Chapter 1525: Human Trees (Twenty-Nine)
Mind over matter was real, in a place that wasn't.
In fact, one of the biggest discoveries from their exploration was that this place wasn't reality.
Though it probably wasn't a dream either, the power of will, perception, and the like already played a much greater role in how things worked here.
In fact, as soon as Fu Qian realized this, he had tried to convince himself that, for instance, the other rings on his hand were still there.
Of course, nothing changed.
Most people in this situation would probably have started by questioning whether their earlier hypothesis was sound.
But Fu Qian was hardly one to doubt himself so easily.
Many things that seemed irreconcilable didn't necessarily contradict each other in essence.
The first thing he did was assume that his earlier conclusion was still correct and that his attempt had been sound, then deduce what might allow both things to be true at once.
As it turned out, there was such a factor: consensus.
The thing hiding in the dark had been wounded by Old Master Li, and then Jining had left a mark. This was predicated on the fact that, under his guidance at the time, the team members had genuinely come to believe, to some extent, that the grown Tree Infant had become the pursuer.
But only he knew about the rings.
This raised a theoretical question. If they were truly in a space where mind prevailed over matter, and every individual could use their will to reshape it into whatever they imagined, what would happen when their beliefs conflicted?
A thought that A was dead, a thought that B was dead—what would the outcome be?
Would their willpower be assigned a numerical value, then compared?
Or would it work like