Demon Lord 3

What I'm trying to do is understand reality, then slowly move toward nothingness, and from there, find something closer to reality. Reality can be understood as something even harder to exist than nothingness. People exist in reality, but they can't understand it. Only by being in reality, moving toward nothingness, and understanding nothingness, can we understand reality. These things are gradually formed, layer by layer. We can't reach the end in one step, nor can we understand the whole truth all at once. Exploration takes time, and we don't have much time. Each step consumes a lot of time, and each step forward becomes increasingly difficult. My sister laughed as she recalled past events. She said I was very stubborn in my previous life. Once, my brother-in-law displeased me, and I fought him directly. Surprisingly, I won. My brother-in-law's strength at the time was definitely not as great as mine. My father was the only one who could balance my strength. Curiously, I asked about those elders. My sister said that at my peak strength, I should have been able to match those elders, and my father could have suppressed my strength to some extent. After all, he knew more about this world than I did. I smiled. I hadn't expected to be so stubborn back then, even daring my sister and brother-in-law to start a fight. My sister smiled and said, "That's right." I curiously asked if she had any children. She was speechless for a moment, saying that in my previous life, she and I were mother and daughter, but later, due to some circumstances, I sacrificed myself, so she was childless. Curiously, I asked her if she didn't want another child. She shook her head and said no, it was only for my sake that she wanted to have a child. Now she felt it was better to be sisters. Although we were mother and daughter back then, we were actually more like sisters. My sister could never forget that we were sisters, so being mother and daughter still felt strange. This matter had come to an end. I stayed there for a long time, unsure of what she wanted to say to me. It felt like there was endless conversation. Did I have any serious work to do now? Did I want to inherit my parents' business? Or did she ask if I wanted to retreat to the mountains and practice cultivation, cut off from the outside world, become a hermit, or perhaps fight them in the world and truly break away from them? My sister and I chatted about all sorts of things. Curiously, I asked, "Are there cell phones in the big world?" My sister said she knew what a cell phone was and what we had back there, but she said they didn't need to practice cultivation here, so what was the point? There were far more advanced ways to communicate than cell phones. I couldn't imagine what it was, so I asked her. She said consciousness was enough. Here, as long as we were in the same world and on the same frequency, connecting consciousness was easy. I was stunned. Could consciousness travel so far? My sister nodded and said, "Everyone here practices cultivation. There's a network of consciousness, but if that network is disconnected, it's useless. It's like losing your phone signal. Once consciousness is deeply understood, it can be manipulated." So, unlike our so-called consciousness, it's almost impossible to cut off here, but experts can use it to some degree. Whenever my sister talked about this, I'd interrupt her and say that the experts back there don't do all that. They're still somewhere between exorcising ghosts and exorcising evil spirits. My sister shook her head again, saying that these were just ordinary exorcisms. What's the point? What's the point of exorcising evil spirits? In this vast world, these ghosts are just a low-level cultivation species. They're not really bad things, right? True reincarnation is difficult, so here we try to avoid death as much as possible. If the dead are almost completely reduced to ashes, there's no chance of a living ghost. Therefore, ghost cultivators also cultivate for many years. It's impossible for them to be killed so easily in an instant, nor is it impossible for them to be dispersed all at once. I curiously asked if these things are bad for people, or if they are beyond human control or control. My sister thought for a long time and said that we are all cultivators. We cultivate the Tao, the way of heaven, but it's different from the Tao in the so-called spiritual world. The so-called Tao here is people-oriented, but the beliefs there are more diverse. There are also many who believe in gods and immortals. They believe that after practicing Taoism, they will become gods and immortals. But people are human, Taoism is Taoism, and gods are gods and immortals. After cultivation, the cultivator becomes a Tao, not a god, because gods are independent individuals. I asked curiously, where does this theory come from?