Chapter 788: Comprehensive Upgrade

The origin of this Qi luck was not due to the issuance of Qingyuan, but because the people within the Azure Void had truly received benefits, and thus fed back Qi luck.

Little Wei Yuan was lost in thought, deeply understanding the power of the two words "welfare." If this were in the world beyond the heavens, it would be two million votes; he could have whatever position he wanted.

It was no wonder that those politicians in the world beyond the heavens, regardless of whether they could afford it, would only blindly increase welfare, getting the votes in hand first. As for whether the economy would collapse, that was a matter for the next administration.

It was just that Little Wei Yuan had also experienced the chaos and doomsday of the world beyond the heavens, knowing that welfare was a double-edged sword; having given benefits, one also needed to impose constraints and spurs.

Thus, Little Wei Yuan summoned Yu Zhizhuo to carefully discuss the upcoming arrangements with him. After hearing Little Wei Yuan's concept, even as knowledgeable as Yu Zhizhuo was, he could not help but be shocked: "Is this something a human can think of?"

Little Wei Yuan said: "It is indeed thought of by a human, and a mortal at that."

Yu Zhizhuo was also helpless and could only comply with the execution, but before leaving, he could not help but say: "Junior Nephew, act like a human!"

After returning, Yu Zhizhuo first selected the eyeballs of exotic beasts to refine a complete set of magic treasures, including one core mother treasure and one hundred and eight child eyes.

Then, he placed the child eyes at the entrances and exits of important work sites. When working cultivators entered or exited, standing in front of a child eye, their identity information would be recorded by the child eye and stored in the mother treasure. What time they started work and what time they finished was recorded clearly.

Then, he set up dedicated attendance-taking cultivators, all selected from those with extraordinary spiritual sense and naturally mean-spirited natures, to patrol various places. After work ended each day, they would memorize the information recorded by the mother treasure and then enter the Human Renjian Yanhuo to transfer and store the information there. In this way, there would be complete attendance records, which could be permanently preserved and used for the analysis of other projects in the future.

After testing for several days and seeing that the attendance system was operating well, Little Wei Yuan was very satisfied. Now that everyone had a salary, he could finally catch those who were late and deduct their wages.

The online operation of the attendance system was just a beginning, and it was the most insignificant part of Little Wei Yuan's entire plan. Next, Little Wei Yuan invested another million immortal silvers to comprehensively upgrade and renovate the Zhou Tian Star Dou Array.

This renovation was led by Ji Liuli, with Yu Zhizhuo as an assistant, so the renovation effect was particularly obvious. Moreover, the construction period, which originally required one month, was completed in less than half a month. After the renovation, the frequency of the Zhou Tian Star Dou Array monitoring the world increased by two times, and the precision increased by one time, already capable of capturing detailed movements—for example, whether one touched their mouth or their head after raising a hand could be distinguished clearly.

With the data from the Zhou Tian Star Dou Array as a foundation, an advanced performance management system was thus implemented and promoted.

The Zhou Tian Star Dou Array could judge whether someone was working or slacking off based on their movements. For example, standing by the iron-forging machine, those who were working and those who were idly standing and chatting could be distinguished clearly, with nowhere to hide.

This set of systems was inspired by the automated office system of the Umbrella Corporation and generated after comprehensive improvements. Moreover, it captured movements in three dimensions, being generations more advanced than the Umbrella Corporation's system.

This was not the end; the Zhou Tian Star Dou Array could monitor the operation of spiritual energy and Dao power. Similarly, cultivators sitting in the energy supply array, all meditating in the exact same way, could have it clearly seen who was operating Dao power with full effort and who was distracted, and it was recorded in the files, impartial and incorruptible.

After these two major systems went online, public grievances immediately boiled over, and Little Wei Yuan's azure Qi decreased by over one hundred thousand in the blink of an eye.

The reason why the full two million was not spat out was mainly because there were many people eating meat, and few people were qualified to be monitored by the system.

But as Little Wei Yuan promoted the system to farming, the azure Qi decreased by another five hundred thousand on the spot.

Little Wei Yuan invested a million immortal silvers and spent so much effort, not just to deduct wages, or rather, not just to deduct wages.

Based on the data accumulated by the Zhou Tian Star Dou Array, Little Wei Yuan launched a brand-new system again.

Soon, cultivators discovered that there was an extra silver-plated screen in their workplaces. After activating it with spiritual sense, they would see a long progress bar appear under their own name.

When the progress bar reached the end, it meant the foundation was complete, and they could enter the next stage. And after working today, the progress gained from polishing the Dao foundation would be displayed on the progress bar, and it would be accurate to the single digit.

The length of the progress bar for each Dao foundation cultivator varied; the least was less than forty thousand, and the most was just over fifty thousand. Some people could gain more than thirty points of progress in a day of work, while others had a pitiful two points.

Dao foundation cultivators had intelligence far above mortals, and once explained, they understood the principle. The Zhou Tian Star Dou Array calculated the cultivation progress of every registered Dao foundation cultivator based on the data from the past month; the varying lengths of the progress bars were because everyone's root bone talent was different.

Dao foundation cultivators who could work in the same place all had roughly similar talents, so the progress bars were also about the same.

The calculation precision of the upgraded array was already accurate to one point, sufficient to accurately measure the daily cultivation progress gains, and it was available for inquiry. In this way, all Dao foundation cultivators were boiling with excitement!

Although the progress bar was long and the immortal path was long, as long as they could clearly see themselves making progress every day, let alone a progress bar of tens of thousands, even one hundred thousand, one million, or even one hundred million, they had the confidence to keep going. In front of the progress bar, words like boring and monotonous no longer existed. And working in the same place for a day, the huge gap between thirty-plus points and two points made people understand on the spot what was meant by "diligence can make up for clumsiness" and what was meant by "cultivation is for oneself."

After the new system was trial-run for several days and then upgraded once more, cultivators discovered that the cultivation data had been linked to the merit points obtained and the monthly Qingyuan salary.

Now everyone has a personal realization: if you cultivate earnestly for one hour, you gain one hour's worth of harvest. If you slack off for one hour, you get absolutely nothing.

Three days after the new system was officially launched, the output of workshops everywhere in the Azure Void increased by fifty percent, and the cultivation progress of Dao foundation cultivators flew. Little Wei Yuan, on the other hand, recorded over ten thousand advanced azure Qi, almost forcibly squeezing an advanced azure Qi from every template cultivator.

Only then was the name of the new system made public: Advanced Digital Immortal Cultivation Auxiliary System.

At this time, Little Wei Yuan was standing in front of dozens of high-level Dharma Form cultivators with extraordinary bearing, demonstrating to them the usage of the auxiliary immortal cultivation system and the actual effects of its operation during this period.

These people in front of Little Wei Yuan all had extraordinary identities, all coming from the Bao, Cui, and Xu families, with the worst identity being a grand manager or an external affairs elder.

Little Wei Yuan smiled and said: "As you can see, under this system, cultivators can see their daily cultivation progress every day, and everyone's fighting spirit is high. Basically, there is no longer a problem with the Dao heart; wherever the talent reaches, one can cultivate to that point."

"But this is just a beginning. Next, we will launch VIP services, which can analyze the root bone and primordial spirit data of every cultivator in detail, discover problems in real-time, correct errors, and tailor cultivation plans for each person. Cooperating with the Azure Void Dao Foundation Ceremony, we can maximize the potential of every cultivator."

"If the elders are interested, you can pay to purchase VIP services, with an annual fee of 999 yuan per person, payable only in Qingyuan."

All the elders were dumbfounded, never having thought that there would be such a system in the world, and even less expected that the annual fee would be so... cheap.

Their thoughts moved like lightning, and they knew that everything Little Wei Yuan said was true, and there was past data to corroborate it. Someone slapped their thigh on the spot: "If those unfilial descendants of mine could have used such a system earlier, how would it have taken thirty years to forge a Dao foundation?"

Another person also said: "Indeed! It's just that, is World Lord Wei not afraid of others plagiarizing?"

Little Wei Yuan smiled slightly, just about to speak, when a Bao family elder sitting in the center of the front row sneered and said: "Plagiarize? They can plagiarize the functions, but how much will the expenses be? Can they charge fees according to the Azure Void price? I'm afraid dozens of times over wouldn't be enough to break even!"

This person was exactly Bao Shu, a top-tier great cultivator among the world's Dharma Forms, whose cultivation was now near completion and who possessed great prestige. Once he spoke, others dared not say more, and what Bao Shu said was indeed the truth.

This set of systems took the Zhou Tian Star Dou Array as the bone, the power of the Azure Void Immortal Stone Realm as the foundation, and the Human Renjian Yanhuo to automatically process massive amounts of data. The more people who used it, the lower the price shared by each person would be.

The annual fee standard set by Little Wei Yuan was based on the break-even price for one thousand cultivators. If other families wanted to plagiarize successfully, they would have to mobilize at least seven or eight Dharma Form cultivators, and at most only one or two hundred Dao foundation cultivators would use it. The cost would naturally be worlds apart, likely differing by a hundred times.

Little Wei Yuan promoted this system service to the three great families, and his original intention was not to earn how much money, but to gather the young generation of the three families to the Azure Void.

They would cultivate and forge foundations in the Azure Void, and later they could also go to the Azure Void Academy and Azure Void Military Academy for advanced studies. Under subtle influence, they would naturally accept Little Wei Yuan's philosophy, and when they grew up, they would naturally be people close to the Azure Void. Even if Little Wei Yuan killed, set fires, and committed all kinds of evil, they would still think Little Wei Yuan was right.

This point had long been confirmed in the world beyond the heavens, and Little Wei Yuan was just picking up the wisdom of his predecessors at this moment.

At the same time, Little Wei Yuan was also paving the way for the use of Qingyuan. The three families now all had quite a bit of Qingyuan in hand; didn't this provide a place to spend it? And what they were buying was service.

The Zhou Tian Star Dou Array had to operate every day, and the mortals in the Human Renjian Yanhuo were idle anyway. Providing service for one more person, the extra cost added was almost equal to zero.

The elders were not ordinary people, and each had sharp eyes, immediately seeing the mystery within. But for their own families, this matter could be said to have advantages without disadvantages, and there was Bao Shu there clamoring vigorously; whoever opposed it was going against Bao Shu.

Why the Bao family was so attentive, the Cui and Xu families were naturally clear. But being able to promote their own incompetent descendants to Dao foundation was a matter of increasing the family's foundation, and no one would fall behind. Immediately, the Xu family took the lead in offering a price, and with one opening, it was two thousand spots.

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