metaverse evolution.

"Sister Wei is leaving now?" Chu Fei was a little surprised. "Hasn't your injury not healed yet?"

As far as Chu Fei knows, Wei Qingyu's current state can only recover to the mid-13.0 stage at most. There is still a long way to go to reach the height of 14.0. According to the super energy formula, the mid-13.0 stage is only half of the early 14.0 stage, which is half the state in all aspects.

Wei Qingyu struggled a bit, but still said: "Now I have a certain ability to protect myself, and if I really run into trouble, I can run away.

I am going to trade the Star Battle Suit for resources and at the same time, dump the Star Battle Suit's troubles on the cult.

Some people have already begun to doubt the Treasure Pavilion."

Chu Fei nodded slightly. In the Zhongzhicheng communication group, some people were indeed discussing this matter. There were only so many 14.0 masters in the inland, and it was a bit abnormal that Wei Qingyu had not shown up for four days.

As for the issue of recovery, Chu Fei did try his best. After all, Chu Fei was a peak 11.0 practitioner and was powerless against the injuries of a 14.0 practitioner.

After thinking for a while, Chu Fei took out a bottle of Lingyuan Fruit Extract and handed it to Wei Qingyu, "Sister Wei, Chunyu Incense is poisonous if used too much. You have been using it too much recently."

Wei Qingyu glanced at Chu Fei with a half-smile. Compared to Jiang Shumin and others, Wei Qingyu was the boss of the auction house and a 14.0 expert, so she had some experience.

However, Wei Qingyu didn't say anything, she just drank the potion in one gulp, and then silently felt the changes in her body. This was also one of the reasons why Wei Qingyu came to say goodbye.

Wei Qingyu did not resent Chu Fei, because Chu Fei did save her life and gave her a lot of support. Of course, if Chu Fei did not give her the antidote, she would turn against him.

The guard whispered, "How long will this potion last?"

Chu Fei: "All the toxins from the past have been eliminated. I can still last for ten days or half a month. But if you don't need to use Spring Rain Incense, don't use it. Also, Spring Rain Incense is one of my symbols, so please use it with caution, Sister Wei."

Wei Qingyu: "Okay. But as a pharmacist, didn't you do anything about the toxicity of this spring rain burning incense?"

Chu Fei: "I am using Chunyu Ranxiang myself. Should I use myself as an experiment?"

Wei Qingyu looked at Chu Fei deeply. This was also the reason why Wei Qingyu was not angry, because Chu Fei himself was also using it, and before using Chunyu to burn incense, Chu Fei had said that this thing was poisonous.

But thinking that she still had a lot of spring rain incense in her hand, Wei Qingyu asked for a few more bottles of antidote.

Finally, Wei Qingyu looked at Chu Fei deeply and said goodbye formally.

Chu Fei looked at Wei Qingyu's back, and suddenly he felt an indescribable sense of loss. Even a 14.0 expert still had to work hard for life, practice, and family.

Think about my current situation. It's not even 12.0 yet, but I need a lot of resources. If it reaches 12.0, I'm afraid I'll also be worried about resources.

Well, now I am already worrying about the technique.

The top-level cultivation resources are scarce. But it’s not bad now, you can still spend money.

"So, we're going to spend money like crazy. As we all know, spending money makes you stronger!"

Wei Qingyu's departure did not cause any trouble in Baicaotang, and Chu Fei would not spread the news everywhere, so life went on as usual.

Next, Baicaotang officially opened for business and recruited pharmacists, medicinal material processing workers, etc. Although Baicaotang recruited a group of people in Yishan City, it was still not enough.

Three days later, all members of the adventure team reported in safely, the new adventure team was successfully formed, and the expedition activities started immediately.

In places like Feijiangjun City and Yishan City, the "stone gambling trend" is prevalent, and Chu Fei cannot be an exception. His new expedition activity is to sell "temporary stocks" to the outside world.

The first issuance was conducted with greater caution, and an explanation was given in advance: the first exploration would not be very in-depth, the returns might not be great, or even a loss might occur.

As a result, there were many buyers. Baicaotang has become quite famous recently.

The first exploration took three days, and the two adventure groups returned safely and brought back some things.

Chu Fei checked personally and found quite a few good things, such as molecular detection instruments, portable electron tunneling microscopes, etc.

The members of the adventure team all talked to Chu Fei about the situation below and took credit for it.

We originally wanted to explore it briefly, but suddenly found that the team members were very capable and had prepared sufficient medicines, so we took a risk and finally discovered a research laboratory, as well as computers. However, this time the preparation was not sufficient, and the computer could not be moved for the time being, but the hard drive was removed.

After figuring out the situation, Chu Fei asked Bai Jie to settle all items according to market prices and calculate the net profit, and then the members of the adventure team would share 50% of the net profit.

The adventure group then exchanged temporary stocks. The first adventure was profitable, and the reputation of Baicaotang was hyped up.

Bai Jie was naturally responsible for what happened afterwards, so Chu Fei didn't pay much attention to it.

Then the second competition began, and Baicaotang's adventure group expanded by one, and there were now three adventure groups.

The three adventure groups brought back four small advanced computers for Chu Fei, which were better than the one Chu Fei was using now. Chu Fei immediately expanded his supercomputer server.

Not long after, the auction of Feijiangjun City was launched. The three 12.0 "auction items" that Chu Fei had sent over earlier and many practitioners were all in the auction sequence.

The auction was a huge success and brought back a huge amount of money for Chu Fei, and he continued to spend money like crazy.

After that, the number of adventure groups increased to 4, bringing back a large amount of resources for Chu Fei. The reputation of the Baicaotang Adventure Group became higher and higher.

Because of the generous rewards, no worries, and sufficient resources, the combat effectiveness of the adventure group is significantly higher than that of their peers, and the harvest is rich. In particular, Chu Fei equipped everyone with space capsules, which greatly increased the team's survivability, transportation, and profitability.

Chu Fei can copy the information found, exchange it with others, and finally sell it; it will not be made public for the time being.

A large number of civilian equipment were harvested, all of which were repaired and refurbished before being sold at good prices; some ordinary scientific research items, nuclear fusion devices, etc. were also sold in large quantities; but Chu Fei kept the high-tech scientific research equipment, small cold nuclear fusion devices, etc. for himself.

In the midst of his busy schedule, Chu Fei maintained a practice strategy of taking small steps and moving fast. He constantly built new architectures and performed calculations and tests. Each architecture could only bring a single-digit improvement to the cosmic brain, but small changes accumulated and brewed the power of transformation.

Time passed quietly for one and a half months.

On this day, Chu Fei, who had been in seclusion for a long time, suddenly opened his eyes, looked at the time, and couldn't help but sighed, "Practicing does not take time, this seclusion actually took five days."

For five days, eight advanced computers ran frantically, and Chu Fei also thought and calculated frantically, consuming thousands of wisdom dew drops and mental power.

But the result is also crazy - the cosmic brain has been "thoroughly" iterated and tested.

The so-called "thorough" iteration means updating the cosmic brain once and for all, rather than piecemeal. In other words, it means continuous accumulation of piecemeal work, and finally completing a major version update.

The new cosmic brain, which is the cosmic brain that combines the Klein bottle core and the gravitational core, has reached version 2.0.

The new version of the cosmic brain makes extensive use of topological manifold structures. These topological manifolds are connected together like neurons, forming a three-dimensional cross state.

The algorithms of the gravitational kernel and the Klein bottle kernel, under the traction of topological manifolds, form a structure similar to the "left and right halves of the human brain". They are independent of each other, but closely connected.

In order to adjust the resource scheduling problem of the two cores, Chu Fei also introduced the "Bipartite Mind Theory".

This is what Chu Fei gained from his recent exploration of the ancient city, and it can be said to be the biggest gain.

What is a dualistic mind?
This is a theory in psychological research that holds that humans did not truly develop "self-awareness" in the modern sense until around 3000 BC to 2000 BC. Before that, human consciousness was more inclined to instinct.

Humans have no real self-awareness, and all their actions rely on a dual mind: half of the brain hears a voice from the other half, and this voice gives orders to the other half of the brain that controls the actions, and humans who hear this voice regard it as "the voice of God."

Medical research results have also proved that human auditory hallucinations originate from the right brain, while behavioral control originates from the left brain.

So what happened between 2,000 and 3,000 BC that led to the awakening of human self-consciousness?
It is generally believed that the development of art, the increase in human social activities, the increase in the amount of information, especially the emergence of language, the formation of tribes and cultures, and even civilization, ultimately led to the collapse of the dualistic mind - wrong!

But until now, the right brain of the human biological brain still has higher authority than the left brain.

Now Chu Fei is using this theory to sort out his own cosmic brain.

The core of Klein bottle theory is elevated to the "first-level core", and the gravitational core is downgraded to the second-level core.

Klein bottle logic is responsible for abstract thinking, imagination, etc.; while the gravitational core is responsible for specific execution and control.

However, the cosmic brain is not a biological brain after all, Chu Fei also introduced the theory of Tai Chi, the exchange of yin and yang: when necessary, the gravity core can be upgraded to the first-level core, and the Klein bottle core can be downgraded to the second-level core. Specifically, it is adjusted according to the needs of practice, combat, research, etc.

As the relationship between the cores became clear, the structure of Chu Fei's cosmic brain became more complex.

There were three star rings before, but now it has increased directly to six star rings.

Every time a star ring is added, the extra-dimensional attribute increases a little bit. For example, from 3.1 dimension to 3.2 dimension. The actual increase is of course not that big, but in the process of climbing the dimension, even a small improvement may bring unimaginable progress.

The three newly added star rings are mainly various "science and technology", or more precisely, manifolds abstracted and developed from the logic of science and technology.

Thanks to Chu Fei's experience in studying a large number of manifolds of medicinal properties, it is not difficult to abstract these scientific and technological materials and convert them into manifolds.

The manifolds that Chu Fei converts now include: electric motors, reducers, transmission technology, sensors, circuit control, flight means, etc.; each technology has many details, such as optical sensors, vibration sensors, temperature sensors, inertial sensors, etc.

All these scientific and technological achievements form three star rings, and the gravitational core has primary control over them.

The previous three star rings were mainly logical problems, and the Klein bottle core had primary control.

In order to make the two different cores work in coordination, Chu Fei had to introduce the "parity non-conservation" logic.

But at the same time, the original "conservation of parity" logic is still in operation.

In the end, these two logics are perfectly combined, just like the north and south poles of a magnet and the positive and negative poles of a power source, which cannot be completely separated.

Now, Chu Fei smiled as he looked at the "New Cosmic Brain 2.0" version running in the Cosmic Brain virtual machine.

But then the problem arose - it had to be formatted and rebuilt.

However, it is different from the last time. The last time the cosmic brain was formatted, its physical energy was less than 53 calories, so the secondary brain could handle it.

Now, the secondary brain cannot control the 53 calories of energy in the body.

53 calories of energy. Once it gets out of control, Chu Fei himself will be blown to pieces.

If you don't want your physical energy to get out of control after formatting your universe's brain, you need to release energy.

Or strengthen the secondary brain. But it is not easy to strengthen the secondary brain. After the last iteration, the structure of the secondary brain has temporarily reached its limit.

Now, if we want to control 53 calories of physical energy, we need all the computing power of the secondary brain plus 720 million points of computing power of the main universe brain.

The 720 million points of computing power provided by the main universe brain is not only a supplement of computing power, but also because of the advanced architecture. The secondary brain does not have these advanced architectures.

Of course, there is another way, which is to ask Jiang Shumin and others to protect the law, and let Jiang Shumin and others provide computing power to control the energy in the body. This is what Chu Fei did when he helped Wang Yujing update the universe brain.

But this is equivalent to handing his life over to others, and Chu Fei doesn't dare to take the risk.

Therefore, the only option left is to disperse the power.

Thinking of this, Chu Fei contacted Jiang Shumin, Wei Hang, and Qian Yufeng, and asked the three of them to come and protect him.

After Jiang Shumin came over, she was sure that Chu Fei needed to format and rebuild, and she was speechless for a while. After hesitating for a while, she said, "The day before yesterday, the city lord told me that the secret realm will be opened soon, maybe in the next three to five days.

If you format and rebuild it, I'm afraid it will be too late."

Chu Fei was stunned for a moment, but then he said: "At worst, I'll miss this opportunity. Anyway, I can open it again in a month or two.

As the saying goes, sharpening the knife does not delay the chopping of wood. My cultivation has increased, and my chances of obtaining the skills will also increase."

Jiang Shumin nodded, "Okay, since you have made up your mind, let's wait until next time."

Chu Fei nodded, but asked: "Is it three days or five days?"

"That's uncertain. The secret realm is now operating on its own, and outsiders cannot interfere. We can only infer based on previous experience."

Chu Fei thought that three days might be enough to format and rebuild it. If the secret realm opens later, he might be able to catch up.

However, Chu Fei didn't say anything, he just asked the three seniors to protect him.

Then Chu Fei began to disperse his energy.

A large amount of pure energy dissipated. The three seniors took a deep breath and absorbed 90% of Chu Fei's dissipated energy.

Although thinking that this is the energy emanating from Chu Fei, it easily reminds people of bath water. But... it smells too good.

The three seniors were immediately attracted by the pure energy from Chu Fei.

Originally, Chu Fei invited the three seniors to come here to discharge the dissipated energy. Otherwise, the out-of-control energy would cause high temperature.

In the end, the three seniors ate it themselves.

Chu Fei saw it, but didn't say anything, and there was nothing he could say.

As for the feathered serpent hiding in the portable space, this guy has been full recently. Moreover, with three seniors guarding the law, releasing the feathered serpent again is a sign of distrust.

If Quetzalcoatl could contend against the three seniors, Chu Fei would have released it. But the problem was that the current Quetzalcoatl was really unable to contend against the three 13.0 masters.

It took Chu Fei more than three hours to actively release energy. The energy in his body dropped from 53 calories to 17 calories. Only then did the sub-brain finally take over the energy in his body completely. Without the complex algorithms provided by the main universe brain, the sub-brain was somewhat struggling.

At this time, the three seniors absorbed 10 calories of energy each on average. The look they gave Chu Fei changed completely.

Chu Fei had lost so much energy, but the remaining energy in his body was still strong. Did this guy really have 500,000 calories of energy? Was he just kidding?

Regardless of the shock of the three seniors, Chu Fei was still dispersing his energy.

It will not stop until the remaining energy in the body reaches 12 calories. This is because the secondary brain has to allocate some computing power to control the body.

Then Chu Fei arranged the bottles of potions and energy crystals in a circle and began to format the cosmic brain.

As the cosmic brain structure disintegrated bit by bit, Chu Fei's skin began to loosen. Although the sub-brain had taken over the body, it could only barely control the body from collapsing, and as for the rest, it could no longer take care of it.

Hair and fur begin to fall out, and "age spots" even gradually appear on the skin.

Chu Fei's formatting and reconstruction made Jiang Shumin and the other two look solemn, and at the same time, the three of them communicated through thoughts.

"This is a formatting and rebuilding process, and the cost is too high. If we can't control it properly, it will completely collapse."

"But if you want to make progress, you have to do this. Watch carefully. I've been studying the Qinghong technique recently, and I plan to reformat it again."

"That's right. If Chu Fei can get Ren Xiaoyao's technique or even Shuguang's technique, we will have to reformat it and start over."

"I don't think there's much hope for the Dawn Technique, and even if we get it, our foundation won't support it. But Ren Xiaoyao Technique is still good."

"I also think that Ren Xiaoyao's skills are probably our limit. Of course, if there is a Shuguang skill, we should still take a look at it, and even leave it to future generations."

During the conversation between the three, Chu Fei gradually turned into a little old man, with some impurities appearing on his body and an unpleasant smell. Although his body did not collapse, it also looked a bit like the "Five Decays of Heaven".

But an hour later, Chu Fei's condition stabilized, and then his body seemed to begin to recover.

Seeing this scene, the three of them narrowed their eyes - the formatting was completed so quickly and the reconstruction began?

Chu Fei was completely unable to care about the outside world. His wisdom dew drops and spiritual power were burning madly. In an hour, he could burn dozens or hundreds of wisdom dew drops and thousands of spiritual powers.

The Dew of Wisdom had been upgraded once before, but Chu Fei’s level had been raised again, and the effect of the Dew of Wisdom could not keep up after all, so he had to burn a lot of it.

As for the power of the mind, it has never been upgraded, so it consumes a lot.

In the space of consciousness, a brand new cosmic brain is rebuilt from scratch.

Basic geometry → timing → unit cell → primary computing unit → advanced computing unit → small core → large core → super core → left and right brain (two cores)

Chu Fei was very familiar with this process. The new version of the cosmic brain had simulated it countless times.

During the practice, Chu Fei's secondary brain automatically operated, grabbing medicines, energy crystals, etc. and swallowing them. Chu Fei could now swallow energy crystals the size of a fist. The body of a practitioner is always less and less like a human.

Three days passed quietly. Jiang Shumin and the other two witnessed with their own eyes Chu Fei's change from handsome and elegant to haggard, and then become handsome and elegant again.

The newborn Chu Fei had a layer of dirt all over his body and was much thinner, which was due to the loss of nutrients, so it was not a big problem. Only Chu Fei's head was the cleanest, like a freshly peeled egg.

At this moment, Chu Fei's aura was smooth and natural, without any sharpness at all.

In the haze, the three people had a strange feeling: Chu Fei had completed a transformation, a transformation beyond imagination.

Late at night on the third day, 83 hours after Chu Fei formatted and rebuilt his computer, he finally opened his eyes.

The moment she saw Chu Fei's eyes, Jiang Shumin, who was facing him, even felt dizzy for a moment, as if her mind was taken away.

Without waiting for Jiang Shumin to speak, Chu Fei stood up and said, "Thank you three seniors for protecting me. I will go wash up first. By the way, is the secret realm open?"

Jiang Shumin shook her head and spoke, her tone somewhat shocked, "Your foundation now..."

"It still needs to be consolidated. But my current state is already better than before." After a pause, Chu Fei explained, "The seventh competition will be held the day after tomorrow. The three seniors should try to go and watch it when they have time. I have made obvious progress recently, and I have learned a lot from these players.

In fact, we spent money to buy experience. In the first six games, we have already lost about 3 trillion yuan, and this money may have been wasted.

By the way, is the secret realm open?"

Jiang Shumin: "Not yet. Soon. By the way, the secret realm has not been opened yet, which will inevitably affect the game. Should we pause it?"

Chu Fei hadn't really thought of this just now. After thinking about it, he decided to cancel it temporarily. At this time, everyone was paying attention to the secret realm, and even if they were paying attention to the competition, the attraction was much reduced.

The most important thing is that Chu Fei has no time to watch it, which is such a waste.

After opening the bracelet, he found that Bai Jie also had a lot of messages about whether the competition should be suspended. Chu Fei gave Bai Jie an order and continued to retreat.

Next, you need to replenish energy, adjust the matching between your body and the cosmic brain, readjust your combat skills, etc. Also, run the score test.

After tidying himself up and changing his clothes, Chu Fei took out various potions and used them for the first three hours to bring his physical condition to its peak.

The next step is of course the running score. Although this running score may not be accurate, it can at least serve as a reference.

The structure of the new cosmic brain looks like a human brain, but it is surrounded by six intersecting star rings that look more like an electron cloud structure. The volume of the cosmic brain has also increased significantly.

The computing power changed greatly, soaring from 3113 million points to 5477 million points, an increase of 76%.

But the energy in the body did not increase much, barely increasing from 53 calories to 54 calories, an increase of about calories. Compared with the sudden increase of the cosmic brain, the physical energy has indeed reached its limit.

Then there is the computing power that controls physical energy. Before the breakthrough, it was "all the computing power of the secondary brain + 720 million points of the computing power of the main universe brain".
Now it is "all the computing power of the sub-brain + 635 million points of the computing power of the main universe brain".

The secondary brain has not been upgraded, so the result is obvious. This is due to the upgrade of the cosmic brain and the increase in execution. From 720 million points to 635 million points, the execution increased by 11.8%. The increase in execution is a direct result of the improvement in dimensions and algorithms.

Taking into account the skyrocketing score of the cosmic brain, the actual ability improvement rate of the cosmic brain is about 85%.

Such a powerful improvement made Chu Fei laugh more happily than ever before. But after the joy, there was a faint sigh.

This upgrade of the cosmic brain is the result of several small steps forward. After hundreds of years of accumulation, plus some knowledge recently discovered from the ancient city, plus recent insights and learning, and countless billions of computer calculations, this iteration of the cosmic brain was finally achieved.

The price of all this is crazy spending of money - trillions of dollars.

Then Chu Fei began to replenish his body's energy, optimize his body and cosmic brain, reorganize his combat methods, and wait for the secret realm to open.

Chu Fei didn't show up, but there was already a commotion outside.

First, Baicaotang announced the cancellation of the next competition to avoid the impact of the secret realm exploration, so that everyone can focus on exploring the secret realm. This certainly caused some dissatisfaction, but there were more people who agreed. After all, Baicaotang also said that after the secret realm ended, there would be a five-day break and then the competition would start again.

Secondly, there were too many people gathered here. This was all thanks to Chu Fei - the crazy coin-throwing competition attracted quite a few people.

And now, these people will explore the secret realm together. I don't know if this is considered as the trouble Chu Fei has caused himself.

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[The theory of the bifurcated mind is a psychological theory proposed by Julian Jaynes in his 1976 book The Collapse of the Bifurcated Mind: The Origins of Human Consciousness.] (End of this chapter)