Arcane Lord

After many tests, Sha Duo finally determined that there was nothing wrong with the soul fragment itself, but the information contained in it was not. He had experienced many journeys to the projection plane before, and he was all too aware of the risks of memory contamination.

But fortunately, there is no curse on it. It is just about interpreting the information. This is not a projection plane, so there is no need to interpret it personally.

Xia Duo was going to use the Intelligent Brain to go through it first. It was similar to running a virus file in a computer sandbox. No matter what kind of information was contained in the soul fragments, reading it with the Intelligent Brain would only affect the Intelligent Brain at most, but he could use the Intelligent Brain's Feedback to determine the status of information.

After all, the essence of the intellectual brain is a copy of the caster's consciousness, and what it is best at doing is connecting consciousness information.

After determining the idea, all that was left was the specific implementation plan. This was not a problem for Sha Duo, but he did not directly conduct experiments with the brain he was currently using, but instead made a temporary copy of his consciousness.

There are still a lot of ectoplasm-like materials he obtained from Yimaska ​​that have not been used!

Delete everything related to self-existence and one's own private information in the copy of consciousness, turning a consciousness that was originally full of wisdom into a fool with only simple thinking patterns.

Later, he performed multiple suggestion techniques on this copy of consciousness, and set its feedback target to the intellectual brain, so that the status of this copy of consciousness could be monitored in real time through the intellectual brain.

Then, it is time to connect this copy of consciousness, which is more like a probe, with the soul fragment.

At this point in the experiment, everything went so smoothly that Xia Duo even wondered if he was judging a gentleman with a villain's heart!

But soon, as the copy of consciousness began to interpret the consciousness information in the soul fragments, the brain received some unusual feedback, which was a change in the thinking mode of the copy of consciousness. This change was so big that it began to shake the stability of the suggestion technique!

So Xia Duo took action decisively and continuously applied suggestion techniques to the copies of consciousness. On the one hand, he strengthened the link of suggestion techniques, and on the other hand, he also used suggestion techniques to decisively erase specific thinking patterns in the copies of consciousness to prevent them from forming a coherent consciousness.

At this point, Xia Duo has basically determined that there is a hidden danger in this soul fragment, but he is not sure whether it was intentional by the ancient elf, or whether he was not technically advanced enough to store more pure consciousness information.

The deceased was gone and it didn't hurt him, so he didn't delve into it further.

After a while, the copy of consciousness completed reading, or transcribing, all the information. Now the original soul fragment still contains the original information, but the purer information excluding some of the thinking patterns has been transcribed into the copy of consciousness.

Next, Xia Duo can interpret this part of the information more harmlessly.

Of course, it is impossible to have no negative impact at all. Even normal text information is difficult to be absolutely neutral and without any tendency, not to mention that this is consciousness information, which is most likely to contain private information.

However, because Xia Duo has experienced many journeys to the projection plane, he has already figured out a way to keep himself stable. He can just do an in-depth meditation training after interpreting the information in the copy of consciousness.

…

In the laboratory, Xia Duo finally decided to take it slow. He was not sure how long it would take to interpret the information in the copy of consciousness, and how long it would take to practice meditation. It would be too bad if he missed the final exchange meeting of the Culture and Art Festival. Sorry.

Anyway, the copy of consciousness and the soul fragments are already in hand, so being a day or two late will not have any serious impact.

So, he put away the copy of his consciousness, turned around and left the laboratory, and walked through the portal in Hengchun Square to the Codex Square on the ground.

At this time, Codex Square was bustling with people, as if they were going to a market. The huge square was divided into several blocks, leaving enough aisles for pedestrians to pass through.

On the side of the teleportation gate, there was even more space. Just as Xia Duo passed through the teleportation gate, there were still people coming back to the ground from the floating city, or going from the ground to the floating city.

Xia Duo's hidden whereabouts were mixed in and did not attract anyone's attention. He first walked around the various booths in Codex Square, focusing on the booth where the demon shadow was.

"Dungeon Treasure Quest" is currently being played in the booth, and there are people all around. The crowd exclaims or cheers from time to time. The audience is happy to watch, and Xia Duo is also very happy.

It's just that compared to "Dungeon Treasure Hunt" which has a plot, "Travels on the Main Plane" without a plot seems to have received a cold reception. Xia Duo actually prefers "Travels on the Main Plane", which is worth watching again and again.

On the contrary, "Dungeon Explorer" is just a popcorn feature film that is not very well-made. In the future, there will be more films of this type, and no one may be willing to watch it a second time.

From this we can also see how meager the people in the Great Xia Territory and the interior of Netheril are in their usual entertainment!

…

To the west from Codex Square, next to the Elemental Fountain is the cultural center where this cultural and art festival exchange meeting will be held. This exchange meeting is a closed-door meeting and is not open to the public for the time being. Only a few invited artists or representatives of the local people can participate.

Xia Duo did not belong to either of these two categories of people, but he was a lord and naturally had no taboos. When he arrived at the venue, an elf happened to be speaking:

“As much as I agree with the idea that art comes from the people, I need to point out that art, or more specifically – aesthetics, has its limits.

“Once there is a threshold for anything, there will inevitably be stratification, which is the so-called upper art and lower art, or elite art and mass art.

"In this case, art naturally has a distinction between high and low, which is something we, even as artists, cannot change. Of course, this does not mean that I agree with the so-called upper art!

"What I saw in Daxia Ling gave me a good inspiration. The purpose of our existence as artists is not only to pursue art itself, but also to use our works to improve the public's aesthetic appreciation."

The elf wanted to say something more, but was interrupted by another elf, "Yin Fannar, you are off topic. What we are discussing now is the attributes of art, not the responsibilities of artists."

"Antasoropach, although the exchange will have a theme, but for discussion, it's okay to talk about whatever comes to mind, as long as it's mainly related to the theme."

The person speaking now was Lawrence, who was also the host and main translator of this exchange meeting. In addition, there were several elven translators invited from the Silverleaf family to translate the speeches of the elven artists and human representatives.

Otherwise, this exchange meeting would be like a chicken-and-duck talk. After all, there are not many people who understand two languages ​​​​at the same time, especially elves, who basically cannot learn a Nese language specifically.