Aren't you going to invite this young lady to sit down?

Ye Feng was lost in thought and found a seat, forgetting that Qin Rou was still next to him. It wasn't until Xiao Xuan reminded him that he remembered.

"Um... Qin Rou, this is Xiao Xuan."

"Qin Rou, the Seventh Master of the Five Elements Sect"

Qin Rou clasped her hands in a slightly shy gesture.

"Qin Rou, I've met... Xiao Xuan. If you need anything in the sect in the future, you can contact me."

"My dear sister! I'm really sorry to trouble you with that!"

He was able to call a Nascent Soul cultivator "younger sister" to someone in the Void Returning stage.

And it's so natural.

Xiao Xuan is truly one of a kind!

However, she could get along well with Ling Fengxue, who was at the seventh level of the Tribulation Transcending Realm.

Ye Feng was not surprised by such generosity.

The group watched their disciple busy himself, while the three of them chatted idly.

"How are things progressing with the collaborations with various sects?"

"Very smoothly! With your reputation as a Great Immortal Venerable, almost no sect at level six or seven would be unwilling."

Ye Feng, with his avatar stationed in the cultivation space, was merely exchanging and transferring spirit leaves; he wasn't really clear on the specifics.

The current trading volume has reached approximately 1.1 trillion.

Of the remaining 500 billion, over 200,000 pieces of Lingye were sold, raising a total of 500 billion in funds.

They received nearly a million disciples with the five elements of spiritual roots, and distributed spirit stones worth hundreds of billions.

There's also the cost of treating cultivators from the Nine Sects and exchanging two spirit seeds for hundreds of billions of transaction points.

The other trading points were all recently acquired through collaborations between Penglai Sect and other major sects.

Now all the major sects have begun to return, and their disciples are gradually taking their places and starting to sell goods.

With Ye Feng, the "Divine Immortal Venerable Ye" who subdued strange beasts and resisted evil gods, as his backer...

Most level six or seven sects chose to cooperate directly.

In summary, including the spirit leaf,

Daily transaction volume increases by around one billion... Of course, the actual sales volume is likely more than three times that.

After all, many goods are redeemed directly from the system store without any trading points.

Once we adapt and establish a complete receiving channel, the number of trading points should double!

From tens of thousands of points of trading per day in the past, to billions of points now.

No wonder everyone is so busy...

But the problems now go beyond that.

Ye Feng originally intended to lend out the more than 20,000 stones he had as working capital.

As a result, selling the spirit leaves actually brought back hundreds of billions of spirit stones circulating in the cultivation world.

I need to think of a way to spend all the spirit stones...

In my past life, I would have simply spent lavishly on acquiring land.

However, here, the sect's sacred lands are allocated through battles on the Heavenly Ladder.

He'd be better suited to selling land; he's hardly qualified to buy it.

Even if they were to carve out a piece of land within another sect, it would only be asking for trouble with just a few Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Having already done the population business, what else can we use to distribute money to every household?

It seems that all that's left is labor...

As they chatted, Ye Feng's attention was suddenly drawn to what was ahead.

"The Golden Sect has released a large number of pre-orders for Level 4 Blazing Flame Gold, with each order priced at fifty high-grade spirit stones. Should we buy them all?"

"The northern region's beast stronghold is currently teeming with numerous monsters, making it a prime location for powerful offensive weapons. We can take them in!"

"Two million orders have been placed...the price has increased by three high-grade spirit stones..."

"Keep buying!"

...

Ma Qiling is like a business elite, frantically maintaining the "calculator" while simultaneously integrating information and issuing instructions.

They've even started offering futures contracts...

While some alchemy and weapon-refining sects do indeed have pre-ordered goods, in most cases, they purchase only what they need.

Even if a chamber of commerce hoards goods, its information channels cannot be as comprehensive as the Penglai Sect's real-time, map-wide communication.

Each store only has three free delivery opportunities.

However, compared to these important messages, the teleportation fee of one hundred high-grade spirit stones is almost negligible.

It seems I really need to lend a hand.

The futures market is highly volatile; if other chambers of commerce were to gain a deeper understanding of its intricacies...

Even with Ma Qiling's Golden Core level strength, adding a hundred more such calculating devices would be futile.

Thinking of this, Ye Feng greeted Xiao Xuan and the other person and then entered the cultivation space.

Inside the cultivation space, he tossed the statue fragments into a corner.

Within the cultivation space, this evil god statue neither spreads pollution nor has the function of influencing consciousness.

Quiet and well-behaved, it looks no different from an ordinary stone.

Ye Feng's avatar sat quietly in the void, receiving and processing the exchange information one by one.

With this avatar, there's no need to think about anything else; all you need to do is exchange for it.

In some ways, it's also a supercomputer.

However, the consciousness within it belongs entirely to Ye Feng, and if the task at hand becomes even slightly complex, it affects the thinking of his physical body...

What if there were an artificial intelligence?

Although the soul light obtained from the Xuan Ying Immortal Mansion could be used to infuse magical artifacts with spirit, Ye Feng had only ever seen Qianqian "cook" for herself.

Aside from their fighting instincts, the spirits of those magical artifacts can basically only execute a few simple commands.

A real-world computer, however, integrates functions such as computing, display, storage, and many more...

In the end, it can even develop on its own and upgrade itself!

Even though Ye Feng is now at the fifth level of Immortal Venerable, unless he directly uses magic,

If all magical power and divine sense were calculated in terms of zero and one, it would probably be roughly equivalent to the capabilities of a computer in the real world... or even a computer with slightly inferior specifications.

The most crucial component of a computer is the Central Processing Unit, or CPU for short.

The core components of a CPU include computation, control, storage, and retrieval.

Each part contains countless conductor relays, arranged according to binary logic, representing all the data.

Although Ma Qiling possessed the most basic data concepts, inspired by the twelve-month cycle, and developed a duodecimal "counting rod," her abilities were insufficient.

It's also impossible to combine countless duodecimal devices.

Ultimately, it only formed a binary decimal line... creating a seemingly plausible but ultimately flawed calculation tool.

Before these thirty-six lines, he may have already eliminated countless correct results.

Perhaps the fundamental principle of calculation is that the larger the number, the better.

But even for Ma Qiling, and even for Ye Feng now, it's hard to imagine how complicated it must be.

In the cultivation world, everything is driven by spiritual energy. If you want to create a chip that contains thousands or even trillions of components and can still function, then the materials used must be of the highest quality.

What material has the best guiding effect?

Of course, it must be an unparalleled spiritual material that can even be used to forge immortal artifacts!

Meteorite, Blood Essence, Flowing Cloud Crystal

One piece costs over two billion trading points.

Qianqian's upgrade only cost a little over 30 billion.

I wonder how many CPUs it would take to build one...

A few hundred billion in transaction points wouldn't be of much help to Ye Feng, but if he could really create a powerful "spiritual brain," it would be of immense help to the Penglai Sect.

The improved coordination capabilities could allow them to recoup their costs within one or two months!

Ye Feng was also very curious to see what the effect of creating this spiritual brain would be...