Lord of Arcane

Chapter 2162 The Way of Evergreen
The laboratory itself is the resurrection magic circle, and the solidification of the soul itself is not permanent. After the effect fades, the resurrection mage immediately starts working to rebuild the link between his body and soul.

It's just that, although he has enough resurrection nodes, he can even do it without affecting the casting of spells after resurrection, but it is still not all the connection nodes between the body and the soul, and he has no choice but to rely on time to slowly heal Healed.

Resurrection spells involving fewer nodes will affect body functions and spellcasting ability. People resurrected using that poor resurrection spell can still recover the remaining link nodes with time, but it will take longer.

Ordinary humans usually can't wait for that day.

But Xia Duo's lifespan has already exceeded the limit of ordinary people, and since it does not affect the casting of spells, he has the patience to wait slowly. If he is really impatient, he can also find a projection plane to do some human experiments.

Under the acceleration of time, compared to the main plane, it is almost equivalent to instant restoration.

However, Xia Duo originally planned to build a time acceleration zone in the floating city in order to deal with the future crisis. As long as he doesn't care about the loss of life, he can go there to research and recover.

So does Xia Duo care about lifespan?
If he had been asked this question before, he would have answered that he cared a lot, but when one day he found that his lifespan had no end in sight, he didn't care so much about lifespan.

Of course, in addition to various factors at the realistic level, there is also a threshold at the level of consciousness if one wants to live forever or even live forever.

A person's life of 100 years is absolutely different from 1 years, and 1 years and [-] million years are two completely different concepts.

Xia Duo can't even imagine the state of intelligent life that has lived for [-] million years, but it can be foreseen that how to maintain a continuous and stable self in the long years will be a major problem in longevity.

Just like the computer will be stuck forever, too much information will be "stuck" in the consciousness, and the most important thing is that most of the information in the consciousness is related to the composition of personality.

This also means that it is difficult to make a choice. For example, Xia Duo cannot accept interruptions in the continuation of the self or involuntary changes.

From this point of view, those who choose to obtain immortality by solidifying their souls may have made the most correct choice, but Xia Duo also cannot accept this kind of frozen immortality method similar to uploading consciousness.

However, for some people who don't care about self-change, abandoning the past may be the best choice to move towards the future, updating a personality every period of time, and even inheriting part of the personality and goals of the previous generation.

Compared with freeze-frame immortality, this renewal immortality method is more sustainable, and it is more likely to achieve true immortality.

But no matter which one is, it cannot reach the ideal state that Xia Duo currently believes. He believes that the bottom line of immortality should ensure the continuity of self-continuation and the initiative when changing.

The reason why he insists on meditation training every day is largely for this ideal way of immortality.

There is also an accurate description of this state in the legend of Xia Duo's hometown, that is - "non-regression". It is said that only a Bodhisattva can reach this state. The same is true for consciousness.

However, he does not seek to reach that level, the pursuit process itself is very meaningful, at least in line with his current thinking, if one day he can no longer persist, that is his own choice.

No one needs to be responsible for an uncertain future that is too far away, and Xia Duo is no exception.

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The experience of "resurrection" is very unforgettable. Apart from the disappearance of the extraordinary perception brought about by the solidification of the soul, the process of gradually becoming alive from the soul to the body is also very wonderful.

After all the processes were completed, Xia Duo really felt as if he had passed away. At this time, the hidden dangers in his consciousness did not exist, even because he took the opportunity to discard all kinds of sensory information received in the projection plane during the process of stripping the soul fragments. , let him relax a lot.

As for the damage to the soul itself caused by stripping the soul fragments, Xia Duo checked carefully, and there was no discomfort or other new hidden dangers for the time being.

He speculated that stripping soul fragments might be similar to donating blood. Regular blood donation can stimulate the hematopoietic system and improve the blood environment, so regular stripping of soul fragments may also improve the function of the soul to a certain extent.

Of course, this is just his guess, and it needs long-term experiments to verify it. If the guess is true, maybe he can regularly carry out soul maintenance in the future, so that the "hardware" that the consciousness operates will last forever.

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For the next two days, Xia Duo didn't go anywhere, and continued to nest in the laboratory to check the actual impact of "dead" once on the ability to cast spells.

Although the resurrection spell he mastered does not affect spellcasting, it means that the upper limit of spellcasting has not been lowered, which means that he will not fall below the level of the great arcanist.

Specific to each element of casting a spell, whether it will be affected, the test range of the projection plane is far less than the real situation of the main plane.

Not to mention personal factors, so Xia Duo needs to retest every possible element of casting spells to ensure that there will be no mistakes caused by the poor resurrection state when actually casting spells.

In the laboratory, Xia Duo was testing the state of spellcasting while discussing with Niya about communication fanlocks. At the end, Xia Duo told Niya:

"I will go to Evereska in two days, and if there is no accident, I should stay there for a few days."

Xia Duo told Niya about this two days ago, and Niya could understand it, but today Niya made a request:
"After the discussion just now, I am sure that I will be able to produce a few communication artifacts for testing within two days. When you bring one to Evereska, I need to verify a few key issues."

"no problem."

Xia Duo agreed without hesitation. In fact, he had some guesses about what Nya wanted to verify. It was a fairly standard technical verification experiment, but Nya was so dedicated, he certainly couldn't dampen his wife's enthusiasm.

"By the way, are you going to be present at the collective wedding in Codex Square tomorrow?" Niya asked again.

"Mass wedding?"

Xia Duo thought for a while, and then remembered that in tomorrow's mass wedding, a newcomer is a member of the Entrance Society, and it is the first mass wedding with a mage and a member of the Entrance Institute. He has no reason not to go.

"Of course I'm going. Afrin is getting married tomorrow. As the leader of the Advancement Society, of course I'm going to send my blessings."

In fact, when Territory started the New Life Movement, Xia Duo would participate in almost every group wedding, but later I don’t know whether Leiden’s school was “broken” or Lingmin’s school was “broken”, there were only a few couples every time The newcomers also had a group wedding, Xia Duo was a little annoyed, so the rest of them didn't attend.

However, the previous group weddings only included ordinary people in the territory, and tomorrow's group wedding will have mages among the newcomers, and they will be held with ordinary people, without specialization.

At such a meaningful historical moment, even if the other party is not a member of the Advancement Society, Xia Duo is willing to go personally to send blessings.

"Then I'll go too. Many of the newcomers are from Savile Land. As the lord, I should also be there."

"Okay, let's go there together tomorrow."

(End of this chapter)