Just as Wang Qi was still scratching his head over his new network, another revolution was quietly unfolding on the Shenzhou Continent.

The start of this storm was right in front of the "body" of the Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm.

Thunder Swamp is one of the largest freshwater lakes in Shenzhou, receiving tributaries from the Tianjiang River with both inflow and outflow being quite stable. This area, situated in the mid-latitude region and close to the sea, collects water vapor evaporated by the sun and the monsoon, resulting in three months of the year being spent amidst thunderstorms. Furthermore, with metal veins existing beneath the large lake, thunder essence lingers here, and even demon beasts with lightning talents are more numerous compared to other places.

However, these recently awakened demon beasts, except for some that can be nurtured in the Spirit Awakening Village of the Immortal Alliance, mostly remain as wild animals in the protection zone. There is no concern about them causing trouble in mortal settlements.

Because one of the ten great Immortal Cities of Shenzhou, Leiyang City, is located here. This place is an Immortal Alliance high-tech development zone, gathering numerous elite Golden Core, old Primordial Spirit cultivators, and many Void Refining cultivators who form the backbone of the Immortal Alliance. The "Forest Protection Team" formed by practitioners here is sufficient to suppress all demon creatures within a five-thousand-li radius, preventing them from causing trouble.

Leiyang City attracts so many significant figures because of one item stored here—the Ten Thousand Immortals True Mirror.

The main server of the Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm, an Immortal Artifact level calculator, resides here.

Since the Empirical Department, which studied the Heavenly Material Circulation, relocated its major parts elsewhere, Leiyang City gradually became a development center for calculator technology, even once standing on par with the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion in Fusang. Every talented person aspiring to the field of "calculators" flocked here. It can be said that apart from the Wanfa Sect and Thousand Mechanism Pavilion, this place is another holy land in the hearts of Shenzhou's "programmers."

A few years ago, due to the emergence of the Wanxiang Diagram, the difficulty of weaving the Path Rank decreased again, bringing a leap forward in development to Leiyang City. At that time, the influx of loose cultivators and members of small sects, non-Wanfa cultivators, increased daily.

However, during a shock a few months ago, disciples of the Wanfa Sect serving as "technical backbones" in Leiyang City, in various empirical departments and minor guilds, withdrew for recuperation, with many experiencing a wavering of their Dao Hearts, now recuperating in the Yangshen Pavilion.

This transition from the old summer to early autumn has left Leiyang City appearing somewhat desolate, no longer carrying its previous peak prosperity.

After taking another glance at the small guild she once worked for, Nie Lingfang, a disciple of Tianling Ridge and Innate Peak, felt a bit regretful.

Nie Lingfang is a disciple who recently broke the Heavenly Barrier to achieve the Primordial Spirit stage. She endured the threshold of the Heavenly Barrier for thirty-seven years, gaining a profound understanding of "self-created cultivation methods' deviations" due to years of clinical accumulation, using this breakthrough to barely enter the ranks of the top grade. However, after this, she deeply felt the difficulty of cultivation and conceived the idea that "instead of mastering the rescue of cultivation errors, preventing cultivators from making mistakes in the process of self-creation is better." Therefore, she came to Leiyang.

Initially, they were committed to developing the first generation of cultivation assistance Path Rank with promotional significance. However, after the core Wanfa Sect disciple of the project group kneeled a few months ago, they temporarily had no work to do. The Wanxiang Diagram is still in its primitive stage, and non-Wanfa disciples find it challenging to operate. Many intricate things can only be skillfully completed by the Wanfa Sect.

Recalling the sealed materials in the small guild's station, Nie Lingfang felt a bit sad. But she quickly set aside her emotions and called to those behind her, "Follow along, disciples!"

Since her project group had to temporarily close due to its cornerstone collapsing, she took up a role as a lecturer at Leiyang Immortal Institute. Most lecturers at the institute are like her—either having free time or needing a temporary change of scenery, consisting of Primordial Spirit and Void Refining Grandmasters.

Today, she led these people from Leiyang Immortal Institute to visit Leiyang's "Immortal Dao Miracle"—the Ten Thousand Immortals True Mirror.

In June's unified entrance trial, Leiyang Immortal Institute saw off a batch of disciples. The new batch, having studied for a few months, already had some understanding of the Immortal Dao. The purpose of activities like this is to help those new disciples translate their vague "understanding" into an intuitive "insight."

—In Wang Qi's words, it's tantamount to patriotic education.

Leiyang Immortal Institute organizing new disciples to observe the Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm is just like Xinyue Immortal Institute taking students to visit the Heavenly Communication Dao Hall, a yearly traditional event.

The Ten Thousand Immortals True Mirror is located beneath a massive dome of the Leiyang branch of the Immortal Alliance. It doesn't look like a high-end modern magic tool. In appearance, it follows the ancient style, imitating the classic auxiliary magic artifact Mystic Light Mirror with a vast thirty-three-zhang round mirror surface. The entire magic artifact of the Ten Thousand Immortals True Mirror seems not to be affected by gravity, quietly floating in mid-air, with its mirror surface forming approximately a thirty-degree angle with the ground, and under the influence of the planet's rotation, it slowly rotates counterclockwise in the air.

However, the surface of this mirror seems hazy and not very clear.

"Oh..." The students all exclaimed in amazement. To them, this enormous mirror was eye-catching enough. However, a few of them proactively inquired, "Mr. Nie, is this the foundation of the Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm? Just this big mirror?"

Nie Lingfang finally snapped out of her amazement and, recalling her role as a lecturer, nodded with a smile, "Indeed it is."

Even for a Primordial Spirit Cultivator, encountering this Immortal Artifact couldn't help but evoke a silent admiration in their hearts—what grandeur!

However, for high-order cultivators above the Body Integration Realm, what amazed them was not the magnitude of the Ten Thousand Immortals True Mirror's body but the dazzling yet imperceptible powerful Spirit Light within their Spiritual Sense. Every moment, an infinite Spirit Sense flows through this Immortal Artifact. Some of this Spirit Sense is data, and some are information. If the Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm is the blood vessels of the Immortal Alliance, with Spirit Sense circulating within as the blood, then this Immortal Artifact is the heart of the Immortal Alliance. It is the hub that pumps "blood" to every terminal of this immense entity.

This, as if it were the vitality of the Immortal Alliance.

"For us Modern Cultivators, the calculator is an important part of the immortal path. The penetration rate of personal calculators is increasing year by year. Now, the ownership rate of personal calculators among the Golden Core Cultivators of the Immortal Alliance has reached one hundred percent. More than half of those in the Foundation Establishment Stage are also using personal calculators. Its function is reflected in all aspects of our cultivation..." Having worked as a developer in Leiyang, Nie Lingfang was able to speak these words effortlessly.

"...However, for us, such an almighty magic tool has only been developed for a few hundred years. It took many detours initially and has only recently grasped its foundation. The era when calculators truly began to shine is only within the past hundred years."

"Compared to the eighty thousand years of Immortal Dao, a hundred years is but a fleeting moment. Yet, in such a short century, calculators have changed Shenzhou and also changed the Immortal Dao..."

It was Nie Lingfang's first time speaking these words to the new disciples of the Immortal Institute. As she spoke, her eyes involuntarily looked toward the Ten Thousand Immortals True Mirror, and she also marveled in her heart.

Marveled at that legend.

This story, she initially heard from a friend from the Wanfa Sect who was convalescing. This story showed her a different demeanor of the Immortal Dao, not like the benevolent healing of Tianling Ridge.

At this time, someone asked, "Mr. Nie, to what extent can the Ten Thousand Immortals True Mirror calculate?"

Nie Lingfang shook her head: "It's hard to say. The Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm has been refined several times, and its power is no longer comparable to the original... However, when the Ten Thousand Immortals True Mirror was completed, Senior Feng Luoyi, the human sovereign, said this - 'One day, we can solve everything that can be solved'."

"'Solve everything that can be solved'..." Some disciples showed a trace of confusion in their eyes: "What does it mean? Smart enough?"

They still couldn't understand the meaning of this sentence. Nie Lingfang was frightened: "In the early days at the Thousand Mechanism Pavilion, the human sovereign and Elder Ji studied the first computers together. At that time, Senior Feng gave an example - one day, we will be able to directly calculate every population change within a thousand years and predict every moment of heavenly phenomena from thirty to a hundred days ahead."

"Oh..."

The children once again uttered exclamations.

However, someone raised another question: "But teacher, what about the Way of the Elusive?"

The Way of the Elusive made many Modern Cultivators believe that randomness is the foundation of the world.

Nie Lingfang shook her head: "The so-called Way of the Elusive, at its root, is incalculable. They fundamentally possess randomness, which is 'unsolvable'. However, this randomness is irrelevant to us. Around us is a world where cause and effect are clear, where every sip and bite is due to karma."

"It's like the weather. Heavenly phenomena seem random, but if we can grasp every thread of wind and every piece of cloud at a certain moment, knowing their speed, temperature, and other parameters, we can know the heavenly phenomena at any moment. Our forecasts are not precise enough, either because the parameters we know are insufficient or because our understanding of the laws is not thorough enough."

"This is the manifestation of Dao. In the macroscopic world, microscopic randomness cannot intrude..."

At this moment, a strange voice interjected: "No, you're wrong, young lady. This view should be modified; according to the latest research, it's clear that macroscopic chaos cannot yet intrude into the microscopic world."

Nie Lingfang looked in the direction of the voice, slightly displeased. Those words were not her own opinions. When she started on her path, her teacher said the same thing. This was not only the saying from the Mysterious Palace and Guiyi Alliance but also the belief of the Modern Immortal Path.

However, when she saw the speaker, she felt it all made sense.

The one who spoke was an elder wearing the blue robe of the Wanfa Sect.

"This is also one of the elders who was unaffected in the Great Impact a few months ago? I heard that during that turmoil, these seniors suffered the most, perhaps this... this elder..."

Thinking of this, Nie Lingfang softened her tone slightly and asked, "Old sir, what exactly are you doing?"

"Three or four hundred years ago, I seem to have made a mistake." Pang Jialai, the Mathematics Lord who was not harmed in the Great Impact a few months ago, said calmly: "I want to try to correct it."

Upon hearing this, several lecturers from the Immortal Institute, who were about to persuade the old man to leave, hesitated to act.