Simulates history, but Chongzhen is the Divine Emperor at the beginning

Chapter 182: Divine Emperor? Pangu!
[As a time traveler, and someone who has reincarnated three times, you're still far from omniscient and omnipotent, but you can still be considered knowledgeable and versatile!]

[You can confidently say: There are not many things in this world that you don’t know! ]

What scene have I not seen?

But after Wang Chengen's casual remark, you were completely stunned: I've never seen such a scene before...

[First, the sentence "Relying on the legacy of the Long Lived Emperor, I live under the protection of the Divine Emperor..."]

The "Long Live" he was referring to could only be the Divine Emperor, but the two were clearly not referring to the same person!

What's going on? Isn't the Divine Emperor the resurrected Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian? Could there be another Divine Emperor besides Him?

[But that’s not right…]

[Then there is the sentence "I am just a real soul..."]

[Real soul? What real soul?]

You can't help but wonder: Could it be that this Wang Chengen isn't some imaginary being, but the real Wang Chengen who accompanied Chongzhen to hang himself in history?

[But that's not right. Your soul was given to you by "your other self." Does that mean ordinary people in reality also have souls without doing this? ...]

[The more you think about it, the more confused you become, and you can only ask all these questions out loud.]

[And the soul body opposite, who calls himself Wang Chengen, also told you everything without reservation...]

Regarding the question of "Divine Emperor" and "Long Live the Emperor," he first asked you a question: "Does Tianzun think that these two are the same person?"

【You were stunned: Isn’t it? 】

[In the stories you've heard since childhood, the Divine Emperor is the resurrected Chongzhen. They must be the same person.]

The few words you received from the Divine Emperor also confirm this: Although the illusory world is not the real world, but is created by the Divine Emperor's own knowledge and memories, the Divine Emperor is still the same Chongzhen!

[Furthermore, their personality traits are exactly the same: the historical Chongzhen was a man who had the heart of a "savior king," but in reality he was a man with high aspirations but low skills. Especially when he did something wrong, he liked to shift the blame to others...]

[The Divine Emperor fits this image perfectly. Throughout your three reincarnations, He has embodied these characteristics more than once...]

So it never occurred to you that they weren't the same person, because that doesn't make any sense.

【Isn’t it? 】

“Yes, and no…”

Wang Chengen shook his head. "He and Wansui are indeed cut from the same mold. His characteristics are almost identical to Wansui's. He was even truly created with Wansui as his material... But He is not Wansui."

[In your blank gaze, he sighed...]

“When Wansui passed away, I was right beside him… I personally witnessed a golden light burst through the air, creating the illusory world.”

“Although I didn’t understand what happened at the time, Bansui was indeed dead… because the Illusionary World was created with his soul as its material!”

Wang Chengen sighed, "Does Heavenly Venerable remember? The Divine Emperor said that the illusory world was created by His knowledge... But how could something as ethereal as knowledge be used to create the world? It requires concrete materials."

[“So, the material for creating the heaven and earth is the soul of the Ten Thousand Years…”]

After hearing this unprecedented and shocking news, you were stunned for a moment...

[“As for the Divine Emperor… He was born as one with heaven and earth, so naturally he is also a part of the Ten Thousand Years Soul. But to be honest, it is only a part.”]

“So, of course, He is the Ten Thousand Years Old, but the Ten Thousand Years Old is not the same as Him… If I had to make an analogy, then He is the Ten Thousand Years Old’s descendants.” [“It’s just that this descendant carries too much of the Ten Thousand Years Old’s memories, so much so that He thinks He is the Ten Thousand Years Old himself…”]

【this……】

You were stunned for a long time before you slowly digested everything Wang Chengen said.

It's both difficult and complex... If I were to make an analogy that's easier for online readers to understand, it would be: "Chongzhen is like Pangu. After Pangu's death, he used his own body to create the vast universe, and so did Chongzhen!"

Pangu transformed himself into the Great Wilderness, and Chongzhen transformed himself into the illusory Great Ming. All the mountains, rivers, sun, moon, plants, and living things in the Great Wilderness were transformed from parts of Pangu, and all things in the illusory Great Ming were also transformed from parts of Chongzhen.

[It's just that Pangu still had a separate primordial spirit that transformed into the Three Pure Ones, while Chongzhen had nothing left except the soul that transformed into heaven and earth. However, after a part of this soul was born with consciousness, it believed itself to be Chongzhen himself, and this is the Divine Emperor.]

[That's why it's said that the Divine Emperor is both Chongzhen and not Chongzhen... He is at most a descendant of Chongzhen, just like the Three Pure Ones are to Pangu.]

After realizing this, you can't help but sigh: Oh, Lao Jian, I never thought you'd enjoy the same treatment as Pangu after your death...

Zhu Youjian: I have no objection...

【…】

[But you're still confused: "So... does everyone have a soul?"]

Zhu Youjian has a soul, Wang Chengen also has a soul, which makes you doubt that everyone in the real world actually has a soul...

But Wang Chengen shook his head: "No..."

"Whether in the real world or the imaginary world, no other souls exist... Or rather, Wansui and I originally didn't have souls. The reason we have souls now is because..."

You guess: "Because of that golden light?"

[“The Divine Calculation of the Heavenly Lord.”]

He smiled and nodded, "It was because of the golden light from outer space that Wansui and I gained souls. However, the golden light only shone on me incidentally; Wansui was the true owner of the golden light."

【So that's it...】

You can't help but ponder: It seems that the function of the golden light is to first grant people a soul, and then transform the soul into an illusory world.

[And the "golden light" also makes you think: Isn't the Divine Emperor's divine power golden? ]

Does this mean that the strange, violent, and vengeful divine power is actually a creation of the "Golden Light"?

[However, what is the origin of this "golden light"...]

After your search proved fruitless, you asked Wang Chengen again, but he didn't know its origins either... Furthermore, the golden light had completely vanished with the destruction of the illusory world. Even if you harbored many doubts about it, there was no way to research it.

[If you want to truly understand its other secrets, you must continue reincarnating! ]

[But you no longer want to continue on this endless cycle of reincarnation with no clear path forward...]

[Rather than the illusory "golden light" and the secret behind it, you care more about how to end this helpless fate...]

【You have gone crazy.】

……

(End of this chapter)