Volume 13: The Son of Darkness, the Lord of the Netherworld, the Happy One Chapter 10: What is the Self?
The sky was dark, without a single ray of light to be seen.
Compared to the day, the night in the underworld is more terrifying.
It's not just the reduction in light.
The daytime in the underworld is also dim, as if there are thick clouds that block out any light. It is still okay outdoors, but indoors one must have the aid of lighting.
At night, the darkness expands further and lighting is needed outdoors.
Meanwhile, at night, all kinds of distortions occur in the underworld.
For example, at night, some soul beasts, especially flying soul beasts, can break through restrictions and enter the city to hunt.
In fact, most soul beasts were in a state before this, not weak but not too strong either, and could be defeated with a little martial arts training.
As long as you don't encounter groups of soul beasts, you will be relatively safe.
The most annoying soul beast at that time was the flying soul beast.
These soul beasts are extremely smart and can see even at night. Moreover, they would choose to quietly drop some garbage from high altitudes at night when people's vision is poor.
Attack enemies on the ground by dropping objects from high altitude.
Once it injures a person severely, it will fall to the ground and hunt.
And if they encounter a weak individual acting alone, these flying soul beasts will come in groups to bully the person.
It can be said that before this, flying soul beasts have always been one of the biggest problems for the survival of all dead souls.
Only in the center of the city are there some powerful crossbows that can drive away these flying soul beasts.
Therefore, at night, except for some people moving around in the city center, most people stay at home and do nothing.
Arnold was wearing his clothes, feeling the black robe covering him. There were only two ways for the cult members to detect their own people.
One is to explore the degree of limb mutation.
At this point, he seemed to have a chance of getting away with it. After all, he had acquired some related abilities, but he just didn't grow any deformed limbs.
The second is spiritual induction.
They are able to create some fluctuations through some kind of mysterious induction.
These fluctuations can only be perceived by their distorted brains.
This is why they are able to communicate over long distances.
Although the fluctuations cannot convey enough information, it is completely sufficient to confirm identity.
If you send out vibrations and the other party cannot sense them, or if the other party is simply unable to send out vibrations, then it means that the other party is not one of you.
Arnold was not worried about this, as he had already tested the effect of the blessing given by Lu Zhu.
As long as you kill the opponent, you can gradually plunder his abilities.
Then he could completely use this ability to infiltrate the cult and disrupt their divine descent ceremony.
Just do it when you think of it.
Arnold put on a black robe and was no longer as cautious as before. Instead, he swaggered towards the cult headquarters.
They also encountered a patrol team on the road, but none of them doubted Arnold's identity.
During this process, Arnold would take decisive action when he encountered a patrol team with insufficient numbers.
Relying on surprise attacks and his body that is constantly getting stronger with hunting, his fighting power is becoming stronger and stronger.
Sometimes, however, such attacks would fail , as the strength of the cult members was not constant.
He now has the ability to kill monsters and level up, but reality can't really become a game, and even if it does, it won't be in this underworld.
These cult members are strong and weak. The weak members have some physical deformations and have grown some deformed limbs, which is equivalent to carrying a weapon that can be flexibly controlled.
The strong cult members have undergone deformations in various parts of their bodies. Their body speed has been greatly improved, and at the same time, a variety of deformed limbs have proliferated in various parts of their bodies. When necessary, they can even grow new deformed limbs out of thin air.
Most importantly, they will also have the pile in their hands.
Arnold encountered this kind of master when he was attacking a lone cult member.
This caused his infiltration to fail.
The master immediately spread mental waves, notifying all patrol teams, large and small, throughout the city that an enemy had sneaked in under disguise.
Although he later successfully killed the cult master and snatched the opponent's pile of items, he also exposed himself.
We can only retreat quickly under the cover of night.
The first infiltration attempt failed, but Lu Zhu didn’t care.
"There is something in the pile..." After all, Lu Zhu is a possible Zizaitian. Although he has only been born with one foot, he is also knowledgeable.
Now, the cult is busy with the ceremony of God's descent. Under such circumstances, it still sends people to the outside world to conduct a large-scale search for something. Then this thing must be the medium of descent.
The real bodies of those challengers are in the human world, so if they want to descend as gods, they must have felt the pressure brought by Lu Bai.
The only way to enter the underworld is through death, but after death, there is a high possibility that you will fall into the underworld and be decomposed.
Therefore, if they want to complete the descent of God completely, they must obtain enough media.
However, the extraordinary powers that belong to them in the underworld are insufficient. In fact, it is difficult for them to have a specific form and cannot accurately carry their existence, so they need another medium.
These media can only come from the spiritual world or the higher dream world.
The accumulation area itself is a "garbage dump" formed after the collision of the upper layer.
In this case, there may be an accumulation of power of their own inside.
All they need to do is collect and organize these piles of materials, and then they can be used as a medium to receive their divine descent and help them create a ghost body of their own in the underworld.
"I didn't expect that Rodella had such good luck." Lu Zhu sighed.
The underworld has a large amount of netherworld garbage, and the collision of higher-level forces has formed a lot of deposits.
In this case, being able to accurately find the accumulation of one's own strength is also a kind of luck.
"At present, it seems that this pile of materials is either covered up or too large to be transported from the pile to the city, or the pile of materials has fallen into the hands of more troublesome entities."
Soul beasts can also use accumulated objects.
Moreover, soul beasts would come in groups. Now that the soul beasts have become stronger and are rioting, even the cult would find it difficult to obtain enough things from the soul beasts.
"Use this incident to cause enough conflicts so that the members of this cult will fail completely and eliminate them at the same time."
Lu Zhu immediately issued such an order.
They are now short of manpower and can barely hide in the city with the help of the chaos.
But if they want to develop, they must not hide like this.
At the same time, the members of the cult must not be allowed to complete the God's Descent Ritual and let the Green Forest Challenger named Rodella descend into the underworld.
With this idea in mind, Lu Zhu and others immediately took action.
At this time, Arnold also discovered that the power he could absorb was gradually reaching its limit.
If he continued to absorb it, he would feel that there was something inside his body floating around, as if it could fly out of his body at any time.
This is his spirituality.
Once he becomes powerful enough, these things will ascend to the spiritual world.
Then another him is formed in the spiritual world.
He has no specific consciousness, like a soul beast.
But the two are closely related, and with the help of some methods, Arnold can even transfer his consciousness into the body of the spirit world.
This is actually a good thing for personal improvement.
But it is not a good thing for Lu Zhu now.
Arnold has his own strong personal style.
Once Arnold appears in the spirit world, other individuals in the spirit world will be able to sense it.
And this kind of induction will at least be transmitted to the cult in the underworld.
By then, many cults will obtain some information about Arnold and then surround and kill them.
"So, at this time you need to make a choice."
“Ask your own heart what you really want, and then exclude those unimportant things to form “props”.”
These props need to be refined by the old doctor so that they can become the old doctor's share. This method can be used to avoid the problem of power exceeding the upper limit of the underworld.
"We can't expose ourselves to the public, at least not now."
"After we get rid of the Rodela Cult and develop our power for a while, we can start exploring the power of the spirit world."
While Lu Zhu sent Arnold to slowly attack the Rodella Cult, Lu Bai once again woke up from his coma.
As all parties speeded up their progress, the circulation of power between the entire dimensional boundaries was also accelerating, and he was able to sense more things.
The soul beasts also showed some changes at this time.
Young buds of rainbow flowers began to appear on the bodies of some soul beasts, and the originally chaotic situation was improving.
They are turning toward them.
It’s just that soul beasts themselves are formed by the random accumulation of various things. Their nature is very chaotic. In this chaotic process, their self also appears to be very chaotic.
For example, some soul beasts come from an ordinary farmer, some come from princes and nobles, some even come from monsters from another world, and the rest come from the collision of forces from higher levels.
The composition of soul beasts comes from different dimensional worlds, different species, different identities, and different souls.
Under such circumstances, they gradually gained wisdom and began to think, think about their own existence, and think about themselves.
For example, after reaching a certain level, Lu Bai will begin to observe the essence of his own soul and reflect on his own existence.
Finally, he came to the conclusion that he was a primordial existence in the vast multiverse. Because of the possibility of the self-saved heaven, he was pushed into being by the real dimensions such as the quiet forest and the beast herd, and his soul was born.
For these soul beasts, their souls are their bodies. This kind of self-cognition and observation will come earlier than Lu Bai's and will be more in-depth.
Then, what remains in the soul will make them confused about their own existence.
