High Above

In the past two weeks, Ian has indeed been studying silver chips and 'computing units' in the virtual world at night.

Especially after the war, Ian gained three more second-level souls, and all of these souls reached the point where they could be converted into computing units.

Among them, the 'Snake Rock's Soul' even converted into a larger 'standard spiritual independent computing unit'.

In other words, it does not need a ‘supply unit’ to replenish itself and maintain its existence.

And this structure gave Ian an inspiration.

"Obviously, the structure of the computing unit transformed from the silver chip is superior to that of my naturally formed loose soul. I can indeed try to transform my own soul into a similar computing structure to improve my own soul's computing power! "

This is the correct conclusion.

On the first day when Ian began to transform himself based on the autonomous computing unit, it was not obvious because the converted structure was still very small.

But as time went by, and Ian converted more souls, he could clearly feel that his computing power was increasing.

This is what the soul is like. After the second energy level gradually condenses the soul through the transformation of source matter, all the processes until the third energy level are to condense it into a more solid structure.

It may be due to faith, or will and ambition. In short, when a person's self-understanding reaches a state and has a clear, feasible and persistent belief, the light body will appear.

At the same time, the structure of the soul becomes strong.

This is a mutually reinforcing process.

Ian was able to change the structure of his soul so easily, in fact, precisely because he had already reached this state - he could distort the shape of his soul with his extraordinary imagination!

In the past half month after the war, Ian has been using various comparative observations to determine his situation.

The results are unusually good.

He feels that his thinking ability is getting stronger and his calculation ability is getting clearer and clearer.

Because the quality of Ian's soul is far higher than that of his defeated generals, today, the computing power provided by Ian's own soul alone is comparable to the combined power of five computing units.

Although it sounds a bit complicated, it may be easy to understand with a simple description.

【——Meditation Practice——】

Yes, it is meditation practice.

Through meditation, you can gradually change your soul structure and improve your calculation power...

In essence, isn’t this a kind of ‘cultivation’? !

What is the essential difference between visualizing some more powerful spiritual calculation structures to enhance one's calculation power, and visualizing those powerful gods and demons to enhance one's sublimation skills?

It may be that computing power cannot directly constitute combat effectiveness.

However, the sublimators of the civilization of the previous era did not have direct combat capabilities!

It was the Age of Terra, because the emergence of various alien creatures and biological weapons provided the Ascendants with their 'force modules'.

The magic potion is not so much the ‘essence of the Ascendant’, but rather ‘a part of the essence and a weapon module that forms combat effectiveness’.

In other words, as long as Ian finds a 'force module' that can be supported by 'computing power'... then the meditation practice system may become a reality!

"This is the first step in the technology I named the 'Arcane Path'!"

It was very simple to lead Adbot to the virtual realm. The opponent was originally the king of the subspace maze, but he had never actively immersed himself in the virtual realm before.

In fact, as the dead king, all Adbert needs to do is 'think' himself if he wants to reach the virtual realm - but he is really a good boy and really has no idea at all.

After Adalbert came to the virtual realm, Ian took out the 'Basic Computing Unit' and observed the Dead Lord Orb, which looked pure white on the surface but had a red soul core, and said something. Conjecture about your own plan.

"This is?!"

After Adlbert connected to the computing unit through his soul, he immediately understood its function.

After Ian's explanation, he quickly understood the meaning of all this.

"This is a way for people to strengthen themselves... rather than a technology that turns their souls into other people's parts!"

He suddenly became extremely excited.

But Ian didn't know what to say.

——Uh...who said you can't turn other people into parts?

If I die, my soul will definitely become a high-level computing unit. At most, the computing power will be stronger than that of the dead king's soul, and I may still be able to retain a little self-awareness.

Although this was the truth, Ian was not prepared to take the initiative to inform Adlbert of his misconception, since that was not the point anyway.

"This time."

Ian said: "Do you understand why I want you to restart the dead king's technology?"

"As long as everyone has a soul, everyone can try to imitate the computing structure of this computing unit. In this way, no matter how stupid a person is, they can strengthen their thinking speed bit by bit."

"Of course, for people who are really not very smart, no matter how long they exercise, it is nothing more than carrying a super calculator with them. If they don't even know the buttons of the calculator, in the final analysis, it is just to make them count faster. a little."

"But I believe that this is only the most preliminary path - in the future, there will definitely be a structure that can make stupid people smart, and smart people become more geniuses... People may be unequal, but everyone has to work hard to catch up. On to other people’s power!”

"yes."

After hearing the first words, Adlbert cooled down from his excitement and frowned: "In this case... Ian, this 'arcane path' you are talking about is actually for 'smart people like us'. 'A more advantageous path."

"Rather, this is tailor-made for us! Because most of the time, we can think about everything, but we are limited by the speed of thinking and cannot think comprehensively. But if we have extra computational thinking, we can think It’s comprehensive.”

"But for many people... simply improving their computing power and accelerating their thinking speed cannot really allow them to understand the calculations they can't figure out, the mathematical puzzles they can't figure out, and they can't figure it out no matter how fast they calculate."

"If in the future, we develop a 'force module' that can be converted into 'computing power', wouldn't the gap between people become even greater?"

However, what Ian said later also inspired some motivation for Adbert, and he encouraged himself: "Yes, it is indeed difficult."

"But these difficulties are exactly what we researchers need to solve!"

"What's more, where can there be such stupid people? And it's better than the way of sublimation."

——That’s not necessarily the case.

Ian is a little more pessimistic, because he has seen much more than Beadbot... God knows there are billions or even tens of billions of people on the Terra continent, but a few idiots still think it is a pre-era civilization?

Oh, there were idiots in pre-epochal civilizations too.

It is better to hope that a fool will be saved than to hope that he will be smarter in his next life.

Facing Adelbert's words, Ian just rotated himself and shook his head: "In short, for most people, the arcane path can bring about independent improvement, which can be felt personally. It’s true, I feel stronger every day!”

At this time, his soul had already shown a special structure, which was similar to the shape of the Heart Light Body, a blue cross star.

As Ian continues to solidify and change his soul form, his light body becomes clearer and clearer.

When Ian completely completes the transformation of his soul, he will be able to take the lead in possessing the Heart Light Body before advancing to the 'Third Energy Level of Terra'. This is something he can be sure of.

Because he can personally experience the benefits, Ian feels comfortable recommending it.

"yes……"

Albert sighed, then smiled.

He looked at Ian and thanked him sincerely: "Thank you, you, for telling me this road and telling me these plans."

"Ian...I will do my best to help you go on this path!"

"Okay!" Ian was also very happy: "Then, help me develop artificial intelligence!"

Albert: "Huh? Why does it feel like the topic is jumping a bit?"

Even from the perspective of a professional researcher, Adlbert could not keep up with Ian's brain circuit for a while.

"I just recently got a copy of the empire's artificial intelligence template for combat. I think Grand Duke Thorin should have similar information. You understand, right? Now that there are such convenient things as computing units, why not create artificial intelligence? Utilize it? And with it, it’s so convenient to help manage the territory!”

Ian felt that his thinking was very coherent, and he talked eloquently: "You see, when a person has a soul, he can be linked to the computing unit. If it is an artificial intelligence supported by the computing unit, it must be able to be linked."

"Adlbert, the reason why I want to ask you to develop an 'artificial soul' is that I hope you can develop a soul model based on the 'computing unit' and 'artificial intelligence' that can form an interoperable interface with them... In this way , everyone in the territory has a soul, and can be linked to the artificial intelligence of the virtual world, and more functions can be developed in the future, and many corruption and frauds that occur now will no longer appear..."

This inspiration comes from Ian’s ‘electronic brain’ in his previous life.

In essence, the electronic brain was a modification of the brain that was common to all people on earth at that time. It gave people the computing power of a high-end computer, improved their memory to the point of photographic memory, and allowed them to freely learn any knowledge they wanted to learn. , and can also be connected to the Internet through an electronic computer.

Even if the body dies, humans can still survive as long as the electronic brain constructed of high-strength alloy is not completely destroyed.

Strictly defined, isn't the so-called electronic brain just a physical soul?

It's just that Terra's soul function is too few and too weak now, so it still needs to continue to develop related technologies.

Because of this, Ian has always been very interested in the technology of artificial souls.

"and,"

Thinking of this, Ian decided to express his truest thoughts: "After all members have souls, the larger the population, the more 'free source matter' can be produced, and more 'computing units' can be created. ...It may take ten thousand people, one hundred thousand ordinary souls, and several months of free source matter to increase one computing unit...but this is a sustainable development and pure profit-making enhancement method."

"This is a virtuous cycle. As long as the citizens have enough souls, the computing units and artificial intelligence will become stronger and stronger."

"In this way, when my territory develops and grows..."

Ian hesitated for a moment, and then said seriously: "Perhaps, we will have enough computing power to analyze the 'standard model' of the source material structure in Warcraft."

"In this way, perhaps, we can use the huge computing power of artificial intelligence to create an 'sublimated person' out of thin air without the need for Warcraft materials!"

This was Ian's deepest plan.

Already in the Imperial Capital, Ian had had similar thoughts when he was researching potions.

At that time, he thought that if everyone in the human race had powerful computing power, they could directly condense the corresponding source material structure with their own souls, and then become sublimators.

A kind of 'practitioner' who can be 'cultivated' successfully by shaping it bit by bit through visualization.

However, you already have that kind of computing power, and you can become a sublimator just by relying on computing power - how can you still condense the structure of a mere first-level monster?

This is an unsolvable paradox... Unless technology develops to an incredible level, it is impossible for an individual to have the ability to shape the structure of the essence of Warcraft in a short period of time.

And if technology develops to that point, there will be no need for individuals to shape the structure of the source material.

However, the combination of Dead Lord, computing unit and artificial intelligence... brought great inspiration to Ian.

The Dead King's "all the souls work together to become a strong person" is essentially to collect funds to strengthen a person, but it is only a one-time thing.

The 'Computing Unit', which is the prototype of the Dead King, has universal and reusable computing power, but computing power alone cannot do much, it still depends on the quality of the individual.

This is also the reason why the dead king needs a strong man to become a 'king'.

Because if you give a fool the power of the dead king, he will only blow himself up to death, and he will not be able to fulfill the wishes of the dead souls.

And artificial intelligence can steadily utilize the power of computing power...perhaps it can assist Ian in achieving his grand goal of becoming an "ascendant without potions", which is enough to change the world!

Through the source of essence overflowing from the souls of everyone, new computing units are constantly derived, and the souls of everyone support the supply of computing units and artificial intelligence, allowing the artificial intelligence to gradually accumulate enough computing power to copy the source of the potion. Quality structure!

By that time, as long as the source quality is enough, artificial intelligence will be able to mass-produce first-level sublimators!

Although they are all the same potion, as artificial intelligence gradually grows, it will definitely be able to reproduce more and more potion structures!

As for the second level... it may only be possible to select some outstanding talents.

The third level... is too far.

"It's so, so beautiful..."

Adlbert's soul ball was trembling. If this were reality, the young researcher must have been pressing his heart and breathing rapidly, feeling shocked by the 'future' that Ian said.

The Ascended One who doesn't need potions... For this Terra, it really has broken too many shackles.

Even if high-level sublimators cannot be created for a while, even if they can only create first-level sublimators, this concept is equivalent to completely eliminating the barrier between today's sublimates and ordinary people.

yes. For those with high energy levels, there is no difference between those with low energy levels and ordinary people.

But at the end of the day, the gap has narrowed, hasn’t it?

As long as there is progress, it is a good thing.

However, Albert is a smart man after all.

After the initial excitement, he immediately thought of a flaw in Ian's plan.

"In this case."

He was a little confused and said: "Don't the source of all power come from the 'owner of artificial intelligence', which is you, Ian?"

"Although the current potion formulas, methods of refining potions, and various Warcraft materials seem to be monopolized, ordinary people can still obtain them... But if it is true as you said, Ian, it is assembled by artificial intelligence Huge computing power can directly create sublimators, so who can become the sublimators becomes the personal decision of the artificial intelligence master? This is a completely one-spoken, single-handed world that is even more terrifying than it is now..."

"It is true that I am manufacturing the computing unit now, and I can be regarded as the caregiver of artificial intelligence..."

Ian glanced at Adebert strangely: "But when artificial intelligence can autonomously reproduce computing units and supply units in the future, won't that have nothing to do with me?"

“And why does an AI need a master?”

“Isn’t the reason why we create artificial intelligence so that they can still work automatically without us?”

Adlbert was stunned.

"Artificial intelligence only needs to operate according to the originally set program. It can operate without a master. It is like those machine gods in the virtual world. After wandering for such a long time, they are still running and executing themselves. Mission - Up to now, the virtual realm machine god has almost become a phenomenon in the virtual realm. Even if human beings are destroyed and disappear completely, the virtual realm machine god will still exist. "

"The artificial intelligence I want to create is something... something that can continue to function even if we die, disappear, and cease to exist."

Ian said calmly, he didn't seem to care about this problem at all: "Besides, in Terra, there are too many such things."

The young man looked into the deepest part of the virtual realm and said softly: "To be honest, it's just like the inscription."

"Why can the specific graphics and traces of the inscription trigger changes in the source material and spiritual energy field? They are obviously not mysterious at all."

"In my opinion, the inscriptions and many sefirot structures are, in essence, probably some kind of program designed by some super civilization, which omits all the complications, uses the stupidest method to transform the world, and then puts this They threw away the power they gained after transforming the world, allowing other civilizations to freely use the 'programs' they created."

"Isn't this a kind of artificial intelligence?"

"But to most Terran people, all of this is like the 'laws of nature' and the 'laws of truth'... No one has thought about these."

"No one knows the real principle behind it, they only know the most superficial 'phenomenon' - friction can cause fire. Everyone knows it, but why friction can cause fire is too complicated to explain."

"Adlbert, we are the pioneers."

“We are now doing ‘complicated things’.”

Adlbert was stunned from the beginning to shocked now.

What Ian said was something he would never have thought of even after so many years of research.

This is not to say that Albert is not smart and lacks scientific skepticism.

In fact, the fact that Adalbert was able to put forward so many opinions on Ian's plan is a reflection of his extremely questioning spirit and scientific research spirit.

But for the Terran people, the inscription can activate the sefirah and psychic field.

Just like lighting a fire to boil water, apples will fall to the ground.

This is an instinctive understanding that has been engraved at the bottom of their bloodline long before their civilization was formed.

But how long does it take for a creature to develop intelligence and form civilization?

Just a few million years...

On the scale of the universe, it is only a moment.

Creatures born in the Terran universe may never think about these things.

But not Ian.

He was reincarnated.

He has the memory and knowledge of another universe, another completely different 'cognitive contrast frame of reference'.

he can.

And, Ian knows.

He knows that there is a super civilization in this universe that can create the "Star Prison", and almost all the stars in the sky are covered with this prison.

He knew that the universe was vast and boundless, and that a civilization that could achieve this was almost the same as a god.

Therefore, he can guess and question things that others think are no different from 'truth'.

"We humans are not a species that can directly see the truth. What we see with our eyes is just like looking through a mirror, it is all illusion and hazy."

At this moment, Ian softly recited the 'motto' that Hilliard said when he first guided himself on the path of ascension.

He laughed, as pure and sincere as a child: "So everything can be cultivated through fakeness - just like the Sephiroth structure reproduced by artificial intelligence is 'fake' compared to the real Sephiroth structure of Warcraft, but it is To achieve a 'real' effect - it's all the same."

"Adlbert, you asked me how to ensure that artificial intelligence is not exploited by individuals...the answer is actually very simple."

Ian looked at the Dead Lord, and he said calmly: "As long as no one else besides you and me knows, there is an artificial intelligence existence that can turn people into 'sublimators', and this matter will be completely black boxed."

"Then for other people in later generations, being able to rely on meditation and meeting specific rules and conditions to become an ascendant is essentially the same as making a deal with a great being in the virtual world in exchange for power."

"Even this great existence is a kind of 'natural law' for people in later generations."

"But... even if we keep silent until now..." Adlbert was now completely convinced by Ian's thoughts, but he still murmured to himself: "There will definitely be smart people in the future who can discover all this. The truth... they will find out.”

"Isn't that a very simple thing? Smart people discovered the 'laws of nature' and 'summarized and utilized' them? What's the big deal?"

"Even now, we are not sure that the various 'truths and laws' we have discovered are not some kind of rules formulated by some super civilization."

Ian said calmly, even indifferently: "What's more... First of all, Terra must have a future, and we can also successfully create the arcane path."

"The things in the future are the things in the future. Even the prophet can't control that much."

"In the final analysis, my purpose..."

——Just go to the sky.

——That’s all.

[If my actions will affect sentient beings in the future...I will not say sorry]

In fact, the protagonist of each of my books has a "soul-burning" plug-in, which can be regarded as a "soul-burning person" in response to the fan card.