40,000 Years of Cultivation

"Wow, when I came up, I asked me such a profound, profound and mysterious question, which contains the most rational questions of the universe, how can I answer it?"

Long Yangjun smiled, "In fact, everyone has their own understanding of this kind of too illusory, air-to-air question, and may not have the correct answer, or there can be 10,000 correct answers-they can all learn from some Angle, explaining the tip of the iceberg in the unknown universe."

Li Yao said, "So, what is your'correct answer'?"

Long Yangjun said: "I don't have a'correct answer' either. At most, I have some immature inferences and hypotheses, which can be discussed and discussed with you.

"Although we have been talking about the opposition between'Pangu Civilization' and'Chaos', and even portrayed it as an unprecedented and unprecedented war hundreds of thousands of years ago that spread to three thousand worlds, but at least before the split of the Nuwa clan, the so-called ' The form of "war" and the judgment of "win or lose" are beyond our understanding and extremely difficult to imagine.

"Pangu civilization is like an active mountain. Chaos or extraterrestrial demons are countless times smaller than the smallest microbes. They don't even have entities. They are just'shadows of microbes.' They have no self, no consciousness, and no nature. Civilization-you must not imagine chaos or extraterritorial demons as anthropomorphic existences, that is the biggest mistake."

Li Yao frowned and said: "However, I have indeed seen many demon with strong emotions and self-awareness, such as the demon Mo Xuan, the demon Lei Yuqin, and the demon Lu Qingchen, including the commander of the Nuwa clan who just tried to seize her home. Isn't there an ancient celestial demon that has hibernated for hundreds of thousands of years in the depths of the brain?"

"It's so wrong."

Long Yangjun said, "The so-called'Heaven Demon Mo Xuan' is fundamentally plausible. To be precise, it is not a demon that exists in the depths of Professor Mo Xuan's spirit, but a tens of thousands of'Chaos' and'Heaven Demon'. Aggregate.

"No, it's not just Professor Mo Xuan, even in you, in me, in the depths of everyone's brain, there are thousands of heavenly demons."

"Hundreds of thousands of demon?"

Li Yao was completely confused, "I don't understand..."

"You can imagine our spirit as an ecosystem, with the sky, the earth, the ocean, plants and animals, a planet full of vitality, a unique planet, and even a world, a mysterious and unfathomable one.' Little universe'!"

Long Yangjun said, “Every breeze in this small universe, every ray of sunshine, every grass and every dewdrop, can’t be regarded as'you', but the'ecosystem' composed of everything together is Your mind, consciousness, soul-is this analogy acceptable?"

Li Yao pondered for a moment, then slowly nodded.

"But a long, long time ago, at the very beginning, such an ‘ecosystem’ did not exist."

Long Yangjun said, "At that time, human beings who were'tools' or'carriers' were just a bare and lifeless planet in the depths of their brains. It was an absolutely barren and dead world without any heat and The small universe of volatility, at most there are only some unconscious fluctuations, like wind and rain, lightning and thunder, and the earth is shaking and the mountains are shaking.

"However, perhaps when the planet was born, in the depths of the bottomless sea, it was planted with the'seed of life', or a meteorite from outside the sky, which brought a wonderful gift. In short After a long period of time, ancient life gradually appeared on these deadly planets.

"Life is becoming more and more complex, mingling with each other, swallowing, dividing and evolving, and slowly transforming the barren planet, covering the dead earth with colorful moss, and growing big trees from the moss. , The big tree is full of fruitful fruits and nourishes countless creatures...All of these together form an extremely complex and extremely sophisticated ecosystem, and this system is the soul of mankind."

Li Yao was stunned.

"The extraterritorial demon is like a cell."

Long Yangjun said, "Your body is composed of thousands of cells, and your soul is composed of thousands of extraterritorial demon. A single cell and a single extraterritorial demon are not you, but thousands of Thousands of cells and extraterritorial demon condensed to form your flesh and blood body and powerful soul.

"The flesh and blood body will get sick, and it may be invaded by foreign viruses and bacteria, and even mutated species similar to'cancer cells' will grow, leading to self-destruction.

"For the same reason, the extraterritorial demon itself does not matter whether it is good or bad. Grass swallows dew and sunlight, sheep eats grass, and wolves eat sheep. There is no difference between good and evil, righteous and evil—as long as they together form a sufficiently balanced food chain that can maintain the entire ecology. Orderly operation of the system will do.

"However, once a vicious alien species breaks into this ecosystem and severely smashes the fragile ecological balance, the consequences will be unimaginable."

Li Yao moved in his heart and said: "In other words, the so-called'devil invasion' is not as simple as an extraterritorial demon swallowing a person's soul, but'some' foreign demon invading the closed ecology in someone's brain. System, leading to the destruction or even collapse of the entire ecosystem, and ultimately to disastrous consequences?"

"Yes."

Long Yangjun said, "The name of the extraterritorial demon is too derogatory, and it is often involuntarily imagined as a dark, evil, and bloodthirsty existence. I prefer the term'chaos', the so-called chaos. It means that there is no difference between good and evil, good and evil, light is it, darkness is it, good is it, and evil is it.

"As the saying goes,'everything evil is the head, the argument is irrelevant, and there is no good person in the world. Everyone always has a lot of good and malicious thoughts in their minds, but most of the time, everyone can control their own thoughts. Malice is like an ecosystem where wolves, sheep, grass, sun and rain can coexist, maintaining a delicate balance.

"However, the arrival of the'devil' is like a meteorite that brings a virus that has never appeared in this ecosystem, causing the destruction and even collapse of the entire system in an instant. It is a'devil' in the usual sense.

"How to measure the strength and weakness of the soul, in my opinion, is the complexity of this ecosystem.

"The simpler the ecosystem, the more fragile it is. It's like an ecosystem with only four elements: wolf, sheep, grass, sun and rain. As long as you add an external variable casually, it will collapse. This variable does not even need to be fangs and claws. Tigers and lions in China only need to be some insignificant germs that can cause large areas of grass to die.

"The spirit of ordinary people is this kind of'simple and fragile ecosystem', so in the event of the advent of the gods, only some of the lowest-level demon heads are enough to cause the brains of hundreds of thousands or millions of people to collapse at the same time. Become a'Majin'.

"Through practice, the soul becomes stronger and stronger, which means that this ecosystem is becoming more and more complex, and it has really become a vibrant planet, with tens of billions and hundreds of billions of different creatures living on it, just one or two kinds of aliens. Germs or organisms are simply not enough to destroy the entire ecosystem. Even, they are quickly grasped by thousands of food chains, digested and absorbed, and become part of the ecosystem.

"The reason why you can devour the huge lingering energy left by the heavenly demon Mo Xuan and the heavenly demon Lu Qingchen is because your'ecosystem' is highly complex, with strong resistance to erosion and assimilation. After adjusting the structure of the food chain, you will The “exotic species” are organically embedded in it and become a “native species”, restoring the ecological balance.

"Therefore, there is no need to entangle the question of whether the extraterritorial demons invade the depths of their own souls. Extraterritorial demons are not terrible, just like our cells and the flora living in the intestines. The terrible thing is that the entire ecosystem is out of balance. , Heading for collapse and destruction!"

Li Yao listened in silence. Until this moment, he finally couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief: "Such a theory is indeed unheard of, and it is refreshing!"

"Of course it's unheard of, because I just said nonsense!"

Long Yangjun's eyes are shining, full of eager light, "Is it true? I can't wait to jump to the center of the star sea to find the answer now!

"Hehe, I have been talking for such a long time without knowing it. If I continue to talk, maybe I will be locked by the Federation starship. I'm going to go and look for... No, it's to create my mission, Li Yao , If you want to continue talking, come and find me in the middle of Xinghai!"

On the light curtain, there are faint blue ripples, and it is like a crystal clear bouquet blooming slowly.

"Hopefully by then—"

Long Yangjun stared at Li Yao deeply and said meaningfully, "Can you tell me what your'mission' is? No, it is not the mission given to you by others, but the one you created for yourself, the real Mission!

When the last "mission" was spoken, the light curtain had changed from faint blue to white, and Long Yangjun and the seat behind her were all shrouded in dazzling white light, as if completely melted.

In her faintly echoing whisper, Li Yao saw an incredible scene through the remaining hundreds of monitoring crystals erected around the Yongye Icefield.

Amidst the turbulent clouds over the ice field, a blue bouquet of octopus-like flowers bloomed slowly. The petals stretched all the way to the surrounding horizon, and the stamens were spirally entangled, erecting a tower that stretched into the depths of the star sea. bridge.

"call out!"

A beautiful streamer emerged from the void, and before all the Federation starships could not respond, along this bridge, in an instant shot out of the clouds and dark nebula, disappearing into the endless stars!

"Long Yangjun..."

The faint blue bouquets in the sky gradually dissipated, turning into brilliant blue lights and splashing on the earth, like an ice-covered earth with a radius of thousands of miles, all shrouded in the magnificent aurora.

Li Yao stared at everything, but his thoughts gradually condensed on the last sentence before the opponent left.

"It's not the mission given to me by others, but the mission I created myself...Is it the real mission?"