Big Data Cultivation

Speaking of Rongxun's injury, Qu Jianlei lightly coughed, "This is the duty of Rongxun Hall, no need to boast."

Among all present, he was the only Golden Core Master. The other masters were aloof, and did not rush here immediately. Only he had been waiting for Feng Jun at Mingsha Fang Market, and accompanied him back after Feng Jun finished his retreat.

Therefore, when everyone was talking, he maintained the demeanor of a master and did not interfere with the younger generation's discussions.

However, when he heard these words, he couldn't bear it anymore and had to point out one thing—Rongxun Hall consists of guardians who see life and death lightly. Using our casualties as a bargaining chip is inappropriate.

Of course, he also had deeper reasons: his partner was injured because he wasn't there at the time.

And the reason he wasn't there was because Feng Jun had given him an invaluable exotic fruit, and he was eager to present it to Xiao Meng.

But the result of presenting the treasure was... he achieved the Golden Core!

No matter how you calculate it, you can't say Feng Jun wronged the Crimson Phoenix Sect.

However, these deeper reasons were inconvenient to mention and also embarrassing, so he could only say they underestimated Rongxun Hall.

The practitioner from his sect, seeing a master from Rongxun Hall speaking up, promptly shut his mouth.

In Feng Jun's mind, he always felt that Rongxun Hall had to protect him as it was a decision by the Crimson Phoenix Sect and had nothing to do with him—if anything happened to him, the loss to Crimson Phoenix would be significant.

But hearing this person speak, he seemed to be taking things for granted. Guardians were indeed "guardians of the path," but they were humans at heart.

They protected the lineage of Crimson Phoenix, but he should recognize them as "people."

As for Master Qu's words, they made sense too, but he couldn't just ignore them because of that.

So he smiled and nodded, "I will consider this as well."

The group sat for a while longer, then Feng Jun went out to visit other masters, and it was already evening.

Since everyone was celebrating his advancement, he hosted a banquet, making it a lively event. Disciples of Taiqing and Crimson Phoenix helped in the kitchen, and they managed to prepare food and drink for over five hundred people.

It was already past midnight when Li Zhishen had a sudden impulse to duel with Wang Wuji.

Feng Jun glanced at Qu Jianlei, and Master Qu, understanding him instantly, spoke up in a serious tone, "Now, isn't it a bit disrespectful to behave so unrestrainedly?"

Just as Li Zhishen was about to argue, Master Sumiao spoke up, "Master Qu is right. Dueling with swords as a celebration is an ancient tradition, but Mountain Master Feng has only advanced a minor step. It wouldn't be too late to congratulate him once more when he breaks through soon."

Anyway, despite the current excitement at White Pebble Beach, the influx of various people led to numerous disputes, big and small.

After the celebration, it was late at night. Feng Jun returned to his small courtyard residence, only to face another big boss.

Climbing up to the second floor, he entered his room and activated the Aura Concealment Array, "Well, I've advanced on time."

The consciousness of the big boss appeared, "You really manage to advance every three months? How have you modified the Devouring Primordial Heaven Technique?"

"That's inconvenient to say," Feng Jun replied with a smile, "Everyone has their own opportunities, mentioning it would involve karma."

"Heh," the big boss snorted disdainfully, "Then take another fifty Heavenly Fragrance Fruits. Have you returned to your sect's secret realm to advance? I can't sense the Heavenly Fragrance Fruit scent on you."

"Yes," Feng Jun nodded with a smile. The Yin Spirit Bigwig had seen Master Ma's instant demise and presumably would have no more schemes.

"Your secret realm... is it a dimension with a different time flow?" The Yin Spirit asked curiously.

Feng Jun remained silent, then smiled, "Why inquire so much if you can't go there... what's the point?"

"Isn't it because I'm bored? You've not talked to me for days," the Yin Spirit felt idle, "Faced any unhappy things, let me hear them to cheer me up?"

"There is something," Feng Jun took out the bottle of Holy Water, "Does this Faith Dew help you?"

"Oh?" The Yin Spirit seemed a bit surprised, then quickly replied, "Open it, let me feel the aura inside."

Feng Jun opened the bottle, and soon heard the big boss sigh lightly, "It's this, huh? Useless to me, but the ambiance of wild worship is quite peculiar."

Feng Jun screwed the bottle cap back on, "Since it's useless, I'll have that Incense Fire Minor Deity refine it... why wild worship?"

"Exalting a single deity above all, that is wild worship, no matter how powerful it is," the Yin Spirit answered naturally.

"In my travels across dimensions in years past, I've seen powerful gods, even self-proclaimed deities, but incense offerings should be a system. Gods make mistakes too. The stronger the god, the more likely to become arrogant. Who will restrain it? It has to be a system."

"I'm not very familiar with this system," Feng Jun shook his head, "isn't this Holy Water powerful enough, otherwise you would be able to refine it?"

"Give it to that Incense Fire Minor Deity of yours then," the Yin Spirit disdainfully stated, "I'm not into incense offerings, why trust others when you can trust yourself?"

Feng Jun hesitated for a moment and asked, "The condensation mechanism of this Faith Dew... you're not interested in that either?"

"Condensation... mechanism?" The Yin Spirit thought for a moment this time, then said, "I'm very interested, do you have it?"

"I have a rough idea," Feng Jun answered aloud, "I have two friends who want to follow the faith path to deification, so I helped them set up this system... could you take a look and offer some advice?"

"Of course," the Yin Spirit replied without hesitation, "but faith-based deification... is ultimately a wild path, the prospects aren't great, it's easy to be hunted down as a rogue worship by those practicing Incense Fire Ascension, adding merit to others without reason, you need to think this through."

Feng Jun let out a leisurely sigh, "Their aptitude isn't good, and my sect is reluctant to share knowledge lightly, what can be done?"

The Yin Spirit also fell silent, and after a long pause, sighed softly, "That's true, you remind me of myself back in the day, but later, I wasn't troubled by such things anymore."

Feng Jun asked aloud, "Why were you not troubled anymore? Your cultivation level rose, you saw more, so you became numb?"

The Big Boss chuckled softly, "As cultivation level rises, the troubles of ants like these become more and more distant to me, you know, even Golden Core Masters don't qualify to question me, if it's a Nascent Soul, I'd answer one question out of ten... that's when I'm in a good mood."

Now, it was Feng Jun's turn to not know how to respond.

"Alright, you're quite good," the Yin Spirit Big Boss instead started to comfort him, "you're compassionate and honorable, which is rare among cultivators."

"I really don't want to be a babysitter," Feng Jun sighed, taking out the process for making Holy Water with disinterest, "this is it."

Because it was almost translated completely, it was specially converted into the script of this realm through a database, the Yin Spirit swept a glance and uttered a light 'huh', "Huh, this approach... is quite novel."

Feng Jun felt a bit puzzled, "You've lived for so many years, haven't you seen it before?"

"I've seen it, I can see the hidden backdoors on this," the Yin Spirit transmitted a consciousness, "Look here, here... these are all backdoors, when refining Holy Water, actually some faith is still being taken..."

"Backdoors?" Feng Jun was indeed a bit surprised, he'd heard of Cultivation Techniques having backdoors to steal cultivation levels, it's not an uncommon tale, among Gu Cultivators this phenomenon is quite serious, and also serious in the Incense Fire Deity System.

However, the Incense Fire Deity System can roughly be considered a tribute tax—anything beyond the tax can be considered a backdoor.

But what he couldn't understand was, Keane is an Apostate, and he can still provide faith to the church by privately making Holy Water?

"Backdoors are too normal, aren't they?" The Big Boss had a worldly-wise attitude, not puzzled by these things at all, "Objects that attract faith... I'm quite puzzled, this rogue worship is very powerful, actually dispersing lifeless objects to attract faith?"

Feng Jun also quite admired the Big Boss, who could discern at a glance that dispersing lifeless objects to attract faith, on that rainy night when the Little Demon was killed, he only thought the object was somewhat unknown, if not for the Soul Search, he wouldn't have imagined about the 'Sacred Object'.

But he also had some other doubts, "Isn't it strange? Is it that rare to disperse lifeless objects as faith tokens?"

"It is indeed rare, this forms a system," the Big Boss earnestly answered his doubts, "Most rogue worship is totem faith, if not totems then sculptures, this method of collecting faith through exotic objects, I've truly never seen... the idea is quite enlightening."

"As long as it's enlightening," Feng Jun chuckled dryly, though he couldn't help urging inwardly: So, any suggestions?

"Huh? That's not right," the Yin Spirit realized something, "This method of collecting faith requires faith tokens, if your friends don't ally with a powerful rogue worship, how can they collect faith tokens? By face?"

"This... is really meant to rely on face," Feng Jun most wanted to ask about these details, "You see, for example, if he's a known figure, and everyone knows about him, it becomes easier."

"That's impossible," the Big Boss interrupted him decisively, "The Imperial Court won't agree to it, governing a region, how many years could he manage? Not to mention... how many people have seen the Lord of the Azure Heavens?"

Realizing the conversation was a bit off track, Feng Jun coughed dryly, "I'm not talking about the Official Government, I mean, for example... actors?"

"How many people can an actor reach?" the Big Boss snorted disdainfully, "One show, three thousand, five thousand people, and they're not even there just for him, even if he were made of iron, how many shows can he perform in a day?"

"If it's like that someone... never mind, you wouldn't know even if I told you, one song amazes the world, how could you not be a Nascent Soul at that point? And if you're already a Nascent Soul, why continue cultivating such an inferior faith?"

Feng Jun was stunned for a moment, finally realizing, "Seems like you don't know what information explosion signifies."

The Big Boss also paused, "What explosion? Weren't we talking about gathering faith?"

"How about this," Feng Jun organized his words, "Let's say an ordinary person could perform for billions of people to see, gathering faith that way."

"Heavenly Curtain, you mean?" the Yin Spirit pondered for a moment, "Wouldn't the cost be a bit high?"

This cross-realm civilization exchange was indeed troublesome, Feng Jun chuckled bitterly, "For instance... I might have a low-cost Heavenly Curtain, would gathering faith like that be suitable?"

The Yin Spirit was stunned for a moment, then suddenly became agitated, "That scoundrel... I just knew it, I damn well shouldn't have been this miserable!"