A Person Lived for Peace of Mind
"I've been narrow-minded! I really have been narrow-minded!"
Looking at the model of the school before her, Feng Xue immediately realized that she had always known about it, but had always treated it as just a backdrop.
In ancient times, the Weird Tale were once referred to as gods.
Perhaps all along, due to proper nouns such as [knowledge], [Weird Tale], [Tag], [Element], [Trait], etc., he subconsciously regarded "Weird Tale" and "gods" as different things. Even after encountering Cain, the Set God, and even the Miss Ke Family, he was still unable to change this mindset.
But now, when the rule that "doing specific things at specific times and places can condense [consciousness] to create Phantom Object" appeared, a term involuntarily appeared in his mind—
"Ceremony".
The appearance of the word "ritual" finally shattered the cognitive barrier in Feng Xue's mind, making him realize that Weird Tale are essentially "gods".
The difference is simply a change of wording.
Replace [knowledge] with [faith].
Replace [Element] with [Divinity].
Replace [Tag] with [divinity].
Replace [Trait] with [divine fire].
Faith brings together divinity, divinity condenses into divine personality, and divine personality ignites divine fire; thus, a highly standard system of faith in a god emerges.
"So the answer was already revealed. Is this what they call the obstacle of perception?" Feng Xue stroked her chin, then shook her head. In reality, linking Weird Tale with faith in gods is meaningless, or even harmful. If you discard that sense of familiarity, the terms of the [consciousness] system are actually more straightforward and easier to use than terms like divinity or divine nature. Between helping you condense a divine personality and helping you Tag yourself, the latter is undoubtedly easier to understand.
However, once you connect the gods and Weird Tale and replace the Omen, the structure of this level is not difficult to understand.
If this Omen is regarded as "God," then everything in the school is a "believer" of God, and the believer invokes God's power to "sanctify" the objects by performing "rituals."
After being used by believers, sanctified items accumulate more faith power. Believers then offer these sanctified items as sacrifices to strengthen the god's power, thereby gaining more Divine Power to sanctify even more items.
"A perfect cycle. No wonder every character is reused, because it's essentially part of this ritual. Judging from the fact that the Ghost King was able to enslave the players' souls, many of the students in this school are probably players who entered later and the ghosts they brought with them. Or rather, most of the levels that are on the Notice Board are filled by players."
"This game macroscopically controls every instance, whether it's the Notice Board on the Player Platform or the ghost and insect systems, the essence is all to cultivate more [knowledge]."
"Players in the Ghost Walker system have strong obsessions, while players in the Insect system have enormous desires. Moreover, regardless of the system, they all possess extremely strong willpower, which undoubtedly makes them the best material for generating [Consciousness]."
"The Stairs structure of this world is also for the purpose of gradually refining cognition, from ordinary people's wariness and fear of ghosts, to players' collection and utilization of ghosts, and finally to the reverse output after becoming a 'Chang Gui'. The cognition is deepened step by step, and the environment guides [knowledge] towards the direction of ghosts."
"The whole world is like a massive ritual, selecting and training players through layers of trials to create powerful enough ones, then sacrificing them to become living sacrifices in Omen rituals."
Feng Xue circled the model. Although the logic was very smooth, and he even had a sense of exhilaration that "I have unlocked all the secrets of this world," he still felt that something was wrong.
After all that effort, creating so many Omen locations, is the ultimate conclusion really that we've cultivated an Omen resembling an Infinite City?
Or rather, the [awareness] possessed by this model has far surpassed that of the super-large Omen that exist in those Infinite City, but it still shows no signs of transforming into Phantom Object or Weird Tale, and as for the resurrection of that predecessor, there is not even a trace of it.
"The plan itself is fine, and I can't find any logical flaws. So where does the problem lie? Time? Maybe. After all, I haven't yet grasped the time concept of immortal beings. Perhaps the predecessors in this world were also powerful figures like the Miss Ke Family, who restarted the world several times, and committed suicide out of boredom?"
Feng Xue muttered to himself, but then felt that thinking like that was too pessimistic, because this thing was like the pink fire-breathing dragon in the garage—it couldn't be disproven or proven, and he couldn't possibly wait in this world for decades or centuries to see if it would actually work.
In that instant, Feng Xue finally realized the significance of Tiangong 'Subluminal Speed cruise. Even an experiment that would take hundreds of years could be completed by simply waiting on it for a year or two.
"The problem is that the Tower of Tower of Babel can't afford to wait. Who knows if Aoyagi Lantern will secretly steal the City Lord away?" Feng Xue felt that she couldn't place her hopes on Aoyagi Lantern's competitive spirit, nor did she think that she and her previous Weird Tale from the hundredth floor or above would wait for her.
Actually, if it were Feng Xue before she transmigrated, she would probably choose to Slacking Off at this point, since even if the Infinite City really had City Lord, it might not necessarily target her.
Although his life without a home was short, it left a deep spiritual mark on him. The profound experience of not knowing if he would live to see tomorrow made it impossible for him to place his hopes on others.
Nothingness is the most restless form of life; only by constantly climbing higher can it suppress the unease about its own existence.
"People live for peace of mind."
Feng Xue squinted, reached into her waist pouch and pulled out a bunch of Bundle Cloth twisted into the size of lychees. While the Storage Waist Bag had a size limit for its opening, it possessed advantages unmatched by other Storage Item—
It has no capacity limit.
Therefore, after Feng Xue "garbage freedom," she often used Bundle Cloth to pack up all sorts of odds and ends and stuff them inside, including some comedic Phantom Object.
He tossed useless Miscellaneous Item into the sandbox, and the slippery roots began to slowly wriggle. In Feng Xue's vision, the Phantom Object entangled by the roots were injected with a large amount of mosaic data, causing the Phantom Object's structures to collapse. Then, the tentacles only needed to exert a little force to completely destroy the originally indestructible Phantom Object.
As the Phantom Object is destroyed, a massive amount of data overflows and surges into the mosaic-like data, which resembles a black cloud, becoming part of it.
Seeing this, Feng Xue stopped her wasteful behavior of throwing away Phantom Object. Instead, she took out another Bundle Cloth, and with a flick of her wrist, a massive number of black spheres fell into the sand table.
Yes, the black sphere. Since obtaining the Golden Finger, Feng Xue has never stopped refining Phantom Object, but most of them will disintegrate into these black spheres that he calls "Omen Seed".
To put it bluntly, this thing is a collection of dirty data. It can only exist in an environment like the Infinite City where [consciousness] is abundant. In the Real World, it will simply evaporate.
Although the production volume is high, this stuff is completely useless to him, a figure of supernatural Weird Tale, let alone using it for poisoning...
Even a pig wouldn't eat that!
However, considering its ability to mass-produce Omen, Feng Xue didn't discard it directly. Instead, she stored it in Bundle Cloth, thinking that it might have a miraculous effect if she encountered a ruthless character like the Miss Ke Family.
Now, he hurled countless black balls onto the sand table all at once.