Time passed day by day.
On the tenth Ancient Wilderness Day, the Strongest Clone's mental power and energy consumption reached their limits.
With a thought, the time bubble shattered mysteriously, and the instantaneous burst of force ejected the two Clone from it.
"Whoosh!"
The two Clone, who had studied in the black hole for ten years, reappeared. Although they were still in their Wilderness Body insect form, their temperaments had changed significantly.
In Wen Jing's Mind Palace, which is visualized in the form of a human figure, this change becomes even more concrete.
"Dominate."
The two personalities together reported to the Dominant Will the gains they had made in the past ten years of learning.
The character wears a monocle, has a refined demeanor, calm gaze, and exudes the rationality of a scientist.
The other personality is impeccably dressed, holding a paintbrush, with piercing eyes, exuding an artistic aura.
Not long after entering the Black Hole Retreat Room to study, Wen Jing realized that the key to unleashing the potential of Personality Network lay in shaping different modes of thinking.
Thus, the two personalities began to consciously learn about different civilizations.
He focused on science, Analysis and studied various technological theories from all civilizations, and developed a rational research personality.
A Creation Personality that develops divergent and intuitive thinking through studying various social ideas, art, and historical evolution.
Its greatest strength lies in the fact that each personality node possesses an innate comprehension that allows Wen Jing...
It's as if she chose a different path in life in a different parallel universe.
Chapter 209
Within the Mind Palace, besides the two personalities whose temperaments have changed, there are two other personality nodes.
Their image, or rather their self-perception, is still the 'original' Wen Jing.
The Dominant Will, residing atop the palace, is a phantom formed by the convergence of four personality nodes.
On the panel, thanks to learning about the Star Alliance civilization for ten years using the Black Hole Time Difference System, her Skill Points had increased to 41,122.
The knowledge of multiple Level 2 civilizations is so vast that even with Wen Jing's talent and comprehension, it would be impossible for him to learn it all in ten years.
If we compare the information of civilization to mineral deposits, then her initial short-term learning was similar to prioritizing the collection of the most core and largest known parts, while her seclusion near the black hole was equivalent to establishing a mining operation process and systematically extracting the resources.
However, this is still a long way from completely mining all the mineral deposits.
If conditions allowed, Wen Jing wouldn't have only invested two personality nodes into the black hole.
However, the spacetime bubble needs to be maintained by the Strongest Clone on the outside, and each personality node needs a body as a carrier.
In this way, she can only have a maximum of three Clone enter.
In fact, after evolving into Gestalt Consciousness, Wen Jing was able to sacrifice a certain amount of mental energy to abandon his Clone and retrieve his consciousness separately, instead of having Multiple Consciousnesses like before, where one consciousness was completely bound to the body and could only split again upon death.
Therefore, she is now capable of retrieving the consciousness trapped within the Spacetime Amber.
The reason they didn't do that is because things are already changing there, and breaking the seal is just around the corner. If they gave up that body, the powerful Wilderness Beast sealed nearby would be wasted.
If you choose to leave and then re-enter, you might be captured by that stagnant light again as you get closer.
Moreover, although the Spacetime Amber trapped Wen Jing, the role it played during that time was also that of a safe house in the Ancient Wilderness.
"From now on, a rational and scientific personality will be called an ' Analysis Personality,' and a personality with divergent and creative thinking will be called a ' Creation Personality.'"
Wen Jing named the two personalities, demonstrating his consistent talent for naming.
Although Creation Personality could lead to more sophisticated names, it was directly rejected because the Analysis Personality had the most votes compared to the other two original personalities, so no brainpower was wasted on this aspect.
"Two 'literary' thought patterns have formed, while the other two personalities will develop in the 'martial' direction."
"However, the development of 'martial' related personalities requires actual combat and cannot be rapidly improved using the time difference of a black hole. I need to consider my existing characteristics and combat skills..."
While contemplating this problem, the Analysis Personality spoke from the Mind Palace: "Master, with [ Information Touch ] now available, I suggest integrating the current primary combat methods."
The gazes of the Dominant Will and the other three personalities all focused on them.
The Analysis Personality pushed up his single, non-prescription glasses. "The traits and skills gained from the ruins of civilization cannot be temporarily enhanced. The traits gained from devouring Wilderness Beast vary in strength, mostly passive and resistance-based. In terms of offensive capabilities, only Frost Vein Silk shows potential."
"Large-scale battles have [ Standardization Meme ], but when dealing with individual high-level combatants like top-tier Awakened, the four fundamental forces should be able to exert their greatest power in battles within the material universe."
"Given the current [ Information Touch ] ability, as long as the basic characteristics of the four fundamental forces are evolved, it is possible to temporarily elevate one to the rule level during combat, thus saving a massive amount of Skill Points."
This is the benefit of personality liberation; before evolving Gestalt Consciousness, she might not have necessarily enhanced her combat power in this direction.
"Let's do it this way." The Dominant Will made the decision.
The speed of communication in the Personality Network is extremely fast, and the conversations within the Mind Palace are actually Wen Jing's 'thinking process'.
Now that she possesses S-class power, her return to the Federation is on the agenda.
However, the universe is simply too vast. Even though the Light Language Civilization has learned the cosmic algorithm and has been exploring with its Reconnaissance Clone to this day, Wen Jing still hasn't been able to locate the human civilization using the cosmic algorithm.
If the Federation algorithm is used, she can travel directly back.
However, without knowing the extent of the Prophet's control over the Federation, Wen Jing could only consider the most extreme scenario: complete control.
And what about the other person's prophetic abilities? Could they predict the location and time of her return?
Wen Jing is now confident that even if he encounters the Prophet, he won't die, even if he can't kill him.
Her concerns were about her relatives and friends in the Federation.
Therefore, before returning, she needs to be fully prepared, either by finding a covert infiltration method that ensures she won't be discovered, or by directly overwhelming the enemy.
"First, integrate all available resources."
" The Strongest Clone has suffered a huge loss this time and needs to enter the Ancient Wilderness to absorb resources to recover... In addition, we also need to go to the Phase Creation Civilization to gather information about the Boundary-Breaking Empire's civilization."
When Wen Jing made arrangements for the next steps, the Creation Personality spoke.
"My Lord, I have an idea."
Creation Personality is Wen Jing's most inspired mode of thinking, with new ideas emerging almost every moment. However, these new ideas are numerous and varied, and not all of them are good. Therefore, under the filtering rules of the Constant Self, ideas that are not important enough or have low feasibility will not be proposed.
"This idea is about Skill Points. We're currently the Insect Race, which is a miniature civilization... and the characteristic of Skill Points is that as long as a skill is generally agreed upon by a civilization, it can basically be acquired through Skill Points."
"So, can we now 'farm' Skill Points by reaching a consensus on certain behaviors?"
The Personality Network trembled slightly, Wen Jing's eyes lit up.
"Then let's give it a try!"
If it really works, then this is the most powerful ability of [ Gestalt Consciousness ].
She is civilization, and civilization is her. What constitutes skill is something she can directly determine.
Raising both hands wouldn't be considered a skill in human civilization, but it is in the Insect Race, as long as all members agree.
Of course, reaching a consensus on personality is essentially adding new rules to Wen Jing's ' Constant Self '. The premise is that it must not contradict the previous principles. In order to prevent affecting oneself, it is also necessary to avoid changing the consensus on thought.
After communicating among the four personalities, they immediately agreed that 'the forelimbs should be at a 45-degree angle to the ground' is Insect Race Gymnastics skill.
Inside the Mind Palace, the four personalities instantly transformed from human form into insect form—their form here is entirely determined by Wen Jing's thoughts.
The group raised its forelimbs to confirm the skill's movement.
Buzz...
The next moment, the Mind Palace trembled slightly.
Wen Jing clearly saw a layer of colorless yet clearly visible transparent flames emerging from each personality node and merging into the palace.
At the same time, the numbers on the panel changed: 41122, 41123...41127
Although it only increased by 5 points, the Skill Points have indeed increased!
"It actually works!" Wen Jing exclaimed in delight.
When Skill Points stopped increasing, the transparent flames also disappeared from each personality.
"This flame seems to be the manifestation of Skill Points. Five points—is that based on the number of my personality nodes?"
The moment this question arose, the Mind Palace abruptly stopped, and the 'wind' formed by Wen Jing's thoughts flowing here suddenly froze.
The four personalities turned around simultaneously, looking at the fifth figure that had appeared out of nowhere...
The scene became extremely bizarre.
Prior to this, neither the dominant consciousness nor the four personality nodes had detected the existence of this figure.
No, it should be said that it is assumed that it was originally part of this place.
Even now, if it weren't for ' Constant Self ' clearly indicating that Wen Jing only has four personality nodes, she wouldn't be able to tell whether she has a fifth personality.
At this moment, her gaze focused, and she finally noticed the figure that had been ignored all along.
The other party had no face, only a hazy, dark insect-shaped outline, and even maintained the raised forelimbs, remaining motionless, as if trying to blend in.
"No, it didn't exist before."
Memory is also information preserved by the ' Constant Self,' like an unalterable archive.
Wen Jing retrieved his memories and could clearly see that the shadow did not exist before he tried to change the consensus; it suddenly appeared in the Mind Palace when he was increasing his consensus skill.