Guanyin Bodhisattva looked at Li Qi and suddenly began expounding the Dharma.
She spoke of the states of different "selves."
All beings were like this.
Everyone possessed an intricate, richly varied inner world, yet perhaps had no awareness of it themselves. Whoever wished to recognize this had to resolve to regard this thing called "consciousness" as their own various parts, aspects, and different facets. In truth, these facets could be viewed as individual people.
Take Li Qi, for example.
If Li Qi were observed in this way, one would see all manner of lives: Zhou Fang, Reboot, and all the other figures. They were each a single entity, yet together they formed another mysterious existence.
That higher-level mysterious existence was what hinted at the true essence of "Li Qi."
A singular, flattened personality could not achieve this.
Some might feel that with so many chaotic personalities, the mind would become unbearably crowded.
After all, a person had only one body, but the souls within were not merely two or five, but countless.
Yet in truth, a person was an onion made of hundreds and thousands of layers of skin, a fabric made of innumerable threads.
So many threads were woven into a garment. Which thread, then, was the garment's "true body"? Right?
Mortals believed that one chest could not hold two souls, that two souls in one chest would surely tear it apart.
In truth, the opposite was true. Two souls were far too few. To understand one's own soul through such a simple pattern was absurdly mistaken.
Doubling and redoubling those dual personalities, making an already immensely complex character even more complex, would not shrink one's world or simplify the human soul. On the contrary, people needed to fit more and more worlds, even the entire world, into their