Super Gene Ⅱ: Evolution-Chapter 891 - Virtual Cosmic
Chapter 891: Chapter 891 Virtual Cosmic
“Divine Jade is sentient, capable of absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, the essence of the sun and the moon,” the Dharma King of the Jade Series proclaimed. “The energy of Cosmic Stars can be harnessed by me.”
The Jade Light at Yu Xuanji’s fingertips grew increasingly intense, almost as dazzling as the sun. He stared coldly at Lin Shen and said, “I did not wish to kill you. Using your living body to create a Myriad Laws Jade Puppet would have been the best option, preserving the function of the Spirit of Myriad Laws to the greatest extent. Unfortunately, the power of the Spirit of Myriad Laws has surpassed my expectations, and I am no longer able to leave your body intact. But it does not matter, shattering your body and recasting it into a Jade Puppet through the Jade Refining Method will work just as well, albeit slightly less effectively.”
“For the sake of overcoming the calamity of death, for the sake of survival, you really do go to great lengths,” Lin Shen mocked.
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“To live, that is the fundamental of everything,” Yu Xuanji stated indifferently.
“You killed Yu Langya, who regarded you as a father; you deeply wounded the heart of your most trusted disciple. For someone like you, despite the vastness of the universe, there is no longer anyone who truly cares for you. Even if you live forever, what meaning is there in living?” Lin Shen looked at Yu Xuanji and said.
Yu Xuanji was harnessing the Cosmic Force for his own use and didn’t mind having an extended conversation with Lin Shen.
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“That is just a naive thought that you ignorant young people would have,” Yu Xuanji said indifferently. “Life has no resets, no reincarnations. This one life, this one existence, is all we have to realize our self-worth, dreams, and aspirations. Since you so lightly regard life, then you should hand over those trivial things to me, so I can continue to live. Whether it’s love or friendship, it doesn’t matter to me; what I need is to survive, to strive for higher self-value. Those things are good enough for me. Those who do not understand me; actually, they are obstacles. Isn’t it better without them? Only mediocrities who achieve nothing think that those ephemeral emotions are more important than life itself.”
“I wonder what exalted personal values and pursuits you need to fulfill?” Lin Shen asked contemptuously.
Yu Xuanji was accumulating strength, and Lin Shen was also waiting.
“My pursuits, even if I told you, you might not understand,” Yu Xuanji said indifferently. “But in the last moments of your life, it doesn’t hurt to let you know that the universe contains not only the lowly pleasures you comprehend but also higher forms of enjoyment.”
“What higher enjoyment?” Lin Shen asked while watching Yu Xuanji.
“Reality,” Yu Xuanji said slowly.
“What is reality?” Lin Shen was slightly taken aback, genuinely not understanding what Yu Xuanji meant.
Yu Xuanji suddenly laughed. “What if I told you that this world itself is fraudulent, nonexistent, that all of us, every race and everything, are also fraudulent and nonexistent? You’d probably think I’ve gone mad, right?”
“Indeed, not only mad, but severely so,” Lin Shen nodded.
“Have you ever wondered why there are teleporters in the universe, where those teleporters come from?” Yu Xuanji asked nonchalantly.
“This…” Lin Shen didn’t know how to respond.
In fact, he’d always harbored such doubts, wondering where those teleporters came from.
He’d heard that teleporters were always excavated from some planets, but had never learned of anyone able to manufacture them.
Since the earliest records about teleporters in the Celestial Race’s archives were also discoveries on various planets.
“No one knows where the teleporters come from, but they exist, have existed since ancient times, and clearly, they were artificially made. Do you know what this means?” Yu Xuanji’s eyes gleamed with a hint of fervor.
“It means there could be civilizations higher than advanced civilizations?” Lin Shen pondered.
“You are both correct and incorrect. Beyond the Immortal Level, there indeed are other entities, but those entities are like the beings from myths, the true masters of this world. They merely maintain the Cosmic Law and order, seldom interfering in anything that happens in the universe,” Yu Xuanji nodded slightly, affirming Lin Shen’s guess.
However, his tone shifted, “But rather than saying those god-like beings are higher life forms, I think another term suits them better… administrators…”
“You mean to say, we are creatures bred by a higher civilization?” Lin Shen asked.
“That’s more or less the idea. You just need to shift your perspective, and perhaps you’ll understand it more easily,” Yu Xuanji squinted his eyes, a sharp gleam flashing in them. “If this world is virtual, created by someone, then everything can be explained. Why there are teleporters, because they are simply settings within a virtual world, and you and I, including everything in this universe, are just a virtual game created by those higher beings. That’s why there’s so much inexplicable, illogical stuff. We’ve never truly existed.”
“Your so-called familial love, friendship, and so on, are just settings, just programs. How can you be sure that you are really alive?” Yu Xuanji became more and more agitated, his speech a bit incoherent.
Lin Shen was hearing someone question how he could be sure he was really alive for the second time.
Truthfully, he couldn’t be sure either. After the Thinker in the Ancient Undersea City asked him this question, he too had pondered over it, only to conclude that there was no conclusion.
Yu Xuanji’s eyes were filled with fanaticism: “Only if this world is virtual can all this irrationality be explained. Why are there calamities of death, why is there death light? Such things are inherently irrational, but if they exist to erase us Immortals who occupy a vast amount of resources in the virtual world, then it becomes understandable. We are erased because we use too many resources, and to maintain the normal operation of this virtual world, a periodic cleanup of us resource-consuming Immortals is necessary.”
“My pursuit is simple, to break free of this virtual world and see what the real world is truly like.”
Lin Shen was dumbfounded upon hearing this. This theory had been considered by humanity long ago.
But to actually have someone who wanted to prove this world was virtual, and to try to break out of the confines of the virtual world into the real world, was not something ordinary people aspired to.
Lin Shen suddenly understood Yu Xuanji a little, why he could be so ruthless. In his logic, this world and everyone in it were virtual, and killing a virtual character naturally needed no sense of guilt.
