Chapter 220 - Pray and Faith (2/2)

“It makes sense!” Hao Ning patted his thigh and was excited. “It seems that those who played games and gambling stones have built a Yuanmingyuan Imperial Garden and bought a Forbidden City in their imagination!”

“Bang!” Xiao Hong’s forehead slammed onto the bedside table. Hao Ning saw Xiao Hong and immediately understood. Wasn’t this just a nonsense for Xiao Hong? He quickly helped Xiao Hong to stand up and smilingly said, “I am joking. You just continue to talk.”

Xiao Hong said with a wry smile. “It does not blame on you. I just thought of it. Instead of building a Yuanmingyuan Imperial Garden, playing games and gambling stones, they had a common feature: endless use of the ability given to them.”

“Endless use of the ability that one has been given?” Hao Ning pondered what Xiao Hong said. It seemed that this was really the case.

“Big brother Hao Ning, don’t you feel weird?” Xiao Hong continued to analyze. “According to what you have said before, if the ability of those who can gamble stones was borrowed from the Book Elf – every time they use it, their soul will be devoured by the Book Elf. The more they use it, the more their soul should be swallowed up other than getting old.”

“Yeah.” Hao Ning carefully thought about Xiao Hong’s words, and had to say that Xiao Hong’s analysis was correct. And he never thought about these things.

“And as for the people who play the game.” Xiao Hong continued. “They don’t need a Book Elf to improve their ability to play games, but their soul is getting old.”

“As for Zhou Yuan’s mother.” Xiao Hong looked at Hao Ning and explained in detail, “It is even more impossible for a Book Elf to exist. The aging of her soul can only be relevant with her more and more unrealistic imagination in her own mind. Of course, we used to think that this is because of his mother’s insatiable greed, which made her imagination more and more out of control. But now in retrospect, how could an ordinary person, enlarge imagining desire without temperance and cease like that? Wasn’t it surprising that his mother had already reached the point where she didn’t know who she was?”

“It makes sense.” Hao Ning nodded in agreement. “You mean that Zhou Yuan’s mother’s endless use of the ability turning her imagination into reality had caused her soul getting old?”

“It’s very possible.” Xiao Hong frowned. “If this is the case, then the problem is big.”

“What do you mean?” Hao Ning saw Xiao Hong frowned. “Is this another witchcraft?”

“No, there is no magic in the world that can make the soul aging.” Xiao Hong shook his head. “The witchcraft generally devours the soul directly. On the contrary, there is a common behavior in the world that may subtly change the age of the soul and make the soul a little older than the actual age.”

“What behavior?” Hao Ning heard this for the first time. “Does Liu Shuai know?”

“He should have known it. But like I ignored the fact that the mortal soul can’t have a child at the age of 70, he also ignored this normal behavior.” Xiao Hong said with a wry smile. “That behavior is called Praying.”

“So, are you saying that Praying will make the soul accelerate aging?” Hao Ning smiled and shook his head.” I have never heard of that.”

“The correct word is not praying but concentrating on something.” Xiao Hong thought and explained. “I think you may have heard of some extreme legends, such as a general who was under too much pressure and concentrated on thinking the strategy of breaking the enemy, got all his hair white just for one night. Or some people focusing on writing books or painting, had consumed too much of their energy and looked like an old man within three days, etc. Those meant that the souls of them were aging, but this kind of things is very rare. And even if people could be aging, it will not be too excessive. It is often a little bigger than the actual age. Those legends have exaggerated elements, but they are indeed true. The common saying is that too much wisdom hurts people and too much emotion ages people. This is the soul aging caused by too much concentration on certain things.”

“I understood.” Hao Ning nodded. “From your point of view, it does look a bit like it. But you also have said that even if a person focuses on something however much, it will be just a few years older. How can it be such a great gap like 100,000 years?”

“Yeah.” Xiao Hong thought of this too. “I have thought about this and it just breaks. I can’t think of it anymore. I always feel that something is worse, and I am stuck in it. The more I want to think, the more frustrated I am.”

“Yeah.” Hao Ning nodded. “Your feeling is what I felt last night. The more I thought about the essence of the archy, the more uncomfortable and nervous I was, the more I worried about the Yi Pingzhi -”

“The essence of the archy?” Xiao Hong suddenly looked up, staring at Hao Ning, scared and shivered. “No, it won’t be that… If it is that, it will be terrible!”

“Xiao Hong, Xiao Hong.” Hao Ning was scared by Xiao Hong’s appearance. He shook Xiao Hong’s body. “What happened to you? Why are you so scared?”

“I…” Xiao Hong thought of it, but he was afraid to say it until Hao Ning asked him more than ten times. And he just said a sentence, “We thought it wrong. What Yi Pingzhi had done, was not to let those people to to cut the jadeite for him, but to make a huge amount of incense.”

“What do you mean?” Hao Ning didn’t quite understand why Xiao Hong suddenly said that. “Can you say it slowly? I don’t understand.”

“I’m sorry. My thoughts are a little fast.” Xiao Hong shook his head, closed his eyes and thought for a moment, as if wondering how to explain it to Hao Ning. “I need to start with the praying that I have just said. Praying is only used for people to worship the gods. And in the process of worship, faith is generated. Can you understand that?”

“Yes.” Hao Ning nodded. He was too familiar with this matter. “Faith produces Wuxiang fragrance, right?”

“Yes.” Xiao Hong nodded. “In the process of praying, it is because the soul has produced a faith that the life of the soul will be shortened. From the result, the soul of those who pray all year round will be older than ordinary people.” Seeing Hao Ning wanting to open his mouth and ask, Xiao Hong shook his hand. “Don’t hurry. I know what you want to ask. This is not a bad thing. In one case, this kind of aging is very few. Even when one person prays for 100 years in his life, I am afraid that the aging of his soul is older about only a few days to half a year. But because this person has been praying, and his produced faith has become a Wuxiang fragrance. He has gained an opportunity for him to fulfill his wishes by the god the fragrance has made.”

“Hey…” Hao Ning wandered around his mind. “What do you mean?”

“In a nutshell.” Xiao Hong nodded and said. “If a person is praying the Avalokitesvara for a lifetime, then the faith that he produces will become a Wuxiang fragrance of Avalokitesvara, so if he makes a wish, There is a chance he can be satisfied with his wishes by Avalokitesvara. Of course, there are only opportunities. And all their wishes will be summed up in the Wishes Scriptures.”

“So it is.” Hao Ning nodded. He just knew how the Wishes Scriptures that Xiao Hong had mentioned come out. “But why not to satisfy everyone’s wishes?”

“Besides the reason that after the satisfaction, people will not think about making progress. There is another reason.” Xiao Hong said with a smile. “If I haven’t managed the Wishes Scriptures, I won’t have known it. The reason is very simple. The faith produced by a person is very little, so there is not much Wuxiang fragrance in the faiths. These fragrances cannot be used to satisfy everyone’s wishes. They are got from the people and used on the people. But after averaging them, nothing will be left.”

“It’s like this.” Hao Ning understood at this time. “So, when everyone prays, they inadvertently use their very little soul life to produce the Wuxiang fragrance of the faith. And only these incenses gather to a certain extent can they satisfy people’s wishes. Praying is equivalent to buying a lottery ticket. If you don’t pray, your wishes will not be realized. If you pray, you can get a chance.”

“Hey…” Xiao Hong saw Hao Ning comparing the praying to buying a lottery ticket and felt it a little weird. But he nodded. “It’s almost the same thing. When you see Brother Zhang later, don’t say so…”

“I don’t want to see him – what does this have to do with these people?” Hao Ning said. He suddenly understood it here. “Do you mean that the ages of these people’s souls are exhausted through behaviors like praying?”

“I am not sure. I just guess that there is such a possibility.” Xiao Hong nodded with a wry smile. “You think about that. A person who prays for a lifetime will only live for less than half a year. And if these people’s souls have been aging for 100,000 years in a short time and these aging lives are used to pray and produce the Wuxiang incense of faith, it is equivalent to at the same time-”

Xiao Hong took out the calculator of the mobile phone and calculated, “It is the equivalent of the faith that hundreds of thousands of people pray for a hundred years!”

“Oh my god!” Hao Ning heard it and felt scared to sit on the bed. “That can’t be true, can it?”

“This is just my rough calculation.” Xiao Hong was so surprised for a long time after calculating. “But the price is that this soul has no ability to reincarnate again. Let alone those souls of 100,000 years, when souls are more than 500 years old, it will be very difficult for them to reincarnate through the nether world.”

“If you didn’t mention about the essence of the archy, I can’t think of them.” Xiao Hong said. “But you think about it. Besides the Wuxiang fragrance necessary for the becoming gods, what else can you recall the essence of the archy?”

“But I still don’t get it.” Hao Ning continued. “These people didn’t pray. They just kept gambling, drawing lines, and cutting stones. How did this have anything to do with praying?”

“This is what I just figured out.” Xiao Hong frowned and said. “They concentrated on doing this thing, which would also produce a Wuxiang incense of faith. They didn’t necessarily need to pray for a statue. Just like Zhou Yuan’s Moment God, he is also using the fragrance of faiths generated by people’s concentration on the Internet, isn’t it?”

“Speaking of you, you have done such a good thing!” Xiao Hong said that and nodded to Hao Ning, wiping his sweat. “If you didn’t make the Internet incense a god at that time by accident, but let those who have ulterior motives get it, who knows what will happen!”

Hao Ning analyzed, “That is to say, Yi Pingzhi absorbed the Wuxiang fragrance generated by their faith, and gathered together as the essence of the achy through tempting those people to continue to gamble stones.”

“It could be like this!” Xiao Hong nodded.

“But what does he want from this Wuxiang fragrance?” Hao Ning said strangely. “He is not a god.”

“In order to create a more advanced material of the Soul Coin.” Xiao Hong thought and said, “And if you think about it, chopping up a person’s soul can only get the Soul Coin material of this person. But if let this person continue to generate faith and produce a phase less Wuxiang fragrance, let alone the Wuxiang fragrance itself is more useful than the soul of a single person, the producing amount is far more than the soul of this person.”

“It seems that those who are gambling stones are not humans.” Hao Ning said with a wry smile. “Aren’t they just like the leeks, are they?”

“Yeah, they don’t know that they have been being cut off their life of the soul again and again.” Xiao Hong sighed. “They will finally get the end that they will never reincarnate. All these poor soul leeks…”

“But, what method can they use?” Hao Ning frowned. “This is the most critical issue. You have said that it is impossible to make a person’s soul aging like this under normal circumstances.”

“I don’t know.” Xiao Hong shook his head. “I can’t figure this out.” When it comes to that, Xiao Hong lay down.” This is just our guess. The most important thing now is to see how they treat the Gold Finger. We will make further plans. No matter what they do, saving people is still the most important thing. It is useless to say so much now, and I just want to sleep.”

Seeing Xiao Hong having no methods, Hao Ning could just lie down on the bed while thinking about this problem. And he falls asleep.

It was just that in the sleep Hao Ning was so worried. He had a lot of dreams. And finally, he was dreaming that Zhou Yuan was talking about his old story. There used to be a mountain. There was a temple on the hill. And there was an old monk in the temple telling a story. What story was it? Once upon a time there was a mountain and there was a temple on the mountain…

This story made Hao Ning agitated. But when he was about to scold, Liu Shuai’s voice came out again. ” can you tell another stories in addition to this one? I have bought these things after a day of shopping. I don’t know what to do next time if I come with Wen!”

While dreaming, Liu Shuai began to knock on the door, which made Hao Ning more upset. He thought that this dream was too noisy. Liu Shuai has knocked more heavily, and Hao Ning had been confused for a while. He noticed that it was not a dream. It was the time when the two people came back from shopping. He got up and went to open the door unconsciously with anger.