Chapter 216: Man-Made Concepts and God-Made Concepts
Water Building.
Top floor.
The sun rises as usual.
The warm and bright sunshine falls down.
Chen Ji sits at the desk, flipping through a book of secret techniques.
"The Great Dream Heart Sutra".
This is a work personally recommended by the Ancient One Venerable, and its value is self-evident.
In the book.
It also records in detail the mysteries of various dreams and human thinking.
Thinking.
It is one of the sources of dreams.
Even modern science has not fully penetrated the mysteries of the brain, and it is impossible to understand and cure the problems of the brain.
In simple terms, thinking represents illusion, and flesh and blood represent entity.
The current mainstream view is that thinking is a neural signal, a form of electromagnetic wave.
However, in the field of secret practice, consciousness is equivalent to personality, and personality is equivalent to soul.
Once the personality is annihilated, the soul will also undergo a qualitative change.
Just like undergoing an organ transplant, the patient will experience changes in personality.
This is the beginning of the fusion of two souls.
The soul is universally present in all substances in the human body.
Even if you fall asleep, your brain will not stop running, and it will silently process a huge amount of data, which is also called the subconscious.
Dreams are also a projection of the subconscious.
It represents desires and obsessions, and symbolizes flaws and expectations.
This has formed a variety of strange dream worlds.
In theory.
The number of dream worlds is no less than the infinite multiverse, because any intelligent life can produce dreams.
However, dreams cannot last forever, and will only be born and die during sleep.
However, the dimensional lords and ancient beings can make dreams last forever, and interpret everything in the dream world into a TV series!
"It's almost the same as I guessed."
"Dreams are generally divided into five levels, surface dreams, shallow dreams, middle dreams, deep dreams, and lost areas."
"And these five levels of dreams are not what I understand, the upper and lower relationships, the progressive relationship."
"How can I describe it most appropriately...?"
Chen Ji's eyes flashed.
Suddenly.
He thought of the Rubik's Cube in the real world.
The Rubik's Cube has a total of six faces.
Each cut surface has a different color, and each color represents a layer of dream.
Then, if the Rubik's Cube is completely disrupted, different dreams will appear in the same space.
Therefore, when he travels through the dream world, even if he breaks through a layer of dream, he does not leave the current plane.
Because the dream is a disrupted Rubik's Cube!
Even...
As the nightmare lord, Nightmare can easily interfere with the dream and actively rotate and switch the Rubik's Cube.
Therefore, he will jump back and forth in the same plane, that is, the deep dream, and almost fall into the lost field.
But he turned the pages of the book, but did not see the description of the "power of unified dreams".
Could it be that the author of this book does not have the power of unified dreams?
"It does provide a few small methods to see through the dream and quickly locate the upper dream."
Chen Ji raised the corner of his mouth.
This is not without gain.
If he enters the dream again, even if the nightmare appears again, he will not be trapped in the quagmire and jump back and forth in front of the nightmare.
In short.
The dream is a structure like a Rubik's Cube.
If you want to see through dreams, first of all, you must understand dreams and understand the form of dreams. You cannot move frequently.
Because this will get farther and farther away from the surface dream, and will also exhaust your physical strength!
Therefore, standing still is the safest way.
When the dream switches again, the surface dream and the deep dream are connected, and naturally, you can sense the appearance of dream rifts.
The hypothesis of the five-layer dream is also to make it easier for the secret magician to master the dream.
In the field of secret practice, the ability of association is greater than imagination.
"So that's it..."
"Stand still?"
"The answer is on the puzzle."
Chen Ji laughed dumbly.
If it weren't for protecting Riven, maybe he could also solve the mystery of the dream by himself. He had a hunch that the dream world was opposed to the multiverse.
It's like the relationship between the mirror dimension and the real world.
After all, dreams cover a very large range. All living beings can dream, and traveling to other universes through dreams is also recorded in the Dark God Book.
But it is limited to soul crossing.
Everything in the world has its own laws of operation.
Even the Nightmare Lord cannot break this law.
"Once the Nightmare takes away the soul, the dreamer will become a vegetable..."
"So, can the Nightmare control the vegetable?"
Chen Ji frowned.
He was not afraid of the power of the Nightmare.
Because the Nightmare is only [invincible in dreams], and its power will be greatly reduced after leaving the dream world.
But what he cares more about is the method of the Nightmare interfering with reality, and where is the limit of the power of the dream?
"The power of runes, the power of secret arts, the power of dream control, the hidden power of time..."
"The power of winter, the factor of the gods..."
"The power I have is really diverse."
Chen Ji's eyes were full of expectation.
As early as [Taoism], he had already felt that the power in his body was gradually melting into one furnace.
The rune seed also grew into an ancient bronze tree!
But the power of the ancient bronze tree has not yet evolved, and he is looking forward to what level his exclusive power will be at!
What name will be given by the entry system!
After all, the entry name determines the entry effect.
Chen Ji exhaled lightly.
He flipped through another "Book of the Soul" again.
This book involves the knowledge of the soul, describes the power of the soul, and tries to infer the origin of the soul.
The book is full of various professional terms, and the author's own terms and words seem time-consuming and difficult to understand, which makes Chen Ji feel helpless.
But he suddenly saw a sentence, like a dazzling thunder, which instantly fixed his sight!
"The word soul itself has magic."
"Perhaps, before the word soul was created, the soul did not exist at all, only instinct."
Chen Ji's eyes widened.
He seemed to realize something!
Word?
Concept?
What is the difference between prehistoric apes and modern humans?
"... Knowledge!"
Chen Ji asked himself and answered.
In an instant.
A smile immediately appeared on his face, and he finally understood the foundation of the soul.
Soul
It is not a signal, nor is it energy. It is actually a concept, a mysterious substance that is a fusion of words and knowledge!
As the author infers, before the word soul appears, who would realize the existence of the soul?
Who would care about the existence of the soul?
The concept of the soul comes first, and then the real soul appears!
This is essentially a causal relationship!
Moreover, the book also mentions that the strength of the soul depends on its own beliefs. By carving reality through thoughts, if the collective belief is strong enough, it can shake the reality.
Therefore, the gods of the earth and the ancient existences, including the Lord of the Dimension, will secretly establish various sects to collect the beliefs of intelligent life.
Because the carving of intelligent life has given the gods the power of immortality...!
And the best carrier of concepts is books and words.
Words.
Let the illusory concept have a real carrier, and let the operation of imagination have room to take off.
At this moment, Chen Ji finally understood why the powerful Lord of the Dimension, the Old Ones, and even the God of the Underworld, Xisong, would write a book personally.
This is not only to spread fear, but also to maintain "existence".
If all traces of it in the world disappear, including text, stories, myths, legends...
Then, does He also disappear?
"Perhaps... I should also create a book, and upload what I have learned to the universe's spiritual veins in the form of a book."
"Leave a legacy that belongs exclusively to me..."
Chen Ji's eyes were shining.
At this moment, he finally realized how to upload the secret technique he created to the spiritual vein!
The answer was obvious.
That is--
book!
But he did not start writing immediately. He already had a vague idea in his mind, but it was not clear and definite enough.
So, he opened the book of secrets again, "Starry Ceremony".
This book of secrets is an advanced work of "Astral Projection".
It mainly describes the origin and origin of the starry world.
This is the dimension created by the goddess of light, Oshit.
In fact, it was not created by her, but a dimensional space that she materialized using the inspiration, creativity, and imagination of intelligent life.
The starry world has some colors of dreams, but it is higher than dreams.
Because dreams only appear during sleep.
The astral world can receive all kinds of inspiration and creativity at all times, and the two will intersect at certain moments.
Once the soul leaves the body, the soul of the mystic mage will appear in the astral world.
The astral world is inhabited by all kinds of fantasy creatures and all kinds of strange things, including movies, novels, and animations created by humans...
Even a piece of text, incubated based on collective beliefs, can be born in the astral world!
This dimension is all-encompassing.
Only powerful mystic masters and psychics can distinguish between fantasy and reality without getting lost in it!
"Fantasy creatures...?"
"Doesn't that mean that there are also two-dimensional paper people in the astral world?"
Chen Ji's eyes flashed.
He really hasn't explored the astral world.
He only has a preliminary understanding of this world, and doesn't think that the astral world has anything to do with him.
However.
After reading "The Festival of the Astral World", he also had a completely different feeling.
Because all artificial concepts in the real world will have entities in the astral world!
Concept.
There is also a distinction between innate and acquired, and a distinction between artificial concepts and divine concepts!
The concept of God creation is the thing that appeared at the same time as the Big Bang.
Whoever first gave the relevant thing a name, he or she also mastered the authority of this thing!
For example, eternity, infinity, entropy and death!
For example, the characters created by Cangjie, the giant that Ymir called himself...
This is the concept of God creation!
As for the concept of man-made, it belongs to the acquired concept, the name given by intelligent life after the birth of intelligent life.
For example, dreams and imagination, brain holes and inspiration, crafts, art, calligraphy...
It also includes "Tao"!
However, because the concept of God creation has taken the position of the artificial concept in advance, the artificial concept cannot be manifested through matter.
This field was even deprived by the goddess of light Osit!
The star realm.
Rather than saying it is a world, it is better to say it is a prison!
The goddess of light, Oshit, blocked the way for humans to become gods. Even if they created concepts, they could not control them!
Therefore, in the vast infinite multiverse, there would be no gods of technology, cars, animation, etc.
All kinds of strange gods.
Of course.
This group of artificial gods do not exist, but they live in the astral world and cannot leave it.
Or, in other words, this group of artificial gods do not know that they are in the astral world.
"Real... false..."
"Is the world I live in real?"
"Is it possible that it is just a dream of the gods of the universe?"
Chen Ji's eyes flashed.
Secretly speculated.
Even modern scientists have proposed more than once that the universe may be virtual!
Because the distance between the earth and the sun, and the distance between the moon and the earth are extremely similar.
Even a slight difference may make the earth a dead star, let alone breed human beings!
Even "bugs" frequently occur all over the world.
There are too many supernatural phenomena in nature that cannot be explained by science and metaphysics.
For example...
Mirage!
According to the explanation of modern science, this is an illusion caused by the refraction and reflection of light.
However.
The facts are quite the opposite.
This is not an empty illusion at all, but a dream of some ancient existence, which manifested into reality under a strong will!
Only mystical magicians and mysterious practitioners can enter it and gain adventures and gifts from dreams.
Maybe...
This is how Mandarin's ten rings came from!
"So that's it."
Chen Ji nodded secretly.
Immediately, he began to read "The Book of Ghostly Magic" again.
This book is similar to the semi-chronological biography, from a legendary magician in the prehistoric mythological era.
He is particularly good at spiritual projection, and has also sneaked into various dimensions and different planes for field investigations.
Not only does it depict the concept of the five-fold dream, but it also tells the magnificent astral world, the tragic scenes of countless hells, and even the nine realms.
However...
Through the "Book of the Spirit" and "The Book of Ghostly Magic", they are compared with each other.
Chen Ji immediately discovered a horrifying fact.
It seems that the astral dimension is also undergoing major changes with the passage of time, the explosion of human technology, and the digital information age.
The manifestation of the astral world is also different in different eras.
This made Chen Ji fall into deep thought.
Could it be that the collective consciousness of intelligent life has a greater impact on the dimensional dimension than he imagined?
Energy rings and twelve spells...
How can they become his anchor?
Will the mysterious lord he described also appear in... the astral world?
A series of question marks emerged in his mind.
Chen Ji exhaled gently.
He immediately realized that he should go to the astral world and investigate the truth of the astral world to verify his guess!
Even...
Try to find the coordinates of the cosmic god through dreams, and solve the cosmic god on the verge of hatching through dreams!
This is the most convenient method he can think of!
Since the soul, lost in the dream world, will become a vegetable...
Then, the soul of the cosmic god, lost in the dream world, will also become a vegetable god!
Wasn’t the imminent awakening of God successfully resolved?