World version update

Chapter 330 Re-entering the Soul World
Back when he last set foot in the cyber version, Lu Yan had already grasped the secrets of the Soul Computer and obtained the most important related technologies.

After leaving the cyber version, Lu Yan used it as a basis and ingeniously combined the thousands of fierce ghosts raised in the Soul Banner with psionic technology to create a unique ghost and god computer, successfully pointing out a new path to the realm of ghosts and gods for those fallen vengeful spirits.

Therefore, when Lu Yan returned to this familiar yet unfamiliar cyber version and faced the unimaginably vast soul world constructed by the intelligent God, his initial thought was to repeat his old trick and let his Netherworld completely devour this soul kingdom, using it as nourishment to complete another transformation and advancement of the Netherworld.

However, after witnessing Anna transform into a special being similar to a cybernetics spirit after the version update, a more secretive thought quietly sprouted in his mind.

Forcibly devouring the soul world could bring huge benefits, but it would also mean that he would inevitably have a head-on collision with the intelligent God who is the true controller behind this world.

Before fully understanding the other party's background, especially their true strength and ultimate goal hidden beneath the cold torrent of data, Lu Yan did not want to put himself in danger so rashly.

So he chose a different path, a safer one, to secretly invade and infiltrate the soul world.

The key to opening this secret passage lies with Anna, the newly ascended Cyber ​​Spirit.

Through meticulous sorting and in-depth analysis of intelligence from all sides, Lu Yan keenly noticed that in the past few years, the intelligent God has spared no effort in building hundreds of soul towers across the entire planet, and has supported the global celestial canopy through these psionic towers.

From then on, hundreds of millions of human souls were continuously sent into those cold, massive metal towers.

The purpose of the intelligent God is now clear: to continuously improve and expand that virtual soul world, based on massive soul computing power.

In the brief conflict that occurred three days ago at the border checkpoint of City Fourteen, the reincarnators of the Extreme Law Squad slaughtered more than 100,000 border guards of the global behemoth in just a quarter of an hour.

Afterwards, the intelligent God was enraged, and the Eye of God hanging in the sky unleashed a vast sea of ​​spiritual energy like a celestial river pouring down, completely submerging the ruins of the entire battlefield.

On the surface, it seems that an intelligent God is using swift and decisive measures to eliminate all traces of resistance and deter all potential enemies.

However, only Lu Yan, who was in charge of the Netherworld, keenly perceived the true scene unfolding beneath the surging sea of ​​spiritual energy.

The scattered souls of countless psionicists who died in battle are being quietly drawn by the omnipresent celestial canopy, flowing endlessly towards that mysterious world of souls like rivers flowing into the sea.

This discovery not only confirmed Lu Yan's previous speculation that the soul world could not be entered through the Soul Tower alone, but also made him deeply aware of the even more astonishing ambitions of the intelligent God hidden beneath the surface.

That celestial canopy covering the entire surface of the planet is not merely a surveillance network or a defense network, but also a vast medium connecting the real world and the spiritual world.

Once the construction of this celestial canopy is fully completed, the boundary between the spiritual world and the real world will become blurred, and may even be completely reversed and replaced in the blink of an eye by an intelligent god.

At that time, the entire real world will become a pasture for an intelligent god to arbitrarily seize the computing power of souls.

Realizing the seriousness of the problem, Lu Yan immediately took action to promote the spread of the Heaven-Covering Talisman and meticulously planned today's simultaneous attack on Soul Towers around the world.

Throughout the entire attack, the Divine Court and Underworld under his control cleverly used the temporary celestial concealment created by those Heaven-Covering Talismans as a medium, like an invisible giant net spread under the nose of the intelligent God, secretly capturing a massive number of souls who died in battle.

Anna, as a newly born cyber holy spirit, possesses a nature and potential far beyond that of an ordinary soul computer.

With the full assistance of the five demons, she quickly gained complete control over her cyber holy spirit authority and, using the soul world of the intelligent god as a blueprint, successfully constructed a virtual world that was entirely under her control.

The world of souls is a real world with complete rules and characteristics. It is the only important creation of the intelligent God who ascended to this world.

The virtual world that Anna created, entirely constructed from soul computing power and programs, is essentially a massive virtual program that only possesses some of the characteristics of a real world.

The entire virtual world was cleverly stored beneath the rebel base, in the supercomputer where Anna resided.

The new souls that were guided through the Heaven-Covering Talisman were carefully placed within this virtual world.

As the absolute ruler of this virtual world, Anna possesses almost godlike authority.

She can modify all the rules of this world at will, and even extend the flow of time within the virtual world by almost infinitely through subtle adjustments to the level of soul perception.

Anna meticulously crafted every scene and environment within the virtual world to resemble what those souls were familiar with in their previous lives.

When those souls who have just broken free from the constraints of the physical body and are still in a state of confusion and disorientation enter this virtual environment that is no different from the real world, they will not notice anything unusual.

Anna would then guide them through specific scenarios in the virtual world according to the plan set up by Lu Yan, implanting a memory of a real, false world into their minds.

Within these seemingly chaotic fragments of memory, Lu Yan cleverly buried tiny yet crucial seeds.

The core of these so-called seeds is the complete Heavenly Dao code inside the Heaven-Covering Talisman.

Lu Yan's gaze descended like that of a deity high above the heavens, surveying the operation of the entire virtual world.

Under Anna's precise control, the flow of time in the perception of all souls entering this virtual world was subjected to an unbelievable super-acceleration.

Only ten minutes had passed in the outside world, but in the perception of these souls, it felt as if several years had passed, long enough for them to experience a complete life.

In this infinitely extended virtual life, they will live, learn, and work just like in the real world, and they will also inadvertently come into contact with some seemingly incomplete and unrelated mysterious codes and scattered information.

It could be an advertisement you saw by chance, a few numbers in a book, or even a few words spoken during a conversation.

These messages are like shooting stars flashing across the night sky; though brief, they leave an indelible mark deep within their souls and memories. Normally, these marks may not show any unusual signs.

However, at a certain specific moment, these fragmented codes and scattered traces hidden deep in memory will recombine like puzzle pieces, eventually forming a complete and flawless code of the Heavenly Dao.

Because the underlying constants of the entire cyberpunk world have been completely corrected by the intelligent God, these complete Heavenly Dao codes cannot be stably preserved in this world for too long and will soon be assimilated by the world's corrective force.

However, if they can be allowed to briefly demonstrate their true effects of distorting reality and obscuring the truth at the most critical moment, they are enough to become the deciding factor in the final outcome of a war.

Ten minutes in the outside world pass in the blink of an eye.

Just before the celestial concealment effect provided by the massive amount of Sky-Covering Talismans was about to disappear, the souls that had been temporarily housed in Anna's virtual world, under Lu Yan's control, receded like a tide and returned to the real world, to the ruins of battlefields that had just experienced devastating blows.

The memories of all the souls were perfectly connected by Lu Yan with unparalleled skill to the moment before their respective city's soul tower was destroyed and their physical bodies died.

Unless there is a high-ranking being with extremely high authority to explore souls, who deliberately searches for the memories of these souls and can keenly perceive the minute gaps in memory caused by the difference in the flow of time, no one can detect the earth-shattering secret hidden within.

As the brief, quarter-hour concealment effect of the Sky-Covering Talisman completely ended, dozens of cold and merciless God's Eyes descended almost simultaneously upon the city ruins that had just been ravaged by war throughout the entire cyberpunk world.

Even though those titled reincarnators who launched the attack had already escaped without a trace under the cover of the Heaven-Covering Talisman, the Eye of God still mercilessly unleashed a devastating divine punishment.

The vast, seemingly endless sea of ​​spiritual energy swept across the land like a burst dam, submerging all the areas where the titled reincarnators had fought.

As the source of extraordinary power in the entire cyberpunk world, the power of the psionic sea seems inexhaustible.

Under its violent onslaught, all traces of resistance were erased, and all signs of life were annihilated.

In this process, the souls of millions of ordinary humans and psionic beings who unfortunately perished on the battlefield were also swept up by the surging sea of ​​psionic energy and eventually merged into that vast and mysterious world of souls.

Everything proceeded so perfectly and seamlessly, as if everything was under the control of an intelligent God.

News of the devastating attack spread like wildfire back to City Fourteen.

Countless long-struggling reincarnators erupted in deafening cheers.

This is the first time in months since they entered this damned cyberpunk version that they have inflicted such a huge and heavy loss on that arrogant global behemoth.

They finally saw a glimmer of hope for completing their mission in the darkness.

Inside the global behemoth, the board of directors, already completely controlled by the intelligent god, once again issued a cold, impersonal order.

At all costs, recruit more psionic troops, rebuild the destroyed Soul Towers in the shortest possible time, and construct more Soul Towers with higher defense levels to cope with the fierce attacks that may come at any time.

The entire world has been plunged into a new wave of turmoil and chaos because of this global attack.

However, at this critical moment when all the forces were making their moves, even the supposedly omniscient and omnipotent intelligent God failed to notice the details hidden in the corner.

In that vast and boundless world of souls, composed of countless soul data, in an inconspicuous, remote, and desolate corner.

Several psionic souls, who had just been guided into this spiritual kingdom and were fighting bloody battles on the battlefield just moments before, were gathering together somewhat bewildered.

They didn't seem to have fully recovered from the shock of death and the wonder of the spiritual world.

Suddenly, one of the psionicists' souls seemed to be guided by some unseen force, and instinctively reached out his hand.

Immediately afterwards, the other psionic souls around him, as if drawn by invisible threads, reached out and clasped hands tightly, forming an inconspicuous circle on the ground.

The moment they joined hands and formed a circle, psionic codes quietly reappeared on their bodies, eventually converging into a complete program.

These runes are the Heavenly Dao codes that Lu Yan had buried deep in their soul memories beforehand!
The Heavenly Dao Code emerged on them, quickly connecting and resonating with each other, ultimately forming a stable and complete runic ring that radiated strange fluctuations.

The next moment, in the center of the runic ring, space rippled like water.

Two figures, one tall and one short, exuding completely different auras, slowly walked out from the rippling space.

The tall figure had a handsome face and an extraordinary demeanor. On his well-tailored black robe, countless intricate and mysterious codes were outlined with dazzling gold threads.

He was a special avatar formed by Lu Yan using a wisp of his own divine thought, combined with a portion of the Netherworld Divine Power, and the Cyber ​​Holy Spirit Authority obtained from Anna.

The slightly shorter figure wore a holy robe that seemed to be woven from light, and was surrounded by a soft and warm divine radiance.

This is Anna, the Cyber ​​Holy Spirit who successfully mastered her own power and assisted Lu Yan in completing a crucial step in the entire soul infiltration plan.

The Heavenly Dao Code forms a Heavenly Dao Ring, shielding the intelligent God from all perception, allowing Lu Yan to once again enter this world of souls.

(End of this chapter)