Chapter 814: Personality Upgrade, New Meditation Method

Before completely clearing the influence of the "Brandon Personality" on himself, every extra thing Xia Duo did or thought outside of his consciousness was redundant information waiting to be processed, built upon a faulty foundation.

To reduce the workload of organizing his consciousness, during this period, Xia Duo did almost nothing extra besides eating, drinking, attending to bodily functions, and sleeping.

Just like this, it was not until half a year later that he could be considered to have reorganized Brandon's hundreds of years of memories clearly; after repeated checks, many files originally deemed "trustworthy" were ultimately moved to his "untrustworthy" list, though of course, some remained as they were.

Similarly, regarding what had previously been automatically judged as "untrustworthy" by his subconscious, besides most remaining as they were, a small portion was released after being re-evaluated by the "Past Backup Personality."

Furthermore, in the process of organizing his consciousness and re-evaluating, Xia Duo paid special attention to the stability of his "personality"; this metaphysical state of consciousness is not like mathematical calculation where one is one and two is two, as it also contains many intuitive judgments based on sensibility.

Almost every step he took, every new piece of information he confirmed, he had to look back and re-examine three times; this could be considered a true "self-reflection three times a day"!

It was precisely because of such repeated examination that this process took him as long as half a year, while in his consciousness, he did not know how much time had passed.

Yet, such a judgment process, when performed automatically by the subconscious, was almost synchronized with receiving information and required no time at all.

Of course, it was also precisely because of this that the contamination was able to take advantage of the situation.

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During these six months, Xia Duo did almost nothing; he was single-mindedly tracing memories, organizing his consciousness, and even reorganizing all his memory information.

After going through a process akin to a "computer full-system virus scan and repair," besides taking Brandon's hundreds of years of memories and all sensory information for his own use, he also gained a "backup node."

Next time he wants to check the influence of external information on his consciousness, he can start checking from this moment; at this point, his personality, which originally extended from the 【Past Backup Personality】, became even stronger after this 【Autonomous Upgrade】.

In the future, if he has similar experiences, he will be able to handle them more calmly and quickly.

Xia Duo does not know what his personality will become if it keeps upgrading like this, but he only needs to be sure that every step is a real decision made by his 【Current Self】.

No matter what the final result may be, he will not regret it.

This is growth after one's worldview has become relatively mature!

(If one experiences major events or intense shocks, it is also possible for one's worldview to change, such as having children, children growing up, or seeing a certain reasonable, specific phenomenon too often. Merely a narrow conflict between science and magic is not enough to change a worldview; what Xia Duo perceives is a broad sense of science and magic, where the two are conceptually consistent, just with different names in different worlds, which can be seen as a translation issue, both referring to verifiable knowledge systems.)

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Besides clearing the contamination in his consciousness, during these six months, in the process of tracing memories and organizing his consciousness, Xia Duo also figured out a very practical technique through constant practice.

Combining 【Meditation】 with memory retrospection, he performs memory retrospection while organizing his subconscious and conscious mind, and feeds it back into the process of organizing his consciousness in real-time.

At the same time, the organized consciousness also plays a positive role in the information sorting and judgment during the memory retrospection process.

It is something like circular iterative optimization.

After going through this, Xia Duo truly saw the hope of integrating his subconscious and conscious mind; in the past, no matter how hard he tried to meditate and organize his subconscious and conscious mind, the progress was always hard to accept.

It is not to say there was no progress at all, but at least it felt so unreachable to him that it almost made his confidence waver.

But after this experience of a massive amount of information impacting his consciousness, Xia Duo discovered that to truly integrate his subconscious and conscious mind, besides his own subjective efforts, external help is also indispensable.

For example, a large amount of external information.

Through a brand-new Meditation Method, he might be able to quickly achieve the integration of his subconscious and conscious mind, making his self more complete.

The simplest way is to conduct a large number of Projection journeys, and through immersive experiences of projection bodies, obtain a large amount of external information, thereby pushing forward his meditation progress and ultimately achieving the goal of integrating his subconscious and conscious mind.

It is just that with a large amount of external information coming in, it is hard for Xia Duo to guarantee that his personality upgrade is truly completely under his own control; once there is a mistake, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Of course, when that time really comes, Xia Duo will still be "Xia Duo" and will not die; he will just become a version of himself he does not want to see right now.

Perhaps the "Xia Duo" at that time would be perfectly happy with the mutation of his personality, but the current him does not wish to see that scene happen.

Therefore, regarding the immersive experience of projection bodies in the Projection Plane, even with the temptation of integrating his subconscious and conscious mind in front of him, Xia Duo still maintains a cautious attitude.

It is not that it cannot be done, but that he must be cautious, and then cautious again.

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After resolving the hidden dangers in his consciousness, Xia Duo finally thought back to his purpose for entering the Projection Plane; collecting Knowledge counts as one, practicing counts as one, and using the time flow difference for research can only be ranked last.

If he were only using the time flow difference for research, Xia Duo would not enter the Projection Plane at all; the current him no longer needs to rush for time to upgrade, as he can upgrade step-by-step in the Main Plane.

Only collecting Knowledge is Xia Duo's main purpose; this time, due to the upcoming joint operation in the Main Plane, there is an additional purpose of practicing with the Elf.

Thinking about problems again with his true personality and cognition, although he still made the decision to start with Genite of Domujiasi City, this was indeed a decision that truly accorded with Xia Duo's wishes.

Of course, this is in the general direction; specific details will be somewhat different compared to before.

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Soon, it was another dark and windy night.

Xia Duo snuck into Domujiasi City again; just like last time, he felt his way from the outer city to the inner city, all the way to Genite's Library.

Hiding in the shadows, arriving before this Elf-style building again, Xia Duo was quite emotional; who knew that half a year ago, he almost wasn't himself!

After the emotion, Xia Duo reined in his distracting thoughts, carefully avoided the magic Jieti at the front of the Library that was similar to a doorbell, and arrived inside the Library.

Seeing the Small Mythallar that was integrated with the bookshelves, books, scrolls, and ancient artifacts again, Xia Duo did not stop at all and headed straight for Genite's true residence in the innermost part.

Compared to last time, his killing intent was much weaker this time; following the path he took last time—corridor, courtyard, corridor, Reception Room, bedroom, Study—he went all the way through without triggering any alarms.

When Xia Duo saw Genite in the Study again, deep in thought while staring at a leaf, he suddenly had the feeling that the unfinished surprise attack from last time had happened just yesterday.

"I didn't expect that half a year has passed, and this Genite is actually still staring at these leaves; I don't know why he doesn't change his way of thinking."

Previously, when Xia Duo was clearing the hidden dangers in his consciousness, he also traced back to the scene of the last surprise attack; at that time, Genite was already researching these special leaves inscribed with secret texts.

Up until now, he really is quite persistent!