Practice begins with immortality

Chapter 226 System

Tianding Peak towered high into the clouds, shrouded in mist. Wang Bai stood quietly, gazing at the silvery-white orb before him, which emanated a mysterious light. He frowned slightly, as if lost in deep thought.

After a moment, Wang Bai pondered, "Normally, someone who can control a puppet must have exceptionally strong spiritual awareness and be proficient in spiritual cultivation techniques. After all, to successfully manipulate a puppet, one must leave a trace of one's own spiritual awareness on it, thereby achieving precise control over it."

"However, there is another, more advanced method, which is to directly refine the soul into the puppet. This way, the puppet created is naturally much more advanced and powerful than the previous method. However, even so, it is ultimately just a lifeless object. All its actions are dependent on pre-set programs, lacking independent consciousness and adaptability."

Therefore, most practitioners of puppetry would prepare multiple puppets to outnumber the enemy. Because puppets lack thoughts, their strength is not comparable to that of real cultivators. This is also one of the reasons why Wang Bai was able to easily capture this Refining Void Puppet.

Thinking of this, Wang Bai's eyes suddenly lit up, as if he had come up with a very novel idea. He excitedly muttered to himself, "What if I could give this puppet a mind? Could it become artificial intelligence? If so, this puppet would become a powerful and loyal helper."

Wang Bo immediately took action. Later, he ordered people to collect information about the laws of life and creation, and the techniques for transforming inanimate objects into living things. Meanwhile, he himself was not idle either. He planned to build a computer.

Of course, to be more precise, it's a device used by the Yaoxinghai warships to process information, communicate, and control the warship, much like a computer. As for how to build it, "Why not ask the magical Heavenly Dao?"

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In short, relying on the revelation technique of the Heavenly Lord to ask the way of heaven, Wang Bai finally created something a year later.

It was a long, narrow object, about the size of a little finger. However, its thickness was practically zero. Meanwhile, countless lines were carved into its surface.

"Finally finished one."

Looking at the thing in front of him, Wang Bai said happily, "Because the creation of this thing has some fantasy in it."

In his previous life, Wang Bo often went to a certain website to watch videos when he was free. While browsing, he came across a science fiction novel. There was a plot in it that aliens reduced the dimension of a proton and then engraved circuits on it.

Of course, Wang Bo couldn't do dimensionality reduction, but he could still carve patterns on the surface of something with a thickness close to zero.

"Very good. I'll try to get a few more and see if I can get the whole 'brain' out."

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Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, five years have passed. After years of meticulous carving and polishing, the object that Wang Bai had always wanted to complete is finally completed.

Present before Wang Bo's eyes was a mysterious crystal, roughly the size of a human brain, emitting a deep blue glow. A gentle sweep of his divine sense revealed that this seemingly ordinary crystal was in fact cleverly assembled from countless tiny chips, the craftsmanship breathtaking.

"Huh... finally done! Next, I need to install it into the puppet." Wang Bai breathed a sigh of relief, his eyes gleaming with anticipation. He knew, based on the divination results, that once this painstaking work, the product of his entire life, was successfully integrated into the puppet, it would become an indispensable aid in his future.

Filled with longing and hope, Wang Bo carefully lifted the dark blue crystal and slowly pushed it into the puppet's body, which flowed like mercury. The moment the crystal completely sank in, a miraculous change quietly occurred.

It turns out that the material used to make this puppet is a combination of many rare metals rarely seen in the world, which was fused together after going through untold hardships.

From the outside, it is indeed as smooth and lustrous as flowing mercury, but if you look deeper into the microscopic world, you will be shocked to find that these so-called "mercury" are actually formed by trillions of tiny particles tightly aggregated together. They are interdependent and work in coordination with each other, just like a group of disciplined nano-insects.

As the deep blue crystal was inserted into the puppet, the previously quietly arranged particles suddenly seemed to spring to life, rapidly surging and converging towards the crystal's location. In the blink of an eye, the entire crystal was completely engulfed by the dense mass of particles, gradually merging into one, emitting an increasingly dazzling and strange light.

"It seems that the rune of attunement is working."

Seeing this, Wang Bai began to inject magic power into it to provide it with energy.

Half a minute later, a human figure appeared in front of Wang Bai, a person who seemed to be made of "mercury".

"It seems that I succeeded! From now on, I will call you Bahuang System No. 001." Wang Bai named the humanoid.

Then, the figure stretched out its left hand toward Wang Bo. The next moment, its entire body spread apart and flew toward Wang Bo.

"What's going on? It's attached to my microscopic particle crystals?" Wang Bai said with some confusion after feeling everything about himself.

At this moment, those "nano" wrapped up the trillions of crystalline particles that made up his body.

Then, a voice sounded in his mind: "Hello, Master, Bahuang 001 is at your service."