Chapter 226 Unprecedented Crisis
"Oh, my dear, what good ideas do you have? Tell me quickly!"

The Jade Emperor, who seldom spoke from beginning to end, suddenly asked with a look of interest.

"Your Majesty, the secret of heaven cannot be revealed. If this method is revealed, I'm afraid its power will be greatly reduced."

"Oh, you want to avoid me too?"

"That's fine..."

When Wanfu Tianzun said this, his voice suddenly disappeared, but he still bowed and reported, with his lips moving slightly, obviously using a secret method to report.

This made the immortals very curious.

They all paid close attention to the expression of the Jade Emperor.

He was seen frowning, but his eyes became brighter as he listened, and his frown gradually relaxed. Not long after, the Jade Emperor clapped his hands and exclaimed:
"Okay, okay, my dear, you are indeed my lucky general!"

"Your Majesty, I am not too terrified by your praise."

"The strategy proposed by Wanfu Tianzun is very good. I appoint you as the vanguard to fight against the enemy. I will immediately mobilize the heavenly soldiers and generals to prepare for the battle on the Internet."

"Here!"

The Jade Emperor's self-righteousness made the immortals in the hall frown. They wanted to speak out in opposition, but they had no good ideas. After hesitating over the right and wrong ideas, they finally chose to give up.

The court meeting ended and all the immortals dispersed.

Emperor Ziwei caught up with Emperor Qingxu and walked side by side on the top of the sea of ​​clouds:
"Gu Yunli is coming with such a strong momentum this time, what do you think, fellow Daoist?"

"If the sky falls, there will be someone to hold it up. The one who is anxious now is not you or me, but Your Majesty."

"That's why I feel a little uneasy."

"Oh? Why do you say that?"

"That usher didn't show up earlier or later, but showed up right after you and I offered our advice. Don't you think there's something fishy going on, fellow Taoist? Moreover, if Wanfu Tianzun's advice was useful, why didn't he mention it at the beginning of the court meeting?"

"Gu Yunli caused a big disturbance in the Immortal Court. Wanfu Tianzun seemed to have lost all face, but in fact, he had already pledged his loyalty and became your Majesty's man. It is not surprising that he is taking care of him now."

"Yes, so in my opinion, today's court meeting was probably directed and performed by your Majesty himself."

"What do fellow Taoists mean?"

"If the strategy of Wanfu Tianzun is as ingenious as your majesty said, and it can deal with the Internet, then I'm afraid it can also deal with us! Your majesty, this is to kill the chicken to scare the monkey."

At this point in the conversation, the two of them paused, and when they looked at each other, they saw a hint of extreme fear in each other's eyes.

……

……

"The Immortal Court will hold a meeting, and Wanfu will offer suggestions?"

In the secret realm of time and space, Gu Yunli sat casually on a desolate planet, looking at the information retrieved from the database, with a hint of thought in his eyes.

The reaction of the Immortal Court was completely within his expectations.

However, to his surprise, Wanfu Tianzun actually claimed to have found his weakness.

"My weakness?"

Gu Yunli fell into deep thought, constantly examining himself, but could not find any weaknesses for a long time.

If I have to point out a weakness, it is that I don't have an inch of territory in reality.

It makes the so-called declaration of war look like a child's play.

However, looking around the world, is there anyone who dares to say that Gu Yunli's manifesto against immortality is a joke?
nobody!
Against the backdrop of the behemoth that is the Immortal Court, daring to declare war itself is a kind of courage.

The purpose of Gu Yunli's declaration of war was not for the so-called war, but more to cooperate with the Heavenly Paradise and impact the prestige and ban of the Immortal Court.

In his expectation, facing his declaration of war, the Immortal Court, which could not find any Internet entity, could only intensify the ban.

Once the contradictions are thoroughly intensified, the world will be in chaos.

At that time, when the situation is divided among the heroes, it will be the time for Gu Yunli to take advantage of the situation.

Therefore, not having territory is both a disadvantage and an advantage.

With light asset operations, Gu Yunli can afford to spend and have fun.

What surprised him was that his casual slogan "My neighbors store grain, I store guns, my neighbors are my granary" actually attracted countless users.

Few people know that the stickiness of the Internet is average, but the stickiness of the secret space and time is extremely high.

It can be said that anyone who logs into the secret realm of time and space, completes the novice process, and comprehends the meaning of chaos will almost never be lost.

For mortals, the feeling of gaining power overnight has a huge psychological impact on them, and no one can withstand such temptation.

For a cultivator, once he comprehends a fragment of the Great Dao, it is equivalent to triggering the Broken Window Effect;
They have all understood it, so even if Gu Yunli has some hidden tricks in his Taoism, they cannot retreat. In this case, they can only go all the way.

Therefore, most of these influx of users can stay.

As word of mouth spreads among this group of people, the ban by the Immortal Court will probably become a complete joke.

Everything seems to be moving in the right direction.

Only Wanfu Tianzun's suggestion made Gu Yunli a little uneasy.

"Forget it. You fight yours and I fight mine. If your plan disrupts my position, it will be a loss."

Gu Yunli shook his head.

What he needs to do now is to absorb the new users.

That’s right, the explosive growth in users almost completely consumed his newly added computing power.

Although new users can contribute a certain amount of computing power after comprehending the meaning of Chaos, most of them are ordinary people who have just entered the Tao. The computing power they contribute is good enough to maintain their own computing power consumption.

In addition, with the increase of users, the original map area is obviously not enough, and players even compete for monsters in many main cities.

The opening of new monster spawning points is imminent, and all of this will take time to render slowly.

Governing a big country is like cooking a small fish!
take it easy!

As Gu Yunli was muttering, his mind moved and his figure disappeared.

When he appeared again, he was already on Mercury, on the official road leading to the Dreamweaver Cave.

Nowadays, the official road is quite lively.

Countless players were coming and going, and there were some farmhouses and villages scattered along the official road.

These villages are all filled with people who immigrated here after signing the agreement to enter the paradise.

To be honest, this group of people is a complete burden to Gu Yunli.

Having lost their bodies and souls, they are just a string of memory data, and in order to maintain their existence, the computing power of the Internet must be consumed.

But Gu Yunli felt it was worth it!
A sense of security after death can significantly improve users' sense of happiness.

In the past, civilian Internet users were like rats in the gutter, and everyone wanted to kill them, but no one said a word.

Now it is almost all in a semi-public state.

No one is afraid of being caught.

The worst that can happen is that you'll get a scar the size of a bowl on your head, and you'll still be a hero in heaven.

Now Gu Yunli plans to make this group of people more valuable.

He strolled towards a farmyard.

The outside of this farmyard was in a mess, as if it had been ravaged by soldiers and bandits. However, the inside of the yard, bounded by a fence, was still clean and tidy.

At this time, an old man was holding a broom and cleaning the mess outside the yard.

Looking closely, if this old man is not Lao Chaizi, then who else could he be?

"Can I have a bowl of water, old man?"

Gu Yunli walked closer and asked with a bow.

The old man looked up and saw Gu Yunli. He looked him up and down and said, "You are dishonest young man. Why do you still ask me for water? Do you really think that I don't understand you players?"

Gu Yunli smiled and asked knowingly, "You were a player before?" "That's not the case. Before, a bunch of players gathered in front of my door to see me. I saw them every day. Even if I don't understand, I'm sure I'll become an expert after a long illness!"

The old man said, laughing:
"Young man, are you here to see something new? If you don't mind, come inside and sit down for a while?"

"That's annoying."

Gu Yunli bowed and followed the old man into the farmhouse.

After the host and the guest were seated, the old man started talking.

He said that there were three most shocking moments in his life.

Which three times did Gu Yunli ask?

The old man said that the first time was when his hometown was hit by a disaster and he saw thousands of miles of starving people along the way while fleeing from the famine. He would never forget this scene for the rest of his life.

This second time was the first time I entered the city. I used 300 points for no reason and exchanged them for a bushel of fine grain in the online bank.

"I've lived for nearly sixty years, but I've never seen anyone get food for no reason. Young man, you don't know that I carried two buckets of food and walked hundreds of miles that day, but I didn't even feel embarrassed or out of breath when I got home."

Gu Yunli raised his thumbs up when he heard this: "Old man, you are really strong!"

"No, no, I'm just happy."

The old man's face was beaming as he talked about the third shocking moment. It was just a few days ago when he came to this paradise after being beheaded. During those days, he tossed and turned and could hardly believe it.

"In fact, it's not just me who can't believe it. The whole world can't believe it. Look at the land outside. It's all stepped on by the players who came to see me."

Speaking of this, the old man's face lit up.

His life in the past period of time can be regarded as the highlight of his life.

I have never been watched by so many people before.

Gu Yunli sat nearby, listening and responding. While feeling warm in the heart, he was also wary of hidden dangers.

To be honest, he was a little nervous about creating the Paradise section.

He was afraid of the real people, and when he encountered any setbacks, he wanted to hide in heaven.

This is not a good thing for Middle-earth, or even the internet.

After all, this world is still a material world.

No matter how beautiful the secret space and time is, it is ultimately built on the material world, unless Gu Yunli has reached a high level of cultivation and possesses the ability to create the world.

Otherwise, excessive beautification of the paradise will definitely pose hidden dangers.

This is also the reason why Gu Yunli set up various thresholds for the paradise of heaven.

For example, those who commit suicide are not accepted; after entering heaven, their merits and demerits must be settled; those with noble moral character can become officials in the kingdom of heaven... and so on.

The purpose is to prevent the real world from being overly beautified and to make people yearn for paradise.

"Master, what are you going to do next?"

"I don't have any ideas. I'll just plant some crops and save some money, and that'll make me happy."

"I have an idea, would you like to try it, old man?"

"Oh?"

"Look, this place is next to the Dreamweaver Cave, and it's a must-go for players. Old man, why don't you set up a tea stall here to give players a place to rest and earn some points."

"Tea stall?"

The old man looked surprised and said, "I heard that those players are immortal and don't need to eat or drink. Is anyone coming to our tea stall?"

Gu Yunli smiled and said, "They don't need to eat or drink, but if this tea is like immortal wine, drinking it can increase their magical powers. Do you think they will come?"

"Ah? I, I don't have this tea?"

"I have it!"

The old man's expression suddenly became dull and his figure became blurred.

Seeing this, Gu Yunli's expression changed drastically.

His divine sense swept through the secret realm of time and space, but he saw that at this moment, almost all the people in the paradise land were in a daze.

Not only them, but even the players' movements became laggy.

This is thanks to the fact that part of the computing power used to render player actions comes from the players themselves, otherwise they would also be stuck.

"What the hell, what happened? Why did the monster suddenly stop moving?"

At a certain monster spawning point, several players looked at the motionless monsters in front of them with bewildered expressions.

"I...why...can't I move...?"

There was a novice player who stuttered and became as stuck as a puppet.

"Why can't I enter the secret space-time?"

Countless players in the real world suddenly found that they could not log into the Internet secret realm.

All these changes shocked Internet users.

What’s worse, it was found that even many basic functions of the Internet were unusable.

This forced many people to log on to other networks for help.

For a time, panic spread.

It would be fine if the Internet had malfunctions, but if something went wrong with the paradise itself, the blow to people's hearts would be devastating.

"What happened? Why can't I log into the Secret Realm?"

"Since the creation of the Internet, there has never been a situation like this before? Could it be that Gu Yunli has met with an accident?"

"No way?"

"I can't think of any other explanation except this reason."

"Fuck, isn't it because of the Immortal Manifesto? This side provoked the Immortal Court, and the other side was beheaded?"

"Impossible. If the Immortal Court could kill Gu Zhenzai, they would have killed him in one battle at the Small Zen Temple. Why would it drag on until now?"

"What do you know? Gu Zhenzai's cultivation method is extremely bizarre, and it caught the Immortal Court off guard. It is understandable that he was not killed at the time. Now that he has been preparing for more than half a year, he must have studied it thoroughly."

"I've said it before, Gu Yunli is getting cocky. With the secret realm and time and space in his hands, he should keep a low profile. But he wants to declare war on the Immortal Court. He is simply courting his own death."

"It's over, it's over. My father believed in the paradise and stopped taking the life-extending pills. I didn't expect... I didn't expect that it would be all in vain!"

"Gu Yunli, return my loved ones' lives to me!"

As glorious as the paradise was when it appeared, as embarrassing as it is when problems arise.

As time goes by, the Internet problems are getting worse.

The entire network was almost paralyzed.

I can’t watch videos, enter forums, or even make calls.

This is not to mention the secret realm of time and space.

It can be said that except for old players who are not affected for the time being, most new users cannot enter at all.

Even if they get in, they will be stuck like puppets or even ejected from the network directly.

The peak gives birth to false supporters, and the dusk witnesses devout believers.

In this unprecedented crisis, some people were mocking as much as possible, while others were praying devoutly.

"Gu Zhenzai is not dead. If he were dead, the Internet would have collapsed long ago. If I'm not mistaken, Gu Zhenzai must have been attacked now, which is why he is unable to keep the Internet running. For Gu Zhenzai, please burn incense and pray, and use the Taizhen Heavenly Incense to help Zhenzai!"

"Burn incense and pray!"

"Gu Zhenzai, kill them!"

(End of this chapter)