Chapter 483 Artificial Soul

The mountain and sea world is a peaceful world.

Shanhai civilization is a peace-loving civilization.

But this definitely does not mean that there are no criminals, no villains, and no hawks among the people of the mountains and seas.

The fact is just the opposite. In the Creator's precepts and beliefs, there is never a requirement for his believers to do anything.

Or to be more precise, the Creator encourages the people of the mountains and seas to try everything they can.

As long as they are willing to bear the cost of doing so.

This kind of inaction and non-contention is just a way of maintaining the balance and stability of the overall environment, which itself implies a certain preference.

At least, that’s what Huan Gou understood.

So, after his friend was affected by the war and he returned to the Mountain and Sea Realm alone with his friend's body.

Huan Gou chose to become the ferryman without hesitation, and personally sent his friend's soul into the Wangchuan River and into reincarnation.

From then on, Huan Gou became an outlier among the people of mountains and seas, and became a ferryman dedicated to exploring the "mystery of life and death".

It is not about pursuing eternal life, but focuses on communicating with the dead and even completely resurrecting the dead.

Because in Huan Gou's view, death is part of the world order, and exploring death is also a necessary process in the development of civilization.

The mountain and sea civilization would indeed not do things that violate the natural order.

But does communicating with the dead violate the natural order? Does it violate the will of the Creator? Since the underworld exists in this world, it means that its existence itself has meaning.

Just as the dead can retain their souls to be reincarnated, why not go a step further and preserve their thoughts and memories? Of course, Huan Gou knows that his ideas are heretical.

So he hardly ever mentioned his thoughts to anyone, but instead used the identity of a ferryman to travel between yin and yang, life and death.

Unfortunately, the rules set by the Goddess of Death are too strict.

From the living to the dead, and then the soul is reborn as a new life...

In this process, even the Netherworld Lord and the Yellow Springs Clan were just part of the rules, not to mention special individuals outside the organization like the ferryman.

Therefore, even though Huan Gou had been a ferryman for hundreds of years, he still didn't understand the essence of the soul.

The only thing to be thankful for is that Huan Gou is not the only one in the Shanhai Realm who wants to explore the nature of the soul and resurrect the dead.

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"What stage has the experiment reached?"

Appearing silently in a huge laboratory, the ring dog's voice sounded hoarse and indifferent.

This is the city of Fengdu located in the underground world, and it is also the place closest to the underworld in the Mountain and Sea Realm except for Yu Yuan.

Even in the mountain and sea world that exists in a higher dimensional form.

Such a deep underground space is close to the limit of what the mountain and sea civilization can explore.

If there were not a special tribe called "Youhuo" among the hundreds of tribes in the mountains and seas, who liked to dig holes and live in the deep underground world, I am afraid that the Shanhai civilization might not be able to explore here, let alone build a city here.

Even so, few outsiders settle in this city.

Apart from those specific researchers and staff, anyone who chooses to settle here permanently is basically someone like Huan Gou who has ulterior motives.

“It’s almost reaching the testing stage.”

He answered softly without turning his head. The person who was speaking at the moment was a skeleton.

This corpse citizen's name is "Bishe", and he is the director and chief researcher of the "Soul Element Research Center".

Just like Huangou, Bishe is also an outlier among the fourth generation of corpses.

Bishe, who was born in the Bone Forest, has been thinking about who he was in his previous life since a long time ago.

What had I experienced before I became a skeleton? With this thought in mind, Bishe naturally started the long path to becoming a god by [Exorcising Gods and Serving Ghosts] after graduating from school.

However, the more this happened, the more curious and confused Bishe became.

[The method of exorcising gods and controlling ghosts] is the way to become a god passed down by the Creator, and is one of the earliest long steps to become a god in the Shanhai Civilization.

However, with the development of the times, few people have conducted in-depth research on the essence of [the method of exorcising gods and ghosts].

——endow all things with spirituality and drive the gods and ghosts of heaven and earth.

This seems to be a matter of course because it comes from the Creator.

No one doubted whether this was scientific, and no one tried to conduct a more in-depth analysis of the [method of exorcising gods and ghosts].

Even the Nine-Tailed Clan, who have taken another path and are able to mass-produce living plants, seem to be very secretive about this.

So, Bishe decided to be a pioneer himself.

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The "Soul Element Research Center" is a special institution born under such circumstances, and it has received full support from the current leader of the Shanhai Civilization - Tianyou.

“Is it almost time for the testing phase?”

Looking at Bishe with some surprise, Huan Gou could hardly maintain his usual cold tone.

"Doesn't that mean that the creation of the 'artificial soul' has been completed?"

Nodding affirmatively, Bishe's voice was filled with pride and honor.

"Yes, this is a completely artificial soul created using the technology of the Shanhai Civilization."

Different from the ghosts and gods that are given life and spirituality by the [Method of Exorcising Gods and Ghosts].

The "Soul Element Research Center" studies projects that intervene in the entire process of soul birth from scratch.

Let me make an analogy that may not be quite appropriate.

The normal method of [exorcising gods and ghosts] is like planting trees. As long as the practitioner plants the seeds, the seedlings will naturally take root, sprout, and grow into towering trees.

However, the project they are currently conducting is a more in-depth study at the genetic level.

By interfering with the initial seeds, the seedlings can grow according to their preset plan.

Although the trees that eventually grew from the two seeds might not be much different, the latter grew completely in accordance with the researcher's will.

If we are not careful, the evil ghosts that appeared briefly before the birth of the Netherworld will appear again in the Mountain and Sea World.

Because those evil ghosts are composed of completely chaotic soul elements, they are essentially closer to a natural phenomenon and a heretical disaster.

"Didn't the 'artificial soul' this time transform into a demon?"

Following Bishe's gaze, Huan Gou saw a cylinder made of nether material.

And inside that cylinder, a mosaic-like soul was constantly changing and trembling.

This soul did not transform into an indescribable evil ghost during the change process as it did in the past.

On the contrary, through the continuous gathering of spiritual elements, the mosaic soon turned into a simple but very regular human-shaped square head.

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