Chapter 362 My Reincarnation
I first turned my attention back to what Lu Chan had said earlier, and then raised a question: "Although you said that others can gain power as long as they believe in me... I don't feel like my power is being taken away."
"Or is it that no one has reached the standard of piety yet, which is why the power has not been taken away?"
“You’ve misunderstood,” Lu Chan explained. “The power that believers receive from you is not taken from you. As mentioned before, you left a mark on the world. And this mark has become a totem in the unseen realm. Believers use this totem as a symbol to draw power from nature.”
"This totem is actually your Sambhogakaya (body of rebirth). Even after you die, your Sambhogakaya will remain in the world invisibly. While you are alive, this Sambhogakaya is completely integrated with you. Incidentally, this Sambhogakaya has no self-awareness and is more like a natural phenomenon, so you don't need to worry about it."
"You can use this to prevent certain believers from continuing to use the power generated by their faith, or to further strengthen the believers' power through your own words. Generally speaking, you can strengthen them up to the highest level."
Although I once referred to the Ancient Moon God as the Sambhogakaya of the Silver Moon, the Sambhogakaya I possess now seems to be more in line with the fundamentalist definition of the Sambhogakaya than the Ancient Moon God.
While I was thinking this, I noticed another problem.
"Can you only strengthen believers to the highest level? That's too weak..." I said.
"No, the level of completion is already very high. This is the highest level that can be reached in the Demon Hunter's system of formation, existence, decay, and emptiness," Lu Chan corrected.
“But Lu Chan, aren’t you also a level 1 demon hunter? Are level 1 demon hunters really that noble?” I asked.
"Did you just belittle me like that, without any sense of entitlement?"
Lu Chan first complained, then said helplessly, "Is it possible that I am a very noble figure in the normal demon hunter system? You know, I used to be a confidant of Ming Zhuo. Although I don't really want to recall those days, if Da Wuchang is the sky of Luoshan, then Da Wuchang's confidants are the angels of Luoshan."
The term "Angel of Luoshan" sounds rather strange.
However, after removing the eight Great Impermanence members and the fewer than twenty Great Completion level members, the Completion level Demon Hunters are indeed the highest-ranking figures in Luoshan, and Lu Chan's logic makes sense. Furthermore, as a confidant of Mingzhuo, they might even be able to stand on equal footing with Great Completion level members in certain situations.
That being said, Lu Youxun didn't seem to have such a high status before... But that makes sense, Lu Youxun was a night patrolman of the Mingzhuo Dark Division. Although he was a trusted confidant, it wasn't public knowledge. On the surface, he was still just a day patrolman.
“If you want to strengthen your believers to the Great Perfection level, that’s fine, but the compatibility between you and them needs to be high enough to withstand your power. Otherwise, your power will burn them to death,” Lu Chan said. “If you establish a religion with you as the main god, such people are enough to become saints, saints… and they don’t even necessarily need to sincerely believe in you. What’s important is that they have the compatibility to withstand your voluntary ‘initiation’.”
"And if you completely cover the other person's personality consciousness, you can also turn it into your own incarnation, that is, transform it into your own avatar, or 'manifestation'... In this case, you can even use that body to exert your power as the Great Impermanence."
"Perhaps the Silver Moon that has been resurrected now has also taken into account the Great Impermanence's ability to manifest bodies to some extent."
Chang'an's body originally had the opportunity to develop its own consciousness, but it lost that opportunity due to the presence of the Silver Moon. Perhaps this is also a kind of "complete coverage".
"You know about Silver Moon?" I asked.
"Mr. Zhu told me that he hopes I can help investigate which Humanitarian Division location Yin Yue is currently being held by Ying Lingyun at," Lu Chan said. "However, even if he doesn't come to me, I believe the results will come out soon."
Based on what I've heard in the past three days, the Humanitarian Affairs Department has now become Luo Shan's most valued enemy.
Yes, it's not the Void Realm that recently destroyed the two branch bases of Luoshan, but the Humanitarian Division.
The cause is the Dog (戌).
Just as Lu Chan said before, the Humanity Division is the most special among the three major threats to Luoshan. Although there is no Great Impermanence behind the scenes, once they miraculously achieve the method of creating Great Impermanence with technical power, they will immediately become an unprecedented enemy of Luoshan. On the battlefield where the Void Realm attacked the Luoshan branch base, Xu Gou showed the power of Great Impermanence.
Xu Gou was once a candidate for the Great Impermanence created by the Humanity Department. Before his death, Fu Feng passed this information to Fa Zheng, who was secretly preparing to eliminate all of the Humanity Department's strongholds.
At the same time, he relayed this matter to me through Mr. Zhu, hoping that I could discuss it with him in detail soon.
He clearly learned about the relationship between Chang'an and Yinyue through the intelligence transmitted from the Fufeng base before its destruction, and he also knew about my desire to save Chang'an.
Adding to the fact that Fazheng and Jian Feixian stood by my side before, it seems I'm really going to owe them another favor.
Judging from the way the fortune teller previously commented on Fazheng, although Fazheng is a man of great impermanence, he seems to be a politically conscious figure. It's hard for me to feel happy about owing him favors repeatedly.
"Well then, I need to take care of other things first. I also need to help Mr. Zhu develop your influence."
Lu Chan seemed to have finished speaking, so he stood up, supporting himself on his knees. Then, as if remembering something, he added, "By the way, if you have time in the future, you can come and participate more in things here."
"Why? You know I'm not interested in this kind of thing, which is why I'm handing it all over to Mr. Zhu," I said.
“That’s what they say, but if you don’t get involved more, the connection between you and your followers will be problematic,” Lu Chan said. “Followers must have a sufficiently devout faith in you to receive power—the connection formed in this way is incredibly strong, but it’s as distant as a kite. Its anchoring effect on you is both strong and weak, so you need to take the initiative to close the distance.”
"I don't quite understand what it means for the anchoring effect to be both strong and weak?" I asked.
“This matter is just as important to your believers as your life or death,” Lu Chan said. “Your life or death is of course very important to those who believe in you. When you are in a life-or-death crisis, if they can exchange their own lives for yours, the devout believers will definitely do so without hesitation—otherwise, what kind of devotion is that?”
"But on the other hand, even if you die, it will not prevent them from continuing to believe in you, nor will it prevent them from continuing to draw strength from your Sambhogakaya."
"Isn't your goal to anchor yourself in the bizarre world through a large number of believers? But even if you lose your anchor and disappear, they can continue to believe in you and continue to gain strength through their faith."
"Because this kind of relationship has the nature that it is not important whether you, who are on the other end, exist, it is definitely not a healthy one. As for the most crucial aspect of anchoring you... while it cannot be said that it has no effect or that the effect is very weak, there are indeed some unreliable aspects that can take advantage of the situation."
After thinking for a moment, I said, "Specifically, where can we take advantage of a weakness, and where is it unreliable?"
“Uh, how should I describe it…” Lu Chan thought about it seriously for a moment, “Simply put, in some situations, the relationship between your believers, your avatar, and yourself is like the relationship between a virtual streamer’s fans, suit, and the person behind it.”
I said directly, "I'm sorry, but the way you described it makes it even harder for me to understand."
"Sigh, if it were Zhu Shi, he would definitely understand immediately. And although I can't quite explain why, I feel that Mr. Zhu would probably understand as well."
Lu Chan first showed a look of regret, then said, "Well, anyway, it seems that Mr. Zhu has already figured out how to patch up this loophole. You can ask him about it when you have the chance. You can rest assured and get some rest. I'm going to get busy."
After saying that, he left the room.
It seems that Mazao is still busy preparing food in the kitchen of the sanatorium and won't be back for a while.
I originally wanted to turn on the TV to pass the time, but I wasn't in the mood to watch. After thinking it over and over, I ended up reviewing my battle with Mingzhu in my mind again and pondering my future potential for evolution.
There was still no sign of evolution in terms of power, so we could only explore technological evolution first, that is, how to further increase the density of our power.
I raised my palm, and flames appeared out of thin air from the space in my hand, then rapidly spun, contracted, and compressed as if swept up by a miniature hurricane. Countless flames emerged, and in less than a second, they were compressed into a small fireball the size of a ping-pong ball.
This small fireball was completely black, and its surface would occasionally burst out tiny flames like solar prominences erupting from the sun, and even these tiny flames had a dark color.
Black is unlike any other color. All colors are formed by reflecting a certain amount of visible light, which is then processed by the visual cells in the eye to create the appearance of color. Black, however, is a color that appears only after absorbing all visible light; it is a manifestation of nothingness.
The definition of visible light differs for different organisms. Just as humans perceive cats and dogs as colorblind, some animals perceive humans as colorblind. Therefore, what appears black to humans may reflect other colors to other animals. My eyes, mimicking the element of fire, while normally having the same visible light range as humans, can, if I so choose, also perceive infrared and ultraviolet light that are invisible to humans.
Even now, to me, this little fireball appears black. This is because not only does it not emit any light, but even external light is burned away upon contact with it, unable to escape.
It was like a black hole; the moment it appeared, it caused the space around it to melt and cave in. The blanket on my lap and the furniture around me were all pulled toward the hole in this world.
"Stop."
As soon as I uttered that sentence, the surrounding cabinets, tables, chairs, fish tanks, and other objects all stopped moving simultaneously. I continued to observe the small, dark fireball carefully.
"Solar eclipse"... no, to avoid excessive impact on the surrounding area, what we are doing now can only be called a "miniature solar eclipse".
This is the most powerful finishing move I currently possess. By simply and brutally compressing my own power, it can even inflict minor injuries on a veteran like Ming Zhuo, a powerful but unpredictable opponent. If it continues to evolve, it might possess even greater power and allow me to achieve even more. However…
This doesn't seem like a power I should touch.
(End of this chapter)
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