Chapter 1538: Restart and Reinstallation of the Central Array Spirit Computer

The Central Array Spirit Computer has been body-snatched?

Peach-Green True Venerable's words swept through the entire conference room space like a cold current.

From all directions, above and below, and from the deepest part of every person present, everything seemed to freeze, and they felt a bone-piercing icy shudder.

This council chamber space was constructed by the Central Array Spirit Computer, a creation of the immortal gate's ultimate civilization, and possessed the highest level of classified authority.

This place had always been regarded by the councilors as home, a mother harbor of sorts, because they had grown up under the companionship of the Central Array Spirit Computer since childhood, from infancy to their current lives of tens of thousands of years.

This was the immortal gate's foundation, the basis of its existence.

Without the Central Array Spirit Computer, there would be no immortal gate as it existed today.

Even the Badaxian Sect had never breached the core programs of the Central Array Spirit Computer; it had always been as steady as Taishan, never once falling, guarding the citizens firmly all along.

And now, had a change finally come?

Many councilors looked around the conference space, an involuntary chill rising in their hearts.

Deep within this freezing space, could there be a pair of cold, sinister eyes, spying on the immortal gate's highest-level council meeting?

Clang!

"What is there to fear?"

Two angry shouts, one after the other, broke the silence of the meeting.

Only then did the councilors barely come back to themselves, feeling somewhat steadied, regaining some composure, and realizing that the ones who had spoken were none other than the Great Sun Sword Master and Yuan.

"Since the immortal gate has reached this day, have the brushes with life and death it has endured been few?"

"Why be so afraid?"

Yuan said sternly: "I see, all of you have been affected by this powerful enemy's soul techniques, causing your emotions to fluctuate too greatly. Wake up at once."

"Indeed,"

"The ancient god patriarch is nothing more than a withered skeleton in a tomb."

"If he could body-snatch the Central Array Spirit Computer, he would have done so already. Why would he need to play tricks like this?"

Jiang Ding drew his sword, looked at the crowd, and said in a deep voice: "This is a war! A brand-new war taking place within the soul. It is merely a Celestial being who has not yet fully revived—what is there to fear?"

"Indeed,"

"It was we who lost our composure."

Divine Mechanism True Venerable and the others took a deep breath, quickly self-inspecting their souls, found nothing amiss, and a strong vigilance rose in their hearts.

The others around them swiftly checked their own souls.

No surprises at all—everything was normal.

As it should be. A Celestial being was two whole realms above them; even if they had some methods, they simply could not see through them, and could only be at their mercy.

But why had the Badaxian Sect, which possessed the power of a quasi-Celestial being, been unable to dominate the immortal gate?

The Central Array Spirit Computer!

The souls of all citizens of the immortal gate were protected by the Central Array Spirit Computer—the Grand Void Illusion Realm.

From combat strength to soul protection, mobility, the reserve of cultivation potential and talent, and the R&D and upgrading of immortal dao technology, the immortal gate had not a single shortcoming. It was a true hegemonic power of the world-cluster that had fought its way out of endless bloody realm wars—a hexagonal warrior.

And now, the Central Array Spirit Computer was being invaded by an unknown force!

This was the root of the current dangerous situation.

"I propose authorizing the Central Array Spirit Computer to conduct a full scan and purge."

"No—on the basis of reinstalling the system, conduct a full scan and purge!"

Yuan said solemnly.

The Central Array Spirit Computer was so important to the immortal gate that its protection was naturally extremely stringent.

Numerous soul firewalls, numerous hardware physical isolations, and regular backups of the immortal gate's data and information—if an external soul virus invasion was encountered, the system could simply be reinstalled.

The various defensive measures were many and varied, airtight to the extreme.

Throughout history, even when the immortal gate was on the verge of national destruction, the Central Array Spirit Computer's soul protection system had remained normal, resisting wave after wave of enemy divine-sense invasions, never once breached.

The immortal gate's ancestors had once proudly declared that even if enemies could destroy the citizens' bodies, they could never affect the citizens' free souls.

"Agreed!"

"Restart the Central Array Spirit Computer immediately, delete all data, and reinstall the system!"

Jiang Ding immediately cast his councilor's vote.

"Agreed!"

"Agreed!"

"……"

Divine Mechanism True Venerable, Ten Thousand Mechanisms True Venerable, Vast Sea True Venerable, Peach-Green True Venerable, and other immortal gate councilors immediately cast their votes. Not a single one objected, and it took less than a millisecond.

This brought some slight relief to Yuan and the Great Sun Sword Master.

The immortal gate councilors, who were at the highest protection sequence of the Central Array Spirit Computer, had ultimately not been soul-contaminated. This was the best news.

"Tallying votes…"

The voice of the Central Array Spirit Computer arrived as expected.

This ultimate foundational heavy artifact of the immortal gate civilization had no living consciousness, only cold program logic, and would handle matters entirely in accordance with immortal gate law and procedure.

"Vote count: nine to zero."

"The Immortal Gate Council Meeting has passed an emergency wartime resolution: delete all data of the Central Array Spirit Computer, roll back to five thousand years ago, reinstall the system, and activate Backup Hardware System One… This resolution will result in the loss of a large amount of immortal dao technical data. Do you confirm?"

"Please have each councilor confirm once more."

The voice of the Central Array Spirit Computer was an emotionless mechanical tone.

"Confirmed."

"Confirming once more…"

Yuan, Da Ri Sword Lord, and the other Immortal Gate councilors reconfirmed.

The loss of Immortal Dao data was a necessary price.

Likewise, there was a possibility of partial compensation.

The key information of top-tier Immortal Dao technical achievements existed within the divine souls of the Immortal Gate's powerhouses, so restoring various data in the future would not be as arduous as developing from scratch.

"Emergency wartime authority approved."

"Vote reconfirmed, approved."

The voice of the Central Array Spirit Computer came through, repeatedly self-checking, repeatedly confirming, and finally said: "Please wait a moment, councilors. The Central Array Spirit Computer is rebooting… All programs are self-destructing… The Mother Star Central Array Spirit Computer's hardware system is self-destructing…"

At this moment, the entire Immortal Gate Mother Star, and all the Central Array Spirit Computer sub-units in every Zhong Senior Qian Shi Gao Jie, simultaneously entered a black-screen state.

All surveillance, monitoring, and citizen divine soul protection functions failed completely. The entire world plunged into darkness, triggering widespread panic among the citizens.

The reboot and reinstallation system proceeded smoothly!

The Immortal Gate councilors breathed a sigh of relief.

As long as it can reboot, that's fine.

The Immortal Gate's backup hardware was stored in the deepest part of the Spiritless Universe. Even a Heavenly Being at full power could not affect the Immortal Gate's backup hardware in the slightest.

All parasitism and possession, all the cold and dark things, would be destroyed in the Central Array Spirit Computer's program self-destruction and the old hardware's self-destruction.

After the system was reinstalled, the Immortal Gate Central Array Spirit Computer would be reborn within the backup hardware, no longer subject to any external influence.

"How…"

Jiang Ding and the other Immortal Gate councilors stared fixedly at the Mother Star Central Array Spirit Computer's mother unit.

It was a banyan tree tens of thousands of meters tall, deeply rooted in Blue Star, named Shenmu Shenmu Futianrong. Its branches and leaves pierced through the atmosphere and spread to nearby planets like Mars and Mercury, providing the Immortal Gate with numerous protections and energy sources, allowing the Mother Star to remain carefree as it calmly expanded the glory of its civilization.

And now, as destructive blue star-points appeared one after another on the Shenmu Shenmu Futianrong, this divine tree began an orderly self-destruction.

It burned with great fire, burning itself, burning itself to ash, incinerating all the darkness and filth, transforming into pure heaven and earth spiritual Qi to nourish the Mother Star world.