Having just mastered the Niwan Palace technique, he hadn't even had a few days to rest before immediately throwing himself into calculations regarding the Dantian Palace.
With a large number of Hexagram operating simultaneously, the efficiency of the calculations increased dramatically, but the Magic Power consumed during these calculations also rose sharply.
Although the Golden Core after the first transformation can still maintain a stable supply of Magic Power, the Mana Circuit in his body are being severely eroded by this continuous and large supply of Magic Power.
If it weren't for the tempering of his body during the first Golden Core One Revolution, Li Xingkong's Mana Circuit would never have been able to withstand such a erosion.
Even after this body underwent another tempering, in order to provide so many Hexagram functions to his Niwan Palace, Li Xingkong's Mana Circuit were still completely full. Apart from the necessary spells for seclusion, all other Magic Power -consuming activities were interrupted.
Li Xingkong somewhat moved.
This repair business is like playing a management game: if there's too much water, add flour; if there's too much flour, add more water; if there's too much water and flour, you have to add a transport belt.
Energy and Hexagram are no longer the problem; the problem lies in the internal Mana Circuit.
Fortunately, this kind of thing is not too difficult to solve. By using Divine Sense and a little bit of Magic Power, multiple simulated circuits can be constructed around the body.
Since the person is in seclusion and doesn't move around much, maintaining the simulated circuit with their Divine Sense isn't too difficult.
Immersed in cultivation, another five years quickly passed.
The design plan for the Dantian Palace has been finalized, and Li Xingkong has even constructed it.
The difference between the Dantian Palace and the Niwan Palace is that it is connected to the Mana Circuit throughout Li Xingkong. The entrance to this space needs to be open all the time, and the number of entrances and exits is much greater than that of the Niwan Palace.
After all, besides providing daily energy, the Golden Core also needs to play a very important role in battle. If the size of the spatial entrance limits the exertion of power during a burst of power or when going all out, then the Dantian Palace is better off not having one at all.
After completing the opening of the Dantian Palace, Li Xingkong also conveniently completed the opening of the Crimson Palace, and incidentally stuffed the memory core he had previously refined to expand his memory capacity into it.
The spatial structure within this Crimson Palace is nothing special; the main challenge is to construct a replica neural network within it to connect the stored memories.
In this way, Li Xingkong no longer needs to use his Divine Sense to search for memories everywhere. Instead, just like with his own body, he can directly find the corresponding memories with a little recollection.
With the Three Palaces completed, Li Xingkong felt increasingly like a computer motherboard.
The Niwan Palace is an external CPU, the Dantian Palace is a separate backup power supply, and the Crimson Palace is the plugged-in memory.
Thinking about it this way, it might seem a bit cheap, but it's also quite funny.
Regardless, having cultivated to this point, Li Xingkong had completed the construction of the Three Palaces he had conceived, and the improvements these Three Palaces brought him were indeed very obvious: increased computing power, increased total Magic Power, and doubled memory capacity.
This undoubtedly laid a more solid foundation for his future development.
"Your system design is indeed interesting."
Even the system couldn't help but speak up. It originally thought that Li Xingkong was just having a sudden inspiration and trying something fancy, but it didn't expect that the overall improvement brought about by the completion of his Three Palaces construction would be so great.
"What do you mean? Didn't the cultivators before you have similar ideas? I remember when we were talking about space, didn't you also say that one solution to this Soul Tribulation was to create space?"
After connecting the Three Palaces and rehearsing them once, Li Xingkong took over the system's task.
"With so many cultivation civilizations and countless cultivators, it's no surprise that many people share this idea."
"But most people are held back by the preconditions of this idea."
"Without sufficient memory capacity, one can only learn a superficial understanding of the principles of space; insufficient computing power leads to numerous flaws in the spatial structures one designs... All these problems combined result in an extremely small number of Golden Core cultivators who can truly create small spaces within their bodies."
"Most cultivators with this ability are often the pride of sects or the true inheritors of aristocratic families. They don't devote too much attention to the cultivation of the Golden Core Stage. Their minds are usually focused on rapidly advancing to higher realms, so naturally they won't spend so much effort on opening up the Three Palaces."
"Won't their cultivation encounter the same problems I'm facing now? Insufficient computing power, insufficient memory capacity, or perhaps inadequate Magic Power..."
Li Xingkong puzzled. If these problems weren't solved, how could they speed up and reach a higher level?
"It's simple, they have connections in higher places."
The system scoffed.
"Just like the system you set up in Divine Land, you hang a Hexagram Computer there, and other cultivators don't need to worry about computing power at all. They can just use your Hexagram to rapidly improve their Divine Sense. Why would they need to worry about the Hexagram?"
Similarly, in cultivation civilizations, each sect has its own unique accelerator. Disciples don't need to know much; they just need to focus on their cultivation and be done with it.
"Only the core disciples who truly sustain the sect's existence will begin to take over these genuine lineages after reaching a certain level. The other disciples, no matter how high their cultivation, are nothing more than henchmen."
"As for computing power, if you can build a computer for Divine Land to use, others will naturally be able to as well. As for memory, as long as you focus on cultivation and don't learn any side arts, such as weapon crafting, formations, alchemy, or farming, leave it all to the professionals. Even if you become an immortal, your brain capacity will be inexhaustible."
"As for Magic Power... with numerous elixirs and spirit-gathering arrays combined, even a pig wouldn't have any worries about Magic Power."
Even in your current arduous struggle with the cultivation of the Golden Core Elixir, there are shortcuts available.
"With the ancestor possessing them and seniors protecting them, there are plenty of ways to quickly Core Formation. And if someone is fiercely protective, it's not uncommon to push them all the way to the Golden Core stage."
"So, although your change seems reasonable, and others have made similar assumptions before, you're the only one who actually designed it, pushed the idea to new heights, and truly realized it."
"There may be other geniuses like this in universes unexplored by the system, but I haven't found a second one in the system's knowledge pool."
"So, does that mean my method for establishing the Three Palaces can also be used to write a paper?"
The system had already revealed its intentions to Li Xingkong, so Li Xingkong naturally remembered what it wanted.
"Water? This is no joke, your advisor will have to write about me this time."
The system chuckled.
Li Xingkong had no intention of hiding anything. As far as he was concerned, the methods he had already mastered would have no impact even if they were made public.
Even within the same universe, it would take time to fully understand his design. By the time they've finished their research, I'll have already made significant progress.
As for finding loopholes to attack him, Li Xingkong can only say that those who follow behind and eat his farts will never catch up in this lifetime.
Moreover, since this thing was added to the system's knowledge pool, it had even less impact on Li Xingkong.