From the end of the world

Chapter 289: Silver Moon 1
The "Silver Moon" that appeared in front of me read out my name.

However, her tone seemed uncertain. Of course, this was because I was now in the form of a 12- or 13-year-old, but since Yin Yue had fought with me before, her tone should be more certain. I suspected that this "Yin Yue" was not the Yin Yue I knew.

On this basis, I still consciously used aggressive words: "Yin Yue, you appear in front of me so blatantly, aren't you afraid that I will kill you directly?"

"You've already figured it out, haven't you? I'm not the Silver Moon you know." She smiled, "Besides, I know you won't attack me directly."

"Why do you say that?" I asked.

"You are not the kind of person who would use your strength to attack others at will. You will only attack others when they show ill will towards you or take the initiative to become your enemy. And as long as I don't take a hostile attitude first, even if I look exactly like that Silver Moon, you will still prefer dialogue rather than fighting." She showed her understanding of my psychology.

She's not entirely right. In the past, I've taken the initiative to attack targets that weren't hostile to me, such as the immortal monster. Because I've never set hard and fast rules for myself, sometimes I'll just use my strength to attack others based on the atmosphere.

If we regard the style she described as "action tendency" rather than "code of conduct", then it is not much different. When she appeared, she created an atmosphere of "now is not the time to fight", so I followed her. In a sense, I am actually a person who can read the atmosphere.

Although she said that she was not the Yin Yue I knew, I was not so naive as to believe everything she said. Perhaps this was just an act. Even though my intuition told me that she was not Yin Yue herself, considering that Yin Yue herself could use the power of illusion to affect my mind, this intuition might not be the product of her manipulation. It is better to maintain the most basic vigilance.

Moreover, even if she is not Yin Yue, the elders of Gu Yue Village have mentioned to me the various lewd and immoral acts committed by the old Gu Yue God. But just because she is now showing a friendly face, we can't really regard her as a kind and harmless character.

I decided to start the conversation based on the premise that "the other party is not Yin Yue himself". In addition, in order to distinguish him from the real Yin Yue, I will first call this "Silver Moon" the "Ancient Moon God".

"What are you?" I asked, "Since you are not Yin Yue, this should be our first meeting, but you not only know my name, but also my style."

"I have a potential connection with the real Yin Yue. I can synchronize her memories to a certain extent." Ancient Moon God explained in a clear voice, "Originally, I could synchronize all of them clearly, but I don't know if she did something or if there was another accident. Now I can only synchronize part of her memories in a scattered manner.

"Among them, because she was impressed by you and her contact with you happened recently, I was able to synchronize a lot of it here."

Is it like the relationship between the young girl Lu Chan and Lu Youxun? The young girl Lu Chan in the past also synchronized the memory of Lu Youxun through the potential connection between them, and knew me before I met her for the first time. Maybe there is such a relationship between this Ancient Moon God and that Silver Moon.

"In other words, you are the incarnation of Silver Moon's dream?"

As I asked this question, I felt a sense of déjà vu. Was I going to work with this Ancient Moon Goddess like I did with the girl Lu Chan, becoming a temporary comrade-in-arms with her and overcoming the difficulties and obstacles that followed? In the end, would I have to repeat the action of killing the enemy mentally, just like I did last time?

It's enough to have the same thing happen once. I don't want to repeat the parting with the girl Lu Chan. But there is one thing that cannot be doubted. If I can really cooperate with the incarnation of Yin Yue, it will definitely be very convenient. The other party must know a lot of Yin Yue's secrets, and may also be able to help me find out what Yin Yue is planning to do when she comes to Yueyin Mountain.

Thinking positively, I have both the prophecy of the Lord of the Divine Seal and the strange luck of Ma Zao, so maybe the appearance of the Ancient Moon God is a clue provided to me by the mysterious power. As long as I accept the arrangement honestly, I can smoothly find the location of Yin Yue himself.

"Dream incarnation..."

Ancient Moon God recited this word, then shook his head and said, "I am not the incarnation of Silver Moon. Although I may be an existence of similar nature, as long as you know how I was born, you will understand that the truth is not so.

"However, I am indeed related to Yin Yue's dream. Although if she were to evaluate me, she would probably say that I am a failure in her journey to realize her dream."

"What is Yin Yue's dream?" I was curious. "Her dream is her most basic desire as a living being, which is survival, or the continuation of self." She said, "I am the existence she created in the process of pursuing the art of self-continuation. In the past, she realized that even if she could fulfill most of the wishes of intelligent life, she would die one day.

"She won't die from running out of lifespan - even though she is only at the Great Perfection stage, she can rely on her special ability to live as long as the heaven and earth, just like the Great Impermanence. However, she can still be killed. Even if she has an endless lifespan, once she is killed by a powerful demon hunter, it is equivalent to all being wasted."

"So... in order to be able to be resurrected even if she is killed in the future, she left a foreshadowing of resurrection in the world?" I tried to speculate, "Once she dies, the foreshadowing will automatically run and resurrect her... just like she is using her own child to resurrect now?"

Gu Yueshen said vaguely: "...Maybe."

"What do you mean by 'maybe'?" I asked, "Isn't she afraid of death and wants to extend her life? Since she is sure that she will die, then if she wants to extend her life, then the only way is to study the art of resurrection, right?"

"Please listen to my explanation first." Ancient Moon God said, "First... as far as I know, she probably didn't leave any clues for her resurrection when she was alive."

"This statement is completely contrary to the facts I have come into contact with."

Although it does not match the reality, this statement echoes some information I have come across in the past. After Yin Yue was killed by Ying Lingyun, Luo Shan conducted a lot of investigations to ensure that Yin Yue would not be resurrected, and finally concluded that "Yin Yue did not leave any foreshadowing of resurrection" - isn't this judgment wrong?

But if she didn't resurrect after death, how did she originally plan to continue her life?
The Ancient Moon Statue saw my confusion and continued, "Among you humans, there should be such a saying. Some people die, but their thoughts remain in this world, which means they are living on in another form; or, although it is a pity that they did not leave their own thoughts, they left behind descendants, which can be regarded as the continuation of the existence of their ancestors in some form. I wonder what you think of this saying?"

"Once a person dies, he is dead. As long as the mind lives on, it is considered a different kind of life, and as long as there are descendants, it is still a continuation. These are just self-consolations based on the inescapability of death." I gave my own opinion.

"This is what most humans think. Although this statement comes from you humans, you are the ones who least believe it." Ancient Moon God sighed, "However, Yin Yue doesn't think so. Perhaps because she is not a human, her perspective on things is different from that of most humans - she sincerely believes in this statement. She doesn't regard it as self-consolation for the inescapable death, but practices it as the truth.

"Buddhism says that Buddha has three bodies: Dharmakaya, Sambhogakaya and Nirmanakaya. Even if a person dies in the human world, his life's thoughts can be passed down from generation to generation in civilization, and his Sambhogakaya can be considered to remain in the human world.

"Yin Yue believes that even if her body disappears, as long as her thoughts are still there, it is equivalent to her still being there. However, unlike ordinary people who can only continue their bodies through language and text, she is a great demon who can turn fantasy into reality. Naturally, she has a more efficient method - that is to directly create another self."

“Is this where you come from?” I asked.

Yin Yue is not a human being, so even if she is a little bit extraordinary in terms of values, I can easily accept it. Then, I noticed another problem: "But this approach should have a very fatal problem, right?"

If you want to let your clone live on your behalf, the first problem you need to solve is how to ensure that the clone will not die after the original body dies.

Lu Chan's "possible clones" do not have this problem, but when facing an opponent of my level, he still has to face the risk of all of his "possible clones" being burned by me along the connections between individuals.

This is how I destroyed Ying Lingyun's consciousness network.

In the past, Yin Yue was known as the invincible one below the Great Impermanence, so when she predicted her own death, she probably used the Great Impermanence as her imaginary enemy. Although she died at the hands of Ying Lingyun, whom she raised, if the original prediction was followed, she would not have left behind a clone as a means of self-continuation.

What I can do, there is no way that Da Wuchang cannot do it.

(End of this chapter)