Chapter 1560 Between Reality and Illusion
Zhou Wen was just trying his best to maintain the situation. He didn't want Teng Jianjianyi to turn defeat into victory. He just wanted to delay Teng Jianjianyi's defeat. He wanted to see clearly the mystery between the virtual and the real.
But the sword intent is something ethereal and vague. It can only be felt but cannot be seen or touched.
Even though he was inside Zhou Wen's body, he could only feel the sword intent causing changes in his body, but he still could not see the existence of the sword intent.
"It has a powerful influence, but it is invisible and intangible. This feeling seems to be somewhat similar to something in my impression?" Zhou Wen was thinking about what the thing in his impression was.
After a little thought, Zhou Wen realized that the sword intent was similar to something.
What Zhou Wen thought of was the gods worshipped by humans, but if he thought about it carefully, gods and sword intent can actually be considered the same thing, both of which are fantasies derived from human thinking.
Sword intent is actually a kind of thought, and gods themselves are also products of human thinking. The difference is that sword intent is one's own understanding of the world, while gods are one's reliance and fear of the unknown.
"Humans are emotional creatures. The existence of invisible beings like gods sometimes does affect human behavior and abilities." Zhou Wen thought to himself.
He had heard a story before about a student who, despite studying hard, did not perform very well, especially during exams, where he always performed poorly.
One time, he and his classmates went to a small temple nearby to play. He didn't think much of anything else and just worshipped the gods. Not only did he draw a very good fortune, he also heard a divine voice that other classmates didn't hear, saying that he would definitely be able to study well and get into a good university.
But when I asked other students, they didn't hear anything.
After returning, the student not only worked harder, but also his academic performance improved a lot, his test scores also rose sharply, and he was finally admitted to a prestigious university.
Later, when they talked about this incident at a class reunion, he learned that it was a conspiracy set up by several classmates. The drawing lots were prepared in advance, and the divine sound was a recording that was played and could be heard by other students.
The reason they did this was because they felt that the student had worked very hard but was just not confident enough, so they thought of using this method to stimulate his confidence and potential, and the results were indeed very good.
But now the extent of what the sword intent can achieve has far exceeded the influence of simple thinking.
"If it's not just an emotional influence, what is the underlying principle?" Zhou Wen kept observing and pondering, but no matter how he looked at it, he could not see the real core.
The tangible sword energy and the sword intent that invisibly affected Zhou Wen's body continued to collide. All Zhou Wen could see was his body being destroyed by the sword energy, and he was unable to truly grasp the existence of the sword intent.
Suddenly, Zhou Wen discovered some problems.
Before, Zhou Wen was just observing the confrontation between the two and couldn't find the real focus. However, when Zhou Wen focused his attention on some changes that occurred after the flesh was destroyed, he immediately discovered something different.
The sword energy was extremely destructive. After destroying the flesh and blood body, it directly decomposed into extremely small molecules, dividing and dividing again, until it was completely invisible, as if it had disappeared.
Zhou Wen knew that it had not actually disappeared, but was just too small for him to see or sense.
However, in this process, a very small amount of matter has not been divided to the point where it cannot be seen.
The rest of the flesh and blood were cut and divided again, and finally nothing could be seen, but there were wisps of something like smoke and fog that floated away and disappeared at an extremely fast speed.
Although that thing existed for a very short time, Zhou Wen could be sure that the wisp of smoke was not split by the sword energy, but disappeared on its own.
Zhou Wen observed carefully and found that after each cell was destroyed, a trace of smoke would dissipate and disappear, instead of being divided into smaller parts.
"What on earth is that thing in the body? How could it not be separated by such a powerful sword energy?" The more Zhou Wen felt, the more he felt that the wisp of smoke was very magical.
Within the smoke, Zhou Wen felt the presence of sword intent and sword energy, but its existence was extremely short, disappearing like a meteor.
"That wisp of smoke has both the special features of sword intent and the characteristics of sword energy, but it is also obviously different from both. It has an entity that sword intent does not have, and it also has a divergent thinking that sword energy does not possess..." The more Zhou Wen observed, the more he felt that the wisp of smoke was too magical.
However, that kind of smoke would only be produced when something was destroyed by sword energy, and it would not exist all the time. Zhou Wen damaged a little of his flesh and did not notice the existence of that kind of smoke.
"This is interesting." Zhou Wen wanted to try and see if he could capture that wisp of smoke.
When the smoke appears, it can indeed be touched, but even if the smoke is wrapped with sword energy, the smoke will still disappear out of thin air, making it difficult to truly capture it.
Tried many times, but failed every time.
"It is clearly a tangible object, yet it can become intangible. This characteristic is really strange." Zhou Wen tried again and again, and failed again and again.
But gradually, Zhou Wen discovered that maybe it was not that he could not catch it, but that the thing did not exist at all.
"Since it is possible to transform the real into the virtual, then is it possible to transform the virtual into the real?" Zhou Wen thought that maybe he could give it a try. The key seemed to be the collision between sword energy and sword intent.
Because the sword intent has no substance and cannot collide directly, his body is the medium.
Zhou Wen tried again and again, using various methods to try, hoping to truly figure out what that smoke between reality and illusion was.
This was obviously not an easy task. Zhou Wen had never figured out how the smoke was formed, and his body was almost unable to bear it.
Although Zhou Wen had been helping Teng Jian maintain his sword intent, he was ultimately unable to withstand the erosion of the sword energy, and his body was on the verge of death.
The sword ball is already covered with cracks and may break at any time.
"Can I do it again later?" Zhou Wen thought to himself, and then he would pull out the vine sword again and feel it again.
Snap!
The sword ball finally couldn't stand the pressure anymore and exploded.
Because the sword ball itself was almost completely transformed into sword intent, it exploded at this time. Zhou Wen immediately saw a large amount of smoke spreading in his body, like fireworks taking shape.
At the moment of death, Zhou Wen suddenly had an inexplicable realization in his heart.
(End of this chapter)
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