Douluo Continent: This Tang San is different

Chapter 297 The Undying True Spirit and the Ashes of the Soul (Part 1)

Leaving the Starry Sky World, Chrysanthemum Douluo, Ghost Douluo, Demon Bear Douluo, and Ghost Leopard Douluo felt as if they were back in the Papal Palace in a flash, and a sense of unreality arose in their hearts for no reason.

Is this real?

In the starry world, Tang San also took them to the largest star and used his spiritual power to conjure up a Spirit City, but there was no one around.

Even though it's just architecture, it's still terrifyingly real.

Even though Bibi Dong, a peerless Douluo, knew that it was a manifestation of spiritual power and an illusion, the feel, the material, and the feedback from her own spiritual power after touching it all gave her an illusion:

That was the real Martial Soul City, only the people had disappeared!

Only after returning to reality and releasing her spiritual power to explore the entire Wuhun City did Bibi Dong breathe a slight sigh of relief, realizing that she had truly returned to the real world.

"Indeed, your starry world is indeed indistinguishable from reality. In fact, I've noticed that even if a person dies, their soul can probably be preserved within it, right?" Bibi Dong possesses two Spider Emperor Martial Souls, Death and Soul Devourer, and with the blessing of the two divine positions of Rakshasa and Death, her perception of souls is the most acute.

"That's true," Tang San admitted. "I only recently discovered this, because the souls of people who died of old age have entered Spirit City..."

Based on this, Tang San felt that in the future, a world specifically for storing souls could be opened up within it, connecting with Electrolux's demiplane. As for the entrance to the real world... it could be set up in the City of Slaughter, which is built underground and can be regarded as the Douluo Continent version of the "Gate of Hell".

As for whether the God of Asura would care?

As everyone knows, the location of the Slaughter City belongs to all living beings on the Douluo Continent, not to the Asura God. The Slaughter City is an illegal structure built by the Asura God when he descended to the mortal realm.

For the sake of the development of Douluo Continent, illegal buildings were demolished and rebuilt. Presumably, the Asura God should be able to understand this, since they are human, not gods, and the Asura God cannot violate the rules and descend to the mortal realm for this reason.

Of course, to be on the safe side, we should wait until he has the strength to kill the God King with one punch before going over.

"So how did you deal with those souls?" Bibi Dong asked.

"According to the Blue Silver Network, I can observe that after an ordinary person dies, their soul dissipates very quickly, in as little as one or two minutes, or as long as seven days. The dissipated soul should transform into some kind of basic particle similar to the energy of heaven and earth, merging into a certain field of the entire world. Then, when a newborn appears, it gathers again to form the origin of the soul, and transforms according to its own growth experience." Tang San spoke eloquently. "From this point of view, all living beings in the world, whether human, soul beast, or ordinary plants and animals, are equal."

Chrysanthemum Douluo and others: "......"

who am I?

Where am i?

What are we listening to?

I can understand every single word and phrase, but why can't I understand a sentence as a whole?

Why are humans, spirit beasts, and ordinary plants and animals equal in terms of their souls?

Do not understand.

Bibi Dong understood some of it and gestured for Tang San to continue.

"While the increase in soul power of a Soul Master and the growth in cultivation of a Soul Beast can strengthen mental power, the soul itself is not ridiculously strong due to the enhancement of mental power. It is still very fragile. What is strong is only mental power. Therefore, mental power has become the foundation of a Title Douluo. In the future, the cultivation to break through the hundredth level will only transform mental power into divine sense. The soul is not that important. After all, for beings who have reached that level, the soul is essentially only used to carry memories."

"And as long as one possesses consciousness, one can be reborn..."

"But, after my consciousness is reborn, am I truly the same person I was at the beginning?"

"I'm afraid not. The soul is the most fundamental and essential thing that governs a person."

At this point, Tang San paused, took a deep breath, and a glint of inspiration flashed in his eyes. "After those souls who died of old age entered that starry world, I placed them on a star and recreated the scenes from their previous lives for them, so that they would believe they were still alive and continue living..."

"Why don't the Pope and the four dignitaries guess what happened to those souls?"

Chrysanthemum Douluo frowned and looked at Ghost Douluo. After all, this guy's martial soul was Ghost, which could be considered his own soul, so he should have some right to speak, right?

"The soul lives forever in it, forever happy and joyful?" Ghost Douluo saw that Demon Bear and Ghost Leopard were also looking at him, so he could only bite the bullet and make a guess.

"No." Tang San shook his head and looked at Bibi Dong.

"Could it be that the soul also dies of old age?" After thinking for a moment, Bibi Dong made a guess that she herself found absurd, but for some reason, she felt that the guess was true.

"As expected of His Holiness the Pope." Tang San gave Bibi Dong a small compliment, then said, "Those souls who die of old age gradually age in the same environment as they did in life, and eventually their souls automatically decay and die, leaving behind two things—"

As he spoke, Tang San used his mental power to construct the Blue Silver Network, depicting the process of the soul of the deceased collapsing and vanishing in a virtual world within the starry sky after its establishment—

At first, the soul had a human form, but then the skin rotted and the muscles dissolved, leaving only a pale skeleton. But even at this stage, the skeleton could still move, just like an ordinary person, only weaker than before.

Then, its skeleton weakened, and golden light emanated from its entire body until it covered the whole body, and then it turned into nothingness in the golden flames.

This scene left a deep impression on the six people present, including Tang San.

Bibi Dong, in particular, under the influence of the seed of the God of Death, was able to comprehend more and even perceive a trace of the true meaning of life and death.

After the soul completely perishes, two things remain:

A ball of light that never dies.

It's hard to describe its color, but it's incredibly dazzling, as if it's eternal and timeless.

The remaining item was pitch-black ash, seemingly capable of devouring all light, like a black hole in the universe.

When Tang San dispersed the image constructed by his spiritual power, Bibi Dong came to her senses and asked, "What are those two things? I have an instinctive feeling that they are very beneficial to the soul."

"That light, which I call the Undying True Spirit, is the very essence of a soul. It is pure white, flawless, eternal, and cannot be extinguished by any means." This is not Tang San exaggerating; it is something that Electrolux has tested. That thing truly cannot be destroyed by any means, not even by binding it.

According to him, even a god probably cannot see the origin deep within the soul.

Only in Tang San's illusory starry world can one witness this immortal true spirit originating from the essence of the soul!

"That's why I say all beings are born equal, because at the deepest level of their souls, they all possess this undying true spirit." Tang San couldn't help but marvel at how he had discovered this phenomenon after the establishment of the Blue Silver Network. "Perhaps from a societal perspective, due to objective and subjective factors such as family, bloodline, and martial spirit, people are born unequal. But for the entire continent, or rather, for the entire universe, all living beings are equal, and that undying true spirit deep within their souls is the best evidence of that."

"For us, a person's memory of themselves is cognition, the origin of the soul; but for the entire universe, perhaps this undying true spirit is the fundamental basis for confirming a living being."

"And based on this, I also have a guess—"

The path taken by the gods in the divine realm to condense their divine souls and strengthen their divine consciousness has actually gone astray.

One should imprint all one's memories into that immortal true spirit, taking it as the foundation of one's entire existence, rather than external divine soul or consciousness.

Although Tang San didn't say these two sentences, Bibi Dong's breathing became rapid, clearly indicating that she understood that the undying true spirit deep within her soul was the foundation of her entire existence.

But how can one find their own immortal true spirit?

Tang San himself wasn't quite sure about this...

(End of this chapter)