From the end of the world

Chapter 335: The Words of the Great Impermanence

With a bang, the ice ball hit the ceiling and never fell down, sticking tightly above.

This level of magical phenomena is commonplace for demon hunters, but Zhu Shi and Mr. Zhu's expressions are completely different.

They may have expected my performance, and they must have heard about what the Great Impermanence should be like, but they still couldn't hide their incredible emotions. It's probably not because I, as a fire power user, can manipulate water and gravity, but because there is no mana fluctuation in those phenomena just now, and all the changes presented are like natural physical phenomena.

“This is the only thing I can do right now,” I said.

"What do you mean by 'only this level'... Is it limited in scale?" Zhu Shi asked in confusion.

"No, the scale can also be greatly increased. The reason why I only condensed such a small water ball just now was because I didn't want to cause damage to the surroundings." I thought for a while and said, "What I mean is... I can only command nature to do anything. But this 'anything' is subject to limitations.

"To put it simply, if 'nature' is likened to 'society', and I am the 'monarch' who holds great power, then I can certainly order my 'subjects' to execute any order I can think of. For example, I can ask them to conquer a foreign tribe thousands of miles away for me, or to bring me a certain item from there.

"But I can't ask this minister to kill 10,000 people within one second of my order, nor can I ask him to help me move the entire mountain. This is beyond his ability.

"It's the same with what happened just now. I can even order most of the water in the entire city to gather in one place to form a lake, or summon a long and massive rainstorm, but this requires some time for nature to prepare. It doesn't mean that if I give an order, such a natural phenomenon will appear in the next moment. I was able to do it so quickly just now because I limited the scope to this room.

"Also, if it is a phenomenon that goes against the laws of nature, it is difficult for me to order nature to do it. That would be like ordering an ordinary person to lift himself up by his hair... But if it is just to do something illegal in a small area, it is still possible, just like the 'gravity reversal' just now.

"Besides that, there are some things I cannot command nature to do... Take the water ball I just condensed, for example. I cannot command it to undergo room-temperature nuclear fusion, nor can I command its electromagnetic force and strong interaction to disappear, etc."

Zhu Shi was stunned: "No, you actually thought about doing that kind of thing..."

She paused, but couldn't help asking: "Why can't you do it?"

"Well... this is just my feeling. It's probably because nature can't understand such an order. It's not because the order is too complicated, so nature can't understand it. It's because the atomic theory and the theory of fundamental forces are explanations of the natural world made by humans based on their own cognition. Nature itself may not have that kind of worldview." I said, "Asking nature to execute such an order is like asking it to change something that doesn't exist.

“Also, although it has not yet been tried, asking nature to make overly drastic changes to its own climate probably won’t work.”

"Why is that?" Zhu Shi was puzzled. "I remember from the information I read before that the Great Impermanence can indeed rely on his words to raise or lower the temperature of a certain area to a point where it is difficult for humans to survive..."

"That's just 'a point where it's difficult for humans to survive'," I said. "I can also order the city environment I live in to always be as hot as the Sahara Desert, or as cold as the North and South Poles, but I can't make it as hot as the surface of Mercury, or as cold as the surface of Uranus...

"I think it may be because that kind of climate is beyond the understanding of the natural world of this planet. I clearly remember reading in popular science books that the surface temperature of the Earth in the Hadean era four billion years ago was not as high as Mercury, but it should have been more than 200 degrees... Is it because there was no concept of nature at that time?
"Of course, if I pay my own power regardless of the cost and take the initiative to activate my own Law of Heaven and Earth, the matter will be another matter. Although I don't know the specific range of extreme temperature changes I can achieve, and the specific level to which the temperature can rise, but if it is limited to Xianshui City..."

As I was talking, I suddenly became curious about what I could achieve.

Zhu Shi said horrified: "Brother Zhuang...did you give some outrageous examples?"

"Please don't try it!" Mr. Zhu said quickly.

"I'm just giving an example, I'm not really going to try it," I said.

Zhu Shi said doubtfully: "But I feel like your expression just now doesn't mean that..."

"In short... this ability seems to be able to do everything, but in fact, it can't do anything very deeply." I gave my own evaluation, "It can't make fantasy come true like Silver Moon, nor can it go back and reset time, and it can't summon different possibilities of myself...

"It's just that I can ask nature to open doors for me in many places. It's like becoming a super privileged person in the natural world. I can even make an exception and grant the dead the right to walk in the world of the living - provided that the afterlife has not been closed. Although I heard that a long time ago, the Great Impermanence could revive the dead, but now it can't do it.

"Thinking about it carefully, this ability seems to be somewhat useless..."

After the evaluation, I began to think about the situations in which I would need to use this ability. At least in combat, it seems that I won't need to use it. The enemies I will face in the future will not be able to gain an advantage by relying on this ability. As for support outside of combat, it seems that most of them have ready-made solutions at hand.

Zhu Shi complained: "No, no, no, your requirements are too high, Brother Zhuang. You are too used to coming into contact with those outrageous superpowers? Your ability is already very powerful!" I stopped thinking about it for the time being. Maybe I will encounter a situation in the future that I must use this ability to overcome.

For example, the reason why I was able to make the winter chariot, which was equivalent to death, move outside the Yinyue Fatianxiangdi with just a few words in the past was because I unconsciously exercised this "natural privilege".

Gua Tianshi used this ability to revive Dong Che with one sentence. At that time, Dong Che was only "equivalent to death" and his death had not really come, so it was easy for Da Wuchang to avoid him.

"Here's the thing. This 'natural privilege' can also be used to intervene in the consciousness of animals. After all, animals are also part of the natural ecosystem. So it can also be used to intervene in human consciousness. It's just that this kind of intervention is more targeted at the 'instinct' part. It's very rough and monotonous, and cannot be used to solve Chang'an's consciousness problem." I said.

"After all, Chang'an and Yinyue are actually the same consciousness, but to separate them and treat them as two different consciousnesses, and then save one of them... this is the biggest difficulty. There may not be a clear dividing line between the two." Mr. Zhu pointed out the problem.

Zhu Shi suddenly said categorically: "No... the dividing line between the two must exist."

"Why are you so sure?" I focused.

"I was very confused after listening to Zhuang Cheng's words. Since my brother was originally Yin Yue, why did my father... Ying Lingyun remove the seal of my brother's monster bloodline before using him as a living sacrifice to revive the real Yin Yue?" Zhu Shi asked, "Wouldn't this extra step increase the risk of my brother escaping?"

“——Is it self-awareness?” I realized it immediately.

Chang'an and Yinyue have the same soul, or even the same consciousness. The biggest difference is their self-perception.

The living sacrifice to revive the real Yin Yue must be "another Yin Yue". If Ying Lingyun can only use Chang An as a living sacrifice if he makes Chang An believe that he is Yin Yue, this fact itself is enough to prove that Chang An and Yin Yue are two different beings.

My flame seemed to reveal this truth. In Yin Yue's spiritual world, there were several times when Yin Yue could not suppress Chang An's ego. This was because my flame had greatly weakened Yin Yue's part before. In other words, my flame had the ability to distinguish between Chang An and Yin Yue.

However, Chang'an's personality cannot be separated from Yinyue's personality. If the latter is the main personality, then the former is the secondary personality.

The most ideal approach in my mind is actually to weaken Yin Yue to her weakest state first, so that Chang An can take charge and become the master personality.

Unfortunately, even the weakest Yin Yue could not be suppressed by Chang An's personality, and the one who appeared in Yin Yue's spiritual world before was already the weakest Yin Yue. If Yin Yue became weaker, she would die, and Chang An would be dragged into the darkness of death.

After I expressed my thoughts, Mr. Zhu also nodded: "The density of will is different between Chang'an and Yinyue.

"More importantly, unlike Chang'an, the child who longs for his father and recognition from the outside world, Yinyue is very self-centered... or in other words, she has a very strong 'ego'."

As long as there is an unwavering will, even a tiny consciousness can resist mental spells. I have seen this in the independent reality space before, and the girl Lu Chan also explained it to me. Therefore, even if Yin Yue's consciousness is weakened, as long as the density of her will remains unchanged, Chang'an cannot match it. I am not unfamiliar with this concept.

But what does "ego" mean?
No, it’s not that I don’t know the meaning of the word “ego” itself. In Buddhism, this word means attachment to the self.

Although Buddhism is a representative of subjective idealism, it believes that all matter and phenomena in the world are not objective existences, but are all produced from the mind of "I"; but on the other hand, the Buddhist scriptures advocate that even "I" does not exist.

Therefore, if ordinary people want to become enlightened and become Buddhas, they must realize that "all dharmas have no self", that is, "the self does not exist."

Only by realizing that all things are impermanent and that there is no self in all dharmas can sentient beings in the realm of suffering reach the state of nirvana and tranquility.

Suddenly, I remembered what Yin Yue said.

——"Even our own selves are likely to be false..."

Her horrified expression came to mind.

(End of this chapter)