Above The Sky
Chapter 970 - 970 89 A Glimpse into Guardian Axel's True Plan 5400_3

970: Chapter 89: A Glimpse into Guardian Axel’s True Plan (5400)_3 970: Chapter 89: A Glimpse into Guardian Axel’s True Plan (5400)_3 But when the old man woke up, to his surprise, he gave him a hug and candidly admitted that it was himself who was wrong during that period.

His soul had fallen into an irreversible darkness, and as a result, he saw no color in anything in the world.

However, now that the colors have been restored, and seeing the child’s outstanding achievements, how could he bear to approach death once more?

Because it was too beautiful, the reversal was too direct and without any buildup, Roland even doubted whether Ian had added some kind of exhilarating concoction to his father’s medicine.

But clearly not.

Because Ian also looked a bit surprised, and it was an expression that could not be faked.

“I really didn’t expect that you seem to have completely returned to the state you were in when we first met.”

Ian approached the bed, sitting on the edge, he made eye contact with Steward Moda, “Do you have any doubts?

The potion I gave you is a brand-new experimental product that can…

forge a part of the soul for you, replacing the diseased area of the brain to think, thereby reversing the despondency caused by the changes in your brain.”

“I have no doubts at all, I’m just grateful for your generosity.”

Steward Moda shook his head slightly, he paused for a while, then expressed his confusion, “I just have memories in my mind that are crystal clear, so genuine—I can feel that my sadness and pain at that time were real, and now my calmness and release are also real.”

“But, is it really possible for such a huge change to be brought about by just a bit of soul, just a change?

I am a person who has already walked towards death once, my lord, so I dare to ask, is it because you want me to live, that you infused the elements of ‘calmness and release’ into the soul you granted me?”

The old man and the young man made eye contact, and after a few seconds, Steward Moda lowered his head, smiling as he said, “Of course not.

You wouldn’t do that.

Not because you don’t want to, but because there is no need.”

“So I am just puzzled, is this newly acquired soul really my soul?”

“Or to put it another way, was the self-indulgent, self-destructive person the ‘me’, or is the ‘me’ now, able to calmly reflect on my wrong thoughts?”

This is a very good question.

What exactly is the ‘I’?

Is it the body, or is it the soul?

In the Terra Continent, everyone regards the soul as their self…

both are ‘I’.

The thoughts of the soul are undoubtedly one’s own thoughts.

But the boundary between the Second Energy Level and the Third Energy Level is actually the integration of ‘soul and body’ thinking.

In other words, before reaching the Third Energy Level, the thinking of the soul and body is different.

There are different thoughts between the two ‘I’s.

Because the body is influenced by hormones, the body’s thinking relies on the brain, changeable and unknowingly so.

While the soul originates from memories and obsessions, it is also easily trapped in extremism and paranoia.

This is the origin of legends such as inner demons, illusions, and temptations of the devil.

Both types of thinking and wisdom have their limitations, but they can complement each other.

Therefore, for Sublimators, they need to integrate the two, to overcome the demons in their hearts and turn both into nourishment for the ‘Heart Light’.

And the ‘Heart Light’, which represents the ‘unified wisdom of body and soul’, is the ticket to the ‘Spirit Wisdom and Logos’ as well as ‘true wisdom’.

So, theoretically, the thinking of the soul cannot fully represent a person.

The wisdom of the soul, the thoughts of the soul, are essentially a ‘higher Echo’ nurtured by replicating the thinking of the body!

It’s like a person who uploads all their thoughts to the network via machinery; in the network exists their complete wisdom and thinking, yet their body itself still possesses thinking.

On Earth, the physical body is of the utmost importance, so compared to it, thoughts in the network are akin to echoes.

And the essence of the soul, isn’t it essentially a ‘thought upload’ that naturally occurs based on Spirit Substance and Origin Quality?

But on Terra, since this uploaded data of the soul is still uploaded into one’s own body—the natural database—the two can be seen as one…

more advanced than ordinary echoes, but only at the Third Energy Level can they tend toward unity.

So…

it is a mirror image!

Yes, echoes and mirror images!

The reason why my family was exiled to South Ridge, and Protector Axel’s plan!

Watching the somewhat bewildered but still calm old man, Ian suddenly had a moment of realization.

So it turns out…

this is also an echo!

The Third Energy Level, the integration of soul and body, essentially, is about elevating echoes to mirror images, and then the mirrors facing each other, merging into the true self!

And now, Steward Moda’s perplexity, plainly put, is the abnormal body nurturing a relatively normal soul; similarity without unity, is not a mirror image, but more like an echo.

Naturally, as an echo, the soul feels puzzled about the body.

“It seems I’m beginning to understand why The Empire allowed the Spirit Wisdom Institute to support the research behind the Avak Domain—Emperor Axel, this guy, his real goal might not be to invade Yisen Gard or other people’s bodies!”

After seeing through this, Ian’s mind is now overflowing with information like a waterfall, drawing from the Silver Chip and his own memories, feeling like he’s peeling away the layers of fog shrouding the truth.

What he originally thought was well understood has now been stripped of a layer, becoming clearer and more real.

Protector Axel’s plan, finally revealed a corner in front of Ian’s eyes the moment he created his own Artificial Soul and observed the conflict between the soul and the body!

“His studies of echoes and mirror images are fundamentally about digging into ‘the essence of the soul’!

He is searching for the origin of bodily thought and spiritual thought, seeking the differences and points of convergence between them, wanting to find ‘the true mystery of the Third Energy Level’!”

“For Third Energy Level strong individuals, the point of convergence is ‘dream’.”

“But this answer surely isn’t enough for Axel, it’s only an answer that allows one to ‘liberate oneself’, he wants to find a greater consensus, and not just the Deceased Monarch’s ‘consensus of revenge and protection’, he is searching for a more widespread consensus, perhaps one that the entire Empire can accept.”

“A ‘standard answer’!”

“What is his ultimate goal?

Does he also want everyone in the Empire to possess Artificial Souls, or even to surpass the barrier of the Third Energy Level?

But he does not want to create a Deceased Monarch…

so, does he wish to create a multitude of souls with the essence of the Third Energy Level?

But that’s impossible, because aside from ‘consensus’, the most important thing is still the thought of ‘conviction’.”

“There must be another purpose.”

Thinking this, Ian paused for a moment.

Because he suddenly remembered what Steward Moda had just said to him.

[My Lord, hence I dare ask, is this why you wished me to live on, and so infused elements of ‘calmness and acceptance’ into the soul you bestowed upon me?]

Yes.

An echo can be tampered with, with some information added…

If, let’s say, Protector Axel intends to find a method through the research on Artificial Souls and echoes that could influence the thoughts of everyone in the Empire…

Perhaps this could explain all his actions up to now?!