Inside the Ninth Holy Son Palace.Xia Li strolled through it with Qiu Fu. The palace grounds were vast, truly as sprawling as a mortal imperial palace.There was a broad main hall, an earthfire room specially prepared for alchemy and refining, and a study stocked with every kind of spirit brush and profound ink for crafting talismans.In front of the main hall lay a wide martial yard. Behind it spread a spiritual herb garden, and at the center of that garden was a natural spirit spring.The library hall contained the very sa books as the sect's grand scripture pavilion, from miscellaneous records to cultivation thods and Dao arts alike.That ant Holy Sons and Holy Maidens no longer needed to queue with the ordinary disciples at the sect's scripture pavilion, nor did they need contribution points to enter.The Holy Son and Holy Maiden palaces each had their own private scripture pavilion.After walking through the other facilities in the palace, Xia Li was surprised to find that a single Holy Son Palace already contained everything a small sect ought to have.For all of it to exist solely for the use of one Holy Son or Holy Maiden was truly extravagant.Of course, it could be enjoyed alone, or shared with others.Holy Sons and Holy Maidens all had the right to build up their own forces within the Holy Land and invite lower-ranked disciples to beco their followers.One of the main reasons countless disciples wanted to attach themselves to a Holy Son or Holy Maiden was precisely to gain access to these facilities inside their palaces."Xia Li, why don't you recruit so people? With just the two of us here, this place feels too empty."Qiu Fu had already read the Holy Land's regulations back on the sky palace and knew that a Holy Son could recruit followers to build a small faction.That was why she suggested Xia Li bring in so people to fill the place out. Xia Li, however, did not care in the slightest. With alchemy, formations, refining, and talismans, he alone could handle everything. He had no need for help from other disciples.So-called growing together and building one's own faction inside the Holy Land could, in the end, be viewed as a kind of social-value entanglent.He did not want his ties to the Holy Land to run too deep."Haven't you had enough fun ordering people around?"Xia Li shot Qiu Fu a glare. Qiu Fu was already starting to be distorted by power. That was all Kang Renquan's fault."Enjoying the value that status brings doesn't an I'll beco addicted to status!"Qiu Fu protested at once. She had lived humbly for half her life. Although she clearly understood that power and status were only temporary splendor, she still wanted to enjoy them a little. Everything in the world had to be experienced sooner or later."Then why don't you leave and beco the Holy Land's first demon Holy Maiden? I don't like ordering people around, and I hate seeing others bow and scrape, even if it's to ."Even if Xia Li gained power, he would never use it to suppress others. That was simply the kind of person he was. He hated everything connected to hierarchy, even though he knew very well...that hierarchical systems were also one of the base colors of civilization.But there was no need to sink so far into them that one lost even basic dignity.Five hundred years ago, Earth had still produced injustices in many places, but on the whole it had remained fairly bright and open. Those in high places could not commit evil in broad daylight, and they still feared public opinion.
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Hierarchy of one kind or another would always exist. A good hierarchy helped preserve the order of civilization. What Xia Li loathed was the cold, ruthless hierarchy of the jungle."Not to that extent, right?"Qiu Fu had only wanted to play around a little. She had not expected Xia Li to turn serious imdiately.Seeing her aggrieved expression, Xia Li let out a helpless sigh. Perhaps his expectations for Qiu Fu were a little too high. He had instinctively placed the standards he held for himself onto her as well.The roots of humans and demons were different.For humans, intent was what could not be set at rest.For demons, intent was desire itself.The demon race had never placed much faith in restraint. Their world revered strength above all, because demon society was half jungle to begin with. And since the tiger was king of beasts, it was hardly strange for Qiu Fu to possess the instinct to stand above others."Sorry... maybe I've been too guarded. Go ahead and recruit them. Just don't get swallowed up by it yourself."Xia Li agreed to let Qiu Fu bring people in. Blocking sothing was worse than redirecting it. What had to be experienced would be experienced sooner or later. The White Tiger Division no longer existed, but that did not an demonkind had lost the spirit of the White Tiger. If Qiu Fu truly rose in the future, she might even need to lead a faction of demonkind herself."Now that's more like it. I'm off to pick people!"Qiu Fu imdiately ran out of the Holy Son Palace, leaving Xia Li blinking after her.Was ordering people around really that fun?The Heaven Chip reminded Xia Li that the masterpiece Qiu Fu had read was packed with palace-intrigue material. Hearing that, Xia Li instantly understood.So if there wasn't palace intrigue, she would just create so.Qiu Fu really did know how to play.The disciples she recruited were probably in for it. For a while to co, this Holy Son Palace would likely turn into Qiu Fu's social laboratory, with her practical knowledge of society constantly deepening.With no interest in monitoring Qiu Fu's recruiting spree, Xia Li instead plunged headfirst into the library hall. The Holy Land's true inheritances and core orthodoxies might still be stored in places akin to the wondrous realms of Lingxu Cave Heaven, but the knowledge in the library hall was of imnse use to him all the sa.The Heaven Chip's database rejected nothing. Knowledge would be turned into numbers and code, rearranged, and used to generate newer and better things.The Heaven Chip itself already possessed a certain degree of optimization capability. It would learn, and as it ca into contact with more cultivation thods and Dao arts, it would continue optimizing itself. The more it encountered, the more deeply it would understand the essence of cultivation and Dao.This was running data.Feeding the AI.Once his Heaven Chip grew powerful enough, it could even feed back into the Heavenly Dao Computer and earn Heavenly Dao points.With this many books in the Holy Son library hall, if all of them were fed into the Heaven Chip as training data, Xia Li felt that his understanding of the Xuan Realm would climb to an entirely new height.Data-porter mode, activate.Xia Li could not even be bothered to turn pages himself. He handed the whole process over to the Heaven Chip and beca a rciless recording machine.That recording continued for two full months.Xia Li remained buried in the library hall without stepping outside even once. Others did enter during that ti, and whenever they saw Xia Li, they imdiately saluted. Xia Li would only give a faint nod in return and let them go about their business.But even two months only allowed him to record about half the books in the hall. As one of the libraries of a Holy Land, its collection was truly vast. Countless people and events from past ages were stored inside it. In a certain sense, it was the database of the Xuan Realm itself.Humanity had seven Holy Lands in total.If he could completely record the libraries of all seven Holy Lands, Xia Li was certain his Heaven Chip would undergo a qualitative transformation. Once he returned to Earth, he might even be able to use the Heavenly Dao Computer to reorganize it and rewrite its algorithms.What Xia Li was doing right now was essentially compiling a complete encyclopedia of the Xuan Realm, and in a certain sense, that was dangerous.If Earth ever developed malicious intent toward the Xuan Realm, then Xia Li would beco public enemy number one, the ultimate spy.But from the standpoint of Earth's humanity, Xia Li would also beco an absolute pioneer.An absolute hero.An imasurable sea of knowledge poured into the database.Xia Li himself fell into dormancy. In the middle of his neural bridge, the Heaven Chip glimred faintly, and the nerves connected to it continuously gave off shining light. His neurons lit and dimd like a sky full of stars.Xia Li dread a dream.He dread of a data-sea made of zeroes and ones. Every handful of seawater he scooped up contained knowledge that ordinary people could spend an entire lifeti studying without ever finishing. 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