Sometimes, Chu Ge actually doubted his own judgment a little, because there was something of a logical problem here.
Take Wang Ming, for example. If the more people knew about him, the more they felt that "Wang Ming really exists," then the Wang Ming in their minds should have been an irritable, brainless warmonger. In other words, his established personality should have become more fixed instead. That was what it meant to be "deeply ingrained in people's minds."
Just as people thought Guan Yu had a red face, wore a green hat, and wielded the Azure Dragon Crescent Moon Blade, he became fixed in that image. What he really looked like didn't matter.
From that perspective, people's perceptions wouldn't make the world more real. Instead, they would make it more fixed, more stereotyped.
But Wang Ming really had started becoming less fixed. He had even become a monk... How did that logic work?
Did it mean that what people thought he was like didn't matter, and what mattered was that they knew of him first?
Because this person existed in everyone's minds, he became increasingly real, while what other people thought he was like didn't matter?
That made sense... What someone was actually like didn't change according to other people's perceptions. Thinking Guan Yu used a blade wouldn't stop him from using his Horse Spear.
Everyone said Chu Ge's was short and small, but that didn't stop it from actually being thick and long!
On this special stage where a world was becoming real, he first needed a sense of existence. Everything else came after that.
As it happened, Wang Ming was an early minor character who would never appear again. The "Heavenly Dao" no longer looked down upon him, so he gained a life of his own.
Chu Ge