Chapter 657: Before the Great Battle, and Anti-Virus

Chapter 665: Before the Great War and Antivirus Measures

After a period of activity, Xu Zhi left Sheng Lin's Daughter and walked down the street.

Arcane Arts.

It was a truly mystical system.

He observed the people on the streets, dressed in simple linen and leather, and occasionally saw powerful Arcane Masters in blue silk robes, carrying mysterious staffs embedded with arcane crystals.

He arrived at an Arcane Academy.

At the entrance, people were being tested for arcane aptitude.

"My aptitude must be top-tier!"

"I am a future super Arcane Master! I will ignite the sacred flame and become a god!"

"No, I will!"

A group of students looked on with fervent eyes.

Arcane aptitude referred to the size of the computational power region that was sealed off in an individual. Although sealed and forcibly restrained, this computational power was still designated as arcane aptitude.

"What an interesting era, the Arcane Arts! Grand and magnificent, even though it's a medieval city-state civilization and no longer a super-tech era."

With a calm gaze, Xu Zhi bypassed the entrance test and saw some arcane apprentices meditating with closed eyes, constructing mental arcane models in their minds.

Xu Zhi infiltrated their minds, specifically their demonic cores.

He saw a light blue, transparent energy model, like building blocks stacked piece by piece, intricate and delicate, constantly being constructed, organized, and pondered.

In one person's mind, Xu Zhi saw the construction of a second-tier arcane spell called "Lightning Bolt." This particular arcane model had already gone through thirty-seven iterations, making it highly refined. After all, the more complete and simplified an arcane model was, the more optimally an arcane spell could be cast.

It was very mysterious.

Arcane Master Andre of this academy played a crucial role in its development. He was a top Arcane Master renowned in the elemental block, having built an arcane tower by the Lava River. He was an epic Arcane Master, surpassing the legendary tier, and countless people desired to become his disciple.

In other words, he was a seventh-tier Arcane Master.

Although seventh-tier Heaven Emperor level powerhouses were formidable, the population base was also extremely vast. Only a few seventh-tier Heaven Emperors existed among the hundreds of millions of people living in this land.

"Both sides focus on population growth; one for faith, the other for computer clusters."

Xu Zhi opened his eyes wide. "Arcane Arts are a method of creating world rules, or rather, phenomenal laws. Although they claim to be self-made world rules, they are not entirely fictitious simulations. Instead, they interfere with and distort rules based on reality."

Xu Zhi's eyes widened slightly.

Arcane Arts, in essence, were the study of phenomenal laws.

How to better construct, fabricate, and distort the world's laws in reality was a method of energy utilization for a ninth-tier world.

And now, the wisdom of all living beings was being used to deduce the composition of this utilization.

"Could it be that the entire Arcane Master civilization is an enhanced wizard civilization, all exploring truth? Diligently seeking truth? Even if arcane arts are illusions, they are also a form of truth."

Xu Zhi's expression was stunned, and it took him a long time to recover.

He could see that the powerful Arcane Masters in this civilization were all "mining," highly enthusiastic and motivated, constantly building arcane models in their minds.

Undoubtedly, this realization profoundly impacted him.

However, the Arcane Arts could only exist within the Pillar God and Demonic Core race. Other world civilizations and races were not supercomputers that could be linked together to form such a specialized computer network.

Without a demonic core in their brain, they couldn't be a sub-computer and thus couldn't connect to the central network.

"Indeed, I still need to bridge the two realms. They can then cause a stir, allowing Messiah to come over and 'steal' arcane knowledge from the arcane library and arcane academy on this side."

Xu Zhi raised an eyebrow, thinking of his three avatars: Messiah, the Ancient God, and Hermes.

Hermes and Messiah's positions overlapped somewhat, both being in the Six Realms. The thought of Messiah's position, however, made his teeth ache, and he dared not awaken him.

Avatars, if they don't love learning, won't do.

"It's quite good to transfer to the ancient lava land. Although they won't integrate into the demonic core's network and be forcibly infected in the brain, thus unable to use arcane arts, arcane knowledge, even if unusable, is fundamentally powerful knowledge of phenomenal laws."

It was just that the realm was not high enough, and without passing through the Pillar Gods, one could not use these arcane achievements.

But what if the realm was high enough?

If it were someone like Ermin or Daojun, who had stepped onto the path to the ninth tier, their own profound foundations would allow them to use such phenomenal arcane arts, using their own bodies as a world of hundreds of trillions of cells, rather than relying on the Pillar Gods.

At the same time, for such deities, it was an immense treasure!

Studying phenomenal laws in isolation was, after all, only the effort of one person.

However, the current mode of the Three Pillar Gods was terrifying! It allowed the entire world to bypass the difficult threshold of deities, using their collective knowledge and talent to research phenomenal laws for you, naming them arcane arts. Although wisdom varied, the wisdom of billions of beings was magnificent.

Wouldn't you be happy to come here and learn hundreds or thousands of them?

It was simply the greatest benefit!

"This represents a progress of the era. Phenomenal laws are the attack methods of this realm, and integrating cells enhances the cultivation of this realm. This certainly brings them closer to the ninth tier through analogy."

"It seems that during these three days of self-evolution for Phoenix and Medusa, a great battle will ensue!"

Xu Zhi opened his eyes in the living room, preparing to sleep.

After tonight, the great battle would likely begin tomorrow, right?

The Six Realms should start their probes.

He took a shower and then went outside to check on Medusa in the cold winter night. She was still curled up on the edge of the chair. It was drizzling with winter rain, making it wet and cold. Only after confirming she was fine did he return to the warmth of his bed.

He suddenly remembered something and looked at the Balloon Fish in the lava land, chuckling.

"This guy is still hiding, wearing a specially made super protective mask in an isolation room, to prevent being forcibly infected and having a demonic core forcibly generated." Xu Zhi smiled faintly; he knew where his advantage lay. As long as he didn't have a demonic core, he was the only variable in the entire lava land, and his role would be significant.

But would the Three Pillar Gods allow variables?

They wouldn't.

But there was nothing they could do.

Because Subaru, Sheng Lin's Daughter, and Du Xue—all these deities who had broken through—were silently protecting the Balloon Fish. This was their only means of not being controlled by the Three Pillar Gods, and a retained contingency plan.

Although constrained, they were also trying to resist the Three Pillar Gods.

The Three Pillar Gods, too lazy to interfere, seemed to have acquiesced to the existence of variables, perhaps because a variable, the "one" that escaped, could be beneficial to them. For example, that variable had directly saved the Plant-type and Beast-type Pillar Gods, while delivering a fatal blow to the Human-type Pillar God.

"This proves the importance of wearing masks and preventing infection. Even the terrifying unified virus of the Three Pillar Gods is at a loss. So, it's crucial to wear a mask to prevent viral infection."

Xu Zhi said softly.