After leaving the basement, Sno casually poured himself a glass of water. But almost the next instant, he found it a little hard to bear—
Because at that moment, he finally realized the negative effect of Sequence Six—
The moment he tried to drink, his body seemed to begin arguing. Most of his souls believed that he really should have a glass of water, but a small portion believed that he was not thirsty yet.
Though it sounded a little like indecisiveness, its essence was entirely different. More precisely, it should be called schizophrenia.
Or... a split consciousness?
Apart from the primary consciousness of Sno/Feng Xue, the spiritual bodies that had previously been subdivided countless times seemed to have developed consciousnesses of their own.
These consciousnesses were not particularly strong and possessed only simple thought patterns, but once countless consciousnesses gathered together, conflicts began to arise.
It was like being splashed with water on a scorching summer day. You would simultaneously think, "Are you sick?" and "That feels great!" Two contradictory thoughts. Whenever Sno took any action, the enormous torrent of consciousness within him produced countless chaotic and disordered branching thoughts.
He felt as if the consciousnesses within him formed a complicated parliament. Whenever he made a decision, they entered a process akin to voting: the primary consciousness proposed a motion, the branching consciousnesses voted on it, and the minority obeyed the majority.
Though the process was not particularly long, it still caused him to start lagging.
And once he understood this negative state, he finally realized that the negative effects of the previous three Sequences might not have merely been side effects of the potion and the influence of dual acting.
They were also meant to help him adapt more easily to the Sequences that followed—
Only after experiencing