Douluo Continent: The Book of Witness and Peerless Tang Sect

On his first night in the college dormitory, Long You adapted very well. With the Pearl of Imagination around, it was impossible for Long You to experience insomnia.

The only problem was that when Beibei saw that Longyou had no intention of meditating cross-legged at night and instead lay down directly, she looked at Longyou with a rather surprised expression.

Perhaps out of fear of speaking too frankly with someone she didn't know well, Bei Bei didn't say much. However, Long You, who noticed this look, still explained to Bei Bei the special nature of his soul power circulation technique. (Actually, it was the special nature of the Imagination Pearl that allowed Long You to automatically maintain a meditative state after entering it, without needing to worry about posture.)

Previously, during the journey, in order to avoid letting Long's parents discover his special condition, Long You always meditated cross-legged in a very proper manner. However, after traveling for two months and meditating cross-legged for two whole months, Long You decided to stop torturing his back and legs.

Maintaining a cross-legged meditation posture, Long You's waist and legs were numb every morning when he woke up. In order to avoid developing lumbar muscle strain or even bowlegs at such a young age, Long You decided to meditate while lying down after arriving at the academy.

However, in order not to make Beibei think that he was just a talented person who didn't know how to work hard and was not a friend worth getting close to, Longyou could only shift the blame to his family's martial arts techniques.

Both of them were people with a lineage. After hearing Long You's explanation, Bei Bei immediately expressed her understanding and did not continue to ask for details about the technique. She just expressed great envy for Long You's ability to meditate while lying down.

The curriculum at the Junior Soul Master Academy is much easier than the elementary school Long You attended in his previous life. There are only classes in the morning, and the afternoons are entirely up to the students.

Students can participate in club activities; they can meditate in the simulated training area; or they can practice combat under the supervision of teachers in the designated battlegrounds of the academy.

In the classroom, the teacher hadn't appeared yet because it wasn't time for class. Long You looked through the books and timetable that had been handed to him and realized that there would only be three classes that morning.

The first lesson is grammar, mainly teaching literacy and writing skills. After all, they've graduated from the elementary Soul Master Academy; they can't still be illiterate. The second lesson is Soul Master theory or Soul Beast common sense—what it teaches is self-explanatory. The third lesson is meditation, where the teacher will teach the most basic version of meditation methods and lead the students in meditation together.

After briefly glancing through the textbook, Long You frowned slightly. The curriculum at the beginner Soul Master Academy was likely designed to cater to students from commoner backgrounds, so the content was quite basic. For young Soul Masters from Soul Master families, this level of content was clearly insufficient.

"Beibei, is this how all beginner Soul Master academies teach? This content doesn't seem to be of much use to us!"

"It's really not very useful, but as far as I know, all the primary soul master academies on the continent are like this."

In the lower grades, the teachers only teach this much. If students like you and me, who come from families of Soul Masters, want to learn anything extra, we can only go to the academy's library and read books on our own.

This is why we had the entire afternoon to ourselves. The Heaven Dou City Primary Soul Master Academy boasts a very strong faculty and abundant teaching facilities; even if you wanted to study Soul Master techniques, you could find a suitable teacher.

"The academy also has teachers who instruct in Soul Master techniques. How come I didn't know that?"

The information revealed in Bei Bei's words truly excited Long You. Originally, Long You was worried about not being able to further study and practice Soul Master techniques, but now Bei Bei told him not to worry, as the academy could meet all the students' needs.

"When I was helping Xiaoya tidy up her dorm that day, I overheard some upperclassmen talking about this topic, and out of curiosity, I asked them about it."

What? You're interested in learning how to make soul tools?

"Indeed, there is. Soul tools are such interesting and convenient things, I definitely want to master them. In this era, although the original Douluo Continent Three Kingdoms still emphasize the glory of Soul Masters, the brilliance of Soul Tools has already unknowingly infiltrated us."

Do you know where the Soul Master training course is located? I'll go check it out this afternoon.

“I know, I’ll take you there then. However, I still think that for us at this stage, soul power is the most important thing, so I’ll have to decline.”

"I understand, I understand. In fact, if I hadn't discovered that I seemed to have some talent for soul tools (like being able to cheat) when I was at home, I wouldn't be so eager to learn more about soul tool manufacturing techniques now."

Though he said this aloud, Long You couldn't help but feel a surge of excitement within him. To become a groundbreaking Soul Master—this was the long-term goal Long You set for himself after confirming that he had transmigrated to the world of Douluo Continent II: The Peerless Tang Sect.

Initially, Long You set this goal for a very simple reason: he couldn't accept returning from a modern society to a society somewhat similar to ancient China.

Long You misses the internet, misses mobile phones, and misses the era when you could accomplish so much with just a tap of your finger at home. He wants to try and see if he can develop a network-based information society using soul-guided devices in his lifetime through his own efforts.

This goal became even stronger after Long You awakened a martial soul that could be considered a cheat code, and discovered the real cheat code—the Pearl of Imagination, because Long You felt the possibility of realizing this wish.

In his previous life, Long You took computer programming as an elective in college. The course content wasn't explained in great depth, but perhaps to keep up with the times, the final exam required students to write a working "intelligent" program.

The intelligent program required for this elective course is clearly not true artificial intelligence, not even weak artificial intelligence. It is not something that college students who have only taken an elective course for one semester could write.

In Long You's view, it's just a Frankenstein's monster—a web crawler that can automatically retrieve information, with a learning and recording function added on top of that. To forcibly call it intelligent is an insult to intelligence.

But it didn't matter, because it was a seed. After awakening his martial soul, Long You had already taken the time to write the program down on paper, and then used his martial soul to analyze, deduce, and witness (optimize) it. The final result was that this "intelligent" program, which insulted intelligence, was indeed being deduced by the Book of Witness towards the direction of artificial intelligence.

This is an incredible surprise, because a society without smartphones can hardly be called an information society.

With the AI ​​program in place, Longyou has also figured out the methods for creating spirit-forged and soul-forged metals, so it won't be particularly difficult to produce them in the future.

Although Long You currently lacks a clear idea on how to translate computer language into the core array inscriptions required for the Soul Guide to operate, it's conceivable that as his understanding of core array inscriptions deepens, and with the optimization and deduction capabilities of the Book of Witness, merging the two into one is not a pipe dream.

So, if we inscribe core magic array runes with effects equivalent to intelligent programs on the basis of spirit-forged and soul-forged metals, can we obtain a soul tool version of artificial intelligence?

Undoubtedly, this is a goal that requires a great deal of effort and a very long time to achieve, but once this goal is achieved, Long You feels that it is not impossible for him to become a level 10 Soul Master, or even break through the barrier of the God Realm.