Hyper-Dimensional Player

Chapter 907 - 12: Infiltrating the Celestial Realm

Above the Dimension Space.

Duncan began to create a soul using the memories he extracted, an authority belonging to the Divine Spirit, a certain power to create a Prayer and Otherworld Divine Attendant under the Divine Country system.

"This soul I create will think it is me, who accidentally crossed over at the age of twenty."

"He will awaken his past life memories bit by bit as he grows."

"And at the age of eighteen, he will fully realize that he has reincarnated into an Otherworld."

Duncan’s voice carried a hint of cold indifference, as he gazed at the Three Corpses before him and said slowly, "You’re also a part of me. Whatever you wish to impart to him, infuse it into his soul."

"I know you possess some Divine Power."

This is the cycle of endless reincarnation.

But in essence, it is rather cruel.

Buddhism speaks of reincarnation, a saying that the Buddha practiced through many lifetimes in the cycle, experiencing various life forms from animals to humans, from paupers to kings, and finally attaining enlightenment. Similarly, within the stories of the Jade Emperor, there are claims of enduring numerous tribulations.

With Duncan’s current position, he understands these very clearly, that essentially, these are different selves, who through life’s experiences, absorb nourishment and ultimately reach a higher state of mind.

When one’s existence and stature are high enough, one does not need the Divine Soul to reincarnate but can use a strand of consciousness to cycle through lifetimes.

This process is equivalent to painting anew on a blank canvas.

However, at the final moment of ’awakening,’ that lifetime of mine also becomes the nourishment for my true self.

The Divine Spirit in heaven lets the true self reside in the divine position, while a strand of the consciousness cycles through lifetimes, and upon awakening, fully assimilates the experiences of being a Mortal in that life.

There’s a TV show called "Journey to the West Sequel," where the Buddha’s reincarnated spirit, Qiao Ling’Er, at the moment of becoming the Tathagata Buddha again, all the experiences of this Mortal life were completely assimilated by the more powerful Buddha persona.

The stronger Duncan becomes, the more he realizes the importance of the true self.

A personality can be split—when someone has a mental illness and develops two different personalities, isn’t the second personality still a part of them?

The Buddha reincarnated over five hundred times.

Each of these carries more than five hundred different personality memories, so who is primary and who is secondary?

The one with the highest position, the strongest capabilities, and the most intact self is the true Buddha, while all the 499 reincarnations’ memories and personalities serve as nourishment for the true self.

Kill yourself, and I will be just one.

Therefore, among the Three Corpses, the self-corpse is the most challenging to deal with.

Duncan possesses a strong desire for absolute control, thus he cannot tolerate self-division. This cycle of reincarnation was to fulfill a pact with the Three Corpses, and also in the process of digesting the self, the Three Corpses understand very clearly that they can only become a part of Duncan, with no other choice.

Why is it that when some immortals experience countless reincarnations, the experiences of their mortal life bear no influence on their elevated divine consciousness?

The reason is precisely this.

The personality of that life is assimilated, leaving only the memory and experience for the original self to read.

This method of practice essentially turns oneself into a tool as well.

Someone awakens past life memories, as if gaining an entire lifetime of experience, with the past life becoming nourishment.

Others awaken past life memories, and it’s as if they have been possessed, rendering this life into merely an experience.

Even.

Through the cycle of suffering, the strongest self is the true self, and all the other selves are nourishment.

(Buddha: Only the strongest self can achieve enlightenment.)

It is for this reason that Duncan’s Three Corpses appeared.

The Jade Emperor Daoist Monarch stole heavenly fortune, using a trace of Heavenly Dao Law to plot against Duncan, setting a trap for him. However, because Duncan was incarnated into a Human Form, which can be changed at any time, the Heavenly Dao Law descended the calamity onto a wisp of Duncan’s primordial spirit, hence giving birth to the obsession-like Three Corpses, capable of returning to the dimension level.

In essence, this means when Duncan entered the real world, the primordial spirit was permeated by Law, and a part of the self, the humane aspect, negative emotions, the past self, etc., were activated into an obsession.

To put it even more bluntly, he fell victim to the Eastern spell ’mental splintering-obsession.’

However, due to the uniqueness of the Eastern plane, it evolved into the Three Corpses.

This bizarre method of attack.

If it were in the Western world, probably only a powerful enough Cthulhu deity could do it, striking directly at someone causing them to develop a mental splintering, emerging two personalities within self-awareness, with negative emotions evolving into a secondary personality.

But Duncan’s original self’s position is too high, so even if the obsession evolves into the Three Corpses, it is suppressed heavily by Dimension Space.

Ultimately, after all the intricacies, the Jade Emperor Daoist Monarch merely caused Duncan minor trouble.

The reason Duncan doesn’t kill the Three Corpses is precisely like this; killing them would harm his humanity. It’s like Western surgery, where you cut out the diseased part. The humane aspect negative emotions become the Three Corpses, so you just surgically remove them.

"If I liken everything about my crossing over to a past life, then the Three Corpses are the manifestation of my past life memories."

My past life’s mistake became a split personality.

Certainly, one must find a way to assimilate and merge it.

Rather than directly kill it.

It’s fortunate that Duncan doesn’t practice the reincarnation Dharma Gate, as dealing with a massive pile of past lives is indeed quite troublesome for him. But in the East, there truly is the Dharma Gate for experiencing calamities and reincarnation, with each life stronger than the last, eventually nine reincarnations and unifying through tribulations.

While Duncan was comprehending the differences in law between Eastern and Western power systems, the Three Corpses had already injected a part of the self into the recreated soul.