At least from the information Lin An had come across and the knowledge system he had built for himself, it shouldn't have been like this.
The Furnace Core devours not the human soul, but the human spirit!
The human soul represents the present, while the spirit represents the past. Therefore, the Witch-hunting Knights becoming Stone Treasure-like statues isn't because they lost their souls, but rather because of a complete severance between the present and the past.
A person who has severed their past becomes rootless in the present. Just like a plant without roots or a power strip without a plug, their present comes to a standstill.
Is that so?
Lin An still needed more research.
But if his line of thinking was correct, the approach to bring all the Witch-hunting Knights who had turned into statues worldwide back to life would be—to build a mental bridge that connects the spirit of the past with the soul of the present.
