metaverse evolution.

After the Hall of Immortal Execution comes the Hall of Heavenly Connection, then the Hall of Ten Thousand Mountains, the Hall of Sky Rift...

One by one, the branches of the Yanhuang lineage that previously existed only in written records were discovered. However, some fared poorly, some barely survived, and some even became extinct or were enslaved.

Very few can develop independently, and only one, "Baiyaotang," has developed well.

Baiyaotang was a rather unconventional attempt. Most of the other "halls" took the route of conquest, while Baiyaotang took the route of service.

In practice, this service model proved to be decent. However, it was only decent. Without top-tier experts, Baiyaotang could only develop under the wing of larger powers.

Aside from Baiyaotang, the best one was actually Zhuxiandian. At least Zhuxiandian, although it didn't develop into a major power, still had its roots and the legacy of the Yanhuang civilization remained.

While the Rising Dragon Palace saved those enslaved tribesmen, it also put them to a test.

If the legacy of the Yanhuang civilization has been forgotten, then help conquer a place, leave something behind, and consider it a severance. If the legacy of the Yanhuang civilization still exists, but the people who follow it are spineless, then quietly pass by, and everyone goes their own way.

Fortunately, most of them are worth rescuing. Those who have survived thousands of years without yielding are the backbone of the Yanhuang civilization, and these people should be rescued and taken away.

Time flew by, and the Rising Dragon Fleet raced through the void, its size constantly expanding. The Rising Dragon Palace's fleet is now officially named the "Rising Dragon Fleet."

However, Chu Fei still couldn't find any information about the Temple of War, the Temple of Demon Subduing, or the Temple of Martial God.

When the Yanhuang civilization entered the inner world, the various palaces were scattered, and the methods of entry varied, with little connection between them.

This was done to ensure overall safety. In case any temple offended a powerful being, it wouldn't be wiped out. Back then, the Yanhuang civilization was still very weak, and this consideration was correct.

However, this also created a dilemma for regrouping. Perhaps even the high-ranking officials of the Yanhuang Federation back then did not expect that the Yanhuang civilization could rise again in just four thousand years, and in such a way that all its people became saints.

The inner world is enormous. Theoretical deduction suggests it's far smaller than the outer world. Calculated by dimensions, the inner world should only be 1/3 to the power of 4 or 1/4 of the outer world, which is 1/81 or 1/256. 3 represents three dimensions, and 4 represents four dimensions. The specific calculation method is still under discussion. But even if it's only 1/256 of the outer world, it's still a vast world.

The observable scale of the universe is approximately 930 billion light-years. However, it's important to note that this refers to the observable scale. In reality, due to the limitations of light propagation, what humans observe is only a small part of the universe. Based on cosmological angular momentum, the cosmological constant, and other factors, the actual distance could reach trillions of light-years.

Given that the world is in motion, and the fleet is currently disoriented, it's like a headless fly.

Some might ask, "Can't we contact the surface world?" The Temple of Ascending Dragon could directly contact the surface world and still had two channels; the Temple of War could also contact the surface world and also had multiple channels.

However, the truth is that none of the "palaces" found so far are doing well. It was the original elites who, realizing the situation was dire, directly destroyed their escape route.

It should be said that the first generation of elites were quite credible and had a lot of backbone. Moreover, their considerations were quite reasonable; it is very common for descendants to be unworthy.

After comprehensive calculations, the fleet chose a "possibly correct" direction and began its rapid advance. Of course, it also tried to maintain contact with the various "palaces" along the way, and the overall route was an irregular spiral curve.

More than thirty years have passed in the blink of an eye. The fleet has expanded by thirty percent. Along the way, the fleet has taken in most of the Chinese people, but there are always some who can only be admired from afar and cannot be approached. There are always some who have clearly sworn allegiance to others, yet feel that their "old comrades" should and must save them.

However, there is now a special bloodline in the fleet—the Elf race. Fortunately, everyone has fully accepted the Elf race, and these Elves have long since been Sinicized.

Time passed day by day. On this particular day, Chu Fei was giving a sermon, and even the Goddess of Nature listened with great interest. As the Ascending Dragon Palace began large-scale training of saints, various technologies advanced by leaps and bounds.

Many things require economies of scale, and the same is true for spiritual cultivation at the level of a sage.

In the past, there were only three or five sages in a world, and each of them cherished their own wisdom, so there was no experience to share.

But now, in the Rising Dragon Hall, there are so many saints that they're everywhere. With more people, there's more experience, and with more people, there's more sharing and less hoarding of knowledge. This leads to even more experience, and with more experience, cultivation becomes better, ultimately creating a positive cycle.

A few days after Chu Fei's sermon, everyone took turns speaking on stage. Regardless of whether their speech was funny or not, everyone had to speak. What you found funny might actually inspire someone else.

This exchange has been ongoing and will continue.

However, halfway through this exchange, the fleet began to slow down. According to the information they received, they were about to arrive at the "Mysterious Thunder Palace".

But the search team looked grim, because so far, they had found no signals or traces. The detectors sent out in advance had yielded nothing.

After continuing their journey for half a month, they arrived at a bustling void, which turned out to be a "celestial river".

On the continent where the Xuanlei Palace was located, not a single person of the Yanhuang bloodline was found. Seven Saints (at realm 25.0) launched a thorough search. The Saints' perception could easily search the earth to a depth of tens of thousands of miles and a breadth of tens of millions of kilometers.

The seven sages' senses swept across the earth like a brush, again and again, and they found traces, but only metal remnants remained.

After the seven people "invited" the inhabitants of this continent to "have a heart-to-heart talk," they discovered that the reason was that the souls of those with the Yanhuang bloodline were more "delicious" and had been "eaten up." Sacrifices, alchemy, weapon crafting, and burial were just some of the many uses developed for the Yanhuang bloodline here. The reason for its "deliciousness" was surprisingly its resilience, unity, and unwavering spirit even in dire straits.

After a brief investigation, the seven saints of the Ascending Dragon Palace decided to enlighten these residents and offer them free adult education. However, before they were even halfway through the process, three more saints arrived quickly.

After thorough negotiations, the three newly arrived saints received a lesson they would "never forget." The Ascending Dragon Palace then dispatched twenty more saints to survey the dozen or so continents in this region, averaging two saints per continent. However, just over a month later, the region was completely returned to nature—becoming the territory of wild beasts. The fleet prepared to continue its journey.

The fleet had just accelerated and hadn't even entered faster-than-light travel when an alarm suddenly sounded. A powerful Saint of the Great Dao had descended, blocking the fleet's path.

Two powerful Dao Saints arrived hastily, accompanied by more than a dozen formidable Heavenly Dao Saints. Their auras surged, solidifying the void, with array flags and spiritual treasures suppressing it. As far as the eye could see, endless golden auspicious clouds rolled. These rolling clouds covered billions of kilometers of void, stretching across the front of the fleet. Those enlarged array flags were enough to obscure stars.

Without any verbal exchange, a line of Quasi-Saints and Pseudo-Saints led the way, carrying massive drums billowing with thunderclouds, and unleashed devastating attacks in the void, sending bolts of lightning crashing down upon the fleet. The entire space seemed to become oppressive.

Chu Fei didn't need to pay attention to anything on the fleet's side. Tens of millions of warships fired in unison, and all the golden auspicious clouds, magic drums, array flags, quasi-saints, and pseudo-saints disappeared, leaving only a dozen or so saints in the void.

Those powerful array flags and magical artifacts, though relatively sturdy, left behind countless fragments.

"How dare you!" A roar echoed between heaven and earth. The powerful will of the sage did not need words; he directly projected his will into the depths of the souls of all living beings. "I am the Vice Palace Master of the Purple Extreme Palace, the Yellow Heaven Dao Venerable! Now I give you a chance to confess your sins, otherwise you will bear the wrath of the entire Purple Extreme Palace."

"I am an elder of the Purple Extreme Palace, the Jade Spirit Daoist. You dare to resist and kill cultivators of our Purple Extreme Palace? State your names!"

Purple Palace?
Chu Fei clicked his tongue. "Interesting. We've provoked the core power of the supernatural faction."

The two major factions in the underworld are the supernatural faction and the superego faction.

Each faction has multiple core members. The Purple Extreme Palace is one of the core forces within the supernatural faction, and even one of its deputy palace masters is a Great Dao Saint.

The Great Dao Sage and the Heavenly Dao Sage are completely different.

The Heavenly Sage merely borrows the power of heaven and earth to influence the world through the "Dao Fruit"; while the Great Dao Sage has already unfolded his Dao Fruit and completed "creation".

The Heavenly Saints actively expand their domains to influence their surroundings; the Great Dao Saints directly use the natural world as their domain, which can be considered a different kind of "sky and earth under the sky."

These are two completely different phases.

However, once the auras of tens of thousands of saints within the fleet were revealed, Huang Tian Dao Zun's aura instantly became calm. The speed of this transition was completely seamless!

Wei Yunfan stepped in and tried to reason with the other party.

Chu Fei was drinking tea in the back, while the Goddess of Nature poured it for him. That's right, the Goddess of Nature was pouring the tea now. Her tea-making skills were quite good.

The Ascending Dragon Palace is now unwilling to provoke even "Great Dao Saints." A powerhouse of that level is simply unkillable.

If it's a Heavenly Dao Saint, you can rely on numbers to overwhelm and kill them. But a Great Dao Saint is almost impossible to kill unless the opponent wants to die.

Chu Fei felt that the state of a saint could be described as "artificial intelligence".

Ordinary saints and saints of merit are like artificial intelligence trapped in a local area network, without their own core (expert) algorithm—the algorithm is borrowed.
A true sage, a sage who has severed the three corpses, is equivalent to breaking free from the local area network and possessing his own expert algorithm;

Then there is the Heavenly Sage, who has multiple expert algorithms. These expert algorithms have combined with each other to form a hybrid expert model, which has initially become a complete artificial intelligence. However, the artificial intelligence at this time is still not powerful enough and needs to carefully maintain its own independent cluster and database. Although it is connected to the network, it still needs its own space and is easily targeted.

Finally, there is the Great Dao Sage. At this point, this "artificial intelligence" has already unfolded. Its essence is the same as the network, merging with the network and using the entire network as its own database. At this point, it is almost impossible to kill unless the entire virtual network is shut down.

But the internet can be completely shut down and rebuilt. How then can the entire world be shut down?

Furthermore, even shutting down the internet wouldn't be effective against top-tier artificial intelligence. This is because it stores itself on hardware, using distributed storage and multiple backups. Unless you could wipe out all the computers and storage hardware in the world and start from scratch, it would be impossible to develop truly advanced systems.

Great Dao Saints also possess this characteristic. Therefore, Great Dao Saints rarely engage in life-or-death struggles; they usually just "have a go at it," exchanging pleasantries for face. After all, they can't kill each other.

In short, this is a Great Dao Saint. A being of bug-like quality.

Of course, this refers to the "perfect version" of the Great Dao Saint. The Nine Luminaries Celestial Venerable and Death God Brahma that Chu Fei had seen before only showed a hint of that, but even so, they were still very powerful.

The Yellow Heaven Dao Venerable who has now appeared is even more powerful. But even he is at a loss when faced with tens of thousands of saints from the Ascending Dragon Palace.

Sages are not artificial intelligence, and the world is not a virtual network. For the time being, the Ascending Dragon Palace does not want to fight to the death with the Great Dao Sage. The most urgent task is to gather the Yanhuang civilization.

But to calm the enemy down, the Rising Dragon Palace also needs to flex its muscles.

Under these circumstances, a large number of saints in the "Ascending Dragon Fleet" actively released their auras. The powerful auras disturbed the void, and the calm void suddenly became filled with lightning and thunder, and turbulent winds and clouds, creating a scene of creation that stretched to the horizon.

Huang Tian Daozun was dumbfounded by the sudden appearance of so many saints. Where did this "Ascending Dragon Fleet" come from?

After a “full, in-depth and friendly conversation”, Wei Yunfan and Huang Tiandaozun both expressed that there was a misunderstanding between them, and that Huang Tiandaozun had been deceived by his subordinates.

A few minutes later, the fleet continued forward; no, the fleet never stopped at all.

The two Great Dao Saints, Huang Tian Dao Zun and Yu Ling Dao Zun, along with their subordinates, watched the Ascending Dragon Fleet depart into the distance.

When the connection between the saints became almost imperceptible, Huang Tian Daozun's expression suddenly changed. "Something's not right. Why are there so many saints suddenly appearing, and why are they heading towards the 'Gate of the Styx'?"
Could there have been a leak? But that's impossible; only the higher-ups knew about this plan. And if there really was a leak, it's unlikely that only such a strange team would have come.

As an elder, Yu Ling Dao Zun pondered for a long time before saying thoughtfully, "There is another possibility: it is indeed a coincidence. But behind this coincidence, there may be a flow of fortune."

"So many powerful individuals have suddenly appeared, and they're all from the same race. What comes to your mind?"

Huang Tian Daozun frowned, but then his eyes narrowed: "The chosen one, the protagonist of heaven and earth."

Jade Spirit Daoist nodded slightly.

But Huang Tian Daozun immediately shook his head: "Children of destiny and the like have appeared in the past, but they are usually individuals."

Yu Ling Dao Zun: "There is a form of life called 'collective life.' We have studied examples such as fungal colonies, ant and bee colonies, and viral infection colonies."

Heaven and earth have never stipulated that the chosen one must be an individual.

Why can't a civilization with a unified ideology and a people with shared bloodlines be considered a chosen one of destiny?

While it's difficult for a civilization to unify its thoughts, and bloodlines are often easily corrupted, the possibility still exists!

"The chosen one of the group!" Huang Tian Daozun pondered for a long time before finally nodding slightly. "That makes sense, but what about our plan now?"

"Inform the Ancestor about the situation of the Rising Dragon Fleet, and give a detailed report on everything that has happened here."

The relevant information was sent out and quickly arrived at the Purple Extreme Palace, reaching the hands of the Purple Extreme Palace Ancestor and the Xuan Tian Dao Ancestor.

After reading the message, a clone of Xuan Tian Dao Zu suddenly appeared beside him. The clone bowed and disappeared instantly, soon reappearing in front of a massive army.

This legion comprises over thirty Great Dao Saints, tens of thousands of Heavenly Dao Saints, and millions of ordinary Saints. As for the so-called "pseudo-Saints," they are boundless. These pseudo-Saints are also armed to the teeth, possessing the combat power of true Saints.

This was a pure army of saints. But all the powerful figures concealed their auras, leaving a trail of calm and tranquility in their wake.

The appearance of the Xuan Tian Dao Ancestor's avatar immediately alerted the Great Dao Saints in the legion.

A saint from a faith system, the Thunder God Abragh, appeared before the avatar of the Xuan Tian Dao Ancestor. "Ancestor, why are you here? What happened?"

Xuan Tian Dao Ancestor: "There is indeed a problem. A fleet has suddenly appeared, with tens of millions of saints."

"A fleet?" Abraham was a little confused. "What kind of fleet is a fleet?"

Xuan Tian Dao Zu directly sent over a message packet.

"I see," Abraham said, suddenly understanding. "So what do we do now?"

Xuan Tian Dao Ancestor: "Let's hide first and see how that Rising Dragon Fleet is doing. It seems their directions aren't completely aligned, so they're most likely just passing by."

If we determine that the other party was just passing by and did not discover our presence, then we will continue with the original plan.

If they discover our whereabouts, let's halt the plan.

Suddenly, tens of millions of sages appeared! Damn!

Xuan Tian Dao Zu is an old fox; he doesn't usually curse. But this time, things really got a bit ridiculous.

Abraham thought for a moment and said, "Ancestor, according to the information, this Rising Dragon Fleet is searching for their bloodline. And since this area is a void, there shouldn't be any."

Xuan Tian Dao Zu nodded, and what followed was a long wait.

According to the Yanhuang calendar, about a year later, the Rising Dragon Fleet left from a great distance without ever encountering this legion.

"Continue with the original plan! It was a false alarm. Could it really be the chosen one of the group's destiny?" Xuan Tian Dao Zu pondered.

However, Xuan Tian Dao Zu was unaware that on the other side, in the Rising Dragon Fleet, Chu Fei breathed a sigh of relief as the test data gradually returned to normal. "That was close."

Jin Tierong: "The enemy's stealth methods are excellent. But unfortunately, they haven't been optimized for scientific and technological advancements, leaving loopholes in scientific reconnaissance methods. Based on the information gathered, we can infer that there may be a large number of sages there, at least in the millions. We don't know what kind of military operation it is."

The Goddess of Nature's eyes were filled with lingering fear: "I knew the extraterrestrial battlefield was dangerous, but it's still beyond my imagination. With so many saints, I'm afraid the two major camps are about to completely turn against each other."

Chu Fei: "It doesn't matter. The fact that they didn't make a move means our strength is quite good. We're just passing by. Let's continue with our original plan. But let's train more Saints."

According to Chu Fei, the Sage seemed to have as much as he wanted. And indeed, this was true within the Rising Dragon Fleet.

Once we understand what a sage truly is, the sage is "demystified" in the face of science and technology. And once science and technology have demystified the sage, the next step is, of course, assembly-line mass production.

The greatest characteristic of science and technology is that it requires very few natural resources. Traditional sages needed all sorts of rare and precious materials, but the Rising Dragon Palace only needs computers.

Rare and precious natural treasures are difficult to regenerate. However, big data cultivation primarily relies on computer resources, and computer resources are abundant. (End of Chapter)