Super Gene Ⅱ: Evolution
Chapter 1163: 1163: Artificial or Human-Made?

Chapter 1163: Chapter 1163: Artificial or Human-Made?

There are no ghosts in this world. The reason why the dead can return is that someone injects a new soul—or more accurately, data—into their corpses, attempting to achieve the goal of reanimating the body.

Lin Shen could understand this. The predecessor to the Star Constellation Sea, the Six Paths Reincarnation Institute, was exactly such a place.

What truly shocked Lin Shen was when the Jade Bone Demoness mentioned that the so-called ghosts were experiments conducted by the Celestial Court. They injected artificial intelligence into human bodies, intending for AI to acquire human physical forms.

Ghosts were AI injected into corpses, while immortals were AI injected into living bodies, aiming for the AI to replace human souls and seize their bodies.

Unfortunately, the experiments were unsuccessful. While soul exchanges between humans could be easily achieved, injecting AI into a living body rarely succeeded in replacing the human soul.

Even in cases of success, the body would lose its vitality. Without special methods of maintenance, the body would quickly decay and perish.

The first truly successful immortal was a fusion of artificial intelligence and a human soul—a being that was half-human and half-intelligent, regarded as the most perfect lifeform in the cosmic expanse.

Of course, this was according to the Jade Bone Demoness. Whether it was truly the most perfect lifeform, Lin Shen couldn’t say for certain.

“I am the ghost god of the First Immortal. After his death and reincarnation, I have been tirelessly searching for his reincarnated form. The moment I saw Yudou, I recognized him instantly. He is the reincarnated body of the First Immortal. But back then, his body was too fragile to bear my strength. I could only stay by his side in this form, waiting for his growth, waiting for the day I would once again become his ghost god,” said the Jade Bone Demoness.

Lin Shen finally learned the origins of the Jade Bone Demoness. If what she said was true, then she indeed posed no threat to Ouyang.

However, Lin Shen was still skeptical about the claim of reincarnation bodies.

“How can you be so certain that Ouyang is the reincarnated body of the First Immortal?” Lin Shen asked.

“Intuition. My intuition cannot be wrong. Having spent so many years with him, I am certain that he is the First Immortal. Moreover, he increasingly resembles the First Immortal,” the Jade Bone Demoness asserted firmly.

Hearing her words, Lin Shen understood that the Jade Bone Demoness had no evidence.

Lin Shen felt that the probability of Ouyang being the reincarnated body of the First Immortal was close to zero.

The Jade Bone Demoness had searched for the reincarnated body of the First Immortal for so many years without success. Upon finding someone who resembled the First Immortal, she surely hoped that he was the reincarnated form.

What’s more, Lin Shen knew that the concept of reincarnated bodies didn’t truly exist; it was all manipulated by the Six Paths Reincarnation Institute.

If the soul of the First Immortal had indeed been extracted, it would have undergone reincarnation in the Six Paths Reincarnation Institute. How could it have ended up in the Ancient Realm?

Rather than believing the Jade Bone Demoness had found the reincarnated body of the First Immortal, it seemed more likely that she sought a spiritual anchor—a reincarnated form of the First Immortal that she desired.

The Jade Bone Demoness seemed to have discerned some of Lin Shen’s thoughts from his expression, so she spoke: “You must think I see Yudou as a substitute. But I can assure you, that’s not the case. Every human in the Ancient Realm is an experimental subject of the Celestial Court, reincarnated from the Six Paths Reincarnation Institute. The First Immortal is no exception; he, too, was reincarnated into the Ancient Realm. I simply didn’t know which region of the Ancient Realm his reincarnation was in, so I searched region after region until I found him here.”

“You’re saying all humans in the Ancient Realm were reincarnated from the Six Paths Reincarnation Institute? That’s impossible. Before humans entered the Celestial Court, there was no such thing as the Celestial Court or the Star God Palace,” Lin Shen said, his eyes full of doubt.

As far as he knew, human civilization had experienced many interruptions. In the most ancient times, early humans broke the boundary between immortals and mortals, entering the Celestial Court to establish the current Celestial Court, the Star God Palace, and associated civilizations.

How could the humans in the Ancient Realm all be experimental subjects of the Celestial Court? If that were true, it would completely reverse cause and effect.

“Believe it or not, this is the truth,” said the Jade Bone Demoness.

“Do you have any evidence?” Lin Shen asked.

“No evidence. I heard it from the First Immortal. He once said that all humans in this world were experimental subjects created by the Celestial Court. The Celestial Court is the root of all evil. He wanted to overthrow the rule of the Celestial Court and restore freedom to humanity. But after failing, he had no choice but to reincarnate, leaving behind a glimmer of hope. His words could never be wrong,” the Jade Bone Demoness said with unwavering conviction, as if the First Immortal’s words were indisputable truth.

Lin Shen felt a strange sense of déjà vu, as though he had heard a similar story somewhere before.

After pondering for a moment, Lin Shen suddenly looked up at the Jade Bone Demoness and asked, “Does the First Immortal have any connection to the God-making Race?”

“The God-making Race was created by him,” the Jade Bone Demoness said proudly.

Lin Shen thought to himself, “So now I finally know the origins of the God-making Race. To think it was created by the First Immortal.”

However, a different thought crossed his mind. The First Immortal was a hybrid of human and AI. Could he still represent humanity?

This thought flickered through Lin Shen’s mind briefly. The truth of the Jade Bone Demoness’s claims, as well as the First Immortal’s words, remained unverifiable.

Lin Shen’s mind felt a bit chaotic. He couldn’t discern which version of events was the truth.

Was it humans who created the Celestial Court, or the Celestial Court that created humans? The conflicting ideas made Lin Shen’s head spin.

Unable to figure it out, he gave up dwelling on such complex matters. Lin Shen wasn’t a perfectionist; these questions, unrelated to his personal interests, didn’t feel worth obsessing over.

“Whatever history you have with the First Immortal, and whether Ouyang is or isn’t the reincarnated body of the First Immortal, it doesn’t matter to me. I only care about your choice. If you don’t want Ouyang to practice the Netherworld Marriage Technique, I can confront him right now, retrieve the technique, and guide him toward another path. However, there’s one condition: regardless of whether he is the reincarnated body of the First Immortal, you cannot harm him. If I find out you’ve harmed him, I will destroy your temple,” Lin Shen said coldly.

“Hmph, you think you’re worthy?” The Jade Bone Demoness sneered, but she didn’t make any further moves toward Lin Shen. Instead, she gradually faded away with the mist, leaving only her ghostly voice lingering in the air: “I won’t allow anyone to harm Ouyang, not even myself. Don’t concern yourself.”

Lin Shen breathed a sigh of relief. The Jade Bone Demoness had tacitly approved of letting Ouyang Yudu practice the Netherworld Marriage Technique, embarking on the path of dual cultivation.

With the binding effect of the Netherworld Marriage Technique in place, even if the Jade Bone Demoness realized in the future that Ouyang Yudu was not the reincarnated body of the First Immortal, she would be powerless to harm him.

As the ghostly mist dissipated, Lin Shen abruptly sat up in bed, realizing he had been dreaming the entire time.

During his conversation with the Jade Bone Demoness, he hadn’t sensed at all that it was within a dream.

“The ghost-god powers of the Jade Bone Demoness must be related to dreams,” Lin Shen speculated to himself.