Chapter 455: The Truth of the World
Bai Jinye!
A handsome man with elegant manners who seemed to have walked out of ancient times.
The first time I uttered a foul language.
"People can be shameless, but this is the first time I've ever seen someone so shameless."
Facing Bai Jinye's words, Lin Ye's expression remained unchanged. He knew very well why Bai Jinye was angry. It was not because he felt he was shameless, but because he was a victim.
He would also be angry if it were him.
But things have already happened, so we should move on. As a man, how can we be so petty?
"Brother Bai, actually I asked you out this time because I wanted to express my apology to you, but I didn't expect you to be so angry. I was too sentimental and overestimated my friendship with you and your generosity."
Bai Jinye was silent for a while, then said, "I was wrong before."
Then, there was a long silence.
"Do you want to make a deal? Goodbye if you don't!"
Bai Jinye obviously didn't want to continue talking to Lin Ye, and Lin Ye's expression also became serious.
"Do!"
"what would you like?"
According to the transaction rules of the third pawnshop, the other party first makes a request, which can be an item, or something else, or even help in killing someone.
"I want to know everything, all the truth about the Lord of the Underworld, about the Martial Ancestor, and even about the gods."
This is the purpose of Lin Ye returning to the real world to find Bai Jinye. Lao Shi is still hiding many things from him, and among all the people he knows, only Bai Jinye can give him answers.
"You have quite an appetite. Do you want to know the whole truth?"
Bai Jinye had a playful expression on his face: "There are some truths that even I don't know."
Hearing Bai Jinye's words, Lin Ye retreated and said, "Just tell me the truth you know."
Bai Jinye was silent again .
"According to the pawnshop rules, if the other party makes any request that I can do, I cannot refuse it. If you want to know the truth, I can tell you, but are you sure you can afford the corresponding conditions?"
"Brother Bai, tell me first, what do I need to pay?"
Lin Ye knew that Bai Jinye would not tell him the truth for free, so he was now waiting for Bai Jinye to name a price.
"Your soul!"
"My soul?" Lin Ye frowned and said, "Brother Bai should know that when one cultivates to the Yuan Shen realm, the soul no longer exists."
The Yuanshen figure in Yuanshen realm is condensed from the soul. The strong people in Yuanshen realm do not have souls.
"Of course, there is no soul in the Yuanshen realm, but if you can enter the realm of the gods, you will have a soul again. What I want is your soul. If you fail to enter the realm of the gods, then this business will be considered a loss for my pawn shop."
Lin Ye rolled his eyes. It was a loss, but it was also a loss for Bai Jinye to say that.
It's just buying the truth, he really doesn't know where the pawnshop's cost comes from?
"Don't look at me like that. In modern terms, information cost is also a cost. A person's identity information can be sold for dozens of dollars, not to mention that what you want to know is the world's top secret."
Bai Jinye seemed to know what Lin Ye was thinking and explained it to him.
“In other words, if I enter the realm of gods, I will give you my soul?” Lin Ye frowned. If that was the case, he would obviously suffer a huge loss in this deal.
"It's not that you will give your soul to me after you enter the realm of gods, but that your soul will belong to me when you die." Bai Jinye corrected Lin Ye's words.
"After I die?"
After listening to Bai Jinye's words, Lin Ye thought about it carefully and felt that it seemed that he was not at a disadvantage at all.
If I die, I don’t care what happens after my death.
"You collect the bodies of those gods because they once made deals with you and gave their souls to you after their death?"
Just when Lin Ye was about to agree, he suddenly thought of the scene he saw at that time, those bloody fallen gods, Bai Jinye recruited them into the pawnshop one by one.
"That's right."
Bai Jinye admitted it.
"Why did you take the bodies of these gods to the pawnshop?" Lin Ye asked.
"Only when we reach an agreement will I tell you the truth, including the question you just asked."
After that, Bai Jinye stopped talking and gave the choice to Lin Ye.
"make a deal!"
Lin Ye hesitated for only three seconds before agreeing. Just as he had thought before, if he really died, it would have nothing to do with him what Bai Jinye did with his soul.
"Start asking." After the deal was reached, Bai Jinye said directly.
"I ask?" Lin Ye was surprised.
"How about I tell you the story? I'm afraid I can't finish it even if I tell you for three days and three nights. Why did the heaven and earth come into being? Do you want to listen too?"
Facing Bai Jinye's question, Lin Ye's mouth twitched and said, "Okay, then I'll ask."
"First question: What is the origin of the Lord of the Underworld?"
In the many scenes that Lin Ye saw, he did not see the origin of the Lord of the Underworld. He only knew that when the Lord of the Underworld appeared in the other world, he was already playing the role of a prophet.
Wu Zu and others are all followers of the Lord of the Underworld.
"Incarnated by the will of heaven and earth, in fact, the earliest gods were all incarnated by the will of heaven and earth. They represent the different laws of heaven and earth."
Bai Jinye did not keep Lin Ye in suspense. Without waiting for Lin Ye to ask, he continued, "You can think of the so-called will of heaven and earth as the master of the entire heaven and earth, or as the existence that created this heaven and earth. When I say the entire heaven and earth, it is not just this world, but also the world where the Martial Ancestor is, and other worlds as well."
"The ruler of all the heavens and worlds, a creator-like existence, right?"
Thanks to having read a lot of online novels, Lin Ye quickly understood the meaning of Bai Jinye's words.
"In fact, it's just like Pangu in the mythological story. All the gods are transformed from Pangu's spirit, energy and vitality." Lin Ye added.
"You can understand it that way." Bai Jinye agreed with Lin Ye's words.
"Then what part of the will of heaven and earth is the Lord of the Underworld?"
"have no idea."
Bai Jinye shook his head and said, "The origin of the Lord of the Underworld remains a mystery. What is certain is that she is indeed part of the will of heaven and earth, but there is no way to trace what kind of power she represents."
"Let me explain it to you more clearly. The will of heaven and earth is not the same as the way of heaven. The so-called way of heaven is only a part of the will of heaven and earth. It is the part that remains after the will of heaven and earth is stripped of many gods and spirits."
"Understand, why do those gods need human belief and worship?"
From the scenes that Lin Ye had seen, in primitive times, these gods made humans believe in them, and then helped humans resist natural disasters and diseases. Since they were transformed by the will of heaven and earth, they were already gods, and logically speaking, they did not need these.
Unless, these gods need human faith to achieve a certain purpose.
"They want to become the new will of heaven and earth, and all living beings in the world are also transformed by the will of heaven and earth. It is the most popular energy of the will of heaven and earth. This energy makes all things in the world very fragile compared to these gods, but if you want to become the new will of heaven and earth, you need this power."
"To give a modern example, cells are very common. Everyone has a lot of them. Compared to some important organs, cells seem insignificant, but cells are the foundation of the human body. Without cells, it means death."
Bai Jinye’s example was very easy to understand and Lin Ye understood it instantly.
Gods are the power of the will of heaven and earth. Each god controls the power of a law, and all living things in the world are also part of the will of heaven and earth, but they are more common.
If these gods want to become the will of heaven and earth, they can only do so by gaining the faith of all living things. That is why in the early primitive times, wars broke out among various tribes due to different beliefs.
Bai Jinye continued to tell the story.
The Lord of the Underworld appeared in the era of the gods' conquests, not only in the other world, but also in other worlds. She wanted to stop all things in the world from killing each other under the manipulation of the gods, but in many worlds, the Lord of the Underworld failed.
These worlds were eventually either controlled by a certain god or destroyed in battles of conquest.
The continuous failures made the Lord of the Underworld somewhat discouraged, and she disappeared for a while.
When the Lord of the Underworld appears again, it is in another world, also called the underworld.
The underworld is very special. Life in this world was born relatively late. When the Lord of the Underworld arrived, all living things in the world had just been born not long ago.
This is also a world that the Lord of the Underworld is specifically looking for.
After experiencing failure in so many worlds, the Lord of the Underworld discovered that a major reason for the failure was that those worlds had been completely controlled by the gods.
The underworld is not there yet.
These gods transformed by the will of heaven and earth can only descend into the world if there is enough faith. The creatures in the underworld have just been born and there is not enough faith, so those gods cannot come in.
The Lord of the Underworld chose the underworld after learning from his past failures.
Although the gods cannot descend, they can influence the creatures in this dark world through other means.
By performing miracles, the god selects so-called believers to become the high priests of a tribe, making the entire tribe believe in the god.
The Lord of the Underworld did the opposite. She chose to teach these creatures the skills of survival, teaching them how to identify herbs and how to obtain food...
During this period, the Lord of the Underworld also gathered a group of followers...
Lin Ye knew all of this.
But he didn't expect that the Lord of the Underworld had experienced so many failures before this.
But it was obvious that in the underworld, the Lord of the Underworld had actually failed, because the power of those gods still seeped in, and even the early Martial Ancestor was repelled.
"With so many gods, how could the Lord of the Underworld fight against them alone..."
Bai Jinye also sighed slightly: "What's more, for some creatures, there is nothing wrong with believing in gods. As long as they borrow the power of gods, they can cure diseases and get food. Why do they have to work hard to get it themselves?"
Lin Ye also sighed in his heart. People are lazy, so it is understandable that the Lord of the Underworld failed.
"What is the price that those who believe in gods need to pay?"
If believing in gods is the only thing and there are no side effects, then from the perspective of these creatures, believing in gods is the best choice.
As the saying goes, it is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish. The premise of this saying is that the fish will not always be available.
"The price is your soul!"
Bai Jinye's words reminded Lin Ye of a popular saying in the Western world.
If you want to gain the power of the devil, you must first sacrifice your soul to the devil.
"Before the Lord of the Underworld created the Underworld, there was no concept of souls, or rather, those gods called the souls of living beings fragments of will."
"The fragments of the will of heaven and earth created all things. If a god wants to become the new will of heaven and earth, he needs to collect these fragments of will. The more he collects, the more likely he is to become the new will."
Soul is just a name, it can also be called other things, but fragment of will should be the most accurate adjective.
In other words, the soul is bestowed upon living beings by the will of heaven and earth, and this is what the gods need.
etc!
Lin Ye raised his eyebrow. Doesn’t this third pawnshop also want to collect souls?
Since the first time he met Bai Jinye, Bai Jinye wanted souls whenever he made deals with others.
"The pawnshop is also collecting will fragments?"
"This is a secret of the pawn shop. I cannot tell you."
Bai Jinye's words made Lin Ye roll his eyes, but he thought that the Third Pawn Shop should have different purposes from those gods, otherwise, with the transaction form of the Third Pawn Shop, the souls collected would probably be just a drop in the ocean of those gods.
"So the Lord of the Underworld created the underworld, allowing the fragments of the will of living beings to go to the underworld and reincarnate. This is standing in opposition to all the gods." Lin Ye continued to ask: "Did those gods let the Lord of the Underworld create the underworld?"
"As I said before, the underworld is relatively primitive, and those gods cannot descend in person. With only the few miracles they have shown, they are no match for the Lord of the Underworld. Even if they are angry, they can do nothing. Of course, the most important thing is... those gods think that the Lord of the Underworld is too fanciful, and the underworld will never succeed."
Bai Jinye sighed, "The underworld is indeed an unimaginable creation, but this road is very difficult and the way forward is unclear. At least in the eyes of the gods at that time, the Lord of the Underworld could not succeed. In fact, after the creation of the underworld, there were indeed constant problems and it almost collapsed several times."
"But in the end, the Lord of the Underworld succeeded. Living beings can go to the underworld to reincarnate, and there is more than one world, right?"
In addition to the other world, the underworld also exists in the real world at least, and these are just the two worlds he has been to. Lin Ye believes that the underworld also exists in some worlds he has not been to.
"You are wrong. The underworld failed in the end." Bai Jinye shook his head: "The reason why the underworld exists in this world is because the Taoist and Buddha were born in this world."
"The first two people in the universe to cultivate to the divine realm with the bodies of living beings."
When mentioning Taoism and Buddha, Bai Jinye's eyes showed a rare hint of admiration.
