I'm Really Going to Become an Immortal
Chapter 70 - 66: Does the Soul Exist? (10k Completed on the First Day)

Chapter 70: Chapter 66: Does the Soul Exist? (10k Completed on the First Day)

Watching the rain outside from within a cave was a unique and tranquil experience.

Through the cave opening, you could see raindrops falling like strands of pearl curtains, seeming to cut off the outside world’s bustle with a screen of water.

The rain washed over the earth, cleansing all things and imbuing the originally silent forest with vibrant life. The green leaves, nourished by the rain, appeared even greener and ready to drip with life; rocks, soil, all soaked by the rain, turned deep and substantial.

Chen Yun lit a bonfire at the mouth of the cave, enjoying this unique tranquility while appreciating the fresh world after the rain, feeling a detachment and open-mindedness far removed from the mundane world.

Although the cave was littered with corpses.

It didn’t affect Chen Yun’s contemplative mood while sitting at the entrance.

Even before Chen Yun had sat down to wait for the rain to cease, he had already dealt with the bodies.

First, he activated his much-enhanced Telekinesis to form a shield above him like an umbrella, bringing back the bald man’s body from outside.

Then.

He took a dagger and gave each of the thirteen bodies three more stabs, then piled them up in a corner of the cave and used rubble from inside the cave to bury them.

He planned to wait until the rain stopped, then bring over the bodies from the remains of the wooden hut and bury them all deep in this cave, before collapsing the entrance to the cave on the outside.

Finally, remove any traces of his left belongings, fingerprints, footprints, and the like.

In this way, this first murder disposal work was almost over.

Even though this was deep in the mountains, where people rarely ventured, caution was still essential.

Sitting beside the bonfire, if you momentarily overlooked the rows of bodies behind.

The noisy yet peaceful scene of rain in front was indeed calming.

The rainwater, following the rugged mountain rock crevices, collected into trickling streams that flowed tirelessly on towards the distance, winding along their way.

The world was enveloped in a layer of misty water vapor, as if shrouded in a light veil, making the surrounding scenery appear both hidden and unveiled, adding a touch of mystery and poetry.

Looking into the distance.

Chen Yun remembered the foolishly endearing black bear, not knowing where it was sheltering from the rain. Perhaps it was awkwardly nestled at the base of a large tree, its fur all matted with water. Or maybe it had just found a small cave to rest in temporarily, struggling to curl up its bulky body.

Chen Yun also thought of Bai jin, the silly dog, wondering how Bai Shi was taking care of him. Was Bai Shi currently troubled by Bai jin’s bowel movements?

Chen Yun’s thoughts wandered further to his family far away in Jiangnan Province, his mother at home overseeing workers renovating his grandfather’s house that had been left behind before New Year; his father and brother working and studying in Runzhou City. He wondered if their daily lives were still joyful? If they had any worries?

Chen Yun’s mind drifted.

He thought of the black bear and Bai jin, Bai Shi, and his distant family in Jiangnan Province.

Looking at the curtain of rain, he let his mind wander randomly for a long time.

He didn’t feel the slightest ripple from the neat and efficient killing he had just committed.

This was one of the influences brought about by the change in strength.

It is indeed difficult for humans to fear ants.

If something truly scared him, then let it become a ghost and come to claim his life.

In that case, he might actually feel a tinge of fear.

Upon this thought.

Chen Yun suddenly had a bright idea.

In this world, are there ghosts?

Or to put it another way, when a person or any living being dies, is there a soul that emerges?

The soul, non-material in nature, resides in the body as its master and without it, the body is dead.

Science could not prove its existence.

Regarding this issue, the him of the past had neither the ability nor the courage to explore.

But now, having just wrapped up the crime scene, he couldn’t suppress his curiosity and decisively began to try using spiritual power to carefully perceive everything around him.

Now his spiritual power had grown stronger again.

If souls truly existed, might he be able to perceive them?

If those guys from the Spiritual Cultivation Association had turned into ghosts, it would be perfect to test if he could kill them again using spiritual power.

Thinking this,

Chen Yun’s Transparent World 3.0 unleashed its full force.

In this moment, the entire world around him was especially vivid; the sound of every raindrop hitting the ground was perfectly replayed in his mind.

He could even notice the ripples caused by the rain falling into the puddles on the nearby waterlogged ground, all clearly perceived and recreated in his mind.

Not to mention, he could also observe:

The minute magnitude of leaves trembling under the rain’s pelt, the slow absorption of rainwater by the humus layer of soil and fallen leaves, the rustling movements of insects hiding in the soil due to the rain...

He temporarily disregarded all this plethora of information.

He reduced the observation intensity of his vision, hearing, and smell to the lowest degree, leaving only his spiritual power to focus on sensing.

He didn’t believe that his current vision, hearing, or smell could detect the existence of souls; it would be better to lower their CPU usage.

He dedicated all his attention to spiritual power, focusing on trying to sense souls.

In a flash, only the spiritual power of Transparent World 3.0 began its carpet-style search of the surroundings.

It didn’t take much time.

Chen Yun had perceived everything within an eighty-meter spherical space around him with crystal clarity.

With every inch scanned by his spiritual power, including the tiny indentations and protrusions on the cave walls and the curves of corners, were all seen with impeccable detail.

He could even create a nearly zero-error 3D model of the cave in his mind, complete with the color perception he now possessed —this was an absolute perfect replica model of the cave.

And yet, despite all this.

He still perceived nothing.

Under the inch-by-inch carpet-style perception of the spiritual power, there was still no detection of a soul’s existence.

In the empty cave, there were only the corpses and himself.

However, such an inspection couldn’t make Chen Yun certain that souls didn’t exist.

He felt it might be because the bodies had been cold for too long, causing the souls to dissipate.

Or perhaps he still couldn’t perceive them now.

Even if souls might truly not exist, he couldn’t just conclude that they didn’t.

In summary, more sample experiments were needed to preliminarily confirm a theory.

And he also needed to explore whether animals possessed souls. After all, if souls really existed, it wasn’t necessarily only humans who had them.

He could later visit crematoriums, hospitals, cemeteries, slaughterhouses, and vegetable markets to observe a large number of death samples.

Using a sufficient number of samples, he would build a sufficiently rational inference.

Chen Yun was quite interested in such conjectures and experiments; his mood couldn’t help but become somewhat excited as a result.

Exploring the essence of the world felt incredibly interesting to him.

Do souls exist?

This has been a question explored by people since ancient times.

If souls do indeed exist, can current science explain them? Can it clarify their form of existence? Can it utilize them?

If souls exist, then might those fantastical elements from mythological stories, such as the Underworld and such, also exist?

He was very curious about these questions.

However, one thing was certain.

If souls really did exist, many of his actions and ways of dealing with things would change.

He would become more cautious, more inclined to stay home and reduce going out—after all, if souls existed, it was hard to say that places like the Underworld didn’t.

Therefore, this question wasn’t just interesting enough to pique his curiosity; it indirectly related to his future safety and was of utmost importance.

"After returning, I can almost try to do these experiments, to observe those places for a while."

He murmured to himself.

Chen Yun suddenly looked up toward the mouth of the cave.

The unceasing drizzling rain seemed to have finally drawn to a close.

Though it was still raining in the sky, the density of the rainwater had visibly decreased, and the dark clouds had also become much thinner.

He fell silent for a moment.

Sure enough, not long after, the clouds dispersed, the mist cleared, and the sky brightened after the rain.

The continuous rain finally came to a halt, its pitter-patter gradually disappearing into the air.

Dewdrops on the leaves were crystal clear, like gemstones embedded on them, twinkling brilliantly in the sunlight.

A gorgeous rainbow stretched across the horizon, becoming the crown atop this forest.

Sunlight pierced through the clouds, casting warm and bright beams onto the earth; everything returned to tranquility and harmony. It seemed as if the storm that had just passed was merely a brief symphony between heaven and earth, and now the music had ended, the crowd dispersed, with lingering notes and extended meanings.

Only the moist earth and the fresh scent lingering in the air remained.

That was the scent of ozone formed by lightning and oxygen, the smell of geosmin released by actinomycetes, and the fragrance of plant oils after plant dust was washed away...

This complex scent.

It could bring back memories of childhood, and it could also make one feel a bit more relaxed.

"Clean up the traces, then head home."

Chen Yun murmured to himself, then casually extinguished the campfire at his feet.

This trip away from home had been rather long.

It was time to go home.

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The path down the mountain was difficult to walk on.

The rain had made the layer of decaying plant matter on the ground damp, and the soil mixed with the moisture turned into mud.

Alternating steps deep and shallow was the norm.

If one was not careful and fell, it was easy to get scratched by the omnipresent branches and thorns.

Even worse would be accidentally rolling down a sloped path.

However, Chen Yun, who had finished cleaning up all traces and began descending the mountain, did not follow the usual path at all.

There was no question of it being difficult to walk.

Inhaling the unique fresh scent after the rain,

Chen Yun swiftly leaped from tree to tree, his movements light and fast, even more agile than the monkeys that lived in the wilderness.

When coming across trees that were spaced a bit too far apart, he would use his claws to grip onto the trunk; otherwise, he would simply leap among the branches.

Before long,

within the sensing range of Transparent World 3.0, traces of human activity began to appear, along with some trodden grass paths and brick roads.

This was the outer edge of this deep forest.

This was also the spot where Chen Yun had entered the mountain, and his increasingly strong memory was clear on this.

Thus, Chen Yun leapt down from the tree.

He landed precisely on a brick, avoiding getting his feet wet with mud water.

Although his clothes were worn and tattered due to hurrying, and his shoes had become ragged from the sudden bursts of force used in climbing,

he still didn’t really want to get himself dirty.

He could use telekinesis at any time to prevent mud from splattering onto him, but Chen Yun had used a weak telekinesis to block the rain earlier and now needed to rest for a while.

Thinking this,

he was about to move away,

when suddenly, something familiar appeared within the sensing range of Transparent World 3.0.

Chen Yun looked over in surprise.

He saw a black bear, standing not far away, quietly looking at him.

The black bear was somewhat damp, but it didn’t seem to be the kind of soaked-through chilling wetness; rather, it was the wetness from running through the rain-dampened jungle, with most of the water on its face and sides of its body.

Clearly, as soon as the rain stopped, it had come this way.

Perhaps the rain had caused Chen Yun’s scent to disappear, making it difficult for the bear to find him, but the bear clearly remembered where this Two-legged Beast often roamed.

Thus, it had clambered to the foot of the mountain early on.

The two didn’t approach each other but silently looked at each other through many trees.

"What’s up? Want some more good food?"

"Xiong Da, I’m leaving now."

"I’ll bring you something delicious next time."

Chen Yun chuckled lightly, then turned around and ran down the mountain without hesitation.

He was quite fond of this silly bear, not only dumb and adorable but also remarkably cushy to use as a punching bag.

But...

The black bear clearly belonged to this wilderness,

Not to the cities where humans dwelt.

Perhaps in the future, when he was wandering around the world, he would come back and take it with him.

But...

That was the future, not now.

Chen Yun was aware that he, who had only undergone slumber evolution four times, was not strong enough!

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