Tianyou had seen a ghost village during the entrance assessment, but compared to the forest in front of him, the ghost village was really a ghost village. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoUnlike the sparse ghosts in the ghost village, there are lonely ghosts wandering around almost everywhere in the dense shade of the trees in front of you, although there are no deserted graves, but they are full of bones, except for the forest path, which is still clean, the ground is almost invisible as far as the eye can see, and it is all covered by skeletons.

"How can there be so many bones and souls here?"

"I'm not sure about that. It's just that I heard the senior brothers mention that the Netherworld Peak was a main battlefield in the Battle of the Catastrophe before it became a Void Fragment, and then it seems that there were several Buddhist powers and the Demon King who fought a decisive battle here, and both sides finally died together, and this Netherworld Peak was also forcibly cut out of the main world by the supreme power of both sides, and became a huge Void Fragment.

Later, a Purple Sky Palace sage discovered this Void Fragment, so he established a teleportation array in the Boundary Mountain, reconnecting this place with the main world, and it became the current Nether Peak. ”

Bai Bingqian added: "In fact, over the years, this sect has been constantly replenishing the consumption of the revenants in the Netherworld Peak, and the Beast Control Sect has issued long-term tasks, encouraging disciples to bring some dead souls and skeletons when they go out and come back, and some disciples of the Beast Control Sect will take the opportunity to practice spells, and go to the nearby mass graves to get some corpses and come back to hand in the tasks." ”

"Is the Beast Mastering Sect's revenant soul consumption very large, why do you need to replenish it?"

"It's not just the Beast Control Sect, it's the entire sect that needs it. ”

"Need a revenant?"

"There are also skeletons and zombies, but the main thing is that the revenants consume the most. ”

"Is there still anyone in our Zixiao Palace who cultivates evil arts, why do they consume so many revenants?"

Bai Bingyu explained: "It's not evil magic, it's the best use of things. A living person has three souls and seven spirits, and when a person dies, the seven spirits disappear, and the heavenly soul will be completely shattered, but the earth soul and the life soul are still there, which is a ghost. Although the soul of the ghost is incomplete, the essence of the three souls and the seven spirits are the same, so if the soul of the living person is damaged, the soul of the yin ghost can repair the yang soul of the person. This method is the same as the need for food supplements for the initial recovery of injuries, but fish, meat and vegetables can only replenish the body, and ghosts must be used to replenish the soul. ”

Tianyou looked at Bai Bingyu in surprise, and was stunned for a long time before he said, "You eat ghosts?"

Bai Bingqian explained anxiously: "It's not a direct ghost eater, my sister is just making an analogy, but in fact, it's almost the same." ”

"But those lonely souls and wild ghosts are all human beings, don't you feel strange even if they are processed into something like medicinal herbs and then eaten? What is the difference between this and cannibalism?"

"A ghost is a ghost, how can it be counted as a human being? When the heavenly soul dissipates, the person is already dead, and this person does not exist at this time, and the rest are ghosts and non-humans, so how can there be a saying of cannibalism?"

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Tianyou didn't know how to answer for a while when he was asked by Bai Bingqian. This ideological aspect is the most difficult to communicate.

For example, there was an island tribe on Earth before, where men and men who didn't mind other men pursuing their wives, even if they rolled the sheets in front of him, he would only be happy to be an audience. In the local belief, if there are other men pursuing their wives, it means that their wives are attractive and something to be proud of. But for people elsewhere, it's something completely incomprehensible. On the other hand, locals are incomprehensible that people outside care about whether their wives are cheating.

Tianyou already had a complete worldview when he arrived on the Divine Continent, so he couldn't understand this idea of seeing ghosts as a resource at all.

I don't know if there are ghosts on the earth, but whether it is in myths and legends or in film and television works, ghosts are treated as personified independent individuals. In other words, earthlings generally regard ghosts as human beings, at least in terms of personality. That's why there are film and television works such as ghost revenge, repaying gratitude, and falling in love with people. Revenge, repaying gratitude, and falling in love are all things that can only be done by human beings, and there is such content in film and television works and myths and legends on the earth, which is enough to show that earthlings treat ghosts as human beings.

However, as far as Tianyou is concerned, the people of the Shenzhou Continent do not seem to have this kind of cognition. In their view, ghosts are ghosts, and like demons, they are a dangerous but valuable biological resource.

Tianyou was thinking about how to explain this matter to Bai Bingyu and the two of them, but he didn't expect Bai Bingyu to speak first.

"Tianyou, I remember you said that you had been wandering around with your adoptive mother until you were ten years old, so did you ever live in the Tang Kingdom?"

Although he didn't know why Bai Bingyu suddenly asked this, Tianyou still nodded and said, "Yes, but does it matter?"

"So you've lived in Tang Kingdom! Tianyou hasn't figured out what's going on yet, but Bai Bingqian looks like she's suddenly realized, which makes Tianyou even more confused.

Bai Bingyu, who thought he had found the reason, began to explain to Tianyou, and Tianyou did understand after listening carefully to Bai Bingyu's explanation. It turns out that there is a certain deviation in the understanding of Tianyou before.

The ordinary people of the Shenzhou Continent can be said to have a very close understanding of ghosts to the situation on Earth, but they are slightly different.

People on the earth completely treat ghosts as an independent and complete personality, because in the mainstream religions on the earth, there is a saying of reincarnation and the afterlife, so there are so many ancient emperors who desperately build luxurious mausoleums for themselves, hoping to continue to enjoy life after death.

However, in the Shenzhou Continent, the understanding of the world after death and reincarnation is completely different.

First of all, there is no concept of the underworld in the Shenzhou Continent, and Buddhism has a saying of six reincarnations, but only Buddhist believers believe that death is the end, and there is no afterlife, and there is no such thing as reincarnation.

Secondly, because of the existence of cultivators, the study of souls in the Divine Continent is very in-depth.

The cultivation of people in the immortal sect is the soul, and the study of the soul is naturally extremely profound. According to the research conclusions of the immortals, the seven spirits of the three souls and seven spirits do not have the ability to think, they are more like controllers, mainly responsible for the connection between the three souls and the body. The three souls generate thoughts, and then control their bodies to act through the seven spirits. Therefore, as long as ordinary people die, the spirit immediately ceases to exist, because death represents the separation of the soul and the body, and the division of the two naturally requires the first severance of the "spirit" as a connection.

The reason why ghosts after death cannot drive the physical body is because the "spirit" no longer exists. The reason why evil ghosts can go on the body of a living person and manipulate a living person is because there is a "spirit" in the living person, and because the "soul" is stronger, the evil ghost can snatch the control of the "soul" of the living person over his own "spirit". Of course, because everyone's soul is born with a corresponding, the foreign soul must be many times stronger than its own soul to have the possibility of snatching control. This is the reason why ghosts that can possess and manipulate the living must be very powerful evil spirits and unjust spirits. It's not that ordinary ghosts don't want to, it's that they can't do it.

Of course, if this were the case, the people of the Shenzhou Continent might also see the ghost as an alternative person with an independent personality, but this is not the case.

It's not that Xianmen doesn't recognize the connection between ghosts and people, they just divide them more carefully.

If a person dies with all three souls, then he is not a ghost, but a soul state. It is a state, not a being, and the state of the soul is reversible and can be resurrected with the right conditions.

Xianmen believes that this state is a special state of "person", not that the person has become a ghost. Although the state of the soul is very similar to the ghost in terms of form and many characteristics, the two are two completely different beings, the former is still a "human", but in a special state similar to "sick", and the latter is a completely different existence, which has nothing to do with "human".

Most of the ordinary people will become ghosts after death, that is, the heavenly soul will dissipate, and only the state of the earth soul and the life soul will remain. Of course, this is not absolute, and there are two other special cases that are relatively rare.

One is that the soul is seriously damaged, and even the ghosts are left after death, and they disappear directly.

The second is that the obsession is strong or the disintegration of the heavenly soul is incomplete due to some special reasons.

The second situation will produce three different types of souls, namely: heroic souls, unjust souls, and living souls, but all three are actually the same thing, but there are some differences in external manifestations due to the difference in the integrity of the heavenly soul and the reason for its formation. But in essence, all three are a state between a soul and a ghost.

Whether it is a heroic soul, an unjust soul, or a remnant soul, as long as there are suitable conditions, the heavenly soul can be re-replenished to become a complete soul, and as long as the soul is complete, it can be resurrected and become a human again. Therefore, theoretically speaking, these three can be regarded as human beings, but the immortal gate has different standards for the unjust souls in it.

Although the essence of the three is the same, the unjust souls are all incarnated by the souls of people who are unjust and unwilling, and their behavior is often uncontrollable after becoming unjust ghosts, and some of them will devour other ghosts, and then transform into powerful ghosts, and if they don't eat ghosts, they will also eat people.

Heroic souls are very similar to unjust souls, both exist because of obsessions, and both devour other ghosts. The difference is that the unjust soul is completely blinded by hatred, and the more ghosts they swallow, the more brutal they become, and in the end, they will even forget all their original obsessions, killing only for the sake of killing.

On the other hand, heroic souls, or heroic spirits, are inherently a kind of soul collection, consisting of the souls of one or several people as the main body, driven by a common goal, absorbing the souls of the nearby dead and merging with each other to form a new soul.

Because this state is often found on the battlefield, and the main soul usually comes from the soul of a spiritual leader who is deeply loved by the soldiers, the heroic soul also means the soul of a hero.

Because these heroic souls are fused with a large number of souls of the same will, they are often very complete, and their strength will be very exaggerated, and they can drive natural aura as soon as they are born, and their combat power is close to that of a soul condensation stage monk. But more importantly, the heroic soul has an extremely firm obsession, and devouring the ghost will not only not make him lose his mind and forget his obsession, but will accelerate the repair of the heavenly soul. In other words, the more ghosts the soul swallows, the more sober it will become, and in the end, it will be even more rational than before death.

The living soul is different from the previous two, they are often a kind of heavenly soul born for special reasons, but the soul of the heavenly soul is damaged, but the heavenly soul has not been completely lost. This type of soul is characterized by the fact that it looks like a ghost, but has a complete sense of self.

In fact, all of the above can be regarded as the special state of human beings, but the Xianmen has always had an attitude of killing the unjust ghosts and ghosts that harm and eat people, so they do not recognize their existence as human beings, and the souls, heroic souls, and living souls other than the unjust souls are generally treated as human beings, which is basically no different from the concept on the earth accepted by Tianyou.

The real difference is in the ghosts.

The biggest difference between ghosts and the previous souls is that ghosts do not have heavenly souls, only earth souls and life souls.

According to the research of the immortal sect powers, the earth soul and life soul of the newborn baby have been basically formed, and the completeness can reach more than eighty percent. After the age of three, the earth soul will basically no longer change, and the scope of change after that will be very small, which is the so-called reason why the nature of the country is easy to change and difficult to change.

The life soul is different from the earth soul, the life soul of ordinary people can grow until after the age of 16, and the cultivator can improve indefinitely. Of course, it will be more and more difficult to improve in the later stage, and the improvement will be smaller and smaller, and in fact, at the age of 8, the life soul has reached more than ninety percent completeness, and there will be very few changes after that.

Only the Heavenly Soul, which is almost infinite.

A person's Heavenly Soul is endless, it can be ascended indefinitely, and it doesn't matter if you are a cultivator or not. Of course, the cultivation of cultivators would obviously be much faster, and ordinary people had a limited lifespan, and it was impossible for them to have so much time for the Heavenly Soul to grow naturally.

From these characteristics of the three souls, it can be seen that the three souls actually have a clear division of labor.

The earth soul is in charge of people's desires, it is a fixed pattern that follows the body, and after the age of 3, people's living habits are basically fixed, and the change is just some habits, but the basic needs of people have been fixed.

The soul only controls it, and both the heavenly soul and the earth soul need to manipulate the body to make actions through the soul of the soul, so it develops with the movement ability of the person. At the age of 8, the basic motor ability of the human body is fully developed, so by the age of 8, the life soul is almost completed, but it will not reach its peak until the age of 16. And if it is targeted training, then there is naturally hope for the soul to improve, but the amplitude will not be too large.

Compared with the first two, the Heavenly Soul is the core of human beings, because the Heavenly Soul is in charge of wisdom.

This wisdom is not just a question of whether you are smart or not, it includes not only human intelligence and memory, but also reason.

From birth, as a person grows older, he will continue to absorb knowledge from the outside world and then act into various memories. When we know someone, it's not so much about the person's body as we are about the person's memory.

Just as brain-dead patients and vegetative people need to be treated differently, ghosts and spirits also need to be treated differently in the eyes of Xianmen.

When a person becomes a ghost, his soul has been lost, which means that the person's memory, character, worldview, and everything that represents the essence of the person no longer exists. If a brain-dead patient is a person who has died, and only the exorcism remains, then the ghost is the death of the heavenly soul, and only the earth soul and the life soul remain.

On Earth, it is also an acceptable concept for most people to transplant their body organs to others after death, as long as the person agrees, because the body is no longer important to the dead.

In the same way, the ghost is actually no longer the person who died in the first place, its heavenly soul has completely disappeared, and the mark of being a human no longer exists. The last remaining ghost is the same thing as the body left of the dead, the difference is only that one is an entity and the other is an energy body.

Since corpse organs can be reused on Earth, then in the Shenzhou Continent, ghosts can naturally also be reused. This logic also obviously makes sense.

Of course, just like many people donate their bodies after death, their families will be emotionally unacceptable. The people on this side of the Shenzhou Continent are also reluctant to have their ghosts pulled away for reuse after their family members die.

Because of this, the disciples of Zixiao Palace often went to mass graves to look for souls and corpses. Although the people of the Shenzhou Continent would mind that the ghosts of their relatives would be reused by others, they did not object to the use of ghosts to save people. Therefore, as long as you don't dig people's ancestral graves, no one will say anything. On the other hand, drugs made from ghosts are very popular in the outside world, but because the production is pitiful, they cannot be popularized on a large scale.

After finally explaining it clearly, Tianyou no longer felt that the medicine made by using ghosts was disgusting. After all, there is still a big gap between this and cannibalism.

"No wonder the ghost consumption in Zixiao Palace is amazing, I can understand it now. ”

Since ghosts can be used as a medicine to repair the soul, it is not surprising that the loss is larger.

After Tianyou learned about the ghost, Bai Bingyu took the initiative to mention the problem of skeletons and zombies.

The consumption of these two existences is not large, but because the scale of the entire Zixiao Palace is too large and there are many disciples, in fact, the loss of zombies and skeletons is not small. These guys don't need to consume as much medicine, but firstly, some people will treat them as mystical beasts to cultivate, and secondly, they also need these guys for summoning training.

The consumption of skeletons and zombies on the side of the beast is not large, because not many people generally choose skeletons or zombies as the beast, and those who do this are generally people with poor qualifications who know that they can't get a regular beast. As for the calling...... This is the main source of consumption.

Although the summoned beasts summoned by the psychic's summoning technique are all one-time, it is obviously very much spiritual power to temporarily construct summons on the battlefield, and if the number is insufficient, if you want to summon a few more, you will be powerless due to insufficient spiritual power.

In order to solve this problem, psychics have thought of many methods, one of the most practical is to prepare the summons that need to be used in the battle in advance, so that the summoning process is only teleportation, which is undoubtedly a good thing for both summoning speed and endurance.

As the main summoning category, there are naturally many people in Zixiao Palace, and the more people who use it, the greater the consumption. The summoned beast itself is a one-time consumable, and it is normal to have some loss in battle, and in this case, the consumption of the undead in Zixiao Palace is quite considerable. This is also the reason why the Beast Control Sect needs to constantly let the disciples carry corpses and souls back. (To be continued.) )