Gu Jinlai recognized the identity of the middle-aged man at a glance.
After pondering for a moment, he said: "You’ll be called Changsheng... no, Changqing, and the island will be renamed to Changqing Island."
"Thank you, Master, for bestowing the name."
The man respectfully bowed.
An intelligent life is essentially an evolved form of artificial intelligence.
This thirty-six-mile island is usually managed by it through directing robots.
Gu Jinlai quickly arrived at the courtyard where he lived.
The courtyard was filled with numerous bionic robots, maintaining the island’s operations.
Of course, if he preferred, he could replace all these robots with true men.
Just like many Outer Mansion Daoist Masters, who often bring their families and relatives along.
Some people even bring thousands to tens of thousands of people to attend to their daily needs.
However, the expenses in the Endless Realm are considerable, and aside from those "second-generation" Daoist Masters with extraordinary backgrounds, most Daoist Masters usually only bring a few dozen or up to a hundred close disciples, relatives, and followers.
Gu Jinlai made a slight gesture, and two sword lights whistled out.
"Black Pupil, Yan Xu."
These were the two Supreme Immortal Artifacts he had exchanged.
These two Supreme Immortal Artifacts, plus a top-tier Star Shuttle, exhausted his two Four-star Merits.
So much so, that he didn’t even bother to exchange for the Three Realms Five Elements Technique or the Time Law.
But it doesn’t matter.
With these two Supreme Immortal Swords, his killing capabilities increased significantly, and with his Tenth-Rank Divine Sense Ability, he wasn’t considered weak among Supreme Golden Immortals.
There are many tasks at the Honorable Daoist Mansion, and he can accumulate slowly.
"I originally thought I could find three thousand avenues in the Honorable Daoist Mansion, but now, I can only cultivate the corresponding techniques based on the types of Great Dao decoded by Qing Lian."
Gu Jinlai was browsing through the bounty list.
Compared to seeking out demigods to hunt on his own, the hunting tasks provided by the Honorable Daoist Mansion usually come with a piece of simple intelligence.
This intelligence is not difficult for the channels of the Honorable Daoist Mansion to obtain, but for Gu Jinlai, who has yet to firmly establish his footing in the New Fire Star Sea, it is crucial and can save him significant time searching for those demigods.
He set up some keywords.
Only a scant number of twelve results popped up.
Gu Jinlai then recalled that demigods of the Divine Spirit System are the "sheep" that all Great Dao Golden Immortals love to shear.
Though difficult to kill completely, they are safe targets.
And each piece of Divine Armor is equivalent to loot.
If he could employ a Secret Technique to lock onto a demigod’s aura, he could continuously hunt it down. With good luck, killing it ten or eight times might accumulate a considerable number of Immortal Artifacts.
Therefore, whenever there is a task related to demigods, a large number of Golden Immortals are sure to swarm in to execute it.
These twelve bounties have remained until now most likely because they are strong, tricky, or elusive.
"Going around in circles, I still ended up becoming a bounty hunter. It’s indeed not easy for an ordinary Golden Immortal to make a name for themselves."
Gu Jinlai pondered, his gaze resting on the Xuanyuan Sword Scripture.
The question he is considering now is whether to first achieve Cultivation Perfection in the Destruction Dao quickly or set out to hunt a demigod now.
On the way here, he had attempted and found that when he immersed himself in Qing Lian and, through the Mysterious insight it granted him into the Destruction Dao, he couldn’t further his cultivation using Qingguang.
It’s like already copying an answer; whether he copies it himself or has someone else do it for him, the final score wouldn’t change.
The only difference being that when someone else writes it for him, he doesn’t even have to exert the effort of lifting a pen.
This restriction made his plan of using ten or eight Qingguang to cultivate a Great Dao fall through. ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ novel(ꜰ)ire.net
"A Space Ring can’t contain another Space Ring. When already merged with Qing Lian, trying to use Qingguang to enhance the Power of Dao... it’s indeed like trying to exploit a glitch, which is understandably not feasible."
Gu Jinlai pondered again, looking once more at the bounties from the Honorable Daoist Mansion: "I should first adapt to the Tenth-Rank Divine Sense, Space Avenue, Destruction Dao, and the strength brought by the two Supreme Immortal Artifacts, while also thoroughly understanding the dealings and workings of the Honorable Daoist Mansion. Then take a task to hunt a demigod, observe the time and cost it requires, and finally decide on the arrangement of subsequent paths."
Gu Jinlai temporarily settled in the Hidden Dragon Star Domain, spending some tranquil years there.
Far away in the Profound Immortal Realm, however, another anomaly occurred.
Waves of Space Power were continually projected to the area of the Red Flame Canyon in the Profound Immortal Realm, and it seemed to trigger Space resonance with the Red Flame Canyon, which led to the Realm Gate that was supposed to take a considerable amount of time to form opening up rapidly.
By the time Wang Xuanjing and Luo Jiuxiao received the news and wanted to interfere, the space tear was already faintly visible before them.
"Space resonance!? If these signs hadn’t appeared, we could continuously interfere here, and it would take at least one or two years for this Realm Gate to open. That way, even if we notified others immediately, including any Ancient Golden Immortals, we would still have time. But now... at most ten more days and the Realm Gate will completely open..."
Wang Xuanjing’s face was somewhat solemn.
"Where does this Realm Gate lead, and why do they want to connect to our Profound Immortal Realm?"
Luo Jiuxiao glanced at the Realm Gate in the direction of the Red Flame Canyon: "Could it be that their original intention was to connect to the Longevity World?"
"I don’t know... without the Breaking Space Mirror, my sensitivity to space has decreased significantly..."
Wang Xuanjing replied.
"For them to forcibly link with us in such a manner, it’s likely their intentions are sinister..."
Luo Jiuxiao continued, looking toward the Red Flame Canyon: "Better notify Zhao Xi’s side to close the Realm Gate."