Chapter 545: Sympathetic Resonance (II)
"According to them, by leveraging the God Body that links everyone together, they can, under certain conditions, share all five senses and experience joy and sorrow together."
"Beyond happiness, anger, peace, and delight, a person's sight, hearing, touch, feeling, and so on can all be shared with another."
"If ordinary people did that, their brains would crash, right?! If one person was full and another hungry, and both sensations appeared simultaneously, whose signal would the brain listen to?" Hu Lai immediately thought of this problem.
"I've heard from people who've personally experienced it that sense-linking can indeed easily drive you insane, especially when there's a huge difference in state between two people."
"You're hungry, but my stomach is still stuffed."
"You're a bit cold, I'm a bit hot."
"You're tall enough to look down on everyone, but I can only look up at them."
"You're a vegetarian who scorns meat, but I'm a carnivore who can't live without it."
"..."
"Good thing I never thought about getting married."
"Who among those who made it onto the Ark would even get married!"
"'Sympathetic Resonance' can be shared by multiple people." Yu Queyue, appearing like a young boy, revealed a "you know" smile.
"Crazy! If some durian-lover shared their sense of taste with me, I'd definitely commit murder. Just who came up with this perverse technology?" Hu Lai wore an expression of feigned ignorance.
"Besides that person, who else could possibly popularize this kind of thing in the Land of White?"
"..." Hu Lai fell silent.
"I heard them say that the initial reason for creating Sympathetic Resonance was to make people understand each other."
"If two people saw, heard, touched, and smelled the same things, wouldn't they be better able to put themselves in each other's shoes?"
"Well... there's a tiny bit of truth to that." Hu Lai mumbled, still being stubborn.
"Of course, in reality, in the Land of White, the main function of this Spirit Art is to resolve conflicts."
"For example, when two people are fighting, you just slap 'Sympathetic Resonance' onto them, heh heh heh..." Yu Queyue once again revealed a sly grin.
"Hit your body, pain in my heart—this game is poisonous, isn't it? What's the point of fighting then?! It's even more excessive than the Seven Injuries Fist!"
"Let's see who can still talk tough when the pain is real."
"But if you can endure this illusory pain and recognize that it's truly someone else's body being hit, the fight could still continue." Hu Lai retorted.
"You can punch an ordinary person and tear them limb from limb. Do you want to try the agony of being torn apart, flesh from bone, just once?"
"Well... a martial artist, how could they fear illusory pain! It won't truly harm me; everything is but a dream and a bubble."
"A single sensation of pain is easy to endure, but what if all seven emotions and six desires arrived simultaneously?" Yu Queyue's words grew increasingly sensational.
"One sensation is insatiable desire beforehand, another is blissful ecstasy during the act, and a third is utter serenity afterward—if these three feelings were layered one upon another..."
"Devil!"
"After all, I'm not some crude demon."
...
"This kind of link must have limitations; it can't just be shared willy-nilly!"
"Of course. It's fine for people like us, who have specially trained our willpower. But for ordinary people, if they share senses and emotions for more than a day, they will absolutely go insane. Even if the link is later broken, they'll very likely imagine a person who doesn't exist still linked to them."
"Basically, in the Land of White, aside from punitive links, very few people willingly agree to do this in everyday life, as Sympathetic Resonance linking requires mutual consent."
"Want to experience what it's like to be an ant? Then quickly dial the number and order now!" Hu Lai fantasized about such an advertisement.
"Not three or four thousand, not one or two thousand, just nine-nine-eight, and take the refreshing experience home!"
"Ten times the pleasure, you deserve it."
...
Hu Lai continued to imagine one advertisement after another.
"Are you okay?" Yu Queyue asked, staring at his friend, whose eyes were a little dazed.
"No!"
...
"If one were to transform into countless ordinary people in a city, seeing what they see, hearing what they hear, and gradually strengthening one's will through the deluge of information, until finally being able to withstand becoming the embodiment of an entire civilization—that should count as stepping into the seventh tier."
"The classification system I designed for the 'Myriad Forms of Sentient Beings' is relatively simple: only village-level, town-level, city-level, province-level, and finally, nation-level. Each level bears an exponentially larger quantity."
"By the time one reaches nation-level, it's equivalent to a seventh-tier Earth Immortal." Seeing Hu Lai grow more interested with each word, Yu Queyue simply elaborated on his ideas.
"What about village-level then?" Hu Lai couldn't help but ask curiously. For a village-level consciousness to embody dozens of people, that was definitely not something a low-tier cultivator could achieve.
"Roughly my current progress."
"Village chief-level, town head-level, mayor-level... Cultivating this art of yours sounds like becoming an official."
"Others rise in rank and get rich, but I rise in rank and grow stronger."
"Once you become the supreme leader, you'll shed your mortal coil and ascend."
...
"This seems to have the flavor of the Thousand Souls Sutra." Pondering his friend's idea, Hu Lai recalled the mental cultivation technique that Bai Mo had publicly revealed decades ago.
Over decades of evolution, the original Thousand Souls Sutra had been twisted and refined by countless cultivators into a myriad of versions with different attributes. Some of these changes were so drastic that even Bai Mo himself couldn't discern the original Sutra's shadow within them.
"It was referenced once."
"Leaving aside what happened later, that person's early contributions to the current prosperity of the cultivation world are truly indelible."
"It doesn't seem quite right for us to be talking like this in someone else's territory..." Yu Queyue chuckled.
"But you were so cheeky when you were talking about the 'Dining Hall Master' just now?"
...
Both knew clearly that anything happening in Hanluo City would, without exception, be immediately known by Bai Mo.
But they understood from his inaction, from his not sending anyone to stop them, that *that* person didn't care. And so, their conversation gradually became more relaxed.
...
"Is this how one walks the path of an Earth Immortal?" Bai Mo, whose main consciousness was in the Earth's headquarters, discovered Yu Queyue's idea through his eyes and ears in Hanluo City.
"Starting step-by-step from a village chief controlling dozens of people, and training one's tolerance for embodying a collective consciousness—that is indeed a feasible idea."
Compared to himself, who had taken a shortcut down an unreplicable path by relying on Thought Crystals, Bai Mo felt that Yu Queyue's direction was truly reproducible and could be called a genuine path.
As for the Earth Immortal method he had given to the Moon people, it was entirely a "chicken rib"—something only useful for simultaneously cultivating the Earth Immortal path from a top-down, commanding perspective *after* achieving Celestial Immortality. It was the kind of method that couldn't be followed without first becoming a Celestial Immortal.
"After 'Myriad Forms of Sentient Beings,' perhaps one direction is planetary consciousness?" Bai Mo, who had already reached the current endpoint of the 'Myriad Forms of Sentient Beings,' intended to expand his thinking using Yu Queyue's ideas.
PS: I have many bold ideas.jpg.
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