"You're smart, but not smart enough."
Pope Shenhua stared at Lu Li and finally said: "Have you ever thought about a question: If a warrior is immortal, can he still stick to his 'self' after thousands of years have passed?"
“What do you think ego is?”
He looked at Lu Li with a bit of hope in his eyes, as if he really expected to get an answer.
What is self
Lu Li was silent for a moment.
He didn't know how to answer this question.
There are many kinds of self, but no matter how high-sounding the answer is, the essence of human beings is actually 'selfishness'.
Some people do it for their own interests, and some do it for their own ideals, or even for some illusory reasons, a sudden thought.
No matter what the purpose is, the true self is essentially selfish.
Pope Shenhua's so-called "great wish" is an extreme selfishness. Even if he takes a step back, his original intention is good, but it is just for self-satisfaction.
"It seems that you already have the answer, but it doesn't matter. I have asked many people about the answer to this question, and everyone has a different idea. Regarding self-understanding, thousands of people are different, and they will not be the same. There won’t even be a standard answer.”
"But no matter what the answer is, as time goes by, as intelligent beings with self-awareness, we will get tired, doubt, make mistakes, and even collapse."
Pope Shenhua said as if sighing: "I have seen the most upright person in the world turn into a devil who commits all kinds of evil. I have also seen a villain with blood-stained hands and sins all over his body suddenly become enlightened and end his life."
"Human nature is complex. This is the most special thing about intelligent life. Everyone says that one's nature is hard to change. That's just because there is not enough time, and we have not seen and experienced enough. A mortal's life span is only a hundred years, even for an ordinary master. To put it bluntly, a hundred years is not worth mentioning at all. When thousands or tens of thousands of years have passed, who will still dare to say that one's true nature is unchangeable?"
Seeing Pope Shenhua sighing like this, Lu Li was silent for a while, and then asked: "What do you want to express? Do you want to tell me that you were once a perseverant person? It's just that it's been too long, and you have gradually forgotten your original intention. What?"
Pope Shenhua shook his head and said softly: "On this path, I am just an explorer, but it is precisely because I know more that I am afraid of change. So I searched the world and finally found the most perfect one. solution."
There was some emotion and reminiscence in his voice, as if he had gone back to the beginning. At that time, he might have been a young man who had been shaken in his beliefs and had to travel around the world to find a perfect solution. method. In this process, he met many people and many things. Although things have changed now, they still occupy some places in his memory.
Lu Li heard another layer of meaning in his words.
The solution is to split one's consciousness
Looking at the extremely handsome Pope Shenhua, Lu Li was a little shocked. This guy was really no ordinary lunatic.
After coming to this world for many years, Lu Li has met many people, some strong and some weak, he has seen extremely ugly faces, and he has also seen extremely firm beliefs. But there are really not many people who can make themselves feel chilly.
A complete lunatic like Pope Shenhua can be counted as one.
The realm of consciousness and soul has always been difficult for strong human beings to touch. Even in a great age like the Era of Ten Thousand Races, when martial arts flourished, the strong human race had only developed methods of cultivating the sea of consciousness and spiritual thoughts, which were slightly involved in the field of consciousness. But in terms of the soul, few people can touch it. In addition to the suppression of the netherworld, what is more important is the fragility of the soul.
Even after the death of a powerful celestial being, it is difficult for the soul to have too much power unless certain preparations are made in advance, such as the soul of the powerful water god clan that he met in the small world.
He has prepared the power of resurrection for himself, and can use his soul to exert extremely terrifying combat power.
But that’s all.
But Pope Shenhua was different. Not only did he think of how to split his consciousness and soul to seal himself, he also took action and actually did it.
Dare to think and do without worrying about the consequences of failure.
"Your solution is to carve out multiple selves."
Lu Li stared at Pope Shenhua, "But looking at your current miserable state, this method must have no effect."
This is a fact.
If cutting oneself is really effective, why would he hide in such a barren mountain and lead a group of black-robed men who are the strongest but not in the immortal realm to create any kind of reformist faction
Moreover, this so-called reformist faction is really just a bunch of rabble in Lu Li's eyes. The reason why Pope Shenhua, who is in charge of the divine religion, is so vigilant is probably because he clearly knows that the other one has some trump cards. .
In other words, the only person Pope Shenhua is truly afraid of is himself, not the reformists who look like a joke.
"That's what I call 'self.'"
As if he didn't care about the sarcasm in Lu Li's words, Pope Shenhua explained calmly: "The reason why I split and sealed my consciousness and awakened it when necessary is because I was worried about this. What if now, the other one has been lost?" Self', then is he still me?"
"Even if you have the same consciousness, the same experience, and the same memory, after a self awakens, under the polish of time, it will always become a completely different individual."
"There are no two identical leaves in this world, and the same is true for people. The me in the past, the me now, the me in the future, who have experienced different things and existed at different times, may all lose their 'true self'. "
"The consciousness of splitting the self is more like a means of preservation. When the previous me is lost, the new self will stand up and replace him to complete what I should have done."
What surprised Lu Li was that Pope Shenhua was unexpectedly sober about this matter. He seemed to know the meaning of his birth and why he wanted to split his consciousness in the first place. His words were extremely logical, and there was no trace of the confusion caused by his consciousness being divided for so many times, let alone the piety of those believers.
After everything has faded away, Pope Shenhua seems to be just an ordinary person who has perseverance.
Of course, this ordinary person is also relative.
After all, Lu Li didn't think there were many people in this world who dared to split their consciousness and wake up repeatedly to create multiple selves.
However, after hearing what Pope Shenhua said, Lu Li's impression of him did change somewhat, "I originally thought you would be a madman who talks about divine grace, but now it seems that every madman knows what he is doing. You It’s sober, but it also makes you more dangerous and more scary.”
"The more you understand what you are doing, the more unforgivable the things you do become."
"The divine religion should have been doing human experiments all the time."
Lu Li simply and directly discussed the topic as if he was trying to figure it out.
Because whether it is the dead Furious Archangel, the Original Sin Archangel who was born with foreign blood, or the 'Sanli' created by the Nalan family at the expense of all the younger generation, these are all experimental products of the divine religion.
The Divine Religion's research on blood and divine power seems to have never stopped. To achieve such results, it is not difficult to imagine how many bloody experiments and how many lives were sacrificed behind it.
Lu Li is not a saint, and he cannot control everyone in the world. However, the behavior of the divine sect and their increasingly crazy behavior have obviously begun to threaten everything he cherishes. In this case, Lu Li must control everyone. Take care of it.
"I made a lot of mistakes on my way to discovering the truth."
Faced with Lu Li's question, Pope Shenhua did not defend himself, let alone make any excuses. Instead, he said very frankly: "Those experiments of the Shenhua Church were indeed one of the mistakes. Although it is not the biggest, it is It also has a very far-reaching influence. I can’t remember which generation of ‘self’ made this decision after being lost, but this decision is indeed one of the few things I regret.”