Chapter 77: Soul Scale

Chapter 77: Chapter 77: Soul Scale

"As stated before, the essence of Spirituality is cognition."

"As life evolves from single-celled to multi-celled organisms and beyond, their ways of perceiving the world also evolved from the singular sense of touch to include hearing, sight, taste, and more."

"This diversification of cognitive methods leads to an exponential growth in Spirituality."

"So, when Spirituality grows to a certain point, can it give birth to Wisdom, or rather, a Soul?"

"I believe that is completely impossible!"

"Because the Soul originates from a ’fall’ from a higher dimension, it’s fundamentally impossible for it to evolve from the three-dimensional physical world."

"In other words, a Soul cannot be born in three-dimensional spacetime. The Soul originates from the collapse and fall of a high-dimensional spacetime."

"A certain collapsing point in high-dimensional spacetime experiences a fall toward a lower dimension. This state of falling is the Root of the Soul’s birth."

"The reason intelligent life possesses a unique imagination and an abstract sense of three-dimensional space is that the Soul does not belong to this current World; it yearns to return to a higher dimension."

"This ability, bestowed by the Soul, is something my dog could never possess."

After reading this passage, Chen Qi was speechless for a long time.

He felt a shock that resonated from the deepest part of his Soul.

He was impatient—or rather, it was a primal instinct from his Soul—to know more.

What Chen Qi didn’t notice was that his brain was currently shining with a blinding light.

But he felt no discomfort. Instead, he felt a certain ineffable joy, as if he had begun a new round of evolution.

"How a High-dimensional Soul connects with a three-dimensional lifeform, such as us humans, and bestows Wisdom upon us is a highly divisive issue."

"On this matter, our Wisdom Sect represents the truth, while the Celestial Human Association are heretics."

"We in the Wisdom Sect believe that when a creature’s Spirituality becomes sufficiently complex and powerful, a momentary thought can trigger a big bang of Consciousness, creating a Wisdom Spark!"

"Although this is just a momentary flash that is quickly extinguished, it will flash again in the next big bang of Consciousness."

"This cycle repeats infinitely until a spark from a big bang of Consciousness resonates with a falling point from a higher dimension, thus giving birth to the human Soul."

"Those heretics from the Celestial Human Association actually deny the possibility of the Wisdom Spark’s birth."

"They believe the reason humans connected with a falling point from a higher dimension is because the Spirituality of a *certain* human matched the projection of this ’point’ in the Three-dimensional World."

"As long as this ’point’ has not fallen into three-dimensional spacetime, it will certainly have a projection in the real world."

"The birth of humanity was just a matter of luck!"

"And when the first human possessed a Soul and gained Wisdom, his descendants automatically inherited the ability to link to this ’high-dimensional point.’ This is the truth behind how the human race gained Wisdom."

「...」

’Isn’t this just the origin story of the Human Ancestor, Apocalypse?’

This was the first thought that came to Chen Qi’s mind after he finished reading the passage.

It was just too similar. It perfectly explained why one branch of Ancient Apes was able to evolve into intelligent life while other groups did not.

’The Apocalypse Empire must be a strong supporter of the Wisdom Sect’s views,’ he thought.

As for the minor disagreement between the Wisdom Sect and the Celestial Human Association, Chen Qi didn’t care.

Whether it was through effort or luck, humanity had already succeeded in its evolution.

However, this wasn’t all the passage had to say. What Chen Qi was truly interested in was the explanation of the "Soul Scale."

The Wisdom Sect divided the process of the ’point’ falling from a higher dimension to the third dimension into a scale of 20 marks.

According to their research, once the falling ’point’ transforms into a Soul, it stops falling and remains at a certain mark on the scale.

For example, the Soul of an ordinary human is at the 6th mark.

Chen Qi felt that this division of the "Soul Scale" held a much deeper meaning.

At mark 0, a Soul that has fallen into the Three-dimensional World would be annihilated.

’So what if the Soul’s scale mark increases? What if it breaks past 20? Would it achieve Dimension Ascension and return to high-dimensional spacetime?’

Unfortunately, the author of the text didn’t seem to care about these speculations and hadn’t written anything about them.

As for the specific ratio of self-perception to external perception within Spirituality, he gave the answer of 3:7.

But he didn’t elaborate any further!

It seemed that in the author’s mind, the origin of the Soul was the most important thing; all other questions were insignificant.

「...」

"This viewpoint only represents the High-dimensional Faction within the Innate Sect, which posits that the Soul is Innate and born in high-dimensional spacetime."

"In contrast, there is another viewpoint on the origin of the Soul: the Multi-Dimensional Faction within the Acquired Sect."

Incredibly, after this passage, Chen Qi saw an annotation.

This sentence was clearly not part of the original text! "The Multi-Dimensional Faction denies the existence of high-dimensional spacetime, believing that the Soul is born in the Three-dimensional World!"

"All of a lifeform’s perceptions—whether from touch, smell, hearing, or sight—are partial and two-dimensional compared to the Three-dimensional World."

"In other words, life can never perceive the true Three-dimensional World. Combining countless two-dimensional worlds still results in a two-dimensional world."

"The Multi-Dimensional Faction believes the birth of Wisdom, or the Soul, is a result of natural evolution."

"Just as life evolved touch, hearing, sight, smell, and taste, they believe that when the time is right, it will naturally evolve a Spiritual Sense—that is, the Soul."

"The Multi-Dimensional Faction believes the Soul is merely a slightly special two-dimensional plane within the Three-dimensional World, not fundamentally different from the cognitive world constructed by taste and smell."

"Therefore, they are also often called the Dimensional Reduction Faction!"

"Neither the High-dimensional Faction’s nor the Multi-Dimensional Faction’s theories about the Soul can be disproven, so these views are for reference only."

"From a certain perspective, I appreciate the Multi-Dimensional Faction more, as they, after all, deny the existence of an All-Knowing and All-Powerful being."

The annotation ended there, leaving Chen Qi a little dazed.

’Which one am I supposed to believe?’

Three seconds later, Chen Qi came to a conclusion: this question had nothing to do with him right now. Thinking about it more would just be pointless worry.

Perhaps because the topic of the Soul’s origin was so difficult to digest, Chen Qi paused for a full three hours before continuing to read.

He felt he was infinitely close to some critical point.

’Spirituality, as a form of cognition, should be an idealistic existence. But it can alter the Matter Field, causing it to undergo a Metamorphosis into another form of existence. This clearly contradicts the definition of idealism.’

’I must have overlooked something. Perhaps...’

This was the third ellipsis. Chen Qi had been eagerly expecting to learn something new, only to see that "familiar annotation" again.

"This answer involves the Chaos School. Display is prohibited!"

’Alright, this time it was really deleted.’ Chen Qi instantly felt that his previous complaints had been justified.

’But just what is this Chaos School, and what doctrines does it hold, that even V5 forbids any mention of it, treating it as a profound taboo?’

’Before V5 appeared, so many Sects dominated the human world. I can’t even imagine what that must have been like.’

Filled with anticipation for what came next, Chen Qi continued to read.

His previous reading session had stopped here. He had no idea what incredible content he would encounter next.

However... (30,000 characters deleted here).

Chen Qi nearly coughed up blood from anger.

「...」

Fortunately, after skipping a long series of ellipses, there was a short passage left.

"I suddenly had an inspiration. I’ve decided to design a new Awakening ritual!"

"I think it can change the World!"

’Perhaps this is the reason why V5 selected this paper.’

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To be honest, I don’t even know what the follow-up read count is. I just hope more people get to see this book.