Volume 16: The Wheel of Reincarnation Chapter 37 The Truth
Can a person live without a heart? A person will die without a heart.
After receiving the initiation, Li Lin more or less understood some basic views on life and death in the Eastern world. It must be said that this was completely different from the previous world.
The body is a boat that crosses the sea of suffering. Everything is based on the body. If it is separated from the body, the soul is just as bright and fragile as the morning dew. The Eastern worldview focuses on reincarnation and the unity of body and soul. The real strong are all perfect combinations of body and soul, and finally reach the realm of heaven and man where the body is immortal and the soul is indestructible.
Unlike the omniscience and omnipotence advocated by the magic world, the Eastern worldview pursues metaphysical transcendence and great transcendence. Therefore, the combination of soul and flesh is undoubtedly the most perfect as the most useful magic weapon to achieve great perfection. Nothing is more suitable for oneself than one's own flesh, so nothing can be more precious than the flesh. This can be said to be a typical point in the Eastern worldview.
Compared to the Old World, where even the remnants of gods can still call the wind and rain, this is absolutely impossible in the Eastern World.
The soul and the flesh are inseparable. Without the soul, it is just a living piece of meat. Without the flesh, it is a soul at the mercy of others. There may be special methods that can make the soul produce some combat power, but it is not at the same level as the level of the soul and flesh combined.
The gods in the old world are also dead gods after death. The broken gods that were polluted on the wreckage are just a little bit of flesh and blood left, and they can distort the surrounding time and space to try to achieve their own ideas. However, in the Eastern worldview, those who can have this ability are all powerful monks. And ordinary monks - here refers to monks who can even reach the level of demigods in the old world, but they are still just ghosts that will be reduced to ashes in the morning sun.
There is no secret method like ghost cultivation. A soul without a physical body is nothing but a mixture of some memory fragments and obsessions, and it has very few special abilities.
The residual souls in the old world can still call the wind and rain, just like humans. But the residual souls in the Eastern worldview are nothing more than a wisp of thought, a ray of morning sun. Once they encounter a monk or a normal person with strong blood and luck, they will fall apart like snow meeting the morning sun.
This unique and pure view of life and death, which is either one or all, leads to the emergence of the vision of reincarnation. Every person whose body is destroyed hopes that his true spirit will never die, and puts his soul into some new bodies, which then continue to grow into bodies that can be cultivated to perfection. What they pursue is the ultimate and perfect transcendence, which is the most terrifying obsession in the world.
They want to achieve supreme transcendence with their own spirit, their own appearance, and everything about themselves.
This is the true "I am the only one who matters" and I do not seek any external methods.
However, this practice method that pursues perfection and extremes ultimately requires a non-attachment mentality , requiring flowers to be half-opened, wine to be slightly drunk, and not to be entangled in obsession. Think about it, a practice method that requires perfect transcendence in action is combined with such a mentality, which is almost contrary to the practice method itself. This extremely conflicting worldview concept leads to the annihilation of their souls and bodies from time to time, and practitioners often live a life that normal humans find creepy.
They constantly studied various natural phenomena for their own consciousness and actions, hoping to obtain the knowledge they needed from the endless evolution of nature. And finally deduced the theory of Tai Chi Yin Yang, using these natural phenomena to improve their own spiritual and physical balance.
Of course, this does not mean that their strength is weak. On the contrary, it means that if they do not borrow these things, their own strength will even easily destroy them.
This is the absolute violence brought about by absolute perfectionism, but this perfection itself is also an imperfection, and they need a variety of objects to assist themselves.
The most important thing, or the most important thing for ordinary non-protagonist monks, is their own preparation for reincarnation.
After all, no one can guarantee that he is destined to be immortal, so it is safer to change his body and try again.
After being led into the door by Bai Xiaosheng and solving those messy puzzles, Li Lin finally gained control of part of the Sky Eye Divine Calculation and finally got some information about this world. But even if it was only part of the information, he still felt an inexplicable shock.
"So this is the origin of the Rebirth Picture...?"
Looking at the divine calculation of the sky eye - or the information remaining on the core of the formation, Li Lin felt that this worldview seemed to be more dangerous than the worldview of the old world where the whole world was in chaos.
In order to perfect his vision of reincarnation, a monk created a rebirth map with eighteen overlapping worlds, to continuously perform the reincarnation of the true soul inside, and simulate the deduction of the mystery in the womb. And for this task, he even put all the residents and related characters inside, allowing them to continuously improve and develop, and even successfully reproduced their own civilization in this image...
This is just a painting, a prop. There are dozens of similar props for the cultivator who seems not to be at the top level. There are countless more magical weapons that are more laborious than the Rebirth Picture. These remaining marks make Li Lin, the newly promoted demigod, deeply feel the power and terror of the cultivators.
As for why he knew all this, it was actually because the people in this world seemed to be bound by some kind of mental chains.
In their eyes, such behavior seemed very unreasonable, but in Li Lin's hands, it was a very normal soul contact. Just like the jade brick, after just touching the jade with magic and soul, the relevant trivial information about this rebirth map naturally appeared in Li Lin's mind. Including the refining process of this magic weapon, the refining techniques and ideas, and the relevant formation knowledge, all filled Li Lin's head.
Even without looking at the player panel, he knew that his knowledge of the Eastern worldview and formations was growing at a flying speed. Not only that, along with the countless knowledge that he had received, the image of an old man with white hair and beard and a stern face also appeared in Li Lin's mind.
The Taoist who seemed to be the master of the Rebirth Map had a dignified look on his face, and whispered to Li Lin who was absorbing knowledge:
'I am Changsong, if you see this message, it means that my Rebirth Map has a problem again. I may have accidentally detained your true spirit. Please forgive me. Everything related to this Rebirth Map is my apology. However, due to design problems, I cannot take your true spirit out alone. You can only go to the Ten Palaces of Yama to complete the reincarnation of the Rebirth Platform before returning to the human world. If you are dissatisfied with this, I can do nothing about it, because I am not very good at learning...'
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Oh, it turns out this is a counterfeit product.
After receiving the relevant information about the Record of Rebirth in his soul, Li Lin's face suddenly became a little strange.
