Chapter 18: The Cycle of Centuries
"I've read all the fragments of memories in my mind, and I'm left with memories of my own past life. However, I have never dared to touch the 'True Self Seal', it is Pandora's box, and the consequences are unpredictable when I touch it......" Lin Yifan smacked his lips unfinished, but he didn't dare to look through the memories of his past life.
In the Yuan Pan plane, each soul is constantly reincarnated in the six realms of reincarnation. In order to distinguish the many souls, the rules of the plane will give each soul an imprint engraved with the true nature of the true self, called the "true self seal", according to the different nature of the souls.
No matter how many lifetimes of reincarnation, the seal of the true self will always be engraved in the deepest part of the soul. Even if the vast majority of people can't recall the memories of their past lives, the True Self Seal has always existed and is the most fundamental sign of the soul.
It's like an ID number on the planet, no matter what you dress up and makeover, the ID number will not change.
From the memories of these cultivators, Lin Yifan had already found a way to check the memories of his previous life, as long as he used a secret method, he could find the hidden seal of his true self from the core of the main thought, so as to check the memories of his previous life.
It is said that those who can smoothly flip through the memories of their past lives may be able to obtain great benefits, such as improving the level of their thoughts.
Of course, the vast majority of cultivators did not dare to check the memories of their past lives. Even if you want to check it, you only dare to open the memories of your previous life with the help of the elders of the sect who have achieved cultivation, instead of checking all the memories of your past life at the same time, otherwise you will be at risk of getting lost.
Looking through other people's memories, although there is a danger of memory assimilation, deep down in my consciousness I still know that this is just watching a drama and watching the excitement, as long as I am strong-willed, I will not get lost.
But looking at the memories of your past life, it's easy to get lost. Because in the hearts of ordinary cultivators, in the memories of these thousands of lifetimes, each life is their own personal experience, so every me is the real me.
But there can only be one true self, so who is the true true self?
Chronologically, it seems to be easy to solve - I was only the true self in the previous life, and the current me is the real me.
However, in reality this is a difficult problem to solve.
For example, in this life, you are an ordinary person, and your life is very unsatisfactory, but in the last life, you are a super strong, flying away, dominating the world, sweeping the world, those experiences make you unforgettable, and you will never forget. You also have countless wealth and cultivation resources, a few beautiful wives, a bunch of smart children and grandchildren, and countless powerful apprentices, and you have an incomparably deep relationship with them, and you can't part with them, and you can't separate them......
When the memories of these two lives overlap, which one do you identify with more?
Do you think that the past life is the real you, and this life is just a continuation of boredom?
If you were allowed to continue, would you continue the path of the strong man in the previous life, or the path of ordinary people in this life?
This is just the memory of two lifetimes, what if the memory of a hundred lifetimes and the memory of a thousand lifetimes overlap?
If we don't talk about anything else, if we just talk about a certain kind of exercise, maybe there is a big difference between the exercises practiced in the past life and the exercises we are cultivating now, and which one is really correct? After checking the memories of our previous lives, two different memories and concepts of this kind of exercise will appear, and when we use this kind of exercise in the future, will there be confusion in our memory? Will there be hesitation in the moment when facing the enemy, resulting in our own death?
Looking at the memories of past lives, there are many risks that cannot be explained, it is very likely to be lost and confused, ranging from a decrease in strength and memory loss, to a loss of life.
Many cultivators are just because they don't have the help of their elders in their previous lives, and as a result, they are impacted, their cultivation is damaged, and they even die, and over time, looking at the memories of their past lives becomes a forbidden area.
Many sect elders will forcibly seal the "True Self Seal" of the younger ones with great mana, so that they will not touch the forbidden area out of curiosity, the soul sea will be damaged, and their cultivation will decline.
Even Le Zhenren only began to check the memories of his previous life after cultivating to the realm of soul exchange.
Lin Yifan didn't dare to touch the True Self Seal before, but after stagnation in the Lonely Hell for decades, his cultivation fell into a bottleneck, and after reading other people's thoughts, he couldn't find anything to do. Extremely bored, he focused on the "True Self Seal".
There is no great power to help him here, and if he wants to touch the "True Self Seal", he will inevitably recall all the memories of his past life together, and he is likely to be lost.
He hesitated for a long time, and the last thought suddenly came to him and became the fuse.
"If I die like this, and I don't even know what I did in my previous life, wouldn't it be very wronged, wouldn't I continue to be blinded and played by fate?"
"Even if you are shocked by the memories of your past life and become a fool, it is better than doing nothing and waiting here for a few hundred more years!
"The barefoot are not afraid to wear shoes!
Lin Yifan gritted his teeth and resolutely touched the seal of his true self with a secret method, opening the memory of his previous life.
Countless memory pictures rushed out like a flood that opened the floodgates, and Lin Yifan was instantly submerged in the past.
The sea of souls is shaking!
The Soul Heart Fruit, which had not moved for a long time, suddenly trembled at a high frequency that had never been seen before, and a little bit of light kept sprinkling, and it didn't take long for it to become a small circle.
Lin Yifan, who was rolling his eyes in countless pictures, suddenly felt calm, and hurriedly seized the opportunity to operate his mental method, and finally collected these memories of his past life by category, and then watched them one by one.
"It turns out that whoever commits suicide will be reincarnated in the animal path for ten lifetimes. I have committed suicide twice, so I have become an animal and an animal, and I have been reincarnated for twenty lifetimes...... Life itself is a miracle created by the rules of the plane, and suicide is disrespectful to the rules of the plane, so it must be punished!"
"In my previous life, I was a pig or a dog, slaughtered by others, but I also had a happy life. In this life, he is a human being, a strong man, killing people like slaughtering dogs, but he is lonely all his life...... All things have spirits, and all things are reincarnated! There will be gains and losses, and there will be gains and losses!"
"I saved a woman in my previous life, and I married her in this life. In the next life, I will take her as an apprentice and shelter her for decades. The cause of the past life, the fruit of the future life!"
"I once served as a general, went to the northern grasslands, resisted strong enemies, saved the country and the people, and was admired by all the people. ”
"I have also been forced to make a living, to be a thief, a thief of chickens and dogs, to be a robber, to rob the rich and to help the poor, to be a killer, to kill one person in ten steps, and not to leave a ...... for a thousand miles."
"In this life, he was a strong man who flew into the sky, but he died before the age of forty, and then entered the Lechuan Road, drank Meng Po soup, and his memory was ruthlessly erased, and he entered reincarnation again. This is exactly what happens, the sky is unpredictable, and the world is impermanent!"
"However, it can also be seen that in the past reincarnation, I drank Meng Po soup every time I was reincarnated and started a new life. But the memories of the past life were not completely erased, but hidden by the underworld. It's like deleting a file in your computer, but you can still recover it with special recovery software!"
"Although you can't recall the memories of your past lives after being reincarnated, these memories of your past lives are actually collected by hell and hidden in the seal of your true self. Ordinary cultivators, after completing their cultivation, can check the memories of the previous life, and even the memories of the previous lives, but they must complete the reincarnation of the hundred lifetimes before they can reopen the seal in the Hell Illusion Realm and access all the memories of this reincarnation. ”
"Because the reincarnation of a hundred lifetimes is not only about looking through memories, but also about re-experiencing it as a bystander, without pausing in between! It can only be done in the illusion of a hundred-fold acceleration of time, otherwise the physical body will starve to death!"
In the process of reading these thoughts, Lin Yifan sighed with emotion, and fresh insights continued to emerge.
In the end, these insights became more and more profound.
Unconsciously, the fragments of memories in these thousands of thoughts flew all over the sky, and finally gathered together and turned into a huge sphere, slowly rotating in the mid-air of the soul sea, like a planet that was rotating.
This big ball contains terrifying power, if it explodes, Lin Yifan's soul sea may be blown to pieces and die.
"What? Master Jueming turned out to be him!"
Lin Yifan didn't notice the big ball at all, he was concentrating on reading a memory of his past life.
It was at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Lin Yifan was an officer named Wu Yichen in Yangzhou at that time, and by chance, he asked a monk with the name of Jueming how to practice spells, and benefited a lot, and then he often came and went.
At that time, Lin Yifan even wanted to worship Master Na Jueming as his master, but Lin Yifan already had a master at that time, and according to the rules of the rivers and lakes, he couldn't change to another sect, so he had to give up. Later, he learned spells from Master Jueming for three years, and the two of them were half teachers and half friends.
After that, Wu Sangui led the Qing soldiers into the customs, and the world was in chaos. In 1645, the Qing soldiers besieged Yangzhou City, Lin Yifan and Master Jueming joined forces to kill the enemy with spells, but the Qing soldiers were outnumbered, and they were powerless to return to the sky. In the end, the ammunition was exhausted, and finally the customs were broken, and the Qing soldiers slaughtered the city for many days, and Yangzhou became a hell on earth, known as Yangzhou for ten days in history.
After the city was broken, Lin Yifan died on the spot, and his memories of his previous life came to an end.
Originally, it was impossible for Lin Yifan to know the following story, but Lin Yifan had seen the follow-up plot from Le Zhenren's idea before-Le Zhenren turned out to be the Jueming monk!
After the city of Yangzhou was broken, Le Zhenren's whole family was killed by Qing soldiers, the temple was burned, and the monks of the temple were slaughtered. Le Zhenren, who escaped by luck in a cave in the ground, was grieved and indignant, and vowed to spend the rest of his life slaying demons and defending Buddha. In the years that followed, Le Zhenren became a professional killer, specializing in assassinating Qing military officials.
Le Zhenren mainly used the identity of a monk and soul illusion to kill people, even in the heavily guarded Qing army camp, he could repeatedly succeed, which once caused great chaos to the Qing army. But after killing more than 20 officers in a row, Le Zhenren finally showed his feet, was besieged and killed by the Qing army, and came to Yuanpan Difu and became an underworld instructor.
After seeing this memory of his past life, Lin Yifan was stunned.
"Monk Jueming and Le Zhenren turned out to be the same person, Le Zhenren was half of my master in his previous life!"
"No wonder Le Zhenren said a strange thing that day, if you want to kowtow, you will kowtow nine times...... This is counting the three apprentices I owed him in my previous life, and the three rings that I should have apprenticed to in this life. Well, if I can go out this time, I must worship him as a teacher!"
"No wonder Le Zhenren took care of me in every way, both for the exercises and for the soul fruit, it is estimated that when he lent me that idea, he peeked at my memories of my past life by the way, but he didn't tell me. Well, yes, I was too weak to know the memories of my past life, otherwise it would only confuse my mind. ”
"I understand that the half-teacher and half-friend relationship between me and Monk Jueming in my previous life was just a seed planted in my previous life, and it didn't blossom until now, hundreds of years later, and saved my life. This effect is the cause and effect of past lives and this life, but it is not the fruit of the path. ”
"It turns out that with this life, I have been reincarnated on Earth for a full hundred lifetimes. Reincarnation!"
"From ancient times to the present, from the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties to the Republic, the average reincarnation is 50 years, and I have participated in the original 5,000-year-old Chinese civilization!"
"In the past five thousand years, I have cultivated to become a strong person many times, but I have not been told that there is a soul refining path, but I drank Meng Po soup and reincarnated again, why this time, I am just an ordinary person without any cultivation experience, but I have entered the soul refining path, no wonder this is the special treatment of the reincarnation of the hundred lifetimes? Or is it because of the reincarnation of the hundred lifetimes, it has reached a critical point, and it is easier to obtain the Dao fruit?"
"Also, judging from the memories of those thoughts, many cultivators are reincarnated between different planets, why do I stay on the earth to reincarnate all the time? Is this a privilege or restriction for earthlings?"
Thinking about these questions, Lin Yifan first sighed with emotion, and then had a lot of doubts and couldn't figure it out.