Cultivating Immortality Starts with Rubbing a Computer

Chapter 198 He only has himself to blame (Seeking monthly votes)

"Master, do you think they will carry out your orders diligently?"

Mo Yiyi looked at the departing Foundation Establishment cultivators and suddenly said.

"It's easy at first, but it gets harder as you go on."

Fang Jun said calmly.

"Even a contract isn't enough?"

"I asked," Mo Yiyi.

"Of course not, Yi Yi, do you know the principle behind contracts?"

"The system monitors the thoughts of Foundation Establishers. If they do not conform to the requirements, a warning will be issued. If they repeatedly fail to conform to the requirements, the power of the contract will be used to take their lives."

"But Yi Yi, have you considered this problem? Even if the Foundation Establishment stage's thinking is tested without any errors, problems will still arise."

"Why? Aren't they afraid of the power of the Golden Core cultivator?"

"Yes, but this world is very complex. How can a few Foundation Establishment cultivators complete a task within a limited time? If they can't complete it, they will inevitably hand it over to their subordinates, but can their subordinates execute the task perfectly?"

Even if they don't outwardly comply but inwardly disagree, don't harbor any illusions, and don't want to slack off, people's comprehension abilities are different. Someone will always make mistakes, and the accumulation of these mistakes will amplify them, eventually leading to a huge error.

This is why system design may contain redundancy.

"redundancy?"

Bai Xiaoxin said, "That's right, it's redundancy. Senior sister, complex system dependency chains are fragile, and they have non-linear interactions, which will inevitably lead to combinatorial explosion and trigger the phase transition critical point."

Mo Yiyi rubbed her forehead: "Master, junior sister, I feel a little dizzy. I might have been injured in the Xuanming Palace."

Fang Jun laughed heartily: "To put it simply, I just added that two Foundation Establishment cultivators would be responsible for a region, and they would take turns conducting statistics."

"This is to increase system redundancy."

"But this is not enough."

"I need you, Yi Yi."

Mo Yiyi immediately perked up: "Master, what do you need me to do?"

Fang Jun smiled and said, "I need you to draw lots randomly every day to determine the number of people eligible for divination."

Mo Yiyi immediately said happily, "Master, I am very familiar with this, very familiar with it."

Fang Jun then said to Bai Xiaoxin, "Xiaoxin, you should also cooperate with your senior sister."

Bai Xiaoxin nodded: "Okay, boss."

……

High in the sky, Venerable Qixia suddenly said to Venerable Hengxia with dissatisfaction, "Junior brother, I just asked you to speak up, why didn't you do anything?"

Master Hengxia was a rather thin-looking young man: "Senior brother, it's not that I'm unwilling, but I'm still feeling very distressed."

"You should also know that what are the benefits may not actually be there."

Fang Jun didn't just use harsh methods to motivate the Foundation Establishment cultivators.

He also promised that if one made enough contributions, one would not need to redeem oneself from him and could exchange various secret techniques and treasures for them.

Even great supernatural powers can be exchanged.

However, it's debatable how much faith these foundational practitioners have.

Although they claim that the Immortal Sect's word is law, the contract they are bound by is extremely uncomfortable.

That feeling of unease, of having one's life and death in someone else's hands, lingered in my mind.

Master Qixia said, "Junior brother, of course I understand your heart. But why not trust the Qingshui Sect a little more?"

Master Hengxia was somewhat indignant: "Even the Starry Sky Sect has never treated us like this."

Master Qixia said, "The Starry Sky Sect is ultimately our superior sect, so there's no need for such behavior. It's not surprising that the Clear Water Sect, as an external immortal sect, acts in this way."

"Complaining is useless; it's better to think about how to complete the task assigned by the senior."

"Actually, it's fine if they are just ordinary people with spiritual roots. But we have to collect information on their gender, age, birth date, and local customs."

"That……"

At this point, Master Qixia couldn't stop shaking his head.

Master Hengxia was also quite troubled, and this trouble was clearly not something that could be resolved with a single order.

Because there is not enough time.

If no Foundation Establishment cultivators participate, there simply won't be enough time in the time Fang Jun has arranged.

"Senior brother, how about..."

Just as he finished speaking, Master Hengxia felt a sense of impending doom and quickly stopped talking.

Master Qixia shook his head: "Junior brother, don't even think about being lazy. You must know that the methods of the Immortal Sect are unfathomable."

Master Hengxia was still shaken: "But it was just a thought. Could it be located so precisely?"

Master Qixia said, "This is probably a law; only the laws of legend can be so precise."

Master Hengxia sighed, "This must be what a celestial sect is like."

Master Qixia echoed, "This is the immortal sect."

But then he changed the subject: "However, while considering matters concerning the Immortal Sect, there is something I want to deal with."

Master Hengxia asked curiously, "What is it that must be dealt with now?"

A fierce glint flashed in Master Qixia's eyes: "Naturally, it's your junior sister Feixia's business."

"The reason our journey has been so unsuccessful is because your junior sister offended a senior from the Immortal Sect."

"But even so, the fact that we can still be the leaders shows how much Bai Xiaoxin cares for us."

"If it weren't for Junior Sister Feixia's mistake, I think we would be living a much better life."

After thinking it over carefully, Master Hengxia said with some resentment, "That's right. If it weren't for Junior Sister Feixia's actions, would we have ended up in the same situation as other sects?"

"He will surely become a true confidant of the Golden Core senior and help him expand his territory."

"Don't worry, senior brother, I'll stand by your side."

Master Qixia nodded and looked at Master Feixia's disciple: "Then let's start with this brat Feng Luan."

……

Within the Qixia School.

Suddenly, Master Feixia felt a sense of unease.

She quickly reached out and began to perform a hand seal.

"Da, da, da—!"

My fingers moved rapidly, but I couldn't calculate anything.

"Impossible, impossible! How could there be absolutely no information!"

Feeling increasingly uneasy, Master Feixia sat up from the futon and paced back and forth.

The fingers moved even faster.

"It's nothing, so why am I uneasy? I have cultivated the Fortune and Misfortune Alternation Technique, so I am most sensitive to fortune and misfortune."

"The fact that there is nothing to do now is the greatest problem."

"Damn it, I had no idea where the crisis came from. There's no way to escape."

Master Feixia dared not run away casually.

If you panic and don't know where to go, disaster will befall you as soon as you step outside.

That would be the worst.

"Who have I offended recently? Was it that guy who seems to be at the Golden Core stage?"

"That can't be right. In my divination, that guy was only at the Foundation Establishment stage. He wasn't dangerous at all."

"It's just that Feng Luan was intimidated by Bai Xiaoxin."

"Then it must be some other reason? Is it because I didn't go to the Xuanming Palace because I possessed the Xuanming Jade, which angered my senior brothers?"

"That is indeed possible. As long as Feng Luan doesn't hide well, he will definitely be discovered by his senior brothers."

"Then it's not surprising that the senior brothers have grievances."

"But no matter how much resentment they harbor, it shouldn't warrant killing me, right?"

"Or perhaps it's because a hundred years ago, he secretly stole Senior Brother Qixia's opportunity for cultivation, causing his wife to fail in her Foundation Establishment stage and die unexpectedly?"

"Or is it that the people of Blue Moon Manor discovered that I had pretended to marry Yuanhe Daoist of Blue Moon Manor, tricked him into going into dangerous territory, and accepted his inheritance?"

Master Feixia felt increasingly alarmed.

A sense of impending doom kept washing over her, as if she were about to face death.

She remembered that her master, the previous generation Master Feixia, had also had this feeling.

Once it happens, there's no way to avoid it.

They met their demise immediately.

"Damn it! I can't just sit here and wait to die, I have to do something!"

Master Feixia took out his savings from many years and set up a small altar.

"Da, da, da—!"

They walked with the steps of Yu, performing the ritual steps on the altar.

"God of the vast stars, by the power of the law!"

"boom!"

The altar spontaneously combusted without fire.

Its wispy blue smoke and scorching flames slowly combined in the air to form a line of patterns.

The meaning of the Dao pattern is—

"Master, I'm back!"

Feng Luan's voice came from outside the palace and was rapidly approaching.

"call out--!"

A delicate jade hairpin pierced the air, hurtling towards Feng Luan, intending to kill him with it.

The power it contained, being at the seventh level of Foundation Establishment, was far beyond what Feng Luan, a cultivator who had fallen to the first level of Foundation Establishment, could withstand.

"when--!"

A soft sigh rang out: "Junior sister, how cruel you are to kill your beloved disciple."

Master Feixia's face turned cold: "Inviting a wolf into the house, he's no good disciple. No! He's no longer my disciple!"

The figure of Master Qixia appeared: "Junior Sister? How am I a wolf? I'm your senior brother!"

Master Feixia coldly replied, "You want to kill me? You're not my senior brother!"

"boom--!"

The altar exploded, and Master Feixia rose into the air, attempting to escape.

She had absolutely no confidence in defeating Master Qixia, who was at the ninth level of Foundation Establishment.

The only way to block it is by detonating the altar.

Then run away.

"Junior sister, why are you in such a hurry to leave?"

"boom--!"

A golden pearl fell from the sky and struck Master Feixia.

This precious pearl was very familiar to the Venerable Feixia; it was the Golden Cloud Pearl, her own natal magic treasure, which she had given to Feng Luan.

But now this natal magic weapon has been refined by someone else.

And it became the weapon that prevented her from escaping.

Master Feixia blocked Jinxiazhu's path, and looking at Master Hengxia who was standing in front of him, he said fiercely, "Senior Brother Hengxia, I haven't offended you, have I? Why are you blocking my way?"

At this moment, Master Qixia arrived. Upon hearing this, he exclaimed, "My dear junior sister, how could you say such a thing? Did you offend me before?"

Master Feixia revealed a heavenly secret with a single sentence.

What was originally concealed was instantly figured out by Master Qixia.

He instantly flew into a rage: "You vicious woman! You actually tried to harm my wife!"

"As expected, I was right to kill you today!"

Master Feixia realized she had spoken out of turn, but then she thought that Master Qixia was going to kill her anyway, so she had no regrets. She simply said, "Brother Qixia, I want to know why you have such murderous intent and why you insist on joining forces with Brother Hengxia to put me to death."

Master Qixia gave a cold laugh: "Why do you ask this? Do you want to know so you can take revenge later?"

"Then you might as well give up on that idea now."

"I can tell you definitively that you have offended the people of the Immortal Sect and are already on the verge of death."

what!
Master Feixia was shocked. Although Master Qixia's words seemed to be incoherent, they revealed a secret of heaven.

Then you'll understand everything.

So it turns out that the person I had Feng spread rumors about was from an immortal sect, and even a Golden Core cultivator?
Was it because he offended him that he met his end?
"Impossible! That person was clearly only at the Foundation Establishment stage!"

Master Feixia had actually run out of tricks, but she wanted to die knowing why.

"You've only scratched the surface of your cultivation, you're not even as good as me. And you still want to pry into the true nature of the Golden Core!"

Master Qixia made his move with resentment.

He had both new and old grudges, which is why he acted ruthlessly.

I no longer hesitate as much as before.

"No, I'm absolutely certain that he's only at the Foundation Establishment stage. He could never be a Golden Core cultivator!"

Since she was going to die, how could Master Feixia possibly admit that it was her fault?
There's no way we can go wrong if we just grit our teeth and bear it.

"Since you think it's Foundation Establishment, then so be it!"

"But he's only at the Foundation Establishment stage!" *Boom—!*

A loud explosion resounded over the Qixia Sect.

Master Feixia died thereafter.

No remains of the dead.

Feng Luan stood amidst the ruins of the palace, staring blankly at everything, but quickly cried out, "Master Uncle, spare my life! You promised not to kill me!"

"call out--!"

Master Qixia's magical power swirled in front of Feng Luan: "That's right, I really can't kill you."

"But this is not a promise I made to you."

"But you are the legacy of your predecessors."

"I cannot damage my predecessors' property."

Upon hearing this, Feng Luan breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time, endless regret welled up in his heart once again.

If only I had seized the opportunity back then.

Therefore, Feng Luan immediately had the thought of committing suicide.

"Pain, pain, pain!"

The moment Feng Luan had this thought, an overwhelming pain spread throughout his body.

The pain was so intense that even Feng Luan, a Foundation Establishment cultivator with a will stronger than that of ordinary mortals, could not bear it.

I couldn't bear it anymore, and I didn't even have the courage to commit suicide.

"It turns out I never even had the option of suicide."

Feng Luan gave a bitter laugh, tears and snot streaming down his face, but he could only suppress his pain and go to work with Master Qixia to carry out the task assigned by the Golden Core senior.

……

"Thump, thump—!"

The sudden crashing sound slammed against the door, sending dust flying from the beams.

A boy huddled in the shadows behind a pile of firewood, his breath barely audible.

Even if his heart felt like it was about to burst through his chest, he still dared not move.

In his arms was a little girl.

The little girl was about six or seven years old, her thin body pressed tightly against his chest, as if she wanted to crawl into his body.

Her fingers gripped his clothes tightly, her knuckles turning white, but she dared not utter a single sob.

"There should be no one left."

"Never mind then, let's go to the next one."

Long after the footsteps had disappeared, the boy whispered, "Qiaoqiao, everything is alright now."

Qiaoqiao's body was still trembling slightly, and the boy could feel the coolness of her body temperature.

"Brother, the soldiers won't come again, will they?"

"No way, Dad and Mom are clearly already..."

At this point, Qiaoqiao's eyes were already filled with tears, but she dared not cry out loud. She could only suppress her sobs and grit her teeth.

The boy could only pat her back to comfort her, saying, "No, no, they won't come back."

"After all, we no longer have any affinity with immortals."

"There's no more affinity with immortality!"

His voice was low, but his face was contorted.

The boy's eyes blazed with boundless rage and hatred.

They've fallen to such a state.

It's all because of a predestined connection with the immortals.

In this Le Dynasty, there were old rumors of immortals, but no immortals were ever seen.

But since ancient times, everyone has yearned for the path of immortality.

This applies to everyone, from royalty and nobility to ordinary citizens.

Therefore, the Le Dynasty had a strong tradition of seeking Taoism.

However, one problem remains unchanged: no one in this world has attained the destiny of immortality.

However, immortals do exist; after all, there are legends and records about them. The founding emperor of the Le Dynasty was able to establish his rule over the world because he had the help of immortals.

That's not fake.

Rather, it was a celestial being descending from the sky that all the people of the capital city witnessed.

Even though it has been passed down to this day and is almost a story.

However, because so many people have seen it, it has spread throughout the world, and everyone yearns for the path of immortality.

There was even a legend.

The immortal who helped the founding emperor establish the dynasty left behind a token before his departure. Holding this token allows one to comprehend the Dao of Immortality, and those with the right affinity can become immortals.

This token was taken by the Second King during the Kangwang Rebellion and fled, but was later lost in the Le Dynasty due to the chaos of war.

This sparked another round of celebration among the people of the Le Dynasty.

As time went by, just when everyone gradually thought it was just a legend.

The boy's father received the token.

At first, the boy's father did not believe it, but he accidentally discovered that the token contained both water and wood spiritual roots.

I completely believed it.

Then the boy's father left Li Dynasty according to the information on the token.

I didn't return until ten years later.

But the boy's father was still just an ordinary person, unchanged in the slightest.

After that, the boy's father married and had children, including the boy and his sister.

Life would have continued like this.

After all, the boy's father had learned a lot of skills when he went out to make a living in his youth, so it was not difficult for him to support the family.

However, there was one time when he drank alcohol unintentionally.

The boy's father finally revealed the secret from his youth.

There really are immortals in this world.

He left the Le Dynasty in his early years to go to the Immortal Sect and even met an immortal.

And so, disaster struck.

Although the boy's father regretted his actions after sobering up, he immediately made arrangements.

However, it was too late.

Only the boy and his sister managed to escape.

The boy's father and mother were arrested.

As for the outcome...

The boy learned from a treasure called the Fate Tablet that his father and mother were dead.

My father should have been very sensible, but he still died.

It is said that a prince, out of jealousy, ordered his execution.

Even the prince suffered the consequences later on.

But the person eventually died.

And after they died.

The era of the great immortal-seeking in the Li Dynasty has begun again.

The emperor of the Le Dynasty even declared that he would surely become an immortal.

Ordinary people don't understand the emperor's confidence; they simply think that because he is the emperor, he has the advantage of becoming an immortal.

After all, the idea that a person of high status is bound to be of high status is widely accepted.

It seems only natural that a noble person becomes an immortal.

However, only the boy understood that the emperor's confidence stemmed from the discovery of his spiritual root.

And his father was probably killed by that useless prince because of jealousy stemming from his spiritual roots.

Not only that.

This useless prince also killed the boy's father's and mother's families.

It was simply because of venting anger.

Even though this useless prince was later killed by the enraged emperor, it couldn't change what had already happened.

"Yes, brother, we no longer have any connection with the immortals."

"But, but..."

Qiaoqiao's tears continued to flow silently, and her body trembled even more.

After the boy's parents died, the token was handed over to the emperor.

However, this matter is far from over.

the reason is simple.

Many people have no idea what the whole story is.

All that is known is that the boy's father has a connection to the immortals.

What about the boy and his sister?
Of course, there are.

Therefore, the two became highly sought-after individuals.

They became wanted criminals.

The dangers they faced during that period are not worth mentioning.

But at least the methods left by the boy's father were still useful.

The two had originally thought they could hide peacefully in this haunted house for a while.

However, recently everything has changed for some reason.

The haunted house, which even homeless people dared not visit, was now frequently visited by government soldiers.

They seem completely unafraid of the terror that has been circulating for nearly a decade.

And they come very frequently.

Once in the morning and once in the evening, and it seems to be the same person again.

This instilled fear in the boy and his sister.

"It's all because those people are too greedy. They don't even know that there is no such thing as a true destiny to immortality in this world."

"You think you can become a disciple of an immortal just by obtaining a token?"

"That's an absolute joke!"

The boy gently comforted his sister, revealing the cruel truth that his father had traversed mountains and rivers for ten years before he, being a dual-spiritual-root, was able to learn it.

"In fact, those immortal sects are no different from aristocratic families."

"What's the use of having spiritual roots?"

"Without status or connections, one cannot even embark on the path to immortality."

"Even those with exceptional dual spiritual roots in the cultivation world are the same."

"That foolish emperor thought he could become an immortal."

"But my father didn't have time to tell me before he was killed by that damned good-for-nothing prince!"

The boy's eyes burned with rage.

He would never tell that damned emperor the truth.

They really think this emperor is some kind of good person? He's just a bunch of scoundrels, no different from that useless prince.

If they really told him, he'd probably just kill him to vent his anger.

No surprises.

"Thump, thump—!"

The knocking sounded again, and the boy quickly curled up. His younger sister, Qiaoqiao, stopped crying and huddled tightly in his arms.

How can it be!

He was born with exceptional hearing and eyesight, able to hear faint footsteps from thirty feet away.

But why?
Why was there no sound at all just now?
why!
"Stop hiding, I know there are people inside. Come out quickly. I, the Daoist, will guide you to immortality."

The boy dared not move; his back was already soaked with cold sweat.

The same goes for Qiaoqiao.

My body felt like an ice cube.

"Fine, since that's the case, I'll open the door myself."

"Although the authorities have repeatedly emphasized the importance of politeness, they have also said that sometimes it is necessary to do extraordinary things."

The person outside muttered to himself.

Then, with a "creak".

The main gate was locked from the inside, and there was no external force used to break it.

But it opened automatically.

(End of this chapter)