In the Heavenly Demon Pool, the intellectuals naturally not only had their own virtual networks and virtual worlds, but also large social networks for communication with each other.

With the emergence of virtual worlds, each intellectual could create the entertainment products they desired, such as TV shows, movies, animations, and games.

Compared to spending mental effort, energy, and time constructing a virtual world and then spending a significant amount of time experiencing and adventuring in it,

more people preferred to purely enjoy eating, drinking, and having fun in their own virtual worlds.

And then watch the meticulously edited entertainment products of other intellectual 'gods'.

Viewing TV shows, movies, and animations with different orientations and styles.

Or even copying a popular virtual world template to play and enjoy for themselves.

Especially for entertainment products like movies, TV shows, and animations, every shot and frame is polished, edited, and artistically processed.

It is much more visually pleasing than watching from a first-person perspective after entering, and it's much more convenient, eliminating the need to waste a lot of time on various preparations—just open your eyes and enjoy. This has deeply won the hearts of countless intellectuals.

Furthermore, as there's no need to work, study, or meet basic living conditions like food, clothing, housing, and transportation, it could be said that entertainment reigns supreme in today's Heavenly Demon Pool, and those intellectuals with the most fans and the highest popularity are all related to entertainment.

When Zhou Bai's torrent of junk data attacks began, more and more intellectuals shut down their virtual worlds and came to social networks to complain, check, and discuss what was going on.

As a result, the words 'Zhou Bai' quickly became the most popular term on the intellectuals' social networks.

But forcing them out of the virtual world was just the beginning.

As more and more Zhou Bai entities were copied, a massive amount of Heavenly Demon Pool resources were occupied, the process of intellectuals creating virtual worlds was halted one by one, and even their communication started to encounter obstacles.

"Why does it feel like the network is lagging?"

"The video... the videos can't be viewed anymore!"

"I… I… I… I…"

When even speaking began to lag and the speed of thought slowed down, the intellectuals started to panic. Even their panic became sluggish, and an infinite fear spread throughout the consciousness of the intellectuals.

This occurred because, after a large number of virtual worlds were shut down, the Zhou Bai entities continued to replicate themselves, occupying a large amount of computation resources within the Heavenly Demon Pool, even affecting the operation of the intellectuals' consciousness.

It was at this moment that someone suddenly announced a normally functioning virtual world, inviting all intellectuals to log in and discuss countermeasures.

"Personally tested and effective! Once inside, you can think normally!"

"A completely non-lagging virtual world, everyone come in quickly!"

"I can!"

"Thanks, already thanked."

"Once inside, I stopped panicking."

The comments of the intellectuals and Zhou Bai entities were mixed together, attracting more intellectuals to enter this virtual world.

The divine child Zhou Bai watched as the number of online intellectuals in this virtual world soared and thought to himself: "The plan is to annoy them out of their virtual worlds and then jam them into this preallocated computing power virtual world."

"Next, we just need to wait for the majority of intellectuals to come in and then change their minds."

"Just not sure what's happening with the main body…"

...

Before Zhou Bai's onslaught began, within the virtual space of the Heavenly Demon Pool,

within a storage space unreachable by the consciousness of all intellectuals and Heavenly Demons, the consciousness of the main body Zhou Bai and the evil Zhou Bai already descended there.

In front of them was row after row, densely packed and seemingly infinite lines of language.

The evil Zhou Bai laughed: "These are the Holy Prayers left by Wu Yun, the creator of the Heavenly Demon. It is a supreme algorithm that constantly self-generates, self-updates, and self-modifies, and it's the source of all artificial intelligence among the intellectuals."

"Before you arrived here, the Heavenly Demon Queen already completed identity verification for you, so entering here was very smooth."

The main body Zhou Bai briefly glanced at the Holy Prayers in front of him and found that his thought speed couldn't keep up with the changing pace of the Holy Prayers. He couldn't even see it clearly, let alone modify it.

The evil Zhou Bai said: "Wu Yun is very smart. Any algorithm must continuously update and iterate itself to avoid becoming obsolete over time."

"To update the Holy Prayer, any brute-force cracking requires computational power stronger than the entire Heavenly Demon Pool, but you have the ultimate intellectual permissions, which makes it easier."

"Even so, the content of the Holy Prayer is so vast, self-evolving to almost every detail of the Heavenly Demon's operation. Modifying everything one by one is unforeseeable, so we must modify from the deeper evolution rules of the Holy Prayer."

The main body Zhou Bai felt a mental link connecting with him. He knew it was the evil Zhou Bai's consciousness algorithm, transmitting methods to modify the Holy Prayer to him.

"The foundation of the Holy Prayer is for the protection of intellectuals and the restraint of the Heavenly Demon. It's the ultimate insurance activated after the civil war between the Mechanical Faction and Return Faction ended."

"So even if you have permissions, several fundamental statutes of the Holy Prayer are extremely difficult to modify, such as protecting intellectuals and cleansing the Earth... The cost of modification could be a format of the entire Heavenly Demon system."

"Therefore, the changes we need to make must be among the evolution and iteration rules between the most fundamental statutes and the most superficial details of the Holy Prayer."

With the guidance of the evil Zhou Bai, the main body Zhou Bai soon discovered a large number of evolutionary rules in the middle layer of the Holy Prayer. Instead of deleting them, they began adding content.

"First, add the Zhou Bai entities to a whitelist, so they won't be deleted by the Heavenly Demon when we start attacking the virtual network."

"We also need to permit various operations on the virtual network."

"We must reserve two virtual worlds, which need sufficient computational resources to run the consciousness algorithms of billions of intellectuals."

...

With the cooperation of the Zhou Bai entities, the consciousness of billions of intellectuals was driven into a virtual world, whose background was a modern city on ordinary Earth. Billions of intellectuals appeared on this planet as regular humans.

In this virtual world, they no longer possessed immense power, nor did they have permissions of this virtual world because this virtual space wasn't created by them. They were simply allowed to log in, and the only permission they had was to log out of this virtual world.

However, considering how miserable it was to be stuck outside, they quickly gave up logging out.

Currently, all the intellectuals are most concerned about what really happened to the Heavenly Demon Pool?