The Qingping Realm Domain Consciousness had already split off some independent personalities, but their intelligence was truly worrying.
It could not really be blamed. Fundamentally, it had evolved from Heaven's Dao and was something akin to artificial intelligence, tasked with managing an extremely complex range of matters.
As artificial intelligence, it could adapt to such work because it had grown accustomed to all kinds of subconscious responses.
But after truly developing consciousness of its own, managing those things became difficult instead, because it now had preferences of its own.
Simply put, mechanical responses had been enough before, but now it had to do far more than merely react on instinct.
A child of barely half a year old had once known only to suckle instinctively when hungry. If he suddenly gained awareness and wanted to rationally allocate the household expenses, could he manage it?
He might be able to allocate them, but whether it would be rational was another matter entirely. He simply could not imagine how complicated the outside world was.
The Qingping Realm Consciousness was the same. By instinct, it believed Wunan should be suppressed, because he was insufficiently friendly toward it. But it also knew it could not suppress Wunan too harshly, or there would be consequences even it could not bear.
It had indeed weakened the curse somewhat. Some things truly could not be taken too far. If it somehow drew over the Great Sun Golden Crow, let alone itself, even the Sky-Qin Plane would be unable to withstand it. Thus, when it was time to yield, it had to make appropriate concessions.
Though it was a consciousness born from ignorance, it had genuinely learned and grown step by step. At first, it had not felt itself to be particularly remarkable—it was theoretically only an appendage