Chapter 18: The Tree of Life
Moye soon found some information related to his background from the historical stories told by Xiliu and Xiluo, and speculated: "In other words, the Fiji people who were shipwrecked at sea and almost lost their lives, and were later saved by the Streamers with the blood of the Tree of Life, also escaped back to the Eastern Continent at that time, and successfully escaped the pursuit of King Ciel, and even left a descendant......
Hearing this, the priest, who had been silent for a long time, finally looked back at Moye and said, "Yes, that is the only Fiji person who has drunk the blood of the Tree of Life in his homeland. And the descendant of the Fiji people, the mother who gave birth to you, was later found by the Priest of the Streamer Clan...... That's the only reason you can exist here. ”
"But how can I be sure that I am the only streamer in the form of a Lepeilian? Mono questioned.
The priest immediately dismissed his ignorant conjecture, explaining: "The blood of the Tree of Life in the homeland, even if it is inherited in the blood of the Lepelians, will never be fused with the blood of the Lepelians. Because the blood of the Tree of Life has the instinct and wisdom to survive independently, it will continue to survive in his descendants through the genetic transfer of life until the end of the life cycle of the Fiji people, and so on. Moreover, the blood of the Tree of Life will be passed on to a single offspring in a completely concentrated manner, and will never be passed on to multiple offspring in a scattered manner. Unless the Fiji people who have inherited the blood of the Tree of Life cease to reproduce, the blood of the Tree of Life will continue to be passed on until they return to their homeland. In the Streamers, only Priest Rysersi has the ability to recall the blood of the Tree of Life that has been left out. It was precisely because he sensed the summoning of the blood of the Tree of Life that he had to let a Lepelian act as the mother of the Streamer Clan's baby, which was the only way to retrieve the blood of the Tree of Life in his homeland. ”
"I didn't expect that the blood of a tree on the Streamer Star would have such wisdom......" Mono sighed as if he didn't understand.
At this time, there seemed to be a serious look in the priest's eyes, and he said: "Don't underestimate the wisdom of life, he can always find a way to survive, this is the instinct of life. The power of the Tree of Life should not be underestimated, he is the sanctuary of the Streamer Star, allowing many Streamer Beings to circulate and continue. ”
"In this way, King Gushir should have had the desire to capture the Streamer Star in order to gain immortality and wealth. Moye couldn't help but wonder, "But can the blood of that tree of life really make people immortal?"
"The Tree of Life is one of the oldest creatures in the homeland, and he has a consciousness and wisdom of his own. In the process of evolution, all the life on the Streamer Star has more or less obtained the nutrients for survival from him. Whether it is a Streamer Beast or a Streamer, the blood flowing in our bodies is closely related to the blood of the Tree of Life without exception, which is why our breaths are similar. Both in terms of soul and biological differences, the Streamers and Lepelian are completely different species. Therefore, with the physique of the Lepeilian people, they could not really absorb the energy in the blood of the Tree of Life. The priest said.
"No wonder, after going up the mountain, I always smell a familiar fresh and aromatic smell, which turns out to be the breath that comes from the blood. "It dawned on Moye. In fact, he had suspected that he seemed to have a faint smell a long time ago, but perhaps because of his living environment and eating habits, it was not very obvious, so he didn't pay much attention to it, until he reached the top of the mountain, because there were many Sirwins around, this smell became obvious. He then speculated, "Although the blood of the Tree of Life cannot be fused with the blood of the Lepelians, it can heal the wounds of the Lepelians, right?"
"Yes, the blood of the Tree of Life, possessing great repair and survivability. Therefore, when the blood of the tree of life is parasitic in the body of the Lepelian, in order to create a better living environment for himself, he will heal the injuries and diseases of the parasitic lifeform, so that he can gain health, so that his life will be delayed. However, this role is very limited for the Lepelians. In terms of the law of time passage in Lepeilian's world, it is actually equivalent to an additional three to five years of postponement on the basis of normal lifespan. For the streamer, it's just the blink of an eye. On the other hand, due to the relatively slow passage of time in their homeland, those Fijian explorers who had spent a short time on the Streamer Star would only appear younger when they returned to the world of Lepelian, which in turn caused King Hill to misunderstand that the Lepelian people could achieve immortality as long as they reached the Streamer Star or drank the blood of the Tree of Life. In fact, the question of our longevity is the result of a combination of our biological and spiritual forces. ”
"The power of the blood of the Tree of Life is so amazing!" Mono couldn't help but sigh, "In this way, it is a miracle that my mother was able to give birth to me. ”
Hearing this, the priest had to be reminded: "You seem to have many misunderstandings about how you were born. ”
"Misunderstanding, am I not right?" Mono said in surprise, thinking he had understood, didn't he?
"Although 'mother' is used in the Lepelian language to refer to the female who gave birth to herself, there is no such thing as 'mother' in the streamer language, especially for the Rysers. The Lepeilian and the Streamer belong to different species, and have no possibility of combining physically or psychologically, so they are not able to produce any hybrid offspring at all. In addition, in terms of biological differences, we do not reproduce in the same way. In other words, it doesn't matter if the Lepei Fei Yan mother who gave birth to you is a male or a female, because he is just a temporary carrier. In fact, all it took was to cut any small wound in his body and drip a drop of the blood of the Streamer Clan's Rysersi priest. ”
"Huh?" "Mono was completely confused this time, it doesn't matter if the mother is male or female, what does this mean?
Seeing that he was at a loss, the priest patiently explained: "Once the blood of those Trees of Life inherited from the Mother of Lepelian is fused with the blood of Priest Ressi, a new sense of survival will be generated. That new consciousness will completely change the biological structure of the Lepeilian mother's body, and then create a new environment conducive to the survival of the Streamer Clan's babies. And that new life consciousness is actually your original soul state. Immediately afterward, you will instinctively use the power absorbed from the blood of the Tree of Life and the blood of the Priest of Ressersi, mimicking the appearance of your mother in order to adapt to the external environment in the future, to create a new body for yourself. In the process of the new body gradually taking shape, you will continue to absorb more life force from the mother, in other words, continue to destroy the original life structure of the mother, and when you develop to the point where you can break free from the bondage of the mother, you will immediately take away the last life force of the mother. Because, the blood of the Rethesi people is absolutely predatory and coercive, and in a sense, the plundering of life is the natural nature of the Rethesi people to continue to survive. This is the process of retrieving the blood of the Tree of Life from the body of the Lepelian. ”
"How so...... Cruel?!" This unbelievable way of birth surprised Moye, he never imagined that the process of his life formation could be so bizarre and cruel. The grievances and grievances between the two races for more than a thousand years are inextricably linked to his life experience.
"Cruel? No, it's just the law of life, just as natural as living things absorb nutrients in order to survive. The priest said indifferently, "The lifespan of the Streamers is almost infinite, but many of the rebirth forms with fertility will also end a long life cycle because they have given birth to the offspring of the Rysers. But the difference is that after the streamer loses its body, it will slowly evolve into a non-physical form and start a new life journey again. ”
"Disembodied form?" Demon Ye's original thoughts, which were about to be clear, were suddenly cut off by a new mist.
"There are a total of twelve groups of different morphologies of the streamers, and they have their own morphological names, which are divided according to the physical characteristics of each group. If it is classified according to gender characteristics, then it will be divided into three types: repetitive, male, and asexual forms. However, if we distinguish according to the degree of evolution, it can be roughly divided into three stages: solid form, semi-solid form and non-solid form. ”
Mo Ye was completely shrouded in fog, and it was difficult to digest these things that were beyond the scope of his cognition for a while, and he was ignorant for a long time, but finally only asked a rather emotional question: "That...... Will those metamorphic forms hate the Rysersi because of this?"
"No, streamers don't have this emotional awareness, and they don't have any similar negativity. There is no such word as 'hate' in the streamer's language, because the streamer and the Lepeilian people know and understand life in different ways...... "Next, the priest told Moye that in the consciousness of the streamer, neither the soul nor the body will really disappear, but only "the sense of existence at a certain stage of life" will disappear.
The life cycle concept of the streamer people is different from that of the Lai Peilian people, and there is no so-called "death" in the cultural concept of the streamer people. Streamers believe that life is a process of continuous differentiation and recombination, and each life will have a different stage of survival. When a certain stage is over, the body and soul move on to the next stage of the life cycle. In the next stage of existence, their bodies and souls will reorganize and evolve again, possibly becoming any being on the Streamer. Maybe it's a brilliant gem, maybe it's a beautiful flower, maybe it's a colorful streamer, maybe it's a streamer again...... You have me, I have you, and it goes on and on. In short, no matter what kind of life form it exists, it is an inseparable part of the Streamer Star. It is precisely because the streamers believe that life is a process of continuous cyclical reorganization and will not really disappear, so they are not afraid of the so-called "death", and they have a unique view of the meaning of life.
This kind of cultural concept is the reason why the streamer people naturally take care of all the children of the streamer tribe as their own children. Because, since life is a continuous cycle of reorganization, there is enough reason to believe that each person contains a part from other life, is closely connected to each other, and every life is closely related to the streamer.
The reason why the streamers do not have a family concept is because their social structure is different from that of the Lepelian people. The Lepelian people usually form families based on blood ties and live together under one roof. But the Streamers don't have a house, their blood comes from the blood of the Tree of Life, and the Streamer Star is their common home. Every streamer, every streamer, every tree, every mountain, every river...... All the things that exist in the homeland are the elements of the Streamer Star.
After more than 1,000 years of exile in the other world, the people of Streamer are still nostalgic for their homeland, and they look forward to returning to their homeland day and night, precisely because they regard themselves as an inseparable part of their homeland. They will love their clansmen as they love themselves, and they will cherish everything about the Streamer Star as they cherish themselves, which is the life and world view of the Streamer people.
In terms of thinking habits, the streamer people are also very different from the Lepeilian people. No matter what the situation is, the streamers will first take a holistic view, prioritizing the environment in which they live and the common interests of the entire race, and finally the individual, always treating themselves as a part of nature. The thinking habits of the Lepelian people are completely opposite, and the Lepelian people will give priority to their own gains and losses, followed by those who are close to them and those who have the same position, and finally the natural environment. Because, since the development of agriculture, the Lepelian people have gradually withdrawn themselves from nature, arrogantly believing that they control all things, and even have overridden nature, and with the development of civilization, they have unconsciously formed the habit of thinking separately from nature. Therefore, they always waste one piece of land without any cherishment, and then go to waste another, treating water and soil as dead things, abusing the mountains and forests endlessly, and rightfully regard themselves as the rulers of heaven and earth.
After the priest's patient explanation, Moye finally had a more specific understanding of the Streamer Clan, and gradually developed some closeness, and involuntarily began to worry about the future of the Streamer Clan, so he asked, "Aren't the Streamer people unable to go back?"
"No matter what, we will return to our homeland. The priest gave a clear answer.
"But, isn't the Streamer Star gone?" asked Mono, puzzled.
"Unlike the world of Leppelen, our homeland is one of the oldest sanctuaries in the universe, much older than most of the stars in the universe. The Streamer Star is a living natural object, and of course it has its own sense of survival, and 'disappearing' is just a way for him to protect himself when he encounters a crisis. Self-preservation is the strongest instinct in all living natures, and Streamers share this instinct just like us. He will always find a way to survive, so he will not really disappear, but will exist in places that we 'can't see'. We just have to wait for a while, and He will give us a revelation to guide us back to our homeland. The priest explained.
"I don't really understand, although it's a temporary wait, but I've actually been waiting for more than a thousand years, isn't it?" After all, Moye is not like other streamers, who have always lived with the clansmen, and have never received the education of the streamer clan before, even if they have only learned some things from the priest's mouth, they will still habitually understand things in the way of thinking of the Lepeilian people, but this way is very different from the way the streamers perceive the world, so it is naturally difficult to fully understand the priest's words.
"The concept of time and space in the homeland is different from the world of Lepelian, and it cannot be compared. The only thing we know for sure is that the environment in Lepeilian's world is not suitable for us to survive, and more than a thousand years have actually reached the limit. The priest bluntly informed Mano of the predicament that the Streamer Clan was facing.
"But how can I go back? and go back to the East China Sea to find the original passage?" Having said that, Mano also knew that it might not work. The priest had already said that the passage connecting the two worlds could only be formed under certain natural conditions, and was not fixed, so it was likely to have disappeared long ago.
"It is the consciousness of the homeland itself that has brought us here safely at the critical moment, so it is not limited by the laws of time and space in the world of Lepeilian, and it has no direct relationship with when King Gushir returned to the Eastern Continent. As long as the soul of the homeland is not lost, the Streamer Star will reappear, and he will guide us in his own way. Because we belong to Him, we are an inseparable part of our homeland, and returning to our homeland is an inevitable consequence. The priest said.
For Moye, this was another very incomprehensible passage, although it sounded simple, but he didn't think it was an easy thing to do. The concept of space-time is different, which means that it is impossible to estimate how long it will take to materialize. In addition, what is the "soul of the homeland"? The homeland still has its own consciousness? This is tantamount to saying that the land and the sea also have their own consciousness of life, which sounds absurd.
"Our life originates from our homeland, which provides us with all the elements of life and everything we need for survival, if he doesn't have a soul, how can we have a soul?" As if sensing the confusion of the demon field, the priest said solemnly, "The soul is a mysterious power that our creator has given us to communicate with. ”
Seeing that Demon Ye was still full of disbelief and confusion, Xiliu on the side explained, "We call the soul of our homeland the Sun King. There is a legend among the Streamers that the Sun King can light the way back to their homeland. The Sun King's soul realm is vast, but our minds are narrow and limited. The only way we know to communicate with Him is to pray and give thanksgiving, to constantly communicate to Him our desires, and we are confident that He will be able to sense and respond to us because we are part of Him and are attached to His soul. The place where he exists is not directly related to time and space, so we don't need to deliberately run anywhere to find it. ”
"Could it be that the grand festival before was a ceremony of thanksgiving and prayer to the Sun King?" said Mono curiously.
"That's right......" It was only then that Xiliu suddenly looked at the flaming child, "No wonder I always felt a sense of familiarity before, but I didn't realize that it was just a psychic body, and I didn't expect that the Sun King's revelation would be presented in such a bizarre way." Not only does it create a specific image, but it also gives it a child-like personality, which is beyond doubt. ”
"Yes, he once said that we are the same, but I didn't ......understand it at the time," Xiluo also woke up from a dream, after all, he and Xiliu were both born in the world of Lepeilian, and they had not been in contact with the real homeland before, so their feelings about the Sun King were relatively hazy.
"It's natural, no matter how he is presented, we are always part of him, and the sense of familiarity conveyed by the soul is also our sense of belonging. The priest said.
There is an old legend about the "Sun King" of the Streamers, the origin of which is too old to be remembered, but there is no doubt about it. Legend has it that the Sun King is the soul of the Streamer Star, and he used his strength and wisdom to create the Streamer Star, giving it life and light, so the soul of the Sun King is the source of life for the Streamer Man. In short, the Sun King is actually the Streamer Star, and the Streamer Star is the Sun King himself.
The streamers who get life from the Streamer Star have always regarded themselves as part of their homeland and have never thought separately. Even if their homeland suddenly disappeared, they were convinced that the Sun King would return and bring them back to their homeland again, and they waited for more than a thousand years with gratitude and prayer with this unwavering faith.
The reason why the priest and the westryu interpret it in the Lepelian language as "the consciousness of the homeland", "the soul of the homeland", and "the sun king" are all just to help Mono better understand the meaning. In fact, a more accurate title would be "my sun". Because in the streamer, "my sun" expresses a very high respect, and its connotation is "my creator". But if it is translated literally in Lepelian, it is obvious that it cannot express the true sublime meaning. Therefore, when they explain it in the Lepelian language, they have to be called "Sun King".
The reason why the Sun King's revelation will be presented in the form of a psychic body should be due to the fact that the Sun King's own power is too powerful, once he is in a complete posture, that is, the posture of combining demonic power and spiritual power, the main body of the Streamer Star, if he is directly close to the world of Lepeilian, it will have a huge impact on this world, just like the catastrophe more than a thousand years ago, and may even directly lead to the destruction of this world.