Building White Jade City is like trying to use stones that won't burn to construct a safe house for a few people in front of a mountain fire. What's the difference between the two?
"I admire your courage to take this step."
Monkey Wine laughed and looked at Hu Ma, saying: "When you choose to forge ahead without hesitation, when you choose to face Tai Sui head-on and transcend the limits of your own civilization, then Tai Sui will no longer be a disaster for you. It will be your... opportunity to complete the ascension."
"They call it returning home, which is a beautiful wish. But from a rational perspective, I would prefer to think of it as a dimensional ascension of life."
"To glimpse the ultimate end of life, to master time and space, and to understand the appearance and disappearance of things is a luxurious wish of life."
"Tai Sui itself is void and pure. What scares us is only the unknown and distractions."
"Even in the human world, what we refer to as eternal punishment is actually just an imagination, a thought that we have challenged unknown and powerful gods, so we'll always fear being thrown into a boiling pot. What truly torments the Reincarnator is actually only death."
"And when life breaks through those deceptions, defeats those distractions, and gains the courage to explore the unknown, then it has the qualifications for ascension."
"I think this is the Universe's greatest gift to life."
"..."
Finishing this in one breath, Monkey Wine slowly stopped, seriously looked at Hu Ma, and smiled: "As for how to accept this gift, I think..."
"...now you have more say than I do."
"..."
"I indeed have."
Hu Ma also looked at Monkey Wine with a smile.
Before taking this step, I at least have one certainty, that is, I have long known that Tai Sui is without consciousness.
Only when it enters the human world does Tai Sui develop consciousness, and only when it combines with something from the human world does Tai Sui develop desire or purpose. Precisely because Tai Sui is void, I have the courage to take this step.
This is my only reliance in this unprecedented gamble.
And now, after hearing Monkey Wine's words, I even feel a sense of relaxation, with immense joy:
"Who would have thought, that the real way to conquer lightning is not to bow down like everyone else, but to stand up and try to understand it?"
"Since I have, then I entrust it to you."
Monkey Wine slowly extended his finger towards Hu Ma.
Beside him, layers of Purple Qi gathered in one place, surging towards Hu Ma, and Purple Qi can transform everything. Under the current circumstance where all are Spiritual Bodies, it naturally can also transform into cognition.
This is everything he has seen, understood, and deciphered in twenty years. However, he cannot solve the problem, so he has to wait for Hu Ma. Once Hu Ma arrives, he will bestow all his twenty years of research findings.
Hu Ma openly accepted it, perceiving the boundless cognition, data, and parameters surfacing in his sea of consciousness, feeling the endless, mysterious, and complex matters beginning to be deconstructed in his own comprehension.
After Monkey Wine completed what he wanted to do, he began to thoroughly merge into Tai Sui.
His figure dissipated bit by bit, nearly disappearing completely, and he softly spoke to Hu Ma: "When you see me again, remember to tell me, as a person after ascension, what's it like!"
"In detail!"
"..."
"Sure!"
Hu Ma seriously agreed with Monkey Wine and did not feel sadness or regret, only admiration for this rational person.
He accepted all of Monkey Wine's knowledge, data, and then gently sat down upon Tai Sui, slightly focusing his mind, all the cognition had already converged into shape in his mind.
Then he slowly extended his hand to draw a circle, upon the eternal barren Tai Sui, he made his voice heard: "Setting up the altar!"
After accepting Monkey Wine's knowledge, perhaps I now have other abilities to describe all matters and derived changes, such as energy matrices, life shadows, parameters...
But one must not forget one's roots, familiar with the altar, it still is the altar!
Ghost Walking Altar could be of three zhangs, nine zhangs, of a city's altar, of a world's altar, naturally, it can also be an altar of Tai Sui.
Setting up the altar in the human world, one can borrow the power of heaven and earth, setting up the altar on Tai Sui, similarly so.
The Four Right Times in Purple Qi surged and rolled, forming wild winds, forming raging tides, forming vast oceans, sweeping around Hu Ma.
Tai Sui is void.
It's the cleanest matter after the death of a person and also the ultimate end of life.
People in the human world die, then strip off causality, forget past lives, ultimately becoming the purest matter, almost identical in essence with Tai Sui.
Tai Sui might already be the largest and purest matter left after countless civilizations have vanished, all life washing away causality, it is but a gloomy wind blowing toward civilization.
Because of its nature, it can only extinguish all the fires of civilization. Whenever it approaches the human world, it gets stained with distractions, being speculated by countless civilizations in their own ways.
But it has no will, it just exists.
So as a being with a will that has come into Tai Sui, it's like a poor person arriving at a mountain of gold, just needing to accept, one can welcome the chance for ascension, which is the true sense of "returning home."
