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Should I rush up and strangle this white-haired guy first, or should I figure out what the situation is now?

Eventually, I asked, "Can anyone explain what this is?" ”

"It's in your own heart." Smile.

I'm going to strangle him, don't stop me!!

"So, are they real?" I mean "chaos," "gluttony," and "poverty."

Chaos spoke, his face expressionless: "You spent about a cup of tea in the illusion just now, and Mirage has taken the opportunity to drink up your stored wine and is soaking your employees (kapok). ”

I was furious: "! ”

"So now you understand, I'm real. According to your understanding, only I am 'true' here, and both of them are 'fake'. But actually, we're all real. "Originally, there was a 'fake' you here, but if you find here, that 'you' and yourself will become one." ”

"You've found this place a long time ago?" I asked.

"Well," said the five-and-a-half-foot lazily, "I'm the first, and you're the second, but I'm using a different method than you, so don't ask." ”

"Hey, you've been breaking it for a long time, haven't you, you've been hiding it from us!" I can't say if it's unpleasant or what, I complained.

"Don't you know now? This kind of thing is hard to come by. ”

"What's the situation now? Master, don't just laugh, master, speak, master. ”

The man in white spoke: "If you have to say it, this is the 'place of ceremony', which does not exist somewhere in the world, but in your consciousness, and also in the consciousness of mine and the other three of you. In the 'mirage illusion' that you entered, you explored your own heart, and I invited you to enter here. ”

"Ah Hee, why is it so cold here, it stands to reason that the hearts of the four of us shouldn't be warm?"

The man in white seemed to choke for a moment, and then he ...... It really made this place warm. "How about now? Don't think you're seeing the truth, though, that's it. He said.

"Huh?" I put on a disdainful face, "Are you talking 'real'?" , I remember I was in a fantasy. ”

"No, I think you're misleading. For so many years, I think for tens of thousands of years, have you been using the illusion of 'warmth' to cover your cold heart? ”

"I guess that has nothing to do with you. I don't care if it's warm or cold. ”

The master said with a smile that always elicits me, "Hey, can you really not care?" Why can't you make it to the top, don't you really care? Thousands of years of suffering and suffering day in and day out, don't you really want to know? ”

“…… What did you say? ”

"Don't look at me with that straight look, Hanji. If you want to know, please keep your eyes open. ”

With the master's narration, the surrounding environment changed again. I saw a city towering into the sky, holding a glorious sun.

"Grandiose, right? It was the greatest city created by prehistoric human civilization - Fuso. The record of it in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" is: "There is Fusang on the Tang Valley, bathed in ten days, in the north of the black tooth. In the water, there is a big tree, which is on the lower branch for nine days, and the upper branch for one day. There are ten suns like that, and usually only one is lit. Under the illumination of that 'sun', there is no night in a radius of hundreds of miles, and thanks to it, human beings have obtained almost infinite energy. The chief research officers call it 'the Suiren', but academically, I'd rather call it a 'controlled fusion reactor'! ”

"That's a bit informative...... It overturned my perception...... If it was a prehistoric human civilization, you wrote the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", right? ”

"Correct explanation, "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" is the evidence that we once existed."

"It's arrogant, human. When you wrote that book, did you think of yourself as a god overlooking the world? That condescending gesture. ”

"Gods? It's hard to say. No matter how close you are to the gods, in the eyes of the real gods, they are just humble ants. ”

I had a vague feeling of a new world unfolding in front of me: "You mean...... Do gods really exist?! ”

"Or else? I'm standing in front of you," said the master with a smile, "isn't that the best evidence?" ”

"You made it."

"Yes. When human beings stand at the pinnacle of the mundane world, they naturally aspire to become gods. But unfortunately, the power of God is not something that mortals can easily steal, and I am the only one who succeeds in the end. When the master said this, he said "It's a pity", but there was no emotional fluctuation.

"Why, don't you feel sorry for your compatriots?"

"Not anymore. This is one of the costs of becoming a god. Next, let's see how I created the 'Four Evils'. ”

The scene changed again, this time in an empty but cold hall. In the center of the hall, there stood a "master" with gray and white hair. When I looked around, the white-haired master was still standing in place.

"Then that's an image." I say.

The master nodded: "If you want to become a god, you must first give up the red dust, emotions and flesh (body), and return yourself to chaos and nothingness." Then, if you want to return to the world, you must have a 'carrier' to carry the spirit—or whatever you call it, whatever you want. In the beginning, the four of you were the vehicles I created for myself. ”

I squinted: "So, I'm just a bottle or a basin, and if you want to put it on the table, you have to put it in the basin, right?" ”

"You can't say I'm a ...... of water"

"I'd love to."

"Anyway, you just have to watch it."

At this time, the gray-haired man in the center of the hall also began to move. He folded his sleeve with his left hand, stretched out his right hand one by one in four directions, forward, backward, left and right, and when his hand left, he left a fruit emitting black gas in place. There were four of them, and I think I could roughly guess what they were.

"Each one is the entire memory of the 1,200 deceased." The master next to him added, "It took me half a year to come up with these four things. That is yours too, where the foundation lies. Hearing this, I suddenly had bad memories.

The gray-haired "master" turned due west (I guess, because there were white tiger stripes in that direction), and in his right hand he held a sharp knife with a cold light, and without hesitation, stabbed his wrist, and a puddle of blood exploded.

The blood was black.

"With my blood, I will shape your body." The gray-haired man groaned. I saw the black blood on his left wrist flowing to the ground, like a living thing, rushing to the west, surrounding the black fruit and converging into a human form. Looking at the figure of less than six feet, I said "oh" and did not comment.

The second knife, the man cut his own muscles.

"With my flesh, mould thy body." His voice was steady, without a hint of trill.

Due south, the muscles that landed on the ground wrapped around another humanoid.

"With my bones, shape your body."

"With my dirt, mold your body."

Four bodies stood in a circle around the gray-haired man. Then the man began to chant in a low voice:

"The immortal flower on the other side, the rope that can't hang itself, the black snake that devours each other, the third tail feather of the phoenix ......"

"Platinum Mask, Dance of Annihilation, Wolf King under the Moon, Demon Hell!"

Four black thunderbolts descended through the sky. The light was so eerie that it gave me the illusion of self-contradiction—dim, or dazzling?

"By then, I was so close to God." The master said ("You scared me!") I complained, "Breaking the rules and creating life out of nothing is a realm that God can set foot in." Then, when my flesh disintegrated, I became the true God as I am now. ”

I watched the scene with great fascination, the gray-haired man who turned into ashes overlapped so much with the first glance in my memory - the most unforgettable thing is that this person is "master"!

The master paused for a moment and then began to speak, "...... Later, I no longer wanted to go back to the human world, so you carriers were useless to me. So, I simply severed the chain of cause and effect between me and you. However, you are not natural beings after all. ”

"I understand," I said, "if the basis of godhood is to liberate the water from the bowl, then I am just a bowl without water." No wonder I'm different from youkai in the usual sense, I don't even have a once-in-a-thousand catastrophe. ”

"Do you think there's no hope?"

"Huh? You mean......"

"Lucky! After I removed the lid from the rain on your bowl, the water in your bowl gradually filled. ”

I was surprised, "In that case, it's ...... that restricts me now."

"I'm sorry, but there's one more stubborn thing in your bowl."

I thought for a moment and guessed, "Black fruit? ”

The master smiled: "Clever! ”

"But how am I going to get it out," I said, gesturing to my chest, "digging out of here and pulling it out?" ”

The master looked at me with a detached look: "Can't you see? Come, carefully, clearly, see ......"

He gripped the hilt of his sword.

That sword was originally pierced through my body, why couldn't I see it before?

"What is it that has made you feel pain every day for thousands of years? The culprit is here. ”

I grabbed the master's hand and grasped the hilt of the sword.

"It hurts...... Let's pull it out. ”

"Are you sure? Pulling it out is like pulling out the Dinghai needle, and you may not be able to save your life, and you will no longer belong to you if you live forever. ”

I asked rhetorically, "Is there any benefit to immortality?" ”

The master smiled: "What good is immortality?" ”

My heart is so firm, it is the water in the bowl, it is the star reflected in the water. I'm going to climb to the top, that's all.

The blade shattered and vanished, and even the hilt was gone.

"What can I do when I become a god?" I asked.

"From Lethe, retrieve the souls that have died. You want that, don't you? ”

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