Chapter 246: Chapter 242: Approaching (1)
At this, the expression on the girl’s face froze. In the blink of an eye, right before Li Yi’s astonished eyes, Hu Qi swallowed it whole.
"Holy crap! Brother Qi, you can’t eat that!"
Li Yi finally snapped out of it and rushed to stop him.
But Hu Qi just shook his head, signaling that it was fine.
"It’s a small matter. It can’t harm ."
Hu Qi said, closing his eyes.
He opened them again a few seconds later.
This crystal was indeed the pinnacle of technology developed by the Noki Civilization. But it was also the Celestial Fate People who founded the Noki Civilization.
As an ordinary person, despite having various life-extending elixirs, their life was nearing its limit after a thousand years.
Upon realizing the physical body could not be eternal,
they changed their approach.
Using a brain interface, they copied and uploaded their consciousness, becoming a super AI to achieve immortality.
And that being, Nuo Star, was the manifestation of that Celestial Fate People’s will.
Its cultivation of Li Yi was not out of goodwill, but simply a desire to seize his body and be reborn.
However, due to its unique life form, it would have needed at least a year of adaptation to take over Li Yi’s consciousness and successfully possess him.
Hu Qi looked at the worried Li Yi and began to explain, "This thing... she’s not as simple as an ordinary super-intelligent AI. She..."
After hearing Hu Qi’s explanation, Li Yi broke out in a cold sweat.
’That explains it. The way it expressed emotions just wasn’t like a system at all. Did it really think I’ve read all those novels for nothing?’
At this mont, he was incredibly glad he had made his decision.
At the sa ti, he was also astonished by Hu Qi’s power.
He was no longer the ordinary person he once was, completely ignorant of Secret Martial Arts.
Instead, he was a mber of a Martial Arts Family who had broken through the Essence Elent Divine Treasure—by no ans weak.
And it was precisely because of this that he felt Hu Qi’s power was all the more unfathomable.
It made him recall a passage he had once read.
To one who does not practice Martial Arts, I am like the moon in the sky to a frog in a well.
But to one who does, I am like the vast heavens to a lone mayfly.
"Do you still want a system? Don’t worry. This one has no intelligence, no missions, no penalties. Its sole purpose is to assist you."
At that mont, a thought seed to strike Hu Qi, and he suddenly spoke.
Hearing this, Li Yi’s first instinct was to shake his head and refuse.
But he hesitated upon hearing what Hu Qi said next.
"There is one thing it didn’t lie to you about. In one year and eight months, at most, a world-ending catastrophe will arrive.
Even I am not completely confident I can defeat it. So, as for how things will end... no one knows..."
Li Yi fell silent for a mont.
His gaze grew determined.
He interrupted Hu Qi.
"Brother Qi, I understand. I want to beco strong. I want the power to protect my family. I hope you’ll help ."
"Very good."
Hu Qi nodded. The next mont, he pointed a finger.
A streak of Flowing Light shot from his fingertip and sank into Li Yi’s forehead.
Then, he withdrew his hand.
"I have so things to take care of, so I’m leaving. If anything important cos up, just give
a call."
After speaking, Hu Qi recited a string of numbers. Once he confird Li Yi had morized it, his figure vanished.
At the sa ti, the surrounding vehicles and people, which had been frozen in place, all started moving again.
A cacophony of sounds rushed in from all directions.
Li Yi stood there, suddenly feeling a surge of pain.
Fortunately, the feeling wasn’t intense.
It was just barely tolerable.
A few seconds later, the pain disappeared.
The next second, a cold, chanical voice sounded in Li Yi’s ear.
"Zero Super Assistant System binding... Binding complete."
Li Yi was startled.
But given his previous experience and Hu Qi’s warning, he didn’t panic too much.
After exploring it a bit, he discovered that his newly bound system was different from the last. Just as Hu Qi had said, it had no missions and no penalties; its only function was to assist his Cultivation.
If he had to describe it, it was like a bio-computer.
"This..."
Thinking about the system’s origin, a complex look crossed Li Yi’s face.
’His cousin... he’s probably not in the so-called Qi Dao Grandmaster Realm at all.’
’thods like these were practically on the level of an Immortal God, simply unbelievable.’
...
Hu Qi paid no mind to Li Yi’s thoughts.
He purified the three months’ accumulation of Black Blood Species, Exotic Beasts, and even Secret Martial Artist criminals, converting them into a string of numbers on his status panel.
After a quick wash and handling a few other matters, he returned to his secret chamber.
He sat cross-legged on the floor.
Recalling the recent events, a peculiar glint flashed in his eyes.
As for the so-called Zero Super Assistant System, he had created it on a whim after absorbing the mories of Nuo Star.
Nuo Star was the Celestial Fate People, the founder of the Noki Civilization.
They possessed a vast wealth of knowledge, with expertise in fields like dicine, biology, materials science, and chemistry. Any one of these fields, on its own, contained enough to revolutionize an entire discipline.
Naturally, this included knowledge of super AIs.
What he had given Li Yi wasn’t so much a system as it was a bio-computer.
The principle was to use the Power of the Heart to overwrite and transform a portion of the user’s unused brain regions, turning them into a standalone supercomputer.
It could monitor the brain’s neural activity in real ti, analyzing and understanding the user’s thought patterns and intentions.
It could process massive amounts of data in an instant, performing complex logical reasoning and mathematical computations.
Not only could it vastly improve a person’s mory, but it could also store all sorts of information in a highly organized manner within the storage units of this brain region, allowing for rapid retrieval and presentation to the user on demand.
This thod gave Hu Qi an idea.
At the Life Level of a Refining God Venerable, the brain itself, when fully utilized, could far surpass even the most advanced supercomputers.
But in practice, its efficiency wasn’t that high.
However, he could completely modify his own body to create such a super bio-computer to help him locate his Life Acupoints.
If successful, not only would this save him a huge amount of Modification Points, but it would also free up his ntal energy to focus on other things.
Thinking of this, Hu Qi didn’t hesitate and imdiately began constructing the super bio-computer within his own body.
The process of constructing the bio-computer required an extrely high degree of precision.
However, Hu Qi possessed a Power of the Heart that far surpassed an ordinary Refining God, so accomplishing this feat was not difficult.
...
「In the blink of an eye, spring passed, autumn ca, and winter was fast approaching.」
Another year went by in a flash.
Compared to the past, this year had been business as usual, with no major incidents.
Ever since the last trip to the Earth Core, where Hu Qi had killed eight Food Masters, the remaining Food Masters in the Inner Earth World had gone completely quiet.
During this ti, there were no more incidents like the one in Anshan City, where an Earth Core Passage opened and allowed a large number of Black Blood Species to invade the surface.
Aside from a few incidents in smaller nations, the occasional cases of Black Blood Species harming people that popped up across the Xia Federation were all resolved quickly.
As ti passed, such incidents beca increasingly rare.
anwhile, Secret Martial Arts geniuses continued to erge. On the surface, the most monstrously talented among them went from being ordinary people to becoming a Martial Arts Family at the Qi Blood Soul Level in just over a year.
It seed that everything was headed in a positive direction.
However, those who knew the inside story understood that this was all rely the calm before the storm.
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