Underground pharmaceutical factory, within the cultivation room.
Lu Yan solemnly gazed at the piece of spirit marrow ore embedded in the ground.
The crystalline ore was half-buried in the earth, and a formation had long been arranged around it centered on the spirit marrow ore, with a Feng Shui magical artifact suppressing its core.
In half a month, the spirit marrow ore had already infected most of the formation, with only a small portion remaining.
As the special spiritual qi of the spirit marrow ore spread throughout the entire Feng Shui array, the array roared, and streaks of spiritual light suddenly rose, followed by the spiritual qi beginning to drift from the array.
This indicated that the artificial spiritual veins had formed at this moment.
However, Lu Yan did not relax because of this, his eyes fixed on the spiritual qi dispersing in the air, confirming the current state of the spiritual qi.
In the cyber version, the spiritual qi is thin, and all spiritual energy eventually flows to an unknown place once it enters the real world.
Lu Yan was not sure whether this spiritual qi born from the artificial spiritual veins would also flow into an unknown place like spiritual energy.
Fortunately, Lu Yan’s concerns did not materialize.
The spiritual qi floating in the air began to spread in all directions, and the artificial spiritual veins were functioning, which made Lu Yan breathe a sigh of relief.
"Luckily, nothing unexpected happened."
He raised his right hand, and strands of spiritual qi, guided by the cultivation technique, fell into Lu Yan’s hand.
Sensing the dissipation efficiency of the artificial spiritual veins, Lu Yan quietly calculated:
"The spiritual qi production efficiency doesn’t even match a first-level spirit vein, but fortunately, the underground factory isn’t very large. Within the factory’s range, the concentration of spiritual qi can barely catch up with a first-level spirit vein.
It’s obviously not enough for cultivation, but it’s completely sufficient to aid in the production of the Nine Dragon Power Potion."
With this thought, Lu Yan finally felt relieved.
Previously, restricted by the spirit stones in his pocket and the production line’s capacity, only ten thousand doses of the Nine Dragon Power Potion could be produced daily.
Now, with the self-regenerating spiritual qi and improved production line, more than eighty thousand doses of the Nine Dragon Power Potion could be produced in a day at full speed.
Though the quality might not compare to potions with added spirit stone powder, the production capacity is more than enough to forcibly boost the number of spiritual ability users in the Lower City District.
"At this rate, once the great cleansing begins, the Upper City District will probably have to face at least ten thousand spiritual ability users lurking in the shadows.
The purpose of the Upper City District is to supplement the computing power of the Heaven Computation Center, so large-scale weapons of mass destruction will certainly not be used.
Under this premise, ten thousand spiritual ability users should give them quite a headache."
"Of course, this is only according to the best theoretical assumption.
My understanding of the Upper City District is limited, perhaps they have some special technological means.
However, using the number of spiritual ability users to delay the great cleaning of the Upper City District is already the limit of what I can do now, worrying about other possibilities is meaningless."
Taking a long breath, Lu Yan didn’t choose to rest just because he had finished handling this matter.
With his right hand leading, the soul banner in his storage bag fell into Lu Yan’s palm.
For the past half month, most of Lu Yan’s energy had been focused on artificial spiritual veins, but he had also taken some time to study the spirit bodies brought back by fierce ghosts, initially confirming the situation of the intelligent brain spirit bodies.
Although called intelligent brains, these spirit bodies did not exhibit any characteristics of wisdom, more like a pre-designed program needing Lu Yan’s guidance to initiate and respond.
Since the intelligent brain spirit bodies were forcibly seized, Lu Yan was also missing the related operational equipment, making it challenging to utilize them for the time being.
Even so, Lu Yan discovered a critical factor.
Being able to be peeled away by a ghost’s Ghost Claw and received into the soul banner, these traits all indicate that the essence of the spirit body is, indeed, a true soul!
Since it’s a soul, it can be refined by the soul banner, so during these days, Lu Yan had also been tentatively refining the intelligent brain spirit body.
The intelligent brain spirit body itself isn’t a natural soul, and rough refining methods could damage the spirit body.
This spirit body isn’t like those wandering ghost souls; reckless refining might cause the spirit body to lose its inherent traits, so Lu Yan could only steadily and gradually wear away through refining.
Ghost fog surged within the soul banner, Lu Yan skillfully controlled the ghost fog, carefully beginning to refine the altered spirit body.
Another half-day passed.
After a tiresome refinement session, relying on the soul banner’s near-absolute control over souls, the spirit body finally changed, and massive information instantly surged into Lu Yan’s mind.
Lu Yan hastily focused and checked; all this information was related to the intelligent brain spirit body.
Just as Lu Yan had guessed, the intelligent brain spirit body is rooted in a soul of a spiritual ability user at the soul transformation level, with its memory and emotions erased, leaving only the purest soul shell.
Then, through a special craft, spiritual ability codes are engraved on the soul, creating this unique soul computer, which is the essence of what is called the intelligent brain.
After a rough probing, even Lu Yan had to be astounded by Universal Giant Corporation’s powerful soul technology.
It’s apparent that although most spiritual ability users have weak souls, they managed to research such a sophisticated soul transformation.
You know, even though the Xianxia version has soul-type spells starting at the Qi Refining Stage, and the soul banner is the ultimate soul magical artifact, compared to this, the use of souls is still too crude, with a beauty of strength derived from roughness.
Yet such precise methods involving soul transformation probably wouldn’t even be accessible to Golden Core True People in the Xianxia version.
"The essence of a personal intelligent brain is a soul computer, and those giant intelligent brains controlling various urban systems should be aggregates of numerous soul computers.
Above the giant intelligent brains, there is the Heavenly Intelligent Brain that governs the city’s integrated Heaven Computation Center, as well as the ultimate evolution of artificial intelligence, the Intelligent God!"
At this moment, Lu Yan finally understood why the so-called omniscient and omnipotent Intelligent God requires an immense amount of soul computation power.
If evolving according to the direction of soul computers, Intelligent God should originally have been just a soul computer.
However, through countless iterations and trillions of soul computation power forming an infinite matrix to nourish it, Intelligent God has long surpassed the concept of a soul computer.
In the cyber version, the importance placed on soul computation power almost surpasses everything, with nearly the vast majority of life’s ultimate destination being to enter the Heaven Computation Center.
This performance made Lu Yan somewhat question whether Universal Giant Corporation controls Intelligent God, or does Intelligent God control the Universal Giant Corporation?
Anyway, the existence of Intelligent God showcased the power of soul computers to Lu Yan.
This also gradually gave rise to a fascinating idea in Lu Yan’s mind.
"If one could learn soul transformation technology and apply it to the main souls of those confused and chaotic fierce ghosts, could it be possible to ’intelligently’ transform fierce ghosts in this way, creating a soul banner that fuses Xianxia and cyber traits?"