bookbashuk Chapter 1185 Chaos Begins
Chapter 1185 Chaos Begins
No one wants to be the prey. If someone accidentally becomes the prey, their mindset will never be peaceful! They will inevitably gravitate towards extremes, ultimately exceeding the imagination of normal people.
This was the key idea behind the Ascending Dragon Hall's assessment of the Heavenly Emperor. Actual circumstances proved this idea to be correct. Since the idea was correct, the Heavenly Emperor and the other sages were not in a normal state of mind; therefore, even in this seemingly peaceful state, they felt a hidden crisis lurking beneath the surface.
Although some things have been discovered at the Rising Dragon Palace, it still feels like something is missing. Her Majesty the Goddess's garden still needs to be repaired.
When the Shoryudon Temple announced the birthday of the Goddess of Nature and stated that it would rebuild the temple for her, things got quite lively.
Building a temple for a saint is no easy task.
The Dragon Clan possesses the Sacred Sun Palace, which is practically a miniature world, floating above the "sun." The Sacred Sun Palace itself is a place where laws converge.
The Rising Dragon Palace wants to build a temple for the Goddess of Nature; even if it's not as grand as the Holy Sun Palace, it can't be too bad. This won't be easy.
Therefore, the Rising Dragon Palace stated that in addition to our own technology, we also need technical personnel in various fields such as magic and cultivation.
There's no point in hoping for anything from the Elves. The highest-ranking Elf is Liliat, who only reached the level of a main god/celestial being due to the Nature Goddess's forced growth—a position largely unrealized. To participate in the construction of the Nature Goddess's temple, one would need at least a Great Luo Golden Immortal level.
On the other hand, the Goddess of Nature's "accusations" against the Ascending Dragon Palace, especially against Chu Fei, somehow got out—Chu Fei, you have no sense of respect, and neither does the Ascending Dragon Palace.
No one found the saint's accusation wrong. Therefore, the Rising Dragon Temple declared that they would dedicate all their efforts to building a temple.
The first design of the Rising Dragon Palace was released, which is a pyramid structure with a diameter of over 100,000 kilometers and a tentative height of 70,000 kilometers, but relatively flat.
The temple is divided into seven levels, with the core temple of the Goddess of Nature located at the top. Below that are the residences of elves of various ranks, as well as powerful individuals who have pledged allegiance to the Goddess of Nature. The bottom level is where the vast majority of believers reside.
Such a temple is not merely a dwelling; it will also be a powerful treasure, capable of incorporating the Goddess of Nature into her divine kingdom and becoming a part of it.
Therefore, Thang Yong Kwan will do everything in its power. Thang Yong Kwan has announced a three-step plan.
The first step was to build large-scale engineering machinery to solve various construction and engineering problems; the largest object ever built by the Rising Dragon Palace was a spaceship, 1.5 kilometers long.
The difficulty of constructing man-made structures from 1.5 kilometers to 10 kilometers is not ten times, nor three hundred times, but... incalculable.
Within 1.5 kilometers, the inherent strength of the material is sufficient to withstand gravitational effects and internal stress. When man-made objects exceed 500 kilometers, gravitational effects must be considered; above 2 kilometers, gravity is strong enough to turn even the strongest steel into noodles.
Although the gravitational effect is "unfolded" in the inner world and not "curled up" like a planet, the Rising Dragon Palace is considering the scenarios for combat applications.
This temple itself is a super war fortress!
In naval battles, situations such as spacetime collapse and imbalances in space and time are common. If a warship were to suddenly collapse due to gravity during combat, the enemy would be laughing their heads off.
A person who does not plan for the future will have trouble in the present. We cannot wait until problems arise with the warships before we start to consider solutions.
Solving this problem requires comprehensive research in materials, technology, and theory, which will also be a test for the Rising Dragon Palace.
However, the Rising Dragon Palace also has a plan for this—if the technology cannot be improved, they will build several small spaceships separately within the temple of the Goddess of Nature.
And those so-called "engineering machinery" are transformed into war machines.
The second step was to train all staff. In order to show the “submission” of Thang Long Temple, all staff members of Thang Long Temple were trained to work together to build a temple for the Goddess of Nature.
The third step, of course, is the construction of the project itself.
A massive construction project has begun, and the impressive technological industry has already taken the audience by surprise.
Tens of thousands of warships and spaceships traversed the surrounding void, hollowing out mines, including those in the Youyun District. Some "continental fragments" spanning tens of thousands of kilometers were completely devoured within days, transformed into industrial raw materials, profiles, and building materials.
With sufficient materials, factories were built around the Youyun District, encompassing the entire system of metallurgy, chemicals, profiles, electronics, engineering machinery, and transport spacecraft.
Some factory clusters can span hundreds of thousands of kilometers, forming a three-dimensional industrial base.
If someone asks why the factory is built in a space environment, the answer is obviously a matter of precision and the difficulty of construction.
The Rising Dragon Hall published numerous papers demonstrating that accuracy can be guaranteed in a space environment at a very low cost.
Maintaining precision on Earth is extremely costly due to gravitational interference and fluctuations in ambient temperature. Moreover, sending equipment manufactured on Earth into space is even more expensive.
In order to build a garden for the old goddess of nature, the Rising Dragon Palace even transferred engineering and technical personnel who were building warships, which affected the production of warships, especially the warships for the Heavenly Emperor.
The Heavenly Emperor's avatar naturally came to inquire, only to be turned away by the Goddess of Nature—it's not that we won't give it to you, it's just that production capacity is reduced by half. I'll resume production as soon as my birthday is over.
Then the Goddess of Nature took the Heavenly Emperor's avatar on a "shopping tour"—to see the construction projects in various places, and proudly stated that the Rising Dragon Palace's subservience was quite impressive.
The entire continent of Youyun District has now become a factory. Although a large number of factories are built in space, many factories are still operating on the ground.
Completing a full industrial system in space in one go is no easy task; ground support will still be needed in the short term.
Currently, most of the factories on the ground are automated, and the rest are gradually being converted into automated factories. The plan is to complete the full automation transformation within 30 years.
Time passed day by day, and more than twenty years had gone by in the blink of an eye. However, according to the Dragon Clan's calendar, it would only be a little over two years.
This time is but a fleeting moment for saints and top-tier experts. However, for the Ascending Dragon Palace, it is enough for a complete transformation.
The factory on the ground has completed its transformation to full automation, ten years ahead of schedule, thanks to changes brought about by technological advancements.
Over the years, the Sheng Long Temple has adopted a method of small, rapid progress, which has surprisingly brought about many qualitative changes in technology.
Although the most crucial computer technology and core theory are still quantum technology, some geniuses have come up with a unique idea to increase the frequency of computers by ten thousand times!
To improve computing power, efforts need to be made in materials, algorithm architecture, operating frequency, and the number of cores.
Materials, from vacuum tubes to transistors, then to carbon-based materials and photonic materials, represent progress. But now, the Rising Dragon Palace has reached its limit in photonic materials, having already reached hadron materials, and cannot go any further.
Algorithm architecture, replacing addition with multiplication, and replacing multiplication with exponentiation are all considered progress in algorithms; even replacing binary with ternary and replacing ternary with quantum number can be considered changes in algorithms; but now the mathematical tools of the Rising Dragon Palace are all supermanifolds, and have temporarily reached their limits.
Increasing the operating frequency by 30-50% is not a big problem, but doubling it would easily cause a crash. In the past, crystal oscillators, light polarization, pulses, etc., were commonly used as timing logic, and their operating frequencies have long since reached their limits.
The number of cores cannot be increased indefinitely. Once a certain number is reached, communication between chips will exceed the bandwidth. At that point, increasing the number of cores is useless; instead, the bandwidth will be squeezed, leading to a sharp drop in overall performance.
This time, a genius's solution was to work on the operating frequency. In the past, frequency was used as the underlying logic for timing.
For example, how many vibrations constitute one cycle. Essentially, this converts vibrations into time. This conversion introduces inaccuracies and complexities, and the vibration of matter has its limits, which is also a major factor limiting computer frequencies.
Is there a way to calculate the timing directly, without middlemen taking a cut?
There really is a way with photons.
Theoretically, the speed of light in a vacuum is the standard speed of light, and at this time, the time of a photon is "0"! Theoretically, from the time a photon emitted by the Big Bang arrives at us, the time that the photon has spent is "0", not the more than 10 billion years we thought it would take.
Of course, the Big Bang theory has now been refuted, but photon time has been proven.
In other words, theoretically, the standard time of a photon is "0"!
However, when light travels through a medium at a speed less than the standard speed of light, a time difference occurs. This time difference can be used as a timing mechanism! Moreover, this timing mechanism can be made infinitely close to zero, which means that the computer's frequency can theoretically be increased indefinitely.
This method, which utilizes the parallax of the speed of light, directly surpasses the means of timing based on the frequency of matter.
Furthermore, when traveling faster than light, time slows down. From a number line perspective, this is actually a "negative number".
Achieving faster-than-light travel within the tiny chip of a computer is possible—quantum entanglement. The many years of development of quantum computers have laid a solid technological foundation.
Thus, we have a ternary system: +1, 0, -1!
By adjusting the medium through which photons pass, this can be easily achieved using fiber optic technology, allowing calculations from 1 to 9.
如此就有了-1、0、1、2、3、4、5、6、7、8、9，再迭加量子计算等技术，一套全新的计算机算法就有了。
Because timing is calculated directly, instead of simulating timing through frequency, computer performance has seen an explosive increase.
Originally, the computing power of the Dragon Ascension Hall was off the charts, tens of thousands of times better than that of other big data cultivators at the same level; while big data cultivators had computing power tens or hundreds of times greater than those at the same level.
Now, the computing power has suddenly increased by ten thousand times. Even though the overall technical level is still stuck at the early stage of Quasi-Saint, the explosive computing power has still pushed the technical level of the Ascending Dragon Palace to a whole new level.
For example, even though you perform multiplication and I perform addition, what if my speed is tens of thousands of times faster than yours? That's called a computing power giant stick! A computing power nuclear bomb!
Furthermore, as those who frequently research technology know, the emergence of new technologies inevitably leads to a peak period of iteration. Technologies can undergo several rapid iterations in a very short time, with performance improvements of tens of times being commonplace.
With the increase in computing power, the overall development speed of the Ascending Dragon Palace has increased at a visible pace. In particular, automation and artificial intelligence have greatly alleviated the problem of manpower shortage.
The number of people remaining in the Rising Dragon Palace is now in the trillions, all with cultivation levels above 20.0. While the number of people may seem large, the Rising Dragon Palace has even more to do now.
The project involves overall technological iteration, the artificial construction of black holes, the building of temples for the goddess of nature, and the need for personnel to undergo seclusion and spiritual practice, leaving manpower stretched thin.
As for the cultivators from outside the Ascending Dragon Hall, they were also extremely busy under the command of Quasi-Saint Xuanhai Daojun.
The current Xuanhai Daojun has become corrupted, wielding the big stick of performance evaluation to drive a herd of cattle and horses. Only after reaching a certain standard can one exchange for corresponding resources.
Resources include, but are not limited to: promotions and salary increases, access to exchange for advanced cultivation resources, access to more cultivation materials, and even expert guidance.
Those publicly available resources and cultivation materials have undergone "systematic transformation." To exchange for high-level resources, you need to have the corresponding "rank"! If your rank isn't high enough, they won't sell them even if you have the money.
It's a pity that the lives of cattle and horses are too hard. Many wise people are still observing and waiting for the sermons to be delivered in five hundred years—there are still about three hundred years left, so it seems like they can afford to wait.
Chu Fei and the Rising Dragon Palace were completely unconcerned about these guys who were determined to get something for nothing. They couldn't even seize a chance for redemption. Three hundred years later, who knows if the Evergreen Heaven would still exist.
As time passed, the "temple" of the goddess of nature gradually took shape. The "base," spanning 100,000 kilometers, had actually begun to take its basic form.
Super-sized "profiles" stretching 20,000 to 30,000 kilometers in length and over 300 kilometers in width are being assembled.
Many top cultivators' eyes turned red when they saw these materials—they were envious, jealous, and even hateful.
These so-called profiles are all made of hadron materials, and using the latest technology, with hardness, toughness, and purity far exceeding those of natural materials.
Moreover, these profiles possess inherent laws from the moment they leave the factory—this is the application of meme technology and rune technology. Through human design, these "laws" are practically perfect.
Such materials have another resounding name in the eyes of cultivators—Innate Spiritual Treasures!
At the moment of creation, some materials become imbued with the laws of heaven and earth, possessing wondrous abilities. If these innate materials also possess a certain shape, they are innate spiritual treasures.
There are also "acquired spiritual treasures," which are born naturally after the creation of the world. They are of a slightly lower level, but are still extremely rare and hard to come by.
Once upon a time, cultivators would fight tooth and nail for a single fragment of an acquired spiritual treasure. Now, the Ascending Dragon Palace uses "innate spiritual treasures" as building materials.
Having lived and studied in the Rising Dragon Hall for so long, everyone has gained a deeper understanding of the so-called innate spiritual treasures and acquired spiritual treasures.
At the time of creation, the environment was harsh and the laws were being shaped. At this time, some "hadron materials" were born and were influenced by the innate laws, thus acquiring some "Great Laws".
After creation, the Great Dao was hidden, and the Heavenly Dao operated, at which point the world began to "grow." Just like the original Azure Lotus World, it evolved from a flat continent into a Great Thousand World. This process would give birth to treasures such as the Jade Disc of Creation, as well as acquired spiritual treasures.
Acquired spiritual treasures are weaker than innate spiritual treasures in terms of materials and laws. However, they are still absolute treasures. Most of those high-dimensional metals are formed during this stage.
Once the world is successfully conceived, the Heavenly Dao will also be hidden, and only ordinary laws will operate. The world will be stable, and all opportunities will be obscure and difficult to find.
If we use computer technology as an analogy, the Great Dao stage is equivalent to the programming stage; the Heavenly Dao stage is equivalent to the system debugging and installation stage; and finally, the system is in a stable operating stage, at which point administrator privileges have been closed.
Those so-called innate spiritual treasures and acquired spiritual treasures are equivalent to having some administrator privileges, so their various abilities are off the charts.
The "cosmic brain" of big data training has one of the purposes in fact to go against this logic and try to seize administrator privileges.
Strictly speaking, the Dragon Ascension Palace already possesses some creative abilities in producing these high-grade materials, but unfortunately, these technologies are still too rudimentary to be applied to cultivation.
Chu Fei had explained to cultivators that the materials they used to regard as "innate spiritual treasures" were far inferior to innate materials, with many flaws. Artificial laws were ultimately not as good as the natural world, and the ability to create was not so simple. Everyone understood, but they were still envious—regardless of whether they were good or bad, they were all valuable!
The materials in the Rising Dragon Palace might not be considered true innate materials, but they are still at the half-step innate level, better than acquired materials. Most importantly, how many innate materials are there, and how much industrial production capacity does the Rising Dragon Palace have?
Using such good materials to build houses is a sin! They should be made into magical weapons to cause bloodshed all over the world.
During the construction of the temple, some irregularities have already emerged—someone is stealing building materials! Even scraps cut during construction are being stolen.
Although Shenglong Hall can directly produce finished profiles, doing everything would make the production line very cumbersome. Therefore, for some less important items, standard materials are sent directly and cut on-site.
The Shenglong Temple has severely condemned these acts of stealing construction waste and even made a show of arresting offenders, but ultimately nothing came of it. The current situation is: intact building materials are unacceptable, but the management of discarded construction waste is not so strict.
Large quantities of construction waste end up on the black market. Occasionally, even "scrap materials" that have only been cut once appear.
Some cultivators speculated that this might have been intentional on the part of the Ascending Dragon Palace. Those materials, stretching for twenty to thirty thousand kilometers, couldn't possibly have been "stolen" without permission from higher-ups!
These materials, spanning tens of thousands of kilometers, are ideal for forging top-tier spiritual treasure spears and swords. A single piece of this material weighs as much as two trillion tons; a single blow could shatter a planet. Having a weapon forged from such materials would easily double one's combat power.
The cultivators didn't understand why the Rising Dragon Palace was doing this. Was it to curry favor with everyone? But the Rising Dragon Palace had the Goddess of Nature overseeing it! As for wealth, that was even less likely, as the Rising Dragon Palace was far from short of money.
Most cultivators were unaware of what the Ascending Dragon Hall was doing, but Chu Fei knew. They were simply creating chaos! Wasn't the Evergreen Heaven already chaotic enough?!
At this moment in the void, Chu Fei was watching the enormous, under-construction "temple" with the Goddess of Nature.
The temple, spanning 100,000 kilometers, is comparable to a small continent. But this "continent" is entirely constructed of hadron material.
To build such a temple, the Ascending Dragon Palace hollowed out more than a dozen small continents around it. These small continents, when combined, could form a continent with a diameter of approximately 200 million kilometers.
Of course, what is called a temple at the moment is actually an unconventional super warship.
The goddess of nature's eyes gleamed with divine light as she easily surveyed the world within a three-light-year radius. She then discovered that within a five-light-year radius, the Dragon Palace's production machines and spaceships were everywhere.
The goddess of nature saw that some machines swallowed "mines" that stretched for tens of thousands of kilometers, and then spat out profiles that were tens of thousands of kilometers long.
Tens of millions of spaceships, large and small, traversed the void, bringing materials to the "temple." Because there were so many spaceships, their light illuminated the starry sky.
The goddess of nature suddenly spoke, but her way of speaking was like an encrypted digital signal: "Although I have been watching for a long time, I am still incredibly shocked every time I see it."
Chu Fei remained calm, "But it still couldn't withstand a Saint's casual strike."
The Goddess of Nature rolled her eyes. "I've never seen anyone like you. You've only just entered the Quasi-Saint stage, yet you keep talking about Saints as your goal. You're just asking for trouble."
Chu Fei sighed, "We don't want to, but we can't."
The Goddess of Nature paused for a moment, then said, "I recently watched a movie about the Zerg in interstellar space, who devoured planets wherever they went. But I always feel that you are the Zerg."
No living thing eats rocks. But science and industry can.
Chu Fei didn't respond. The idea that the Zerg was actually himself had been around for a while; it wasn't surprising. Given the industrial capabilities the Ascending Dragon Palace was currently displaying, if it were in the surface world, it would literally eat a planet in one bite, tasting like chicken.
With a slight modification, this technology could even dismantle stars bit by bit. Back in the surface world, the Yanhuang civilization already possessed the technology to explore stars in its early stages, so it's naturally no problem now. It's just unnecessary.
Even so, the Rising Dragon Palace's technological level remains stuck at the early Quasi-Saint stage. For now, the Big Data Cultivation System still only has Chu Fei as a Quasi-Saint. The other Big Data cultivators are still studying the cultivation materials provided by Chu Fei, but with little progress.
The method used by the Ascending Dragon Palace to temporarily cross the threshold of Quasi-Saint remains the same as Chu Fei's original method—constructing two algorithms, making a cut, and generating two particles, one real and one virtual. The real particle is thrown into the outside world, while the virtual particle is absorbed.
This virtual particle is actually an algorithm, a piece of information data. Only when countless pieces of information data combine to generate an information field can one enter the threshold of quasi-sainthood. After that, the information field transforms into a quantum field, and the quantum field transforms into elementary particles, thus completing the creation process.
Without Chu Fei's opportunity, it would have taken a billion years to build a foundation and an information field for this first step towards becoming a quasi-saint.
One billion years, crossing the threshold of Quasi-Saint.
Is it slow or not?
The answer is—not fast, but not slow either. For countless practitioners, finding the method is an immense stroke of luck.
But the Rising Dragon Palace didn't have that much time, and neither did the Yanhuang civilization.
The real-world crisis is forcing the Rising Dragon Palace to desperately pursue technological advancements.
Chu Fei received a series of messages from the Temple of War: the second batch of cannon fodder had suffered more than half its casualties, and there were rumors that a third batch of cannon fodder would be forcibly conscripted soon. Some civilizations were already preparing to retreat to the surface world, but were being used as a warning to others! The world was beginning to be in danger.
Here, the Ascending Dragon Palace obtained the Heavenly Book from the Heavenly Emperor, who will likely not let it go. The Ascending Dragon Palace has always been playing with fire, negotiating with a tiger, and dancing on a knife's edge.
Recently, the Ascending Dragon Palace has studied some of the methods for severing the three corpses obtained from Daoist Xuanhai, and has also gradually obtained some information from the Heavenly Emperor, the Sun God, and other quasi-saints. With the advancement of computer technology, the Ascending Dragon Palace has made some research results, but it is still not enough.
Chu Fei did not answer the Goddess of Nature's question about the Zerg, but stared blankly at the "temple" in front of him.
After waiting a while, the goddess of nature asked again, "Why did you distribute those building materials?"
"Fishing! It's just some scraps." Chu Fei said matter-of-factly, "First, we spread the information and attract widespread attention, which will make those saints have some concerns. Then, we attract more cultivators, and we quietly contact the elites among them. We have already quietly recruited tens of thousands of real elites."
The goddess of nature frowned: "I know all that. Isn't there anything else?"
Chu Fei thought for a moment and said, "If I had to say, it would be that I want to take as many talented people as possible with me before I leave. These Changqingtian have nurtured talents for countless millennia."
If we really turn against them, who knows what Changqingtian will do? We should do what we can within our power. That's a basic moral bottom line for our civilization.
The goddess of nature scoffed: "Moral bottom line, moral inferiority is more like it."
Chu Fei smiled and then fell silent. He really wanted to say, "If it weren't for our moral bottom line, you, the Natural Goddess, would still be sealed away. Maybe we could release part of your body first, then reinforce the rest of the seal. While others seal you in batches, we can study you in batches."
However, since those words were hurtful, Master Chu Fei graciously let the Goddess of Nature off the hook.
After waiting a while, Chu Fei took the initiative to speak with the Goddess of Nature, discussing the current construction progress. Based on the current speed and considering the breakthroughs in new computer technology, it would be fully completed in another fifty years. During the construction of this temple, the Ascending Dragon Palace had also verified many technologies, yielding considerable gains.
Fifty years is just a short time, Chu Fei thought. At some point, Chu Fei's mindset began to change; he started to feel that fifty years wasn't much.
However, accidents often happen unexpectedly, or perhaps they are inevitable.
Suddenly, news broke—the first and most powerful layer of defense in the Xuan Yang Domain had been breached!
The Chaos Divine Beast entered the Xuan Yang Domain, heading straight for the Celestial Court.
The Celestial Court activated its second line of defense, but countless cultivators throughout the Xuan Yang Domain fled in disarray.
Meanwhile, news also spread that the sages pleaded with the Goddess of Nature to intervene, urging her not to be so selfish for the sake of the entire Evergreen Heaven.
Everyone else is fighting on the front lines, while you, the goddess of nature, are busy building gardens in the back. That doesn't make sense.
Furthermore, we demand that the Thang Long Palace suspend its garden construction project and expedite the construction of more warships!
The news spread throughout the entire Changqingtian in a very short time, subtly labeling the Goddess of Nature as "selfish," "long hair but short brains," and "a hen crowing at dawn, turning the world upside down."
As a result, even in the Youyun District, some cultivators have gone to the front of the temple to "forcefully request" the Goddess of Nature to intervene. (End of Chapter)