Chapter 414: Clearing Up Doubts

However, the situation was indeed critical. Although α had been saying that everyone's experience in Guixu Realm would not affect the Blue Star Realm, everyone saw at that time that the grotesque-looking demon king drew out a lot of blood-red smoke from the puppets that everyone possessed, and all members were completely unable to move at that time, and could not even communicate on the Internet!

This has never happened before!

Although the retired farmer did not experience it personally because he was directing from a distance, according to other rabbits that were controlled nearby, they only felt a trance at the time, as if they were dreaming, and could not perform any operations on the Internet - or, in other words, they were all in a daze and did not realize that they could do anything else!

The first to notice something was wrong were the kitchen team in charge of logistics. Under the leadership of the team leader, they rushed to the military resources department of the logistics battalion and fired all the rocket launchers at the suspected location of the BOSS in the distance. They even reported to the retired farmer after they had sent the application...

Then, the entire copy was quickly completed.

Of course, Fang Xianyu, who had been paying attention to the whole process, also secretly breathed a sigh of relief - the demon's original method was to extract the essence, blood, and three souls for his own use, but the puppet Fang Xianyu made... the flesh and blood could be recovered, but the soul, there was no soul at all, which resulted in the other party's efforts being in vain.

The red mist with a terrifying visual effect at that time was indeed the essence and blood that was drawn out, but Fang Xianyu could only recover as much as the Demon Lord drew out - no matter how powerful you are, can you be more powerful than my system?

The players' stunned state was easier to understand. Although the players were remotely connected to the puppets through their consciousness and then controlled the puppets, they had actually practiced in the puppets for a long time, and the puppets had already formed an inseparable connection with them, and even felt a bit like their own flesh and blood. If the players really couldn't get to the Guixu Realm, I'm afraid these puppets would really allow them to continue practicing as a body, and even become immortals. Therefore, due to the close connection with the puppets, some special attack methods can still affect the players' reactions, just like before, some players were occasionally affected by some so-called "debuffs" and this time against the Demon Lord, it was all for this reason.

If this happens, Fang Xianyu will immediately cut off the players' consciousness from the Guixu Realm, and the players will not be stunned or affected. But - that requires energy points! Her energy points are very precious! She can't waste them on a situation that can't hurt the players at all! All the emotional impact or other damage will eventually be fed back to the players' real selves in the Blue Star World, which may be less intense than a nightmare! If this happened to a real Guixu Realm cultivator, who had his essence, blood, and three souls extracted, he would have become a fool who could only say "Aba Aba"!

Therefore, when asked about the battle with the Demon Lord - if a one-sided quick kill counts as a battle, she explained the reason directly, repeatedly mentioned that it would not affect the health of the players in the Blue Star world, and even joked leisurely: "If there is a newbie in your team who has just entered the game for a few days and does not like to practice, you will find that he will not be affected by any similar effects, and will not be trapped like others!"

Elder Lu Ying suddenly realized: "Is it because of the relationship between the puppet's body and consciousness? Whether it is close or not will affect whether it will suffer mental damage?"

"You can say that, but it's not mental damage. It's just a minor effect, and it only affects them when they are controlling the puppets. Once they return to Blue Star, it will be like a dream, and they won't be able to take anything with them."

Fang Xianyu paused and continued, "Consciousness is a very mysterious thing. In fact, its concept in the Guixu Realm is more like 'spirit' in the language of flowers, rather than so-called consciousness. If we must use the concept of modern immortal cultivation novels to explain it, it is more like 'divine consciousness' - of course, this is not the 'divine consciousness' in Buddhism."

Fang Xianyu rarely discussed with Lu Ying about the supernatural nature and related concepts of the Guixu Realm, so he took this opportunity to ask urgently: "Spirit? Is it something more spiritual? Do people on Blue Star have this thing?"

"It's more spiritual... you could say that. As for the people on Blue Star, of course they have it too. At least among the creatures I've met, as long as they are intelligent... or in other words, living things, they all have 'spirits'. That's why I can project your spirits to the Guixu Realm so that you can control the puppets."

“Can it be observed?”

"If it's visual, I'm afraid not. But if you mean 'observation', then perhaps it's possible, because when one's cultivation reaches a certain level and one can control spiritual power freely, one can detect it. Hmm... it's hard to describe. Have you ever kept a pet?"

Lu Ying was stunned for a moment when she heard this. She almost couldn't keep up with Fang Xianyu's thinking, but she still replied: "I have raised a cat. When I was a child, my grandmother raised a cat, and I often played with it at that time."

"Then can you still recall the feeling when you touch it or hug it? That kind of warmth, vigorous vitality, the beating of the heart, and the rising and falling breathing of the flesh. This is how the 'spirit' feels. It is alive, even... it may even scare you, because to you, your own 'spirit' is also alive. It controls you, your thoughts, your actions, everything about you, including the actions and the choices of content we are talking about now. And it allows you to be aware of all this in a wicked way."

Just when Lu Ying felt his hair stand on end and his scalp tingling, Fang Xianyu suddenly smiled and said comfortingly, "But don't dwell on it too much, because this is just the saying of the Guixu Realm. On Blue Star... well, maybe the brain controls everything? But at least I am sure that the 'spirit' is not the brain, it cannot be seen by the eyes. Of course, the location where it exists is similar to that of the brain, so it is okay to call it 'consciousness' or 'divine awareness', it's just a name."

But Fang Xianyu's comfort did not have any positive effect. Lu Ying took a few deep breaths and sighed, "This is really hard to accept."

"So, don't think too much about many things, otherwise you will just be asking for trouble... At least you gave me a surprise,"

Looking at Elder Lu Ying's somewhat confused look, Fang Xianyu smiled and nodded slightly, saying: "In the five-color formation, fire coverage is useful. This is good news, isn't it?"