Reincarnation Paradise: The Crucible

In the spiritual space, there are gluttonous pillars.

Xu Yue sat casually on the pillar, holding a milky white chain in his hand, which extended into the purple sea of ​​fire outside the barrier.

The tail end is connected to a surging purple flame ball, and the whole posture seems to be fishing by the sea of ​​​​fire.

But it's almost like fishing. He is indeed borrowing the powerful spiritual body of the ancestral python to breed a new consciousness in the sea of ​​fire.

As his intellectual attributes improve, the more he understands his own spiritual space, the more he can feel its wonder.

This psychic power granted to him by Professor Charles contains endless possibilities for development.

The scope of the spiritual space is very large, and it doesn't just refer to the floating island above his head and the Baji Prison under his feet. These existences wrapped by the spiritual barrier are just the embodiment of the rational part of his thinking.

The floating island on the upper level is a polymer that tends to favor positive emotions in memory and thinking, so its first image was the forging room in Xu Yue's hometown, which contained his most peaceful and softest memories, similar to the professor's mind. Xavier Academy for the Gifted in space.

The lower Baji Prison is the aggregation of negative emotions in memory and thinking, so its external image is an octagonal arena representing gladiatorial combat and fighting. It is the place where he faces the most blood and death before entering the paradise. Similar to the endless cemetery of mutants in the professor's mind space.

These two places are the only places he can manipulate and change, because they are themselves the embodiment of rational order.

The golden sea of ​​stars at the top represents the connection between the soul and the outside world. Although the soul space is independent of itself, it is not completely closed.

It's just that the professor's mental space is connected to the collective consciousness of all humans in the X-Men world. As for the place where Xu Yue's mental space is connected, it is currently impossible to explore.

Finally, there is the purple sea of ​​fire located at the lowest part of the spiritual space. It and the golden sea of ​​stars form the upper and lower boundaries of the entire space.

These flames are not endless fires, but countless, unconscious, mixed and disordered thoughts and thoughts.

On the pillar, another chain was thrown out from Xu Yue's hand, passed through the spiritual barrier and fell into the purple sea of ​​fire. Then the end of the chain quickly wrapped into a ball, wrapping a wisp of flame in the sea of ​​fire.

After completing all this, Xu Yue used force to pull the chain back. The sphere composed of the chain floated on his palm, slowly opened, revealing the coquettish purple flame in the center.

The appearance of flame is the same as that of fire, but its essence is completely different.

After the flame was completely revealed, Xu Yue's presence seemed to be sensed. After a wave of fluctuation, the flame quickly integrated into the palm of his hand.

Allowing the flames to invade his body, Xu Yue did not resist, but closed his eyes and silently felt the various images that suddenly appeared in his mind.

There is a scene of him holding Fang Tian's painted halberd and massacring wantonly in Paradise City.

There is a picture of himself sparing the group of young and old workers who surrendered voluntarily during the massacre in the Holy Heaven.

There was also a scene in the Assassin’s Tavern, when Gu Yu said that any request was granted, he asked him to take off his clothes...

Many imaginary images flashed through his mind one by one, followed by various emotions rising from the bottom of his heart, including madness, pity, lust...

All kinds of distracting thoughts were swirling in his mind, but he extinguished them one by one indifferently. After a long time, Xu Yue opened his eyes, revealing a pair of slightly red eyes.

This was one of the essences of the purple sea of ​​fire, countless complicated thoughts that he never paid attention to.

As the iceberg theory of the subconscious summarized by Sigmund Freud says, all the rational and orderly behavioral choices we display externally are just the tip of the iceberg.

Hidden underneath are numerous psychological activities and emotional motivations that we cannot detect but actually exist. These are the huge mountains under the iceberg, which are our subconscious minds.

From its essential existence, this purple sea of ​​fire in the spiritual space is similar to the latent consciousness mentioned in the iceberg theory.

Contained in these messy thought flames are a large number of thoughts, emotions, memories, concepts, needs, desires and other components deep in his consciousness.

The sea of ​​fire is very important. It is the foundation of the spiritual space and carries the rational and orderly part of thinking. Without it, reason cannot be constructed, and the floating islands and Baji Hell above will no longer exist.

The sea of ​​fire is equally dangerous. It represents chaos and disorder. It contains too many complicated thoughts and will instinctively devour all rational existence.

It took Xu Yue a long time to digest the small wisp of flame that he had captured before. If the whole person fell, one can imagine the consequences. He would be washed away by countless distracting thoughts and become a madman.

But there is an old saying that goes well - A is like honey, B is like arsenic.

For a rational and orderly spiritual body, the sea of ​​​​fire is naturally arsenic poison, but for those blank spiritual bodies whose consciousness has been burned out and their thinking has returned to nothingness, the sea of ​​​​fire is the best honey.

Using a tough enough blank mental body as a hotbed to allow countless complex thoughts to entangle and converge in the hotbed, it is possible to construct a new core of consciousness for this blank mental body and condense a rational and orderly thinking body. .

This is also the reason why the ferocious beast Taotie was born. It was the independent thinking and self-awareness that was born with the help of the professor's blank mental body and the fusion of Xu Yue's complicated thoughts.

When he absorbed the professor's spiritual body, he had not yet developed the vital equipment of psychic barrier.

With no barrier to isolate the inside and outside, and the fact that the Baji Prison itself fits the sea of ​​fire, the spiritual body should have passively absorbed too many distracting flames at that stage, and then the existence of Taotie was born by chance.

Of course, all of these are inferences based on speculation as he deepens his understanding of the spiritual space. Whether it can be tested depends on the results of this experiment.

Looking at the purple flame balls churning in the sea of ​​​​fire, Xu Yue sat cross-legged on the pillar with a trace of expectation in his eyes. If he can really succeed, then he will further develop the spiritual space and control the Jiuli War Flag. Souls will also have a stable source.

Before possessing the skill of leading the crowd, he would never blindly do such experiments. As Taotie said when he was just born, the consciousness born in this way is essentially similar to Xu Yue's analysis. Soul, or split personality.

They are existences conceived in the fire sea of ​​Xu Yue's subconscious consciousness through Xu Yue's complicated thoughts. Strictly speaking, they are not a complete and independent life.

They share the same underlying consciousness as Xu Yue's subjective consciousness. They belong to the personality consciousness that depends on Xu Yue. They live and die with him and have the same fate. At the same time, they also have the possibility of disturbing Xu Yue's thoughts and even taking him away.

Of course, after possessing Jiuli Zhanqi's absolute control over souls, this biggest hidden danger has been basically eliminated.

Otherwise, Xu Yue would not actively try to create this new uncontrollable consciousness. Even if this ability is very strong, unconstrained power will only harm himself.

Charles' son Daqun is the best example.

Daqun is an Omega-level mutant with thousands of personalities. Each of his personalities has different mutant abilities. The sources of these personalities are, first, by absorbing the conscious souls of others, and second, by separation of self-personality.

With thousands of superpowers integrated into one body, he is comparable to a god, but thousands of personalities that he cannot control make his life miserable, and he is unable to exert his full power.

Daqun possesses a large number of split personalities, and their existence forms are quite similar to his ferocious beast Taotie.

Xu Yue seriously doubts the way the large group of mutants operate. The basic principle is also to use the potential ocean of consciousness in the spiritual space, which is what Xu Yue is doing now.

It's just that Xu Yue is actively experimenting, while Daqun is unconsciously and passively operating, so new personalities will continue to emerge.

Even the growth equipment of the psychic barrier was given to Xu Yue by Professor .

Daqun can absorb the soul consciousness of others, and Xu Yue can also absorb the pure spiritual body of others through the fire.

This also explains why when Xu Yue asked questions in the professor's room and was about to say goodbye, the professor suddenly stopped him and not only actively granted him such a powerful ability as spiritual space, but also completely restored his spiritual space to him. Presented to Xu Yue for display.

At that time, Xu Yue had wondered whether his five points of charm were missing. Now that he thinks about it, the reason why the professor did this was probably because he thought of his son after understanding Xu Yue's abilities. He was very aware of the large amount of spiritual souls. What will happen in the end is accumulated in his mind. He doesn't want Xu Yue to become the next big group.

That's why the professor seemed so enthusiastic. He was teaching spiritual space and providing spiritual barriers. After all, the help Xu Yue gave and the reward given by the professor were completely unequal.

This chapter is mainly to explain clearly the setting of spiritual space and the birth of consciousness. This ability involves many aspects in the later stage.