116: Chapter 116: The Sutra of Guiding the Deceased to the Afterlife and String Theory 116: Chapter 116: The Sutra of Guiding the Deceased to the Afterlife and String Theory Li Mumu ultimately had no choice but to spend twenty US Dollars to purchase “The Sutra of Guiding the Deceased to the Afterlife.”
This almost depleted half the bills in her wallet, plunging her instantly below the poverty line.
Of course, this was relative to her past living standards.
The good news was, although she had not been granted a system upon crossing over, Safo City was brimming with cheats.
The bad news was, despite the abundance of cheats, they were not necessarily reliable.
The temptation of the demon, it sounded unreliable.
The Priest’s notebook, flashy, and hard to discern between truth and fiction.
The Freud Family’s properties, each more abstract than the last.
Her own mother was in the late stages of ntal illness beyond the help of dicine.
The only one who gave Li Mumu a sense of closeness and comfort was, ironically, the eerily painted Netherworld Angel Anhelica, the Bodhisattva who Guides the Dead.
This Bodhisattva was truly down-to-earth and capable of handling affairs.
Literally down-to-earth, with a direct line to the Netherworld.
Her main job was to ferry Lost Souls and judge sinners.
Firstly, forget whether the style is eerie or not, her intentions were certainly biased, seeing a foreigner oppress Chinese people, she really made sure they suffered.
Moreover, after killing soone, she did not allow others to collect the body, instead letting it be exposed to the public, the head shown around the borders to deter villains.
Li Mumu particularly appreciated this temperant.
As for talents…
she had already mixed up enough to beco his Follower and had changed into his shape, so what was there to say about talent?
Although in her future mories, she had never heard of this Bodhisattva’s sacred na, Li Mumu felt through her intuition that the Guiding Bodhisattva would definitely not harm her.
She would protect every Huaxia traveler overseas from the attack of dark Evil Spirits.
After showering and changing into her pajamas, she lay in bed and opened “The Sutra of Guiding the Deceased to the Afterlife.” The first sentence read, “Thus have I heard, heaven is profound, earth is yellow; the universe and all things are infinite and boundless.
There is a creator, whose na is unknowable.
So call it the Heavenly Lord, so call it Buddha, so call it Taiyi, a thousand people calling by a thousand nas, beings of a thousand forms, all ultimately return to one…”
[Relative to the Buddhist scriptures you rember, this could be considered straightforward vernacular.]
[You feel this stitches many elents together, but you can’t quite clarify them at the mont.]
High emotional intelligence interpretation: It amalgamates the strengths of many.
Low emotional intelligence interpretation: A hotchpotch!
According to the opening statents of “The Sutra of Guiding the Deceased to the Afterlife,” there is a supre creator in the universe, different civilizations and peoples have different nas for this creator, but essentially, there is no difference.
Solely by this passage, it seems there is nothing particularly special.
But the descriptions of the worldview in the later text are rather intriguing.
The creator created three thousand great worlds, which together form twenty-eight ranks of the Genesis Lotus Platform.
Flowers blossom and wither, worlds are born and perish, and an instant passes as eternity.
The creator sits on the Lotus Platform, manifesting three grand aspects, one being the past, the second being the present, the third being the future.
Past, present, future, a trinity, overseeing the great thousand worlds.
This description reminded Li Mumu of the prologue to “String Theory,” where the Grand Sorceress phistopheles spoke of “having threefold answers.”
In short, both sides believe there are three ways to explain the truth of this world.
However, when it cos to the details, the theories of the two are completely different.
According to “The Sutra of Guiding the Deceased to the Afterlife,” there is only one creator in the universe, and the Real World exists simultaneously in three states: past, present, and future.
In the first chapter of “String Theory” titled “Lilith and the Essence of Magic Power,” the author argued that “Lilith” is synonymous with the source of magic power, a high-dinsional being, and one of the high-dinsional beings in the universe.
Ancient people, limited by their level of understanding, could not comprehend the essence of magical power and assud it was a gift from so “mother source.”
It’s like the so-called noble lineage, always tracing back, you would definitely find an ancient ancestor who beca the first noble.
For a witch, this ancient ancestor is “Lilith,” and every witch is a descendant of Lilith.
However, with the rapid advancent of human civilization, many past assumptions have been disproven.
The myths about “Lilith” also started showing flaws, and so even began to question the existence of Lilith.
As one of the founders of modern magic theory, Grand Sorceress phistopheles Planck proposed a bold hypothesis.
The essence of magical power is strings.
Regarding what strings are and the various hypotheses and deductive proofs derived from them, these articles are all compiled in the book “String Theory.”
But if you’re not interested in theoretical research and just want a simple, understandable explanation, phistopheles provides a clearer answer in the first section.
The dinsion of reality we live in is made up of high-dinsional strings.
High-dinsional strings are like the words of a writer, starting from the Arabic number “1,” and then branching out into various fascinating stories.
Lilith is the string nad “Magic Power” in this universe.
The magic power used by witches in casting spells is not a tangible material like air, water, or soil, but is more akin to the phenonon of fire burning.
The essence of a witch’s magic power is the resonance with the “Strings of Lilith.”
The universe is composed of different strings, and the strings influence each other, like ripples intersecting when raindrops fall on the surface of water.
And the real world, including people, their bodies and thoughts, and everything in the world, are all products of overlapping strings.
That’s why it is said—everything is an illusion, everything is false.
However, “The Sutra of Guiding the Deceased to the Afterlife” describes the concept of the universe along a completely different path.
Whether it’s the Heavenly Lord, Buddha, or Taiyi, they all ultimately point to the sole creator.
This world has different power systems such as magic, Divine Arts, and the Martial Path due to different people based on their level of cognition and educational environnt, leading to varying interpretations.
All immortals, demons, gods, and buddhas, and the Supernatural System share the sa root and essence without any difference.
The difference lies in people.
In the past, present, and future of humanity.
The Western divine system once had a brief but glorious past, Assyrians, Canaanites, Egyptians, Persians…each ancient civilization had its own mythology and religious beliefs.
But as history changed and ti passed, the gods they worshiped gradually deteriorated into angels, demons in others’ religious scriptures, and then quietly vanished from history.
However, now, the strongly rising Eastern Empire, as the undisputed hegemon of this era, naturally has the power to set its own rules of the ga.
The twelve paths of the Foundation Establishnt Dharma Gate, leading to the twenty-eight ranks of the Pure Land’s Lotus Platform…
Too complicated!
Li Mumu found it dizzying and felt that one brain was not enough.
This wasn’t just a matter of crossing disciplines—all the writing in both books was like comparing apples to oranges, yet strangely, both seed logical.
Relatively speaking, Li Mumu preferred the content of “The Sutra of Guiding the Deceased to the Afterlife.”
It’s not that she thought “String Theory” was incorrect, but she felt her intelligence couldn’t keep up with the Grand Sorceress’s train of thought.
Li Ya was right, she didn’t have the talent of a witch.
So-called talent, she now realized, refers to a path that aligns with one’s own core beliefs.
When core beliefs don’t align, effort is doubled.
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