In this current situation, Xia Duo has two options.
One is to let those emotions run rampant. After all, he is not performing an immortality ritual that requires stripping off the soul. He is only temporarily solidifying his soul. The connection between the soul and the body will not be interrupted, so there is no need to worry about subsequent rituals. Hidden danger.
The other uses reason to resolve those strange emotions and throbs one by one. The most extreme case is to let reason completely dominate the emotions and become a state similar to Sandro's.
Xia Duo undoubtedly chose the latter.
Even if there is no hidden danger, even if it is just a temporary indulgence, he will not take it. He has already achieved the "be cautious in independence" mentioned by the sages in his hometown.
However, he will not learn from Sandro and let reason have the absolute upper hand. The existence of some emotions itself is the basis of human existence, such as joy, anger, sorrow, and joy within the normal range.
Anyway, he is not performing an immortality ritual, and missing certain emotions may become a flaw that will be exploited by others for countless years to come.
In fact, if someone can find a flaw in his emotions or rationality, he will be willing to take advantage of it. For example, if someone does good deeds every day to win his favor, then he will be happy to give him such favor.
Or if someone does bad things every day to anger him, he will also treat the other person with malice.
If he loses his emotions, he will lose a large part of his judgment of the outside world, so even if there may be some hidden dangers in doing so, he will not not do it.
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The process of resolving emotions is not unfamiliar to Xia Duo. It is actually his daily meditation training. However, this time because he is solidifying his soul, many emotions that would not appear at all under normal circumstances appear out of thin air.
Those are the things he needs to pay special attention to, such as a violent impulse to destroy the world. Under normal circumstances, he does occasionally think of this possibility, but when this possibility fails to even meet the emotional standards, he is nipped in the bud.
Now, due to the abnormal emotions when solidifying the soul, these world-destroying impulses or other inappropriate emotions have become extremely frequent and very difficult to deal with.
Fortunately, he had been doing meditation training almost every day before he was attacked by the illusion master Zhamdas. Counting the time in the projection plane, it lasted for more than ten years. Otherwise, it would not have been easy for him to get through this level alone.
"Sure enough, fate will favor those who work hard!"
Xia Duo sighed in his heart, but the process of solidifying the soul did not stop. As the solidification of the soul exceeded a certain limit, the dark red thread originally wrapped around the soul began to "bare its teeth and claws" crazily.
It was like the last flash of light. As for its manifestation on the conscious level, Xia Duo could not see it because he was still maintaining the spell. However, it is conceivable that if nothing else, it should have reached the final moment of madness.
As for himself, when the soul solidified beyond a certain limit, Xia Duo clearly felt that his consciousness was becoming more and more awake and sensitive, and even the memories of the past became clear and vivid.
It is different from the active ability of retrospective memory, which requires the active use of blood vessels, but the clear perception of the past that is always maintained, which is basically the passive ability of photographic memory.
Experiencing such an ability for the first time, Xia Duo felt both novel and a little worried. If everything in the past seemed like yesterday, it might not be a burden.
Perhaps only those with a solid personality can easily control such a state, or those with nearly infinite breadth of thinking can control it. It might be best for a mortal like him to forget the past.
Of course, Xia Duo's situation is a little different from that of ordinary mortals. He can trace his memory, and he not only has the benefit of forgetting, but also has the effect of almost photographic memory, without having to bear unnecessary burdens.
…
As the solidification of the soul continued, when reaching another limit, Xia Duo felt that his perception had also broken through a certain limit, and suddenly felt that the whole world had become extremely noisy.
But under the processing of this extremely powerful consciousness, every external sound was treated almost 100%, and when he discerned the true content of those sounds, he was moved.
Those voices were nothing else, but conversations that mentioned his name. He had experienced this feeling briefly when he was an advanced arcanist, but at that time, because he had not yet gained much fame, he could not hear it. There is actually very little content.
But now, because of the floating city, his name has been spread almost throughout the main plane, and even many people are talking about him in the puppet country Imasca where he plans to go.
And because the solidification of the soul continues, this special state of perception can also be maintained.
"This is simply-"
Although he had experienced it briefly before, it was more like a detection feedback on his name before, but this time it felt really different to him.
This reminded him of the "Omniscient Master" in the legend of his hometown. If he was in the world of cultivating immortals, then he might be able to claim to have achieved the true fruit of earthly immortality.
It's really outrageous. The most exaggerated thing is that there is so much dense sound information, but under the powerful consciousness processing, there is no confusion at all. The so-called "noisy" is just Xia Duo's way of describing the number of sounds from the perspective of the past.
"Is this also the case for those who obtain immortality through soul-solidifying immortality rituals?"
The answer is obviously yes. Sha Duo is in a state of photographic memory at the moment. He had received a reminder from Niya a long time ago from the princess not to mention Archmage Sandro's name casually.
Later, he confirmed that Sandro could sense the sounds and even scenes mentioning his name. The Grand Arcanist Vader, who had previously had a grudge against Shado, also had similar abilities, but he heard that he used a detection circle. realized, rather than one's own ability.
Furthermore, the gods possess this ability. Sandro's perception cannot go beyond this plane, but the gods can perceive all information in their own domain from distant outer planes.
Even outside the realm, as long as the names of the gods are mentioned, they can be sensed by them. Only extremely strong protection against detection can block such perceptions.
The Northland Alliance's magic restriction treaty is judged based on divine magic. Most large-scale magic activities cannot escape the perception of gods. Even if they can be blocked, as long as the cost is greater than the super magic fine, there is not much use.
And the reason for all this is probably just the most inconspicuous passive ability of the elves and gods, which is really scary when you think about it.
When Sha Duo first crossed over, he often had the mentality of "I can replace them" with the gods of the magic world. However, as he went deeper into the magic field, his awe of the gods became more and more obvious.
Of course, now he is no longer "he can take his place", but "a real man should be like this". He believes that sooner or later he can stand on a par with the gods.
And because of the path he chose, there will probably be a bunch of people standing together~
(End of chapter)
