Qu Heng Set His Sights on the Internet

It seems like the whole world changed after the invention of the mobile phone.

In the past, the world seemed to remain the same for years, decades, or even hundreds or thousands of years.

But since the invention of the mobile phone, things have changed every day.

Every day, there are all sorts of trending topics, all sorts of news, and all sorts of new things emerging.

As a leader, my first reaction to mobile phones is naturally to welcome them, because they are truly convenient.

But as the world changes rapidly, this welcome has gradually turned into fear, dread, and even hostility!

"Yang Ning! Yang Ning!" Qu Heng pounded his fist on the desk in his office in anger. "Seriously, even though he's dead, he's still causing me so much trouble!"

He only remembered Yang Ning's bad points, but not Yang Ning good ones.

Without Yang Ning, he would still be using that sturdy, rustic wooden table and chairs in his small, dark study!

Now, he has renovated his office space to resemble those of other companies.

Qu Heng's office is now spacious, bright and clean, with a floor so shiny it reflects light. The huge floor-to-ceiling windows allow you to see the towering mountains of Taiheng just by drawing back the curtains.

He also hired a female secretary who wore a tube skirt; the secretary did the work when there was work to be done, and the secretary did the work when there was nothing to do.

He's still a content creator, occasionally filming videos and posting glimpses of his extravagant daily life, but instead of using the name Taiheng Sect Qu Heng, he created a separate account.

These were all changes brought about by Yang Ning, but Qu Heng could only see what was unfavorable to him, what was good for him, and what made him feel comfortable; he felt nothing at all.

A short while later, a dark-skinned, thin young man knocked on the office door.

"Come in!" Qu Heng shouted impatiently.

"Yes!" The dark-skinned, thin young man carefully pushed open the door, walked in, and then respectfully greeted, "Inner disciple Li Yuan greets the Sect Leader!"

"Hmm!" Qu Heng nodded, then asked, "Do you know why I called you here?"

Li Yuan shook his head. "Please enlighten me, Sect Leader!"

"Two things!" Qu Heng said in a low voice, "First, Yang Ning, our sect's super genius, whom I was grooming as the next sect leader, has fallen!"

"What?" Li Yuan was stunned, and quickly looked up. "When did this happen?"

"Based on our search of the scene, it should be three years ago!" Qu Heng sighed and said, "It's also my fault. I knew he was only at the True Gang Realm, but I still sent him to the Netherworld to carry out the mission!"

"Three years!" Li Yuan shocked. He had indeed not received any news from Yang Ning in the past three years.

However, this is normal; cultivators sometimes go into seclusion for several years, decades, or even centuries at a time.

But Li Yuan never expected that Yang Ning wasn't in seclusion, but had died!

"Why?" Li Yuan immediately asked, "Isn't the Netherworld mission traditionally reserved for cultivators at the Supernatural Power Realm? Why send him? This is completely against the rules!"

"But he comes from humble beginnings. If he wants to become the sect leader, he has to do things that others can't!" Qu Heng said calmly. "He originally participated in the outer sect trials and retrieved more than eighty Purple Heart Stone, which was a remarkable achievement. But you know the current situation of the outer sect trials. Nearly two hundred thousand Outer Disciple the Great Tai Array Formation. This achievement is worthless now!"

Li Yuan was speechless.

"If he could gain the support of the Lin Family, his sect would still have a chance, but you know his relationship with the Lin Family!" Qu Heng continued, "You should be glad that Yuanxi severed ties with the Lin Family early, and that the Lin Family's affairs didn't involve him!"

Li Yuan nodded; Yang Ning had indeed been lucky in this respect.

"I've carefully considered the Netherworld mission!" Qu Heng said. "The disciples who have carried out the Netherworld Guardian mission haven't had any problems for forty years. Moreover, the two disciples who are carrying out the mission with Yang Ning are both Golden Core Stage disciples. As long as he doesn't run away during his term and stays for the full term, he can naturally return safely. It's just a pity..."

He wouldn't normally need to explain to Li Yuan, but since Li Yuan represents the entire Artifact Forging Master Association, and he needs to use the Artifact Forging Master Association now, he naturally has to give his opinion.

Li Yuan nodded and asked, "So, how did he get into trouble?"

"On the way to the Abyss, while stepping on the Red Poem Lotus Platform, I was targeted by bandits!"

Li Yuan was speechless. The reason was absurd, yet strangely logical.

Yang Ning is a rare genius in the world. He advanced to the Qi Refining Stage at the age of 13 and to the second level of Qi Refining at the age of 14.

His cultivation speed was fast, so he naturally had less time to go out and train. He didn't even understand the principle of not flaunting his wealth. Such a person died so casually, which Li Yuan found hard to accept for a while.

He's no ordinary genius!

In the field of weapon crafting, he invented the mobile phone, a device that brought about revolutionary changes to Taiheng, connecting the entire Taiheng Realm for the first time.

Even though cultivators used to fly fast, there were still significant barriers between different countries and sects; what was yours was mine.

But with mobile phones, the whole world is connected. On mobile phones, disciples of the Taiheng Sect and Tianyi Sect can sit and discuss the Dao, disciples of the Myriad Saints Alliance can play games with disciples of the Jinxiang Sect and Demon Alliance, and the demoness of the Tianfei Palace can also exchange ideas on clothing and makeup with the saintess of the Li Han Palace.

Not to mention the convenience that mobile phones bring to commerce and communication—it would take three days and three nights to describe it all!

In terms of cultivation, Yang Ning created the unprecedented <Yang God Method>, which greatly reduced the difficulty of Qi Induction. From then on, all cultivators in Taiheng were grateful to Yang Ning, and some even wanted to recognize Yang Ning as their master!

If Yang Ning hadn't died, he might have even earned the title of Ancestor of Yang God a hundred or a thousand years later!

Both the mobile phone and the Yang God Method were actually developed by him in less than two years.

If he were allowed to continue living, how much change could he bring to the world?

Could he also lower the difficulty of condensing the Golden Core? Could he also lower the difficulty of advancing to the Spiritual Law Realm?

How could such a person die at the hands of roadside thieves?

The Li Yuan, the more sorrowful I feel, and for some reason, I even have a feeling that God is blind!

"What about those bandits?" Li Yuan asked hurriedly, "Have they been caught?"

"Of course, and he has already been executed, his soul crushed to ashes, so there is no possibility of him being reincarnated!" Qu Heng said.

He was telling the truth; the Qiu Brothers did indeed meet this fate.

"Killing them like this is too easy for them!" Li Yuan said viciously.

Qu Heng nodded. From Li Yuan's attitude, one could see just how high Yang Ning's prestige was among the Artifact Forging Master.

Fortunately, he acted quickly.

If such a disciple were to grow up, how could he possibly control him?

Even if my child is a little slow, at least he's obedient.

"By the way, Sect Leader, didn't you say you called me here for two things?" Li Yuan asked, "What's the second thing?"

Qu Heng straightened up and asked, "Did you manufacture this phone?"

Li Yuan nodded. "Initially, it was the Artifact Forging Master Association that was producing them, but now there are many other mobile phone manufacturers on the market!"

Qu Heng was well aware of this; the technology was protected by patents within the Artifact Forging Master Association, but as the sect leader, he naturally had the right to see it.

After you've seen it, let your own Artifact Forging Master check if there are any problems!

Then, the family wanted to find some work to do, so they naturally started producing mobile phones.

They even cursed the Artifact Forging Master Association for being stupid, saying that such a good thing as a cell phone should be sold for Spirit Stone, yet it was only sold for tens of thousands of taels of silver!

What use is silver to cultivators?

So they gave the phones all sorts of fancy designs, pretending it was new technology, and then sold them at a higher price.

For example, you could change the glass to another color and sell it to female cultivators; the price could easily increase tenfold.

He's not the only one doing this; many Lineage and sects within the sect are doing it too. After all, Artifact Forging Master also have families and Lineage behind them.

Furthermore, other sects that cracked the phone's technology wouldn't pay Taiheng Sect patent fees; they would simply copy it directly!

However, despite the diverse market, the core technology is still the same one developed by Yang Ning.

Simply put, technology can be innovated, but systems cannot.

If you mess things up yourself, I won't let you connect to the Deep Blue network. In the end, your phone will just be a brick.

Unless you create your own network.

But Yang Ning's side has already entered the AI era, are you going to start from Windows 1.0?

Besides, everyone is busy cultivating immortality and improving their cultivation level. Who would bother to study the principles behind these tiny, densely packed runes, smaller than ants?

Just copy it!

"As long as you were the ones who produced it in the first place!" Qu Heng said, pointing to the screen in front of him that looked like a computer but was actually just an enlarged mobile phone, and asked, "Do you have a way to make this video disappear from the internet?"

He was referring to "Zhang Jiao's Explanation of the Scripture of Great Peace".

"I can't do that!" Li Yuan shook his head. "Once the video is uploaded, no one can delete it except the user themselves!"

Qu Heng asked, "Isn't this a phone you made? You can't even control it?"

"We were only responsible for the production, but the programs and software were all created by Yang Ning. We don't understand them at all!" Li Yuan. "It's like a precious artifact. We can all refine it, but only Yang Ning is the inventor. Only he knows what a certain material does and why it needs to be processed in a certain way."

"This!" Qu Heng was stunned and asked, "No, there are so many people in your Artifact Forging Master Association, are you all less capable than him alone? He was only 12 years old when he invented the cell phone, and five years have passed now, and not a single person has figured it out?"

Li Yuan shook his head with a wry smile, "No, there really isn't!"

"Is it that no one has done it, or that no one has put in the effort to study it?" Qu Heng asked.

Li Yuan Li Yuan silent, and indeed, no one bothered to investigate. After all, mobile phone functions were already quite sophisticated; how could they possibly evolve further?

Looking at Li Yuan's expression, Qu Heng shook his head. What a bunch of good-for-nothings!

Having never used a mobile phone before, Qu Heng realized that these recent trending topics have shown him that this thing seems to be able to influence the news and attention of the entire world!

So he started to want to control his phone, which he hadn't cared about before.

But Li Yuan said he didn't understand, and he couldn't very well tell him to stop cultivating and just study this properly.

After thinking for a moment, Qu Heng said, "So, how did Yang Ning come up with the mobile phone? Let me see if he left any manuscripts, notes, or anything like that?"

"Uh, no!" Li Yuan shook his head and said, "However, Yang Ning created the phone based on the research of a senior, Jiang Boming. We do have senior Jiang Boming's notes!"

"Give it to me!" Qu Heng confidently stretched out his hand. Although I don't know anything about weapon crafting, something that even a 12-year-old child can understand, I, a Spiritual Law Realm cultivator, should be able to understand in three to five days!

At that time, wouldn't this mobile network become my personal domain?

Let's do it!