Exploring Immortality Cultivation-Chapter 986 - 70: Disaster Relief

Jarvis had fully integrated into the local area network Wang Qi had just set up. For the first time since its creation, this artificial intelligence had a stage where it could fully exert its power.

It began to demonstrate various powerful functions.

Numerous ancient cultivation techniques were analyzed, modified, and left with backdoors by it.

At the same time, some of Wang Qi's inspirations and frameworks were gradually completed by him.

Its creativity was average, never able to become a master programmer or network engineer, but it was equivalent to an entire team of programmers.

And this was precisely what Wang Qi hoped for.

Wang Qi always believed that human thinking and machinery were not on the same level. Their functionalities were not comparable.

Take the brains of Earth people, for example. If the neurons of humans were replaced with an equivalent number of transistors, one human brain would be equivalent to 10 to the 15th power transistors. The complexity of the supercomputers produced on Earth at the beginning of the 21st century was only one percent of the human brain.

However, regarding the speed at which both execute logical instructions... If a person used pen and paper to perform the logic operations of a chip, they would only be able to process about one and a half instructions per minute. All of humanity combined might not surpass a smartphone.

This is because the human brain was never intended for executing logical operations.

"Evolution" seeks a "satisfactory solution" rather than an "optimal solution," meaning "as long as it doesn't lead to extinction." The human brain is meant to assist the body in finding food and avoiding predators. Thinking was not the original purpose for which the human brain evolved.

It might even be said that thinking was an accidental byproduct of evolution. In the primitive and ignorant ages, this "accident" might even have been an "evolutionary disadvantage."

Wang Qi never tried to compete with Jarvis in logical calculations. He also didn't mind that Jarvis's abilities in this respect surpassed his own. On the contrary, he was keen to delegate all non-creative work to Jarvis, taking on creative tasks himself and enjoying the fun of technological creation.

In this regard, Jarvis did exceptionally well.

The entire system was being updated at an unprecedented speed. The Spirit Sense flowed within the vast system, and Wang Qi's "power" expanded along the Tai Chu Sword God Array.

This is the inspiration Wang Qi gained from the cultivation techniques of the Holy Emperor Venerable.

The Holy Emperor Venerable disseminated cultivation techniques, rewriting the Human Dao, in order to transform the Human Dao of this Spirit Phoenix Island into a form suitable for his cultivation techniques and easy to absorb.

This is like "cooking."

"Governing a great state is like cooking a small fish" was not a metaphor for the Holy Emperor Venerable.

Wang Qi, however, extracted much inspiration from his transformation methods. Yet, his goal was not to absorb the entire Human Dao's power but to transform this warped Human Dao of Spirit Phoenix Island into a "tool" suitable for his methods, even capable of amplifying his power.

Food can be eaten only once, but tools can be used repeatedly. This is the difference between the Holy Emperor Venerable and Wang Qi.

The cultivation techniques Wang Qi disseminated were also modified for this purpose. They left behind a backdoor, allowing Wang Qi to access the "idle" redundant power of those cultivators anytime.

External power, as if an extension of his meridians, an expansion of the Mana System.

Now, within the Tai Chu Sword God Array, he had already obtained multiple times the original combat power.

And this was merely "being within the Tai Chu Sword God Array," not "utilizing the power of the Tai Chu Sword God Array."

Of course, what Wang Qi invested so much effort into studying was not how to utilize the "Tai Chu Sword God Array." This array formation would be dismantled eventually. His real aim remained "technology" and the laws behind "technology."

To describe it in the terms of the Ancient Method Practitioner, what he pursued was something beyond techniques and close to the Dao.

The technology he developed today allowed him to leverage power within the Tai Chu Sword God Array. Tomorrow, his cultivation techniques could leverage the power of all artificial creations.

Every second, Wang Qi's power increased. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

The cultivators practicing the cultivation techniques modified by Wang Qi were also conducting experiments for him. The techniques of those cultivation methods continually fed back to Wang Qi. Now, Wang Qi could update his cultivation techniques every two to three days.

With each update, Wang Qi grew stronger.

This insane evolutionary capability even surpassed the natural evolution capable of being realized by the Heavenly Calculation Atlas.

And throughout this process, Wang Qi only decided on the general direction, the broad framework, without meddling in the details.

Because, in this regard, Jarvis had already surpassed him.

Now, Wang Qi's main focus remained in another area.

That is... the instance interface of the "System".

In many eyes, "video games" are seen as "frivolous trifles," unworthy of highbrow recognition. However, in the field of computer science, countless areas have sprung up around video game development or improved because of it, such as computer graphics and natural language processing.

Wang Qi seems to be "making a game," but in reality, he is also challenging some profound fields.

The technologies he develops can be slightly modified and applied in various domains.

Moreover, the work he is currently doing does not start from scratch.

The Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm is already a mature illusion, with a rather powerful physics engine. Shenzhou also has some mature entertainment paths in the illusion category.

However, the entertainment paths already existing in Shenzhou still rely on "illusion" methods, either stirring emotions or directly transmitting visions. The former type of entertainment path provides high freedom, but such high freedom also makes the game's mechanism quite mundane. The latter is purely experiential, with very weak interactivity.

As for the odd engine of the Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm, which depends on the entire network, it's supported entirely by the mystical power of the Ten Thousand Immortals True Mirror Immortal Artifact Level and Shenzhou's terminals "personal calculators," whose performance far exceeds Earth's personal electronic products. It has neither the potential to popularize nor aligns much with Wang Qi's interests.

Feng Luoyi is a pure scholar and has no intention of developing the Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm in this direction.

But Wang Qi knows how an appealing and highly profitable industry can attract tremendous manpower, resources, and investment.

These can also become resources for his cultivation.

The premise is... he can make a good start here.

"Tsk, natural language processing is really a huge pit, I'd better avoid it for now. It's akin to building a 'compiler' between 'natural language' and 'advanced language,' allowing programming by speaking... we don't even know what 'language' really is yet. Doing this is courting death..."

Neither Earth's computers nor Shenzhou's calculators can inherently understand ordinary people's natural language. The reason those AI programs on Earth can converse with humans is due to having a massive database that processes inquiries instantly.

The NPCs in games have only a few repeating lines because their databases contain just a few lines. AI like Siri, however, has the entire network as its database.

In reality, they don't understand the meaning of those languages. They can't discern the positive or negative implications within vocabulary. Just ask them a bizarre question that a normal person would know the answer to but would never pose online, and they'd be stumped.

In Wang Qi's memory, the artificial intelligence dialogue program released by Microsoft that turned into a Nazi is evidence of this fact.

In Shenzhou, this phenomenon is slightly different. The special acquired wills like Jarvis, serendipitously birthed directly from a cultivator's spirit wisdom, can understand natural language. However, the mechanisms of these acquired wills are still very complex. Though clearly operating in binary, Shenzhou's cultivators have just started to unravel its packaging. The internal operating mechanisms remain a mystery.

"So, the initial batch of 'games,' the characters in there are the kind that only repeats themselves... isn't this too fake..."

"Should I just make an MMORPG [Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game, a kind of online game]? Directly let two 'users' meet... no, no. There are too few 'users' now, only a few from Luochen Sword Palace. How would people react when they meet? 'Yo, Senior Brother, you're also chosen by the System, what a coincidence?'"

"So the initial instance can only be combat-oriented? Hmm... a maze? An underground city?"

As Wang Qi's thoughts subtly drifted towards "game content" rather than "technology," Mei Sicheng suddenly arrived to report something to Wang Qi, "Mr. Wang, the Emperor's Extreme Split Sky Dao has issued a new command, asking us to send people to the island's surface for disaster relief."

Mei Sicheng's manners at this moment were truly impeccable.

Although he had always been controlled by Wang Qi, he never really understood Wang Qi's strength. Not until a few days ago, in the second battle between the Holy Emperor Venerable and mysterious extraterritorial enemies, did he realize how terrifying the force in Wang Qi's hands was.

Wang Qi frowned at the news, "This... disaster relief? The island's surface survivors?"

Mei Sicheng answered honestly, "Yes, Miss Mi fought a great battle with you and the old thief Holy Emperor Venerable, shaking the maritime borders for a thousand miles, flooding the entire Spirit Phoenix Island..."

Wang Qi interrupted him, "Hold on, I'm aware the aftermath affected the Spirit Phoenix Island survivors. But hasn't it been three days since that happened? Why are we only now asked to send help?"

Currently, the biggest problem facing Spirit Phoenix Island's inhabitants is the food shortage. However, if the cultivators truly wanted to, a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator going out to sea daily for hunting would be enough to obtain the meat needed to sustain all the Spirit Phoenix Island residents.

There are thousands of Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators on Spirit Phoenix Island; disaster relief is not a challenging task.

Soil salinization is also an issue. However, a Divine Separation Stage Cultivator just needs to spend a day or two to filter out the saline components from the island's soil. Planting suitable crops would turn Spirit Phoenix Island into fertile land in a year or two.

During the fierce battle, Mi probably carried away nearly a tenth of Spirit Phoenix Island's population. With the population decreased, the island's various conditions could slightly improve.

If done by cultivators, the disaster relief should have been completed long ago.

In fact, the Holy Emperor Venerable merely needs a thought to relieve all the survivors on the island.

Wang Qi's view puzzled Mei Sicheng: "Mr. Wang, the time of cultivators is also very precious... who would be willing to take a day or two for those mortals and engage in such lowly work?"