Ten thousand I am across the heavens

The original Gu Masters, whether mortals or immortals, didn't really care about such technical black boxes. Once they received the inheritance, they simply learned and cultivated according to its instructions. Once they learned it, they used it directly. As for innovation, that was something only those who had reached the pinnacle of a particular school, or those who hadn't had the opportunity to receive the inheritance for the time being, would attempt.

Creating your own killer move is undoubtedly difficult, to put it simply by analogy to the difficulty of creating a regular killer move before the development of a powerful strategy. It's roughly equivalent to building your own efficient deck in a card game and achieving a high win rate in ranked matches to become a dominant style.

This is beyond the capabilities of ordinary people; it requires a unique understanding of the game, as well as extensive practical experience and numerical calculations.

Even achieving this level of skill represents the difficulty of constructing a standard killing move before attaining immortality. Once one becomes an immortal, the number of Gu worms used in a killing move is no longer just a few dozen or a hundred. Can the amplification effects of different Gu worms be stacked? What special effects will be produced when the powers of different schools are combined? The complexity increases exponentially.

There may be tens of thousands, or even millions, of Gu worms involved in the immortal's killing moves. The Immortal Gu House is almost entirely constructed from Gu worms.

Therefore, the complexity of the combinations among the Gu worms is almost impossible to understand without long-term systematic learning and strong perseverance and patience to break down the underlying principles bit by bit.

Instead of spending a lot of time figuring out a killer move that doesn't have a specially compiled tutorial, it's better to just learn how to use it. After all, if predecessors leave behind a legacy, it usually means that the killer move has been perfected to a stable state. As long as you practice according to the content of the legacy, there shouldn't be any problems.

Each of these prodigies rises to prominence like a protagonist in a novel, often inheriting precious immortal cultivation techniques. For them, obtaining these techniques is like acquiring items in a game; they simply use them according to the rules, without needing to consider the underlying principles.

Although the Ghostly Demon Lord was the founder of many traditions, especially the Soul Path school, which he personally created—comparable to von Neumann in computers or Newton in classical physics—he only scratched the surface of his areas of expertise. He had learned many related killing techniques, but like other prodigies who received these traditions, he only learned how to use them, without seeking a deep understanding of the underlying principles.

After all, in that era, it was extremely difficult to thoroughly understand the principles behind deadly techniques. Even the creators of these techniques might not have been able to explain them clearly. Without a standardized, systematic set of rules and protocols, and without a universal terminology used in the Gu world, the transmission of knowledge was indeed arduous.

Fortunately, people in that era were already used to it, so they didn't bother to understand it, and no one thought there was anything wrong with it.

This is precisely the basis for Fang Yuan's plan to have a chance to be implemented. The Ghostly Demon Lord of the past would not have been surprised that there were parts of the inheritance he occasionally obtained that he could not understand.

Before the promotion of standardized academic terminology in the Republic of Mountains and Rivers, and the mandatory inclusion of standardized annotations in the teaching of all high-level killing techniques, even the world's top experts might feel bewildered when encountering some sixth or seventh-level killing techniques. Some obscure killing techniques, even if personally examined by a Venerable One, might require a year or two of study to grasp their intricacies. Furthermore, the Republic of Mountains and Rivers' current cutting-edge technology, if not explained using professional terminology and without standardized notes and annotations in relevant documents, would be incomprehensible even to professionals in the field in a short time. This is akin to writing code without comments and forcing someone to read it—a recipe for disaster.

Fang Yuan and Ghost Demon Lord were both certain that the Ghost Demon Lord of the past would never have been able to understand the specific details of these future technologies. He would have simply regarded them as a useful tool, just like other technological black boxes, and used them directly.

“If that’s the case, we can repackage our current advanced technology into a black box of technology that could have been used in the past, and leave backdoors inside.” Fang Yuan began to elaborate on his proposal.

The content is actually quite simple: it involves giving the former Ghostly Demon Lord a set of techniques for refining powerful Immortal Gu houses. The key is mass production of these houses. While the Immortal Gu used in these houses are indeed unique, they can be mass-produced. The principle is that it exploits a bug in the Immortal Gu system. Each individual Immortal Gu is indeed unique, but if there is a specific Immortal Gu, a slight standardization modification to the refining process can create an Immortal Gu that is different yet has almost the same effect, thus enabling mass production.

The technical difficulty of this thing is absolutely terrifying. Even by today's standards, it is considered a relatively advanced technology. The Republic of Shanhe only slightly relaxed its control over related technologies a little over a decade ago, which led to the technology gradually spreading.

This technology for cheaply mass-producing the same type of immortal Gu with different serial numbers would be so advanced that even a past Ghostly Demon Lord, with some research, wouldn't be able to figure it out in less than a hundred or two decades. And that's assuming a hundred or two decades in the real world, taking into account the time acceleration within the immortal aperture.

Such inexpensive, mass-produced Immortal Gu Houses would be considered equivalent to main battle tanks in today's era, perfectly capable of serving as the primary weapon for both sides in a conflict. However, in a real battlefield, even when using mass-produced Immortal Gu Houses, there are still numerous technological iterations, with overwhelming technological gaps between different batches. But this is of little significance to the distant past. Whether it's the first generation or the latest generation, they are absolutely overwhelming weapons of war in the distant past. So even if limited by technological levels and the relatively low productivity of the past, only lower versions of the technology could be brought back, it was still enough to achieve their desired objectives.

As for which internal programs were secretly modified, that's something the ghosts who received this information in the past couldn't possibly know.

After he mass-produces a large number of powerful troops at low cost, he will probably be shocked to find that nearly half of the troops will directly obey the orders of another person. Inexplicably, someone he has never even heard of will have the highest command authority, even surpassing him in terms of command power, and he will be powerless to stop it. This can be considered a safeguard that Fang Yuan left for his past self.

[To be continued]

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