Chapter 232: Chapter 2: Dao-1 Central Celestial Secret Calculation Hub
This light took at least four or five seconds to slowly fade away.
’That’s what happens with Fire Spiritual Power. If I were to circulate a Thunder Technique, the overflowing Spiritual Power would naturally interfere with nearby electronics, causing streetlights to go out and screens to fill with static. It’s just like a paranormal phenomenon.’
In the Shao Family’s backyard, Su Zhou, who was sitting cross-legged in Cultivation, couldn’t help but nod. ’Speaking of which, during that phone call, the government officials said that besides appointing me as a special professor, they would also give me the best Wind Thunder System Extraordinary Tier Cultivation Technique. It should be arriving around now.’
’This way, I can use the Cultivation Technique they give me to disguise my actual progress.’
Although Su Zhou was willing to display his power to gain benefits, he still didn’t want to expose things like Yara and the Celestial God Seal.
Not unless he became one of the Thirty-Six Saints one day. Until then, a person always needed a little private space to maintain their own safety.
And that time... wasn’t far off.
’I’m already a professor... and after being a professor, I can run for Academy Dean.’
Su Zhou muttered to himself. Even he sounded a bit incredulous at the thought. ’And as the dean of an A Class Academy, even if I’m not a Holy Seat among the Thirty-Six Saints, my status wouldn’t be far off.’
As for why he was receiving such preferential treatment, it had actually been made very clear two days ago, during Su Zhou’s brief phone call with the Thirty-Six Saints Central Committee.
"Su Zhou, in this great era of the Spiritual Energy Revival, where ordinary people can become powerful at any time through Awakening Superpowers and Cultivation, what we, the Thirty-Six Saints Central Committee, must do is guide and alleviate the hostility within society."
"And a society with a rigid class structure, almost no communication between the upper and lower strata, and filled with bureaucratic formalities would undoubtedly be filled with immense hostility."
"Therefore, the first thing every country in the world did was to ensure universal Cultivation while also opening up new channels for social mobility. They even provided free universal subsidies, appeasing the populace with extremely high welfare benefits. Even the most class-stratified East Japan Fuso established several new Extraordinary administrative departments to accommodate those Transcendents with extremely high talent."
"Beyond that, Transcendents with extremely high strength will be treated as benchmarks, as banners. They will be granted immense glory and status as a symbol to stabilize the people’s hearts—in other words, it’s like paying a fortune for horse bones to attract true talent."
"Su Zhou, you are our ’horse bones,’ and right now, you are the strongest, toughest horse bones in the entire world. You are not suited to be a student. You should start preparing now to lead the people, lead the country, and even lead all of human civilization to face the coming chaotic era."
"Be prepared, Su Zhou. As the world’s first Cultivator to reach the Extraordinary Tier from scratch, you are the benchmark of this era."
’Can I bear this expectation?’
Thinking this, Su Zhou calmly asked himself. Then, he closed his eyes, smiled, and continued his Cultivation. ’Of course I can.’
’After all, it’s me!’
「At the same time.」
「Celestial Capital.」
Many people were unaware that within an inconspicuous building in the western suburbs of the Celestial Capital, there was a high-speed elevator that descended five kilometers underground. There were nineteen such buildings in total, scattered around the perimeter of the Celestial Capital.
Similarly, many residents of the Celestial Capital didn’t know that the subway they rode daily, apart from the twenty-three commonly used public lines, had four secret lines—Number 24, 25, 26, and 27—each leading to different secret underground facilities.
At the end of these elevators and secret subway lines were massive underground facilities.
At the end of Line 26 was a vast domed hall covered in metal and electronic components. In the very center of the hall rested an incredibly precise and complex Innate Eight Trigrams Array Disc, as large as a football field.
Through nano-level Rune engravings and the most expensive Spiritual Materials, the nation poured all its resources into its creation. The final result was this colossal Innate Eight Trigrams Array Disc. Every part of this Array Disc was replaced daily, ensuring it was always the newest, the best, and the most advanced.
It slowly rotated, shimmering with a nearly corporeal Spiritual Light. The black and white Yin and Yang fish resembled a millstone, releasing a gentle glow. With every flicker of Spiritual Light, a waterfall of information swirled within. If one looked closely, they would see that the entire two-colored Yin and Yang fish was like a giant computational element composed of ’zeros’ and ’ones’. The two mixed became two; viewed as a whole, they became three.
The Dao produced One. One produced Two. Two produced Three. And Three produced the ten thousand things.
[Dao Yi Central Celestial Secret Calculation Hub]
Within the endless, waterfall-like flow of black and white Spiritual Light, countless names and messages flickered. All sorts of different faces emerged and dissipated, making various expressions and emitting different sounds at the same time.
A vast and complex Spiritual Mechanism rolled forth, completely filling the entire electronic dome. If anyone were to stand within it, their Soul would probably be blasted apart by the infinite information.
...Chen Zhicheng...
...Wood Talent, Human, Innate Divine Technique ’Spirit Nurturing,’ psychological state ’Stable,’ no evil deeds, alignment leans toward good. Compiling life data for Deduction...
...After calculation of historical data, Daoist Technique Prophecy, and Merit confirmation, this person is confirmed to be of good character. Development is supported.
...Tang Yuan...
...Yin Attribute Talent, Human, Innate Divine Technique ’Spirit Lord,’ psychological state ’Calm,’ has evil deeds, alignment leans toward good. Compiling life data for Deduction...
...After calculation of historical data, Daoist Technique Prophecy, and Merit confirmation, this person has turned over a new leaf. After passing the Fourth System psychological evaluation with excellent results, development is supported.
...Su Zhou...
...Wind Thunder Talent, Dragon-blooded Human, Innate Divine Techniques ’Immortal Body,’ ’Call Wind and Summon Thunder,’ ’Innate Daoist Body,’ ’Dragon Eye Spiritual Vision’...
...Psychological state ’Unknown’...
...No evil deeds, alignment leans toward evil, alignment leans toward good, alignment...
...Data error... Unable to determine alignment. Confirmed to possess ’immense Merit.’ Source of Merit unknown. Compiling life data for Deduction...
...After calculation of historical data, Daoist Technique Prophecy, and Merit confirmation, this person’s information cannot be deduced, cannot be predicted, cannot be subject to Prophecy. Celestial secrets are confounded...
Dao Yi Calculation Hub recommendation: Handle with caution, or manually collect more data to add to the Deduction.
Information so endless that the human brain cannot process it—that is a task for the most powerful electronic Creation.
The [Dao Yi Central Celestial Secret Calculation Hub] is Zhengguo’s highest achievement in the field of electronics, the ultimate Creation born from the combination of its legacy of celestial secret prediction.
Using every camera across the country and all registered life records, the Dao Yi Calculation Hub can feed a person’s complete psychological state and personality tendencies into its calculation equations using the most objective methods. Emotions, desires, and even momentary impulses—anything that can be calculated, is calculated. Anything that cannot, is directly subjected to Daoist Technique Deduction, or even Prophecy.
"We will not let a single bad person escape, nor will we ever wrong a good person. To maintain true stability, we must find the criminal before the crime is even committed."
The Artifice Sage, a being of absolute justice who had merged its flesh and Soul with the entire Dao Yi Central Celestial Secret Calculation Hub thirty years ago, thought, ’But even so, there are too many existences that cannot be calculated... Whether it’s powerful Cultivators or those Evil Demons and practitioners of the Outer Dao from Otherworlds, they are all unstable elements that defy prediction by celestial secrets and data calculation.’
It gazed at the data center, at the faces and data belonging to Su Zhou and the other Transcendents, and its long-since digitized consciousness could not help but sigh.
’The chaotic era is coming. Can we maintain the peace?’
