In the Tianyuan Realm, there are four distinct social classes: Wilderness Dwellers, Wandering Commoners, Safety Zone Dwellers, and City Dwellers. For the first two groups, life is a desperate struggle just for survival, let alone acquiring something as advanced as a chip. The latter two at least enjoy the basics of survival, though they must still toil for a better life.
Of course, it is said that there are also those who dwell within the Grotto-heavens of the Tianyuan Realm, who are born into a life of luxury, but that is a world far beyond reach. One must at least have a Purple Palace Realized Person in the family—and not just any wandering rogue who stumbled into power by luck, but a true practitioner with a legitimate lineage and inherited treasures—to join the ruling class and send their descendants to a Grotto-heaven. Even then, if three consecutive generations fail to produce a Foundation Establishment cultivator, that branch of the family is expelled from the Grotto-heaven.
An Jing has now taken a giant leap from being a Wilderness Dweller to joining the ranks of the City Dwellers, a class only secondary to those in the Grotto-heavens. While the city itself is further stratified into Upper Districts, Lower Districts, and slums, and the slums are rife with gangs, low-lives, and those without legal status, his transition is, to any outsider, a sudden ascent to heaven. He ought to be happy.
Chapter 550