Chapter 1025
The Components of "God"
Thousands of miles away, in Xuanlong Mountain, Shanxi.
As Li Xiao watched the Yellow Turban Warriors in front of him vanish, he felt as if he had forgotten something.
Looking down, I realized that the slug on my body had disappeared sometime during the fight.
The communication terminal on my wrist was flashing like a carousel.
Li Xiao appeared slightly guilty:
"Um, Moss, what just happened?"
After he finished speaking, a projection popped up on the silver bracelet.
Zhao Yingkong's seven comments, Cheng Xiao's thirty-seven comments, Chen Zilong's eighteen comments, Zhang Jie's six comments, and Saito Hajime's ninety-nine comments came into view.
Looking at the last ninety-nine items, Li Xiao already had a bad feeling.
Before he could see what this person had gone through, Imhotep walked out of the room.
"Li Xiao, Jonathan said he has something to say to you, it seems to be related to the Buddha statue and that god."
Li Xiao was taken aback.
Seeing the houses made of sand and soil on the hillside, he immediately went inside.
This house, which looks like a pile of clay, is undoubtedly Imhotep's doing.
The room is fully furnished with all kinds of furniture and decorations, all made of clay.
It can be said that Imhotep's abilities, which possess the Bible of the Dead, have been enhanced in every aspect.
Li Xiao looked at Jonathan, who was tied up on the spot, with a strange expression.
He truly hadn't expected that, even in this state, this person still hadn't said everything.
It seems that Chu Xuan's eighteen levels of hell are nothing special.
Perhaps knowing what Li Xiao was thinking, Jonathan cried out with a mournful face.
"Brother, big brother, don't look at me like that."
"I don't know why, it just suddenly came to mind, I swear!"
"Really, you have to believe me!"
Li Xiao frowned: "You suddenly remembered?"
Upon hearing this peculiar description, Li Xiao continued to ask:
"By the way, Jonathan, I haven't asked you yet, didn't you say you were coming to Qin to do business?"
"So many warlords from all over the country suddenly came to Shanxi? And even approached Yan Xishan to dig up ancient tombs together?"
Jonathan muttered to himself, "I'm here to do business, and based on my previous experience, I'm still in the arms business."
"So naturally, I got in touch with those warlords. As for why I went to Shanxi, it was actually because of that map."
"Following the map, I arrived in Shanxi. Since I was also involved in the arms trade, I naturally came to know Yan Xishan."
Li Xiao interrupted, "The map? The map was with you from the beginning? Where did it come from?"
Jonathan paused for a moment upon hearing the question.
"The map looks like it was bought from a street vendor, no, no... "
I found it abroad...
Well, no, that's not quite right. It's like it suddenly appeared on me.
Hearing this, Li Xiao looked surprised. If it were someone else who had forgotten, they might have truly forgotten.
But how could Jonathan, a money-grubber, forget the origin of the treasure map? That's just ridiculous.
Li Xiao interrupted again without changing his expression: "Alright, Jonathan, tell me what you just remembered."
Jonathan nodded: "It's translated material."
"When we first entered the ancient tomb, we saw the power of being suspended in mid-air, and then we began to excavate carefully."
"At that time, I learned that you had found a new site in a small American town, so I went back."
Later, I tricked my nephew Eric into…cough cough, and sent him there. Although he was still young at the time, under Evelyn's and my influence, he still gained some understanding of these ancient tombs and ruins.
"He can translate ancient scripts, whether they are oracle bone script, Sanskrit, or ancient Egyptian."
"In the following years, Eric and Yan Xishan's men continued to dig and intermittently transmitted a lot of translated information."
"Among them is the first god you mentioned at the hotel last time: Hao Yi!"
Li Xiao, who had initially been dismissive, changed his expression upon hearing this.
He looked at Jonathan with shining eyes: "Continue."
"Gods are immortals, or beings with the title of immortals, who created... well, how should I describe them?"
"A combat weapon, or a war weapon."
"Among the raw materials of this god, the most important is the soul of a human or immortal as the foundation, which is the consciousness body, and then the adjusted genes and flesh and blood are used as the body or accessories, or it may mean the container."
"There's another kind, another kind..."
Jonathan seemed to know the answer but couldn't think of an adjective, and after a long pause, he continued:
"Something called the Light of the Soul is used as the core of energy, or the source of energy."
"And this weapon, which is called a divine weapon, is something created by immortals to fight against saints."
"It was the ultimate weapon of the immortals at that time."
Upon hearing this, Li Xiao unconsciously began to brush the hair from her forehead with her right hand.
"Jonathan, have the memories in your mind always been there, or did they suddenly appear?"
Upon hearing Li Xiao's question, Jonathan nodded affirmatively after recalling the events.
“It has always existed. I can clearly recall the scene when Eric told me these things, as well as some letters.”
"But for some reason, I seem to have forgotten this part after entering the Qin state."
"No, it wasn't when I entered the Qin state, it was when I met you."
Li Xiao let out a breath, then spoke into the communicator:
"Brother Jie, did you hear that?"
"I think we might need your help here."
Zhang Jie's voice came through the communicator.
"I've already taken care of everything on my end, so it's fine if I leave."
"At my current speed, I can probably meet up with you in about an hour."
As they were speaking, the sound of something breaking through the air could be heard from the other side, clearly indicating that the mental power user was already on their way.
An hour passed in the blink of an eye.
When Zhang Jie landed, he saw not only Li Xiao, but also Chu Xuan.
However, to be precise, it should be Chu Xuan's clone.
After learning certain things from Li Xiao.
Zhang Jie asked with a strange look in his eyes.
"So all this time, what I've seen of Chu Xuan is only half of what he created through non-action and transformation?"
"You are the true form?"
"He's been researching rune technology in the Demon Refining Pot all this time?"
Wearing a white lab coat, Chu Xuan adjusted his glasses and said calmly:
"We two have no original body, only separate entities."
"It's just that the ability to λ-drive is locked in his genes."
"So he is more important."
Zhang Jie nodded as he listened, then paused, stunned: "Wait, what the hell are you talking about?"
"Can something like a genetic lock be separated?"
Chu Xuan extended a hand and tapped the frame of his glasses on the bridge of his nose, saying calmly, "Why not? Can't I just believe it?"
"Of course, I am not capable enough on my own, but don't forget there are countless other sources of inspiration."
Although Li Xiao didn't know what experiments Chu Xuan had done or how much fire source he had wasted, Jonathan was the more important person to him right now.
Li Xiao said, "Brother Jie, why don't you examine Jonathan first and see if you can find the problem?"
“I suspect that Jonathan’s original memories were interfered with by some plot device or a third party.” Zhang Jie nodded, his expression also becoming serious.
He walked up to Jonathan and pointed his index finger at Jonathan's forehead.
The next moment, Zhang Jie's body began to become ethereal and transparent, and then disappeared completely.
Upon witnessing this, Chu Xuan murmured, "Is it a body formed from mental energy, or some kind of mental skill?"
Li Xiao was not surprised.
Zhang Jie was already capable of this level back in The Matrix.
There's no reason why we can't do it now.
Five minutes later.
Zhang Jie reappeared, his dazed expression finally clearing up.
He spoke up without waiting to be asked:
“I used my mental abilities to enter Jonathan’s memory world, and then used illusion to experience his experiences from entering the Qin Kingdom until he met us over the past few years.”
"No problems were encountered during the process. The map on him appeared out of nowhere one day without any warning."
"However, in the world of memories, I can only see what Jonathan was paying attention to at the time. If it was something done outside of his perception, I can't see it either."
"Jonathan himself showed no abnormalities; he was neither under illusion nor had any mental anchors."
Chu Xuan nodded: "If you can't find anything, then there's only one possibility."
"It is one of the methods left behind by immortals or saints."
"The purpose, if I'm not mistaken, is that the map appears so that the characters in the story can guide us to this suspended ancient tomb and discover the ruins."
"Actually, when I obtained the golden mask, I thought that since some specific horror movies feature relics left by saints of different skin colors for their descendants..."
How can we get the reincarnators to discover this?
"The simplest way is to have the characters in the story who have had contact with them play this crucial role."
"It's obvious that Jonathan is that kind of person."
Li Xiao frowned as she listened: "Then what use is this information to us?"
"We already know that gods are weapons created by cultivators."
"I also know that this first god was created by cultivators to deal with the saints."
Chu Xuan interrupted: "No, the most important part of this information is the raw materials."
"Jonathan said that the foundation of God is the unity of two things: one is the consciousness of the immortal, and the other is the physical body after genetic modification."
"The two combined are God."
"Another existence called the Light of the Mind is energy, which is the same thing as the Spark and the nuclear reactor. This is the key point that I can deduce at the moment."
Li Xiao and Zhang Jie exchanged glances.
"Um, and then?"
Seeing that the two still didn't understand, Chu Xuan changed the question.
"If that's the case, then Li Xiao, do you think the Supreme God is a god?"
"Since the word 'God' appears in the name of the main god, does it represent something?"
"For example, one of the raw materials for creating a supreme god is the soul or consciousness of an immortal?"
"And we already know that the Main God Space was created jointly by cultivators and saints."
"Although immortals among cultivators are not as powerful, they are still equivalent to saints."
"If one of the foundations of the Main God Space is the soul of an immortal, then could the second be the soul of a saint?"
"Perhaps only this ratio could create this almost miraculous God Space."
Zhang Jie seemed to understand something and immediately interrupted:
"Wait, according to you, the first god we're about to face is actually the soul of an immortal?"
"And immortals are equivalent to saints, so if we calculate it that way, our final enemy is a half-saint?"
Chu Xuan shook his head in denial: "The manufacture of any weapon of war requires a process, and even gods are no exception."
"The first god, as the name suggests, should be the first god created by the immortals."
"It's the first version, which is the weakest and has the most problems."
"I think there aren't many immortal souls at any time."
"It's impossible to try using this level of raw materials for the first manufacturing attempt."
"Therefore, I speculate that the souls of the first generation of gods did not reach the level of immortals."
"But even if we haven't reached that level, we should still be close to becoming immortals, right?"
Zhang Jie said the second thing that Chu Xuan hadn't said.
Chu Xuan did not deny it: "The purpose of manufacturing the first version was not for application, but to observe its shortcomings and make improvements later."
"In other words, such an existence must have some kind of flaw, or even a serious problem."
"But it cannot be denied that even so, this first god will be the most powerful existence that the Central Continent team has ever encountered so far."
Zhang Jie understood what he meant, and then couldn't help but give a wry smile.
"If it's supposed to be a benefit for us, why go through all this trouble? Wouldn't it be better to just give it to us directly?"
"They insist on testing our strength; it's like taking off your pants to fart—completely unnecessary!"
Li Xiao sighed and explained, "I think this should also be considered a screening method."
"There are only three relics left by yellow-skinned cultivators. If they were just given to any random small team, then this God Space would probably have been ruined."
Zhang Jie actually understood this principle and nodded, then asked, "By the way, did you reply to Saito Hajime's message?"
“I feel that his discovery is also quite important.”
"Unexpectedly, as time goes by, not only the Yellow Turban Warriors, but also the Buddha statues will become stronger."
Li Xiao's expression turned awkward for a fleeting moment.
After he finished reading all of Saito Hajime's information, he finally understood what was going on.
Adding to what Chu Xuan had just said, Li Xiao scratched his head and said, "Why do I feel like the names 'stone statue' and 'Yellow Turban Warrior' sound familiar?"
Zhang Jie didn't understand what it meant.
But Chu Xuan said directly, "It's an experimental subject."
Li Xiao and Zhang Jie looked at each other in confusion.
The man explained, "I think those cultivators must have done some preliminary experiments before they had the idea of creating gods."
"And this Yellow Turban Warrior and Buddha statue are the results of the experiment."
"Didn't you notice that the fused body of the stone statue, imbued with power, looks just like a shell?"
"This body has abilities, but no consciousness; it only has some basic behaviors."
"The Yellow Turban Warriors are conscious but have no body, and they also possess the abilities of the Five Elements. Each time they die, they will reassemble and become stronger."
"Don't these two correspond to the two raw materials of God?"
Li Xiao suddenly realized something and exclaimed, "I understand!"
Therefore, after the tomb was opened, the Buddha statues scattered first, followed by a chase by Yellow Turban warriors.
"Is it actually that our ancestors wanted us to practice before facing the first god?"
"If we can't even beat this, I suggest we give up as soon as possible and go back to the Main God Space to practice more?"
"Don't go into the ancient tomb again."
Upon hearing this, Zhang Jie gasped.
"You know what, it actually seems to be true?"
"How thoughtful..."
Li Xiao was sweating profusely. Was this really being considerate?
Just as the two of them were thinking the same thing, Chu Xuan refuted this claim. (End of Chapter)