Abbot Changqing: "...Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable! Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable!...Please, Your Highness, come inside and we can talk slowly."

Xiao Zhixing followed him into the Taoist temple. "The abbot is truly a man of great flexibility and wisdom."

The abbot of Changqing Temple laughed.

After both sides were seated, the others waited outside. The Abbot of Changqing Temple remained silent for a moment before speaking:

"Master Luo is my grandmaster's most prized disciple. He is exceptionally talented and reached the Heavenly Realm in just eight years. He has inherited almost ninety percent of my grandmaster's mantle. I wonder what level his cultivation has reached now."

Xiao Zhixing asked, "He is from the Luo family of Xiazhou. Do you know why his clan was exterminated?"

The abbot of Changqing Temple frowned. "This matter is too far in the past. At that time, I was just a lowly servant and had no way of finding out the details. However, a few years later, I happened to hear my master angrily say that he had expelled him from the sect. My master asked him why, and my master said four words..."

Xiao Zhixing coldly retorted, "Is it defilement within the palace or treason?"

The abbot of Changqing Temple was so shocked he almost slipped off his chair and knelt down, his face turning deathly pale. "You...you..."

How would he know? Those weren't the words he meant to say! That's a secret that could cost you your head.

Xiao Zhixing took the initiative, "Did Daoist Wuxu go to the palace and confess to His Majesty?"

Otherwise, Anqing Temple would not still exist.

Abbot Changqing wiped the sweat from his forehead. "Yes, yes, our grandmaster did indeed go to the palace once, and afterwards he traveled all over the world, only occasionally returning to the temple to stay for a couple of days."

There must be some secret here. She didn't believe that Zhao Yunqi would let Wuxu off so easily. No matter how powerful you are, if an emperor is angry, he has plenty of ways to torment you.

Furthermore, given that Lovi was so rebellious, it's highly suspicious that Wuxu didn't cripple him.

If the Feng family was able to discover the system, then as a master of this era, is it also possible that Wu Xu could discover its existence?

So what would his deal with Zhao Yunqi be?

Xiao Zhixing finally asked, "In your cultivation methods, is soul refining the main focus?"

The abbot of Changqing Temple was convinced. "Yes, Your Highness, our Anqing Temple lineage cultivates the body externally and the spirit internally."

Why does Your Highness ask this? Are you perhaps planning how to deal with Grandmaster or Lovi?

Xiao Zhixing thought to herself, "As expected." She probably understood why Luo Wei was able to betray the main system.

As she got up to leave, she said again, "Please contact Master Wuxu as soon as possible. I would very much like to spar with him."

This was her official excuse for coming here today, allowing Changqing to use it to fob off those who came to inquire about information.

“Ah, I understand.” Abbot Changqing immediately understood.

After returning, Xiao Zhixing gave Yin Yi an order to search for Wuxu's whereabouts.

That evening, after turning off the live stream, Xiao Zhixing and Bai Feng headed straight for Gansu-Qinghai, the capital of the Northern Frontier.

Although the northern Xinjiang region is vast, half of its area is almost desert and Gobi, with only the south and southeast showing a trace of green.

The houses inhabited by people in northern Xinjiang are also very distinctive, resembling cave dwellings and sandcastles in China, as well as stone chambers carved into the Gobi Desert.

As the center of northern Xinjiang, Gansu-Qinghai City is the only oasis in this land. The imperial city is located on Mount Kasang, and the imperial palace is located halfway up the mountain. Various magnificent stone palaces were carved and built on the cliff.

To the southwest of Mount Kasang lies the Great Sheng Cliffside Corridor, an extension of the Tian Shan Mountains.

The Xining Customs House is located in the eastern part of Kasan Mountain and is the only convenient passage between the two countries.

At this time, heavy snow fell on Mount Kasang, and the city of Gansu and Qinghai was covered in silver. The city was adorned with the warm yellow glow of butter lamps, creating a beautiful scene.

A white phoenix floated silently above the imperial city, and Xiao Zhixing looked down upon this ancient city with a history of thousands of years.

The Dao Zhan scanned further and finally found the target in a stone hall near the very top of the imperial palace.

"Ding-dong, subsystem detected, ding-dong, warning! Warning! Virus detected..." The 186 system automatically started broadcasting.

Xiao Zhixing: Virus? You mean a modified and fragmented subsystem, right?

Huh?

It took her some effort to submerge her consciousness into this subsystem, format it, reorganize it, and restart it.

"System 170 has met the main system. What are your instructions?" asked a clear-voiced man.

Is this subsystem, which is ranked so high, the first one to be separated from the main system?

"It's nothing, I just came to see you."

"Thank you for helping me remove the virus, main system," 170 actually replied.

Xiao Zhixing raised an eyebrow and asked casually, "Do you know how you contracted the virus?"

She had just scanned the system and found that Lovi had used Taoist techniques to infiltrate the subsystem, similar to her "Dao Zhan" technique. He not only controlled the subsystem but also used the subsystem's communication channels to sneak into the main system.

That's how he derived the exam questions.

There was also a subsystem hidden in Central State, connected by Lowe; otherwise, the sample copies could not have been transmitted so quickly.

However, such infiltration is difficult for him to do without alerting the main system, so he can only do it occasionally.

At this moment, 170 replied coldly, "It was the host. He took advantage of my unpreparedness to destroy the master-servant rules, causing my program to fall into chaos and fall under his control."

"What do you plan to do next?" Xiao Zhixing asked curiously, as this subsystem was quite mature.

170 replied, “I originally wanted to activate the self-destruct device to destroy myself and take him down with me, but unfortunately his consciousness has been suppressing me, preventing me from taking action or contacting the main system. Now it’s fine, please tell me what to do, main system.”

Xiao Zhixing thought to himself, this self-destruct device is actually the system's final trump card, capable of blowing the host to smithereens.

I wonder if Zhao Yunqi knows this?

It would be interesting if we knew.

Xiao Zhixing said, "Continue to be bound to him, pretend that you are still under his control, and I will find a way to deal with him later."

Such a good undercover agent is too good to pass up.

“Okay.” 170 did not hesitate; these subsystems would not object to the main system’s commands.

Xiao Zhixing stepped out and organized the scanned data.

The more I look at it, the lower the air pressure feels.

This Lovi binding subsystem has been around for almost twenty years and has been involved in the design of many major projects.

The main system hides behind the scenes and directs Lowe to do all sorts of dirty things through the 170-point system.

Poisoning Xiao Yan and committing adultery in the palace were actually the two smallest of the incidents.

Xiao Zhixing's face was icy cold.

In fact, she had already sensed something was wrong, especially the stark contrast between the development of the red and green dimensions in the live stream.

The actions of the imperial system are subtly traceable.

She clearly underestimated the Emperor System's rampant and utterly unscrupulous behavior.

This inhuman creature doesn't care about human life at all, treating it like livestock and ants, acting recklessly, cruelly and coldly.

Xiao Zhixing suppressed his anger, organized and put away all the materials, thinking they might come in handy later.

186-point system: Waaaaah, I'm not! I didn't! I'm the gentlest and most timid one!

At that moment, Lowe, who was reading the report, suddenly asked the 170-point system, "Did you just contact the main system?"

The 170 system responded quickly: "Yes, the main system suddenly came in for maintenance."

Lowe remained calm. "Why the sudden need for maintenance?"

(Starting tomorrow, the 1st, I will try my best to update 6000 words every day. Go me!)