Lin Xixue thought that the prison had just mentioned, "If a pilgrim sees a strange fish that does not exist, he will still offer incense to the strange fish." The disciples in the temple need to stop it.
Why does the prison prevent pilgrims from offering incense to the strange fish?
Incense is offered to pilgrims in temples and dojos
Fragmented clues quickly reorganized in her mind, pointing to an obvious answer.
Incense has a specific meaning for them in this world!
It is as small as the Wuzeng Temple, which also enshrines statues. The owner and the embroidery queen used the Great Witch Zhu as a medium to solve problems for the villagers in Linghu Village, and at the same time they also received incense from the villagers.
Larger ones like this Sanyuan Temple actually rely on the surrounding pilgrims to come spontaneously to offer incense and obtain a steady stream of incense offerings.
Incense is meaningful to them, although Lin Xixue cannot tell what this meaning is at the moment - maybe it can enhance their power or something?
If this conjecture is true, then another inference can be drawn.
Since the incense has a specific meaning to them, the prison wants to prevent pilgrims from offering incense to these strange fish, indicating that the strange fish can also be blessed by the incense.
This strange fish that appeared in the pool is actually the same type of thing as Tianzun, Leizu, and City God!
After understanding this, we need to answer a more important question, that is, why does this strange fish appear in this three-dimensional view.
The prison hospital said that the strange fish was a hallucination caused by the disciple's unstable state of mind. It was obviously a random excuse and had no reference value.
The real reason is most likely that this strange fish appeared in the pond to compete for incense.
Based on these two conjectures and combined with the fragmented information obtained previously, Lin Xixue tried to restore the entire incident.
In the past month or two, some kind of strange fish have frequently appeared in the pond of Sanyuan Temple, and the meat of this strange fish has appeared inexplicably in the kitchen.
Once this kind of strange fish appears, it will attract pilgrims to offer incense, thus competing with the beings truly enshrined in Sanyuan Temple for incense.
On the one hand, the existence of the Sanyuan Temple requires incense, so the mountain cannot be closed, but pilgrims must continue to offer incense. But while offering incense, you need to be on guard against this strange fish snatching the incense.
On the other hand, all the disciples in the temple who have converted will have their minds eroded after seeing this strange fish.
Therefore, the prison hospital said that if you see this strange fish, you need to get the barrier-breaking pill yourself to suppress this impact on the mind.
As for eating this fish, maybe the mind will be corroded in a deeper way. After all, it is not difficult to guess from the conversation in the back of the mountain that Hao Zhi went crazy after eating this fish.
But there is one thing that doesn't make sense about this conjecture. If eating fish really causes more serious erosion, why does the prison hospital just let the disciples get the barrier-breaking pills and take them by themselves?
It doesn't seem to be much different from the treatment plan when seeing a strange fish.
After thinking for a moment, another incident emerged in her mind - erasing the memories of several Taoist boys through the Forgetting Pill.
That day, I and the other Taoist boys just heard the words "The Lei Zu we worship is fake", so they asked Gao Gong to trick them into taking the Forgetting Pill to erase their memories.
It can be seen that the high-ranking practitioners do not want this statement to spread.
Now the prison hospital says that if you feel like eating fish, you should take the Barrier-Breaking Pill yourself, and you can't talk nonsense in the temple and affect other people.
Lin Xixue suddenly realized what the two incidents had in common - what the Prison Court and Gao Gong did not want to be spread was actually some kind of "abnormal cognition", not the abnormality itself!
It doesn't matter if there is a strange fish in the pond, but if the strange fish is seen by disciples and pilgrims and spreads, problems will arise.
Because seeing strange fish itself is a kind of recognition of abnormality. Informing other people about this anomaly will spread "awareness of the anomaly."
It doesn't matter if you eat fish, but if this abnormal perception is spread, problems will arise.
Therefore, it is not only contact with anomalies that will erode the mind, but perhaps even more frightening is that the spread of "abnormal cognition" after contact with anomalies will lead to larger-scale group erosion.
But if we want to hinder the "cognition of abnormality", it is reasonable for the prison to declare that "abnormality is normal".
For example, instead of claiming that there are no spiritual fish in the pond, it is better to directly claim that there are spiritual fish in the pond. In this way, wouldn't everyone naturally avoid "cognitive anomalies"?
Instead of saying that it is abnormal to have fish in the kitchen, why not just say that we buy fish regularly, so that everyone will not feel any problem when eating fish.
Is it because the prison is not intelligent enough to think of this method? Or is there some information that it does not have that prevents the prison from making such a claim?
She couldn't explain this problem now.
But in any case, judging from Hao Zhi's example, once the abnormality itself is recognized, it will corrode the mind to a certain extent.
Before the erosion is completely completed, it may be possible to slow down the erosion process through the Forgetting Pill, or the Barrier Breaking Pill mentioned in the prison.
Once this erosion is completely completed, it will most likely be irreversible.
Just like Hao Zhi, he had already converted to the lineage of Shenxiao, but after the erosion was completed, he suddenly went crazy and thought that the Lei Ancestor he worshiped was fake.
In fact, at this time, his mind had been completely eroded by the strange fish, and he continued to spread this "abnormal knowledge" through yelling.
Therefore, the Supervisory Academy directly transformed him into a Leibu soldier, because from the perspective of the Supervisory Academy, Hao Zhi, whose mind was eroded by the strange fish, was already a hostile existence and was completely hopeless.
I caused trouble in Xinliang City that day, and Sanyuan Guan almost refined me into a Taoist soldier, probably for the same reason.
After sorting it out in this way, it is easy to explain why pilgrims released strange fish in the lotus pond.
She had already known before that these strange beings also had territorial divisions between each other, and they could not easily enter each other's territory on weekdays unless his chosen agent entered first.
These pilgrims who released the strange fish were obviously the chosen agents of the existence represented by the strange fish.
The reason why the disciple is asked to pay attention to the pilgrim who releases the strange fish is obviously to catch this agent and eliminate future troubles!
So now the situation facing the Three Yuan Guan is ready to emerge.
While the "Lei Ancestor disguised as a Confucian scholar" was robbed of his incense by this strange fish, this strange fish also spread the knowledge of abnormalities in various ways, eroding the minds of the disciples in the temple, thus leading to the reduction of the number of disciples.
Under this ebb and flow, in the end, the Sanyuan Guan will probably change its tune soon, and its incense will be completely stolen by this strange fish.
The Sanyuan Temple Supervisor was aware of this potential crisis, so while refusing to close the mountain, it also temporarily taught more Taoist disciples to offset the impact of the attrition of disciples.
Lin Xixue gradually understood everything, and felt the pleasure of solving a puzzle for the first time in a long time.
So she turned around and saw a strange fish hiding deep in the lotus pond.
A strange fish that felt very familiar to her
