Chapter 342: This Artifact Spirit is Too Powerful
“As expected, it’s technology from a secret realm.” Baoming Zhenren was also deeply shocked in his heart.
This kind of technology itself isn’t much, but in this Middle Ruins Land, only the top twenty sacred grounds have the ability to create such a secret realm.
You have to know that even many ancient secret realms cannot restrict the power of Sun and Moon Realm experts.
Sun and Moon, that is already the strongest below the Saint!
And how many Saints are there?
However, what truly shocked Baoming Zhenren and the others at the Sun and Moon Realm wasn’t the technology itself.
It was the time.
“Was this really built in just ten short years?” someone couldn’t help but ask.
Their gazes turned to the Sun and Moon Realm experts present who were originally from the Refining Heaven Workshop.
Baoming was one of them.
Although he was just an alchemist, it didn’t mean he knew nothing about artifact refining or inscriptions.
On the contrary, because he had also studied at the Refining Heaven Workshop, he clearly knew how astonishing it was to achieve this level in ten years!
To put it bluntly, even the Refining Heaven Workshop itself might not be able to do it!
To restrict the power of Sun and Moon Realm experts, one would at least need to rely on sixth-grade inscriptions, and to restrict it to this extent, even restricting all Sun and Moon Realm experts who came here, was an unimaginably huge project!
“At least several hundred sixth-grade artifact refiners would have to work tirelessly for several hundred years!” This was the conclusion drawn by a sixth-grade alchemist beside Baoming.
Unless, a seventh-grade artifact refiner took action!
However, many people could clearly see that some of the inscriptions here were only at the sixth realm level. If it were truly a seventh-grade artifact refiner, they should have used seventh-grade inscriptions to reduce the workload, and would not have used sixth-grade inscriptions to create it.
Faced with the many gazes, those Sun and Moon Realm experts from the Refining Heaven Workshop also did not hide their astonishment.
“I don’t know if there was a seventh-grade expert from within the sect who took action, but we have indeed not heard of any large-scale recruitment of artifact refiners.” The shock of these Sun and Moon Realm experts even surpassed that of the others.
Because they were the ones who knew this place the best.
Indeed, some powerful artifact refiners and alchemists had been transferred over, but the number was definitely not large, at least not nearly enough to create a secret realm of this size in just ten years.
It wasn’t just several hundred.
But at least several thousand!
Could it be that within that force called the “Federation,” there were so many powerful artifact refiners?
Many people had this guess in their minds.
And they were terrified by it.
You have to know that even a force like the Refining Heaven Workshop, the total number of sixth-grade artifact refiners did not exceed ten thousand, and those who could spare the time to participate were no more than three thousand!
In other words, it wouldn’t be easy for the Refining Heaven Workshop to create this city in front of them within ten years.
Moreover…
Some people looked up at the other parts that were currently within the barrier.
Compared to the area that the Federation forces had rented, this city in front of them was really just the tip of the iceberg, and more of it was hidden by the barrier.
What if those hidden places were even more astonishing?
This guess even startled many Sun and Moon Realm experts.
Although they were more inclined to believe that this corner in front of them was already the full strength of the Federation over the past ten years, they couldn’t help but have some anticipation for the real exchange meeting twenty years from now.
It could only be said that this system, which still heavily relied on manual labor, made it difficult to imagine the productivity of an interstellar civilization.
Even the most complex and difficult task of imbuing will could be simplified with the help of equipment.
This shock had only just begun.
Just as everyone was discussing, one after another, phantoms suddenly appeared in front of everyone.
They were all cute-looking existences, like little elves.
There was also one in front of Baoming.
However, he only raised an eyebrow, and could easily see that the little elf in front of him was not a real object, and not even something within the divine soul, but just a phantom composed of light, with some invisible force creating this phantom.
“Just a small trick.” Baoming smiled slightly in his heart.
This was indeed a small trick.
The next moment, the little elf smiled at him.
“Greetings, Baoming Zhenren, I am the city’s intelligent manager, named Xiaoxing. You can consider me to be an existence similar to the secret realm spirit of this city.”
The little elf’s voice was sweet, her smile was cute, and her appearance was completely in line with the aesthetics of this world.
However, Baoming’s expression stiffened slightly.
Because he discovered that the little elves in front of all the Sun and Moon Realm experts were saying the same words. Apart from the initial address being different, even the voice and tone were exactly the same.
“An artifact spirit can communicate with everyone at the same time?” Baoming Zhenren was slightly suspicious, so he directly asked, “Are those phantoms all you too?”
“Yes, we are all one.” This time, it was no longer the same voice, but the little elf projection in front of Baoming Zhenren who answered him individually.
At the same time, the other Sun and Moon Realm experts around him also asked one after another.
All sorts of voices of communication kept coming.
Each person’s communication was completely different.
This was a secret realm spirit?
How it looked, it should be many secret realm souls!
“Do you not understand what ‘one’ means?” Baoming Zhenren couldn’t help but ask, “How can a secret realm spirit possibly be able to multitask to such an extent?”
The essence of a secret realm spirit was like an artifact spirit, a life born from inscriptions, and it did indeed have its mysteries.
A powerful artifact spirit could have attainments in many aspects that were no less than a real martial artist.
But no matter how special it was, its essence was still just a divine soul, a consciousness.
There was also a limit to multitasking.
So at this moment, there were indeed quite a few voices of doubt.
However, Xiaoxing in front of Baoming smiled slightly: “I understand what you mean, but we are indeed one, and I am only one, but I can split out different avatars, and each of them is me.”
As soon as she finished speaking, the Xiaoxing in front of him suddenly split into two projections.
Then four, then eight…
The phantoms in front of the other Sun and Moon Realm experts who were also expressing the same doubts were all the same.
In a short period of time, it was truly like an infinite number of phantoms.
But if it was just like this, they would only be phantoms at most.
However, Xiaoxing’s voice then came: “You can order each of me to do different things, each of me is me, and the entire city only has one me.”
“How is that possible…” Baoming muttered to himself.
The existence in front of him was indeed somewhat beyond his understanding.
If that was the case, wouldn’t one artifact spirit be able to be used as many artifact spirits?
You have to know that in their own sacred grounds, or in many secret realms, there were secret realm spirits, but as long as there were too many people in the secret realm, the secret realm spirit would simply be too busy, and they would often need to add some other artifact spirits, or even add some manpower.
At least, Baoming could not imagine at all that a secret realm spirit could be like this, transforming into countless avatars.
And at this moment, some people who also didn’t believe it had begun to test it out.
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“How many avatars can you transform into in total?”
“That’s a rather large number, it also depends on what my avatars need to do.”
“Then I’ll give you some simple things to do?”
“Of course, please feel free to command me.”
“Then answer some questions.”
“I’ll come too, I happen to have quite a few questions used to test disciples here.”
“… ”
Clearly, this was the best way to test it.
Even Baoming reacted, and was completely motivated by curiosity.
After pondering slightly, he directly began to ask questions.
The simplest, of course, was arithmetic.
Yes, the other world also had mathematics, and their research into mathematics was not simple. Although they did not view mathematics as a field with infinite knowledge like the Human Federation, these artifact refiners and alchemists could all be considered masters of mathematics.
At this moment, questions that were either simple, complex, or contained all sorts of thought traps were constantly being thrown out.
This made Shen Xing, who was also secretly observing the reactions of this first batch of “guests,” chuckle a little.
“Using these kinds of questions to test an intelligent AI, really…” Shen Xing shook his head, not knowing what to say.
“It can only be said that it was a coincidence.” Hong Hao was also standing beside Shen Xing at this time, laughing as well, but his expression was more of a sigh, “But the inscription technology of this world also has unlimited development prospects in the field of intelligent AI, and it has even reached a point that makes people feel somewhat terrified.”
Shen Xing nodded slightly.
Indeed.
The current intelligent AI could only be said to be able to far surpass ordinary people in terms of thinking ability, but it could not provide much help in the martial arts field.
Just to say one thing, these countless avatars could not ultimately become countless artifact spirits capable of engraving inscriptions.
But the problem was that this situation could be completely realized in the near future.
There was currently a research project that was considering the fusion between intelligent AI and artifact spirits.
They wanted to combine the advantages of both.
This was actually already the path of creating an artificial life, and a very powerful and highly potential life at that!
This was just the tip of the iceberg of transcendent technology and science.
But fortunately, the transcendent also brought extremely powerful power to humans themselves, and they were also pursuing the limits of life, otherwise, they might not dare to create such an intelligent life.
And at this moment, even knowing that these avatars only had thinking abilities and could not complete some martial arts-related tasks, just this performance alone was enough to shock these “country bumpkins” to the extreme.
Because they truly realized the horror of this “artifact spirit” in terms of thinking.
It was not even at the level of ordinary people, but far surpassed ordinary martial artists.
Because some extremely complex problems that even the divine soul of a Sun and Moon Realm expert might not be able to calculate the answer to in a short period of time, could actually be solved in the blink of an eye in front of this being!
And it could solve many at the same time!
At this moment, everyone understood that this was definitely not many artifact spirits pretending, but truly just one artifact spirit. Just this terrifying thinking ability, multitasking, was not an exaggeration at all!
“How exactly was this refined?”
“This kind of artifact spirit, if used to assist in management, even a vast human kingdom would be managed with ease!”
“A waste of talent, a waste of talent!”
“If it was given more authority within the secret realm, allowing it to more meticulously drive the power of the secret realm, or even given some puppets, then this one artifact spirit could be comparable to thousands, or even tens of thousands of disciples!”
“Unbelievable.”
“I wonder if we can learn the means of refining this artifact spirit.”
“… ”
It could be said that the convenience and powerful abilities of intelligent AI would also move even these experts from another world.
They were not stupid, and there were also many places in the martial arts technology of this world that could be combined with intelligent AI.
For example, puppets.
Many experts were more willing to use puppets to do some trivial tasks, which was more straightforward and simpler than using servants or disciples.
But there were also troublesome things, which was their lack of flexibility.
If there were many artifact spirits, it would be no different from relying on servants or disciples.
But this artifact spirit in front of them, only required one, and it could manage a large mansion, or even a large sacred ground, in an orderly manner!
In fact, this city was like this!
While everyone was marveling, they followed the artifact spirit to their own residences.
Along the way, Baoming had his eyes opened, such as the flying vehicles completely controlled by the artifact spirit, and some puppets that were also controlled by the artifact spirit.
It could be said that in the entire city, no matter where they were, if they wanted to do anything, they only needed to call out, and this overly powerful secret realm spirit would arrange everything for them.
Everyone was like this!
There was no need to wait, and there was no chaos at all.
Everything was in order, without any mistakes.
“It’s truly convenient to the extreme.” Baoming Zhenren sighed in his heart, and then arrived at his own residence, a small courtyard that was not very large.
Yes, although the area of this large villa was as much as thousands of square meters, it was still too small for a Sun and Moon Realm expert.
If their divine sense was not restricted, he could even see everything here clearly from hundreds of kilometers away.
And his own residence was a mountain range that stretched for hundreds of kilometers, all of which was his own territory!
In comparison, this place was indeed very small.
However, since his divine sense was restricted, and coupled with the fact that there were also anti-scrying inscription techniques in this house, it was not unacceptable.
He would just treat it as if he was playing in the mortal world.
Baoming didn’t care.
But just as he was preparing to further understand this magical and powerful artifact spirit, he heard the artifact spirit in front of him take the initiative to say, “Does Zhenren need to meditate and rest, or cultivate? Your residence is already connected to the yuan veins, and there are various types of yuan qi for you to choose from, the highest quality is comparable to seventh-grade pills.”
