Within the boundless Netherworld Channel, Liu Xiaoxiao was rapidly traveling through it.
Even within this Netherworld Space, he could perform Space Shuttle and extend his Spiritual Sense into the surface world, sensing his surroundings to confirm whether any other gods were nearby.
Ever since entering this Netherworld Space, countless thoughts had appeared within his perception.
Back on Elf Star, there had not been many thoughts he could perceive. Only the nearby elves and the Seven-Colored Divine Bird emitted them. As for the flowers, grass, and trees, they possessed no thoughts, nor had souls ever appeared within them. They had only spiritual awareness and life.
As for inanimate objects such as stones, they did not even possess spiritual awareness, only Life Force. Though they could be called life under certain circumstances, they could not be considered life in the usual sense.
He had originally been an undead mage. Having studied life and death, he naturally had frequent dealings with souls and was exceedingly familiar with such things as spirits and thoughts.
All things possessed life, spirits, and emotions; this was what made them living beings. Entities considered by biology to possess cellular structures, or relatively pure energy bodies, all possessed spiritual awareness, spirituality, and even Life Instinct. Yet only upon gaining a soul could they possess Wisdom, even the lowest form of Wisdom.
It was like a blacksmith's forging: Hundred Forgings purified, Thousand Forgings created essence and stimulated spirituality, spirit forging gave birth to life and created life, soul forging awakened souls and activated them, bestowing Wisdom, while heavenly forging brought evolution and a complete transformation.
Thoughts, in truth, were wandering emotions. For various reasons, these emotions had separated from the spiritual awareness that produced them, drifting between heaven and earth as they gradually dissipated.
The Netherworld Space had formed from