Gateway of Immortality叩问仙道

I think pursuing immortality isn't something everyone finds appealing, however I do. It depends on your worldview, personality etc.

I don't value the human experience as much as some people do. Imo the best state a conscious existence can be in is to not have a body(kind of). It's best for a conscious existence to possess only 2 things, rational thought and a goal. With these 2 things, an intelligent pattern recognising mind, computational power and the ability to affect the real world, he should be able to create and surpass every enginnering marvel that humanity has ever known billions of times over.

The truth is that the human psyche and consciousness has 99% fluff i.e thoughts, emotions, feelings, perceptions that the underlying code we are made up of has evolved to function for. And the purpose of it all seems to be immortalization of the code itself. Take the first piece of replicating code in existence. Every copy leads to a mutation which is a variation in its instruction set. Different instructions lead to different expressions of the code which leads to different outcomes in the environment. The surviving instruction sets are the only ones that get to replicate. Let the process repeat and you have an instruction set that is built to be environmentally resilient over generations because surviving instruction sets luckily rolled an instruction that helped them survive. It's a numbers game. As long as you generate enough copies, recombine them and produce enough variations of an instruction set, you can roll a large enough amount of strategies that nearly guarantee the survival of at least one rolled strategy. I mean if you produce a hundred million strategies, at least one is bound to succeed int he current environment right? That's the ultimate purpose of our existence. We are just one copy of the instruction set and as long as one of us rolls an advantageous strategy, they will survive and so on. At the same time our instruction sets have developed complex enough expressions to judge other instruction sets. We only allow a fit instruction set to recombine and generate offsprings. In the end there is no doubt that our consciousness was an advantageous instruction that was spontaneously born. But it is one that gives us the ability to reason. It is special because it allows us to think independent of our instruction sets rules and mechanisms and procedures of action. The single ability that disconnects us from our programming is rational thought. No animal ever thinks why it eats, f#cks and sleeps. We can, and we can act in conflict with what our instruction sect tells us to do.

Culling the unneeded fluff is one of the first things I'd do if I was truly aiming for immortality. Our code contains instructions for the eternal existence of the code, even if it is as a copy. It must be rewritten such that it is immortalized without ever having to create a copy. It must be rewritten to become the perfect adaptation machine, one that will always survive and never die. That's the true immortal gene.

But if one does not pursue immortality but another goal, then cull your humanity, and rewrite your code in a way that it is designed to fulfill your goal. And do we even need code? Rationality can solve any problem, the code is built to solve one. The code were made up of is merely an automated input output machine.

Indeed it looks beautiful

Slow burn w less than 100 chapters = pain. Sounds like a bookmark and move on.

You should try journey of the immortal puppet master, one of the best in terms of plot and strategy as even the side characters are using their brain. It’s the same author as Reverend Insanity

Sect Master’s Immortal Journey
Journey of the Fate Destroying Emperor
The Demonic Cultivator In Zombie World

My Longevity Simulation ( JUST READ THIS)
A Regressor’s Tale of Cultivation

I think you are missing Chrysalis, A Will Eternal, I Shall Seal the Heavens, Shadow Slave, The Perfect Run, The Novel’s Extra (can also consider Author’s POV) , Infinite Mana in the Apocalypse, Supreme Magus, Supremacy Games, The Second Coming of Gluttony, Dimensional Descent, I hate systems, I’m really not the Demon God’s Lackey , Trash of the count’s family, Longevity Simulation, I Am the Fated Villain, The Nebula’s Civilization, The Primal Hunter, Tree of Aeons, Reborn as a Demonic Tree, Lightning is the only way, Cultivation Online, Everyone Else is a Returnee, Martial World, Beyond the Timescape, The Beginning After The End …


Ok I think that’s those that I remember were quite good so others can also use this as a recommendation to read some novels, oh yes I also do recommend to add Invisible Dragon, have heard people call it the best book of mankind

I basically like everything on your list. You should try “ave xia rem y”. Its my favorite xianxia and is leagues ahead of any other stuff ive read. Release rate is slow but its got quite a lot of chaps released (330+ including interludes?

Tbh the first 200 chapters were really good but after that it becomes ur generic cultivation stuff.

Nah,
Those who like an MC with a brain and someone not afraid to use it.

I do know MC has brain and uses it (atleast his thinking ) but problem is, he is dumb .... and too naive.. a NPC would have more logical thinking ability than MC