The next day.Xia Li woke from deep sleep and imdiately felt that his mind was moving a little faster. Compared to the raw ntal augntation the Heaven Chip could provide, though, the improvent still counted as better than nothing at best.[During your sleep, local storage has been optimized and fragnted mory compressed.][Data archival complete.]The Heaven Chip reported on the tasks Xia Li had assigned before sleeping. Xia Li tried recalling a few things from the past and found that important matters had beco clearer in his mind, while trivial details had faded, the faces and voices of passersby and the like.That sort of mory had all been compressed and sealed away. If Xia Li ever needed it again, the Heaven Chip could reactivate it for him.As for the faint impressions left behind from scanning all those books, the Heaven Chip had wiped them away entirely so they would not occupy Xia Li's own mory.The Heaven Chip actually ca with a side effect:hypermnesia.It could force a person into uncontrollable total recall. Things that truly mattered might end up buried, while one's mory beca clogged with aningless daily trivia.That was why the brain had to be regularly cleaned out.As for the completed data archival, that ant the results of Xia Li's four months of laboriously recording books had now been fully digested by the Heaven Chip."Auto-fill my technique slots by selecting the best options from the database."[Complete. Technique slots have been auto-filled. Additionally, three preset technique pages and six specialization pages have been configured.]Xia Li opened the technique-slot layout to inspect it. At present, his configuration was balanced. Across his thirty technique slots, there were offensive techniques, evasion techniques, defensive techniques, and support techniques, enough to adapt to all kinds of combat situations.As for technique pages...that was a function only available in sixth-generation Heaven Chips.The cooldown on switching technique slots in a sixth-generation Heaven Chip was very short, unlike the fifth generation, where even swapping a single technique required waiting a long while.Thanks to technique-cache preloading technology, the sixth generation even allowed real-ti switching in the middle of battle, though only across three pages.The second page was almost entirely loaded with killing arts, while the few support techniques on it were also all of the kind that built montum or amplified spiritual-energy bursts.The third page focused on movent techniques, defensive techniques, and recovery arts. There was not a single offensive technique on it.It was clearly escape mode.Of course, Xia Li could configure the pages himself as well, but for the mont, the Heaven Chip's presets were good enough.The specialization pages after that were another matter.Those were slow-switch technique pages that required at least several hours to change over completely. The first specialized in assassination, with all kinds of aura-concealnt, presence-hiding, and montum-building arts. The second specialized in long-range combat, filled with thods for condensing spiritual energy, reducing energy decay, and locking onto an opponent's aura.The remaining four pages specialized in alchemy, formations, refining, and talismans.With only a few hours of switching ti, Xia Li could imdiately beco a master in that field.And because the three regular technique pages could be switched back to at any ti, he no longer had to worry that an enemy might co looking for trouble while he was refining pills or artifacts and leave him without a way to fight back.That solved a major pain point."Switch to alchemy specialization. I'll go refine a few furnaces of pills for fun."Xia Li stretched, then promptly went back to sleep for a while longer to burn through the switching ti.After forming his golden core on Earth, he had imdiately returned and had not had the ti to browse the Heavenly Dao Network for new techniques suited to him. Now, with the Taiyi Holy Land library feeding his database, he had once again beco his old many-talented self.He had hauled data for a full four months.Truly all labor and sweat.Roughly three hours later, the Heaven Chip woke Xia Li from sleep.[Alchemy specialization loaded. At your current cultivation strength, if you wish to maintain both pill success rate and sufficient dicinal potency, third-grade pills are optimal. Fourth- and fifth-grade pills can also be refined, but because the pill formulas contain relatively little information and lack sufficient success-case data, initial success rates will be lower than expected.]After leaving the main hall, Xia Li walked directly toward the earthfire rooms. He picked a chamber where the earthfire was not burning and pushed the door open without ceremony.
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"Who told you that you could co in? Don't you know the rules?"Inside, a disciple sitting with his back to the door barked the rebuke without even turning around. He was actually ditating in the earthfire room, not lighting the earthfire to refine pills or artifacts at all, simply occupying the place for nothing.Xia Li had sensed soone in the room, but because he had not detected any trace of earthfire, he had assud it was so disciple assigned to keep watch."Interesting. Then perhaps this senior brother can explain to what rules there are in the earthfire rooms.""Your voice is unfamiliar. New here? Then first hand over your..."The disciple spoke while turning around, but the instant he saw the black-patterned golden robe on Xia Li and recognized his face, the arrogance on his expression collapsed into sothing uglier than a cry.Xia Li had been in the Holy Land for four months now, but he had never addressed the gathered disciples in a major public setting, so only so of them had ever heard his voice before."Forgive , Ninth Holy Son!"The disciple sprang up with astonishing speed and bent low in a deep bow."The rules, then? What rules are there here?""The rules... the rules are...""Are what?""They... they..."The disciple could barely get words out. Xia Li found that baffling. He was not angry. His tone was perfectly calm. Was he really so frightening?"The rule is that the little faction you belong to has entirely monopolized the use of the earthfire rooms, and disciples outside your circle need special permission to enter. Is that right?""Y-yes...""And here I thought it would be sothing serious. So that's all? Fine. You can monopolize them if you want. But you are not allowed to leave them empty. Pills and artifacts had better be getting refined in them. I don't care who is inside the earthfire rooms, but I do not want to see an earthfire room without earthfire. Understood?"Xia Li stepped forward and patted the disciple on the shoulder.Those earthfire rooms needed to stay in operation. That was how he earned spirit stones.Leaving them empty ant wasting spirit stones.Wasting spirit stones that rightfully belonged to him."Understood, understood! I'll call people over to start refining right away!"The disciple looked as if he had just received a pardon from heaven. Everyone said Xia Li did not manage affairs, and now it seed that was not entirely false. As long as it did not interfere with Xia Li's profits, everything was fine.That was Xia Li's bottom line."No need. I want to refine pills myself. Whose faction are you with?""I work under Senior Sister Wei.""Fine. Tell her to bring a decent cauldron.""Yes!"The disciple bowed deeply again and fled. Xia Li watched him go and could not help shaking his head. These Holy Land disciples truly did not have even a little of the dignity they ought to possess.Outside the Holy Son Palaces, they wore detached expressions and sought the Dao.Inside the Holy Son Palaces, they were even more full of greed, rivalry, and worldly poison than mortal n in the dusty world.Xia Li walked to the center of the room and flicked a finger toward the earthfire vent. A blaze of dazzling fla erupted from it at once. To be honest, with Xia Li's current level, he no longer needed earthfire to refine pills or artifacts. Earthfire only helped because it was itself a spiritual fla, and during alchemy it benefited from the grounding wash of terrestrial qi.His own fire was fierce enough, but it lacked spirit.It had more than enough killing power.For alchemy and refining, however, it was slightly deficient.Under the binding force of telekinesis, the erupting earthfire imdiately took the shape of a pill furnace. Xia Li then infused it with his own Solar Fla, dyeing the orange-red earthfire with a layer of azure before taking out various ingredients and beginning to refine pills.Before long...rich pill fragrance poured out from the earthfire chamber. Anyone who knew even a little of alchemy would have had to raise a thumb and call him an expert just from the scent alone.Holy Land disciples refining pills generally would not even bother with low-grade products. Most of what they made was mid- or high-grade.And that was all.Unless they specialized in alchemy, almost none of them would go out of their way to pursue supre-grade.Xia Li, however, was different.To him, only a supre-grade pill counted as useful data. If you'd like to support the translation and read 10 chapters ahead,[/PoppingDino]
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