Chapter seven hundred and sixteen people die like a lamp goes out, the candle continues to shine
"Help her?" Qin Xuan: "How?"
"It's unheard of for hungry ghosts to eat souls." Sister Rabbit asked, "Does the demon painter have a soul?"
"Yes, the demon painter has no soul."
What is the soul? This is a definition of self-consciousness by the ancients. It is opposed to the physical body. But the question is, does the soul come from the physical body, or is it independent of the physical body?
Does consciousness come from the soul or from the brain?
However, in the world of painters, this is a very wrong way of defining it, because the soul itself is a special ideology. In ancient times, humans did not have a soul at all. The body is the body, and the consciousness is the brain. There is no soul.
What a bullshit soul.
Some people say that after death, a person becomes a soul, and the soul is reincarnated and becomes various living beings. This cycle starts over and over again, which is reincarnation.
They say it's eternity...
But the problem is, the soul will be shattered and the soul will be scattered. So when the soul is annihilated, where will the human consciousness go?
Qin Xuan has read many fantasy and cultivation novels. The ascetics in them did not want to die in just a few decades like ordinary people, so they longed for immortality. However, after they lived for thousands of years, they were beaten because of fighting.
The soul is scattered, the body and soul are destroyed, and the fate is more tragic than the death of a mortal. The latter at least still has a soul and can be reincarnated.
Of course, the explanations are different in different novels. Not all cultivation novels are like Journey to the West. There is an underworld and an underworld, but most of them don't actually exist. And even if they do, to put it bluntly, they are just more powerful ghost cultivators.
But in any case, Qin Xuan compared the concept of soul defined in these books. The only difference between it and ordinary people is that ordinary people come to an end in a hundred years, and the concept of soul is actually the process leading to the end.
It has been extended a bit, but it will eventually die out.
Therefore, unless someone discovers something, the basic unit of consciousness, and says that this unit of consciousness is the smallest, it will never die.
Then, people can say that consciousness is eternal, or can be eternal.
"The demon painter disdains souls. People are human beings, so why do they want to be ghosts?" Sister Rabbit said: "So the demon painter has no soul. Every demon painter is a pure human being. There are two channels for the theory of the soul.
One is to practice on your own, just like Feng Tianxian and Cai Chaoweng. The soul is born out of the body, but can travel in the nine heavens. Even if the physical body is destroyed, the body can be rebuilt based on the soul."
"However, this comes from practice. Not everyone can do such a thing."
Sister Rabbit said: "The second method is to specifically ask the lamplighter to create a thing called a 'soul' based on the consciousness of the demon painter to wrap the consciousness of the demon painter."
"After the death of the demon painter, his consciousness cannot exist independently at all and will die quickly in a very short period of time. The soul, like the space suit on the blue star, protects people's survival in the universe." Sister Rabbit
Said: "So, being out of control is like an astronaut in space, whose clothes are torn, which is a natural end."
"Back then, Luo Dianchen believed that death was too cruel to all living beings and could not bear the shortness of life, so he said, 'Death is like a lamp extinguished, a candle continues to light up.' He opened up the underworld, built the underworld, and defined the six paths of reincarnation.
Create the 'Lighting' lineage to use the art of shaping souls to protect the dying consciousness of all living beings after death, allowing them to enter reincarnation and be reincarnated."
"The soul sounds like a new state of consciousness, but in fact, it is already another kind of life, a new life form called 'ghost'." Sister Rabbit said: "Whether it is a demon painter or a mountain and sea tribe,
Most of them are racists. In their view, death is not terrible, but what is terrible is not being able to die in one's own identity."
This is just like many patriotic people who would rather die than betray their country and die as a Chinese citizen. It is a belief.
"Then," Qin Xuan said, "Isn't the demon painter afraid of death?"
"Afraid! Of course I'm afraid!"
"There are people in this world who are not afraid of death, but that cannot be said for the entire Demon Painting Master clan. Otherwise, if you look at the tourists trapped in the Buddha City plane, are they not afraid to death?" Sister Rabbit said:
"Ghost painters are afraid of death, but if they are turned into ghosts and then reincarnated, this is something they are unwilling to do."
"If it can be said, they will naturally do whatever it takes to live, but they will never be willing to live in the form of ghosts, because that is more humiliating than death."
Qin Xuan listened to Sister Tu's explanation and understood what she meant.
Sister Rabbit is saying that ordinary people do not have souls. When they die, they are dead. Their consciousness dies and disappears forever.
The so-called souls are either specially cultivated by powerful practitioners, or they are new skins given by the lamplighter. However, those who were killed by the hungry ghost path were neither powerful practitioners, nor did they ask the lamplighter.
They have to live through their souls. If they are killed by hungry ghosts, how can they still have the consciousness to survive in the form of souls?
Could it be given by the hungry ghost realm?
If the soul is so easy to give, what else does the lamplighter do?
"In other words, the two hundred thousand souls in this hell, no, those are not souls at all," Qin Xuan: "But if this is not a soul, what is it?"
Sister Rabbit: "Memory!"
"What?"
"That is something condensed from the memory of the deceased," Sister Rabbit said, "To put it bluntly, it is resentment, pain, curse and other negative emotions, mixed with demonic power and turned into something like disaster and filth. To put it simply,
It’s just an illusion, fake.”
"Fake?"
"Of course it's fake," Sister Rabbit said, "It's not difficult to create a soul. What's difficult is to create a soul for the demon painter."
Why?
Because the Demon Painter and the Shanhai Clan have demonic powers!
Demonic power is energy. Just like what Tapir Meng said before, if she is to exert her power on something without demonic power, let alone the mere conversion of reality and reality, even resurrecting from the dead, she can do it, but if the person who dies is a painted demon,
Master, Tapir Meng's power is not up to par.
The reason is that the demon painter has demon power, and if Tapir Meng wants to convert the demon painter into reality, the cost is definitely not something that ordinary people can compare with.
In the same way, if you say that Luo Dianchen is reincarnated, it will be no problem to create souls for 200,000 demon painters. This is just a matter of sprinkling water.
But the Hungry Ghost Path was still only at level 2 ten years ago. Can it be compared with Luo Dianchen? I'm afraid it can't even compare to a single hair of Luo Dianchen.
"I see."
Qin Xuan understood what Sister Tu meant, and the latter, for some unknown reason, directly contacted Shi Qingmeng, who was being pressed by the Asura Tao, and told her the truth about the two hundred thousand souls.