"Divine Artifacts possess spirits"—that was something Ancient Method Cultivators often said.
But anyone with even a little common sense knew that was nonsense. So-called "Divine Artifacts possessing spirits" were merely control mechanisms preset into magical artifacts by their refiners, nothing more than auxiliary controls. So-called "artifact spirits" were simply made by extracting the memories from Demon Race souls and refining them into artifacts to control them. If one had even less integrity and lower limits, Human Race souls would do as well.
After the theory of computational artifacts emerged, a simple operator formation could handle most of an artifact spirit's work, so Modern Dharma Cultivators abandoned such inefficient things as artifact spirits.
But... the Myriad Immortal Mirror was an unprecedented immortal artifact of the computational type. Perhaps, maybe, possibly, there was the slightest chance it could develop an artifact spirit at the level of a Mathematician?
Feng Luoyi laughed heartily before him. "Hahaha, I just referred to 'Feng Luoyi' as 'myself.' Who do you think I am?"
Wang Qi vaguely guessed it. "You mean you want me to upload my consciousness into the Myriad Immortal Illusion Realm?"
Consciousness uploading, or mind uploading, was a science-fiction technology that could upload everything in a human brain—including consciousness, spirit, thoughts, and memories—into a computer or another machine with artificial intelligence. It was a common idea in classic science fiction; even if many people on Earth had never heard of the concept, they had at least seen The Matrix.
Yet constrained by technological limitations, Earth still could not achieve consciousness uploading. Before Wang Qi transmigrated, America had only just developed the precursor technologies for it.
Shenzhou's research into souls had already reached this level?
Feng Luoyi nodded. "After your consciousness is uploaded, you will exist alongside the Myriad Immortal Illusion Realm—note that it is