Tianyou saw one during the introductory assessment, but compared to the forest in front of him, it was really. Unlike the sparse dead souls, there were almost no lonely ghosts wandering around between the dense shades of trees in front of him. Although there was no desolate grave, there were corpses all over the ground. Except for the clean paths in the forest, the ground was almost invisible, and they were covered by skeletons.

"How come there are so many corpses and souls here?"

"I'm not sure about this. I just heard from my senior brothers that before it became a fragment of the void, the Netherworld Peak was a main battlefield in the battle of catastrophe. After that, it seemed that several Buddhist powers fought a decisive battle with the demon king. The two sides finally died together. This Netherworld Peak was also cut off from the main world by the supreme power of both sides and became a huge Void fragment.

Later, the sages of Zixiao Palace discovered this void fragment, so they established a teleportation array in the realm mountain, reconnecting this place with the main world, and becoming the current Netherworld Peak."

Bai Bingqian added: "In fact, over the years, our sect has been constantly replenishing the consumption of the dead souls in the Netherworld Peak. The Beast Control Sect has issued long-term tasks, and encouraged disciples to bring some dead souls and skeletons when they come back when they go out. There are disciples of the Beast Control Sect who will take advantage of the opportunity to practice magic and go to nearby graves to get some corpses back to hand in the mission."

"Does the Beast-Driving Sect consume a lot of souls? Why do you need to replenish them?"

"It's not just the Beast-Driving Sect, but the entire sect needs it."

"Need the dead?"

"There are also skeletons and zombies, but the main thing is that the soul consumes the most."

"Are there anyone else who practices evil magic in our Zixiao Palace? Why do they consume so many souls?"

Bai Bingyu explained: "It is not an evil technique, but a thing that can be used to do its best. Living people have three souls and seven spirits. When a person dies, seven spirits will disappear, and the heavenly soul will be completely shattered. However, the earth soul and life soul are still there, which is a ghost. Although the ghost is not complete, the three souls and seven spirits are essentially the same. Therefore, if the soul of a living person is damaged, the soul of the Yin ghost can repair the human yang soul. This method is the same as the food that requires nourishment for the first time of injury and illness. However, fish, meat and vegetables can only nourish the body, and to replenish the soul, you have to use ghosts."

Tianyou looked at Bai Bingyu in surprise, and was stunned for a long time before saying, "Are you eating ghosts?"

Bai Bingqian explained anxiously: "It's not just eating ghosts. My sister is just an example, but in fact it's almost the same."

"But those lonely ghosts are all humans! Even if they are processed into medicinal materials and then eaten, don't you feel strange? What's the difference between this and eating people?"

"Ghost is a ghost, how can it be considered a human? When the heavenly soul dissipates, the man is dead. At this time, this person no longer exists. What is left is a ghost but not a human. Why is there a saying that he cannibalize people?"

"I...this..."

Tianyou was asked by Bai Bingqian for a while and didn't know how to answer it. This kind of ideological question is the most difficult to communicate.

For example, there was an island tribe on Earth before, where men didn't mind other men pursuing their wives, and even if they rolled in front of him, they would only be happy to be the audience. In the concept of locals, if other men pursued their wives, it means that their wives were very charming and something to be proud of. But for people elsewhere, this is completely incomprehensible. On the other hand, locals would incomprehensible that people outside care about whether their wives cheated.

When Tianyou walked into the Shenzhou Continent, he had a complete worldview, so he could not understand this idea of ​​treating ghosts as a resource.

It is unknown whether there are ghosts on earth, but whether in myths and legends or film and television works, ghosts are treated as personalized individuals. In other words, people on earth generally treat ghosts as human beings, at least in personality. Therefore, there are film and television works such as ghosts taking revenge, repaying grace, and falling in love with people. Revenge, repaying grace, and falling in love are all things that people can do. There is such content in film and television works and myths and legends on earth, which is enough to show that people on earth regard ghosts as human beings.

However, as Tianyou now seems, the people in the Shenzhou Continent do not seem to have this kind of perception. In their opinion, ghosts are ghosts, like demons, and are a dangerous and valuable biological resource.

Tianyou was thinking about how to explain this to Bai Bingyu and the others, but he didn't expect Bai Bingyu to speak first.

"Tianyou, I remember you said that before you were ten years old, you had been wandering around with your adoptive mother. Did you live in Tang State before?"

Although I don’t know why Bai Bingyu suddenly asked about this, Tianyou nodded and said, “Yes! But what does this matter?”

"So you have lived in Tang State! No wonder." Tianyou hadn't figured out what was going on, but Bai Bingqian looked like she suddenly realized, which made Tianyou even more confused.

Bai Bingyu, who thought he had found the reason, began to explain to Tianyou, and after listening carefully to Bai Bingyu's explanation, Tianyou really understood it. It turned out that Tianyou's understanding had certain deviations before.

The understanding of ghosts by ordinary people on Shenzhou Continent can be said to be very close to the situation on Earth, but it is slightly different.

People on earth treat ghosts completely as a complete personality, because there are sayings of reincarnation and after-death worlds in the mainstream religious beliefs on earth, so there are so many ancient emperors who desperately try to build luxurious tombs for themselves, hoping to continue to enjoy life after death.

However, in the Shenzhou Continent, the understanding of the world after death and reincarnation is completely different.

First of all, there is no concept of underworld in the Shenzhou Continent. Buddhism has a saying about the six realms of reincarnation, but only Buddhist believers believe that most people believe that death is the end. There is no world after death, and there is no saying that reincarnation is reincarnation.

Secondly, because of the existence of cultivators, the Shenzhou Continent has conducted a very in-depth study on souls.

People in the Immortal Sect practice the soul, and their research on souls is naturally extremely profound. According to the research conclusions of the powerful people in the Immortal Sect, the seven souls of the three souls and seven spirits do not have the ability to think. They are more like controllers, mainly responsible for the connection between the three souls and the three souls. The three souls generate thoughts and then control the body to act through the seven souls. Therefore, as long as ordinary people die, souls will no longer exist immediately, because death represents the division between the souls and the souls, and dividing the two naturally requires first cutting off the "soul" that is connected.

The reason why ghosts cannot drive their physical body after death is because "soul" no longer exists. The reason why evil ghosts can go to the body of living people and manipulate living people is because "soul" exists in living people, and because evil ghosts have stronger "soul", they can seize control of the "soul" of living people over their own "soul". Of course, because everyone's souls are born with a natural correspondence, external souls must be many times stronger than their own souls to have the possibility of robbing control. This is why ghosts that can possess and control living people must be very powerful evil ghosts and wronged souls. It is not that ordinary ghosts do not want it, but that they cannot do it.

Of course, if it were just like this, people from the Shenzhou Continent might also regard ghosts as alternative people with personality, but the reality is not the case.

The Immortal Sect does not recognize the correlation between ghosts and humans, they only divide them more carefully.

If a person has three souls after death, then he is not a ghost, but a soul state. This is a state, not a existence. The soul state is reversible and can be resurrected as long as there are appropriate conditions.

The Immortal Gate believes that this state is a special state of "human", rather than saying that this person has become a ghost. Although the soul state is very close to the ghost in terms of form and many characteristics, the two are completely different existences. The former is still a "human", but is in a special state similar to "sickness", while the latter is completely another existence and has no connection with "human".

Most ordinary people will become ghosts after death, that is, the heavenly soul dissipates, leaving only the earth soul and the life soul. Of course, this is not absolute, and there are two relatively rare special situations.

One is that the soul is seriously damaged, and after death, there is no ghost left, and it disappears directly.

The second is that the obsession is strong or the decomposition of the heavenly soul is incomplete due to some special reasons.

The second situation will produce three different types of souls, namely: heroic soul, wronged soul and living soul. However, the three are actually one thing, but there are some external manifestations due to the different reasons of the completeness and behavior of the heavenly soul. However, in essence, the three are a state between the soul and the ghost.

Whether it is a heroic soul, an injustice soul or a residual soul, as long as there are suitable conditions, the heavenly soul can be replenished and become a complete soul. As long as the soul is complete, it can be resurrected and become a human again. Therefore, theoretically speaking, these three types can be regarded as human beings, but the Immortal Sect has different standards for the injustice souls in it.

Although the three are essentially the same, the wronged souls are transformed by the souls of people who are unwilling to give up and are unwilling to give up. After becoming wronged souls, the behavior is often uncontrollable. Some of them will devour other ghosts and then transform into evil ghosts. If they do not eat ghosts, they will also eat people.

The heroic soul is very similar to the wronged soul. Both exist because of obsession and will devour other ghosts. The difference is that the wronged soul is completely blinded by hatred. The more ghosts it swallows, the more brutal it becomes. In the end, it will even forget all the original obsessions and kill them just for the sake of killing.

On the contrary, heroic souls or heroic spirits are born as a collection of souls. The souls of one or several people are the main body, and driven by a common goal, absorb nearby dead souls and merge into a new soul.

Because this state often appears on the battlefield, and the main soul usually comes from the soul of a spiritual leader who is deeply loved by soldiers, the heroic soul also means a heroic soul.

Because these heroic souls merge with a large number of souls of the same will, they are often very complete and have very exaggerated strength. They can drive natural spiritual energy as soon as they are born, and their combat power is close to that of the cultivator in the Soul Condensation Stage. But more importantly, heroic souls have extremely firm obsessions. Devouring ghosts will not only not make them lose their minds and forget their obsessions, but will accelerate the repair of the heavenly soul. In other words, the more ghosts the heroic soul swallows, the more they become, and in the end they will be more rational than before.

The living soul is different from the previous one. They are often born with a kind of heavenly soul that is damaged due to special reasons but does not completely lose the heavenly soul. The characteristic of this soul is that it looks no different from a ghost, but has a complete self-awareness.

The above can actually be regarded as a special state of human beings, but the Immortal Sect has always been rushing to kill all the wronged ghosts who harm and eat people, so it does not recognize its existence as a human being. Souls, heroic souls, and living souls except for the wronged souls are generally treated as human beings, which is basically no different from the concepts on earth accepted by Tianyou.

The real difference is the ghost.

The biggest difference between ghosts and the souls in front is that ghosts do not have heavenly souls, only earth souls and life souls.

According to the research of the powerful people of the Immortal Sect, the earth soul and life soul of the newborn baby have basically taken shape, with a completeness of more than 80%. After the age of three, the earth soul will basically be fixed and will not change, and the scope of change will be very small after that. This is the so-called reason why the country is easy to change and its nature is difficult to change.

The life soul is different from the earth soul. The life soul of ordinary people can grow until after the age of 16, and practitioners can continue to improve indefinitely. Of course, it will become more and more difficult to improve in the later stage, and the improvement will become smaller and smaller. In fact, at the age of 8, the life soul has reached more than 90% of the completeness, and there will be very few changes in the future.

Only the Heavenly Soul is almost infinite.

A person's heavenly soul is endless, it can be improved infinitely, and it is the same regardless of whether you are a cultivator or not. Of course, the improvement of a cultivator will obviously be much faster, and the life span of an ordinary person is limited, so it is impossible to have so much time for the heavenly soul to grow naturally.

From these characteristics of the three souls, we can see that the three souls actually have a clear division of labor.

The earth soul is in charge of humans. It is a fixed pattern that follows the body. The living habits of people after 3 years old will be basically fixed. Change is just some habits, but the basic needs of people have been fixed.

The life soul is controlled only. The heavenly soul and the earth soul need to control the body to act through the life soul, so it develops with the human movement ability. At the age of 8, the basic movement ability of the human body has been fully developed, so at the age of 8, the life soul has almost been completed, but it will not reach its peak until the age of 16. If there is targeted training, then the life soul will naturally have hope of improvement, but the amplitude will not be too large.

Compared with the first two, Tianhun is the core of human beings, because Tianhun is in charge of wisdom.

This wisdom is not just a question of whether one is smart or not. In addition to human intelligence and memory, the most important thing is reason.

From birth, as a person grows older, he will constantly absorb knowledge from the outside world and develop into various memories. When we know a person, it is better to say that he knows his body than to know his memory.

Just as brain-dead patients and vegetatives need to be treated differently, ghosts and souls also need to be treated differently in the eyes of the Immortal Sect.

When a person becomes a ghost, his soul is lost, that is, the person's memory, personality, worldview, and everything that represents the essence of this person no longer exists. If a person who dies in a brain is dead, only the exorcism is left, then the ghost is the heavenly soul, only the earth soul and the life soul are left.

On Earth, as long as I agree, transplanting the body organs for others to use after death is also an idea that most people can accept, because the body is no longer important to the dead.

Similarly, the ghost is actually no longer the one who died at the beginning. Its heavenly soul has completely disappeared and it no longer exists as a human mark. The remaining ghost in the end is the same as the remaining body of the dead, the only difference is that one is a entity and the other is an energy body.

Since corpses and organs can be reused on the earth, ghosts can naturally be reused on the Shenzhou Continent. This logic obviously makes sense.

Of course, just like many people donate their bodies after death, their families will not be able to accept emotionally. People on the Shenzhou Continent are not very willing to be taken to their ghosts after their families die.

Because of this, the disciples of Zixiao Palace often go to mass graves to find souls and corpses. Although people in Shenzhou Continent mind that the ghosts of their relatives are reused by others, they do not oppose the use of ghosts to save people. Therefore, as long as they do not dig up other people's ancestral graves, there will generally be no one to say anything. On the contrary, medicines made of ghosts are very popular in the outside world, but because the output is pitifully small, they cannot be widely popularized.

After finally explaining it clearly, Tianyou no longer felt that the drugs refined by ghosts were disgusting. After all, there was still a big gap between this and eating people.

"No wonder the amount of ghosts consumed in Zixiao Palace is amazing. I understand now."

Since ghosts can be used as medicine for soul repair, it is not surprising that they are more depleted.

After Tianyou learned about the ghost's situation, Bai Bingyu took the initiative to mention the issues of skeletons and zombies.

The consumption of these two beings is not large, but because the entire Zixiao Palace is too large and there are many disciples, the loss of zombies and skeletons is actually not small. These guys don’t need to be used as medicine to consume as a sacrificial beast, but on the one hand, these guys are also needed for the training of summoning techniques.

The mysterious beasts consume little to consume skeletons and zombies, because generally not many people choose skeletons or zombies as mysterious beasts. Those who do this are usually people with poor qualifications and know that they cannot get regular mysterious beasts. As for summoning... this is the main source of consumption.

Although the summoning beasts summoned by the psychic's summoning technique are all one-time, the spiritual power required to temporarily build summoning objects on the battlefield is obviously very large. If the number is insufficient, if you want to summon a few more, you will be powerless because of insufficient spiritual power.

In order to solve this problem, the psychics thought of many methods. The most practical one is to prepare the summoning objects that need to be used in the battle in advance, so that the summoning process will only be teleportation, which is undoubtedly a good thing for summoning speed and battery life.

As the main summoning category, there are naturally many people in Zixiao Palace, and the consumption of more people will naturally be large. Summoned beasts are a disposable consumable item, and it is normal to lose some damage in the battle. In this case, the consumption of undead in Zixiao Palace is quite considerable. This is also why the Beast Control Sect needs to constantly let disciples transport corpses and souls back.
Chapter completed!