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Chapter 77 The Ship of Theseus

Staring at the crystal ball glowing with purple light, Serena's heart itches beyond words.

But she still didn't know anything about that strange language.

She could only remember the syllables one by one, but fortunately her memory was never bad.

Serena took a deep breath, her eyes fell back on the throne, and she said: "Then I will obey your request and seek the secret you want to know."

"Thank you very much." Chen Yi said.

"My guest, since you paid for a Ziguang secret, as I said before, I need a certain amount of time to digest it. If you still want to ask for a secret, I can only answer one or two secrets that are not highly rated." Ser Lina explained slowly.

Chen Yi thought for a while and asked directly: "The Temple of Suffering, they will replace the soul of a pagan king's descendant. I want to know how they did it."

"Will?" Serena was startled, and then smiled wryly: "Did you come to me for asking after reading the prophecy? With all due respect, asking for secrets cannot predict the future. How can it be called a secret? Sorry, but there is nothing I can do about it."

Unable to claim because it hasn't happened yet.
It turned out to be the case, Serena's words made sense.

What has never happened cannot be called a secret.

Serena holds the old adage of "secrets," and this may be her understanding as well.

Chen Yi changed her angle and asked: "That's good, I want to ask, the Temple of Suffering, how do they manage to replace other people's souls?"

"Well, you are very speculative like a logician," Serena smiled appreciatively, "So, you have triggered the 'secret' singularity, and I can divination for you."

Chen Yi nodded slightly, and couldn't help thinking at the same time.

Trigger the "secret" singularity. It turns out that only by asking Serena for the secret can the conditions for the divination secret be met and the singularity triggered.

In other words, if you don't ask, Serena can't ask for it out of thin air, because the singularity is not triggered.

The so-called singularity is similar to the switch of something.

In mysticism, the number "0" represents the state before the birth of the universe. There is no everything, only chaos.The emergence of the gods created the number "1", which is the first criterion of the universe, the origin of all things, the number "1" and the process of creating "1", which is abstractly called: singularity.

And the concept of ritual singularity is also derived from this.

In this regard, it is somewhat similar to "one life is two, two is three, three is all things".

Thinking of this, after Chen Yi initially understood, she thought again,

Serena may have said it on purpose.Based on the experience of getting along with her a few times, she is not a person who will leak words.Why. In order to exchange trust with me?

"This is a red light secret, please pay the chips."

Serena's voice interrupted Chen Yi's train of thought.

"Okay." Chen Yi nodded.

If it is an exchange of trust.
Then maybe, I should also describe it in the language of this world to show my sincerity.

Besides, it's just a red light secret.

Having made a decision in her heart, Chen Yi pondered for a moment, then Yizhen Awen said: "Kasim, he is a magic puppet."

The crystal ball really glowed red.

Serena nodded, Chen Yi heard her smile with satisfaction.

"The supreme secret, please tell me what He wants to see."

Chen Yi was attracted by the sphere as usual.

The constellations change, the continuous ethereal feeling overflows and disperses, and the brilliance changes, revealing a deep red light.

"The Temple of Suffering, they replace other people's souls, the specific means, only the Lord of Suffering knows, and he did it himself." Serena just said this, paused, and turned: "But there are a few prerequisites:
One is to defeat the defense of the person being replaced, and let him fall into almost irreversible self-doubt;
The second is that before the replacement of the soul is completed, the replaced person cannot wake up from doubts;

The third is the process of replacing the soul, which is gradual. Instead of directly dispelling or annihilating the original soul, they peel it off bit by bit, and fill in their own soul bit by bit, just like parasitism. Absorb the nutrients of the original soul and nurture your own growth. "

"Completing these three prerequisites can replace a person's soul?" Chen Yi asked.

"Yes, the funny thing is," said Serena, with polite disdain for the Temple of Suffering: "They don't call it 'soul replacement' or anything like that, but 'sublimation of essence' and 'alteration of essence' .

He also quoted their pseudo-codes to argue that "essential sublimation" is like replacing the keel and canvas for a ship.

What a self-deception. "

Chen Yi nodded affirmatively.

Replace the keel and canvas.
The ship of Theseus?
Looking at it this way, the concept of "soul replacement" in the Temple of Suffering is very similar to the philosophical Ship of Theseus.

"Do you have any orders? I can divination another secret that is not highly rated." Serena said at this time.

"Okay." Of course, Chen Yi still had it, and said, "I want to know, the relationship between the officiant Yisha and an elf assassin."

Serena listened to Spirituality's answer, and said, "Blue, the secret of low evaluation."

Chen Yi was puzzled, she didn't expect the secret evaluation to be so low.

He immediately said a simple secret and paid the chips.

Serena chanted a spell softly.

The crystal ball changed color again, and soon froze on the blue light.

"Well, tell me the secret, they have nothing to do with each other." Serena raised her eyes slightly and said slowly.

Doesn't matter?

Chen Yi couldn't believe it.

How come it doesn't matter?
Only the Priestesses of Isha refer to themselves as spirits.

When Chen Yi fell into confusion, Serena spoke softly.

"Did you learn from the prophecy and then ask me?"

"The prophecy can be said in this way." Chen Yi replied.

Deducing the future, to some extent, can also be called prophecy, and it is clearer than prophecy.

"Oh, maybe there will be, or maybe there really isn't. In short, the secret is not something that hasn't happened yet." Serena replied, rubbing her hair.

Hearing this, Chen Yi's doubts dispelled a little.

Maybe it really doesn't matter now.

Just when Chen Yi was relaxing her mind.
Wait, no.

Wasn't the memory of Isa's officiant erased by herself?

Don't know when, the memory that I erased came back?
Chen Yi fell into even greater confusion, and subconsciously cast her gaze towards Huaxing Town.

Every time I go to the Kingdom of God, out of vigilance and concern for Lomea, I will take a look at the seminary.

No abnormalities were found.

Weird. Weird.

Rubbing between her eyebrows, Chen Yi couldn't find her way of thinking for a while.

The only way to find the answer is to wait for the elf to appear and stare at her whereabouts.

Sighing, Chen Yi thought.

"Then, Serena, I don't want to ask you anything, thank you very much, you and the secret association came."

Serena can no longer do divination today, so Chen Yi said so.

"My honor." Serena also asked to leave: "Then I should leave too. By the way, from the day after tomorrow, I need to prepare a ceremony to obtain the purple light secret related to the saint Vina Kana. During this period of time, I can’t respond to your call, if you still have a secret you want to ask, you’d better call me tomorrow night, I can forcefully divination another red light secret for you.”

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(End of this chapter)