Building a sect from scratch.

"Holy crap! It's a hidden gold rank!"

[Handsome guy] was so excited that his face turned red.

Although hidden gold quests aren't as extremely rare as serendipitous encounters, they are still quite precious. At least [Handsome Guy] has never triggered one since he started playing this game; he's only ever gotten rewards from other people.

Although this hidden golden quest cannot be shared or completed in a team, he still happily took several screenshots, angrily posted them in the group chat, and then jumped and leaped out of the main hall, intending to show it off to his friends and family.

Don't be fooled by [Handsome Guy's] elation, as if he'd won the lottery. In reality, Li Cheng issues out at least eight or ten hidden gold quests every day. Almost every "NPC" "sitting" in the sect's main hall issues various hidden quests, some ordinary, some gold. Everyone has the authority to do this; they just temporarily apply quest templates based on what the players do.

However, these are things that ordinary players wouldn't know.

It was a little past 5 p.m. Beijing time, just as another newly arrived elder, who was just a background figure, was changing shifts. Li Cheng immediately hummed a little tune and strolled out of the barrier.

Every day at 5:30, the project team holds a routine meeting, mainly to discuss what strange and unusual ideas these players with their minds full of unserious thoughts have come up with. Some ideas are adopted after discussion, while others are just a few tasks made up to fool people and then temporarily shelved.

During today's routine meeting, the school issue raised by Li Cheng became the top priority. After receiving the report, Aunt Wang even convened a large meeting, inviting almost all available staff to participate.

How exactly did the group of "demons" come into being?

Professor Wu sat in the corner, his brows furrowed, muttering to himself.

“I have the same question,” Wang Qiqing said, unusually serious. He gestured to Aunt Wang before clearing his throat and speaking, “We are completely unaware of the reasons for the formation of ‘demons’ and have not had time to explore their essence. After all, from a biological perspective, there is no difference between animals that have been awakened and those that have not. However, there is a clear difference before and after spiritual awakening. We usually refer to this process as ‘spiritualization’ or ‘spiritualization reaction’.”

"Personally, I agree with establishing institutions or organizations that are more conducive to the learning and survival of demon cultivators, but what determines whether someone is a demon is crucial."

"In the past, we often thought that the most fundamental difference between humans—or intelligent species and animals—was that intelligent species could create and use production tools to engage in labor and production, and that they had subjective initiative. However, the definition of 'demon' in the Guixu Realm is extremely vague, so we cannot use this concept to summarize it, because many animals that have just awakened their intelligence do not have this concept at all. If we had to say, they would just be a little smarter than ordinary animals..."

"But intelligence doesn't prove anything. Gorillas are also intelligent. For decades, on Earth, gorillas have been consciously trained and taught to live like 'humans,' and even to engage in more complex learning and social interactions. But gorillas can never be considered intelligent species. In fact, what's the difference between a newly awakened 'demon' and a gorilla?"
"The differences between the intelligent races in the Guixu Realm are enormous, which is fundamentally different from the simple differences in human races on Blue Star. Many intelligent races in the Guixu Realm are not primates at all. We Blue Star people should put aside our arrogance for the time being. In conclusion, I think it is necessary and necessary to seek the opinion of α regarding the issue of demon cultivators. At least α may be able to answer for us what 'demon' really represents."

When Wang Qiqing is serious, his words are very persuasive. At least many people believe that this matter should indeed be discussed with α—that is, Fang Xianyu.

Besides the fact that China has always considered education as a top priority, there is another, more important reason: it is yet another test.

They were testing α's understanding of the true nature of the Void Realm, to see how much it truly knew and how much it was willing to reveal.

"A meeting to discuss matters concerning demon cultivators? Now?"

Half an hour later, Fang Xianyu met Elder Lu Ying in the back hall of the Taiyin Palace and asked in surprise.

As one of the earliest project team members to work under Fang Xianyu, Lu Ying had become the person in the project team specifically responsible for contacting Fang Xianyu, and this time was no exception.

After the meeting, Lu Ying hurriedly went online to ask Fang Xianyu for her opinion and invited her to the meeting.

"To my shame, this was actually brought up by a player. He pointed out that Zhongzhou University is essentially the same as higher education on Earth, with certain thresholds for both admission and study. Meanwhile, the basic education in various places, such as literacy classes and primary schools, which have fewer thresholds, are mainly designed based on human learning methods, making it difficult to teach demon cultivators—especially those who have just awakened their spiritual intelligence."

Elder Lu Ying explained, “Our project team really hadn’t considered this point, especially since we didn’t know much about the ‘demon’ group before, including how they pass on their knowledge and how they cultivate. We had almost no concept of it, so we didn’t know where to start with the construction of this school. That’s why we asked Sect Master Fang to come and discuss it. Of course, we also asked you to come and give us some guidance and explain what this ‘demon’ is all about.”

"You're right, it was my oversight; I completely forgot to standardize the training of demon cultivators..."

Unexpectedly, Fang Xianyu also showed a hint of shame on her face.

She nodded, accepting the project team's invitation to the meeting. Then, with practiced ease, she channeled her spiritual energy, waved her hand, and pulled out a semi-transparent, illusory "monitor," asking, "Which conference room?"

Lu Ying was prepared and quickly gave a meeting room number.

This is a process that both parties have repeated many times—Fang Xianyu projects a cross-world "visual call," one side connects to the computer in the fixed meeting room at the project team's base, and the other side records data through this "visual call" port, thus forming an online meeting mode.

This model was used during the first meeting between the top leader and Fang Xianyu, and it later became a routine practice. If it was necessary to consult Fang Xianyu's opinion or invite his guidance, the project team would be prepared to hold such an "online meeting".

In fact, although these "online meetings" are already quite familiar to everyone, they have only been held a handful of times. Including this one, it's only the fourth time.

During the ten-minute break, while the project team members were chatting privately in small groups in the meeting room, the image projected onto the whiteboard started flickering.

A moment later, Fang Xianyu and Lu Ying appeared above, and everyone immediately fell silent and sat up straight. (End of Chapter)