Before I became the legendary boss

Xuan Yun returned to the fairyland with the banyan potted plant in his hands.

The aura of the fairy world is pure and uncomplicated, and the environment is even more fertile.He found a valley and cut out a side of the world, and since then he has lived in a hut with banyan trees.

After Xuanyun planted He Rong carefully, he searched around for various natural and earth treasures and fairy rain nourishment, which he added with pure fairy energy to encourage irrigation every day.I hope that he can grow up overnight like the ancestor did back then.But after a hundred days, the aerial root was still unmoved, standing there quietly, looking extremely weak.

What is the reason for this?

Xuanyun read all the ancient books, looking for experts from the Three Realms to solve his doubts.Some people said that it was because the aerial roots were severely damaged and there was no turning point; others told him that ordinary trees are not suitable for immortal soil, so Xuanyun's actions are undoubtedly pulling back the seedlings and will only drown the tree alive.

Xuan Yun didn't believe it, he managed to grab a chance, how could he stop here?So he worked hard to improve his cultivation, and spent a hundred years rising to Da Luo Jinxian.Since then, he has escaped from the Three Realms, crossed time and space, and went to another world to find the answer.

The Buddha said that there are three thousand worlds, but these three thousand are just an imaginary number. The real other world is as vast as stars and endless.Xuan Yun raised He Rong's body and soul body in the magic vessel, and took him to various weird worlds.In some worlds, there are many races and people are just one of them, in some worlds, people lie down, dream and work all to machines, and in other worlds, there are noisy and chaotic worlds full of fights... Xuanyun spent hundreds of years traveling through these worlds.As hopes were shattered again and again, exhaustion and longing accumulated like a tide, and the only motivation to support his stumbling forward was the small warmth like fireflies.

That was He Rong's extremely weak soul of fate.Perhaps Li Shixiu dealt with it in time that day, and the disciples of the Baicao Pavilion pushed the furnace cover by mistake, so He Rong's soul did not dissipate, but parasitized in this air root.Although his earth soul did not go to the underworld to join the karmic reincarnation, his seven souls dissipated in the process.

The seven souls are joy, anger, sorrow, fear, love, hatred, and desire, which are what people often call the seven emotions.The three souls govern the spirit, and the seven souls belong to matter.He Rong's body is unwilling to grow up, weak and incomplete, so it is not enough to give birth to seven souls.Even the soul of fate is like a candle in the wind, as if it will go out at any moment...

Xuan Yun faintly noticed that the reason why He Rong was not moved by external forces was because he was subconsciously resisting changes.The child seemed to wrap himself in a thick shell, and fell asleep peacefully.Since he didn't want to come out, why didn't he go in and investigate... In desperation, Xuanyun had no choice but to take the risk.

This step is extremely risky.Because Xuanyun's primordial spirit is too powerful, while He Rong's soul is incomplete.It's like trying too hard for a big ship to sail into a pinhead-sized port.If he entered by force, He Rong's soul consciousness would be completely devoured by Xuan Yun.Xuanyun had no choice but to endure the severe pain and separated a wisp of his soul.This is not a normal distraction, it is completely self-defeating.This method of cutting the feet to fit the shoes is extremely exhausting to the soul.But Xuanyun was willing to take the risk of falling in state and insufficiency of mind and soul, rather than let He Rong suffer the slightest harm.

In this way, after going through all kinds of hardships, Xuan Yun's distraction finally managed to sneak into the inner scene of He Rong's soul, that is, the depths of his consciousness.To Xuanyun's surprise, this place is not the darkness he imagined, but a well-organized small world that has already taken shape——

The surface of the earth is a desert, and the buildings are underground. Many robots are busy collecting and preserving cultural relics for humans, and at the same time, they are constantly studying human thoughts and behaviors.

This scene is clearly derived from the patchwork of several worlds that Xuanyun has experienced.

When Xuan Yun was dumbfounded by the scene in front of him, the master of this world, the robot in the form of He Rong, also appeared in front of him.As expected, he didn't know the truth, and played the role of [AI robot researcher] conscientiously.He didn't notice the arrival of Xuan Yun, an outsider, even though the other party was standing in front of him at this moment, looking at him tenderly and full of sadness.

[Setting] The reason why this magic weapon is judged as a rare and rare heaven-level magic weapon is because it also has the function of self-expansion in addition to receiving things.It can read and refine the external environment by itself, and store it as a new mustard illusion in the magic weapon.This derivation process unknowingly affected He Rong, who was also in the magic weapon, and made him come into contact with those various worlds unconsciously, and built this world accordingly.

This is both a good thing and a bad thing.On the plus side, this shows that He Rong's thinking is still active in the subconscious, and there is still energy to support this dream; but the bad thing is that due to excessive obsession and incomplete soul, He Rong completely regards himself as a robot, and can't remember what he is. who.

Fortunately, there is still a medium in Xuanyun's hands that connects his soul - Zhen Wujing.

Back then, Zhenwujing formed a soul contract with He Rong, and Xuan Yun was able to enter He Rong's inner scene through this mirror.Of course he has a way to get He Rong to notice him, but this will inevitably break the [rules] of this small world, and the owner of this world will inevitably suffer a certain backlash.In order to avoid this consequence, Xuan Yun tried to communicate with him only by voice.

After calling for a long time, He Rong finally noticed the existence of a special sound source from outside.

【Who are you?Is it an AI network administrator? 】

"..."

This was the first time Xuanyun heard He Rong's voice in thousands of years.That clear voice made Xuan Yun burst into tears in a daze.too long.Really too long.It was so long that Xuanyun almost thought everything was a dream, and it was so long that he was tortured by despair countless times and almost went crazy.But the child is still alive.Even if he completely forgot about himself and Xuanyun.

But he is still alive.

The lacrimal gland is like a broken water pump, pumping the overflowing emotions in the heart into tears non-stop.His mind was completely overwhelmed by the stormy waves of emotions, and he couldn't even utter a single syllable.Every corner of his body was overwhelmed with emotion for this fact.

However, He Rong didn't know about all this at this time, and he still reported it sternly.

[My research has recently hit a bottleneck, and I was unable to write a progress report on time, and the application was delayed two weeks later. 】

"..."

【Do you approve it? 】

"..."

Xuanyuan took a deep breath.

"...What is the content of your research?"

[Human "feelings". 】

He Rong replied.

[I have consulted a lot of literature, but still can't figure it out. "Emotion" has no form and cannot be measured.It seems that it can be observed, but many times it lacks authenticity and data support.It comes on suddenly, sometimes lasts a long time, and sometimes goes away suddenly.It cannot be simply defined as any one of physiological, physical or chemical changes. 】

[But it does exist.Numerous documents prove that it has participated in many major turning points in human history and the derivation of civilization.It comes in a wide variety and even reinvents itself.It is almost similar to a human disease called "cancer".I really don't understand all this.Is it because I'm not human? 】

He Rong paused.

[However, humans do not allow AI robots to be equipped with "emotional modules", even if that module does not seem to be lethal. 】

He looked very sorry.

Xuanyun suddenly realized that he had made a mistake for a long time.

He used to do everything possible to prevent He Rong from being polluted by the troubled times, so as to save him from the suffering of the seven emotions and six desires.But this is entirely from a "human" point of view.Taoism emphasizes beheading the three corpses to get rid of obsession, and Buddhism also uses precepts, concentration and wisdom to suppress the three unvirtuous roots.But in He Rong's eyes, the seven emotions and six desires are not the root of karma, but the root of all evil.He sincerely wants to get close to people and understand everything about them.

This is probably the key to awakening He Rong.

Just relying on the illusion in [Moment] is not enough to wake him up.Is there any way for He Rong to get in touch with people and things in this state, and to gradually wake up in the interaction with many people?

Dreamland, interaction, virtuality, illusion——

This is the origin of "Starlight Years".

Xuanyun chose to launch an immersive virtual game transformed from [Setsuna] in a world where life is relatively comfortable and everyone pursues pleasure.Because he has reached the Golden Immortal level, Xuanyun can interfere with [laws] to a certain extent.Therefore, this game that surpasses human intelligence and has an extremely realistic experience did not arouse any doubts, but quickly became popular, attracting more and more people to play.

In the Starlight Chronicle, each copy is a mustard illusion, with its own [rules] from the beginning of its birth.What Xuanyun has to do is to add content suitable for people to participate on the basis of the [rules].Under this instruction, the dungeon will automatically transform the [rules] into [game rules] according to Xuanyun's request, and gradually adjust according to people's feedback, so that the content, type and playability of the game will continue to improve.

At first, the operation of all this depended entirely on the power of Xuanyun's primordial spirit.But after that, more and more players participated, and there were countless mortals who were connected to [Setsuna] at the same time, so Xuanyun had to ask for something from them to fill the internal friction - that is [coins].

Regardless of the form, coins have always been objects of desire/ideas that circulate in the hands of people and gather the essence of "heaven, earth, and people".Therefore, the energy contained in it can fully meet the daily operation of the magic weapon.The more money you get from players, the more energy you have, and the game can continue to innovate to meet the needs of different players. In a sense, it is taken from the people and used by the people.

However, when the Starlight Chronicle was widely acclaimed in the outside world, He Rong was still in a dream.Even though Xuanyun kept calling for his soul consciousness through Zhenwujing, he refused to answer.Xuanyun couldn't help it, so he had to distract his attention again and enter his inner scene to directly attract the soul.

The accident happened at this time.

Due to the continuous consumption of the power of the primordial spirit during this period of time, plus the damage caused by the forced distraction again, the strand of primordial spirit that Xuan Yun separated was shattered.Although he quickly took remedial measures to preserve his main consciousness and most of his mana, a small fragment was still lost and flowed into the vast mustard illusion.