webnovelfull Chapter 426 The Crisis of Consciousness
Chapter 426 The Crisis of Consciousness
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At this moment, inside the Time-Space Palace, Chu Yunfan's true form did not leave the God-Demon Battlefield through the teleportation power of the protective jade slip.
The moment the teleportation power disappeared, a powerful consciousness suddenly entered Chu Yunfan's sea of souls.
If Chu Yunfan's consciousness itself is a small flame...
Then, this sudden intrusion of consciousness is like a raging fire.
The moment it entered, Chu Yunfan's sea of souls began to boil and churn.
Chu Yunfan's consciousness inevitably returned to lucidity, interrupting his process of comprehending the mysteries of space and time.
Originally, Chu Yunfan thought that even if there were unknown dangers in the battlefield of gods and demons, they would not affect him for the time being.
He could continue to comprehend the rules of time and space in the Time and Space Palace, and then find a way to leave the God and Demon Battlefield once he was strong enough and confident.
However, Chu Yunfan did not expect the crisis to arrive so quickly.
It happened so fast that Chu Yunfan didn't even have time to think.
That powerful consciousness had just enveloped Chu Yunfan's soul.
Then, it began to devour Chu Yunfan's consciousness inside the soul body.
Consciousness is the most fundamental element of a person.
If Chu Yunfan's consciousness were to be swallowed up at this point,
So even if his body and soul are intact.
He was already completely dead.
Because, without self-awareness, he is no longer himself.
At this moment, Chu Yunfan finally understood what the hidden crisis in the battlefield of gods and demons truly was.
It is the consciousness of those who are strong.
Even if those super strong individuals above the Martial Emperor realm die and their souls are destroyed, their consciousness remains in the world, enduring for tens of thousands of years without being destroyed.
These consciousnesses, having lost their ability to think independently due to the death of their original selves, wander the battlefield of gods and demons like bewildered ghosts, acting only according to their instincts.
And what we call instinct is the most fundamental rule of this world: the survival of the fittest.
Once it encounters a consciousness weaker than itself, it will subconsciously invade and devour it.
If the opportunity arises, these consciousnesses can awaken past memories, thus achieving rebirth.
This is the secret behind the mysterious resurrection of Martial Emperor realm experts who died but did not die.
Even if the physical body is destroyed and the soul perishes.
As long as a sliver of will remains, it can endure in the world, waiting for an opportunity to be resurrected.
In fact, the situation was the same as that of Nangong Shengmie that Chu Yunfan had encountered before.
However, for some reason, Nanning Shengmie was not fully resurrected, but remained in a state of death, wandering between life and death.
At this moment, Chu Yunfan's only consolation was that after these super strong individuals above the Martial Emperor realm died, their consciousness was no longer a unified whole, but would automatically disintegrate and scatter to all corners of the world.
Therefore, Chu Yunfan was not facing a complete consciousness of a powerful being, but only a part of it.
Furthermore, this consciousness only acts on instinct and has no special means of attack.
"Soul Storm, Slaughter!"
The moment he was swallowed by this powerful consciousness, Chu Yunfan immediately launched a counterattack.
Consciousness, like the soul, is an intangible thing. It seems to exist, yet it cannot be seen, touched, or found anywhere.
Therefore, Chu Yunfan had no choice but to use soul-based methods to fight back.
However, to Chu Yunfan's disappointment...
Faced with his all-out soul attack, this consciousness simply ignored it.
Because consciousness and soul are not on the same level at all.
Soul attacks cannot harm consciousness at all.
It's like trying to kill a cell with a kitchen knife—it's simply impossible.
However, before Chu Yunfan could come up with any other way to deal with the powerful consciousness in front of him...
His consciousness suddenly plunged into darkness.
Immediately afterwards, a large number of unfamiliar memories surged into Chu Yunfan's consciousness from within that powerful consciousness.
The memories of a Martial Emperor-level super strongman are incredibly vast.
Even if it's just a part of it, compared to Chu Yunfan's decades of memories, it's like comparing an elephant to an ant—completely incomparable.
Thus, under the impact of this large number of unfamiliar memories, Chu Yunfan's own memories were like a small boat on the sea, teetering on the brink of collapse, and could fall into the sea at any moment and disappear forever.
By then, Chu Yunfan's consciousness would have been assimilated by this powerful consciousness and become a part of it.
However, Chu Yunfan was never one to give up easily.
Even in such a desperate situation, Chu Yunfan remained calm, his mind racing as he pondered a way to break the deadlock.
Finally, a seemingly feasible solution formed in Chu Yunfan's mind.
Consciousness, in itself, has no special meaning.
Everyone's consciousness is made up of the same things.
The reason why everyone's consciousness is different is that the memories and emotions existing in consciousness are not shared.
In other words, even if Chu Yunfan's consciousness was merged with this powerful consciousness.
However, as long as Chu Yunfan's memories and emotions take the lead in this consciousness.
So, this consciousness is still Chu Yunfan himself.
However, the problem at hand is that Chu Yunfan's memories and emotions are nothing compared to the powerful consciousness before him, like a firefly compared to the bright moon.
Given the current situation, once the fusion occurs, Chu Yunfan's memories and emotions will have no chance of taking the initiative; they will simply be assimilated.
There is only one way to reverse this situation.
That is, to increase Chu Yunfan's memories to surpass the memories within this powerful consciousness.
At this moment, Chu Yunfan suddenly remembered everything he had experienced with Nangong Xiyan before.
"The cycle of life and death!"
A silent murmur resounded deep within Chu Yunfan's consciousness.
Immediately afterwards, Chu Yunfan's consciousness began to fall into the cycle of life and death.
In the cycle of life and death, Chu Yunfan's memories continue to grow, fighting against the unfamiliar memories that invade his consciousness.
At the same time, Chu Yunfan used the rules of time to continuously accelerate the cycle of life and death.
In the blink of an eye, several years of memories had appeared out of thin air in Chu Yunfan's consciousness.
However, compared to the invaders' memories spanning thousands or tens of thousands of years, these extra few years of memories are merely a drop in the ocean.
However, the speed of the consciousness invasion was incredibly fast.
Before Chu Yunfan could even develop enough memories to fight off the invaders.
His consciousness had been completely swallowed up.
Then, an astonishing scene unfolded!
Originally, Chu Yunfan was constantly constructing the cycle of life and death based on his own memories.
As a result, after his consciousness was devoured, unfamiliar memories that did not originally belong to Chu Yunfan gradually began to participate in the cycle of life and death.
In an instant, in the world of life and death, many people and things that Chu Yunfan did not recognize began to appear one after another.
Ultimately, a completely unfamiliar world of reincarnation was born!