Chapter 19: The Netherworld and the Source of Water
Li Xinjian's soul turned into a little golden light, wrapped in a small bubble, floating in the boundless void, and the up, down, left and right were filled with bubbles wrapped in golden light like him, and suddenly there was an attraction in front of him, attracting Li Xinjian's bubbles to float to the light source in front of him. In the center of the space is a huge truncated cone, made of deep black metal, glowing with a little silver, and around its inclined plane are seven equally spaced oval oblique holes, which are glowing with red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple light. In addition to the red diagonal holes, the remaining 6 diagonal holes are covered with a transparent crystal shell. In the red oblique cave sat a throne carved out of black spar, and sat a man with black hair and black eyes, dressed in a black robe with silver trim and embroidered with flowers, which melted into the darkness and did not move. Suspended above the truncated cone is a black inverted pyramid carved with golden hieroglyphs, and a huge bubble of changing shapes and colors shines on the top of the tower, and around it, countless ring-shaped screens playing movies surround the black inverted pyramid in the middle of the void.
The bubble wrapped in Li Xinjian's soul flew to the man in black sitting on the throne, and the black man's deep voice sounded: "Welcome to the Netherworld, I am the underworld here, Pantu, this is the center of the reincarnation system of the life form of the Earth Ark, you need to pay a certain price for reincarnation here, that is, you need to offer all your experiences, memories and the resulting "spiritual truth" in this life, so that all the souls here can share all your experiences in this life, do you agree?"
"What if I don't agree?"
The Lord of the Underworld replied, "Then you can't reincarnate in our Netherworld. Since you have no body, your soul may evaporate and disappear before you find another place of reincarnation."
Li Xinjian said curiously, "Are there any other reincarnations in the world? Why should I share all my experiences with other souls?"
The Lord of the Underworld, Pantu, calmly replied, "In the past, only in the time and space of the gods was in the "Ocean of Stars' Souls" that the reincarnation of all living beings could be carried out. Later, with the help of God, all beings and souls of our Earth Ark worked together to build the reincarnation system here composed of the heart lake, the sacred realm and the netherworld, which is closer to the true needs of sentient beings to pursue their true selves, and helps them to achieve the evolution of the "primordial gods". The experience you contribute in this life here can be like a holographic movie in virtual reality, allowing other souls to substitute and relive it, or divide your experience into several illusory dreams, and let other souls experience these dreams, so as to reflect and summarize what life course they want to experience in the next life, as a direction to guide their reincarnation. The soul here can stay in the netherworld, experience the different lives and dreams of other beings in their sleep, pursue self-growth and the transformation of their true self, and cause the "primordial spirit" to evolve, and when the soul is ready, it will embark on a new journey of reincarnation."
"Reincarnation is like a role-playing game, and in each life we participate in the survival race of different species and different life forms, and human beings are the most delicate and rich species of living beings. And the main body involved in these role-playing games is our soul. Our soul is a small group of energy that was originally separated from God's self-conscious energy body, which we call "Yuan Shen", when this "Yuan Shen" participated in countless role-playing games in the round, these interactions and experiences in the game world have accumulated all kinds of "spiritual reality", which is the thoughts and feelings triggered in an instant when interacting with the self-conscious soul and the objective environment, including feelings, thoughts, associations, imaginations, creations and dreams, and these "spiritual realities" After thinking and precipitation, it becomes a "soul mark" in the soul. Souls are a combination of the original "Genshin" and the unique "Soul Imprints" accumulated in multi-lifetime role-playing games, so souls cannot be duplicated. The self-consciousness of the soul, the "self", is a fluid concept, because after experiencing various "spiritual realities", the previous moment and the next moment are all me, but the "self" has changed and grown. In each role-playing game, the perception of the soul, the understanding of the self and the awakening of the true self promote the evolution of the "Genshin", which is also the evolution of the soul. The evolved "primordial spirit" is no longer a small group of energy bodies that are simply separated from the gods, but a spiritual energy body that has evolved from self-consciousness. Because living beings experience reincarnation, and their feelings of interaction with the objective world in life and life accumulate into a "soul imprint", which is neither material nor energy, but a disordered spiritual power, and this perception and integration of the "soul imprint" makes the "primordial spirit" of the soul in the process of evolution, resulting in a spiritual power that is neither material nor energy, which is the source of the spiritual power of "Yuan Shui". To put it simply, it is the pleasant emotions you get when you play role-playing games, the thoughts you think after passing the level, the revelations of different worldviews you get from them, and so on, which is your spiritual power, and those hearts gain the spiritual power of "Yuan Shui"."
Li Xinjian said suspiciously, "I am willing to give my experiences and memories of this life in exchange for reincarnation here. But unless I experience it myself, I won't believe that the evolution of "Genshin" can produce the term "Genshin"! Can you experience the evolution of the "Genshin" while I retain my sense of self?"
"I can agree to your request to let you enter a dream realm that will prompt you to think and pursue your true self, but there is no guarantee that your "primordial spirit" will evolve in a short period of time, after all, the human heart is fickle, and whether you can gain something in your dreams depends on your self-awareness and true self awakening. Moreover, you have to understand in advance the rules of the reincarnation of human beings in the Ark of the Earth, that if you are born as a human soul in this life, you will not be reborn as a human in the next life, but as other beings. Do you understand?"
Li Xinjian said resolutely, "Okay, I'm ready to start!"
The underworld master Pantu emitted a light and shot into the bubble that wrapped Li Xinjian's soul, and his bubble flew into the air, projecting a small circular screen, and playing quickly on the screen, every fragment of Li Xinjian from birth to death. When the film about Lie's life is played quickly, his bubbles fly into and merge into a newly generated circular screen, and his soul is experiencing a dream.
Li Xinjian stood in the center of the church, watching the bride slowly walking towards him, when the bride walked up to him, he and the bride said the vows in front of the priest, and put on the wedding ring for the bride, when the bride's veil was lifted, and was about to bow his head to kiss the bride, the warm blessings from the relatives and friends next to him suddenly turned into a shocking insult, in which his parents were full of tears, pointing at him and the bride and scolding: "My God, no, you are incest, and brothers and sisters cannot get married!" Li Xinjian firmly bowed his head and kissed the bride, yes, the bride is his sister Li Xinying, what's the problem, I am no longer a lonely person, I have a partner who will stay with me for a lifetime, but I feel extremely uneasy and guilty in my heart.
However, as soon as the picture turned, he went back to his childhood, he looked at the young lady lying asleep, no, the appearance of the young lady changed to another Li Xinjian, and then he dreamed that he took the hand of another Li Xinjian and walked together on the way home from school. Another Li Xinjian and him read together, play together, grow together, in the long journey of life, every minute and every moment is another Li Xinjian and him spend together, and he loves each other is another Li Xinjian, but almost no need to think, all know what another Li Xinjian will tell him, another Li Xinjian's thoughts and feelings, he can feel it all, the two are interconnected, no distinction between you and me. But what frightened Li Xinjian was that he couldn't remember the appearance of his young sister Li Xinying anymore, and he couldn't even remember her voice, as if Li Xinying was another Li Xinjian.
Li Xinjian stood in the center of the church again, watching the bride slowly walk towards him, when the bride walked to him, he and the bride said the vows in front of the priest, and put on the wedding ring for the bride, when the bride's veil was lifted, and when he was about to bow his head and kiss the bride, the warm blessings from the relatives and friends next to him blessed another Li Xinjian who knew each other, loved each other, and stayed together. Yes, his bride is another self, and he is no longer lonely because he knows that he has another self by his side. Suddenly, he returned to the moment when he was reincarnated as Li Xinjian, at that time, in order to no longer be lonely, he resolutely divided his soul into two, one into Li Xinjian, and the other into Li Xinying, at this time he realized that Li Xinying was actually another self. Can you no longer be lonely when you grow up with yourself, grow old with yourself, stop paying attention to other people, and build a self-enclosed world by yourself?
In the quiet afternoon, the light gauze curtains swayed slightly in the wind, and a chair and a small round table were placed by the window. On the small round table was a pot of blooming daffodils and a cup of hot coffee with a light smoke. Li Xinjian lay on the chair, took a sip of coffee happily, held a novel in his hand, and then he read the novel, and fell asleep while reading. In a dream, he became the son of the ancient Greek river god Kephissos and the goddess of Mizusawa Liriope, named Narkissos, as his father asked the famous prophet Tirisias about the fate of his son. Tirisias said that Narcissus could live a long life if he didn't see his face. So he himself never looked in the mirror, and he didn't know what he was doing. One day he was walking in the depths of the secluded forest, where he found a small cold pool, and in the lake he saw a very handsome young man with red lips and white teeth, and he immediately fell in love with this reflection of himself, and he said to the beautiful boy, "I love you." The echoes of the mountains also say: "I love you." He said to the beautiful boy, "You are beautiful!" The echo of the mountains also said, "You are beautiful!" When he heard his lover's answer, he wanted to kiss this beautiful reflection, and when he was about to kiss the beautiful boy, he fell into the cold pool.
The icy and piercing lake instantly submerged him, and suddenly a pair of wide and warm hands lifted him up from the lake, the owner of those hands was his father Watson, he went back to the age of six, because of playing in the water and drowning, it was his father's warm hands that picked him up, it was his mother's fragrant kiss to comfort him, it was his companion's cordial condolences and comforted him, six-year-old Li Xinjian nested in his father Watson's arms, looked up at the sky, the sky was very blue, very blue. Yes, I am not alone, because on the way of reincarnation, because of the thoughts of other souls, I will meet again, know each other, and stay with each other in the next life, and now my life is over, and I am forced to part with my other half of my soul, which is divided in two, and I cannot be reborn as a person to be by her side in the next life. But enough, I am in love with myself, it is basically a lonely cage that I have created for myself, I want to try to look at the world, experience life in the journey of life, and share the joy of life in interaction with other lives, share the understanding of life, I am not alone.
At this moment, the bubbles wrapped in Li Xinjian's soul emerged from the circular screen playing his dreams, and thick wisps of golden light continued to pour from his bubbles to the black inverted pyramid, and the golden hieroglyphs of the inverted pyramid flickered brightly and dimly. The Lord of the Underworld, Pan Tu, sighed and said, "Because your perception of loneliness allows you to experience the evolution of the "Yuan Shen", and that ray of golden light is the spiritual power that is neither material nor energy, and is the source of the real "Yuan Shui". Because human beings have the most delicate and rich emotions, they are able to reflect on and even sublimate their own perceptions accumulated in the reincarnation of many lives in the creation of literature and art, thus promoting the evolution of the "primordial spirit" of the soul before reincarnation in the next life. Therefore, it is now necessary for the Earth Ark to encourage the creation of literature and art, and continue to implement the system of earning value and contribution through creation, so as to lay a solid foundation for the soul's self-reflection in the afterlife. The mission of human beings is to open up the boundaries of life by promoting the evolution of the "Genshin" and generating the spiritual power of water. This is the most important value of human existence."
Li Xinjian suddenly brightened up and said happily, "Can I make a request for the life form I will be reincarnated in the next life and the new life journey I will experience?"
The Underworld Lord Pantu nodded, "In this "Water Source Project", you have done a miracle at the cost of your life. So we will try our best to meet your requirements and let you have a wonderful afterlife. But I want to warn you that you can't be reborn as a human in this life!"