Chapter 1685: Repairing the Artifact Spirit: The Consciousness Chip

Since everything was taking place within his consciousness, Xia Duo did not notify Niya after making up his mind, but instead did it directly.

The process of consciousness overlapping went much more smoothly than Xia Duo had anticipated; the consciousness contamination he had originally thought would likely appear did not actually occur.

Perhaps it was because the "Artifact Spirit" and his own consciousness shared the same origin, so after the two overlapped, both remained well; all the consciousness information of the "Artifact Spirit" had a corresponding existence within Xia Duo's consciousness.

It was as if a shadow had been cast upon the original body; although it fit perfectly, they were also distinct and clearly separated.

The tests conducted by Kente and the others did not leave any memories within the "heart" of the Artifact Spirit, or rather, direct interaction could not change the native Ziliaoku of the "Artifact Spirit".

From the very moment the 【Enlightenment Spell】 was completed, the state of the "Artifact Spirit" seemed to have been frozen; as long as Xia Duo did not make any modifications, no matter how Kente and the others tested it, they were facing a brand-new Artifact Spirit every time.

The Artifact Spirit's feedback to any test was a reaction based on its state at the moment of its birth.

This characteristic provided great convenience for Xia Duo's attempt this time.

To use sets as an analogy, from the moment of its birth until the moment of its "natural end," all of the Artifact Spirit's data was a proper subset of Xia Duo's consciousness.

If the "Artifact Spirit" could be "written" with information at will, then Xia Duo would inevitably suffer from the contamination of a large amount of consciousness information completely unrelated to his own, the most abundant of which would undoubtedly be information related to the tests by Kente and the others.

But now, there was none at all.

After the consciousness overlap, Xia Duo did not feel any pressure; at the same time, he faintly sensed that the shadow of his consciousness—that is, the "Artifact Spirit"—was slowly expanding, or more accurately, it was "repairing" itself!

"How could this be? Is my Soul truly special?"

Logically speaking, after an "Artifact Spirit" is born, its state cannot be changed without specialized Spells, yet now Xia Duo could not only delete information within it, but he could even write information into it.

Xia Duo did not know what the situation was with the Tower Spirits of other Mages, but he always felt that there was a problem here.

"Let's just assume my Soul is special!"

Under careful Perception, Xia Duo discovered that the process of the Artifact Spirit's repair was not random, but prioritized the repair of thinking patterns, which is to say, the memories of various cognitive processes.

Following that were the memories of cognitive results, while information from before cognition—that is, various sensory information—was placed last.

Xia Duo could not figure out for a moment what the significance of this priority order was, but there was one thing he had confirmed, and that was—

Writing information into the Artifact Spirit was likely not as easy as he had imagined.

At the very least, wanting to precisely write certain information was not an easy task.

Most of the information in consciousness exists in the form of memory; memory is a complex, multi-dimensional information system that contains various sensory information as well as information related to cognition.

The former is the foundation of everything, while the latter contains all the characteristics of a Personality.

Writing a piece of information out of thin air would likely cause logical loopholes, thereby directly affecting the intelligence of the Artifact Spirit.

With the experiment having reached this point, Xia Duo could almost be certain that the Seven Towers must possess Tower Spirit editing technology, and their research into Tower Spirits must be deep enough to extract more streamlined Mental Models.

Otherwise, it would be very hard for Xia Duo to imagine that the Seven Towers were still using the most primitive native Tower Spirits to this day.

As long as it has moved beyond the native category, it must possess editing technology, and the prerequisite for being able to edit must be sufficient research into Mental Models; otherwise, who would feel safe using a Tower Spirit edited at random?

"Fortunately, I am the creator of the Communication Artifact Spirit, otherwise this research really wouldn't have been able to proceed!"

Since he could not yet control the process of the Artifact Spirit's repair, and Xia Duo did not know how to precisely write information, he simply waited for the Artifact Spirit to fully repair itself.

He would see whether the final repaired state would be the state at the moment of its initial birth, or if it would be as close as possible to his current state of consciousness.

If it were the former, Xia Duo's idea of quickly and massively writing information into the Artifact Spirit would likely fall through in the short term.

And if it were the latter, that would likely prove that his Soul possessed unique qualities.

Furthermore, if it repaired to his current state of consciousness, that would definitely have broken through the limitations of the 【Enlightenment Spell】 itself; would that create a 【Xia Duo Consciousness Clone】 that possessed a self?

Xia Duo did not dare to think too much about this question, and he wanted to try it even less.

As the progress of the Artifact Spirit's repair continued to advance, Xia Duo's heart gradually grew tense; he poured almost all of his attention into the Perception of the Artifact Spirit's state.

He did not know how much time had passed, but the shadow of his consciousness expanded to its limit, recovering to the state it was in at the moment of its initial birth, and the next moment, that shadow expanded a tiny bit more with unwavering determination.

It was only a tiny bit more memory from after Xia Duo created the Artifact Spirit, but going from nothing to something was already a qualitative change; this meant that if such a repair continued, this shadow would very likely eventually become a consciousness clone that possessed a self.

Of course, since the two were essentially connected at this moment, it was unlikely that it would lose control; once the shadow, which is to say the Artifact Spirit, expanded to its limit, the Perception of both sides would immediately connect.

Or rather, at that time, Xia Duo would obtain a Communication Magic Tool avatar.

It was just that this avatar was rather special; unlike ordinary avatar Spells, this Communication Magic Tool avatar could not perform Movement on its own at all.

But all of this was just Xia Duo's speculation, and he did not want to verify it at all; if he accidentally created another version of himself, that would be quite the situation.

For the subsequent "repair," Xia Duo instinctively wanted to limit the direction of the shadow's expansion.

Perhaps because the repair of the Artifact Spirit's native state had already been completed, the current repairs were all based on Xia Duo's special Soul, which allowed his intense intent to actually change the direction of the shadow's subsequent expansion.

Especially regarding the Conscious Mind, he did not touch it at all, but instead focused solely on expanding toward the various sensory information on the Time Line after Xia Duo had activated the Enlightenment Scroll.

Until it expanded to cover the memory of Xia Duo's most recent grading of Niya's test papers, he immediately separated the shadow from his consciousness, and subsequently began the deletion action.

With his previous experience and the plan he had set beforehand, Xia Duo's actions in deleting the relevant consciousness information were very fast; in the blink of an eye, the Artifact Spirit that had just recovered was ruined by him again.

Only the parts of the thinking patterns he had determined to use for the experiment remained.

Of course, considering the importance of information integrity to thinking, this time he did not even delete the private information; after all, it was an experiment, and it would certainly undergo desensitization processing afterward.

Following Xia Duo's active control, the "Big Data Analysis Chip," based on specific thinking patterns and data analysis algorithms, began to operate.