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Chapter 911 The Rules of the Ink Jade Division
late at night.

Xia Shou spread out his Death Records notebook, reviewing the exclusive naming rituals he had written down in his previous notes.

During the months spent aboard the Black Pearl, the Death Note finished recording the incredibly complex ritual, and Natsumori also read through all of it.

Although I didn't understand much of it, at least I read it.

But his biggest takeaway was that he learned the recovery time for reading the Dead Record Notes was not linked to real-world time.

This means that from now on, if he needs to communicate a large amount of content with the notes in a short period of time, he can take the notes to a world with a very fast time flow, thus avoiding the limitation of reading cooldown.

Natsumori was particularly cautious and serious about signing his name as urged by the Death Record Notes.

After all, it concerns human nature. Most people who sign their names become non-human beings after signing their names, which makes Xia Shou instinctively reject the result of signing his name.

People have different values ​​and beliefs, and therefore different views on the matter of having a name. Most people who pursue having a name feel that it is a kind of evolution and transformation.

In their eyes, turning someone into a non-human is not an appropriate description. Becoming someone with a name is more like turning an IQ32 idiot into an IQ200 genius, a comprehensive optimization of overall qualities.

The identity of being human is nothing to be cherished at all. After all, for a genius, there is no hesitation in shedding the title of "idiot."

As for the part of humanity that was lost, they didn't think it was anything good. Just like ordinary people wouldn't regard negative traits like procrastination, laziness, lust, irritability, or mania as virtues, what the named individuals discarded was essentially discarding their flaws.

Of course, there are also many people who hold the opposite view, and Xia Shou is more inclined to this side.

He was unwilling to give up being human in order to become a so-called named being, so he had a very in-depth conversation with Dead Pen about the many changes that would occur for a human to advance to the level of a named being.

On the Black Pearl, they talked a lot, about the polarization and purification of desires of the named beings, and about popular views on the named beings in many academic theories. Among them, the most relevant was the theory conveyed by the named beings of gods and humans in human language.

The person who possesses the name of God also stated that the person with the name and the human are two completely different kinds of beings, which cannot even be classified as a difference in thought, as that would be too narrow a view.

Even the notion that most people in the world lose their humanity after taking on a name is not entirely accurate. While it is true that a large number of humans lose their humanity during ascension, a large number of those who take on a name retain their humanity, but their desires related to their faith are exaggeratedly inflated, thus reducing the part of their humanity unrelated to those desires to a very small percentage.

To illustrate this, the divine being gave an extreme example: normal people have all sorts of desires, but a blood god believer who is about to ascend has a 50% desire for battle and killing.

If he follows the path of expanding desires during his ascension, his bloodlust will instantly swell to 99.99%, while other desires will be compressed to their limit, as if they do not exist.

This does not mean that the named being has become a fool whose mind is full of killing. He fully understands human nature and sees humans as cats, dogs, insects and the like. Other desires in human nature are to Him what a golden retriever drools over dog food in the eyes of humans.

Humans know that the golden retriever wants to eat, and He also knows what humans want to do. Depending on the differences in the personalities of the named beings, different named beings will have different ways of doing things. Some of them will perfectly exploit the humanity of mortals for their own desires of worship, while others will disdainfully and cruelly use abnormal phenomena to force mortals to make choices that conform to His "aesthetics".

Xia Shou was very unwilling to become such a named person because he had many things he wanted to do and his own desires were so complex that he could not imagine himself becoming a creature with a single desire.

The Death Note also states that these named changes have nothing to do with him.

According to the Death Records, those who ascend to the Ink Jade Division will not undergo any changes in personality or ideology. When asked why, they are told that the Ink Jade Division worships all gods, but not any single one; they serve all gods, but not any single one. Therefore, members of the Ink Jade Division are allowed to have diverse desires.

Furthermore, the Moyu Division has a strict rule: members can freely develop their desires, but the "total amount" of all kinds of desires among all members must be relatively balanced.

Xia Shou immediately asked for the reason.

The answer from the Dead Record Notes is:
Simply put, Moyu Si is like a servant shared by the gods.

As servants, we should naturally serve each master comfortably. It would be terrible if a group of servants only shared the same interests with one master, could only understand the deep needs of that master, and could not understand the needs of the other masters.

You can prefer killing or mending, as long as the core conditions are met. Then you can enter the Black Jade Division.

But suppose that everyone in the Jade Bureau has a particular fondness for the seamstress, and their desires are focused on mending.

At this moment, Crescent Moon came over and said, "A keeper of secrets has become the proxy, and you have made the most exciting moments of this period into a cyclical history."

However, because everyone in the Moyu Division believed in the seamstress, they couldn't understand which part of this secret history was the most crucial, the most exciting, and the part that would satisfy Canyue. So in the end, they could only mess around and cut a perfectly good piece of proxy history into a stinky rag with an unclear theme.

In that case, is there still a need for the Moyu Division to exist?

This is the significance of maintaining a balance among the various desires of the Jade Master.

In this little analogy, I personified the deities to make it easier for you to understand. You only need to grasp the key points I wanted to convey.

Xia Shou flipped through the notes from their previous conversation and suddenly asked, "After I sign my name, will I also enter a divine kingdom? Which god's divine kingdom will I enter? Or does Mo Yu Si have an independent place in the Origin Sea?"

You ask me, but who should I ask?

But if you're referring to the naming ceremony I wrote this time, I guess... just guessing.

probably not.

The ritual I've described isn't actually a naming ceremony, but in your case, the final effect should be equivalent to that of a naming ceremony, because you've already received the authority that comes with a naming ceremony.

You feel that what limits you is *The Season of Falling Stars* itself, so this ritual is not a named ceremony to invite a witness, but rather a new variant of Hamlet's spell, further modified by Daniel Wallace based on [unclear]'s magic.

"Wait, you're not mistaken, are you?" Xia Shou frowned. "'You think it's restricting you'?"

That's right, it's your opinion, not mine.

(End of this chapter)