The instant the Ancient God Patriarch virus was eradicated, the Great Sun Sword Lord's sword soul flew back on his sword and returned to his body. A brilliant, burning light flared once more in his eyes.
Clang!
Jiang Ding sheathed his sword and rose. Alongside the other Immortal Sect administrators, he quietly watched the Central Array-Spirit Computer.
Terrifying heat surged from its ten-thousand-meter-high mainframe tower. Streams of white vapor shot into the clouds. The casing, which had only just frozen over, dried in an instant without a drop of water left. The Central Array-Spirit Computer resumed operation, spreading a web of divine-sense arrays across heaven and earth as it ran self-check after self-check.
This version of the Central Array-Spirit Computer was markedly different from the one the Immortal Sect currently used.
It was not connected to the Immortal Sect Homeworld's arrays, nor did it have computing support from computer offshoots elsewhere. Yet it was stronger than the current version—far stronger. The gulf between them was like the frightening gap between a legacy disciple and a Dao Child.
That was true not only of combat power, but also of computing power, research assistance, search and reconnaissance, and everything else!
This was the Immortal Sect's immortal-path AI model, formed from the souls of countless forebears as the sect rose from weakness and obscurity, and built through countless wars and events!
It could not be replaced by simply copying a program. To the Immortal Sect, it was indispensable, too precious to give up.
"Administrators, Central Array-Spirit Computer version 22675.254.24 has returned to normal and can operate as usual."
"Please designate the purpose of this version of the Central Array-Spirit Computer."
The Central Array-Spirit Computer's voice rang out.
Unlike every previous time, these were sound waves produced by vibrating particles in space, not a