The system is the proficiency panel - 261. Trivia

Inside the City Lord's Mansion, Xiao Ningxue was concentrating on outlining the runes of the space formation. Spiritual energy flowed through her fingertips, and the silver-white formation patterns intertwined in the air like a dense spider web.

Her white hair was as white as snow, falling on her shoulders, glowing faintly under the reflection of the spiritual light. Her brows showed concentration and calmness, as if she had merged with the surrounding space and time.

Suddenly, a sound of light footsteps came from outside the hall, like fallen leaves brushing against bluestone, followed by a teasing chuckle.

"Ningxue, are you studying space formations again?"

"You Ran?"

Xiao Ningxue frowned slightly, her tone calm but with a hint of helplessness.

"Why are you here again? Is there nothing else for the Empire to do?"

Luo Youran walked slowly towards him, her skirt brushing the ground, bringing with it a faint fragrance. She picked up an unfinished array plate on the table, stroking it lightly with her fingertips, and her smile deepened.

Xiao Ningxue glanced at her and said lightly.

"I'm just curious. You seem to be quite free lately."

Luo Youran chuckled, put the formation plate back to its original place, put his hands behind his back, moved closer to Xiao Ningxue, a hint of cunning flashed in his eyes.

"That little guy Garnier is truly the fruit of technological civilization. He is so useful."

"In the past year, I have basically let her handle all the trivial matters of the empire, and the results are surprisingly good."

Xiao Ningxue raised her eyebrows, a hint of surprise flashing in her eyes.

"Oh? She often goes between the Formation Hall and the Weapon Refining Hall. Is she still available to help you?"

Luo Youran nodded, admiration revealed in his eyes.

She paused, her smile deepening.

"Moreover, she is impartial when judging matters, even more fair than I am. Those disputes that originally required me to mediate personally, she can sort out the right and wrong in just a few words, and even the conflicts between humans and demons have been reduced a lot."

Xiao Ningxue tapped the table lightly with her fingertips, seemingly lost in thought.

"It seems like you feel a lot more relaxed now."

Luo Youran stretched and leaned lazily on the table, her purple skirt spreading out like petals.

"So now that I've finished my training and have some free time, I'll come and chat with you and take a look at your research progress."

Xiao Ningxue turned her attention back to the formation, gathered spiritual energy on her fingertips once again, and said lightly.

"It will take time to improve the space formation, and it will be difficult to make a breakthrough in a short period of time."

"No hurry, my husband is not here, we have plenty of time."

Her tone was gentle, with a barely perceptible hint of yearning.

Xiao Ningxue paused for a moment, lowered her eyes, and did not respond. The hall fell silent for a moment, with only the subtle sound of spiritual energy flowing, like a breeze blowing across the lake.

After a moment, Luo Youran suddenly spoke in a soft voice.

The spiritual power at Xiao Ningxue's fingertips slowly dissipated. She raised her head and looked at the distant starry sky outside the window. A hint of complexity flashed in her eyes, but she quickly regained her calm.

"Don't worry, it will be fine."

Luo Youran sighed softly, then smiled again, with a gentle light in his eyes.

"When he comes back, he will be very happy to see how well we have managed the empire."

"Ah."

Watching Xiao Ningxue continue to fiddle with the formation, Luo Youran suddenly remembered something and said with a hint of teasing in his tone.

"Ningxue, recently Lingtian Sect's Daozi Jiang Yuan's strength has improved rapidly. He has surpassed you in the second realm of the Trial Tower and is now ranked fourth. He has also won and lost against Dao Yan."

Xiao Ningxue didn't care, her fingertips still steadily outlining the array pattern.

Her tone was calm, as if she was talking about a trivial matter.

"Even if he surpasses Daoyan, Jiang Yuan had a hard time getting through Fengtian, let alone my husband."

Luo Youran curled her lips and pretended to be disappointed.

"It's really boring. I'm leaving now."

When Luo Youran returned to the City Lord's Mansion of Xuantian City, the afterglow of the setting sun was shining through the carved window lattices onto the bluestone floor of the hall, casting a mottled golden light and adding a bit of warmth to the cold and hard stone walls.

The hall was silent and quiet, with only the virtual projection suspended in the center flashing a faint blue light - Garnier's figure was standing in mid-air, his silver hair cascading down like a waterfall, and data streams rolling silently in his blood-red pupils.

"Lord of Youran City."

Garnier's voice was still calm, but it was a little more humane than when they first met. She nodded slightly, and with a flick of her fingertips, a curtain of light unfolded in front of Luo Youran, with dense data and charts flowing like a galaxy.

She raised her hand and clicked on the first item, and the screen switched to the night scene of the outer city of Xuantian City - warm yellow lights shone through the windows of thousands of households, like stars on the ground, reflecting the night sky, outlining a prosperous and peaceful picture.

"The power grid covers 82% of the mortal settlements in the East Continent, the basic lighting penetration rate is %, and the installed capacity of electronic entertainment terminals has exceeded one million."

Garnier said as he called up another set of images.

Children sat in front of a square "psychic screen", poking their fingers clumsily at the floating blocks of light to build crooked towers; the old man held a palm-sized "music box", squinting his eyes to listen to the opera coming from it, his face filled with a satisfied smile; the signs of the night market vendors were replaced with flashing neon lights, attracting passers-by to stop and watch, their eyes full of curiosity.

"How have the mortals reacted?"

“The resistance was lower than expected.”

Garnier put away the image, with a hint of approval in his tone.

"When the cultivators assisted in setting up the power grid, they used 'micro-thunder techniques' to demonstrate lightning. Mortals regarded it as 'immortal techniques' and were very accepting of it. Currently, the main conflict is over the electricity price - some merchants complain that it is too expensive."

"Garnier, those 'video games'... can they really improve the logical ability of mortals imperceptibly as you said?"

The data flow in Garnier's eyes suddenly accelerated, as if she was calculating something quickly. After a moment, she replied.

"The block-building game can train spatial imagination, while the newly developed 'Rune Connect' can strengthen graphic memory."

Suddenly, she tilted her head, her silver hair falling on her shoulders, revealing a hint of confusion.

Upon hearing this, Luo Youran frowned slightly, with a hint of doubt in his tone.

"Other continents are different from the Eastern Continent. They have had Yuanying Zhenjun in charge for a long time, and monsters have always had a hard time surviving. How come so many of them suddenly appeared?"

She thought for a moment, then gave the order.

"Garnier, send someone to pay more attention to this matter."

Garnier nodded in response, then fell silent again and continued to deal with his affairs. Seeing this, Luo Youran knew that there was nothing to do for the time being, so he turned around and returned to the practice room to start practicing.