Chapter 5: Memory Assimilation
Instructors like Le Zhenren and Bitter Saints, although they have cultivated to the realm of real people and saints, if they want to break through the realm again, it is extremely difficult, after all, there is no physical body to nourish the soul, and it is difficult to cultivate, which can be said to be half the effort.
Le Zhenren also knew that he would probably be like this if he was mixed up in the underworld until he died, so his enthusiasm for cultivation in recent years had greatly decreased, and he really wanted to find a chance to go back to the earth to have a look.
There are countless souls in the underworld, but there is no suitable body to give up. And if the soul wants to return to the earth to take it away, without paying a high price in exchange for special protection means, when approaching the earth's atmosphere, it is likely to encounter natural disasters such as thunderstorms, and souls that have not survived the thunderstorm will most likely be wiped out because of this.
Le Zhenren has little savings and low status, so he simply can't afford to pay this high price. At the same time, he hadn't cultivated to the distraction stage, and he didn't dare to go to the earth to survive the tribulation.
If you reach the distraction period and have a doppelganger and a complete backup of the soul, you dare to survive the thunder tribulation, even if the soul of the deity is wiped out, at least there is still a doppelganger that can survive in the world. Although the doppelganger can't survive the thunder tribulation, and he can't cultivate an inch from then on, he still has a complete spiritual imprint between heaven and earth, and he can become a scattered immortal.
Because of this, Le Zhenren can only nest in the underworld now, becoming an instructor specializing in training reincarnated souls, cultivating while selecting students, and waiting for one day to break through to the distraction period.
His greatest pleasure is to select some potential souls from the earthlings, and then focus on cultivating, hoping that they can fulfill some wishes on his behalf. For example, reincarnated in other planes, traveling the world, and dominating the world......
Lin Yifan is the potential stock that Le Zhenren has just tapped.
"Le Zhenren's life is really ups and downs!"
From the birth of Le Zhenren, apprenticeship, cultivation, being killed, coming to the underworld and staying until now. These experiences spanned more than three hundred years, and they were only a matter of a few words, but when Lin Yifan came into contact with all this, everything was engraved on his own thoughts, thus transforming them into his own memories.
It's like reading a novel, the novel was written by someone else, but after reading it, these plots are engraved in your memory, some deep, some shallow. The plot that can touch your heart is engraved very deeply and is hard to forget.
These life memories of Le Zhenren span a long time, and they are extremely vivid, and the memories are mixed with many strong emotions, joys and sorrows, joys and sorrows, which make Lin Yifan's heart fluctuate.
And the ups and downs of this emotion have reached the extreme in the memory of the hellish illusion, so it is also particularly profound and clear when it is portrayed in Lin Yifan's thoughts.
Seeing this, Lin Yifan understood why Le Zhenren wanted to lend himself an idea.
Le Zhenren obviously wants to help himself get through the next hellish illusion, so on the one hand, he has the experience of receiving the impact of a large number of memory fragments, and on the other hand, he uses his illusion experience to pass on the scriptures and send treasures.
Therefore, Lin Yifan focused on Le Zhenren's previous experience when he passed the Hell Illusion, and he felt that as long as he was attentive to the understanding, he should be able to greatly improve his success rate of passing the Hell Illusion.
However, that experience was very special, most of the time it was the experience of Le Zhenren walking alone in hell, fighting with demons and other practitioners to the death, some of them were painful, some were thrilling, and some were very funny, which can be described as lifelike. These experiences touched Lin Yifan deeply, so they were particularly vivid and unforgettable when engraved in his thoughts.
When these experiences were put in his mind one by one, Lin Yifan suddenly had a strange feeling in his heart, feeling as if he had become a real person, walking through the hellish illusion step by step, and through his long life.
"Am I Le Zhenren or Lin Yifan?" At a certain moment, Lin Yifan suddenly became a little confused.
This is a very dangerous tendency to assimilate memory!
As stated in the basic exercises of telekinesis, reading other people's memories is a special ability that can only be used when the telekinesis has been cultivated to a certain level, and it is taboo for beginners to read memories. Because other people's memories are often very large and self-contained, it is easy to get lost in the complex and chaotic fragments of memory, and it is impossible to distinguish who you are, which is memory assimilation.
If the subject is not strong-willed, it may even become delirious because it cannot bear this confusion.
This is especially true when dealing with higher-order thoughts. Because the memories carried by higher-order thoughts will be more vivid and vivid, and it is easier to dominate and make people confused.
This is a bit like the situation mentioned in Zhuang Zhou's dream of butterflies, Zhuang Zhou doesn't know if he became a butterfly in his dream, or if the butterfly dreamed that he became Zhuang Zhou.
Zhuang Zhou Mengdie is talking about a wonderful realm of things and self, but if a person really can't figure out whether he is a human or a butterfly, then it will be a big trouble, and it is easy to collapse his soul.
Therefore, for beginners, soul searching and reading memory are both very dangerous actions.
Not to mention memory assimilation, just the soul is at risk of collapse if it bears the impact of so many memory fragments in a short period of time, so Lin Yifan once had a splitting headache.
Le Zhenren is also because Lin Yifan is about to enter the hellish fantasy realm with a perverted difficulty, and the probability of failure is extremely high, in order to help Lin Yifan improve the success rate, he has to take a risk.
Fortunately, for Lin Yifan, this adventure is thrilling - Le Zhenren's thoughts are not ownerless, he has been trying to control the speed of his thoughts to release memory fragments, and when Lin Yifan can't bear it, he will slow down appropriately. And after Lin Yifan came into contact with those memories of Le Zhenren, although his soul was impacted, and he even had a splitting headache for a while, he was not disturbed for a long time, on the contrary, he quickly sobered up.
This was due to the initial trial that Lin Yifan had experienced before, and under the long-term pain torture, his soul endurance was greatly improved. At the same time, his experience on Earth seemed useless, but this moment finally played an important role.
The hardest part of looking through memories is getting out of memory assimilation.
The essence of memory assimilation is a sense of substitution. For example, when someone watches a movie, they deeply substitute themselves into the male or female protagonist, and they are overjoyed and angry with the protagonist's experience, thinking that they are the protagonist, and forgetting that they are watching a movie.
The most important thing that earthlings lack is a sense of substitution, and in this era of information explosion, they will read a lot of human stories every day. Lin Yifan often watches movies, watches TV, reads novels, plays games, and substitutes into different story scenes all day long, which can easily indulge in it and get rid of it easily.
One minute he may still be grieving about what happened to the male protagonist in a movie, and the next minute he laughs in the process of chasing books, so as not to confuse memories, not to distinguish between reality and illusion, characters and self, and not to let emotions and reason get out of control.
Especially when watching 3D movies and playing VR games, the immersive sense of reality brings the sense of substitution to the extreme. When Lin Yifan first came into contact, he was often startled, and subconsciously dodged the oncoming bullets. After watching too much and playing too much, I became numb, and I knew in my heart that this was just a visual deception, which was the improvement of the level of substitution.
Lin Yifan also tried to write a few fantasy novels, and in the process of writing the book, he suddenly incarnated as the male protagonist and the female protagonist, and suddenly incarnated as the male and female protagonists to speak. Someone once said that this is actually an alternative form of schizophrenia. There is no doubt that this also further improves Lin Yifan's sense of substitution.
As for those who read "A Dream of Red Mansions" and didn't think about Lin Daiyu's death, and even were so depressed that they wanted to commit suicide, if they directly read other people's vivid memories like Lin Yifan, they would easily be dominated by the noise and lead to delirium.
Like chasing novels on the earth, Lin Yifan has always only been a bystander, superficially substituting into the memory of Le Zhenren, and quickly browsing his life memories. Although he had a brief tendency to assimilate memories when he read about the experience of Hell Illusion, with his past reading experience and stronger soul endurance, he finally got out of it in time and did not fall into it.
Therefore, the endurance problem that Le Zhenren is worried about is not a big problem here for Lin Yifan. It didn't take long for him to successfully read the life memory fragments of Le Zhenren, learned a lot of knowledge, and got a lot of inspiration.
"You can bear so many fragments of memories so quickly!" Le Zhenren's mind keenly felt all this, and he couldn't help but exclaim, no longer deliberately controlling the speed of releasing the fragments of memory.