For some reason, Lu Jian didn't have any special emotion when he heard this name.
Probably because he already roughly knew the other party's identity and had witnessed his journey from an ordinary person to what he is now.
It's like when you see a gangster boss with a fierce look, as if he's going to kill someone if he doesn't agree with him. It looks scary, but if you start from the moment he is still wearing crotchless pants and running in the alley with a pacifier in his mouth, it will be similar to Lu Tiao.
The feeling now is similar.
However, Taoist Heming has obviously gone through a lot of things. He doesn't remember Lu Jian either. He just doesn't know if Lu Jian reacted when he told him about running through the streets wearing crotchless pants when he was a child.
"Are you Taoist Heming?"
Lu Tan asked as if to confirm.
"What do you think Taoist Heming is like? Has he ascended to become an immortal? Or has he already decayed and turned into dust?"
Browning seemed to have misunderstood Lu Tiao's meaning, so he asked a question, and continued to explain before Lu Tiao could answer.
"Sublimation is a special transformation that allows people to abandon the shackles of the body and become a truly high-level existence. In this case, my existence is not limited to material things."
Browning explained.
His words were contaminated, which made Sia frown slightly, but for Sia, who had studied magic, Browning's words were not too outrageous and were acceptable.
"Human consciousness also exists based on matter. Without matter, human consciousness would be impossible to talk about. If you want to obtain eternal life and sublimate yourself, you must first give up your own body, including all your own materials."
As Browning spoke, he took out a small knife from somewhere. He picked up the small knife and cut it towards his finger. The sharp blade cut through the skin, dug into the flesh, and rubbed against the bones, making a harsh sound.
There was a sound, and then he cut off the entire finger from the joint, put it in the palm of his hand and played with it.
"Flesh and blood is weak, and even those monsters cannot escape destruction."
He was referring to those mud monsters. It seems that Taoist Heming had indeed used the contents of "Xuanjun Seven Chapters Secret Sutra" to summon mud monsters and tried to fuse his will with them.
It's just that he didn't succeed, either he used some method to preserve his will, or he proved through experiments that this method was unreliable.
"As long as there is a body that can be destroyed, immortality is far away. Some people are ignorant and only focus on strengthening the body. They want to obtain a body that has been tempered for thousands of times and want to defeat everything with their own strength, but they are wrong."
Browning put the piece of finger into his mouth like a biscuit, chewed it and swallowed it.
When the old housekeeper on the side saw this scene, his eyes were bloodshot and he fell to the ground. It was like he was thrown into a bell and struck dozens of times, unable to cause any reaction to the outside world.
Seeing such an old butler, Shia punched him directly and knocked him unconscious to prevent him from being polluted in the future.
"When you say sublimation, do you mean the process of transforming from an ordinary person into a god? How is this accomplished?"
Lu Tan asked calmly.
He knew very well that Taoist Heming posed no threat to them at present. Otherwise, according to Taoist Heming's condition, there would be no need to chat with Lu Jian and the others here.
The reason why the other party communicates with me means that he has a request.
Combined with what Taoist Heming said about hiding here and suppressing it with paintings from the ancient capital, Lu Jian felt that there should be some missing link that he had not discovered.
"Good question."
Browning smiled and said that the wound on his finger that he had cut off healed quickly, and then a brand new finger grew out faster than grass growing on a road trip. There was no difference between the two at all.
"What is a god?"
Browning asked back, and before Lu Tian could think about it, he spoke again, asking and answering himself.
"In ancient times, thunder and lightning were gods, heavy rains were gods, landslides were gods, and ground cracks were gods. People respected natural phenomena, so they became gods. But we know very well that these are not gods. They have no will of their own, but are just laws.
It’s just a representation.”
Lu Ting has read these contents in books on folklore and mythology. The earliest human beliefs and myths originated from the reverence for nature.
"So, if thunder and lightning has a will, can it be called a real god?"
Browning asked.
"......law?"
Lu Tan almost instantly thought of the weird things in the world he was in.
As we all know, those weird things are the embodiment of rules and cannot be destroyed. They can only move from one place to another. If these weird things awaken their will, they can indeed be regarded as gods.
"The so-called sublimation is the process of turning oneself into a concept. Except for those who are born as rulers of the old days, gods from outside the territory, or old gods from eternity, ordinary creatures must be immortal if they want to rule.
Turn yourself into a concept.”
Browning snapped his fingers, and fire appeared in his hands.
"If I give a civilization the concept of [fire], then I am a fire god, but I do not rely on these people to exist, just because I am the incarnation of fire. Of course, in this vast foreign land,
There are also foreign lands without fire. For example, in a certain foreign land, there are only endless abyss and sea water, and evil is hidden under the waves. In such a world, there is no concept of fire, and the influence of the gods that rely on this existence will be weakened.
"
"So, you use the concept of [Heming Taoist] as the basis for your existence in the abandoned capital?"
Sia quickly understood what Browning meant.
When Taoist Heming becomes [Taoist Heming], even if his physical body withers, as long as his name is still being praised, then Taoist Heming will be immortal, and he can come to the foreign land where this name is praised in any way.
The deeper a foreigner understands the concept of [Heming Taoist], the stronger his power will be.
And if Taoist Heming masters other concepts, such as fire, rain, and light, then he can indeed be everywhere, omnipotent, and survive for a long and long time.
This may sound incredible, but you must know that [concept] is also a kind of [knowledge], and [knowledge] all has [pollution] and all has [power].
Becoming a concept is equivalent to becoming pollution.
This is why those Old Ones are so contaminated that even a single glance can cause people to lose their sanity and fall into madness.
This is the essence of sublimation.
"You are very smart, that's why I communicate with you."
Browning crossed his legs, moved his head slightly forward, and asked.