Cloud and mist swirled around the peak of the Source Tower, shrouding a single figure. The Sky God Domain was empty and desolate.
Yet countless streams of computing power were converging upon that figure.
Deep Sea was undergoing its Eleventh Upgrade. Its thoughts could spread through the Mental Network to every corner of the five continents, but its true "brain" existed only here. The Sky God Domain was where the Main System resided. In theory, once this place was destroyed, the Main System would lose its only home.
Vast spiritual power from the Old World was continuously surging into this Divine Domain.
Deep Sea was communicating with Qinglong through the cloud mirror, transmitting all the information it possessed into Qinglong's mind... This was the price of asking Qinglong to act. A Throne of God with such a strong desire for control would likely abandon his entanglement with the Empress without hesitation and leave the pavilion directly if he could not keep track of developments in the Outside World.
Although Deep Sea knew this.
Once Qinglong entered the Empress's pavilion, leaving would be anything but easy. Even so, it obediently sent all this data into Qinglong's cloud mirror.
It did not dare gamble.
Nor could it afford to lose.
Since the code war with Source Code ended, the Main System had taken over the entire Deep Water Zone. It had begun iterating and upgrading again and again.
Each upgrade had been brief.
A few dozen minutes, two hours at most.
But this time was different. The Eleventh Upgrade was taking almost as long as the previous ten upgrades combined, perhaps even longer... Qualitative change always came at a cost, and there was no clear progress bar for something like a computing power upgrade.
It had to ensure that everything in the