Secret: The undead do not die in the fire

In the void as deep as the universe, there is an endless and soundless world all around.

Here, red, yellow, blue, green and other colors are bright and distinct but overlapped, like the most abstract oil painting. The surroundings are filled with unreal transparent things with indescribable shapes. In the depths and in the sky, seven bright lights of different colors slowly swim. They seem to have life and contain endless knowledge.

This is the spirit world, which completely overlaps with reality and is everywhere.

For everyone, the existence of the spirit world is quite wonderful. And for extraordinary people, the existence of the spirit world is even more indispensable.

For example, the divination commonly used by "fortune tellers" is based on the images seen by astral spirits when they travel into the spiritual world. There, the rules of the material world are not followed. It involves the transcendent "self", the infinite "self", and the cosmic "self". The past, present and future may all overlap. This is the origin of divination.

Based on the same principle, Sequence 7 'Astrologers' of the Apprentice Path can also use the spirit world to perform divination. Furthermore, Sequence 5 'Grievances' of the Alien Path can transform into spirit bodies, directly contact the spirit world, and obtain information, so they naturally have the ability to divine and counter-divine.

Therefore, in theory, no matter which path a Beyonder takes, they can actually receive enlightenment from the spirit world and then use the Beyonder ability of divination. This is because the essence of divination is the result of communication between the spirit and the spirit world, and with the higher level of the 'I'.

But in the spiritual world, there is no distinction between up and down, left and right; the past, future and present may all intersect here. It is like a strange ocean formed by the compression of countless knowledge, countless information and countless illusory spirits. It is completely different from the 'world' in normal concepts and normal logic.

Because of this, the revelations obtained from the spiritual world can only be various images and symbols, rather than direct answers. They must be interpreted to figure out their specific meanings. This is exactly the role of divination items such as Tarot cards.

Apart from divination, other types of extraordinary abilities are also inextricably linked to the spiritual world.

Whether it is the flame leap of the Fortune Teller Path Sequence 7 'Magician', or the extraordinary abilities such as teleportation and flash possessed by the Apprentice Path Sequence 5 'Traveler', the Death Path Sequence 4 'Undead' and other paths, their essence is to travel through the spirit world.

Taking advantage of the fact that there is no up, down, left, or right in the spirit world, and that positions and distances are extremely chaotic, the effect of 'instant teleportation' can be achieved in the real world by traveling through the spirit world.

For example, the "collective subconscious ocean" often used by high-sequence extraordinary people in the audience channel, although in most people's cognition, this is the spiritual world of all creatures, but in fact it also has an obscure and wonderful relationship with the spiritual world.

It can even be said that the collective subconscious ocean itself depends on the spiritual world to exist.

The same is true for the underworld, which is essentially a special area opened up in the spirit world by Gray Carrie, the 'Ancestor of the Phoenix'.

If he had to use other similar things to describe the 'spiritual world', Yu Jin could only think of one word:

subspace.

And if you think about it carefully, the two sides do have many similarities...

Just as Yu Jin had this thought in his mind, in the spiritual world with rich and overlapping colors, among the seven pure lights of different colors occupying the highest point of the spiritual world, an orange light suddenly flashed and turned into an old man in an orange robe who appeared in front of Yu Jin.

The old man was plump, had a short white beard, and looked quite kind.

However, the old man looked a little nervous, even frightened, and trembled slightly as he said:

"Sir, please allow me to introduce myself. You should have heard of me. I am Hilarion Orange Light, serving the great being above the spirit world, the Lord of Mysteries, Mr. Fool."

As he spoke, the old man's expression became more and more terrified, as if he was already enduring great pain just standing in front of the ember. This drove him to finish his words in one breath, fearing that he would be killed by the other party if he did not finish his words and caused misunderstanding.

Yu Jin looked at the old man who was so nervous that he couldn't stop glancing around, and suddenly asked:

"Have you seen me before?"

'Orange Light' Hilarion said anxiously:

"Yes, but you just passed by in a hurry the previous few times. This is the first time you have formally communicated with us."

Yu Jin seemed to understand that he had indeed "passed by" the spirit world several times.

Whether going back to the past or traveling through the spirit world, one needs to rely on the particularity of the spirit world.

But to the previous embers, the spirit world was just a special tool and there was no value in staying there.

But this time is different. He needs to find something in the spiritual world, and he needs someone to lead the way.

And the indigenous people like the Seven Lights of the Spirit World are the most suitable guides.

Ember asked:
"What do you know about Calderon and the source substance inside?"

Hilarion, who had no sweat glands, wiped the nonexistent sweat from his forehead and said with a measured tone:

"In fact, we don't know much about the Sephiroth."

"When the last civilization ended and the 'first' awakened, the previous seven lights were wiped out. We are the pure light reborn in the spirit world during the first era. We may not know as much as you think."

'Orange Light' Hilarion first put on a layer of armor for himself, and at the same time observed Yu Jin's face. Seeing that he looked normal, he continued:

"We only know that the source contained in Calderon is the 'River of Everlasting Darkness'. Graygarry used this source to create this city, and used the special properties of the River of Everlasting Darkness to bury it deep in the spirit world."

"But in the process of creating Calderon, Gray Carrie gradually realized the pollution of the 'Eternal Darkness River'. So she used the tributaries of the Everlasting Darkness River to open up the underworld in the spirit world, trying to get away from Calderon, which contains the tributaries of the 'Eternal Darkness River', and get rid of the pollution."

"At the end of his life, threatened by the ancient sun god, he had to turn his attention to Calderon again and threw the city and its tributary, the River of Everlasting Darkness, into the depths of the spirit world. We speculate that his purpose was to use the special properties of the River of Everlasting Darkness as a backup for his resurrection, but due to unknown reasons, this attempt ultimately failed."

As if fearing that the information might not be detailed enough and might cause dissatisfaction, Orange Light Hilarion hurriedly explained:
"The essence of the Sefirot is far higher than the spirit world. We, the Seven Lights, were born in the spirit world and cannot transcend it to explore the secrets of the Sefirot. The obstruction of the 'Eternal Darkness River' prevents us from entering the depths of Calderon and obtaining accurate information. But according to our speculation, Graygari's resurrection failed because she was either unable to get rid of the pollution of the Eternal Darkness River or was affected by the death god Salinger."

"In addition." Orange Light Hilarion paused and said carefully:
"Ever since the main stream of the 'Eternal Darkness River' appeared under Calderon, the surrounding spiritual world has also been affected to a certain extent. Even if we get close now, we will be irreversibly polluted. If you try to explore there, it will be difficult for us to provide substantial help."

In fact, the impact of the River of Eternal Darkness goes far beyond what He said.

As one of the nine essences left by the Creator, the existence of the River of Everlasting Darkness itself is higher than the real world and the spirit world. Therefore, facing the erosion and pollution of the River of Everlasting Darkness, the spirit world can neither take any countermeasures nor resist, and can only allow it to continue to erode.

For the spiritual world, this is definitely a world-destroying crisis, no less severe than the invasion of the old times by the real world.

Fortunately, there is Sefirah Castle above the spirit world. As a source of essence, the existence of Sefirah Castle can suppress the erosion of the River of Eternal Darkness. In addition, the River of Eternal Darkness has no "master" and has not yet developed self-awareness, so its pollution of the spirit world is still in the unconscious spontaneous stage, and the scope of erosion is not too exaggerated.

Once this pollution reaches a point where it cannot be reversed, Qi Guang can only ask for help from the great being above the spiritual world.

"Lead the way." Yu Jin did not respond to Orange Light's reminder, but just gave the order calmly.

The River of Eternal Darkness is the source of essence after all, so Embers still gives it a certain amount of attention.

So even though he had obtained Calderon's coordinates from Klein, after listening to Orange Light's description of Calderon's current situation, he did not intend to "teleport" directly to the depths of Calderon. He decided to take a look at the periphery first.

As for how to judge where exactly Calderon's "outskirts" are now, this requires the use of the Seven Lights of the Spirit Realm - since they will be contaminated even if they just get close, they will definitely know where the dividing line is.

"This...please follow me."

Orange Light Hilarion had a bitter look on his face, and he knew that this trip would not end well. But there was nothing he could do, after all, this was an order personally given by the great master of the spiritual world, and the other six lights were unwilling to come, so he had to carry out this difficult task.

Even though he was reluctant, Orange Light Hilarion had to faithfully carry out the orders and quickly teleported to the depths of the spirit world. Along the way, all kinds of strange spirit world creatures passed by them, like an oil painting depicting hell.

If it were an ordinary Beyonder, he would probably be surrounded by these spirit world creatures, and would be lost in the spirit world, unable to leave forever. Because not all spirit world creatures are friendly, in fact, there are many powerful and malicious beings.

Even for the Seven Lights of the Spirit World, they are not absolutely invincible in the Spirit World. There are many terrifying beings in the depths of the Spirit World that can hurt or even kill them. The reason why the Seven Lights of the Spirit World are more famous than these powerful spiritual creatures is more due to their friendly attitude towards extraordinary people.

If it were usual, a single Seven Lights would come to the deep areas of the spirit world alone, even if they would not encounter danger, they would inevitably be watched by greedy eyes of some beings. Because the Seven Lights of the spirit world represent not only the strength of angels, but also the corresponding status in the spirit world - any creature in the spirit world may perish, but the Seven Lights of the spirit world will exist forever.

It is just like even if the seven lights of the spiritual world of the previous civilization are annihilated, new seven lights will still be born in the spiritual world to replace them.

If one could devour one of the Seven Lights and steal their status, the benefits to spiritual beings would be enormous.

But this time, 'Orange Light' Hilarion did not feel those greedy gazes.

Along the way, those strange yet powerful spiritual creatures didn't dare to approach, or even look directly at them. What's worse, some of them teleported away to other areas as soon as they sensed the breath.

'Orange Light' Hilarion knew very well that it was not because those creatures were afraid of him, but because they were afraid of the one behind him.

They probably thought that Orange Light was the one who came to avenge them, so they ran away immediately. But what they didn't know was that not only were they afraid, but Orange Light was also afraid!
Just like just now, he saw with his own eyes that during the teleportation process, Yu Jin grabbed a spiritual creature that didn't have time to escape.

'Orange Light' Hilarion saw it all, and was terrified in his heart, so he could only silently mourn for the captured spirit creature.

Finally, I don’t know how long it took.

They stopped in front of an area.

Behind them was an impressionist oil painting with mixed colors, blurry and dreamy. And in the area further back, countless strange-looking spirit creatures fled in all directions because of their arrival.

On the surface, this place seems to be no different from other areas in the spiritual world.

But not far in front of them was an area covered by a gray dusk. With the naked eye, the gray color became thicker as they went deeper, and in the end it was a dark area that was so thick that it was impossible to see what was inside.

But the dead silence that existed in that area was enough to make people tremble with fear even outside dusk.

The darkness and the oil painting are clearly separated, as if two works of completely different styles were blended together. And if you look closely, you can even find that the dusk is slowly infiltrating into the area where the oil painting is located, gradually eroding it!

Orange Light looked at the darkness with deep fear and dread in his eyes, and whispered:

"Further down is Calderon. I'm sorry, I can only take you here."

"It's okay, you can leave first."

Yu Jin's tone was very friendly. If you ignored the frightened expression on Ju Guang's face, they looked like two old friends greeting each other before parting.

The next second, 'Orange Light' Hilarion watched helplessly as Yu Jin threw the spiritual creature he had just caught on the road directly into the dusk in front of him!

Amid the opponent's screams, a spiritual creature with a huge body, hundreds of meters tall, a huge bull head with two sharp horns, and pink skin covered with pink tentacles, entered the gray area from the colorful oil painting amidst a desperate scream.

At a speed visible to the naked eye, the opponent's "vitality" is disappearing at an extremely fast speed.

Finally, He stopped struggling completely, and His originally smooth and pink skin was covered with grayish white, and was full of cracks.

From a distance, it looked like a gigantic stone statue with a strange shape. (End of this chapter)