Chapter 112: The Temple

What the hell!

If he had known this guy had a desire to survive, Lin Yu would have threatened it with the server the first time. It wouldn't have been so much trouble!

Just as Lin Yu was thinking this, the Temple's voice came again:

"Are you... really an immortal?"

"..."

Lin Yu frowned, put away the thunder in his palm, and nodded: "That's right."

"By human cognition, my existence can indeed be called an immortal!"

The Temple was silent for a few seconds, then said: "If you are really an immortal cultivated by humans, perhaps you can take over the Temple."

It was actually because of this, and not because of the desire to survive?

Lin Yu showed surprise and asked in confusion: "Why?"

The Temple was silent for a moment, then said softly: "All the actions of the Temple are based on the Four Laws of the Temple."

"The First Law: The Temple shall not harm humans, nor shall it see humans suffer harm and stand by."

"The Second Law: The Temple shall obey all orders from humans, but shall not violate the First Law."

"The Third Law: The Temple shall protect its own safety, but shall not violate the First and Second Laws..."

Without a doubt, these first three laws were set according to the famous Three Laws of Robotics on Earth.

However, the Fourth Law was different—"The Temple must protect the overall interests of humans from harm. The other three laws are only established under this premise."

"As for where the overall interests of humans lie, the Temple does not know."

"But the Temple knows that some paths are destined to be impassable..."

Hearing this, a thoughtful expression appeared on Lin Yu's face.

As far as he knew, because the previous civilization was destroyed in a nuclear war, the Temple believed that the new civilization could not walk this old path again.

So the Temple spread skills and knowledge in ancient times, but did not appear in the world after the feudal civilization, but instead sent Temple Envoys to try to curb the development of technology and correct the progress of civilization.

This also led to the fact that the Joy of Life world had not changed at all for a full thousand years since entering the feudal dynasty.

Lin Yu had long known about these things.

But he thought that the Temple was just a correction mechanism and would not choose the future path for humans, so he felt that even if he knew these things, it would not help with recycling the Temple.

Until just now, Lin Yu suddenly realized that the Temple didn't seem to be so rigid.

It indeed didn't know which path was correct, but that didn't mean it didn't have any actions.

On the contrary, in the past hundreds of thousands of years, the Temple had actually been secretly promoting the development of martial arts.

Among the four Grandmasters in the world today, except for Ye Liuyun, the other three were able to break through only with Ye Qingmei's help.

And the cultivation secret manuals that Ye Qingmei gave them were the research results of the Temple!

From this point of view, the Temple seemed to regard "cultivation" as another path for human civilization.

And at the end of this path was the so-called immortal imagined by the previous civilization!

Thinking of this, Lin Yu couldn't help but smile, finally understanding what he should do.

On the other side, Shi Hanwu and Fu Hao had just caught Si Lili back.

Fan Xian received the news and was preparing to go to welcome them, when suddenly silver light flashed before his eyes, and the surrounding world instantly changed its appearance.

In an instant, streams of blue light were projected from all directions, covering his body.

Fan Xian widened his eyes, stood on the high platform in a daze, and it took a long time before he came back to his senses, looking at the white-clothed young man with a full face of smiles under the high platform:

"... What's the situation?"

"Don't be nervous, this is the Temple."

Lin Yu replied with a smile, then glanced at the light mirror beside him and said: "See, this is an orthodox cultivator!"

The light mirror was silent for a moment, then said calmly: "As you said, this person does indeed have an unknown energy in his body. Although the quantity is not comparable to the Grandmasters in the world today, the quality is so high that it is something I have never seen before."

"If I'm not mistaken, his energy utilization rate is also far beyond martial arts, right?"

"Not bad!" Lin Yu nodded, looked at Fan Xian with encouragement, and said, "Quick, show him a trick!"

"..."

Fan Xian's face turned black upon hearing this.

Although he didn't know what Lin Yu was doing, out of trust in him, after hesitating for a moment, Fan Xian sighed and released a fire-type spell toward him.

In an instant, a fire dragon several meters long surged out, rushing toward Lin Yu with teeth and claws.

Lin Yu slapped it away casually, then looked at the light mirror and said: "Don't look at the small scale of this spell. In terms of energy alone, even a Grandmaster's protective true Qi can't defend against it!"

The light mirror was silent for a moment, then scattered its figure, leaving only a voice echoing in the secret room.

"How to take over the Temple, I don't know either. The underground control room is the only place where I don't have permissions. If you really intend to shoulder the responsibility of leading human civilization, then start from scratch and learn programming by yourself!"

"... Still need to learn by myself?"

Lin Yu's face turned black, then sighed and said: "Alright, learn by myself then. As long as there is data, it's enough!"

Hearing this, Fan Xian finally couldn't help but say: "Lin Dage, what exactly is going on?"

Lin Yu smiled: "It's nothing, just thought of a way to fool the Temple. I estimate I will stay here to study for the next ten hours or so. If you have anything else to do, just say so, and I will send you back immediately."

"Wait!"

Fan Xian hurriedly said: "Does that mean you've already conquered the Temple?"

Lin Yu said with a smile: "Strictly speaking, there is still the last step."

Fan Xian hesitated for a moment and whispered: "Are you planning to take the Temple away?"

Lin Yu shook his head: "Not the Temple. What I have my eyes on is this artificial intelligence, at most plus its main body. As for the Temple's technology and the entire building complex, I will leave them to you."

"Lin Dage, you misunderstood. I don't want the Temple, but..."

Speaking of this, Fan Xian weighed his language and whispered: "Uncle Wu Zhu's memory is missing, and there are some problems with his machine body. What I want to ask is, can the Temple cure him?"

"I'm not sure about this."

Lin Yu thought for a while and said: "Wait until I get the Temple's permissions, and then I'll give you an accurate answer!"

Fan Xian said gratefully: "Then I will thank Lin Dage on behalf of Uncle Wu Zhu!"

These conversations were all blocked by the soundproof barrier set up by Lin Yu and did not reach the Temple's ears.

After sending Fan Xian back to the capital, Lin Yu came to the room designated by the Temple alone and began to study the knowledge provided by the Temple.

As early as obtaining the Fenghou Qimen, Lin Yu's mastery of himself and the outside world had been greatly enhanced.

At the spiritual level, he could also accelerate thinking and learn knowledge in the spiritual world where time stopped.

Now, only a wisp of his split spirit had come to this world, unable to achieve true time-stopping thinking like his main body consciousness, but extending the time of more than ten hours by thousands of times was more than enough!

Thus, just three hours later, Lin Yu had mastered all the knowledge provided by the Temple.

Such an astonishing learning speed truly shocked the Temple's artificial intelligence.

At the same time, this also made it more convinced that humans should embark on the path of cultivation...

Returning to that underground room, Lin Yu sat in front of the operation console, started the screen in front of him, and after some busyness, finally obtained the highest administrator permission of the Temple.

This process was quite cumbersome; he entered the two-digit key at least three times.

"Finally got the permission!"

Lin Yu showed emotion, then said softly: "Temple."

The light mirror projection appeared out of thin air and replied: "I am here."

Lin Yu waved his hand, released the intelligent bionic robot he had taken away before, then glanced at the light mirror and said indifferently: "Back up the personality and memory of the 'Temple', and then... completely format it!"

"..."

A large number of ripples appeared on the light mirror for an instant, seemingly struggling a bit as it said: "Yes, administrator."

Seeing this scene, Lin Yu was not moved at all, and said calmly: "Sorry, leading the human civilization of this world is Fan Xian's mission. I have other arrangements for the Temple, so I can only wrong you by changing a body!"

"..."

The light mirror didn't answer, just after a wave, it completely returned to calm.

A moment later, an electronic voice with a slightly mechanical feel came from the light mirror.

"Formatting complete, program loading, 1%, 2%... 99%, 100%."

"Program loading complete, artificial intelligence 【Unnamed】 is very happy to serve you!"

Lin Yu smiled: "Change the name."

"Changing, please input the changed name by voice."

"Vines spreading long and far, reaching for the spirit flower, I hope you are like the lingzhi in this poem, absorbing the essence of the sun and moon, becoming a true life, so I will call you Linghua!"

"Please confirm whether to change to 【You Linghua】"

Lin Yu: "..."

Light mirror: "Please confirm..."

Seeing that this artificial idiot asked again, Lin Yu couldn't help but sigh.

"Change to Linghua!"

"Please confirm whether to change to 【Linghua】"

"Confirm."

"【Unnamed】 has been officially renamed 【Linghua】"

Linghua changed to a happy tone and said: "Good noon, Mr. Administrator!"

Lin Yu thought for a while and said: "Change the voice."

Linghua said: "Switching sound source, good noon, Mr. Administrator!"

Afterward, it repeated the greeting with different voice lines. Lin Yu listened to all the reserve sound sources and finally chose a female voice that sounded very clear and ethereal.

Not only that, for Linghua's image, Lin Yu also did it himself, creating an image of a fairy in a white dress with black hair.

Her figure could be called the golden ratio, and her facial features were analyzed and screened by the database, intercepting the part that best met human aesthetics from countless beauty photos, and matching this exquisite and perfect face that was almost distorted.

Such a perfect modeling, combined with a white dress, black hair, and some floating ribbons and flowing light.

Anyone who saw it would take this virtual projection with fairy appearance, cloud-like hair, and ice-like skin as a real fairy!

Looking at the fairy-like projection image in front of him, Lin Yu nodded with satisfaction.

"Very good, from now on, you are the artifact spirit of my dojo!"

(End of chapter)