At the beginning, after fighting the evil god of death, what was suppressed by Joshua along with the memory of chaos was actually his divinity of 'fighting', 'killing' and 'destruction'.
Compared with the chaotic memory that can be weakened through the "Conflict Continent", divinity seems more illusory and more difficult to solve.
However, through communication with the knowledge receiver, as well as his thoughts on the path after the legend and the realm of the sage, Joshua discovered that he may have found the essence of the gods, the truth of divinity, and may even have found the legend. Above, the realm between the realms of sages.
What is divinity
It is the reflection of the mind of intelligent life in the original fire.
In the currently observable multiverse, all material and spiritual worlds all originate from the light of the Initial Fire. In the Initial Fire, there is the information and power of all things. All things are derived from the Initial Fire. The source of all things is intrinsically connected.
Divinity is the overly powerful reflection of the mind of intelligent life in the initial fire—this reflection corresponds to and is connected with the material world. If the gap can be opened, infinite divine power will flow out of it.
But the essence of this gap is actually a wound torn open by too pure will and too pure belief in the connection between all things and the initial fire.
Infinite divine power is essentially the power to repair wounds. Just like platelets flow with the blood and condense the blood to heal wounds, divine power is actually just that.
"Original extraordinary species such as the Steel Python and the Primordial Spirit are inherently connected to the Initial Fire. Therefore, holding divine power will not suffer the same consequences as the gods who use divinity to communicate with the Initial Fire and obtain divine power in later generations. of erosion.”
After purifying the essence of chaos, Joshua stayed where he was. He watched the small balls around him rotating around him and began to meditate: "And my divinity has penetrated very deep into the initial fire, beyond He has defeated most of the Steel Pythons and even most of the gods."
Divinity is the valve that tears the wound and fixes the wound. They endure the pain of divinity erosion by constantly strengthening their faith and will, tearing the wound again and again, sinking their divinity deep into the initial fire, and gaining more divine power. cost.
Although Joshua has divinity, he did not use his divine power to deliberately create wounds, so he was only eroded, not to the point of being destroyed as a god.
The ruler of the Hyborian world, the time mover Fatrolvi, has the divinity of time and destiny, but he does not become a god himself to use it. He uses his divinity to create wound valves and uses human souls to create valves. He built a small dam to store energy and water, avoiding risks while accumulating divine power... But the price of doing so was to kill tens of billions of lives.
In essence, gods, especially gods at the moment of their destruction, are standard memetic creatures, and divinity is the core of memes similar to the essence of chaos.
The goddess of the earth, through the conceptual meme of earth, obtains the divine power of the earth from the initial fire, and the god of forging and fire, through the conceptual meme of forging and flame, obtains related power from the initial fire—so, The essence of God is a typical manifestation of the fourth-level survival mode of "knowing itself". They themselves are a concept and a meme.
Because of this, the Father of Nature is bound by the meme of nature and elves. He prioritizes nature and elves in everything, and even deserts. This is indeed helpless, because he himself is this concept, so how can he violate himself? idea
Later generations of true gods with relative divinity, such as Xing Zheng, the god of justice and power of the previous generation, constructed a complete cycle of order through two divine memes that seemed to be opposite but unified. This is equivalent to using divine power. Against another kind of divine power, it automatically keeps the valve open, and can mobilize the divine power at will even if it has considerable free will.
From the original Steel Python and the original gods, the original gods who naturally possess innate divine power, to the subsequent Father of Nature and the Earth Goddess, this generation of ancient gods with their own incarnation concept memes, all the way to the current Seven Gods, who hold Compared with the divine memes, the true gods who build the cycle of order are the evolution of gods from generation to generation.
After confirming that the 'Malevolent Chaos' and the Evil God are essentially a kind of strange memetic creature, Joshua can finally determine through comparison that the nature of divinity and gods are similar to them, but they are just a creature that relies on Malicious Chaos. The essence of this weird extraordinary power relies on the primordial fire, the source of all things.
"Besides, even if a god is destroyed, it does not necessarily mean he is dead."
Joshua was perfecting the model of the gods in his mind. He whispered to himself: "It's very possible that the divine wound that was expanded to the limit was pulled into the initial fire - just like fishing. The fisherman was pulled into the infinite ocean of divine power by the divine fishing line that went too deep."
How can it be possible for an individual's will to compete with the initial fire? This is almost equivalent to death.
After thinking about this, Joshua finally figured out some of the permission setting issues in the Age of Glory.
Gods are memetic beings that go beyond ordinary intelligent creatures. This is why some legends are so powerful that they are comparable to or even surpass gods, but most gods have higher authority than legends.
Just like a giant beast in the void that is so powerful that it surpasses civilization, it is still a beast. No matter how powerful the legend is, it has not surpassed the essence of its own survival mode... It's just that the existence form of God is too unstable and dangerous, so far. , none of them have accumulated a civilization belonging to gods. The way all gods use their divine power is similar to ordinary people with great brute strength.
Just like when a large number of sages and geniuses died in the early days of studying magic and fighting spirit, the current realm of the gods is such a path full of defects and shortcomings. It will take a long time and the death of countless gods to reach a new level. One day in the future, a method of cultivating gods with no side effects will be perfected.
The original plan of Mycroft Civilization's "All Worlds and All Gods" was probably to have all of them ascend to godhood and become the first "memetic civilization" in the multiverse, using the power of the entire civilization to promote the development of the realm of gods. This step can be regarded as transcending the original level of life and becoming a new dividing line like the original 'beast' and 'civilization'.
However, has God really transcended ordinary intelligent life in essence
Not really.
Not to mention the many flaws and constraints of the realm of gods, powerful beasts can destroy civilizations, and powerful humans, that is, legends, can naturally kill gods.
Just like the extremely powerful beast like the Phoenix Void Behemoth, its existence itself is about to cross the boundary and reach the state of 'itself is civilization'. Once it advances and acquires the correct thinking mode, then it will rely on Its powerful power pushes back knowledge and technology, and I am afraid that it will not take long to rival a powerful civilization in terms of knowledge and technology reserves.
And the strongest group of legendary powerhouses must have discovered the essence of divine gods just like Joshua. If they also successfully cross the boundaries and become memetic creatures, they will naturally be the most powerful among memetic creatures. A group of - just like the Seven Gods often said to Joshua, if Joshua becomes a god, he must be an extremely powerful god.
"But that doesn't mean that only divine power can do this."
Thinking of this, Joshua's eyes flashed with crimson light, and the light of divinity overflowed from the warrior's body, and finally manifested into a pure wheel of divinity behind him, spinning endlessly - this rotating Φ-shaped logo It is the representation of Joshua, the embodiment of his essence just as the black circle of the former god of power, the forked eye of the god of wisdom and choice.
Joshua does not think that God is the only path to memeticization. This is not a guess, but has solid basis.
Just as malicious chaos can create memetic creatures like evil gods, it proves that gods are not the only way to sublimate... Every sage with extraordinary power has probably gone through the process of memeticization of related extraordinary powers.
This also proves that every extraordinary power probably has a corresponding method of memeticization - but divine power is the oldest, most primitive, and longest-researched extraordinary power. There are many ways to sublimate into a god. Far more than those who came after other extraordinary powers, both in quantity and safety.
In fact, psychic bugs are probably the result of a super civilization that rashly memeticized psychic powers and ultimately failed.
"Although I don't know if it is correct... but the direction for the advancement of the legendary powerhouse is probably to become a 'god' of the corresponding extraordinary power on the path of the corresponding extraordinary power, and to become the corresponding extraordinary power itself."
Then, there is the 'Sage Realm' that creates a new kind of extraordinary power.
Of course, Joshua knows that these are just his own speculations. He does not have any actual evidence to prove, analyze and research. All of this is similar to pure fantasy. If he really believes it, he can only prove his own shallow.
But how do you say that? Make bold assumptions and verify carefully. To study unknown knowledge, you really need to be bold.
"It seems there is nothing we can do."
So in response to this, the warrior stood in the center of his world and let out a rather helpless sigh, leading the other silver fairies around him who were sorting out the collapsed remains of the crystal obelisk to imitate (repeat) a sigh, Joshua's He secretly thought in his heart: "I can only try to catch a few more evil gods in the future."
"After all, they are the only memetic beings of extraordinary power that I can encounter besides gods."
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