However, even a behemoth like the Poseidon System, which specializes in network surveillance, had been searched for over a decade without any results.
As for burning all the Haitians to death, such an action clearly violates the laws of Night City, and Mr. Blue Eyes simply cannot do it.
Therefore, Mr. Blue Eyes fell into deep confusion; he did not know how to deal with the current situation or how to protect Night City from the encroachment of AIs.
He felt helpless, with no one to offer him advice or help.
This was because even the internal staff of the Night Family harbored hostility toward him, leaving him with nowhere to find support or assistance.
Under these circumstances, he could only face the predicament alone and search for a solution.
Meanwhile, Xiao, the culprit who plunged Mr. Blue Eyes into melancholy and confusion, was overjoyed.
This was because eighty percent of the data from the Old Net had been filtered into pure data by the Black Sun and completely absorbed by the Cyber Dimension, becoming crucial resources for building the Digital World.
Although the Cyber Dimension's energy world had been rapidly expanding every day since the creation of the Stellar Ring, we will not discuss its material world for now.
However, the expanded area of the energy world is chaotic and disordered void space, where time, space, and everything else are in disarray.
Once caught in the chaotic energy currents, one might even get lost within them and never return; prolonged survival in such a place would erode even the strongest will, leading to madness.
The Digital World, with its complete structure, is different; everything here becomes orderly through data accumulation and programming, allowing for easy control.
This is also why the Digital World is called heaven by the Cyber Demons and is the place where all Mechanical Cultivators reside.
Furthermore, the expansion of the Digital World brings countless benefits to Xiao; not only has his computing power grown exponentially, but more importantly, the stability of the world has increased by multiples.
If the Cyber Dimension is a giant supercomputer, then the existence of the Digital World is as indispensable to the Cyber Dimension as an operating system is to a computer.
A computer without an operating system is like a bird without wings.
Even with powerful hardware, it can only be a basic calculator, capable of performing only fundamental mathematical operations.
However, once an operating system is installed, this computer will unleash infinite potential.
It can achieve a variety of astonishing functions, establish virtual worlds within the computer, and create endless possibilities.
For the Digital World, data is the most crucial element.
To this end, Xiao has always undertaken an important task in the Cyber Dimension: writing program code.
He then uses these codes to digitally synthesize various structures and integrate them into the Digital World.
Although this task seems simple, it requires immense patience and perseverance, serving as a baseline task for every Mechanical Cultivator.
For those Mechanical Cultivators who are content to slack off and wait for death, this task can still extract their last bit of labor.
Of course, Xiao will not forget the contributions of those Cyber Cultivators who mine.
Every one of their contributions brings a large amount of computing power and data, adding bricks and mortar to the growth of the Digital World.
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Meanwhile, the most joyous event for Xiao was that his Pope successfully passed the Heart-Questioning Tribulation not long ago, successfully advancing to the Nascent Soul Stage and becoming the Mechanical God Cult's first Great Sage.
This is definitely something worth celebrating.
The Nascent Soul Stage not only involves the improvement of personal strength but also concerns the sublimation of the soul and will.
Xiao currently does not possess the relevant technology, which also prevents him from directly elevating someone through divine grace; advancing to the Nascent Soul Stage must rely entirely on one's own efforts.
If one can successfully pass the Heart-Questioning Tribulation, then the path ahead will be smooth sailing.
Conversely, if one fails, it means all efforts are in vain, and all hopes will turn to dust.
Lana's successful advancement is not only her personal victory but also a major breakthrough for Xiao in the field of Cyber Cultivation.
This achievement indicates that the advancement scheme designed by Xiao is not a unique secret technique for his sole use but a method with broad applicability and operability.
This is crucial for promoting the development of Cyber Cultivation, because only in this way can more talents use this cultivation method to perform trial and error and work for Xiao.
More importantly, Lana absorbed a large amount of Cyber Aura energy during her advancement, thereby strengthening her connection with the Cyber Dimension.
Originally, her soul space was only connected to the Cyber Dimension through signals released by Cyber Aura, but now a qualitative change has occurred.
Her soul space was directly positioned within the Cyber Dimension and became an attached space to it.
Although there was still a layer of soul barrier, Xiao could already clearly perceive her faint soul space closely connected to the Cyber Dimension's boundary.
Since he had already reached this stage, Xiao naturally would not be stingy.
He generously granted Lana access to the Cyber Dimension and a vast expanse of empty Cyber Dimension space, allowing her soul space to merge with the Cyber Dimension.
This means that the relationship between Lana and the Cyber Dimension is no longer just a simple signal connection but has achieved a direct wired connection.
Once Lana accepts this power, her soul space will perfectly integrate into the Cyber Dimension like a plugin, becoming a part of the Cyber Dimension rather than something separate.
Now, Lana can not only freely borrow the power of the Cyber Dimension when needed but also has the authority to establish a domain name within this dimension.
One must know, this is a very rare opportunity—one might even say a chance to ascend to heaven in a single step.
Normally, ordinary Cyber Cultivators are like mining machines in the Cyber Dimension.
Their purpose is to provide computing power and energy, then rely on the system's leaked profits to survive and earn resources, belonging to the serving class.
Only the Mechanical Cultivators of the Mechanicus are the true users within the Cyber Dimension, and the ones served by the Cyber Dimension—the big spenders who provide wealth to it!
But whether they are Cyber Cultivators or Mechanical Cultivators, once they successfully advance to the Nascent Soul Stage and gain the authority to establish a domain name, this is equivalent to directly advancing to the management level of the network.
Nascent Soul Stage cultivators can lend their power through domain names, and they can also earn others' traffic and data by operating domain names, increasing their own wealth.
The importance of domain names is something anyone who has used the internet understands; a domain name is that fixed string at the very front of a website, such as the classic prefixes [https], [www], and suffixes [.com], [.cn].
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