After returning to Dawn City with Zhang Daowen, Feng Qi arrived at the Data Center.
This was a special building located in the central area of Dawn City, heavily guarded on the outside, with high-tech monitoring devices and various defensive spiritual arrays inside.
In the main hall, rows of information storage databases hummed as they operated.
Under Zhang Daowen's guidance, Feng Qi approached the data control console.
Zhang Daowen stepped aside, smiling at Feng Qi, and said:
"Uncle Qi, now it's your turn to operate. Although Star City is now in the past, all your data has been entered into Dawn City's database, and you still hold the highest level of access."
Feng Qi nodded and stepped forward to the console, pressing the start button.
After identity verification, Feng Qi began to browse the data within the database.
The first set of data was related to Zhang Daowen's cultivation techniques.
Zhang Daowen's strength had improved in this timeline, and his lifespan had also increased significantly. This was partly due to the reduced pressure brought by humanity's rise, but most importantly, Zhang Daowen had gained access to the cultivation techniques from the previous sacrifice line.
It was based on the previous sacrifice line's foundation that Zhang Daowen could progress further in his cultivation in this timeline.
Each sacrifice line allowed Zhang Daowen to refine his techniques, essentially treating every line as an update to his cultivation method.
Zhang Daowen was, in Feng Qi's eyes, the best embodiment of Dawn's will.
Humanity always faced a shortcoming in terms of lifespan, which meant that high-ranking members of humanity typically only held positions for a few decades.
If one rose to a leadership position in old age, their tenure was even shorter.
This led to a divergence in many ideas and concepts.
But Zhang Daowen was different. With his long lifespan, he could act as a steady anchor for Star City.
He would grow with humanity, becoming their guide.
Perhaps in the future, this situation would change. With the successful resolution of the blood sacrifice techniques, future generations of humanity might possess long lifespans as well, and many high-ranking individuals might grow alongside Zhang Daowen.
But until issues like the blood sacrifice were resolved, Zhang Daowen was irreplaceable.
Therefore, nurturing Zhang Daowen's growth was always one of Feng Qi's most important goals for the future.
With the understanding and insights gained from the previous sacrifice line, Feng Qi had no difficulty memorizing the modified techniques of Zhang Daowen. He progressed quickly and reviewed the material multiple times to ensure he didn't miss anything.
During this time, Zhang Daowen stood silently to the side, waiting patiently.
As for Po Jia, he remained above ground, monitoring Xiao You's situation.
If Xiao You were unable to hold on, he would report back immediately.
Feng Qi's thoughts were simple—he couldn't let Dawn City suffer because of Little Black.
If time hadn't been remade, Dawn City would continue to develop even after his death.
Even if it were to eventually face destruction, that time was not now.
He couldn't impose his will on everyone in the future, forcing them to act according to his ideas.
This was not the mindset of a true leader of humanity.
He was not meant to be a dictator but a guide.
After memorizing Zhang Daowen's "Snow and Ice" technique, Feng Qi moved on to review the detailed information on city construction.
The scope of this knowledge was vast.
For instance, it included knowledge on formations, spiritual railways, and the study of cultivation architecture, among others.
There were also many blueprints that needed to be memorized.
The intensity of memorizing all this information gave Feng Qi a headache.
Thankfully, with his improved strength, his memory had been steadily improving.
Had this been the memory capacity from the initial timeline, encountering such complex and abundant information would have been impossible to handle, even with his efforts.
At this moment, Feng Qi couldn't help but think of the narrator:
"Narrator, how's your memory?"
[Not good, getting older, my memory lasts only about 10 minutes, anything more than that I can't remember. Hey, it's not that I don't want to help you, it's just that I'm truly powerless, so you better handle it yourself.]
After hearing the narrator's reply, Feng Qi couldn't help but roll his eyes.
He always felt that the narrator's memory seemed incredibly strong.
This was evident from several aspects, especially from how the narrator could remember the details of everything he had experienced in the sacrifice lines. Many of those things had become blurry to him, yet the narrator still remembered clearly and provided guidance at crucial moments.
This showed just how excellent the narrator's memory was.
However, whenever Feng Qi asked the narrator to help, the narrator always played dumb.
They had promised to work together to save the world, but the narrator always expected Feng Qi to do the heavy lifting while it just sat back.
For example, he used to think that the narrator only existed in the future dream world and wouldn't accompany him to the human world.
After returning to Dawn City with Zhang Daowen, Feng Qi arrived at the data center.
This was a special building located in the central area of Dawn City. The exterior was heavily guarded, and inside there were technological monitoring devices as well as various defensive spiritual formations.
In the hall, there were multiple information storage databases, humming as they operated.
Under Zhang Daowen's guidance, Feng Qi approached the data control panel.
Zhang Daowen then stepped aside, smiled at Feng Qi, and said:
"Uncle Qi, please take over the operation. Though Star City has become a thing of the past, your personal data has been entered into the Dawn City authority database, and you still hold the highest level of authority."
Feng Qi nodded and stepped up to the control panel, pressing the start button.
After identity verification, Feng Qi began browsing through the database's information.
The first section he explored was Zhang Daowen's cultivation technique information.
Zhang Daowen's strength had increased in this timeline, even significantly extending his lifespan. This was due to the reduction in pressure after humanity's rise, and most importantly, Zhang Daowen had gained the cultivation techniques from the previous sacrifice timeline.
It was precisely because of the insights gained in the previous sacrifice timeline that Zhang Daowen could progress further in his cultivation here.
Each sacrifice timeline allowed Zhang Daowen to refine his cultivation techniques.
In essence, each sacrifice timeline served as an update to Zhang Daowen's cultivation technique.
Zhang Daowen was, in Feng Qi's eyes, the best implementer of the Will of Breaking Dawn.
Humanity's lifespan had always been a shortcoming.
This caused the higher-ups in human society to remain in power for only a few decades at most.
If they were to ascend to high positions in old age, their time in power would shrink even further.
This created many divergences in ideas and plans.
However, Zhang Daowen was different. He had a long life span and could serve as the unwavering pillar of Star City.
He would grow alongside humanity, becoming a guide for them.
Perhaps in the future, this situation would change. As the blood sacrifice technique was successfully deciphered, future generations of humans would also possess long lifespans, with many rising to high positions alongside Zhang Daowen.
But until issues like the blood sacrifice were resolved, Zhang Daowen was irreplaceable.
Therefore, cultivating Zhang Daowen's growth had always been one of the most crucial steps in Feng Qi's plans for the future timeline.
With the understanding and insights from the previous sacrifice timeline, Feng Qi could now effortlessly memorize Zhang Daowen's improved cultivation techniques.
To ensure accuracy, Feng Qi repeated the review several times.
During this, Zhang Daowen silently stood by, waiting patiently.
As for Po Jia, he stayed on the surface to monitor Xiao You's situation.
Should Xiao You falter, Po Jia would immediately report back.
Feng Qi's thoughts were simple—if he had to die by Little Black's hands, he couldn't let it bring disaster to Dawn City.
If the timeline wasn't rewritten, Dawn City would continue to develop after his death.
Even if it were destined to face destruction eventually, it would not be now.
He could not impose his will on the future generations, forcing them to live according to his desires.
That was not the mindset of a true leader of humanity.
He should not be a dictator, but a guide.
After memorizing Zhang Daowen's "Snow and Ice" cultivation technique, Feng Qi moved on to study the information on city development.
This involved a vast array of knowledge.
For instance, knowledge on formations, spiritual tracks, cultivation building structures, and more.
There were also numerous blueprints that needed memorizing.
The intense memorization was giving Feng Qi a headache.
Luckily, his strength had increased, and his memory had greatly improved.
Had his memory been as poor as it was in the first timeline, he wouldn't have been able to handle such complex information, no matter how hard he tried.
At this point, Feng Qi couldn't help but think of the Narrator:
"Narrator, how's your memory?"
[Not good, I'm getting old. My memory lasts only 10 minutes, and after that, I can't remember anything. Hey, it's not that I'm not helping you, it's just that I'm powerless. You're on your own now.]
Hearing the Narrator's response, Feng Qi couldn't help but roll his eyes.
He always thought the Narrator's memory was very strong.
This was demonstrated in many ways, especially how the Narrator could perfectly recall the details of the sacrifice timeline he had experienced. Many things had faded from Feng Qi's mind, but the Narrator still remembered clearly and gave him advice when it mattered.
This showed that the Narrator's memory was exceptional.
But when it came to helping Feng Qi, the Narrator always played dumb.
They had agreed to work together to save the world, but the Narrator always left the hard work to him, just standing by, doing nothing.
For instance, Feng Qi had once believed that the Narrator only existed in the future dream world and wouldn't follow him to the human world.
But one day, the Narrator revealed that it really existed in the real timeline...
The Narrator's personality had always been laid-back, and the possibility of the Narrator helping him memorize knowledge was practically non-existent.
[It's not that I can't, but if you shout "Dad" a thousand times, I could barely help you memorize ten minutes of knowledge. But that's the limit.]
"Get lost."
Ignoring the Narrator's provocation, Feng Qi continued flipping through the database.
This was when the benefits of having many talents became apparent.
With the boost from the "Mental Focus" ability, he could easily enter a state of intense concentration, automatically blocking out any subtle distractions from the outside world.
Time passed quickly as Feng Qi continued browsing.
In this sacrifice timeline, Dawn City had built twelve cultivation system structures.
The most complex one took 133 years to complete, involving the efforts of several generations. Most of the time was spent on early-stage planning, design, and later on repeated repairs.
What appeared as a simple blueprint on paper had actually taken countless lives to complete.
Clearly, there wasn't enough time to read everything.
After recording the structures of the twelve cultivation system buildings, Feng Qi moved on to review other information.
For instance, the development of Star City's cultivation system.
The system was bound to collapse in the future if the "Mo" problem wasn't solved, but it was still crucial.
Once the crisis brought by Mo was resolved, cultivation would remain a mainstream growth system in the future.
The cultivation knowledge accumulated across multiple timelines could not be discarded. Every step of improvement deserved to be recorded.
However, it was different from the initial timelines.
In the early timelines, Feng Qi was recording the specific content of cultivation techniques.
At that time, his perspective was limited to specific techniques and using them to improve humanity's physical condition.
Before the collapse of the cultivation system in this timeline, there were many techniques, and recording them all wasn't feasible.
The best option wasn't the techniques themselves, but the cultivation system frameworks that developed alongside these techniques.
For example, cultivation system framework 2.0, cultivation system framework 3.0...
The frameworks created by the Tiger Soul Institute were summaries of the current cultivation system, compiling essential information.
Reading these frameworks helped Feng Qi better understand the changes in the development of the cultivation system.
As time passed, Feng Qi remained fully immersed in learning, not realizing how much time had passed.
He felt like a sponge, quickly absorbing knowledge.
After a long time, Feng Qi stopped flipping through the materials.
It wasn't because he had mastered all the knowledge, but rather because the intense memorization had put a tremendous strain on his mind, causing him to feel dizzy.
To ensure more effective learning, Feng Qi decided to take a short break.
Next, he stopped memorizing and began reviewing major events in the history of Dawn City's development.
Dawn City's growth was never smooth. During its long history, it had faced several major events where it nearly faced destruction, and many powerful enemies.
Apart from Zhang Daowen's efforts, many talented individuals had fought to save the city.
It was thanks to their efforts that Dawn City stood strong until today.
These major events had a profound impact on Dawn City's development. Feng Qi was very interested in trying to solve the potential future risks by altering the present.
But time was still limited.
After briefly skimming through some historical materials, Feng Qi continued his study.
Next, he chose to look into the knowledge of rune enhancement technology.
In this sacrifice timeline, Dawn City collaborated with Winterfell City to upgrade the rune enhancement technology, removing many of the risks associated with the technology.
For example, the issue of extremely low success rates in the early rune enhancement experiments.
The success rate was so low that almost none survived, making it completely unsuitable for a major growth system. Even though the effects were good, the high mortality rate would lead to humanity's quick demise.
This issue had been resolved in this timeline.
Apart from the failure rate of embedding rune crystals, the pain caused by the embedding process had also been significantly reduced. It was no longer the soul-crushing pain it once was.
Although rune enhancement technology didn't develop smoothly in this timeline and was ultimately affected by the collapse of the cultivation system, as long as the Mo issue was resolved, rune enhancement would still be a key growth system, a potential path for humanity.
Therefore, Feng Qi would bring back these improvements and upgrade the current rune enhancement technology.
This would directly benefit future timelines.
Especially for the Crimson Research Institute.
After all, many soldiers from the Crimson Research Institute had already completed the rune modification experiment, and they were always affected by various consequences brought on by the rune modifications, such as significantly shortened lifespans.
In the future, the rune modification technology will help solve the issues that existed in the early stages of rune modification.
Time continued to pass as Feng Qi flipped through the materials.
The intense reading put quite a strain on his mind.
It was like the muscle soreness and pain after intense physical exercise. Excessive mental exhaustion would lead to dizziness and nausea.
In order to learn more efficiently, Feng Qi decided to take a short break.
At this moment, Zhang Daowen walked up behind him and tapped his finger on the back of his head.
Immediately, a cool and refreshing sensation spread from the back of his head, and Feng Qi felt the mental fatigue dissipate significantly.
"Uncle Qi, take a break for a while."
"Mhm."
Feng Qi nodded and closed his eyes.
While resting, a new thought arose deep within his heart.
Could the way humans store data be upgraded?
The data center he was currently in stored the accumulated wisdom of countless predecessors throughout the human race's development.
This data center was the most important core building for the human race in the current phase of the Dawn City. If it were destroyed, the construction of the human race's system would suffer a devastating blow.
After all, most of the data was stored here. Even though there were backup data centers, they would still face the same security risks, and there were issues with storage efficiency.
In the early days, humans stored information in their memories and passed it on to the next generation.
The elders in the tribe were the custodians of this knowledge.
However, as the amount of knowledge grew larger, relying solely on the elders' memories became insufficient to record much information. Humans in the new era began using books to record knowledge.
Later on, the data storage center was established.
This method of storing information was more efficient than recording it in books, and it was also more convenient to consult.
However, compared to the domain's powerful races, humanity's information storage methods were indeed a bit outdated.
Although many domain races had not developed technology, technology had never been the only standard for determining whether a race possessed advanced capabilities.
Compared to the Psionic Race's Sacred Spirit Consciousness Vault, human data storage methods had many drawbacks.
For example, the storage capacity.
The Sacred Spirit Consciousness Vault could store knowledge almost without limits, while humans' databases have limited storage. To increase their knowledge reserves, they could only improve their storage technology or expand their storage capacity.
Another issue was ease of access.
When it came to accessibility, the gap between flipping through a database and the direct knowledge input of the Sacred Spirit Consciousness Vault was enormous.
No matter how you compared, humans' way of storing information could not be compared to the Psionic Race.
Apart from the Psionic Race, humans couldn't compare with other powerful races either.
For example, the mysterious tribe that Xiao You belonged to. They compressed knowledge and passed it down to future generations, who would then digest the knowledge to acquire information.
This was also a very efficient memory storage method.
Compared to these races, humanity's current method of storing knowledge was indeed behind, and there were significant security risks.
Once the database was destroyed, most of the knowledge would vanish with the course of history, and recovery would be extremely difficult.
That's why the data center needed to be heavily guarded.
Considering security, convenience, and storage capacity, Feng Qi believed that humanity's knowledge storage technology needed to be updated and upgraded.
It would be best to develop a knowledge storage method that corresponds to humanity's cultivation system.
Wei Wei had actually mentioned a concept in her email.
Wei Wei suggested whether it would be possible to use the True God Wristband to establish a knowledge database in his spiritual sea.
This idea was inspired by the Psionic Race's Sacred Spirit Consciousness Vault.
The goal was to create a simplified version of the Sacred Spirit Consciousness Vault.
However, compared to the Sacred Spirit Consciousness Vault, there was still a significant gap. After all, the spiritual sea knowledge base couldn't instantly impart massive amounts of knowledge to believers. It could only be consulted by flipping through the knowledge.
This plan was named the "Pseudo-Sacred Spirit Consciousness Vault Project" by Wei Wei.
It was like the pseudo-Nightmare Bell, which was a reference to the Miracle Nightmare Bell, but not an actual miracle item.
If this method worked, the knowledge acquired in future timelines would no longer be lost and could be preserved in the spiritual sea for believers to consult.
This would undoubtedly accelerate the overall development of humanity.