Chapter 1 Time Passes

As time passed, Shao Shuangyue died more than ten times in the Demon General Three-Round Battle. She was instantly despondent: "Waaah, I can't beat it anymore!"

"No, I need to go to the forum and see how the other experts beat it!"

Switching screens, she entered the game forum webpage. Because the game had only been released for a few days, there were no walkthroughs yet. Shao Shuangyue could only post for help—Shao Qiming volunteered to write for his sister. The content of the post was so humble and the language so sincere that it could be said to be quite pathetic. Even passersby who saw it would probably shed a tear.

As a result, by the time Su Zhou had gone downstairs and eaten two boxes of ice cream, and Shao Shuangyue had died a few more times, the post still hadn't received any replies.

Instantly, the girl's mentality exploded: "Ahhh, it's been so long, why hasn't anyone helped me!"

Shao Qiming was also very puzzled, scratching his head and saying, "That shouldn't be. My post was so sincere, and the cutesy girl tone was so skillfully disguised. Logically speaking, there should always be a few people willing to help, right?"

"Alas, in this day and age, sincere requests for help are just seen as freeloading," Su Zhou said, shaking his head as he looked at the content of the post written jointly by the two siblings. "What's more, nowadays, anyone on the internet who uses a cutesy girl tone is basically assumed to be a burly man."

"Come on, let Daye-ge (big brother Daye) teach you a real way to write a request for a walkthrough."

Shao Shuangyue and Shao Qiming both moved out of the way. The moment Su Zhou touched the keyboard, they seemed to see a faint glow emanating from his body, as if the God of Keyboards had descended upon him.

[Post Title: Garbage Game, Garbage Design, Bow Qiying the Second's Talent is Exhausted!]

[To be fair, Immortal Tribulation, compared to the previous Dark Wolf series, has reached a stalemate. Whether it's the monster settings or the Boss settings, it's completely fallen into the cliché of making things difficult for the sake of making things difficult. A brain-dead level like the Demon General Three-Round Battle is just disgusting, and it's impossible for anyone to beat it!]

[Bow Qiying II has indeed exhausted his talents, and can only use this kind of thing to block people!]

In less than a minute, Su Zhou skillfully typed out all of the above content, and then, under the dumbfounded gaze of the Shao siblings, clicked Send.

"Just wait," he said, turning his head, full of confidence.

Sure enough, just a few minutes later, a series of notifications saying "[xx] has replied to your post" rang out.

Shao Shuangyue, who had returned to her seat, tremblingly raised her hand and refreshed her post—in an instant, she could see a group of experts posting walkthroughs with pictures and texts to slap her face, along with various taunts such as "The poster is trash," "You can't even beat this, do you even deserve to play the Dark series?" and "Practice for a few more years before going online!"

"It can be like this?!"

Easily ignoring all the taunts, Shao Shuangyue seemed to receive an epiphany in an instant. She felt like she had learned another small keyboard skill: "I understand, how powerful, the road is under my feet!"

At the same time, after roughly figuring out how information disturbance actually worked in the other world and reality, Su Zhou stopped watching Shao Shuangyue play the game.

Shao Qiming also returned to his room to continue cultivating—even after the Saint Election Trials ended, he didn't relax, and continued to read and cultivate every day.

Naturally, Su Zhou was no worse. However, cultivation in the Extraordinary First Order was not as simple as in the Awakening Order.

"The spiritual power in an Extraordinary Order cultivator's body will be affected by the spiritual power organs, becoming more refined, like an internal purifier. The more spiritual power organs there are, the higher the level of refinement."

"It's easier to understand if we use the 'Xiantian' (Innate) term from the Divine Wood World. The spiritual power of the Awakening Order is all acquired qi, while the spiritual power of the Extraordinary Order is all Xiantian qi. The latter is crushing to the former."

"Back then, when the Demon Emperor had just advanced, his body had yet to fully transform its Xiantian qi, so he couldn't even transform into the Panlong True Body—the Panlong, at least, is a divine beast that is filled with Xiantian qi from birth. As soon as it's born, it's probably at the mid-stage of the Xiantian realm."

Su Zhou divided the Extraordinary Order into four levels.

The first level is when one has just advanced to the Extraordinary Order, and hasn't had time to condense spiritual power organs. Although one has the name of the Extraordinary, one doesn't have the substance of the Extraordinary. Although the foundation is strong, if one is suppressed by a peak Awakening Order cultivator using a divine weapon, one may still be defeated.

The second level is when one has condensed at least one spiritual power organ. At this level, the cultivator's spiritual power has the effect of connecting with the surrounding spiritual energy of heaven and earth. With one part of strength, one can mobilize the surrounding spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and can exert three or more parts of effect.

The third level is when one's body is already filled with spiritual power organs, forming a perfect great circulation. At this time, one can be considered to be at the high-stage of the Extraordinary Order, Xiantian great completion.

And the last, that is, the fourth level, should be the 'Great Zhou Heavenly Armor' realm described in the 'Zhou Body Armor Technique', where one can condense an external aura seed outside the body, which means that the cultivator's soul and the range of spiritual power control is no longer limited to one's own body! This has already reached the limit of Xiantian, and going further up will definitely completely become a truly extraordinary being, capable of establishing a sect and establishing a legacy that can last for thousands of years.

In fact, Su Zhou, who had already reached the second level of the Extraordinary Order, could clearly feel that his spiritual power could actually interact with the surrounding spiritual energy of heaven and earth, affecting the surroundings and causing so-called 'anomalies'.

He had experimented before. If he released the perfect body's blockade of his spiritual energy, and naturally interacted with the surrounding spiritual energy of heaven and earth, then his powerful fire-attribute enhanced spiritual power would naturally strengthen the ground he stepped on, leaving a faint glowing footprint, almost like burning.

And this light would slowly dissipate after at least four or five seconds.

"The fire-attribute spiritual power is like this, and if I use thunder techniques, the overflowing spiritual power will naturally interfere with the surrounding electrical appliances, causing the street lights to go out and the screen to show static, just like a supernatural phenomenon."

In the Shao family's backyard, Su Zhou, who was sitting in meditation, couldn't help but nod: "Speaking of which, the officials previously said in the phone call that in addition to appointing me as a special professor, they would also give me the best 'wind and thunder' attribute Extraordinary Order cultivation method. Now, it should be about time."

"This way, I can use the cultivation method they give me to disguise my actual progress."

Although Su Zhou was willing to show his strength in order to gain benefits, he still didn't want to expose things like Yala and the Heavenly God Imprint.

Unless, one day, he became one of the Thirty-Six Saints. Before that, people always need a little private space to maintain their safety.

And this time... won't be long.

"I'm already a professor... and after being a professor, I can run for dean of the academy."

Su Zhou muttered to himself in a low voice, even he felt a little unreal when he thought of this: "And as the dean of a top-ranked academy, even if I'm not a Holy Seat of the Thirty-Six Saints, the status is not far off."

As for why he was receiving such preferential treatment, in fact, in the brief phone communication between Su Zhou and the Central Committee of the Thirty-Six Saints two days ago, it was already made very clear.

[Su Zhou, in a 'spiritual energy revival' environment where ordinary people can become powerful at any time by awakening superpowers and cultivating, what we, the Central Committee of the Thirty-Six Saints, need to do is to guide and relieve the resentment in society.]

[And a society with strict class divisions, almost no communication between upper and lower levels, and full of bureaucratic socializing, will undoubtedly be full of huge resentment.]

[Therefore, the first thing that countries around the world are doing is to ensure that everyone can cultivate, while also opening up new channels for upward mobility. Even providing free subsidies to everyone, and using extremely high welfare to appease the people. Even the most class-entrenched Eastern Fusang has opened several extra-ordinary administrative departments to accommodate those with extremely high talent.]

[In addition, extraordinarily powerful cultivators will be given great honor and status as a benchmark, as a banner, as a symbol to stabilize people's hearts—in other words, buying a horse's bones with gold.]

[Su Zhou, you are our horse bones, and also the strongest and hardest horse bones in the world today. You are not suitable to be a student. You should start now to prepare to lead the people, lead the country, and even lead the entire human civilization, to cope with the chaotic times.]

[Be prepared, Su Zhou. As the world's first cultivator to cultivate to the Extraordinary Order from scratch, you are the benchmark of this era.]

"Can I bear this expectation?"

Thinking so, Su Zhou calmly asked himself, then, he closed his eyes, smiled and continued to cultivate: "Of course."

"After all, it's me!"

At the same time.

Tian Du.

Many people do not know that in an inconspicuous building built in the western suburbs of Tian Du, there is a high-speed elevator that goes five kilometers deep underground, and there are a total of nineteen such buildings, scattered around Tian Du.

Similarly, many residents of Tian Du do not know that in addition to the twenty-three commonly used subway lines on the surface, there are also twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six, and twenty-seven secret lines, respectively leading to different secret underground facilities.

At the end of these elevators and secret subway lines are large-scale underground facilities.

At the end of the twenty-sixth line is a huge domed hall covered with metal and electronic components, and in the very center of the domed hall is a very precise and complex Xiantian Bagua (Eight Trigrams) array that is as big as a football field.

Through nano-scale rune inscriptions, coupled with the most expensive spiritual materials, and the power of the entire nation, the final result is this huge Xiantian Bagua array. Every part of this array is replaced every day to ensure that its existence is always the newest, best, and most advanced.

It is slowly rotating under the almost substantive flashing light, and the black and white yin-yang fish are like millstones, releasing a gentle spiritual light. With each flash of spiritual light, there are waterfall-like messages rotating within it. If you look closely, you can see that the entire two-colored yin-yang fish is like a huge calculation component composed of 'zero' and 'one'. The two are mixed, which is two, and viewed as a whole, it is three.

Dao (The Way) produces one, one produces two, two produces three, three produces all things.

[Dao One - Central Heavenly Mystery Computing Hub]

Among the endless waterfall-like flowing black and white spiritual light, countless personal names and information are flashing, and various different human faces are emerging and disappearing in it. While making different expressions, they also make different sounds.

The majestic and complex spiritual machinery is rolling, completely filling the entire electronic dome. If someone were in it, their soul would probably be blown up by this endless information.

[...Chen Zhicheng...]

[...Wood-attribute talent, human, innate supernatural power 'Nurturing Spirits', psychological state is 'stable', no evil karma, good outweighs evil, organizing life data for deduction...]

[...After calculating data from previous generations and confirming Taoist predictions and merits, this person is indeed a good person and can be supported for development.]

[...Tang Yuan...]

[...Yin-attribute talent, human, innate supernatural power 'Spirit Master', psychological state is 'calm', has evil karma, good outweighs evil, organizing life data for deduction...]

[...After calculating data from previous generations and confirming Taoist predictions and merits, this person has reformed his ways. After passing the fourth department's psychological test with excellent results, he can be supported for development.]

[...Su Zhou...]

[...Wind and Thunder talent, Dragon-blooded human, innate supernatural powers 'Undying Body', 'Summoning Wind and Rain', 'Innate Dao Body', 'Dragon Eye Spiritual Vision'...]

[...Psychological state is 'unknown'...]

[...No evil karma, good outweighs evil, good outweighs evil, good outweighs...]

[...Data error... Unable to determine good or evil, confirmed that he possesses 'great merits'. Source of merits unknown, organizing life data for deduction...]

[...After calculating data from previous generations and confirming Taoist predictions and merits, this person's information cannot be deduced, cannot be predicted, cannot be foreseen, heavenly mysteries are confused...]

[Dao One Computing Hub suggests: Cautiously choose a processing method, or manually collect more data to add to the deduction.]

Endless information, too much for the human brain to process, so it is handed over to the most powerful electronic creation.

[Dao One - Central Heavenly Mystery Computing Hub] is the highest achievement in the electronic field of the Zheng (Central) Kingdom, combined with the Heavenly Mystery prediction inheritance, the highest creation.

Through all the cameras spread across the country, as well as all recorded life records, the Dao One Computing Hub can use the most objective methods to incorporate a person's psychological state and personality tendencies into the calculation equation. Whether it is emotion, desire, or a momentary impulse, what can be calculated will be calculated, and what cannot be calculated will be directly deduced or even predicted using Taoist methods.

[We will not let go of a bad person, and we will never wrong a good person. If we want to maintain true stability, we must find the criminals before they start committing crimes.]

Absolutely impartial, 'Yan Sheng (Sage of Craftsmanship)', who merged his body and soul with the entire 'Dao One Central Heavenly Mystery Computing Hub' thirty years ago, thought so: [But even so, there are too many existences that cannot be calculated... Whether it is powerful cultivators, or those evil demons and heretics from other worlds, they are all unstable factors that cannot be predicted by heavenly secrets or calculated by data.]

It stared at the data center, at the faces and data of Su Zhou and other extraordinary people, and even its purely electronic mind couldn't help but sigh.

[Chaotic times are coming, can we maintain peace?]