Cultivating Immortality Starts with Rubbing a Computer

Chapter 25 Artistic Conception
After the cultivator's "spirit" is sublimated into "divine consciousness", the sea of ​​consciousness will gradually replace the brain and become the carrier of the cultivator's memory, personality, and spirit.

This means that the monk's training process is like walking on thin ice. If he is not careful, he may lose himself or even go crazy.

However, most of the exercises have stood the test of time and are extremely stable. Practitioners only need to practice step by step, and there will usually be no problems.

However, breakthroughs, enlightenment, inner demons, and other factors can disrupt this stable state. Fang Jun is currently experiencing this.

Because he arbitrarily changed his martial arts skills, he still encountered an accident even with Yuanshen No. 2 as a backup.

"But why am I okay now? I feel like my thinking is normal."

"No, actually, I'm already having problems. It's just that under the coordination of Yuanshen No. 2, my thinking can still function according to the previous mode. To a certain extent, this can be called human-machine integration, or it can be called a fully automatic hosting mode."

When Fang Jun has nothing to do, he usually tinkers with algorithms, converts his thinking patterns into codes and enters them into Yuanshen No. 2, and even constructs a complex cognitive architecture.

Although he is just one person, as a cultivator, the thinking speed of his brain and sea of ​​consciousness is twenty times faster than that of ordinary people, and his efficiency is extremely high.

This structure is certainly not perfect, it is only human-like, but when it is combined with Fang Jun's sea of ​​consciousness, these shortcomings are compensated.

For example, Fang Jun usually uploads fragments of his soul to the computer. Although these fragments are incomplete, they cannot be pieced together to form the complete Fang Jun.

But after combining with his sea of ​​consciousness, it can restore his original thinking pattern.

To put it more vividly, the fragments of Fang Jun's humanity are stored in the computer, while his thinking has become more divine.

Now, with the help of Yuanshen No. 2, his humanity is returning.

This is the principle of the "Highest Level Cognitive Anchoring Protocol" developed by Fang Jun - it combines the mathematics and computer technology of the previous life, and the sea of ​​consciousness and natal magic weapon technology of this life, which can be called the crystallization of technology and cultivation.

"I need to restore the structure of my sea of ​​consciousness. This isn't difficult. My sea of ​​consciousness carries my past memories, but my thought patterns have been distorted, just like a person going crazy."

"But now, I'm using the past thinking patterns of Yuanshen No. 2 to activate the memories in my sea of ​​consciousness and gradually restore my original thinking structure."

"Plus, as a cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage, my 'self' still exists in the brain of my physical body and has not yet fully integrated into the sea of ​​consciousness. This makes recovery much easier."

If it were an ordinary person, he or she might be troubled by the philosophical question of why "I" is "I".

But for someone like Fang Jun who can tinker with his own algorithmic models, he has already thought thoroughly about "The Ship of Theseus" and "Zhuang Zhou's Dream of the Butterfly".

Everything is constantly changing, and people are no exception. The "me" of childhood is different from the "me" of adulthood, the "me" of yesterday is different from the "me" of today, and the "me" of today will be different from the "me" of the next second.

In order to avoid being entangled in these issues, some people will look for some anchors, such as "soul" or "true spirit", something unique.

But in fact, these things may not necessarily remain unchanged.

Therefore, it is pointless to dwell on the ever-changing concept of "self." Fang Jun only needs to know that he is always himself.

After the auxiliary calculation of Yuanshen No. 2, Fang Jun's sea of ​​consciousness structure was finally restored to a large extent.

The reason why it hadn't fully recovered was because some of it had become irreversible. This kind of irreversible change was common among cultivators as they advanced in their realms, just as an adult who had experienced the vicissitudes of life could no longer return to the mindset of a teenager.

However, irreversibility isn't necessarily a bad thing. Just when Fang Jun thought everything was over, he suddenly realized—"This is actually artistic conception! My actions just now are equivalent to enlightenment, but I just accidentally lost it! Fortunately, I relied on my life-saving magic weapon to pull myself back from the brink of death!"

The structure of the sea of ​​consciousness carries the thoughts of the cultivator.

When Fang Jun began to run this part of his thinking, his consciousness seemed to be lifted up by an invisible force and slowly rose into the vast sky.

The rising sun has just jumped out of the horizon, and its red light spreads all over the earth, warm and soft.

His consciousness was like the red clouds in the sky, floating lightly in the morning light, sometimes gathering and sometimes dispersing, as if chasing the red light.

Under the sunlight, the red clouds appear to be a dreamy color, with a light golden red at the edges and a deep purple-red in the center.

They seem to be endowed with life, swaying gently in the breeze, sometimes as fiery as flames, sometimes as smooth as silk.

Fang Jun felt like he was this red cloud, his thoughts moving freely in it, as if every strand of cloud was an extension of his thinking, and every ray of light and shadow was a reflection of his consciousness.

It's an emotion, an instinct, a procedural memory like the ability to breathe.

So, what are the benefits of this?
Fang Jun slowly raised his palm, and a wisp of dark red cloud lingered around his fingertips.

This is not ordinary magic power, but the "Red Cloud Magic Power" born from the complete fusion of spiritual consciousness and magic power, which is the perfect magic power structure he had deduced before.

Moreover, this combination is not limited to a little bit, but all the magic power in his body.

This special phenomenon reminded Fang Jun of a concept in the knowledge system of the world of immortal cultivation - artistic conception.

Cultivators understand nature, their minds and spirits merging with the universe. Understanding fire brings fire, understanding water brings water. Cultivators possessing artistic conception, their magical powers resonating with nature, harnessing its power to reach far beyond that of ordinary cultivators.

This is natural, because artistic conception can increase the stability of mana. When two manas collide, the more stable one will naturally prevail, just like the collision between steel and egg.

The process of understanding the artistic conception is called enlightenment.

This process is often sudden, unpredictable and difficult to control.

A monk's emotions must experience some kind of dramatic fluctuation, perhaps extreme joy, perhaps deep sorrow, or perhaps a sudden realization of the essence of life. Only then can the monk's mind break through the shackles of the mundane world and touch the ethereal heavenly way.

After the end, most of the monks' thinking patterns changed, and their views on the world also became different.

However, the process of enlightenment is not entirely beautiful.

The Way of Heaven is profound and mysterious, and cultivators will lose themselves in it if they are not careful during the process of comprehending it.

His consciousness may be swallowed up by the vastness of the Heavenly Dao, gradually losing his self and becoming one with the Heaven and Earth. This phenomenon is called "Daoization".

Fang Jun’s previous experiences are completely consistent with the descriptions in the above-mentioned books.

"Wait! The question is how did I attain enlightenment? Didn't I just adjust the structure of my mana? This is a bit strange, isn't it? Others first have artistic conception, and then have a special mana structure, but how come I first have a special mana structure, and then artistic conception?"

(End of this chapter)