The Adjudication Court's new headquarters was exceptionally grand. Floors one through forty were Transcendent Training Fields available free of charge to Transcendents within the system.
There was no need to worry about access control.
The entrance to the headquarters building was monitored by Deep Sea. Manual verification was only required on the middle floors. Gu Shen merely wanted to take a casual look around; even without using Source Code to alter the access controls, he could easily enter the building with his authority.
Transcendents came and went within the Adjudication Court headquarters.
Every day, large numbers of Apprentice Tribunal Envoys accepted missions here. The Adjudication Court offered Breathing Methods and Sealed Items as rewards, but exchanging them required sufficient Merit Points.
After awakening their Transcendent Abilities and passing Deep Sea's background checks,
the best way for these Apprentice Tribunal Envoys to grow stronger was to accept missions issued through the Deep Water Zone Mental Network.
They could form their own teams or choose to carry out missions alone.
Over the past few years, the Deep Sea Main System had completed another upgrade. Its computing power was now sufficient to cover the entire Eastern Continent. Tribunal Envoys from Nagano could travel anywhere while their records remained on file. For multiplayer missions, the Mental Network would assess each person's performance before distributing and evaluating Merit Points.
"There are even more people here than I imagined."
Gu Shen murmured to himself as he walked.
The times were advancing too quickly.
Back when he had still been cultivating in Nagano, the Deep Sea Network had not been nearly this developed. Now, Deep Sea managed the entire building. Most Transcendents passing through merely brushed shoulders with one another. They had little to say—accept a mission, form a team with acquaintances, then complete it.
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