Strange inner world.

"I still don't understand you very well, what should I be worthy of?"

"There is no need to understand, for now, in the future, you will understand naturally"

'Your words of his seem convincing somehow'

"I think we should get out of here because after all your time is limited and it would be a shame if you were left wondering what this place is."

Then he turns around and starts walking towards the exit.

Seeing that he is leaving I just follow him.

"Hey, wait a minute, I forgot to ask but who was that person who was practically the same as me"

I ask him one of the doubts he had.

Then without turning around he answers me.

"Oh, he? Well, in simple words, he is you."

"!?, What, what do you mean?"

"As I hear it, he is a part of you while you are a part of him."

'Part of me? That's impossible'

"That shouldn't be possible"

"Well, in this place everything is possible"

"What do you mean, where are we?"

Then without pausing he answers me slowly.

"Hasn't he figured it out yet?"

"As I said, I'm not understanding you at all, tell me once and for all"

"This place is you"

"?"

'Me? This guy you're talking about, are you sure he's right in the head? he has me talking about nonsense all the time'

"Or rather a representation of you; you can call it your inner world"

'Inner world? Like wuxia novels?'

"But as I said, it's just a representation, it's not a real world so only you can enter here unless you allow someone else to enter"

Listening to his words I can guide myself because in my previous life I read web novels about the cultivation world and I know more or less how it works'

But still, this is strange.

"How is it possible for me to condense an inner world; wasn't it necessary to have transcendental talents and cultivation methods?"

If I remembered correctly, creating an inner world where life could exist was only possible for transcendental beings like the children of destiny, and even they could only achieve it at a very high level despite the need for specific cultivation techniques; which makes me feel like he's lying to me because I don't think I'm a child of destiny, to begin with, and I don't have transcendental talents or primordial chaos cultivation techniques, no, I don't even have cultivation techniques to begin with so I haven't even started to cultivate.

"You are misunderstanding, this is not a condensed world, as I said before this is a representation of you for what this world is you, if I had to say the answer of when it was condensed then I would say that it was condensed when you were born"

"What? When was I born?"

'Maybe it means when I was born in this world but even so, this still makes no sense'

"What you say still doesn't make sense and if it did, how is it possible to be here, I wouldn't be entering 'I' inside 'I'; it's as if you were telling me that I can see inside my eyes with my eyes without needing to a mirror, it's absurd plus I don't think I'm strong enough to have an inner world"

"As I told you, you are confusing this place, this is a representation of you so you don't need any level of power because your very existence makes this place possible"

'I understand a little but sometimes I don't'

"I still don't understand you very well"

"Well, let's say this place is your condensed imagination that represents who you are"

'Now I understand better'

"So you're telling me that this place is like my reflection in the mirror?"

"You can put it like this"

"Well, I don't see many images of me, here there is only a castle inside a forest stuck in a lagoon"

"You're wrong on that point too, as I told you, this place is a representation of you so this place shows a way that you can better understand yourself because if you tried to understand yourself directly then you might end up more confused and could regress in his understanding of himself"

'With your words, I think I'm already confused enough'

"And then how can you explain your existence, I don't see that you represent something of me besides that you have your conscience so you must be a person independent of me"

Hearing my words, he turns half his head towards me.

Keeping his smile without stopping to walk he answers me.

"You are wrong on that point too, I am not an individual of my own, like everything in this place I am you but I only represent a part of you"

"I don't see that you look like me"

"That is because I am not a representation of his physical appearance or genetic code, I am part of his emotional state"

Hearing his words reminds me of a movie I saw where emotions had thoughts of their own.

"Then you are one of my emotions"

"No, but maybe you could define me as something similar to your superego"

'Though your explanation is questionable I can only accept it for now

(PA: If you want to know what superego means then google it, you are just a click away)

"So you are my morals?"

"Something like that"

"And then if you are my morals then where are the rest, I don't think that only you represent me"

"About that, just like the human body, this place is vast and complex so you're just looking at the surface like when you look at your hand; you should take a closer look to know that your hand is made of more than just muscles." and skin, the same thing happens here, you must understand how this place works to understand how this place represents you"

"Can you speak in a simpler language?"

"When you came here did you notice that the sky was dark?"

"Yes, what's up?"

"That gloomy tone of the sun means that you are sad, stressed, and many other things but inside you"

"Sad? But before entering the lake the sun was clear"

"That's because you have those emotions but deep down inside of you where you can barely tell."

"I understand but why is this place so dark"

That sun looks like a dark object surrounded by a faint halo of color that barely illuminates this place.

"It's not so bad before this place had only a few small rays of light unlike now that the lighting can reach every corner of this place so compared to before this place is very well lit now"