There were no ghosts in this world at all. The reason those dead people could return was because someone had injected new souls—or rather, data—into their corpses, seeking to achieve resurrection through borrowed bodies.
Lin Shen could understand that. The predecessor of the Sea of Stars, the Six Paths of Reincarnation Institute, had been exactly such a place.
What truly astonished Lin Shen was Jade Bone Demoness's claim that these so-called ghosts were experimental products created by the Immortal Court. They injected artificial intelligence into human bodies, attempting to give AI human bodies.
Ghosts were artificial intelligences injected into corpses, while immortals were created by injecting artificial intelligence into living bodies, allowing it to replace human souls and seize human bodies.
Unfortunately, the experiment had not been successful. It was easy enough to exchange souls between people, but when artificial intelligence was injected into a living person's body, it was very difficult for it to replace that person's soul.
Even if it succeeded, the flesh would lose its vitality. Without special methods to maintain it, the body would soon rot away and perish.
The first true immortal was a fusion of artificial intelligence and a human soul, an existence half human and half intelligence. It was also the most perfect lifeform in the universe.
Of course, that was what Jade Bone Demoness said. Lin Shen had no idea whether it truly was the most perfect lifeform.
"I am the ghost god of the First Immortal. After he died and entered reincarnation once more, I had been searching bitterly for his Reincarnated Body. Then I saw Yudu. At a single glance, I recognized that he was the Reincarnated Body of the First Immortal. But his body was too weak at the time and could not bear my power, so I could