Longzang

Chapter 1174 Azure 18G Communication Project
After seeing off the Immortal Chicken, dismissing Xu Youyi, and using various means to subdue the three Imperial Realm experts and one Immortal Seed of the Northern Qi Xu family, the miscellaneous matters of this trip were almost settled, but there was still a little bit of finishing touches left.

One issue was Xiaoyu and Baoyun's unauthorized actions, which always bothered Wei Yuan. However, deliberately questioning them once or twice was fine, but doing it too often wasn't a good idea.

Wei Yuan pondered, feeling that perhaps one of the reasons was that a general in the field might disobey the emperor's orders; at least, that was the reason he used to convince himself.

The saying "a general in the field" actually means that military situations are constantly changing, and the rear is thousands of miles away. If every matter requires reporting and consultation, even the best situation can be ruined.

At this time, Qingming was far away in the Western Regions, hundreds of thousands of miles from Yizhou, and more than 100,000 miles from the ancestral homeland of the Lü family in the Northern Frontier. Xiaoyu Legion was located nearly 200,000 miles away from Qingming. How to govern such a vast and scattered area became a very troublesome matter.

When Wei Yuan reached the Foundation Establishment stage, he refined the Azure Netherworld, fixing the vast lands and rivers within it. Although the Azure Netherworld now spans over ten thousand miles, Wei Yuan's avatar can freely roam and distribute within its boundaries. Within a five-thousand-mile radius of the Azure Netherworld's core, arrays can be freely deployed, connecting it to the bustling worlds of other realms. Ordinary cultivators can enter these worlds through dreams, where they can cultivate their divine sense and increase their potential.

Putting aside everything else, the fact that enhancing one's spiritual sense can improve one's cultivation talent is enough to make countless cultivators go through fire and water without hesitation.

Now, Qingming needs to draw upon the resources of all realms for assistance everywhere. In particular, some exceptionally talented body cultivators can use the resources of all realms in a way that is even more exaggerated than one person being able to fight ten thousand. They can use up the computing power that even 100,000 Dao Foundations could not exhaust.

However, there are already 20 million beings in the prosperous world, plus at least the same number of Qingming cultivators and even mortals who come in to work overtime every night, so the computing power is still quite abundant.

Wei Yuan was used to keeping track of all the movements within Qingming in real time, so he was not used to the pace of news reports from the northern border of Western Jin and Yizhou, which only came every few days.

He felt it necessary to emulate the outer world and establish a unique instant communication system for Qingming. Based on his outstanding research (internship) experience at Umbrella Corporation, Wei Yuan was no stranger to the outer world's technological system; one could say he knew a little about everything.

Establishing a similar communication system in this realm wouldn't be too difficult. A celestial being's divine sense can easily cover thousands of miles, and above the celestial heavens, it can even bridge vast distances. If a celestial being were to act as a transmission node above the celestial heavens, then…

Wei Yuan's initial estimate is that to establish a communication network covering the entire realm, it would only require about three hundred immortals...

Wei Yuan silently abandoned the idea.

Several hours later, Wei Yuan abandoned hundreds more immature ideas. In the end, he had to admit that the gap between this world and the outer world was too great. This was not something he could come up with by himself, even if he started ten thousand missions at the same time.

But Wei Yuan wasn't without results. At least he felt that to build a system, it first needed a name. This system needed to be able to cover Yin and Yang, the Five Elements, the Six Realms, the Eight Desolations, and all of history... Therefore, after removing the beginning and end and consolidating the parts, the project name was born: Azure Nether 18G Communication Project.

After Wei Yuan entered the name "Prosperous Worlds," he immediately sensed a significant flow of computing power. A large-scale body cultivator had already shifted his attention to it and began to rapidly break down the needs, construct tasks, and examine various possibilities.

This body cultivator only took an hour to come up with more than a dozen possible directions, and then began to distribute tasks and conduct research.

Under her leadership, more and more computing power was directed towards analyzing tasks and then continuously generating new tasks based on the results.

And so, Wei Yuan's plan, like ripples spreading outwards, began to affect more and more people. Half a day later, the related discussions had expanded from the general direction to hundreds of sub-fields, thousands of tasks had been completed, and tens of thousands more had been added, with everything progressing steadily.

At this moment, the body cultivator was like a giant vortex, drawing over 100,000 cultivators to revolve around her. She, on the other hand, received the returned data, generated more new tasks, and then distributed them.

Finally, after leading hundreds of thousands of cultivators, this body cultivator reached her limit. She integrated tasks from many related fields and then unleashed a whole host of major tasks from the vortex!
Wei Yuan's spirits lifted, and he immediately took his position, ready to shoulder this heavy responsibility. Unexpectedly, two invisible hands reached out from the sea of ​​computing power and pulled Wei Yuan aside.

Just as Wei Yuan was about to fly into a rage, he saw the newcomer take over the mountain-like task, which slowly dissipated and transformed into a massive vortex, continuously drawing in more cultivators. This vortex was almost exactly the same size as the previous one, clearly indicating it belonged to a cultivator specializing in individual cultivation.

Faced with two terrifying vortexes, Wei Yuan silently chose to back down, after all, no one would dare to challenge a body cultivator.

Wei Yuan felt that since he had provided the most crucial part of the entire project, he didn't need to worry about whether he had to complete all the details himself. He still had many things to do, and the construction of this communication system was just one of the earlier tasks.

Leaving behind the bustling world, Wei Yuan immediately set off, secretly passing through the secret passage to Yizhou, and then went to see King Ji.

Inside the palace, the halls were lit day and night, and palace servants came and went, with memorials flying back and forth, yet they still piled up like a small mountain.

Although Prince Ji looked tired, he continued to work diligently amidst the towering memorials. When he saw Wei Yuan, he was taken aback at first, and then said apologetically, "Why did you come so suddenly? I still have more than five hundred memorials to review, so I can't invite you to watch the song and dance together."

"How many official matters do you handle every day?" Wei Yuan asked casually. Prince Ji replied, "Major matters generally range from three to five hundred, all of which I personally review. Minor matters may number in the thousands, but some are not so important, and some are not very urgent. However, I still feel somewhat uneasy if I don't review them personally, so I handle two thousand official matters every day. Fortunately, some young people have recently been promoted in the court, and they are very capable, which has shared some of the burden with me."

Minister Sun's transfer to the position of Imperial Censor was quite effective; he single-handedly brought down nearly half of the Grand Secretaries and high-ranking officials. Now, I have far fewer obstacles to doing what I want. The time is almost right; I plan to investigate all previous imperial examinations. Hmph! Half of the nation's successful candidates came from the same prefecture, and thirty percent from the same county—truly outrageous!

After this case is investigated and several hundred people are executed, the accumulated problems of past dynasties will be largely eradicated. Only then will I be able to collect taxes and have the resources to reorganize the military and pacify the people.

Wei Yuan nodded secretly. Ji State had always been in his sights. After King Ji regained control of the government, he had worked hard to govern the country and achieved remarkable results.

Initial setbacks in the war against Li Zhi gave him an excuse to carry out a series of killings and pardons, with several major cases involving thousands of people almost every year. At that time, Li Zhi's army was advancing rapidly, and everyone in the court was in danger. Prince Ji and Sun Chaoen took down several important officials in one fell swoop, finally opening a gap in the monolithic cabinet of civil officials.

The courtiers had initially assumed Li Zhi would advance in force, but to their surprise, he suddenly ceased all military action after conquering five prefectures. By then, they realized what was happening, but it was too late; Prince Ji had already firmly grasped military power.

In the past few years, another eunuch has risen to prominence. He was originally the head of the secret guard, tasked with spying on officials. When the war situation became critical, he was sent to the front as a military supervisor. When the enemy attacked, the commander fled without a fight, and this man had no choice but to lead his troops to resist. He managed to hold off Li Zhi's army for more than a month, which was one of Li Zhi's few defeats.

After that, he was unstoppable, leading his troops to fight in various places. When Li Zhi stopped, he began to quell the rebellious gentry and powerful families all over the country.

This man, named Wang Zhi, was originally unknown and deliberately attributed most of the credit to Sun Chao'en. However, Sun Chao'en had already revealed his background in a secret report.

Therefore, the Ji Kingdom court is now divided into three factions: civil officials, favored ministers, and eunuchs. The military generals, who were originally in decline, have been greatly promoted by the King of Ji, and their rise is obvious.

Given another ten years, perhaps Prince Ji can indeed turn the situation around initially. While national prosperity is still a long way off, the country should be able to enjoy peace and prosperity.

These pieces of information flashed through Wei Yuan's mind, and he said, "I'm not here to watch the song and dance. I have something important to discuss. Come, stand in the formation."

Wei Yuan unleashed dozens of array plates, some landing on the ground, others floating in the air, forming a three-dimensional array. Even the Prince Ji, a man of considerable experience, was initially shocked, and his expression towards Wei Yuan changed accordingly.

He stepped into the formation, and Wei Yuan activated the great formation, generating several halos that enveloped Prince Ji, isolating him from the Heavenly Dao.

"Now that cause and effect are separated, recall the map of the Ji Kingdom that you saw in the Celestial Heaven that day."

King Ji was puzzled, but he did as instructed. As a result, a detailed map of the mountains and rivers of the Ji Kingdom appeared beneath his feet. Wei Yuan swept the map with his divine sense and simply took it away. King Ji's memory of the map became completely blank, and he could no longer recall ever having seen it.

"That's enough." Wei Yuan deactivated the formation, revealing a hint of fatigue.

Prince Ji did not ask any further questions. He watched Wei Yuan disappear, then returned to his desk to continue handling state affairs.

After leaving the palace of the King of Ji, Wei Yuan returned to Yizhou, then mobilized the surrounding army, using the aura of 100,000 troops to conceal himself. He moved with extreme speed; just as gazes fell upon him from beyond the heavens, Wei Yuan had already disappeared into the aura of the army.

Having obtained the map from King Ji's memories and compared it with the layouts Liu Miao, Cang Wu, and others had made throughout Ji Kingdom, Wei Yuan glimpsed a bit of the secrets of the Refining World Array. Although it was only a superficial understanding, it was sufficient when combined with what was stored in the Tai Chu Palace.

Wei Yuan then returned to Qingming, then went to the ancestral land of the Lü family, and stood before the secret realm once more.

Members of the Lü clan who had submitted to the regime passed by from time to time, bowing respectfully from a distance before hurrying away, not daring to disturb Wei Yuan's contemplation.

A few people gazed towards the summit of the ancestral mountain, their eyes filled with a hint of reluctance. However, as long as the ancestral mountain remained, as long as the secret realm existed, the Lü family would still have a breath of life. Who knows how many years later, perhaps a chosen one would be born to restore the Lü family's lineage.

This seems incredibly unlikely, but it is still a glimmer of hope.

However, these members of the Lü clan were unaware that Wei Yuan was plotting how to use the newly learned Refining World Array to refine the entire ancestral mountain and the secret realm, turning it into a new core of the cave heaven.

(End of this chapter)