From the end of the world

Chapter 213: This is how we should view it

There is no fire in the freezing cold Arctic Ocean, nor in any other ocean in the world. Although there are rumors of submarine volcanoes, I have not sunk that deep.

The fire was as illusory as an illusion. I couldn't tell whether I really saw the fire or it was just an illusion in my mind. It was probably the latter. But in this illusion, this "illusion" was more real than anything else. I was sure that it was the fire produced by the silver moon I ignited in the real world.

This also means that my idea of ​​breaking the deadlock is correct.

My idea is actually a little unstable. If Silver Moon's illusion is a "hands-off skill", it means that my spirit cannot continuously ignite Silver Moon. The only basis to support this idea is that I believe my spirit has the effect of automatically burning illusion power.

Since even Yin Yue herself could not avoid being ignited by my spirit, the power of illusion she threw out was no exception. Without the risk of being continuously ignited by me, she could not trap me in the illusion for a long time.

I tried to reach out to the fire. Just like when I saw the fire, I couldn't tell if I really reached out my hand. I could only imagine it in my mind, and at the same time, I imagined that I was flying towards the fire. This effort was not in vain. I did see the fire getting bigger and bigger in my field of vision, and finally the fire occupied my entire field of vision.

The feeling of being immersed in the cold sea water disappeared, replaced by a warm and dry feeling. In the light, my body seemed to be rising. Gradually, I developed a familiar feeling. My consciousness was moving towards the metaphysical level.

I vaguely "saw" or "imagined" the scenes I had experienced before - in the streets full of corpses and blood, Zhu Shi held the Sword of Forged Yama and stared at my body in silence; on the Arctic glacier in the freezing wind, Ma Zao stood blankly on the edge of the broken ice shelf, overlooking the direction of my fall; in the forest devastated by the nuclear explosion, Yin Yue stretched out her palm to the surrounding sea of ​​fire, and her body was burning fiercely...

The last scene is obviously a scene from the real world, but from my current perspective, the real world is no different from the illusion, as if the illusion is actually a kind of reality, or the so-called reality is also an illusion.

In addition to the above, there are many other vague illusions that I have not experienced yet, which seem to be sucking me in. Some look familiar, while others are very strange. In one of the illusions in particular, I seem to be confronting a strange and gloomy young man holding a terrible axe. I feel that if I am attracted there and killed, the situation will become truly irreversible. I even suspect that the previous two illusions are just appetizers, and that is where Yin Yue's real murderous intention lies. At all costs, I must avoid falling into it.

I vaguely realized the essence of Silver Moon's power to "turn illusions into reality."

A red apple looks red to humans, but may look black or gray to cats and dogs that cannot distinguish red. However, in the absence of any visual observer, the apple is neither red, black, nor gray. The apple does not even have any color, but merely reflects electromagnetic waves in a certain frequency range.

The so-called "color" is a concept that only exists in the observer's consciousness. Even light itself cannot be verified without observation. It is said that it even presents different properties depending on the observation method. For the essential world, perhaps all the phenomena that can be recognized are just illusions. Buddhism calls the material world "color realm", and all things that can be seen and touched, and are born from cause and effect, are called "color" or "action"; the essence, law, and great way of all things are called "inaction".

"All phenomena are like dreams, illusions, bubbles, and shadows..."

The mantra that Ma Zao had chanted before emerged from my memory. It was a passage from a Buddhist classic. I recited the second half of it in my mind: "--Like dew and like lightning, one should view it in this way."

As this passage took shape in my consciousness, the rest of the illusions faded away, leaving only the "real world".

Are those illusions just hallucinations? I don't care too much about this, because the real world I originally lived in is the object I should return to and "should have such a view". If you are a true Buddhist, you may say that even the "real world" is a color that should be abandoned, and you should focus on the level of "non-action", but I don't care about that kind of thing.

In the end, whether it is the invisible essence that determines the visible matter, or the other way around, that kind of philosophical thinking is not the most important thing in my heart. I will leave that question to the so-called idealists and materialists to debate. I just need to find the useful parts for my own adventure and for this battle.

I have finally figured it out. In terms of absolute strength, Yin Yue is stronger than Chen Long and Shen Qiang, but not necessarily so much stronger that the gap can be said to be huge. Of course, this may also be related to her current poor condition, but the reason why she showed such a deadly and strange threat in the battle between us is because she has a different understanding of strange power.

Although Chen Long's "Portal Armor" has an extremely illegal mechanism, it is still in line with human thinking skills, so human thinking can be used to find loopholes and crack them; and although the "Must-Hit Kill" of the God Gun is also an illegal skill, it still cannot be separated from human thinking in practice. From a normal perspective, they are indeed very powerful, but in terms of the proposition of weird power, they lack a certain crucial heterogeneity.

As a youkai, a demon, and a strange thing, Yin Yue exhibits a nature of a different dimension from those of the two "great humans" in terms of the fundamental logic of using her supernatural powers.

Although Mr. Zhu used to describe her power as "turning illusions into reality", I'm afraid that's not the case in her own understanding. She probably never had the power to "turn illusions into reality". From the beginning, all she could do was "manipulate illusions". It's just that in her own worldview, perhaps "reality" itself is an illusion, so she can use the power of illusion to modify everything at will.

Moreover, just as we see different colors of light when we look through a prism at different angles, and we can observe different properties of light through different experimental methods, her "illusion" is likely to have only distorted the "angle" at which I observe the world.

And through the flame burning in her body and this metaphysical perception, I seemed to have touched her soul.

The soul is a metaphysical concept, and there should be no size difference. It's just that I may have the cognition that "the soul of a powerful person should be larger", and the soul of a powerful person is huge in my perception. The soul of the Great Perfection level will be transformed into more "slag", which may also be related to this cognition.

Yin Yue's soul is of course huge in my perception, but for some reason, I feel that there is an indescribable abnormality in this soul... It seems that it is not because she is not human, or her condition is not right, etc.... I can't come up with a conclusion that conforms to my intuition for the time being.

At the same time, although I touched Yin Yue's soul, I didn't touch Chang'an's soul. Was it because Chang'an's soul was devoured by her, or because my flame subconsciously avoided Chang'an, so I didn't touch it? Or was it because her soul and Chang'an's soul were mixed to the point that I couldn't tell them apart? I could only suppress my uneasy suspicion for the time being, and everything would have to wait until the battle was over.

After choosing the scenario of "should have such a view", my consciousness entered it as if being attracted by the only remaining real world scenario. When I came to my senses, I had returned to the forest full of fire, and the fire elemental body was automatically woven and formed as I returned.

The flames that had been destroying Yin Yue's body and soul also died out at the same time. She neither felt relieved nor as if she was facing a formidable enemy. She just looked over with an expected look. I thought the illusion just now was her ultimate move, but now it seems that she has another trump card.

"Have you calibrated yourself so quickly..."

She still didn't put her hand down, but just slightly adjusted the direction, pointing it in my direction, and then said: "You are indeed an incredible genius. However, I am also ready.

"This is the final blow. Sink into hell, Zhuang Cheng."

As soon as she finished speaking, she suddenly released a terrifying magical power fluctuation that was ten times greater than before.

She had actually predicted that I would return, and while I was trapped in the illusion, she had been accumulating strength non-stop. And at this moment, her accumulated strength had been fully utilized.

A light like a full moon suddenly appeared in her palm, turning into a cannonball and shooting towards me!

I raised my arm reflexively, and fired a fire bombardment from my palm like she did. Needless to say, I was a little slower than she who was well prepared. But even if I raised my hand first, I might be the first to be hit. Because her moonlight bombardment seemed to come through the physical space, but in fact it seemed to have a spiritual nature and acted directly on me. By the time I realized the existence of this move, I had already been hit.

In an instant, my body was blown to pieces. Not only that, my soul was also destroyed. This attack was more than ten times more powerful than the attack that the magic gun had used to penetrate my soul. It was like using an anti-material sniper rifle to shoot at a human body without any defense equipment. The torso that was hit would not just be punched with a hole, but would be shattered into pieces by the bullet with super kinetic energy.

If my soul could be described as a physical entity, then about half of its volume would have been destroyed by now.

The consequences of such harm to the human body can be imagined, and the soul is no exception.

Incredibly, I can still think now.

This was not an accident, but it was not a big surprise. My soul, like my body, could be transformed into elements. Since I would not die if my body was shattered, I would not die if my soul was shattered. Besides, I often split my soul in the form of flames, and I didn't see any problems.

But souls are different from bodies after all. Being destroyed by magic power is different from being torn apart on one's own initiative. And my soul is not only shattered now, the part that was hit is directly destroyed and lost. Although I am sure that I will not die immediately, at least, I should not be able to maintain the function of consciousness now.

Special abilities, skills, tactics... Yin Yue is an enemy far superior to me in many aspects. To be honest, even if I was defeated by her, I would be convinced. It is better to say that I have not been defeated until now, and even I feel speechless about my own strength.

But I did make some preparations. I set up a preset command for the sea of ​​fire that I created. Even if I was seriously injured and could no longer consciously control the flames, the sea of ​​fire would automatically repair my soul to completeness. The result was pretty much the same.

In addition, not only did I not die, but the fire bombardment that followed the moonlight bombardment was not interrupted either, and it was so powerful that it was like a dragon that devoured everything. To be honest, the power of this attack scared me.

The power of this attack, which had not been charged, even surpassed the "micro-star" that he had compressed and condensed in the past. Although he did go all out, this full force was beyond his imagination. But perhaps this was also natural.

I experienced a death experience and a near-death experience in the "illusion" summoned by Yin Yue. Although I could not feel my superpowers at that time, the strength of my superpowers undoubtedly increased by leaps and bounds during this process. And Yin Yue's blow, which made me doubt whether it would really kill me, brought me to a new world.

The ancients linked death with sleep. In Greek mythology, the god of death Thanatos and the god of sleep Hypnos were even twin brothers. However, after experiencing death and near-death experiences, I did not feel sleepy or drowsy. On the contrary, I am now more awake than ever before.

I even have a feeling that the me in the past was the one who was asleep, using my power like a sleepwalker, and now I have finally woken up. Yin Yue described the increase in my power as "awakening", which is a very appropriate term.

I finally woke up.

I don’t know if it was because I was safe and sound, or because of the terrifying power of my attack, but Yin Yue showed a look of astonishment.

The flame dragon devoured it at lightning speed, and after a moment of pause, it suddenly created a mushroom cloud like a small nuclear explosion, and then continued to roar forward, shooting more than 30 kilometers away in one second, with a roar that never stopped. There was no explosion on the way, and any material evaporated instantly the moment it came into contact with the flames.

There is no need to worry that this attack will hit the town buildings and cause casualties after leaving the forest. Due to the curvature of the earth itself, the long dragon of fire will roar into the sky after leaving the ground several kilometers away, and then become thinner and disappear like a faucet being turned off.

The mushroom cloud covered me as well. It was dark, and the raging heat was so intense that even I found it difficult to perceive it as a medium for a moment.

The mana fluctuations belonging to Silver Moon dropped precipitously in the dust that covered the sky and finally went out completely.

(End of this chapter)