What is the purpose of the existence of self-awareness? If only to survive, then non-self-aware creatures are capable of doing so.

So the question is, what is the use of self-awareness? You must know that wisdom and intelligence are actually different from the concepts of self-awareness, free will, and self-knowledge.

Animal experiments have shown that chimpanzees have higher intelligence than other orangutans, but unlike other orangutans, they are not aware of themselves in the mirror half the time.

We know that chimpanzees have a larger brain than their bodies, but their self-awareness is less developed than that of apes, and on the other hand, birds and monkeys have complex language skills in species other than humans...... Rather than our close relatives, who are thought to be "more sentient" apes.

"Perhaps, the perceptual system of living beings is only an evolutionary stage, or a direction of natural choice, and chimpanzees may have skipped this stage in the field of evolution, or they may have never stepped into it......"

Self-consciousness is not necessarily something necessary for survival, it is just something that human beings think should be "had".

From a psychological point of view, the main thing that the surface consciousness does is to extract a few words from the vast subconscious, revise and revise them, and process and refine them.

The superficial consciousness will take credit for this, but in fact, there is an area deep in our brain that is doing a good job of functioning the system, and it may be that the self-consciousness is a bureaucratic system that gets in the way. It's obstructive, slow-moving, aging, and likes to pick up the fruits of others.

To give you a quick overview, from a certain point in the evolutionary process, we begin to consciously think about judgment, but we don't do it very well.

Unconscious reflexes are faster than self-thinking and judging. When we feel a vehicle passing by, our consciousness doesn't even have time to react, and our body reacts faster.

It is also true that when you make a knee-jerk choice, you can do it without waiting for your conscious mind to "choose" to do so. Your body is already moving, one step ahead of your consciousness.

So what is the use of consciousness for humans, and from this level, it is nothing more than acting as an observer in the process, making you aware of the action and disguised as a commander who gives orders.

And by this time, this existence called "self-awareness" has become a burden on the efficient operation of the brain system......

"Herodia. I suspect that your power comes from this, with your Spear of the Inquisitor and the Black King's Fist of the Death Star Omen, using your authority as the Demon King. ”

Xiao Nan thought to herself as if she were talking to herself, and explained to everyone.

"You are the demon king of anti-self-consciousness, and you deny the 'uniqueness' of human consciousness, self-awareness, self-knowledge, and free will, which are denied existence in your realm......"

The realm dominated by Herodia's Demon King's authority. Even if we oppose all "attacks", "destruction", and "situations" that have self-consciousness to threaten ourselves.

"That's why this kind of attack on you with your self-knowledge is useless."

From the beginning. It didn't suffer any injuries, and the moment it burst out of the Demon King's egg, it gained the ability to ignore the attacks of the Black King and Lu Ming, which was the Demon King's level authority. That is, a cheating device at the level of the demon king.

"This is also the ability of the anti-self-conscious 'demon fool', immune to all attacks launched through self-judgment, haha. This is really an invincible force, and as long as you are still thinking with reason and judgment, all attacks are estimated to have no effect. ”

Theoretically, as long as the demon fool is dealing with an existence with self-knowledge, free will, and self-consciousness, he will not be in a position of defeat.

"You guy, you know this and let me attack Herodia!"

The First Born King Wannu opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of golden flames. The bottom of my heart is depressed and abnormal. It fought with Herodia for a long time, but only now did it realize that its attack was actually useless against the demon king.

Isn't this a waste of effort?! Even if you are a demon king, you can't toss around like this!

However, the First Born King Wannu did not stop, and it also figured out in the shortest possible time why Yonan would let himself attack Herodia with all his might. The opponent's demon king-level authority cannot be easily exposed, this is the strongest power of the demon king, and it is also its Agreus heel, exposing the true demon king's authority, and at the same time exposing his own identity and his own weaknesses.

So Herodia was clever enough not to explain, not to reveal, not even to slack off on her own moves, which was also to make everyone think that these attacks were effective against it.

On the one hand, he is consuming his own strength, and on the other hand, he is also finding out the true face of his demon king's authority.

Demon king-level battles are undoubtedly a state of unrestricted warfare, and they are not limited to the level of pure combat power.

The stellar helium-like furious golden flame blast continued to blast towards Herodia, and at this moment, the "Foolish Demon God", who had been simply bearing this attack, waved a hand.

It was a huge, pitch-black palm that poked out, blocking the golden flames in the sky.

Herodia finally struck again, and at this point, the true body of the demon king was pierced, so there was no intention of continuing to disguise.

Under the impetus of the black hand, space and time were chaotic, like a turbulent eruption of time and space, and suddenly, those golden flames were all fixed in the void as if they were still, this was just a moment, and in the next second, I saw Herodia wave her hand, and the golden flames in the sky rolled violently, swooping towards the First Born Wannu King and others.

This move is like a martial arts fight, with the other way, but also with the other body,

"Bastard!"

The First Born King Wannu was furious, and it opened its mouth to suck violently, and the golden flames in the sky were swallowed by it like a long whale sucking water.

These flames are the authority of the Demon King, and they are known as the "Sacred Flame of Ashurbanipal". And this is also the flame of the origin of the first born with a similar meaning, the "Ashurbanipal Flame" symbolizes the book burning incident from ancient times to the present, which is a civilization destruction event directed and staged by human beings.

And the most representative of this kind of cultural destruction is naturally the "burning of books", an event that is still deeply remembered in history. The most famous of these are, of course, the burning of the Library of Alexandria, and the burning of books by the Emperor of China.

…… Of course, there are many real book burnings in history, such as the burning of Manichaeans by the Roman emperors, the burning of Buddhist texts at Nalanda University by ******, the burning of the library of the University of Leuven by Nazi Germany in modern times, and even the Mosul Public Library in the 21st century.

These tragedies, which are almost incalculable in history, are undoubtedly the destruction of human spiritual civilization.

And the Demon King-level authority inherited by the First Born Wannu King is the evolved skill of this historical tragedy. The "Ashurbanipal Sacred Fire" is the earliest library vandalism of mankind and also symbolizes the burning of the library of Ashurbanipal in 612 BC.

If you look closely, you will see that this golden flame burns with endless words, which float in the flames like runes, turning into a sea of light and fire. It is an invisible force that ignites the soul and incinerates the visible and intangible matter with the flames.

Basically, the newborn King Wannu was confident in his own power, and his "Ashurbanipal Flame" was a flame that ignited civilization and wisdom, but this terrifying flame did not seem to be very threatening to Herodia. With an almost casual wave of her hand, Herodia reversed the "Sacred Flame of Ashurbanipal", which puzzled the firstborn King Wannu.

The "Sacred Flame of Ashurbanipal" can arouse the soul and will of all living beings, turn the rational into madness, turn the mild-tempered into a mob, and throw the right mind into confusion. This is also the fanatical and riotous pattern of the "Sacred Flame of Ashurbanipal", which leads all the wise species into a state of fanaticism and riot.

This invisible influence is much more powerful than simple destructive power, and it stands to reason that even a demon king-level existence should not be exempt from vulgarity. Even if you can ignore the destructive power of the stellar helium flash eruption, the "Sacred Flame of Ashurbanipal" can destroy the Demon King's superficial personality. Shattering the surface of the Demon King's incarnation, of course, if it is used to obliterate the raider, it is estimated that few people will be able to block this move.

But it is true that the flame of Ashurbanipal did not hurt the other party, and it did not even have any effect from the beginning.

"Enough, King Wannu, from the very beginning of the duel with you, Herodia hid her abilities, and the title of the Demon King of 'Ignorance' is also a cover-up, this guy's power includes anti-intelligence and anti-self-consciousness, because these two subjects are close, and your 'Sacred Fire of Ashurbanipal' is precisely restrained by it in terms of the nature of power......"

The Light of Anti-Wisdom and the Mist of the Deluded are also the powers that Herodia has acquired, but these two are the powers under the title of "ignorance", the power refined in the anti-self-consciousness, and the posture of the Demon King's Egg is also an excellent disguise.

"Then it's a complete waste of my energy for you to let me fight with it for so long."

The black giant opened his mouth unpleasantly, and his voice was like a loud bell, sonorous and powerful.

“…… Not really. Xiao Nan smiled calmly.

"Thanks to your intervention, it took so long, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to see through the reality of the witch Herodia."

This is normal, if they don't know the true face of the witch Herodia's demon power, then all their plans will be lost, and all their strategies will fail.

This time, their "Traveler's Clock" gambled almost everything in order to capture the Demon King-level Herodia.

This task, categorically not allowing failure, he reminded himself, while clenching his fists. (To be continued.) )