Chapter 115: Reason and Madness
"In my opinion, Senior Sister, you've taken the wrong path. If you want to find shackles for yourself, don't choose the inferior 'sensibility' of the Human Clan!" The "Wang Qi" instance sat across from Mi, shrugging his shoulders, "Of course, I'm not saying all those norms can be discarded. However, some unnecessary propositions truly are needless."
Mi looked at this instance with confusion. In a way, this instance was indeed a part of her, equivalent to an independent personality formed by splitting herself. But Mi was certain that "she" couldn't make such a choice without second thoughts.
This "personality" must have come from Wang Qi.
That is to say, within Wang Qi's heart, such an idea actually existed.
Wang Qi didn't mind his consciousness being duplicated. If "he," or rather an instance identical to "him," realized it was a copy of himself, he would willingly accept this reincarnation.
There indeed exists a "Wang Qi" who resists this idea, but the proportion of such resistors is pitifully low, less than one percent.
Moreover, the further it goes, the more the "instances" lean towards this choice of "not caring at all."
So, in other words...
"Among the Human Clan, you must belong to those with mental problems..."
Regarding Mi's evaluation, Wang Qi tapped his forehead, "Hmm... I remember getting evaluated, and the problem wasn't big—at least Yangshen Pavilion hasn't captured me to Qingshan Cliff."
"But there still are some, right..." Mi sweated, "I think I should look for others to learn how to form a personality..."
The instance spread his arms wide and shouted, "Senior Sister! It's too late! Your consciousness is already tinted with my color!"
——That's enough...
Mi's lingering thoughts appeared in Wang Qi's heart.
"Don't be so pessimistic, Senior Sister." The instance wrapped his left arm around Mi's shoulder and pointed at the sky with his right hand, "Our journey is to the stars and the ocean! Normal people can't reach that stage! Without a bit of obsession or madness in the heart, how can one walk out?"
"This is an Illusion, an Imagined Space; there are no stars and ocean in that direction." Mi brushed Wang Qi's hand aside and then pondered, "Let me think carefully. As an individual being, you all should consider subjective will as the sole... So, thinking backwards, wanting to kill me or being demoralized would be the normal human reaction. So, what are you in front of me now?"
"The 'mad' side of Wang Qi?" The instance contemplated, "As they say, 'To not go mad is to not live.' Perhaps I am the purest heart of Seeking Dao after stripping away all of Wang Qi's pointless sensibilities and distractions?"
"I never expected Wang Qi to be such a narcissist..." Mi felt at a loss for words.
After a moment, Mi stared at Wang Qi and asked again, "Wang Qi... no, you, what do 'you' really think about this matter?"
The instance thought for a moment and said to Mi, "I wonder if Senior Sister has researched the tales of Shenzhou's novelists?"
"Not much research."
"That's good... What I mean is, listen to me in detail." The instance lightly coughed twice, "Once, someone told a story about a cultivator who suddenly created a Divine Skill. This Divine Skill is a skill for Clay Transformation, refining clones. This clone can truly be extraordinary, able to inherit all wisdom and mind of the original, but only having a one-day life span, hence it's very easy to refine. Although this Avatar Method cannot be used for combat, it can be used for learning. After one day, the clone disappears, and its experience and memories return to the original, making it the Non-Dual Method for learning, cultivating, or exploring."
Mi frowned, "This couldn't be something you made up on the spot, right... It sounds a lot like this Imagined Space I made..."
Wang Qi chuckled but said nothing. He merely changed a few keywords from a science fiction novel on Earth and recounted it to Mi, which hardly counts as making stuff up. In this Imagined Space with a six-thousand-fold time flow rate, Wang Qi spent a considerable time telling that story. Then, he said, "Actually, when I read that story, I felt that most of the entanglements or whatever else inside were meaningless. If this Law Gate was placed in front of me, I would definitely use it without hesitation."
"Without hesitation?"
"Rather than getting tangled up in 'why I am me,' or 'original versus clone,' why not just use it first and see what happens?" Wang Qi said, "'I' was never a precisely defined concept based on pure logic, but rather a vague concept. Since it's a vague concept, why get caught up in it?"
Mi held her forehead, "Don't boast too much, you also have instances where you resist or attack me."
"That's an accident, and mostly due to the change in thought tendencies caused by a quick breakthrough and Soul mutation." The instance didn't care at all, "In reality, I'm very stable."
"That's why you're called the Shame of Dao Seed, not allowed to touch the empirical evidence of the Life Path!" At this moment, a third voice suddenly appeared in Mi's Imagined Space, "Mi! Wang Qi! Both of you come out here!"
"Master..." Mi's expression slightly changed, as if a good child being caught doing something wrong for the first time. The instance, on the other hand, loudly protested, "This time it has nothing to do with 'Wang Qi'! Strictly speaking, I am the split personality of 'Mi'!"
While the instance was shouting, Mi's Imagined Space suddenly turned negative, black and white reversed, red and green contrasted. Then, amid these anomalies, countless "cracks" appeared in the Imagined Space, eventually shattering with a roar.