Technological advancement begins with devouring.

There won't be a result so soon regarding supporting Jiang Chen in establishing a base.

However, the treasures that Jiang Chen exchanged arrived very quickly.

“Mr. Jiang, I must remind you of something. Among the items you exchanged is a copy of ‘The Fundamentals of Spiritual Mind Master’. It is not a physical manual and can only be cultivated in the virtual space. According to the joint agreement of the eight major forces, the copyright of all manuals belongs to the creator. Others who purchase them can only cultivate them themselves and are strictly prohibited from distributing them. Otherwise, they will be punished or even hunted down by the eight major forces.”

After handing a large box to Jiang Chen, the deliveryman, the God of War, earnestly gave him a reminder.

When exchanging the book, there was a note on the list about "The Basics of Spiritual Mind Masters" stating that the copyright owner was the Limitless Martial Arts School, and even if you exchanged it, you were only allowed to practice it yourself. Jiang Chen was naturally aware of this taboo.

"I understand." After confirming that there were no problems with the goods, Jiang Chen signed for them, watched the other party leave, and then returned to his room.

Back inside, Jiang Chen opened the box and took out the treasures one by one, then picked up the spatial ring first.

The spatial ring is nothing special in appearance; it's just an ordinary ring with patterns engraved on its surface that seem to have some special connection to alchemy.

Jiang Chen channeled his mental energy into the ring and immediately sensed a spacious area, a little over ten meters in length, width, and height. There was a slight discrepancy compared to the data, but it was negligible.

He casually placed the chair next to him, and with a thought, the chair vanished and reappeared in the space within the ring.

After taking out the chair again and trying it out several times, Jiang Chen nodded in satisfaction.

It's easy to retract and extend, requiring minimal effort.

The only limitation is that you must have contact with the item to be stored in the ring, and it can only store inanimate objects, unlike the 'World Ring' which is more convenient.

However, for Jiang Chen, this spatial ring was already enough.

"The current mech squad is still hunting in the wilderness, so let's keep some as personal combat power after the next batch is produced." A thought flashed through Jiang Chen's mind as he continued to look at the other treasures.

The plant spirits were all relatively inexpensive and wouldn't be of any help to Jiang Chen's current strength; he bought them only for research purposes.

Whether it's the potion-related aspects of alchemy or the biological and genetic research aspects of traditional science, both require a large number of special life forms as research samples.

Jiang Chen can hunt monsters himself, but for plants containing enormous life energy, at least at this stage, buying plant spirits from other forces is the easiest way.

Besides the spatial ring and the spirit of plants, there are only two other items left.

First, there's the "Basic Techniques of Spiritual Mastery" manual, provided by the Limitless Martial Arts Academy. Based on the description in the original work, it's estimated that Hong obtained it from some 'ancient civilization ruins'.

Even the most basic content of a spiritual cultivation method from the universe can serve as a reference for Jiang Chen.

Although Jiang Chen's focus is on using the knowledge and blueprints provided by the system to create various weapons and strengthen his own strength through external means, he would not mind improving his combat power if there were suitable methods.

At the very least, it shouldn't be useless without external things.

The last item is a quantum computer from an ancient civilization relic. It is very small, about the size of a wristband when worn on the arm, but it provides computing power that even exceeds that of the supercomputing center that Jiang Chen built at great expense.

Of course, these two are not contradictory.

Jiang Chen could combine the auxiliary optical computer and the supercomputing center, with Jarvis in charge, to maximize the computing power of both.

This in itself is also quite beneficial to Jarvis.

"Jarvis, send a subroutine into this quantum computer and see if there are any backdoors left behind," Jiang Chen summoned Jarvis and gave the order.

Once the data interface is activated, Jarvis immediately sends a subroutine into the optical computer.

A moment later, Jarvis's voice rang out: "Master, there was a monitoring program in the quantum computer that has been erased. There is also a tracking device that was not originally included with the quantum computer but was added later. I suggest you remove it."

"As expected... the HR Alliance's true colors..." Jiang Chen was slightly speechless.

The HR Alliance is, after all, a business alliance with an extremely complex power structure, a mixed bag of all sorts of people, so Jiang Chen was not surprised by this incident.

"Can you be sure it's been completely cleaned?" Jiang Chen asked.

Jarvis did not answer immediately, but waited a while before speaking: "It has been confirmed that we have taken over 100% control of the quantum computer. Unless the other party's intelligence level is more than two levels higher than mine, it is impossible for them to continue to lie low under these circumstances."

“That’s enough,” Jiang Chen nodded.

Jiang Chen was unaware of the level of artificial intelligence in the universe.

However, if there were truly an intelligence two levels above Jarvis, it wouldn't need any covert surveillance methods; it could directly infiltrate the supercomputing center's database via the network, and Jarvis wouldn't be able to defend against it, or even detect it.

If such a level of intelligence truly exists on Earth, Jiang Chen wouldn't be able to do anything about it; even physically cutting off the internet wouldn't work, so there would be no need to take precautions.

It is enough to ensure that important secrets are not stolen by other forces within Jarvis's capabilities.

"When I go to the server room next time, I'll send this optical computer to you. You can study how to combine the optical computer and the supercomputer's computing power to the maximum efficiency, so as not to waste it," Jiang Chen gave Jarvis an order.

The optical brain from a space civilization and the supercomputer on Earth that increases computing power by stacking chips are completely different in architecture.

Even with Jarvis's capabilities, combining the computing power of both would inevitably result in waste, which is unavoidable.

As for how to minimize this waste, that depends on Jarvis's abilities.

“I understand, Master. However, no matter how much we improve, it’s estimated that at least 15% of the computing power will be wasted,” Jarvis reminded him.

"A little waste is unavoidable, just do your best." Jiang Chen nodded slightly.

With this optical computer, plus the computing power support of the supercomputing center, we won't have to worry about this for a long time.

Even if a medium-sized base is established, this computing power is more than enough to control the entire base.

Of course, if we expand further in the future, we will need to further improve Jarvis's abilities, but that's a matter for the future, and there's no need to think that far ahead now.

After handing the task over to Jarvis, Jiang Chen entered the War God Palace, went to his private study, opened "The Basics of Spiritual Mind Masters," and began to carefully read through it.