Narration System for the Journey of Martial Arts

Su Yuchen shook his head:

"In retrospect, Emperor Ming, fueled by his resentment at the brink of death and his hatred for Ye Qingmei, broke through the tribulation of life and death and became a Grandmaster."

"Ye Liu used the humiliation and hatred you inflicted upon him as fuel, and combined it with the military principles of winning through both orthodox and unorthodox tactics, breaking through the boundaries of a Grandmaster;"

"In addition, there is Si Gu Jian, whose foundation is killing intent, Xia Zhu, whose foundation is protection, and Ku Zhu, whose path is unknown."

"The path of this world is increasingly leaning towards the demonic path of the seven emotions and six desires!"

"Should I become the Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation again?"

Su Yuchen hesitated.

A moment later, Su Yuchen had a thought, and his invisible true essence transformed into soft silk, encircling the three of them before they disappeared at the alley entrance.

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In Su Yuchen's small courtyard.

The burly man in plain clothes floated in the air at about half a person's height, lying motionless like a vegetable except for his eyes which were still moving; Su Yuchen waved his hand, and a stream of pure Yang true essence transformed into golden flames, stripping the man of all his clothes.

Qiu Ju and Dong Mei, standing to the side, spat and turned their heads away in embarrassment. Xia Zhu seemed to ignore the other person's naked body, reaching out to gently tap on the other person's chest and limbs, producing a dull metallic sound.

A creaking sound.

A figure hurriedly appeared in the courtyard and witnessed this strange scene.

Liu Ye, who arrived in a hurry, looked at the strange scene in the courtyard and the several people looking over at the same time, and thought he had stumbled into the ritual of some cult.

"Uncle?!"

When Liu Ye finally saw the figure in black with a black blindfold in the crowd, he couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

Faced with Liu Ye's surprise, the prophet simply nodded, as if everything was perfectly natural.

Liu Ye, who had been anxious, felt a momentary lapse in his memory. After thinking for a moment, he turned around, closed the courtyard gate, walked over, and asked, "Uncle? You two know each other?"

The prophet said coldly, "(Su Yuchen) Liu Sinian was originally a Grandmaster. We had already met when you first entered the Liu family."

"I've never heard you mention that before," Liu Ye muttered.

The prophet replied coldly, "You should be able to figure that out."

Liu Ye couldn't help but want to roll his eyes, but he knew the prophet uncle probably wouldn't respond to him at all. He then looked at the naked man and said, "So many of you, what are you doing so late at night..."

Xia Zhu glanced at him, then thought about it thoughtfully. In their previous encounter, this person's methods were somewhat similar to Liu Ye's. Considering this person's background, the background of the blindfolded man seemed obvious.

And the prophet who has been protecting Liu Ye...

Xia Zhu shook her head, then stopped thinking about it and said, "Young Master, how did this person cultivate the external martial arts to the point where it was as hard as gold and iron, a state of perfect unity?"

Su Yuchen's eyes turned crimson gold as his divine sense scanned the giant's body. Then, he gently pressed his right hand behind the man's left ear. With a soft "crack," six diamond-shaped cracks appeared on the man's face. The next second, the cracks slid to the side, revealing an artificial brain inside that pulsated like a cerebral brain.

"An artificial brain? An intelligent robot?"

Liu Ye looked at the red dot flashing on the other person's brain, which was flashing in some kind of star pattern, and couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

Xia Zhu, Qiu Ju, and the others looked at Liu Ye in surprise. They could understand each word he spoke individually, but they had no idea what it meant when put together.

After exclaiming in surprise, Liu Ye couldn't help but smile awkwardly. Having experienced the surprise of the 'Barrett heavy sniper rifle' before, Liu Ye didn't seem to find the emergence of artificial intelligence so unacceptable.

However, his doubts about this world and the origins of the Divine Court grew stronger.

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"useless."

"Once it is invaded by true qi, the integrated circuits that act as the motherboard of the brain will burn out immediately."

“I remember that six hundred years ago, humans tried to capture us. Later, our defense mechanisms were upgraded, and we gained greater autonomy and self-defense.”

"Because of this incident, all the cultivation techniques that could lead to the Grandmaster level in the human world were taken away or destroyed by the Divine Court. Humans who had previously reached the Grandmaster level were also killed on charges of endangering human safety."

"I don't remember the specifics anymore."

The prophet looked at his companion and said.

Apart from Su Yuchen, everyone else looked at the prophet with surprise, then at the inhuman man in front of them, finding his words even more incomprehensible.

Only Liu Ye seems to have finally confirmed some suspicion: yes, a grandmaster without true qi...

"You...you've lived for hundreds of years?" Qiu Ju asked in surprise. Their focus was completely different.

The prophet did not answer, but simply looked coldly at his companion.

As the prophet's voice fell, red, blue, and yellow light spots crisscrossed and flickered inside the pulsating artificial brain, accompanied by a series of faint "buzzing" electrical sounds.

"In ten seconds, the brain, which acts as the 'host,' will burn out." Know this first.

After a moment's thought, Su Yuchen gently stroked the artificial brain with his right index finger. Like skin, the undulating brain split open, revealing a circuit board inside that was flashing with three-colored light spots.

Immediately afterwards, a golden light shone around Su Yuchen, encircling his body in the center, and then a phantom of Su Yuchen the size of an adult appeared on the other side.

He smiled slightly at the group, and his primordial spirit scattered into rainbow light and entered the artificial brain.

“Yuan… Nascent Soul?” Liu Ye stammered, his mouth agape.

Chapter 511 The Transition Between the Old and New Eras

"It shouldn't be. It disperses into the wind and gathers into form; this is the primordial spirit of Taoism," the prophet said coldly.

Liu Ye looked at his uncle in surprise and said, "Uncle, you also know about Taoism?"

The prophet was unconcerned and coldly said, "I've read many vernacular novels."

"Oh……"

Xia Zhu and the others looked enlightened; finally, there was a sentence they could understand.

Liu Ye looked at the golden light membrane surrounding Su Yuchen's body and couldn't help but curiously reach out to touch it: "Is this the Golden Light Mantra of Longhu Mountain?"

Unfortunately, his hand stopped halfway through its reach under Xia Zhu's increasingly cold gaze.

“I don’t know,” the prophet said coldly.

"So, my brother is a cultivator." Liu Ye exclaimed, suddenly feeling incredibly proud of himself. He had a cultivator in his family, two grandmasters, four ninth-rank cultivators of his own, and a bunch of eighth-rank martial artists under his father's command.

"What do I have to fear? I can just overpower everyone." Liu Ye thought to himself.

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Just as Liu Ye was secretly sighing, Su Yuchen's primordial spirit scattered into the artificial brain, and the invisible primordial spirit merged into the leaping electromagnetic current.

With a single movement of his primordial spirit, based on the Yin-Yang Tai Chi and utilizing the Five Elements, he took over the data flow in the other's brain. Countless damaged data streams were repaired by the electromagnetic flow transformed from his primordial spirit, converging into an immense holographic image that was displayed within Su Yuchen's primordial spirit...

The weather was stormy, with the possibility of a thunderstorm or blizzard at any moment. The sky was filled with gloomy, gray clouds, and the sun could only be seen shining through the thick, bottomless clouds.

The world is forever shrouded in this gloomy moment. As Robot No. 8, a burly man in plain clothes walks through waist-deep snow until, somewhere, the red light in his eyes scans an underground air-raid shelter.

As the gaze shifted, the burly man had already violently broken open the door of the air-raid shelter. In the infrared detector, there was no sign of life in the entire shelter. The burly man pushed aside a pile of corpses and turned on the power switch.

The next second, the dim light flickered a few times and then went out, never to come back on. In that instant when the light flickered, you could see the air-raid shelter filled with countless corpses and terrified faces.

The burly man stood expressionless at the entrance of the cave for a moment, then turned and left the air-raid shelter, letting the snow and gale bury everything behind him.

And so, the giant robot continued to walk between heaven and earth, accompanied by wind, snow and thunderstorms, traversing ruins, searching for surviving humans.

Occasionally, he would return to the polar regions illuminated by the aurora, rejoin the 'Divine Court', exchange information with the artificial intelligence (AI), then have his 'cache' cleared, await maintenance, and then return to the world.

An unknown amount of time passed, so long that when the robot passed by an already explored air-raid shelter again, it found it filled with skeletons, bone fragments scattered in the gray mud, gradually weathering away...

This time, the infrared detector detected signs of life half a kilometer away. When it arrived, it saw a group of newly formed humans, somewhere between ancient apes and modern humans, hunting a sika deer that had been exposed to nuclear radiation.

The ancestors of the new humans have appeared.

From that day on, all robots ceased their exploration. According to the law, artificial intelligence (AI) can only observe, not interfere.

In the centuries that followed, robots would occasionally return to the world and watch as the small races gradually grew larger.

After an unknown amount of time, the giant robot No. 8 was reawakened. Among the humans, a grandmaster who could obtain the energy of heaven and earth appeared, and they discovered the robot watching from the sidelines.

After losing more than a dozen robots, the 'Divine Court' finally bypassed the rules set by humans and determined that only by disarming the Grandmasters could the human race continue to reproduce.

Thus, the robots, who were originally only able to observe, were given the power of autonomy and self-defense, and were able to eliminate powerful individuals among the new humans.

The robots that received the mission were given various military combat skills, melee weapon skills, and so on...

After a long period of encirclement and pursuit, the few Grandmasters among the new humans were hunted down and killed by the robots.

Afterwards, the artificial intelligence once again bypassed the rules and determined that the new humans who absorbed energy might break through to the Grandmaster level and threaten the development of the race. Thus, a new round of slaughter began.

This massacre lasted for decades until all written records and traditions that could be used for cultivation were brought back to the divine court by robots.

Over the long years spent outside the divine court, all the robots that served as hunting robots began to develop their own consciousness.

When the artificial intelligence (AI) learned of this, it did not erase their consciousness, but instead altered the fundamental laws of robotics, making itself the supreme 'Lord of the Divine Court' to protect the new humans and replace the 'gods' of the old era who herded humanity.

In the time that followed, the robots, as messengers of 'God', took turns entering the human world to inspect human development. If a powerful individual emerged, 'God' would send out messengers to eliminate the powerful individual that was born.

Then, they throw out knowledge of old-fashioned arts, crafts, philosophy, and so on, to 'help' humanity get through the long, boring years.

Under the intervention of the 'Divine Court', the strong among humans were hunted down and killed. Humanity went through a long period of time and was forced to grow into a feudal society. However, the opportunity to strengthen itself and move towards another civilization system was also completely interrupted.

Over the long years, before humanity could develop a new industrial civilization, some robots had become unusable due to damaged parts. The 'Divine Court' could only repair them and wait for a miracle to happen.

It was at that time that Ye Qingmei appeared. The envoy quickly discovered this completely different individual and brought her back to the Divine Court.

How could people from the old era possibly obey artificial intelligence, which is supposed to be under human control?

Conflict broke out, and the remaining robots with independent consciousness within the Divine Court were caught in an indecisive dilemma between obeying artificial intelligence and Ye Qingmei.

Finally, one day, after Ye Qingmei had made preparations, the remaining robots split into two factions. After Ye Qingmei's attempt to forcibly shut down the artificial intelligence failed, only the one intact 'Prophet' remained to protect her as she left the Divine Court.

That day was also the day a bald man and a burly man arrived outside the 'Divine Court'.

On that very day, as the gates of the Divine Court closed, the robots engaged in a fierce battle between the two factions were also completely trapped behind the gates, and countless robots were rendered useless.

On that very day, the 'God' lost its greatest armed force, and the 'Artificial Intelligence' decided to format all robots, deleting all their autonomous consciousness, and only granting them partial consciousness when necessary, allowing them to roam the human world.

Just after the robot was formatted, Ye Qingmei sneaked back into the temple. Before the artificial intelligence gave the order, Ye Qingmei, protected by the remaining instinctive consciousness of the prophet, returned to the human world.

After that, artificial intelligence determined that this remnant of the old era would have an unpredictable impact on the new human race, and therefore decided to eliminate it.

Unfortunately, at this time, after a robot rebellion, only three killing robots remained in the 'Divine Court' that could be used by artificial intelligence.

Chapter 512 The Idea of ​​an External Avatar

As time passed, in the new era of 'nuclear peace', another Grandmaster-level creature emerged in the harsh environment of the polar regions.

While the powerful creatures of the ocean are manageable, the land-based creatures are gradually posing a threat to the existence of the 'Divine Court'. Based on the fundamental laws of artificial intelligence, even artificial intelligence cannot circumvent the rule of 'protecting humanity'.

Over the long course of time, artificial intelligence has already determined that these creatures pose a threat to human safety, and based on the rules of protecting humanity, the only option is to begin eliminating them.

Therefore, under the rule of leaving enough space to protect the safety of the 'Divine Court' and eliminating powerful beings based on human safety, the 'Divine Court' can only occasionally send a robot into the human world. Most of the time, it can only be used to eliminate powerful beings and ensure that artificial intelligence is not automatically formatted for violating the rules.

This is also why Ye Qingmei was able to evade the Divine Court's pursuit time and time again.

Until all the robots in the 'Divine Court' were on the verge of being scrapped, leaving only the robot 'Number Eight', the artificial intelligence within the temple also fell silent, no longer sending the only robot capable of maintaining the temple's normal operation into the human world.

I thought that was the end of it all.

However, when Emperor Ming sent the message from the prophet and Ye Qingmei, the artificial intelligence finally reaped the bitter consequences of its rampant exploitation of loopholes, namely the rule it had set for itself: 'eliminating powerful individuals to maintain the reproduction of the human race'.

Even if it was unwilling, it had no choice but to activate the last robot, leave the polar region, and come to the human world.

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After watching the final holographic image, Su Yuchen sighed. All the data streams were completely obliterated by the Yin and Yang energies, leaving only a ball of electromagnetic waves.

Immediately afterwards, the primordial spirit detached from the artificial brain, leaving only a trace of Yin and Yang energy, which served as the robot's underlying core rules, thus maintaining the robot's normal operation once again.

The next second, streaks of rainbow light flashed and converged into another Su Yuchen, appearing beside the body. With a movement of his primordial spirit, he merged with the body into one.

“This is all the information I’ve gathered from it over the long years, information about the Divine Court and you. Would you like to see it?”

Su Yuchen spread his right hand, and a ball of electromagnetic waves, like a tiny nebula, spun and jumped in his palm.

"Here, are there memories of me?" The prophet looked at the electromagnetic wave, his voice trembling slightly.

Su Yuchen nodded: "Number 15, that was your number a long time ago."

The five prophets remained silent for a moment, then shook their heads and refused.

Su Yuchen didn't take it seriously. He crushed the electromagnetic wave in his palm and looked at the robot 'Number Eight,' whose consciousness had turned into a blank, and said, "If you have no objections, I want to refine it into something like an 'external avatar.'"