Chapter 164 Energy Sharing Program
The Zen room is quiet and the sandalwood fragrance is lingering.

The Emperor of Ziwei was sitting cross-legged, with a square object that looked like iron but was not iron floating in front of his eyes, flashing a faint red light.

Divine thoughts shuttled through it, causing ripples of magical power.

"No wonder Gu Yunli was so kind as to give me the Internet compilation manual. It turns out that the root of the problem lies here."

After a long time, Emperor Ziwei opened his eyes, and a hint of annoyance flashed in his eyes.

As soon as the dividends from the network login instrument came out, he realized that he was in trouble. If this continued, the Hunyi Network might have to withdraw from the Southern Continent.

This is still a network built with the [Source of Counting Sticks].

If it were the network he originally simulated with various Taoist ideas, it would probably be even worse.

"Since the skills come from the same source, the difference shouldn't be that big! Could it be that my method of use is wrong? Is the purpose of him compiling the manual online for me to mislead me?"

Emperor Ziwei narrowed his eyes and looked at the innate spiritual weapon in front of him, wondering whether he should disconnect from the Internet and comprehend it again?
Suddenly, his eyebrows twitched, and the voice of a visitor reporting came from outside the door.

"Your Majesty, the Great Emperor Dongyin wishes to see you!"

"Xuan!"

After a while, a faint sound of footsteps was heard, and the door opened and closed, and Emperor Dongyin, dressed in white casual clothes, walked into the room.

"The Internet is sharpening its knives, but you are standing still. You are really magnanimous!"

"The world is like a game of chess, and the universe is unpredictable. You and I have been practicing till now, and have gone through countless tribulations. Why should we worry about trivial conspiracies and tricks?" The Emperor Ziwei looked calm.

"Oh, it seems that fellow Daoist has a plan to deal with it?"

"Heh, fellow Daoist, are you here to gather intelligence?"

Emperor Dongyin narrowed his eyes, walked to Emperor Ziwei, and said:
"The Daoist Network is also the source of the counting sticks, right?"

"So what?"

The Emperor Ziwei admitted it frankly.

The armillary sphere network displays the human world, so it is not surprising that Emperor Dongyin can detect something through it.

"Fellow Daoist, you really have a good way. You got the network spiritual weapon without anyone noticing."

The Emperor of Ziwei smiled faintly and did not comment on this evaluation.

Dong Yin continued, "The dividends of the armillary sphere are slightly better than those of my water mirror. It seems that the same magic weapon, how to control it is also a science. The dividends of the Internet are far better than ours. In my opinion, it is mostly because of the wrong control method. Now we want to fight against the Internet, and the only way is to spend money. But spending money is not the goal. The key is to comprehend the source of the abacus and the correct control method. Now that you and I are both the source of the abacus, we are also grasshoppers on the same straw. Why don't we work together to deduce it? What do you think?"

As he spoke, Dong Yin raised his hand and took out a jade scepter: "This is the method to operate the water mirror."

The expression of Ziwei Emperor moved slightly, and he hesitated for a moment, then he photographed it from a distance. When his divine sense probed into it, his expression gradually became complicated.

After a long while, he took out a jade slip and threw it over: "This is the network control method that Gu Yunli gave me. It is very different from yours. It seems that Gu Yunli has concealed a lot of things, especially the control method of the source of counting sticks!"

Emperor Dongyin took the jade scepter and his expression changed suddenly as he was contemplating it.

Compared with Gu Yunli's control method, the control method he figured out on his own was obviously insignificant.

This forced him to admit that Gu Yunli's understanding of the Internet was clearly beyond most of them!

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While Emperor Ziwei and Emperor Dongyin were pondering the network, Gu Yunli's attention was entirely focused on his body.

After a long period of polishing, the three great Dao fetuses of Hunling, Jiehuang and Data have already taken shape. Although they cannot be seen with the naked eye, the embryonic form of the Dao can be felt. At this point, the Dao fetuses no longer absorb and exhale spiritual energy, and are just like innate spiritual objects.

It's a pity that such a turbid body has polluted such a spiritual object.

However, the acupoints throughout the body are blocked. Although the main meridians have been opened through various practices, many acupoints are still blocked.

Next, after opening up these key points, you can enter the realm of celestial being.

This is where all veins return to their source!

"Promote all meridians to return to their source, and exhaust all nine barriers. Since the goal is to open up all the meridians in the body, why do we need mana to open up the meridians? It should be feasible to tamper with the data with the Taoist intention."

Gu Yunli, who had cultivated to this point, relied on his Bodhisattva cultivation and did not follow the usual path. He tampered with his illusory body which already had a hint of truth.

There are twelve months in the sky and twelve meridians in the human body.

Under the twelve meridians, the detailed channels are as numerous as mountains and rivers.

Gu Yunli took the twelve meridians as the main channels and sorted them out one by one. It seemed complicated, but it was a patient job.

When the sound of spiritual energy flowing in the body gradually becomes as loud as thunder, the remaining few branches will break through and be connected under the vast magical power.

When all meridians are unobstructed, the Tao embryo merges into the whole body.

Gu Yunli only felt his whole body lighten, and his cultivation had already entered the realm of celestial immortal without any disturbance.

After careful comprehension, the meaning of Tao is still the same Tao, there is no qualitative leap, it's just that I see it more clearly.

As he waved his hand, a wisp of incense condensed in his eyes. Under the influence of the Tao, the incense underwent subtle changes and turned into a wisp of Taizhen heavenly fragrance.

"The mana consumption is still too high."

Gu Yunli felt his magic power being depleted and frowned.

Ever since he was able to tamper with reality, he has tried to tamper with many things, including incense.

Unfortunately, the higher the quality of the tampered item, the greater the mana consumption.

Now that he has a more thorough grasp of the Tao, the consumption of his magic power is still a little difficult for him to accept.

Most importantly, he didn't want to become a human incense tamperer.

"However, in extreme cases, it may be a way out."

Gu Yunli let out a light breath.

He had already cultivated to the level of Bodhisattva, and seemed neither sad nor happy about the celestial beings in the level similar to Arhat. Therefore, after comprehending the cultivation level of the celestial beings, he turned his attention to the Internet.

Only then did I realize that more than half a month had passed during this period of seclusion.

Faced with the high dividends of the Internet, the response of other networks is very simple. They directly issue announcements and align the dividends with the entire network.

"This is a smart approach!"

Gu Yunli praised, saying that this was to align with the entire network, but in fact it was to align with him, no matter how much he set the dividend, they would be invincible.

"In that case, let's waste time!"

Gu Yunli had an idea and issued an announcement to temporarily adjust the dividends for Internet login instruments to three-fifths.

For other networks, this ratio not only means no profit, but they also have to pay out of their own pockets to make up the difference.

He wanted to see how long they could hold out.

"Now that my cultivation has reached the level of a celestial being, it's time to test the effect of the earth veins' energy supply."

After issuing the announcement, Gu Yunli immediately left the secret room and headed towards the back mountain of the Lingbao Equipment Factory.

The Lingbao Equipment Refining Factory is located at the foot of Laolu Mountain, which is one of the branches of the Taimin Mountains. The mountains are deep and the forests are dense, with few people living there. It has always been the back garden for Laolu Temple to search the mountains and collect herbs.

However, ever since the Lingbao Equipment Refining Factory was established here, Lao Lu Mountain is no longer as secluded as it once was, and there are always employees on vacation who go into the forest to explore and play.

Gu Yunli avoided people all the way until he reached the deepest part of the forest, where he stopped.

"Look at this place, it is a place where winds gather and energy gathers, and spiritual essence is hidden. It is a good place! If it were not so far away from human habitation, it would be a good place to establish a sect."

Gu Yunli looked at the valley in front of him that looked like a coiled black tortoise, nodded secretly, and waved his hand. Countless formation flags surged out from his sleeves and fell in all directions.

At the same time, he waved his hand to take out the bent wooden staff, lightly tapped the ground, and the Huangdao intention rose up freely. Amid the rustling of ancient trees and forests, the sound of dragon roars came from deep in the earth.

"Five earths, Geng and Ren, Wu and Ji are the gates of heaven!" Gu Yunli shouted in a low voice, and the earth was like a lake, with ripples rippling across it. Faintly, a dragon head seemed to break out of the lake, raising its head and roaring.

"Lock!"

There was another low shout, and the formation flags hidden in the mountains and forests appeared, suppressing the dragon vein with the Taoist intention of Jie Huang.

"Hooho-"

All things have spirits, and the veins of the earth that were bound in this way made waves of unwillingness, but under the will of the immortal, they could only fall back into the earth with wails.

"It's done!"

Gu Yunli was slightly delighted, and quickly sat cross-legged, controlling the spirit-absorbing formation and carefully sensing the energy supply of the earth's veins.

The ground veins are the veins of the earth. They appear to be a dragon, alone, but in fact they run through the earth and connect with heaven and earth.

When energy is extracted with the power of the magic circle, energy from other places will surge in, like a deer drinking from a hundred rivers, an inexhaustible supply.

"It really works!"

Gu Yunli showed a look of joy... The most important thing in building the metaverse is the simulation of the virtual world, which requires a lot of energy to maintain computing power support.

He practiced the way of Hunling Jiehuang, and it would be easy for him to use the power of the earth veins. It was completely feasible to use it to support computing power.

At that time, he only needs to send the most redundant data to major energy centers for calculation.

As for the computing elements... isn't [the source of abacus] a ready-made tool?

All you have to do is cut off some of its functions.

Gu Yunli, realizing that the plan was feasible, became more active.

At present, it is not difficult to create a "Soul-Absorbing Array", but the difficulty lies in the fact that if one wants to satisfy the needs of tens of millions of people online at the same time, the scale of the Soul-Absorbing Array must be extremely large.

This kind of spirit-absorbing magic array has already exceeded the limits of his capabilities.

The most important thing is that such a soul-absorbing formation cannot be concealed from the Immortal Court. Once something unexpected happens, it may become a handle for being controlled by others.

"We have to find a way to avoid the risk."

Gu Yunli fell into deep thought... He wanted to take the initiative, but also avoid supervision and control...

Why does this angle look so familiar?

Isn’t this what “decentralization” means?
Gu Yunli's eyes suddenly lit up.

The purpose of him building the soul-absorbing array was to provide energy and for calculations. If that was the case, why bother building a large-scale energy-absorbing array?

To a certain extent, he doesn't even need to build a magic circle, because there are plenty of soul-absorbing magic circles in the world.

"That's it!"

Gu Yunli's mind moved, and his spiritual thoughts logged into the Internet backend. He drafted an announcement in a few words and released it.

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A deity makes a mountain, not its altitude.

Ever since the General Chamber of Commerce built the Lingbao Equipment Refining Factory near Lao Lu Guan, Lao Lu Guan has gradually become famous on the Internet.

There are simply too many employees at the Lingbao Equipment Refining Factory.

When you have nothing to do, the nearby Lingbao Equipment Refining Factory has obviously become a good place to visit.

After a while, it has become a very popular place.

However, for Lao Luguan, the benefits of relying on the Lingbao Equipment Refining Factory are no longer just about the incense. The expansion and construction of the Lingbao Equipment Refining Factory alone has made Lao Luguan earn a lot of money.

Those who are close to the water get the first chance to see the moon, and they have discovered many top-quality seedlings.

Such a large sect seems to be on the verge of revival because of a weapon refinery. So, in order to not lose to the Lingbao weapon refinery in momentum, the expansion of Lao Lu Temple has been put on the agenda.

However, expanding buildings is easy, but expanding the mountain protection array is extremely difficult.

It’s not that it can’t be done, but once the expansion is carried out, not to mention the consumption of materials, the daily maintenance alone will have to increase several times.

For Lao Luguan, who had just become rich, this was something he was reluctant to give up.

"Master, the mountain protection formation involves the foundation of our temple. In my opinion, it is better not to move it. It is better to follow the example of the Network Palace and build a Star-Picking Tower, which will support the sky and maintain the dignity of our temple."

In the abbot's room, the master of the Transmission Hall gave advice.

"Brother, what you said makes sense. Since the earth is insufficient, let's take what the sky has. Then the buildings and pavilions will not lose their elegance!"

The deacon in the guest hall also echoed.

Upon hearing this, the abbot of Lao Lu Temple fell silent. Lao Lu Temple had expanded several times and there were several Taoist temples inside the temple, which almost made full use of the limited land.

The current expansion is almost taking up the entire Jinsheng Garden, which is really stretched to the limit.

Building a pavilion is indeed a solution.

But it still looks too crowded, which is embarrassing for Lao Luguan!

But if we activate the mountain protection formation...

When the old master of Lu Temple was feeling extremely worried, an illusory bell sound suddenly came into his mind.

He logged on to the Internet and looked at it, and his brows immediately lit up with joy: "Great, I got a pillow just when I was dozing off!"

Everyone was surprised when they saw this: "What happened to the master?"

The old master of the Lu Temple said: "My fellow disciples, please read the announcement on the Internet."

Everyone quickly flicked the rings on their fingers and were logged into the Internet in an instant.

After the first login, a pop-up window immediately appeared in the lower right corner.

【Energy Sharing Plan】

——The development of the times cannot be separated from energy, and the development of the Internet also needs energy as a backing. In order to maximize the use of idle tools, the Internet has launched an energy sharing plan.

——The plan is as follows: Anyone who controls the Soul Absorbing Array and has a power of more than one thousand units can participate in the plan...

There are many contents in the plan, which are roughly:
Participants only need to provide a spirit-absorbing array to power the computing instruments issued by the Internet. The Internet will give certain compensation based on the participants' contributions.

For Lao Lu Temple, this part of the incense compensation is enough to offset the daily maintenance of the mountain protection formation.

If the scale of the soul-absorbing array is expanded, there might be some profit to be made.

After the old lawyer saw the crowd, his face was filled with surprise.

“What is the Internet doing?”

"This is really strange. With the financial resources of the Internet, you can definitely build your own spirit-absorbing array. Why would you use our array?"

"Yes, Master, could there be a trick here? If we rashly put foreign magic tools into the mountain protection formation, wouldn't we be tying our own hands and feet?"

"Gu Zhenzai is famous throughout the world and rich enough to rival a country. He would not do such a thing."

"It seems that we only need to provide energy, and we don't have to install the mountain protection array."

"My fellow disciples, seeing is believing, hearing is not. The Lingbao Refining Factory is right next to us, why don't we go there in person to take a look? Why are we discussing this?"

"Junior brother, what you said makes sense!"

Amidst the discussion among the senior members of Lao Lu Temple, they simply stood up and headed towards the Lingbao Equipment Refining Factory.

At this time, Lao Luguan could go to the door to check, but it was not convenient for other sects. Looking at the announcement suddenly posted on the Internet, he was immediately full of doubts.

What mystery is Gu Zhenzai trying to create?
　Two in one
　　
　
(End of this chapter)