"The ones fighting Muen and the others possess the soul power from the elemental lords. That is the starting point for everything that will become an independent life form. It should be your 'self'.
What Khadgar and the others are fighting is a kind of transcendent being heading towards a new life form. That should be your ‘true self’, right?
So, you are Little Rag's 'self'? And since we met, you have always shown a strong sense of rationality, which seems to make sense."
Li De gave the first answer, but the result disappointed him.
"Congratulations, you got the wrong answer."
Following Little Rag's frivolous tone, Li De felt a force coming from all directions, trying to exclude him from this space.
‘Did I get it all wrong?!’
Li De began to reflect on his logic just now. Three opportunities had already failed once, which made him become much more cautious in his subsequent choices.
And he started to think about another thing: Why is Little Rag playing this guessing game with himself?
If it loses the game, then it must return the ancient city of Petra to itself; on the contrary, if it wins the game, it will not receive any additional benefits.
Such an unfair bet was proposed by Little Lager on his own initiative, which made Li De guess that besides the bet, Little Lager had other aspirations.
Thinking of this, Li De was no longer eager to give an answer, but instead asked the other party a question.
"If you win this war in the end and successfully give birth to a great life, where will these three of you go?"
Li De's question made Little Lager silent, and it took a while before he spoke.
"This matter has nothing to do with our bet."
The more Little Lager said this, the more solid Li De's conjecture became.
"Sure enough, in the process of running towards a new life, you will die, right? This bet between us seems to be not only related to Petra's belonging, but also affects your existence? Let me tell you that you are right
Is your identity meant to give your consciousness a share of the cause of existence?"
Speaking of this, Li De couldn't help but think of the conversation with Chen Stormstout in the past. At that time, Chen was still a respected and kind master. He once introduced to Li De the three most mysterious sentences in the Pandaren classics:
There is a world, not the real world, so it is the world.
Li De did not remember many of the mysterious and mysterious truths. He only remembered the concept of "karma", that is, the world is not a pile of isolated materials, but "karma" connects various materials.
They have an interactive bond with each other, and a world is built through mutual influence.
Facing Little Rag's reincarnation today reminded Li De of the three meanings again.
Little Rag did not exist in the world. It was the King of Fire who created it. During the process of occupying the ancient city of Petra, Little Rag was born as a reincarnation due to his interaction with Petra.
But with Little Rag's complete plot to seize Petra, the existence of this doppelgänger has become a problem.
Whether little Ragna completely transforms into an independent individual and completes sublimation, or is taken back by Ragnaros, this double body will be annihilated.
In other words, if Li De hadn't broken into this spiritual plane today, no one would have known about the existence of this double body, so to the world, it would have never existed.
Li De recalled an interesting thing that Lao Chen told him. There is a well-known legend circulating on his hometown of Mizong Island:
Long-lived foxes will also learn from monks to practice the way of nature. After reaching a certain level, they can transform into human forms. At that time, they will squat on the path, stop young pandas passing by and ask, "Do you think I look like a human?"
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If the answer is that it looks like a human, then the fox will officially take off its animal body and transform into a human; if the answer is that it does not look like a human, then all the previous efforts will be in vain and you will have to practice from scratch.
There is a pond called Fu Chi on Wandering Island, and there is a meditation cave above the pond. Legend has it that foxes practiced in it in ancient times, and its magical power has survived to this day, so many panda masters like to meditate in it.
The little Lager in front of me seems to be a bit like a fox seeking to be sealed.
After Li De revealed his thoughts, Little Rag's body started to tremble slightly.
Li De continued to put pressure on Little Lager and mentally tortured him.
"What you are doing now has completely exceeded the expectations of the Fire Element Lord? Will he allow you to become an independent life form? He should have measures to counter you? Or is it that what you are doing now is just for
Are you resisting being taken back into your body?"
"enough!"
Little Lager finally couldn't bear it anymore and interrupted Li De rudely.
"What you said is meaningless. You can't give me a satisfactory answer. No matter how tricky you are, it's meaningless. If you continue to delay, it will be completely impossible to recapture Petra."
As he spoke, Little Lager gestured to Li De to look at the other two battlefields:
Little Rag in the soul state summoned a long fire dragon, which he was directing with the Fire Demon Hammer to sweep the three shamans;
On the battlefield in the real world, the giant Petra has now grown two arms, and its chest has been exposed to the ground! Nozdormu and Khadgar led a group of high-end combat forces to fight against it, but the whole thing looked very embarrassed.
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"You see, you don't have so much time to waste. Just wait a little longer and I will go to attend the great birth."
Li De heard the entanglement in Little Rag's words. On the one hand, it did not want Li De to take back the ancient city of Petra, but on the other hand, it hoped that Li De could destroy the gestation of the giant and prevent its own disappearance.
With the experience of the first failure, Li De did not rush to answer the question for the second time. He also guessed that maybe the correct answer did not exist in the "self", "id" and "true self" at all.
He noticed what Little Lager had said before: ‘You can’t give me a satisfactory answer’.
The correct answer and the satisfactory answer are not the same thing. After developing a strong independent consciousness, it is no longer important to which consciousness the little raga in front of you belongs to. What is important is what it most wants to be.
'Could it be that as a clone, what it wants most is to take the original body and replace it?'
With this conjecture in mind, Li De spoke again and gave his second answer.
"You are Ragnaros, the Firelord!"
After giving this answer, Li De clearly saw the little Lager in front of him shaking violently, and said in a daze.
"Am I Ragnaros?"
Li De nodded heavily and continued to speak affirmatively.
"Yes, you are Ragnaros, the Fire Demon King, the lord of all fire elements."
At this moment, Little Lager seemed to really acknowledge Li De's words and repeated them unconsciously.
"I am Ragnaros!"
Little Rag's state began to become a little strange, and the entire mental space began to shake. Seeing this, Li De felt a burst of ecstasy in his heart.
'It seems that it agrees with this answer. This clone is really eager to replace the original body. In this case, you should go back to your elemental plane to fight with the original body and return my ancient city of Petra.'
Little Rag's violent emotional fluctuations not only stayed in this plane, but also affected another soul plane.
Little Lager, who was fighting with the shamans, suddenly stopped attacking, allowing Mu En and others to take a breather. This guy's soul energy was so powerful that it was beyond imagination. With the combined power of three heroic shamans, he could still
It's a lot inferior. It's not that shamans don't have powerful skills, but they just haven't waited for the right opportunity, and it's too early to use them now.
'Mun, what's wrong with this guy?'
Drek'Thar didn't need to speak, his voice automatically sounded in Munn's mind. Soul communication in the fugue state was a simple matter for shamans.
‘Is there any progress with Protector Li De?! Tal, be prepared, our opportunity may come!’
Munn said with some excitement, and he and Drek'Thar immediately started preparations, and Soul Walker immediately rushed to the front to buy time for the two of them.
However, the next moment the soul walker was hit by a hammer, causing the two shamans to wake up.
However, they did not escape in the end, and were hit by the Balrog Hammer one after another, and all of them suffered heavy injuries.
'What's going on? Something went wrong with Protector Li De?! Why has this guy become stronger!'
Comparing the changes in Little Rag's strength, Mu En was shocked to come to this conclusion.
Drek'Thar's soul became a little darker due to the blow just now, he explained to Munn while coughing.
'It's arrogance. This guy's other level of consciousness has experienced emotional changes. Arrogant emotions will make the other level of consciousness stronger. When fighting in the soul state, you will always encounter some unexpected dangers.'
'Then what should we do?'
Soul Walker also asked at this time.
'It depends on luck. Emotional changes are a subtle thing. Moderate arrogance will make people stronger, but poor control will affect correct judgment.'
Sure enough, as Drektal said, after that, the three of them watched Little Rag's size getting bigger and bigger, and they kept repeating it.
"Yes, I am the King of Fire Demon, I am the real King of Fire Demon!"
Finally, with a loud shout from Little Rag, the Balrog's Hammer was thrown out with all his strength and hit the boundary wall of this spiritual plane!
As the boundary wall made of dark rocks collapsed, the three shamans finally saw the scene beyond the wall.
Outside the wall, they saw a finger that was bigger than Little Rag's whole body!