The Birth of the AI Wisdom System: You Want to Make the Snow Empress Its Core?
Looking at the text on the screen, Meng Hongchen's little mouth fell open in surprise. She excitedly threw her arms around Xiang Bei, pressing her mountain peaks flat against him.
"Brother Bei, you're amazing! But what is this thing? I didn't see anyone hidden inside!"
"This is an AI Wisdom System, but its computing power is still very low. It only has the servers in this one room to power it, so its upper limit isn't high."
Xiang Bei explained.
What the screen had generated was only the simplest sort of thing, with rudimentary intelligence. It couldn't compare to a true wisdom system.
Part of the problem was computing power; the other part was the lack of true intelligence.
The former would take time, but he had a very good idea for the latter.
Shrek Academy.
Yu Xiaogang fell to his knees in excitement and kowtowed frantically. "A miracle! This is a miracle!"
"Who exactly is that young man? To think the Sun Moon Empire is so powerful!"
Tang San stood beside him, somewhat at a loss. He couldn't see what was so impressive.
He muttered disdainfully to himself.
"What's so special about that? Soul Masters still have to rely on their own abilities above all else."
Yu Xiaogang shook his head. "No!"
"That young man was creating life just now. I don't know how he did it, but a feat like that is, in a sense, comparable to a god's."
As he spoke,
he slammed a fist into the ground, fuming inwardly. Damn it! Why can't I meet someone like him?
If he became my disciple, wouldn't I be able to raise a god who might one day create a world?
Soul Tools! His Soul Tools and my Soul Master theories—with our combined strength as master and disciple, we could swallow the heavens and subdue demons! We'd become figures who stirred the winds and clouds of the continent in one stroke. When that happened, even Spirit Hall would have to kneel before me and submit.
Unfortunately... there's no way through this sky screen. Otherwise, with my profound Soul Master theories, wouldn't that young man bow his head and beg to become my disciple?
The more Yu Xiaogang thought about it, the more he regretted it. He kept shaking his head as he watched the sky screen.
He asked Fuleide to take him to the sky screen, but halfway through the flight, his fear of heights had left his pants half soaked.
In the scene on the sky screen,
Xiang Bei lowered his gaze, as though he could see through layer upon layer of defenses to the thing at the very bottom.
"If I remember correctly, the Snow Empress is still imprisoned beneath Mingde Hall. If we use her as the vessel for this AI, then use the source of her seven hundred thousand years of cultivation to power it, the world of Soul Tools will have taken a crucial step forward!"
He murmured to himself,
and soon,
Jing Hongchen, the master of Mingde Hall and a Level 9 Soul Engineer, came before him and spoke with a smile.
"Xiao Bei, what did you need me for? Have you run into some difficulty developing a Soul Tool?"
"That's right." Xiang Bei nodded, then opened his mouth with words so shocking they could raise the dead.
"Hall Master, I want that seven-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast beneath Mingde Hall, the Heavenly Snow Woman."
"What!?? What did you say you wanted?" Jing Hongchen's eyes widened sharply. He almost thought he had misheard.
His expression suddenly turned serious. Xiang Bei had helped Mingde Hall establish a wondrous Soul Tool device called an assembly line, tripling its Soul Tool output. But a seven-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast was the ruler of the Far North.
It wasn't something he could give Xiang Bei just because he asked.
"Your reason."
"I've developed a new AI Wisdom System, but it's still only a prototype. It needs an intelligent being with human nature infused into it to raise its upper limit. Once it's complete,"
"the AI system could help control the entire Sun Moon Empire's Soul Tool defenses, greatly increasing their autonomy. We could even build an army of mechas with human nature!"
Xiang Bei described the future glory of the Sun Moon Empire to Jing Hongchen.
He wasn't exaggerating about the mecha army. In that mysterious space, he could exchange for mecha technology from twenty thousand years in the future. As long as he had enough materials, he could put robots inside and encase them in mechas.
Churning out troops on an interstellar scale was no joke.
Jing Hongchen was deeply tempted.
He had long coveted Shrek Academy and the territory over there, dreaming of bringing them under the Sun Moon Empire's rule.
More importantly, Xiang Bei never exaggerated. He had extraordinary talent with Soul Tools and often came up with all sorts of ingenious ideas.
"All right, come with me. But I have to warn you, the Heavenly Snow Woman is extremely dangerous. When we bought her at the auction house in the Star Luo Empire, we thought she was an ordinary Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo."
"I know."
Xiang Bei put on the One-Word Battle Armor he had obtained from the space. His presence instantly rose from that of a Five-Ring Soul King to a Seven-Ring Soul Sage. Aside from lacking a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, he was no different from a true Soul Saint.
With the hundreds of Level 8 Soul Cannon shells stored in his storage ring, he wouldn't even flinch at facing a Level 8 Soul Douluo.
Jing Hongchen watched with burning envy. "What's that?"
"Hall Master Jing, this is Battle Armor. It's still in the experimental stage, and this is the only set for now."
"All right. Don't forget me when you start mass-producing it."
"Me too, Brother Bei," Xiao Hongchen chimed in coquettishly, as if acting spoiled.
"I know, I know."
The group went down to the heavily guarded underground area, passing through layer upon layer of defenses and Soul Tool tests.
A snow-white, egg-shaped object suspended in high-strength crystal glass came into Xiang Bei's view.
At the same time,
a line of golden text appeared simultaneously on the sky screen over the Douluo Continent.
[The Snow Empress, overlord Soul Beast of the Far North, wields Ultimate Ice and has seven hundred thousand years of cultivation! Current status: weakened]
Spirit City.
Pope's Palace.
Bibi Dong's eyes lit up with excitement, undisguised greed and desire bursting from her gaze.
"Seven hundred thousand years! It's actually a seven-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast! A Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast's Soul Ring is red. I wonder what color a seven-hundred-thousand-year one is?"
"If I could hunt her down and make her my Soul Ring, wouldn't I have a chance to become the strongest person on the continent and surpass Qian Daoliu?"
She was deeply tempted. Having inherited the Rakshasa God's legacy, she would surely reach the limit in the future, perhaps even become a god, as long as she didn't die.
But before becoming a god, the greater the age of the Soul Ring she obtained, the better.
"She's actually weakened. Mingde Hall managed to capture this seven-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast. They can't be underestimated."
At that moment, her desire to enter the sky screen reached its peak, and her worldview was reshaped.
Worship Hall.
Qian Daoliu looked at the description on the sky screen and remained silent for a long time. Only after a while did he speak.
"A seven-hundred-thousand-year overlord Soul Beast is a sight one may not encounter in ten thousand years! If we captured her and made her Xiao Xue's ninth Soul Skill, wouldn't that be wonderful?"
At the thought, Qian Daoliu grinned from ear to ear.
Although the Angel God Trial could increase the age of Soul Rings, even a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast was still six hundred thousand years short of seven hundred thousand. That was a distance even a god could not cross.
By his estimate, this Soul Beast's strength was roughly equivalent to that of a Level 98 Douluo. He couldn't judge the specifics without having fought her.
"It's time to communicate with the Angel God and see if there's a way to break through the sky screen's barrier, let someone enter the world on the other side, and seize this seven-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast."
At Shrek Academy.
Yu Xiaogang looked stricken and howled at the sky.
"A waste! What a terrible waste!"
"Mingde Hall is being utterly wasteful! A Soul Beast that wields an Ultimate Attribute is a sight one may not encounter in nature in ten thousand years. Since they've found one, they should extract that ultimate attribute."
"If I were in charge of Mingde Hall, I would continuously extract this Soul Beast's source and use the Ultimate Ice attribute to empower Soul Cannon shells. That would not only greatly increase the shells' power, but also weaken the Soul Beast's source, making her easier to absorb in the future. Why not?"
Clearly,
when it came to the study of Soul Master theory, Mingde Hall still couldn't compare to Yu Xiaogang, the master of theory.
No matter how many resources they had, they didn't know how to make the most of them.
No matter how far ahead they were, sooner or later his disciple Tang San would catch up.