Swallowing the Stars: The Rise of Emperor Wei

The main training room is much larger than the living quarters; it's located on the lower level of the main hall and is even larger than the main hall itself.

Gao Sheng flipped his hand and took out a jade box, then opened it.

A wild, blood-red flower swayed inside the box.

"It's been two days since I bought it. I finally have time to recognize it as my master and start nurturing it." Gao Sheng muttered to himself, his right finger forming a knife, his primal force bursting forth. He slashed his left palm, creating a wound from which blood gushed out.

He brought the little flower to the wound, and it was like a starving man finding food. The little flower suddenly grew larger, as if it had opened its mouth wide, and swallowed all his blood. A red fruit was also taken out by Gao Sheng and was swallowed as well. After a while, the blood-red flower rapidly grew larger, and a wisp of black mist appeared out of thin air in the surrounding space, which was quickly absorbed by the flower.

Soon, Gao Sheng felt that the conch flower had established a soul connection with him, and there was a simple consciousness like that of an infant, which seemed to be very attached to Gao Sheng, just like a child to its parents. Gao Sheng also felt that... they could communicate directly through consciousness.

On a whim, the little flower darted into his palm, making him feel as if he had an extra layer of warm clothing.

With another thought, the larger conch flower emerged from Gao Sheng's skin and then transformed back into a flower shape.

"Master...no..." The snail flower left Gao Sheng's body, as if it had been wronged.

Suddenly, Lao Tie's voice came into Gao Sheng's consciousness, "You can either make it form a battle suit that fits you, or you can store it in the system space."

"Oh? It's life, is that okay?" Gao Sheng asked curiously.

"It can't be stored in a spatial ring, but the system's space isn't a spatial ring, it's a world," Old Tie said. "Although it can't store other life forms now, the Brahma Flower has already recognized its master, so it can."

Is this even possible?

Gao Sheng then let the conch flower emerge again, and then drew out a wisp of the system's 'world power' to envelop the flower.

Suddenly! The flower-shaped pattern disappeared.

Then it reappeared.

"No, thank you. The snail flower needs to be tended to every day, it's more convenient to keep it close to your body." Gao Sheng stretched out his hand, "Little Snail, come here."

The tiny whelk immediately disappeared into Gao Sheng's palm.

This name has a slightly chubby kid's quirky sense of humor about it.

"Xiao Ai!" Gao Sheng called out.

The quantum computer on her arm emitted a soft glow, and the illusory image of the little fairy beauty appeared.

"Owner."

Gao Sheng took out several B-grade small robots from his spatial ring and said, "From now on, the training of Little Snail will be entrusted to you."

"Okay," Xiao Ai said with a smile.

The robot disappeared, clearly having been stored in Xiao Ai's spatial ring.

I made too much money on the previous space bracelet, so I gave it to Meng B and bought a new ring with a larger space instead.

Xiao Ai now has her own spatial ring, which allows her to collect and retrieve unclaimed items. However, since she has no physical body, she cannot move the items after retrieving them.

Only with the help of these robots can this be achieved.

"Xiao Ai, I've been quite busy these past few days and haven't had a chance to ask you. Now that you've become an intelligent life form, how are you different from before?"

Xiao Ai said crisply, "There are many, like how I can use a spatial ring, you know that."

"By the way, Xiao Ai, you seem particularly interested in getting the spatial ring. Is it of any importance to you?"

"Because I am a living being now, and I'm afraid of dying..."

Huh? Gao Sheng's mouth gaped open. Was that the reason?

"Can intelligent life forms also die? And why don't you die after you get the spatial ring?" Gao Sheng asked hurriedly.

The little elf rolled its eyes. "It's not that you won't die, it's that you won't die that easily."

Uh... Gao Sheng was speechless.

Xiao Ai pointed to her feet with her little finger and said, "Master, your smart computer is pretty bad."

Gao Sheng slapped his forehead. He had been shopping all day and had forgotten about it. But why hadn't Xiao Ai reminded him before?

"I know, I'll get you a better one tomorrow."

"No need," Xiao Ai smiled.

"Huh?" Gao Sheng was taken aback.

"Actually, the difference between high-end and low-end smart computers lies in the materials. As for the intelligence inside, they are all the same..." Xiao Ai explained in detail.

Gao Sheng certainly knew this, which was why he forgot to replace it with a better one.

In fact, all the advanced intelligence that is publicly sold in the human world, whether it is intelligent quantum computers, the intelligence on spaceships, in machine puppets, or the auxiliary intelligence in this castle, is the same. Intelligence is just software after all, and it doesn't cost much. After billions of years, it has long been in its optimal state, with no room for improvement whatsoever.

Of course, more advanced intelligence certainly exists, but that's something Gaosheng can't buy right now.

Xiao Ai continued, "Your smart computer is made of relatively low-grade materials. Even a ninth-level Hengxing could probably smash it to pieces."

"If it were before, it wouldn't matter, since your data is backed up anyway, we can just switch to a different one..."

As Xiao Ai chattered on, she took out a small robot tool and began to operate it to disassemble the intelligent optical brain on Gao Sheng's arm.

"But if this happens after I'm born, and all the chips in this computer are destroyed, I'll die. Even if you buy a new computer and restore the data, I won't come back to life..."

Gao Sheng listened quietly to what she was saying.

In the short time that followed, the little robot had removed all the storage chips from the optical computer.

"Once I become an intelligent life form, these storage chips become useless. All the data is in my consciousness, so it doesn't matter whether there are storage chips or not."

Whoosh! The little robot and a bunch of chips vanished.

"Intelligent life forms have no physical bodies. Within a certain range, I can reside in any sufficiently complex chip and switch between them at will."

"Although I have no physical body, I still need a vessel. I cannot exist in nothing, Master, do you understand?"

Gao Sheng suddenly realized: "I understand. You mean, with the spatial ring, if there's danger, you can always run to a different vessel within the ring?"

"Not entirely," Xiao Ai laughed. "Actually, there are copies of me in these robots and the storage chips we just collected. I don't need to run away. As long as one copy is intact, even if the carrier I'm currently inhabiting is destroyed, I will reappear on other carriers."

"Spatial artifacts are very sturdy. Even the cheapest spatial artifact is difficult for a realm lord to destroy. With the spatial ring, I am safe enough."

Gao Sheng nodded: "I see. Intelligent life is indeed amazing."

Xiao Ai laughed and said, "So, whether you replace this smart computer or not is no longer important."

Gao Sheng suddenly asked, "Does that mean that if you leave a copy in the castle, you can return to the castle at any time when we go out into space?"

"Of course not, there's a range. Right now, I can only influence a few meters around me with my own power..." Xiao Ai thought for a moment and said, "With the help of this computer's wireless communication function, it can go much farther, but at most it's only within the range of one planet."

After talking with Xiao Ai for a long time, Gao Sheng finally understood what kind of person she was.