Metaverse Evolution

Chu Fei's true self finally came out to meet the guests.

He had been using his clones before and was hiding in a mess. Now his real body finally appeared in the research base outside the ruins of the celestial immortal heritage.

The news of Chu Fei's appearance attracted a lot of attention...well...a commotion.

People related to Shenglongdian came to visit... No, to report on their work.

Chu Fei pretended to accept the report with a gloomy face throughout. The work you want to report can be handled by the clones, why are you looking for me, the original body?

In the end, it was Zhou Yuxian who had the foresight to arrange a simple banquet. At the banquet, representatives from the five sects, namely Tianmen Sect, Bailian Pavilion, Caiyuntian Sect, Wuxing Sect, and Shenjian Sect, took turns to toast Chu Fei.

Although the lowest level of cultivation among the representatives of these five sects was in the late stage of Return to Truth Realm, which was at least equivalent to the level of cultivation after 19.5, they were all respectful in front of Chu Fei, the master of 18.9.

The Tianmen Sect has the direct disciple "Ming Yu", the Bailian Pavilion has the leader's son Chiyang Jinfeng, and the Caiyuntian Sect has the leader's son Lou Qianying; the Five Elements Sect has the leader "Dingyuan", and the Divine Sword Sect has the leader Cheng Fengxue.

It can be seen that the status and influence of the Five Elements Sect and the Divine Sword Sect are obviously a little lower. They are represented by their disciples, but you are represented by the head of the sect.

But both factions are also very calm, or even a bit like they have given up - they only have one descendant from their ancestor, so there is no need to pretend to be noble.

But in general, the identities of these five sect representatives and Chu Fei should be equal.

Chu Fei, as the representative of the wisdom of Shenglong Hall, Deputy Hall Master Wei Yunfan and Chu Fei were together, and they all consciously acted as bodyguards. Even Hall Master Sima Tianpeng was respectful to Chu Fei.

It’s just that Chu Fei’s social status is high, but his political status is not high. After all, Chu Fei is just a figurehead in the research department of Shenglong Palace and does not have a formal position. The top backbones in the research department include more than 20,000 hardcore researchers.

As for the current exploration and research on the resurrection of the golden body, it is more of an outsourcing and commission, plus some cooperation - the cooperation between Shenglong Palace and Chu Fei.

It is not possible not to cooperate. At least, Shenglong Palace will obviously not pay for Chu Fei's computing power spacecraft - Chu Fei will not sell it either.

As for the representatives of the five sects, the Tianmen Sect, Bailian Pavilion, and Caiyuntian Sect are backed by the inheritance of the celestial beings. Although they do not have the subsequent skills of the Tribulation Period, they have three or four Tribulation Period ancestors in their own sects, which is still very powerful. To be a direct disciple of such a sect is to be a "quasi-Tribulation Period master"!

As for the leaders of the Five Elements Sect and the Divine Sword Sect, they may not necessarily become masters of the Tribulation Crossing Stage. Their ancestors only achieved a breakthrough by chance, and they still have no skills or inheritance.

The situation of the two sects' ancestors is similar to Sima Tianpeng's - they have used all means and opportunities to break through, but their experience is not replicable. They can give some guidance to those who come after them, but it is far from enough.

If Sima Tianpeng was able to help, Chu Fei wouldn't have to be so busy. Look at how busy Chu Fei has been recently. She's almost become Sima Tianpeng's stepmother. Chu Fei is almost the only one who's working on the dangerous passages on the Baishan Continent.

In short, although the leaders of the Five Elements Sect and the Divine Sword Sect have the highest status, they have the lowest position on the scene.

Fortunately, Chu Fei treats everyone equally - they are all leeks, and no one is nobler than anyone else.

As for the fact that the ancestors of the five sects who had crossed the tribulation period had not shown up, on the one hand, it was because the kings did not meet each other, and on the other hand, the negotiations were still ongoing - how to rent computers, how the parties would divide the resources, what the price would be, how many people and how many skills to provide, etc., were still under negotiation.

For a cultivator, one or two years is nothing - after all, one Dragon Year is more than 12 Yanhuang Years. According to the Dragon Year calculation, only two months have passed, so why rush? Just take your time.

Because the negotiations were still ongoing, the ancestors in the Tribulation Crossing Stage all went back and raced against time to sort out their own techniques, etc. It was foreseeable that the computer would definitely be rented, and the more techniques provided, the more discounts would be given.

During this period, everyone also investigated the general situation of Shenglong Palace and learned that this kind of supercomputer only appeared once. It was also built by Chu Fei. It is said that it used 300,000 or 400,000 advanced quantum chips. Now Chu Fei's computing power spacecraft actually has 2.26 million quantum chips. Everyone knows that this opportunity is rare.

The main reason was that during the negotiations, Zhou Yuxian had quietly hinted that this spaceship belonged to Chu Fei, and if Chu Fei left here, the spaceship would also leave.

So the old guys, although they seem not to care on the surface, actually they still care. They are organizing their own skills and preparing to sell their grandfather's land for their sons.

These reasons were also the important reasons why Chu Fei dared to show up. Otherwise, facing more than a dozen masters in the Tribulation Crossing Stage, Chu Fei would also be under great pressure.

In addition, the base was completed, and Chu Fei had to show up to cut the clothes. It was a bit unreasonable to stay behind at this time.

In short, Chu Fei's real body officially awakened, and the negotiations entered the final sprint stage.

In this atmosphere, two months after Chu Fei woke up, Chu Fei and representatives of the five factions formally signed an agreement to lease their own computing power spacecraft.

The rental options are:

The time that the six parties (the five sects plus the Shenglong Temple) worked together to deduce the exercises accounted for 50% of the total time. During this period, the five sects jointly provided the exercises, and the Shenglong Temple provided computers and technical guidance, etc.;

The remaining 50% of the time will be divided among the five sects, and the specific plan will be based on the "total value" of the skills provided by the five parties - everyone will open up all the skills provided for common reference and scoring. Scoring is actually an estimation.

Although doing so would cause his own skills to be leaked, compared to the skills for the Tribulation Period, nothing else matters.

In addition, the Tianmen Sect, Bailian Pavilion, and Caiyuntian Sects also provide more experience in the Tribulation Period - although there is no martial arts, there are many ancestors in the Tribulation Period, so there is always some experience. With more tribulations, there are also more experiences of being struck by lightning.

As for the leasing price of the computing power spacecraft, there are two quotations: full lease at 3 billion spirit stones per hour, or sublease at 1 billion spirit stones per "1 Gai" of computing power.

The current calculation of Shenglong Hall is: "1 billion" is counted as "1 Jing", and "1 Jingjing" is recorded as "1 Gai".

The price is calculated like this: the retail price of 7th, 9th and 12th generation quantum chips has now stabilized at more than 400,000 spirit stones, and the cost of 2.26 million quantum chips is almost one trillion spirit stones.

Don’t ask about the internal price of quantum chips, it’s not important because outsiders cannot buy them at cost price or internal price.

Adding into account the design and construction costs of the spacecraft itself, the market value of Chu Fei's computing spacecraft exceeds two trillion spirit stones.

The current design life of this spacecraft is 60 years - the spacecraft can actually be used for a long time, but considering the iterations of chips, power systems, rune technology, material technology, etc., it will most likely be scrapped after sixty years.

The average annual cost, plus maintenance costs, is about 35 billion yuan, or about 100 million yuan a day.

But this is the cost price. For interstellar trade, it is embarrassing to ask for less than 10 times the profit. So I reluctantly quoted 3 billion spirit stones per hour.

According to Chu Fei at the beginning, the cost per hour was more than 10 billion spirit stones, which was a bit exaggerated.

In fact, the cost of 3 billion spirit stones per hour is also exaggerated. All the wealth of the Divine Sword Sect combined can only be used for half a day, or more than ten hours.

But, on the other hand, the amount of calculations done in one day is equivalent to the amount of work done in the past 100,000 years! It doesn't seem expensive.

As for the sublease price, because the spacecraft uses 2.26 million 7.9.12 generation quantum chips, the total computing power can reach 2.6 billion Geops per second, that is, 2.6 billion Geops per second. 2.6 billion Geops per second is 9.36 Geops of computing power per hour.

So if you want zero rent, you have to calculate it based on the computing power, and each "1 Gai computing power" is priced at 1 billion Lingshi - yes, the difference is more than three times that of full rent! Retail, of course, will have to increase the price.

Anyway, that's the quote.

However, the quotation is a quotation and the actual price is calculated separately.

This is the first cooperation, and considering that the technology of Shenglong Temple is not perfect enough and the five sects are considered joint researchers, only a small amount of depreciation and cost fees are charged.

After more than two months of repeated tug-of-war discussions and full exchanges, it was finally settled on 7.2% of the quoted price - the price would not be calculated during the period of joint research, and the fee would be charged when the five sects leased the spacecraft and calculated their own skills.

As compensation, Chu Fei agreed to sell 7.8-generation quantum computers to the five factions without restrictions.

However, the price of a single piece is as high as 100,000 spirit stones, and it provides a 12-year warranty, which is a warranty for one dragon year - and this is just the wholesale price of Shenglong Temple, tariffs, transportation costs, etc. are not included.

Also, 100,000 is just the price of the chip. If you want to assemble a computer, provide technical services, etc., you have to calculate the price separately.

After the signing, many masters, even the ancestors of the Tribulation Period, finally entered Chu Fei's computing spaceship. Chu Fei set up a temporary pass. This pass needs to be authorized once a day.

“Is this the computing spaceship?!” More than fifty old antiques visited the computer room and saw groups of complex servers and crisscrossing cables.

One of Chu Fei's clones explained the general situation. Such a spacecraft is like a super brain, with more than 1.2 billion wires, a total length of more than 5 million kilometers, and more than 100 trillion joints. No error can be made at any point. As for the number of codes involved, it is an astronomical number.

From the initial design to the final manufacturing and testing of the spacecraft, artificial intelligence programs are widely used. If all the work is done manually, it may take a hundred years to complete.

During Chu Fei's brief explanation and the on-site visit, many experts looked increasingly solemn. The more they knew, the more they could feel their own shortcomings.

Complexity does not mean correctness, but the technology behind the complex system is admirable. The technology of Shenglong Palace shocked the masters of the Tribulation Crossing.

Afterwards, the group came to the "studio", where more than 30 virtual cabins were already in place, with corresponding research offices, private spaces, etc. There were more virtual cabins being prepared for installation nearby.

Many masters of cultivation brought a large number of jade slips of cultivation techniques and began to circulate and appraise them. At least ten people would appraise a set of cultivation techniques, and the average would be taken. If they felt that the price was unreasonable, they would ask someone else to appraise it again.

This work took half a year. The number of skills that both sides brought out shocked Chu Fei - more than 300,000!

The Shenglong Palace has only accumulated a few thousand volumes of cultivation techniques over the years, and they are all inferior versions that can be bought on the market.

But think about it, the Shenglong Palace used to have no true god-level masters, and was a nobody; whereas these five major sects always have masters in the Tribulation Crossing Stage, and they have existed for at least more than 50,000 years, and they have accumulated a lot of skills.

In addition, there are many small and medium-sized sects under each sect, which are also resources. As for how the five major sects collect taxes from below, Chu Fei doesn't care.

Among these techniques, the lowest level is the foundation-building stage, and the highest level is the peak of returning to the true self - the five sects really took out all the things they had in their bottom boxes. Of course, the five sects would definitely not take out the best, but the ones they took out were already extraordinary.

The purpose of the five sects is very clear - everything is for the purpose of transcending the tribulation period.

Without the skills to transcend the tribulation period, everything is in vain.

Chu Fei dispatched several clones to assist everyone in their work, and experts and other staff from the Shenglong Palace were also present on the scene - there were not many opportunities to study the cultivation techniques openly.

In fact, if one wants to study the resurrection golden body inherited from the immortals, one also needs some basic cultivation techniques.

It should be said that up to now, Chu Fei has truly made this research plan come to life.

It wasn't easy. It took more than four years, and things were just getting started. But Chu Fei could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

A lot has been gained in these four years. The biggest gain is that the future practice route of big data cultivation has been sorted out. It can be said that the ascending channel of Shenglong Palace has been officially opened.

In fact, it means that we have finally started to harvest the cultivation resources, mainly the knowledge of cultivation, in the Silver Sea Continent.

With the participation of the five high-level sects, they can basically harvest most of the cultivation knowledge here. There will definitely be omissions in the remaining parts, but Chu Fei doesn't think it matters anymore.

Shenglong Palace needs knowledge of cultivation, not for the purpose of studying cultivation techniques, but to "use stones from other mountains to polish jade", using knowledge of cultivation as "stones" to cross the river by feeling the stones. That's all. At present, Chu Fei feels that these techniques are enough.

Therefore, Chu Fei didn't care much about the largest remaining sect on the Silver Sea Continent, the Xuanyuan Sect, and the most "flowery" and mysterious organization, the Tianxiang Tower.

However, on the computing spaceship, with the arrival of a large number of masters of cultivation, with a large number of skills being fed to the computer, and with the computer starting to reason frantically, it finally began to produce results.

The initial achievement was the deduction of the practice method for returning to the true realm, and it was also a process for many masters of cultivation to learn how to use quantum computers.

Although current quantum computers have artificial intelligence, they are not true strong artificial intelligence after all. After developing the strong artificial intelligence "Lin Yu", Chu Fei consciously avoided related research.

In fact, Chu Fei also reflected that Lin Yu's birth seemed to be an accident, and it felt like the so-called "coming of necessity". Humans are still far from really wanting to build a life. But in any case, the research on strong artificial intelligence has been cut.

Although this computer has powerful computing power, it will occasionally make mistakes. So how to use the computer requires human intervention.

How to ask questions, input conditions, set restrictions and boundaries, set logic, etc., all require manual intervention and adjustment.

Fortunately, the techniques of these applications are still simple, and much easier than scientific research, studying martial arts, etc.

It was under such conditions that half a year later, everyone used computers to deduce the first set of exercises for the late stage of the Return to Truth realm.

Although there are some minor problems in this technique, according to the tests of many experts on the scene, this technique can be released directly. Those few minor problems are not a big problem even if they are not modified.

The most important thing is that this technique is complex enough, rigorous enough, and novel enough!

In the past, if one wanted to study a relatively new, complex, rigorous, and late-stage cultivation technique, it would take at least a dozen Dragon Years and the participation of many experts, and there would also be issues with the rigor.

It's only been half a year now, and the first six months were spent inputting data, building a database, and learning how to use it. The time to actually deduce the technique is only one month.

Just the success of a late-stage Guizhen technique has made everyone excited.

But at Chu Fei's suggestion, everyone did not immediately deduce the skills for the Tribulation Period, but instead imported the experience of the Tribulation Period into the computer and continued to deduce more skills for the Return to Truth Realm.

Computers also require learning and accumulation.

Afterwards, the computer's deduction time became shorter and shorter. The second part of the late stage of Guizhen took less than ten days; the third part took five days.

By the time the tenth set of skills was completed, it took only two days. By this point, the computer's computing power had reached its peak, and the skills had become increasingly rigorous and complex.

Then something unexpected happened—the five sects put their own martial arts techniques up for auction on the black market!

These top-notch skills, which could directly reach the peak of the Return to Truth realm, caused a sensation in the black market and brought huge profits to the five sects.

When Chu Fei found out about this, he protested strongly - we have to share the money.

Of course, Master Chu is a well-mannered person and would not be so direct. Chu Fei just said that the computer on the spacecraft has been running continuously recently and needs to be shut down for maintenance. It is uncertain how long it will be shut down. This is far away from the mainland, and if there are any damaged parts, there will be a wait.

The five sects understood immediately and immediately put in more new skills. Chu Fei shut down the computer for two days for testing and then put it back online.

Inspection and maintenance are real. Chu Fei personally took everyone to check the maintenance process and saw the aging parts. Due to various considerations such as technology and cost, especially the so-called "planned obsolescence" theory, many parts must be replaced regularly.

"Planned obsolescence" is a super strategy of Shenglong Temple - it is impossible for the things sold to be used for hundreds of years without any problems, this is not capital! It is not in the interests of Shenglong Temple!

After that, the five sects continued to iterate and no longer sold their skills. Of course, the really good skills were kept for themselves.

In the blink of an eye, more than three years had passed. The computer had deduced more than four hundred sets of exercises for the late and peak stages of Guizhen. In the end, there were almost no problems with more than thirty sets of exercises in a row - only a few unimportant problems could be found with a critical eye.

This kind of martial arts has come infinitely close to the theoretical limit of perfection and far exceeds the martial arts that can be artificially deduced.

At this point, Chu Fei gathered everyone together and held a discussion meeting. He believed that the computer was already "smart" enough and decided to formally try to deduce the method of the Crossing Tribulation Period. Shenglong Hall will take out the data from the research on the resurrection of the golden body in recent years and put it into the computer database.

When Chu Fei announced the news, the atmosphere at the scene suddenly became quiet, and then quickly became heated.

"It's time to sprint!" An old ancestor at the Tribulation Stage couldn't help but say excitedly. Everyone nodded.

Chu Fei, seeing everyone's excitement, also smiled. Yes, the time for the sprint has come, but it's not "us" who are sprinting, it's you who are sprinting!

After studying cultivation techniques with everyone for more than three years, Chu Fei also knew that the techniques for the Tribulation Stage were completely different from the previous ones. It would be very difficult to deduce the techniques for the Tribulation Stage.

Well, when everyone encounters resistance, there is only one direction left - the resurrection of the immortal's golden body!

When the time comes, you will have to charge forward even if you don’t want to!

People, it’s fine if they can’t see hope, but once they see hope, they will go crazy!

In fact, Chu Fei was also thinking about it. With the information that Shenglong Palace has accumulated now - information on cultivation, belief and cultivation of gods, and scientific and technological information, there is actually a great chance to deduce a new method for the Tribulation Period.

But it is obvious that Chu Fei would not make his own database public.

Although this so-called deduction of the Tribulation Stage technique does provide opportunities for the five sects, it is essentially just fishing and cutting leeks.

Chu Fei had only one goal - to revive the golden body! The immortal! He wanted to get as much information as possible from it, especially the "Lord God" level information! So that Shenglong Hall could continue to move forward by touching the stone of the immortal.

Now, we can try to conduct a complete study of the resurrection golden body of the immortal, even a "destructive study". (End of this chapter)