Activation

"Junior Brother Yi!"

Yi Xuan had just set up his stall when he heard someone calling him from the alley. He looked up and saw a man in black standing at the entrance.

"You're getting bolder and bolder. Aren't you afraid someone from the sect will see you?"

The man walked slowly from the entrance to Yi Xuan's stall and stood face-to-face with him.

"What am I afraid of? You're the one who should be afraid, aren't you? A respectable disciple of the Azure Cloud Sect, associating with a crooked heretic like me. If the sect finds out, who knows how they'll deal with you! Do you think you're still the next sect master, like you were twenty years ago?"

Although Yi Xuan didn't mind what had happened to him, being mocked for it still made him uncomfortable. His tone turned a little stiff as he said, "Enough nonsense! If you have something to say, hurry up and say it. Don't hold up my business!"

The man wasn't annoyed by Yi Xuan's tone. Smiling, he reached a hand out from his black robe, holding a transparent sphere.

The moment the sphere appeared, Yi Xuan couldn't take his eyes off it. He asked in disbelief, "You really managed to get one?"

The man chuckled. "How could something like that possibly stump me? Well? Don't I look a lot more pleasing to your eyes now?"

Yi Xuan, who had just been wearing a stern face, now looked like a flower in full bloom. His smile could hardly have been more ingratiating. "What do you mean, now? How could you say that? When have you ever been displeasing to my eyes? You're my own senior brother!"

Then, as if he had remembered something, Yi Xuan asked nervously, "How did you get this thing? You didn't make it yourself, did you?"

"What are you thinking?" The man smacked Yi Xuan on the head and said irritably, "Your senior brother here certainly isn't an upright person, but I'm still different from those wicked heretics. Why would I make something that damages my karmic virtue?"

Seeing the curiosity in Yi Xuan's eyes, the man in black explained, "A few days ago, I ran into a demonic Evil Cultivator and chopped him up while I was at it. I didn't expect to find this on him! By the way, you don't want this thing to do something that offends heaven and violates reason, do you?"

Yi Xuan snatched the thing from the man's hand. "How could I? Although your junior brother has no roots and no hope of cultivating to immortality, I haven't fallen so low that I'd become an Evil Cultivator! Wait here! I'll go get your Spirit Stones!"

Before long, Yi Xuan emerged from the courtyard and handed the man in black a bag. "Five hundred low-grade Spirit Stones. Want to count them?"

The man didn't count them. After transferring the Spirit Stones from the Storage Bag into his own, he returned the empty bag to Yi Xuan. "I'd count them for anyone else, but why would I count them for my own junior brother? All right, I'm off. I'll come see you again in a while!"

Seeing that the man in black was about to leave, Yi Xuan nodded and said, "Now that you have Spirit Stones, go improve your strength. Don't spend every day thinking about women!"

Before he had even left the alley, the man in black burst out laughing. "If I didn't think about women, what would I cultivate for?"

Before his voice faded, the man's figure had already vanished.

Looking at the empty entrance to the alley, Yi Xuan shook his head. He packed up the things on his stall and hurried back to the courtyard.

The man in black was Yi Xuan's senior brother, Shi Zhenghao. Yi Xuan had only ever been a prospective personal disciple of the sect master. Because he had no roots, he could never become a true personal disciple of the sect master, but Shi Zhenghao had once been the genuine article.

Shi Zhenghao had once possessed exceptional talent and a sixth-grade Spirit Root. Before he turned thirty, his cultivation had already reached the Middle Grain Avoidance Stage. Given enough accumulation, he might have become a Golden Core True Person before forty.

Such talent was exceedingly rare, not just in the Azure Cloud Sect, but throughout the entire Southern Frontier.

But Senior Brother Shi had one flaw: he was lustful. Aside from cultivating, he often lingered in pleasure houses, which gave the Azure Cloud Sect's master endless headaches. Even so, the sect master hadn't placed too many restrictions on him. After all, he paid for it, and both sides were willing, so it didn't rise to the level of a moral issue.

Yet no one expected that, one day more than ten years ago, some wire came loose in Shi Zhenghao's head and he actually slept with a sect elder's wife. That stirred up a hornet's nest.

Seeing the senior brother who usually took such good care of him pursued by the sect's experts and hiding in his little courtyard, Yi Xuan had no choice but to conceal him. Only after the commotion died down did he secretly help Shi Zhenghao leave the Azure Cloud Sect's territory.

After that, Senior Brother Shi traveled through the cultivation world, evading the sect's pursuit while keeping in touch with Yi Xuan in secret.

Because Shi Zhenghao was powerful, Yi Xuan often asked him for help with things, and once the job was done, Yi Xuan would give him Spirit Stones as payment.

After returning to the courtyard and entering his bedroom, Yi Xuan didn't stop. Instead, he turned a vase standing on the bedroom floor.

As the vase turned, a pitch-black opening appeared in Yi Xuan's bedroom.

Yi Xuan felt around beneath the opening and seemed to touch something. The pitch-black opening suddenly lit up, and Yi Xuan leaped down. The opening then shut with a bang, and the bedroom returned to its original state, as though the opening had never been there.

His shoes touched the ground. Before Yi Xuan was a space several hundred square meters in size, exactly as large as the courtyard above.

The space, however, was far from empty. It was rather crowded. The secret room was packed with countless objects, every one of which looked out of place in this world.

Yi Xuan was long accustomed to the things in the secret room. He walked up to a stone table on which several square and rectangular objects of different sizes sat.

The rectangular block closest to Yi Xuan had many smaller blocks densely packed across it.

Yi Xuan placed the sphere in his hand inside the largest box on the table, then pressed a protrusion on the box.

A beep came from the box, and then there was no further movement.

Instead, light appeared on a flat rectangular box directly facing Yi Xuan. Then a pleasant piece of music came from the glowing box.

Hearing the music, Yi Xuan was so excited that tears nearly flowed from his eyes.

If someone from Earth had been there, they would surely have looked at what was displayed on the glowing box and exclaimed in surprise, "Windows?"

That's right. The thing in front of Yi Xuan was a computer running Windows 10. (If you don't like Windows, you can imagine it as HarmonyOS or something else. As for where the code came from, don't ask me. I don't know either. Anyway, it just appeared!)

And this computer hadn't come with him when he transmigrated. Yi Xuan had made it in this cultivation world using the knowledge in his head.

Looking with relief at the computer that had successfully booted up, Yi Xuan sensed the book floating in his mind and smiled happily.

With a computer, many of Yi Xuan's ideas could be realized in this cultivation world.

It was time to let this cultivation world feel the power of technology!!!