From the end of the world

Chapter 272: The World After Death 2
Seeing me raise this question, Lu Chan thought for a moment, then continued to write with a black fountain pen, and first asked me a question in return: "How much do you know about Naraku?"

This is not the first time I have heard of the name Naraku. As far as I know, Naraku is the origin of Luoshan and is also another name for hell. From Lu Chan's previous words, we can also know that Naraku does not have any other special meaning in Luoshan, it simply refers to the "afterlife".

In other words, Luo Shan was once a real force existing in the afterlife.

I directly told him the information I had learned, and Lu Chan nodded slightly and began to answer formally: "Your understanding is correct. A long time ago, Luo Shan's headquarters was located in the afterlife - that is, 'Naraku'.

"That was a long time before I was born. I know very little about it, and there is not much information left inside Luoshan. I only know that at that time, it was not uncommon for demon hunters to travel between the world of the living and the world of the dead, and the demons that Luoshan dealt with were mostly ghosts from the world of the dead. From this perspective, the reason why Luoshan set up its headquarters in Naraku at that time was probably to monitor the changes in the world of the dead.

"More than a hundred years ago, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Heavenly Master predicted that Naraku would undergo a drastic change in the near future - the afterlife would be destroyed and flow into the world of the living. So Luo Shan decided to withdraw the headquarters from Naraku to prepare for the coming catastrophe.

"But the subsequent developments did not go exactly as Gua Tianshi had said. Hell did not actually flow into the world of the living, but an unknown upheaval did occur. Luo Shan was unable to observe the specific content of the upheaval, he only knew that he suddenly could no longer contact the afterlife.

"The two worlds that were originally able to communicate with each other suddenly became unable to communicate. Even the Great Impermanence could not cross this natural chasm that came from nowhere, and had no way to obtain information from the other side. The same is true for Mingzhu. He now wants to cancel the contract with Naraku, but he is stuck because he cannot establish contact with Naraku."

To be honest, when he was writing on the paper, he suddenly came up with the "Qing Dynasty", and I almost didn't react. Sometimes I often forget that the history of the common sense world and the history of Luoshan exist at the same time. While those historical events in the textbooks were happening, Luoshan had been active in the dark, but because of the mysterious influence of the divine seal, it could never appear on the historical stage.

And perhaps for the demon hunters at that time, the world they lived in might be the real world, and the history they experienced might be the real history. The weird world at that time had much greater depth than it does today, and the realm under the water was much more colorful than the surface.

The era when the world of the living and the afterlife could communicate with each other... I can't imagine what it was like, and Lu Chan, who was not born at the time, probably couldn't describe it to me accurately. Although it happened only a hundred years ago, it was so incredible that it seemed like a mythical era.

"But, can't you still resurrect the dead? Even if you can't resurrect people with powerful magic, you can still learn about the afterlife by resurrecting ordinary people, right?" I asked.

"Luo Shan can indeed resurrect ordinary people, but this does not mean that he can obtain information about the afterlife. Because after the drastic changes, the souls of the dead will no longer go to Naraku, but will be intercepted in the world of the living. Either their souls will be scattered, or they will become wandering ghosts... Similarly, we cannot summon the souls that entered Naraku more than a hundred years ago to the world of the living." Lu Chan said.

"Then how did Mingzhuo confirm that Ma Zao's soul went to the afterlife and returned?" I asked.

"Because Ma Zao is a patient with amnesia. And all patients with amnesia have lost their souls." He said, "There is no trace of their souls being scattered, nor have the ghosts they have formed been found. At the same time, according to the results of countless divination spells, their souls are in a state of death. "If no amnesia patients wake up, it would be fine. Since someone wakes up, it means that their souls must exist somewhere between sleep and wakefulness... Where do you think that place is?"

The afterlife - this is the only speculation I would naturally have.

That's why Lu Chan said before that "ordinary people who have just died and come back to life" cannot meet a certain necessary condition, which is whether they have traveled to and from the afterlife. However, patients with amnesia meet this necessary condition.

However, this is just speculation, right? Wouldn't it be too hasty to take it as a certainty?

No, it is very likely that he is not careless. Mingzhu is most likely completely convinced that the soul of the amnesiac has gone to the afterlife. If you ask why, it is because Mingzhu came from the era when the world of the living and the afterlife could still communicate with each other.

Even if a demon hunter who has not experienced that era obtains the corresponding information through investigative means such as divination, he can only speculate with suspicion whether "the target's soul has gone to the afterlife that he has never seen". However, old demon hunters, including Mingzhu, who have lived for more than a hundred years, may be able to make more accurate judgments based on their own vision and experience.

Moreover, Lu Youxun's attitude in the past seems to support this point.

From Lu Youxun's perspective, although I am a qualified person worthy of being recruited, I am not as important as the Great Impermanence of Transcendentalism who has a clear position. Kidnapping Ma Zao will certainly break with me, but at least it is worse than losing a general like Mingzhuo in the Transcendentalism within ten years.

But if all this is based on a hasty premise, this "deal" is not worth it. Lu Youxun probably confirmed through his own channels that the souls of patients with amnesia have gone to the afterlife to a certain extent, so he believed that kidnapping Ma Zao would be of great help to Mingzhu, and then stood on the opposite side of me.

So, is Ma Zao really in the afterlife?
In fact, I am not sure whether the Ma Zao I know is the "original soul" of that body, so maybe the soul of the original owner of the body went to the afterlife, and the soul of Ma Zao from the doomsday era took over that body.

And if the Ma Zao I know is really the original owner of that body, then it means that the "doomsday era" and the "afterlife" are likely to be the same place.

(End of this chapter)