restrictions of distraction. As for the strength of the avatar outside the body, in addition to depending on how much power the deity distributes, the things used by the avatar are also very important.
In this world, many ascetics cultivate external incarnations, basically using magic weapons as the basis for incarnations. The reason is very simple. Most of the magic weapons are much stronger than the physical body, and they often have a certain amount of mana stored in them. This means that the incarnation outside the body cultivated by using the magic weapon not only has a stronger body than the deity, but also does not require too much mana from the deity.
Of course, the magic weapon as the basis of the incarnation outside the body is not the most perfect.
The first problem is that such an incarnation based on magic weapons will be very limited in terms of Taoism and spells. A magic weapon with the power of water, after being refined into an incarnation outside the body, it can still only cast water-like spells. Unless, you can find a magic weapon that has all the five elements, only the external avatar that can be refined can have all the five elements. However, magic weapons with all five elements are either extremely rubbish or extremely rare. Either way,
None of them are suitable for external avatars.
The second problem is that the strength limit of the incarnation outside the body will be limited by the quality of the magic weapon. To use an analogy, this magic weapon, which is the foundation of the incarnation outside the body, is like a bucket used to hold water. The size of the bucket determines how much water it can hold. If it's a big bucket, you can fill it with a little water, or you can fill it up with water. However, facing a small bucket, if you just want to fill it with more water, that is also impossible.
In the final analysis, or that sentence, there is nothing perfect in the world.
In addition, incarnation outside the body is only one method of body avatar, and there is another more famous method of avatar, which is called the second soul.
Back then, when Ye Zan went to Tiandao Mountain for the first time, he participated in a black prison activity and gained a lot of benefits from it. In addition to the monarch-level evil orb secretly sent by Taoist Linghua because of mobilizing the formation in advance, he also obtained a general-level soul orb by virtue of his own ability.
That general-level soul orb, for most ascetics, is actually the most suitable material for cultivating the second soul.
Moreover, later in the small world of Immortal Palace, Ye Zan used the soul orb to purify the Nether Sea in the small world, and even promoted the soul orb to the level of a monarch. Using monarch-level soul orbs as the material of the second soul can no longer be said to be inappropriate, but can be called a luxury.
However, in order to use the special ability of the soul orb to provide smart chips for the smart products he made, Ye Zan did not engage in any second soul. In his opinion, the use of the second soul is not very attractive except for giving him an extra life. It might as well be used to make smart chips.
Speaking of this, I have to talk about a very important difference between the external incarnation and the second soul.
It can be said that the incarnation outside the body is an extra puppet clone controlled by himself. If something happens to the deity, no matter how strong the avatar is, and no matter how safe it is hidden, it will die with him. On the other hand, if something happens to the incarnation outside the body, the impact on the deity will be a loss of distraction. The loss of a distraction will also cause considerable damage to the primordial spirit of the deity.
This is also the reason why, although the method of cultivating the incarnation outside the body is not a secret, few people will try it. After all, the bonus in terms of strength that the avatar can provide is not enough to make everyone willing to ignore such risks.
And the second soul, as a method of avatar, seems to be just creating an avatar. However, the connection between this second soul and the deity is not a simple master-slave relationship. Although there are differences between the two, they are more like a relationship of equality and juxtaposition, just like adding a brother to the deity. Although the two brothers have a close blood relationship, if the eldest brother dies accidentally, the younger brother will definitely not be brought to die together.
In other words, if the deity dies unexpectedly, the second soul will not disappear with the deity like an incarnation outside the body. Moreover, when the deity dies, the second soul actually becomes the new deity in a sense. The reverse is also the same, if the second soul is killed, it will also not have a substantial impact on the deity, at most it will only make the deity feel distressed.
Therefore, this method of cultivating the second soul can actually be said to be a life-saving method, which is equivalent to giving people an extra life.
However, as the saying goes, nothing in the world is perfect.
The cultivation of the second soul is more difficult than the incarnation outside the body, and it can even be said to be much more dangerous.
To cultivate the incarnation outside the body is to separate out a distraction, attach it to an object to be an incarnation, and then practice by casting spells. This avatar has no sever connection with the deity, so it is not like cutting out a piece of flesh from the primordial spirit. Unless the external avatar is destroyed by the enemy, the deity can take back the distraction in the external avatar at any time.
But to cultivate the second soul, one needs to truly split one's soul into two parts, so as to achieve a certain sense of relative independence. It's like cutting an earthworm into two pieces, and then let the two pieces of earthworm grow into two independent earthworms.
You must know that if a distraction is destroyed, it will cause serious damage to the original soul, let alone split the original soul into two like this.
Although, cultivating the second soul is not really as simple and rude as cutting earthworms, regardless of the consequences, but there are still great risks involved. Moreover, no matter how clever your method is to separate the primordial spirit, a division is a division, and less is less. This will lead to whether it is the deity or the second soul after division, the future path will be more difficult, and there may even be no future at all.
Therefore, those who choose to cultivate the second soul are generally those who know that their future is hopeless, and at the same time they cherish their lives extremely. For this kind of people, there is no future to speak of anyway, and having multiple Second Souls can give them one more life, this business is still very cost-effective. Moreover, if you are really a person of great luck, you may encounter some opportunity to make up for this defect.
Facing the clones he had prepared before, Ye Zan thought of the methods of avatars outside his body and second souls. The plan in his heart was obviously very clear, he just wanted to create a few clones for himself. However, he neither intends to create an incarnation outside the body, nor does he intend to create a second soul, or he wants to combine the two in order to obtain an avatar that better suits his needs.
It's not that Ye Zan is whimsical, it's not that people in this world are stupid and unexpected, it's just that people in this world don't have the conditions like him. In this world, who can clone his own body like him, and can take away his physical body without any burden.
Ye Zan just did it when he thought of it. Although he had planned to study other things before, but now that he wanted to practice avatars, he immediately changed his original plan. He gave the artificial intelligence an order to send several clones to the dormant cabin in a hurry, and sent them to another laboratory arranged as a quiet room, and then he followed.
When he came to the laboratory, several clones had already been placed. Ye Zan came to the center of the room, and did not start to do it immediately, but deduced all of them in his mind. After all, even if there is such an advantage as a clone, it is not simply a matter of attaching a distraction, and there are still many problems to consider.
In particular, what Ye Zan wants to do is to combine the advantages of the incarnation outside the body and the second soul, rather than simply choosing a certain ready-made method.
If you simply use the method of incarnation outside the body, the incarnation of the clone is not comparable to the incarnation of the magic weapon. Not to mention the weakness of the physical body, it also wastes the advantages of sustainable development. However, simply using the method of the second soul will do too much damage to the original soul, and there are many risks in it.
Only by combining the strengths and weaknesses of the two methods can we get a clone that is not necessarily perfect, but more in line with Ye Zan's needs.
The cultivation methods of incarnation and second soul outside the body are well known in this world, and Ye Zan is naturally not lacking here. He sat in the middle of the room, knowing that several clones were surrounded by the environment, and the auxiliary chip also allocated more than half of the computing power to quickly calculate various envisioned plans.
After a long time, Ye Zan finally had a detailed plan, and an instruction was sent to the artificial intelligence of the research center, and the dormant cabins of several clones were all opened. Immediately afterwards, Ye Zan pinched the magic formula with his hand, and a huge figure appeared in the realm of true knowledge, which was the original soul sitting cross-legged on the green leaf lotus platform.
Following the transformation of the formula in Ye Zan's hand, the primordial spirit sitting cross-legged on the green leaf lotus platform suddenly trembled slightly, and an illusory shadow flew out. That illusory shadow has the same appearance as the original soul, but it looks far less solid than the original soul.
This distraction doesn't mean pulling a piece from the deity's soul like pulling cotton and throwing it over. If you want to be truly distracted, then the part that is separated must have a complete primordial form. In other words, if the deity has the primordial spirit, the distracted spirit is also indispensable, but it is much weaker in all aspects.
At this time, Ye Zan raised his hand and pointed at a clone, and the phantom that had been floating next to the original soul immediately floated towards the clone. In the blink of an eye, the phantom landed on the clone body, and slowly sank into the clone's sea of consciousness.
Following the entrance of that distraction, the body of the clone also changed suddenly, and a series of avenue runes emerged on the naked body, as if it had been tattooed all over its body. The avenue rune keeps flickering, and uses energy like light mist to adapt to the physical body of the clone.
Since this clone was originally cultivated with Ye Zan's cells, it is not much different from Ye Zan's real body. The power of the avenue rune, naturally, would not take much time to transform the cloned body, and it dissipated without a trace in a blink of an eye.
After the avenue rune disappeared, the clone slowly opened its eyes, sat up from the dormant cabin, and looked at Ye Zan who was sitting cross-legged in the center of the room.
At this time, Ye Zan felt a strange feeling. He looked at himself sitting in the middle of the room, and then at himself sitting in the dormant cabin.
"It's interesting. Before I was distracted by the robot, I didn't have such an obvious sense of division. This clone is really different from ordinary distractions." Ye Zan looked at himself, a little novel, and a little funny.
In fact, it can be said that being distracted by other things is like extending one's five senses. Just like usual, you pinch your thumb and index finger together, you can feel the skin of the index finger from the thumb, or you can feel the skin of the thumb from the index finger.
But now, Ye Zan is not just attaching distraction to the clone, but the will to separate distraction and become a clone. In this way, it is no longer touching oneself in the usual sense, but like two independent people with strong telepathy. "I" can be the "I" sitting in the middle of the room, or the "I" sitting in the sleeping cabin, or it can be two "I" at the same time.