Inside the training room, Li Yao was pacing back and forth anxiously like a black panther that had fallen into a trap. Now and then, he scratched his hair hard, as if he were trying to figure out something from his hair.
He had rented the training room for the duration of the Edge Sharpeners' Meeting. Because he had too many secrets, he had deployed inconspicuous surveillance rune arrays in the four corners of the training room to ensure that the room would not be hacked or spied on.
In a corner of the training room, a weird-looking crystal processor was trembling violently and sending out a lot of information.
What Li Yao was transmitting was the 'Ice God Project' and the 'Grand Illusionary Soldier' project that he had learned in the morning.
But it was not through the Spiritual Nexus established by the Grand Illusionary Group but through a route that Li Yao, Professor Mo Xuan, and the rest of them had established.
The communication between him and Professor Mo Xuan often involved a lot of secrets about the Tian Yuan Realm. On the Spiritual Nexus, no information was absolutely safe.
Therefore, when the Glorious Sunlight Group began to rise, Li Yao secretly transferred part of the funds to Professor Mo Xuan. Professor Mo Xuan was responsible for the production of a batch of Spiritual Towers that belonged to the Glorious Sunlight Group.
Spiritual Towers were nodes of the Spiritual Nexus. They were classic magical equipment that had existed for thousands of years. Their structure was not very complicated. With Professor Mo Xuan's current capability, it was totally possible for him to produce them.
After a large batch of Spiritual Towers were produced and disguised as meteoroids and debris, Sparkle secretly scattered them in all the space zones between the Cross Wind Space Zone and Heavenly Saints City.
With Li Yao's capability, it was naturally impossible for him to establish a second Spiritual Nexus that covered the entire Flying Star Sector in such a short time. But it was enough for him to establish a 'Spiritual Wave Route' that connected Heavenly Saints City and the Cross Wind Space Zone to achieve 'point-to-point' communication.
It was his personal route from the source. Therefore, the possibility of being hacked would be blocked.
Before, Li Yao had been hesitant about whether or not it was necessary to build such a route when the Glorious Sunlight Group had just been established and needed money in many aspects.
But today, after witnessing Xiao Tianbao's capability, he couldn't help but feel lucky. His decision back then was simply too wise.
However, there were still too few spiritual towers on this route. The signal was intermittent, and the transmission speed was extremely slow.
The information contained in the Ice God Project and the Grand Illusionary Soldier Project was as vast as an ocean. It took them half an hour to finish the transmission.
At this time, there was still an hour before the Miasma Clearing Operation began. Nine minutes, thirty-seven seconds.
"The two sets of quasi-stellar magical equipment are both excellent. Li Yao, what are you worried about?"
After the signal was relayed through more than ten space zones, the image of Professor Mo Xuan on the light beam was distorted. Ripples and snowflakes were popping up now and then.
"I don't know. It looks like a perfect plan. I just … "
Li Yao narrowed his eyes and tapped his temples. "My intuition tells me that I don't like the Grand Illusionary Soldiers. It's like I smelled something uncomfortable.
"Our brains receive billions of information every day, but 99% of the information is considered invalid and filtered out."
Professor Mo Xuan said, "Our soul. We only process the 1% of valid information.
"But the 99% of invalid information that is filtered out is not completely abandoned. Some of it is still hidden deep inside our brain by our subconsciousness. We are chewing, processing, and analyzing the information without us knowing it.
"Occasionally, our subconsciousness will connect some glittering pieces from the 99% of invalid information and infer some valuable conclusions!
"This is our 'intuition'!
"The brains of Cultivators are much more developed than those of ordinary people. The analytical and computational ability of our subconsciousness is a hundred times greater than that of ordinary people, too. The so-called 'whims' and 'clairvoyance' are the results of our subconsciousness' calculations in secret!
"Therefore, if your intuition tells you that something is not right, don't let it go easily. Listen, feel, and touch your subconsciousness with your heart and find the answer in the 99% of invalid information!"
Li Yao took a deep breath and closed his eyes. He mumbled, "Did you know, professor? I just remembered the first fierce battle that I participated in when I was a teenager, the 'Limit Challenge Competition of the Xing Yao Federation' on the Devil Flood Dragon Island.
"On the Devil Flood Dragon Island, all the young geniuses near my hometown were gathered. Many of them were extraordinarily talented. They were the elites of the elites and the geniuses of the geniuses.
"At that time, my strength could only be considered average among these people."
"However, with my talents in refining, I assembled most of the magical equipment on the Devil Flood Dragon Island and sold them to the geniuses.
"However, I left a 'backdoor' in every piece of magical equipment. I was the only one who could really control the magical equipment!
"Therefore, even the 'geniuses' whose capability was far higher than mine were at my mercy as long as they used the magical equipment that I assembled!"
"I understand what you mean," Professor Mo Xuan said casually. "You are worried that somebody has left a 'backdoor' in the stellar-level magical equipment.
"Backdoors have always been an unspoken rule in the circle of refiners. Even though I'm refining the magical equipment myself, I can't help but have to leave a few backdoors behind sometimes.
"However, if you are worried that somebody left a backdoor in the Grand Illusionary Soldier Project at the very beginning, there are two critical problems here.
"Firstly, the Grand Illusionary Soldier is a piece of magical equipment that is very dependent on the Spiritual Nexus. Without the Spiritual Nexus, they are of little value in a real battle. They will only be a waste of resources.
"Also, the Flying Star Sector is too large. The signals of the Spiritual Nexus must be delayed among the dozens of space zones, and they are easily jammed.
"Look. Right now, the simple signals we are transmitting are already so intermittent. It is not hard to imagine how difficult it will be if we are to transmit complicated telepathic thoughts nonstop.
"If there is really a 'backdoor', how wide is the 'backdoor' going to be?
"Besides, although most of the Spiritual Nexus in the Flying Star Sector is built and operated by the Grand Illusionary Group, the thousands of sects scattered in the dozens of space zones can still interfere with the spiritual towers to a large extent. Even if they can't control the spiritual towers, can't they sabotage them?
"Once the Spiritual Nexus is paralyzed, the Grand Illusionary Soldier will be a pile of scrap iron!"
Li Yao frowned. "That's what has been bothering me, too. Otherwise, I wouldn't be so conflicted.
"If the first problem can be solved through technical approaches, the second problem is almost unsolvable."
Professor Mo Xuan said, "Before the Grand Illusionary Soldier Project is fully activated, it will take one to two years of technical demonstration and telepathic thoughts examination. There are a lot of specialists in crystal processors and the Spiritual Nexus in the Flying Star Sector. Every sect has its own specialists. I've been in touch with some of them, and they are all very knowledgeable.
"With so many specialists gathered together, even if the simple and straightforward techniques such as' infinite regression 'are used to test the technology, they will definitely find any loopholes in the project in one to two years.
"You don't think that all the specialists of the Flying Star Sector combined are no better than one idiot, do you?"
Li Yao was even more agitated. He was almost bashing his head against the wall. "Exactly! That's exactly what I'm thinking, too. We are not shooting a movie right now! So many specialists and scholars are not idiots. What loopholes can't they find in one to two years? What kind of backdoor can't be opened?
"One to two years. One to two years …"
Upset, Li Yao paced to the corner of the wall. Suddenly, his body stiffened. As if he had been struck by lightning, he jumped up and his head fiercely slammed into the ceiling that was more than four meters high. With a "BOOM", a large hole was created in the ceiling. His head and face were covered in dirt.
Li Yao fell to the ground with his arms and legs stretched out. Lying on the ground, he stared at the giant hole on the ceiling in a daze. His soul seemed to be exploding, while the brilliance of shock beamed out of his eyes!
"Professor, I haven't figured out the answer to the first question yet. But as for the second question, I vaguely think of a possibility!
"Professor, you and my four senior brothers are 'star spirits', the special spectral Cultivators born after the combination of the Phantom Entities and the mainframe crystal processor of Sparkle. The crystal processor is part of you. Your understanding of crystal processors is a hundred times better than that of common crystal processor specialists!
"In your opinion, if the examination time is shortened to three to six months, or even shorter, instead of one to two years, is it possible that some loopholes can be hidden?"
Professor Mo Xuan pondered for a moment and said, "Looking for a loophole in the billions of source code telepathic thoughts is like looking for a needle in a haystack. If the examination time is only three months, it will be impossible to use the stupid methods such as the 'infinite regression method'. Theoretically speaking, it is indeed possible that a backdoor can be hidden.
"However, it is just a theory. At the very least, of all the Cultivators of the Flying Star Sector and the Heaven's Origin Sector that I know, I can't think of anyone whose crystal processor expertise is so high!
"That's right. That's right!"
Li Yao suddenly sat up and crossed his legs. His face was covered in dust, but his bloodshot eyes were beaming with brutality!
"Professor, don't you feel that the Temple of Immortals is weird?
"One year ago, when they showed up for the first time, all their actions were a smokescreen meant to sow discord between the Iron Plateau natives and the space residents!
"The scheme that time was truly well-connected and flawless!
"Had it not been for the appearance of a 'freak' who did not belong to Iron Plateau or the space residents, their scheme would've probably worked out!
"However, it's been almost a year since the battle of Iron Plateau, and the Temple of Immortals has been lying low and hiding. They are only harassing us with space pirates and assassins!
"Such boring, simple, and violent approaches do not match the serial schemes that the Temple of Immortals made when they showed up for the first time!
"It's like an unparalleled expert who has just launched a marvelous attack, only to turn into a completely different person and start punching again!"
"Perhaps," Professor Mo Xuan said, "the Temple of Immortals is accumulating strength for a thunderous strike, which is the 'Mist Plan' that is about to be unfolded."
Li Yao sneered. "A thunderous strike? Somebody has already found out everything about it before it is launched? That's too lame!
"However, let's put the 'Mist Plan' aside for now and look at Iron Plateau!"
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