Leilin and Xiao Ai

As Huosi and Adkins departed, the remaining three brothers fell into a state of silence.

"Th-third brother, hurry and hit me. I must be dreaming, right?"

After a long silence, Burgess finally spoke, his tone stiff and filled with disbelief.

"Ah, ouch, ouch, ouch!"

"Looks like it's real."

The middle-aged man in the white robe had pinched his face hard, and upon hearing the scream, he stated his conclusion.

"Why didn't you pinch yourself!"

Burgess rubbed his cheek, gritting his teeth as he asked.

"Wasn't it you who asked to be hit? Besides, pinching myself hurts too much!"

The middle-aged man in the white robe simply shrugged, his expression indifferent.

"You, you, you! I'm going to strangle you today!"

Burgess lunged forward, reaching his hands toward the second brother's neck.

"Don't, don't, don't, don't get excited, Big Brother!"

Seeing his eldest brother about to lose his temper, the second brother immediately changed the subject:

"Let's not talk about this for now. Third brother has been taken in by Lord Huosi; that is what we should be most concerned about right now."

"You guy!"

Burgess curled his lip, stopping his pursuit upon hearing this, and then looked at the bracelet in Leilin's hand.

"It really is incredible!"

Leilin also sighed with emotion, holding the bracelet and examining it repeatedly.

The next second, Leilin put the bracelet on his arm, and suddenly, it emitted a blue light.

In an instant, a holographic screen appeared in mid-air.

[DNA authentication in progress, please provide the corresponding DNA sample.]

"DNA sample?"

A crisp voice emanated from the bracelet, leaving the three of them stunned.

"Is, is this an intelligent system?"

Burgess asked, looking somewhat dazed.

"Don't make such a fuss; intelligent systems aren't exactly rare in the Federation."

The middle-aged man in the white robe rolled his eyes at his eldest brother.

"I know that, but these are generally only for official, registered members of the Federation to use. We've only ever heard of them."

Burgess retorted immediately.

Intelligent systems were certainly no secret in the Federation, and they were beginning to be applied in many places.

However, personal intelligent bracelets were extremely scarce in the Federation.

Generally speaking, those who possessed one held a high status in the Federation, or at the very least, were official members of a certain rank.

Although they had heard of them many times, they had never actually seen one in person, so today was truly an eye-opener.

"Third brother belongs to Lord Huosi now; what does being a registered member even matter?"

The middle-aged man in the white robe rolled his eyes again, implying his eldest brother was making a mountain out of a molehill and failing to consider who had given it to him.

"Uh, that's true."

Burgess gave an awkward laugh, rubbing his hands together in embarrassment.

Since it was given personally by Lord Huosi, it certainly wasn't an ordinary item; if anything, this was to be expected.

If Lord Huosi had given him something other than an intelligent bracelet, that would have been the strange part.

Just as the two were talking, Leilin decisively dripped a drop of blood onto the bracelet.

[DNA authentication in progress, authentication passed. Welcome, Mr. Leilin. If you have any questions, you can ask me directly.]

"What should I call you?"

Leilin looked at the bracelet in disbelief, thought for a moment, and asked.

[I am an artificial intelligence system specially created by the Federation, designed to help students unite in friendship, study hard, and improve every day. You may call me Xiao Ai.]

"Xiao Ai, Xiao Ai, what functions do you have?"

Leilin nodded and continued to ask.

[Xiao Ai currently has eleven functions, including identity authentication, Federation currency balance management, remote communication, searching for various types of information, and more...]

"That sounds like quite a lot. Come to think of it, can I check my account balance..."

Leilin suddenly froze, then remembered that his balance probably wasn't very high.

Although he had earned some money over the years, it wasn't quite enough.

[Your current account balance is 304,200 Federation Credits.]

"This probably isn't enough to survive on the Qingya Continent. Besides, how do you know my balance..."

Leilin couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth.

[This system possesses the highest authority within the Federation and can retrieve all of Leilin's data from the banking system. Not a single cent of yours will be miscalculated.]

"That's truly impressive, but my money... I'm afraid it won't go very far for living on the Qingya Continent."

Leilin looked at Xiao Ai with a sense of helplessness and continued.

As everyone knew, the Qingya Continent was the place with the most advanced technology and the highest-end facilities in the entire Federation.

However, at the same time, it was also the place where everything was most expensive.

Although a god-level powerhouse could go without eating, drinking, or sleeping, having no Federation Credits meant being unable to enjoy the resources required for cultivation.

Whether it was research materials, equipment, or the weapons and data he would gradually need—in short, without enough money, if he went there, he would likely just end up sitting in his room.

[Mr. Leilin's authority level is A. You can use all infrastructure on the Qingya Continent below A-level for free, including cultivation rooms specifically designed for god-level powerhouses, where the internal heaven and earth elemental energy far exceeds that of the outside world.]

[At the same time, if Mr. Leilin has experimental research you wish to complete, you can apply for projects directly. The Federation will provide the funding, ensuring the use of top-tier materials with priority supply.]

"This... it can be like this?"

Leilin was speechless for a moment, suddenly feeling like a wealthy person.

"Third brother, you've truly reached the pinnacle now."

Burgess patted Leilin's shoulder firmly.

"Xiao Ai, can I bring my two brothers along..."

[Mr. Leilin, based on your authority, you may bring your two brothers to settle on the Qingya Continent with you. However, your two brothers cannot enter any areas of the Academy of Sciences. They may reside in the family apartments for Academy staff and are free to travel throughout the continent.]

Before Leilin could finish, Xiao Ai interrupted him directly, encompassing all three of them in the arrangement.

"That really is... convenient!"

Leilin opened his mouth, but in the end, that was all he could say.

"My lord, who exactly is this Leilin that he is worth such high regard from you?"

Just as Leilin was chatting with Xiao Ai, Adkins, who had already departed, finally couldn't help but ask.

It was no wonder Adkins asked this; what Huosi had just given Leilin was A-level authority, which fewer than one thousand people in the entire Federation possessed.

In the current Federation, aside from Huosi himself who held the highest authority, Adkins, Pusiluo, and Bernas held S-level authority, while the highest anyone else reached was A-level.

Leilin was merely a newly ascended Lowgod, yet he could receive such treatment, which truly shocked Adkins.

"This little guy's talent is very strong. Perhaps, even stronger than you or Pusiluo."

Huosi only glanced at him and replied indifferently.

"What? This... is he really that strong?"

Adkins was instantly taken aback.

He didn't doubt the lord's words—after all, in Adkins's eyes, Lord Huosi could not be wrong—he was simply deeply shocked.

One had to know that in the million years since the Federation was established, the total number of Midgods in the Federation didn't even reach a few hundred.

Among them, those who broke through on their own didn't exceed ten. Adkins and Pusiluo were the only two Midgods who had fused profound mysteries.

Although Adkins had only just begun the initial fusion of his third profound mystery, he had enough confidence that if given another ten million years, he would be able to become a Highgod who had fused three profound mysteries.

Though Adkins did not know what such talent meant in the Divine Plane.

But within the Federation, only Lord Huosi and Pusiluo stood above him; he didn't look up to anyone else.

Yet today, Lord Huosi said that the one named Leilin might be even stronger in the future. Could it be that he would fuse four, or even five profound mysteries?

For such a powerful Highgod to appear in the Yulan Plane—could this plane possess some strange destiny?

If Huosi heard Adkins's thoughts, he would only pat his shoulder and suggest he be a bit bolder; he might even achieve the status of a Paragon High-God.

Qinghuo and Leilin were truly individuals with the aptitude of a Paragon; in a sense, one could even call them a bug in the system.

Looking at the entire Coiling Dragon, even without Linley as the protagonist, the Yulan Plane remained a place that seemed to be cheating.

First was Beirut, a super divine beast whose innate divine ability, God-Eater, made countless powerful Asuras turn pale with fear. Without a soul-protecting Sovereign Artifact, one would undoubtedly die against a Paragon.

Many Asuras feared Beirut even more than they feared Paragons; once Beirut appeared, ordinary gods would surely die.

Super divine beasts were few and far between across countless planes; the likes of the Destruction Sovereign, the Death Sovereign, the Four Divine Beasts, and the Bauhinia Sovereign were all born in places like Hell or the Underworld.

For a super divine beast to be born in a Material Plane was already a very rare occurrence, yet this God-Eater Rat species had produced two.

A single Material Plane producing super divine beasts—and two of them at that—was something that would leave even Sovereigns bewildered if they heard of it.

Not only that, but the Yulan Continent also produced a guy named Leilin.

This guy, in a place like the Plane Prison where heaven and earth elemental energy was scarce, had relied solely on his own cultivation to reach a near-perfect state, and his entire path of cultivation had been explored by himself.

By now, the universal education of the Federation had long since emphasized the importance of fusing profound mysteries as early as possible.

Leilin could absolutely start attempting to find fusion points for his profound mysteries from the Saint Realm; perhaps he might even have a chance to break through to Grand Perfection without a Sovereign Spark.

Grand Perfection? Huosi thought with a sense of anticipation, imagining the outcome of Leilin becoming a Grand Perfection.

The most powerful thing in the Coiling Dragon world was not divine power, nor was it the laws or profound mysteries, but rather will power.

It was not that he had never thought about analyzing will power, or even creating it.

However, on one hand, the current level of technology was far from sufficient, and on the other, he lacked a sample and could not fabricate it out of thin air; he needed a ready-made sample to even have a possibility of researching it.

Yet, in the Coiling Dragon world, only Sovereigns and those at Grand Perfection possessed will power, and he certainly couldn't go find them and ask them to be the guinea pigs for his experiments.

If they found out about this, they certainly wouldn't mind letting him know just how powerful will power truly was.

Leilin, perhaps, was a glimmer of hope—a hope to unravel the principles behind will power.