Chapter 718 - 455: Samadhi True Fire
"Could it be the Primordial Spirit Emergence?" Old Yi exclaimed in surprise.
"That’s right." Wang Ye’s voice sounded in his mind.
"Then you should be possessing me now, right?" Old Yi’s lips twitched.
"Indeed, I could possess you, but there’s no need." Wang Ye said, "I can destroy your spirit any time and claim your shell as my own, but there’s no need to fear; it’s meaningless to me."
Upon hearing this, Old Yi felt a chill in his heart.
Although he knew Wang Ye wouldn’t harm him, the feeling of life and death being in the other’s hands was still terrifying, like a sharp dagger pressed against the artery in your neck.
"How is this achieved?" Old Yi asked.
Wang Ye answered, "I’m not sure either. It might be a naturally awakened ability after reaching a certain level of evolution, or perhaps a result of practicing some Daoist Inner Power. In any case, after my Primordial Spirit Emergence, I can travel anywhere in the form of the Primordial Spirit, and like now, I can enter your Brain Domain to transmit sound to you. I can even possess the corpse of a deceased creature, and no one can see me with the naked eye. However, the time I can maintain the Primordial Spirit Emergence is only about an hour, and I cannot solve this problem yet."
"It’s so amazing; I didn’t expect the Primordial Spirit Emergence and Sound Transmission over a thousand miles from the mythologies to actually exist..." Old Yi couldn’t help but sigh.
"Alright, back to business. What did you want to see me for?" Wang Ye asked.
"Yes, there is something," Old Yi hesitated, "Can you provide us with more Extraterrestrial Crystals? We can exchange them for resources."
Wang Ye: "Of course. They’re in the storage cabinet on the left. You can take some."
Old Yi was stunned: "No need to exchange resources?"
Wang Ye: "Not for now. I don’t lack resources at the moment, but I can’t guarantee that I won’t need anything later. I will definitely ask for your help then. After all, we’re in a cooperative state now; mutual aid is to be expected."
"Thank you." Old Yi quickly nodded and then carefully selected about a hundred grams of Extraterrestrial Crystal from the storage cabinet on the left and left the laboratory.
After Old Yi left, Wang Ye sighed slightly, "I didn’t expect communicating with humans in the Primordial Spirit state to be so exhausting."
The reason he said it was exhausting is not because the conversation consumed too much energy, but it was mentally taxing.
Even though he could communicate with Old Yi normally just now, due to a time difference of ten thousand to one between Primordial Spirit Emergence and normal activity, he was always operating at a time flow ratio of one ten-thousandth.
The brief minute of conversation with Old Yi felt as long as a week to his senses.
Wang Ye had to wait a long time after saying every sentence before Old Yi would start speaking, and it was also exhausting to listen. Every word uttered by Old Yi’s lips and tongue would break into countless syllables on an extremely long time scale.
Wang Ye needed to gather all the syllables after hearing a sentence to understand its content.
But he didn’t need to slow down when speaking to Old Yi, because speaking in the Primordial Spirit form wasn’t vocal; it directly transmitted an abstract thought concept to the other party’s Brain Domain rather than language.
Human language is usually extracted from memory by the brain and processed by specific areas of the cerebral cortex to express the corresponding meaning. Generally, people communicate through language, expressing thoughts. When thinking alone, a person usually talks to themselves as a habit, as if "speaking" in their mind. However, the brain works in an integrated manner, and when thinking about a problem, it involuntarily involves the language cortex, transforming thoughts into language.
But if someone hasn’t learned a language, their thinking wouldn’t involve the language cortex and would be purely abstract. The communication between Wang Ye and Old Yi earlier relied on pure abstract thinking, thus was unaffected by the time difference.
In reality, it’s very difficult for an ordinary person to achieve this because language has become a habit and instinct for them, like someone instinctively exclaiming "Wow" in Chinese when surprised, rather than emitting a beast-like roar. And people from different countries exclaim with different interjections when surprised, such as Americans with "Oh," "Wow," etc., which is subtly different from China.
For those accustomed to language, it’s difficult to think without it because their thinking is already tied to language, even their thinking habits are influenced by the style of their language.
Research shows that thinking in English makes thought patterns relatively more rational, and personality more optimistic and cheerful.
In contrast, thinking in Chinese or Japanese results in delicate thought patterns, capable of perceiving emotional experiences that English cannot.
Only a small number of highly intelligent people can effortlessly discard language habits and think in pure abstract terms.
For instance, when hungry, without saying "hungry" in their mind, they’d just experience a pure signal of hunger.
Wang Ye could do this, but Old Yi clearly could not.
So the thought signals Wang Ye transmitted would automatically convert into Chinese in Old Yi’s mind for understanding. This is why Old Yi didn’t notice anything unusual earlier.
After resting for a while, Wang Ye left the laboratory and continued to explore the outside world in the Primordial Spirit form.