I'm Really Going to Become an Immortal
Chapter 72 - 68 Memory Palace and Current Changes!

Chapter 72: Chapter 68 Memory Palace and Current Changes!

Back at home.

Chen Yun lay casually on the sofa.

He teased Bai Jin with his foot while pondering about the general changes from this slumber evolution.

Compared to using an old mobile phone for recording.

Now, he wanted to make a fresh attempt.

It was an idea he had been wanting to try, which was to use his own brain to record each data change, saying goodbye to the old mobile phone.

However, he hadn’t tried using his brain for memory because his memories weren’t initially powerful, and he had been using the old mobile phone for data recording for a long time.

But now, things were different.

After this change, he felt his brain had become more organized than ever. It seemed like he could accurately flip through each page in his memory.

When he was in the mountains, he hadn’t paid much attention to this change, but now that he could settle down, it was something he could really feel.

After careful recollection, he found he could remember even when he was very young.

Childhood memories often seemed like frames of yellowed old photos, warm yet blurred.

He remembered the colorful slides in the kindergarten, the silhouette of his mother picking him up from school every day, and the voice of his father telling bedtime stories.

He remembered the excitement and sense of achievement when he first learned to ride a bicycle, and the gentle hands of his parents wiping his tears when he cried after a fall.

Those carefree summer afternoons, chasing and playing with friends in the shady lanes, waving homemade bamboo dragonflies or paper airplanes.

A piece of candy, a new toy, a cartoon—all were vividly visible in his memory.

These memories should have been deeply hidden in some corner of his heart, hard to recall.

But now, all he had to do was try to reminisce, and these memories surged like a tide, even the texture of certain tree leaves was remembered precisely.

This feeling.

Made Chen Yun somewhat silent.

Rarely could anyone in their twenties easily recall every happy day of their childhood.

Yet he could experience such a feeling.

Feeling that past happiness, he ultimately had a touch of regret akin to "wanting to buy cassia wine and share it, yet it’s unlike the days of youth."

Fortunately, the current Chen Yun had the ability to pursue the happiness of his "youthful days."

Not merely in memories but also in reality, he had the ability to chase that happiness.

Pondering.

Chen Yun let his memories spread deeper, trying to find memories from before the age of three.

However, despite trying for a long time, he couldn’t accomplish it.

Memories from before that seemed chaotic, and no useful information could be retrieved.

Chen Yun had somewhat anticipated this.

His memory enhancement allowed him to arbitrarily retrieve all the cluttered, accumulated, scattered hidden memories from after the age of three, which was already a terrifying extent beyond human imagination.

Being unable to retrieve memories from before the age of three was somewhat understandable.

Before age three, the brain’s language system is not fully developed, lacking a complete language system to assist, unable to transform perceived objects into memory.

Without memory, what is there to recollect?

Realizing this, Chen Yun stopped the idea of continuing to search for memories further back in time.

Feeling the cluttered memories.

Chen Yun felt that he might try to construct a Memory Palace like those in fantasy works, which would be more convenient for managing and retrieving his memories.

The "Memory Palace," also known as "Mind Palace" or "Spirit Palace," is a powerful memory technique dating back to Ancient Greece and the Roman era.

It utilizes our extraordinary memory of spatial environments, combining the information to be memorized with familiar spatial scenes (such as home, school, park, etc.), by building an imaginative "palace" in which different memory objects are placed at various locations, recalling the required information by recalling the layout of the palace.

In practice, start by choosing a very familiar place as the Memory Palace, and then in your mind, follow a specific route through the parts of this place, "placing" the information you want to remember at specific locations, which can be symbolized images, fragments of stories, etc. When you need to recall this information, simply rewalk through this palace in your mind, collecting the "placed" information along the way.

This method is particularly suitable for remembering a large amount of information with no obvious logical connection, such as speeches, academic knowledge, lists of words, etc., and is widely used in fields like education, academic research, competitive memory, and more.

After Chen Yun began trying, he constructed a tremendously grandiose structure in his mind.

It was a massive library.

Quietly floating in the boundless and empty profound darkness of space, it was the only tangible object in this space.

Entering this grand library, the first thing that struck the eye was an expansive and solemn space, akin to a hall of knowledge.

The ceiling soared to the clouds, adorned with exquisite frescoes and reliefs that narrated the development of human civilization. Countless shelves stood like a forest, neatly arranged in rows, crafted from dark, solid wood that emitted the fragrance of time.

Chen Yun’s memories from the past twenty or so years, and all the details within those memories,

had turned into books lined up on these shelves.

Arranged according to the type of memory, from ancient parchment scrolls to modern bound volumes, each book bore a different appearance bestowed by Chen Yun due to their unique contents.

Shimmering gold lettering on the spines shone brightly, summarizing the contents and providing keywords that could be used to retrieve the memories.

Walking down the winding, serpentine corridors, the bookshelves on either side were like a great wall of knowledge, endlessly stretching out ahead.

Whenever he sought a specific memory, certain books in this library would automatically flip open.

This was Chen Yun’s Memory Palace.

The moment it had come into being, Chen Yun felt his mind clear significantly.

If he had to describe the feeling,

it was like doing a major cleanup and organizing of a home cluttered with random objects, or clearing out a computer’s space filled with junk files.

Everything had been neatly and categorically arranged.

Superfluous and disordered information was no longer stored haphazardly but was neatly organized, suddenly freeing up a lot of storage space and noticeably speeding up his processing of information.

It was incredibly refreshing!

After completing all this, Chen Yun opened the book in the Memory Palace that recorded the data on the changes to his body.

From today, he would no longer use his old mobile phone to log information.

He would find time to completely destroy the old phone.

After pondering and experimenting for a moment,

Chen Yun recorded in the book of the Memory Palace the various changes he had discovered after his fourth slumber evolution.

[Entry Twenty-One: 2024.3.19 (Lunar Calendar February 10th)]

[1. Switched to a new training method, full-body muscle high-frequency spontaneous tremors, exerting both mental and physical training effects. Current duration: 15 seconds.]

[2. Original physique and stature unchanged, still approaching the standard athletic build of a 175cm tall man. Weight still maintained at 100kg, suspect overall body data is locked, the correlation between strength and muscles appears to be nearly nonexistent.]

[3. Ability Enhancement—Evolution of Transparent World to version 3.0. Specific effects include: Super Vision, Super Smell, Super Hearing, Spiritual Power [including Real-time Information Transmission, 3D perception modeling, perspective (cannot penetrate biological entities), Emotion Perception, Telekinesis, Light Perception·Color Perception]]

[3-1. Spiritual Power Enhancement Introduction—Coverage area increased from 60 meters to 80 meters, an increase of thirty-three percent, exceeding the last enhancement of twenty percent. New feature: Can vaguely sense the presence of light, thus perceiving objects with specific colors.]

[3-2. Telekinesis Supplemental Introduction: Telekinesis is just another term for spiritual power, a characteristic of how spiritual power influences the external world. Thus, the range is the same as spiritual power, randomly appearing within it and its influence can penetrate all materials except biological bodies, frequent use can increase intensity and proficiency. After this evolution, the force increased to 10 Newtons, precision unchanged.]

[4. New Change—Significant enhancement in memory ability, able to construct a Memory Palace.]

[5. Desired Ability—Wish to possess a Biological Force Field. On this trip to the mountains, clothes and shoes were damaged repeatedly for various reasons, and there is a need for a method to avoid indecency.]

[6. Points to Note—Exploration of souls is not yet concluded, perhaps try visiting cemeteries, hospitals, etc. for further perception. For a deeper experiment on whether Killing Intent can affect plants, need to purchase two sets of plants for long-term comparative experiments.]

The first point doesn’t need much elaboration, just a bit of time spent to test and record properly.

As compared to the duration he previously managed during muscle tremor exercises, it had now nearly doubled.

This was because Chen Yun’s fourth slumber evolution had elevated not just his mental aspects, but also, under his simple perception, he felt his baseline physical strength should also have reached around 2.5 tons.

With both mental and physical enhancements, the significantly increased duration for muscle tremor exercises requiring both mental and physical efforts logically followed.

The second point regarding physique testing was also straightforward—his spiritual power served as a ruler, easily scanning and gathering all such data.

The third and fourth points, concerning records of changes in spiritual power and memory, need no further discussion.

The fifth point was the hope to possess a biological force field.

Although he no longer had the needs for cold resistance and defense when wearing clothes, ethical and societal considerations about decency remained.

Whenever he exerted full effort, he inevitably ended up with ripped clothes and torn shoes. This wasn’t an issue that could be resolved by stronger control. If his actions sped up further, high-temperature friction could directly cause his clothes to catch fire.

He had tried using telekinesis to protect his clothing, but now with only around 10 Newtons of telekinetic strength and poor precision, it’s barely enough to block rain.

Hence, if he wished to avoid nudity,

he must have a superhuman-like, utterly unscientific biological force field.

One that could protect whatever objects he wished from damage, allow him to ignore physical laws with rapid starts and stops without inertia, and let him lift an airplane with his hands without sinking in...

But for now, that was merely a wish.

For the time being, he could only hope that future enhancements in spiritual power would be strong enough to form a protective effect similar to a biological force field.

The final sixth point

was what he mainly planned to do for the next period.

That involved in-depth exploration and research on the nature of souls and Killing Intent, which he had briefly experimented with in the forest.

He needed more samples to proceed with further comparative experiments.