Chapter 1027: Ideas on the Topic of Consciousness Cultivation
“Sister Lucy, is there really only this much research on life consciousness?”
I looked at the witch sister in front of me.
She was clearly a tall and attractive lady, and her voice was pleasant, but when she spoke, there was an inexplicable contrast that exuded a sense of “kindness.”
Age is a taboo for witches, so I did not ask.
However, she was quite a famous scholarly witch present, a seeker walking on the grand topic of the soul, and an extraordinary witch with significant achievements in the field of life.
“Is there anything you don’t understand? I can explain it to you, Xiao Han. I can only say that my understanding of life consciousness is not deep, but I do have some insights,” Sister Lucy replied to my question.
“I can understand, but it seems that there aren’t detailed materials on consciousness cultivation among the documents provided by Sister Lucy. I am more interested in that.”
“Consciousness cultivation? There are many concepts involved. I studied life consciousness more for the sake of research in the life field. Regarding the understanding of the concept of consciousness, many witches categorize it as a derivative concept of the life field, and many witches like to analyze its concept from a philosophical perspective. As for whether consciousness can be cultivated, that largely remains in the realm of speculation…”
Sister Lucy spoke a lot in a continuous manner, as if pausing to think.
The content of this long paragraph was not particularly profound; rather, it seemed simple when expressed by her.
It even considered some commonly overlooked basic knowledge issues.
“In fact, being called over by Mei made me gradually interested in the topic of life consciousness, especially the concept of life clones, which I’m hearing for the first time. If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I would have thought it was a made-up story…”
With a single sentence, she noticed my confusion.
However, understanding from others and understanding for oneself are two different concepts; sometimes, comprehension is an insurmountable mountain.
In the extraordinary realm, many things cannot be taught even through hands-on guidance.
“Um… I recall that Sister Lucy also knows about the things I’ve been doing?”
“Of course, the topic that comes up the most when chatting with the sisters around me is you, Xiao Han,” Sister Lucy said with a smile, as if she was expecting me to say this.
After confirming that the current information was limited to this, we began to delve into the main topic.
It didn’t really matter whether the witches present were holding back; demanding my standards of others was indeed unwise in such a situation.
In this enormous laboratory dedicated to the ancient ice remains, all the witches who previously accompanied the research of the hexagonal crystal pendant and its preparation techniques had left.
To be realistic, the topic of the hexagonal crystal pendant was not even worthy of being mentioned in the face of the topic of consciousness cultivation related to the ancient ice remains.
The current experiment has officially been named “Ancient Ice Consciousness Cultivation Experiment.”
According to Principal Mei, everything revolves around me, with my thoughts as the core; as for the witches who study the life field and consciousness in the corner, they are merely assistants.
Even more like bystanders.
She hoped that I wouldn’t feel too much pressure.
As the saying goes, every witch has her own style.
The differences in styles may even lead to theoretical contradictions, yet even so, they can still accomplish similar tasks using their own methods.
This is the inclusiveness of the extraordinary.
Age only affects the accumulation of knowledge and the layering of experience, but the older one gets, the more one tends to be restrained by the shackles of experience.
Once talent appears, even effort must bow to it.
After completing the preparatory work in the laboratory, I stood before the vast ancient ice remains.
From my perspective using the Qi Observation Technique, the fortune surrounding the ancient ice had become increasingly thick.
It was no longer merely a display of superficial fortune threads; instead, it was more pure fortune, transforming the guiding external force into an intangible internal drive.
In other words, its existence resonated more with the will of the main world than that of the Child of Fortune itself.
If the ancient ice remains were not still my consciousness-driven life clone, it would have already escaped my control.
As for what I should do next… to “disperse” a consciousness from its body, the simplest way would be to kill it.
However, pure killing would cause it to dissipate along with the essence of life; this is not the development we wish for, and the world itself cannot inject a new soul into a purely driven object to shape life.
The operation of the world has its own framework, and even the world’s consciousness cannot interfere with the rules of that framework.
To simply describe the birth of life, it must go through the cycle of earth vein soul material, using the race as the foundation and applying the instinct of race reproduction to foster life.
Injecting a new soul and consciousness into a shell is a miracle that the essence of life can only compose.
If we compare a world to a person, it is like how an individual cannot control the flow of blood within their body, cannot control the secretion of hormones, or control the recovery from ailments.
However, a person can accelerate blood circulation through exercise, actively feel fear to stimulate adrenaline secretion, and can also take medicine to speed up recovery.
The world is similar.
An invisible hand is continuously making macro adjustments within the world, and each adjustment comes at a cost.
Now, facing the ancient ice remains again.
To separate the life that actually exists from my consciousness’s control over it, some external force is needed.
The first thing that comes to my mind is… the bestowal of wisdom.
The technique of wisdom bestowal is a versatile means.
It can combine consciousness and techniques to create the Seed of Wisdom, and can also be reversed to achieve effects like wisdom deprivation or wisdom decay.
But this method is the first time I am using it on “me.”
The “consciousness” paired with the life clone is essentially a connection of my own consciousness.
Once separated, it still belongs to a part of me.
Even if it is destroyed, it doesn’t matter; at most, a part of the memory would be destroyed, but that memory had already been instantaneously shared through the Great Knowledge Sharing Technique.
When the Seed of Wisdom was extracted, the ancient ice remained fell into eternal slumber.
However, its life characteristics still remained.
So is this still life?
Yes, but it is no longer complete life.
As I stepped into the field of life study, my understanding of life made me realize that the concept of life is not “1”; it is an individual composed of countless concepts.
Just like the repeated proposals and refutations of concepts in the life interpretation movement are all partial interpretations of life.
Even the subsequently proposed concepts of soul material and soul are merely the essence of “life.”
Not life itself.
In addition to information, the concept of race is the same; they are essential frameworks that constitute complex life. Removing these frameworks does not liberate life itself, but rather liberates the components of life.
“If I may ask, what… is this?”
Seeing the vast ancient ice remains collapsed like a dense fog, a group of witches led by Lucy began to inquire.
Although they knew that asking questions like this during an experiment might seem presumptuous, curiosity about the unknown often prompts them to lower their guard and ask.
“Sister Lucy doesn’t know? Didn’t Principal Mei tell you?” I instinctively responded.
“That guy Mei is quite the chatterbox, but when it comes to this, he really hasn’t told us anything,” Lucy shook her head and told me. “He only mentioned that you possess quite a few miraculous techniques, and I guess this is one of them?”
“Yes, this technique is called wisdom bestowal, a product woven from consciousness and memory, and it was the first technique I touched upon consciousness. At that time, I hadn’t even delved deeply into the composition of consciousness; I was merely adhering to the principles of discovery, utilization, and control, weaving consciousness and memory into this special creation.”
“Really? That’s amazing… I assume when you discovered it, you were engaged in some very profound research, right?”
“Yes, at that time, I was already in the preliminary planning stages of the Fool Dream life experiment, but back then, Fool Dream only had consciousness and memory. Perhaps that’s why it was coincidentally discovered,” I said, being modest about the creation.
But the actual situation was far more complex than I had previously portrayed; serendipity played a considerable role.
“Is that so?”
Many of the witches present had some understanding of the lovely entity known as Fool Dream.
When mentioning this Xiaoyuan, Fool Dream would inevitably come up as well.
This life experiment of Fool Dream, which was more important to Xiaoyuan than finding the veins of the world, had already been mentioned countless times by Principal Mei.
After that, they didn’t ask further.
Although they felt that even if they asked, Xiaoyuan would probably not hide anything from them, they were still not willing to interrogate a little witch so insistently.
Ultimately, it was their own inability to be as open as Xiaoyuan; they really feared that if Xiaoyuan said everything, then in the end, they would be the ones sweating profusely.
The extraction of the Seed of Wisdom went exceptionally smoothly. After properly handling this item, the remaining challenge I was facing was the next problem.
Consciousness cultivation.
But I had no ideas.
Consciousness cultivation is a key phase that must be completed in my plan because it concerns the race concept of the Fool Dream life experiment.
For the ancient ice, this is a reverse parsing project.
The problem I currently faced was a huge fill-in-the-blank question with no options.
I wanted to use consciousness as a breakthrough point to structure the race concept, in cooperation with the bloodline information, to achieve the full authority to open up the life sequence.
However, I did not understand the specific concept of the race, and the ancient ice remains were truly mine; I had personally witnessed the images of the ancient ice life sequence continuing.
So I needed to understand the birth of the race concept within the ancient ice remains’ life sequence in a reverse manner.
The research of life experiments is like a game of deduction with no knowledge, where all conditions must be summarized and refined through “observation,” “experience,” and other means.
Although it seems like playing a game of stepping on the left foot with the right foot, advancing to specific concepts will reveal that every node and key is a supporting pivot.
This is like self-awakening body cultivation giving rise to self-generated magic power; self-generated magic power can exist independently of self-awakening body cultivation.
After replacing the foundation with the concept of the witch race as a pivot, the witch-exclusive self-generated magic power does not even require self-awakening body cultivation and can naturally birth self-generated magic power when promoted to an extraordinary witch; even the witch transformation of self-generated magic power can indirectly drive the progress of body cultivation.
The extraordinary system is an interwoven derivative relationship.
The same goes for the life sequence.
After extracting the Seed of Wisdom, the power within the ancient ice remains still exists; or to say, the power of the Great Spellbook is the very basis of its existence.
Starting from strength, summoning the power of the kin through the Great Ice and Snow Throne Technique is borrowing the summons from the concept of race.
Even if this is not the Primordial Staff, it is still the source that connects the life sequence of the ancient ice clan.
And the witches who have been watching the whole time were also curious about how I would proceed.
After all, starting anything is difficult; ideas and inspiration are the beginnings of all topics.
Even the mastery of techniques, power, and knowledge can only serve as tools for inspiration and thought.
Seeing the actions I was performing, only Sister Lucy and a few witches who had participated in the creation of new races could see what I was doing.
I was using the connection between the Great Ice and Snow Throne and the ancient ice clan to reverse unveil the truth of the life sequence!
