102: Chapter 101 The Fever of Showing Off Strength

After all, not all survivors have rich experience in combat and hunting.

Since the appearance of the Fate Platform, many ordinary survivors have oriented their survival more towards a lifestyle-focused direction.

Besides, once this thing goes online, charging an entry fee of one or two karma points per match, with a scale of over a billion users...

The corners of Yang Hang's mouth curled up slightly.

This idea took root in his mind.

After hanging up the video call with Yang Yue, he finally opened the third flashing chat box.

Qin Feifei.

Unread messages: four.

The first was an emoji of a cartoon kitten holding a white flag.

The second: "Student Yang Hang! Teacher Feifei is a ruthless, cold, emotionless task execution machine today! (But please don't hate me QAQ)"

The third was a highly formal electronic invitation, signed by the "Revival Red Federation Yanhuang Top 1000 Conference Provisional Committee".

The reason for the invitation was written in a steady and standard manner—after audit, the Aptitude and comprehensive ability assessment shown in the personal data submitted by Comrade Yang Hang met the eligibility standards for the Top 1000 Tournament, and we hereby solemnly invite you. Included are one round-trip assembly order quota, as well as karma points subsidies, supply packs, item packs, and several quotas for expert guidance courses.

The fourth: "It's okay whether you agree or not! Well, actually, Teacher only came because of the benefits given."

After reading it, Yang Hang couldn't help but smile.

Qin Feifei was the type of person who could never maintain her dignity in front of students for more than three seconds. It was like that before the Transmigration, and it hadn't changed after.

He replied directly: "Teacher, I can go. But my sister Yang Yue also signed up for the Top 1000 Tournament selection. Could you help ask about her audit results?"

The message was sent.

A reply came instantly.

"!!! You agreed???"

Then followed a string of exclamation marks and celebratory emojis, almost flooding the chat box.

Three seconds later, the tone of Qin Feifei's message changed abruptly, recovering her professional demeanor: "Understood! I will immediately go and ask about Student Yang Yue's audit results! Wait a moment! I'll reply to you right away!"

Yang Hang replied with an "OK".

Then he exited the Fate Platform and withdrew his Divided Soul.

The Fate Platform enhancement System on the side of his main Divine Sense had already been structured, and what remained was the architecture of the Spatial Backpack.

Although he had a certain understanding of space, the stable functional application of space like storage space and the high-frequency, strong-fluctuation applications like shrinking ground to an inch or compressed spatial jumping were almost two different branches of spatial application.

With Yang Hang's current ability to control spatial rules based on Infinite Horizon, he could forcibly construct a storage space, but he didn't have much experience in terms of stability.

It just so happened that by launching the Spatial Backpack on the Fate Platform this time, he could strengthen his own application of spatial abilities.

You must know, according to those Xuanhuan novels before the Transmigration, Karma is a Great Dao, and space is also a renowned Great Dao for experts. Moreover, if he mastered space and utilized some modern scientific knowledge, he could painlessly touch the level of time.

He was a university graduate, after all, and knew some scientific common sense. There is a theory that time is caused by the distortion of space, and black holes are a typical case.

Yang Hang did not hesitate; with a step, he appeared next to the fishing spot of his Houseboat. Even though his Houseboat was now luxuriously different from the beginning, the sunken sea treasure chest fishing spot emitting a faint blue halo before him remained the same as always, without the slightest change.

Yang Hang grasped the fishing rod that looked extremely ordinary. The next moment, the Power of Causality was mobilized, and countless future karmic threads of the treasure chest appeared in the Karmic Void Realm of Yang Hang's consciousness.

As the mobilization of the Power of Causality increased, the River of Causality surged. Countless karmic threads appeared and faded before him until a special golden karmic thread appeared before his eyes. The next moment, Yang Hang's eyes shimmered with a white halo, and this karmic thread was pulled into reality.

A knee-high, dark brown, rotten wooden chest was fished up by Yang Hang from the seawater emitting a faint blue light.

With a thought from Yang Hang, the treasure chest opened, blooming with brilliant golden light. A book with a silver shell, adorned with images of the starry sky, appeared inside the chest.

This silver-covered book floated up out of thin air and landed in front of Yang Hang's chest, with six large characters on it: "Initial Understanding of Spatial Rules".

The book turned its pages without wind. After a few dozen seconds, a look of satisfaction appeared on Yang Hang's face; this was completely enough for him to use.

Moreover, he could completely change the predetermined future of himself mastering this "Initial Understanding of Spatial Rules" through the Power of Causality.

The Power of Causality was silently mobilized again, and the river of karmic energy within the Karmic Void Realm surged even more fiercely. A karmic thread of Yang Hang mastering the "Initial Understanding of Spatial Rules" to perfection was found and forcibly pulled into reality to manifest.

The Magic Sea Personal Information Panel popped up.

[Magic Sea Survivor: Yang Hang]

[Faction Attribute: Lawful Good]

[Age: 24]

[Survival Duration: 13.7 (days)]

[Civilization: Yanhuang Civilization]

[Cumulative Merit: 29,017,832,106]

[Talent Attributes: Lord of Causality (Unique), Stellar Body (Gold Tier), Infinite Horizon → Spatial Control (Gold Tier), Information Absorption (Gold Tier: Formed after the magic sea compass shattered and merged into the body), Energy Perception (Gold Tier), Body Control (Gold Tier)]

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The corners of Yang Hang's mouth curled up involuntarily. He pointed forward slowly and unhurriedly with one hand, and immediately a small, distorted black dot slowly appeared.

Midnight on the 13th day of the Magic Sea Calendar.

The registration for the Yanhuang Top 1000 Conference, called for by the Revival Society, had closed.

Taking advantage of this registration trend, countless large and small experts of Yanhuang Civilization revealed themselves on the Fate Platform.

Everyone was surprised that there were actually so many powerful survivors.

The homepage of the Symphony Realm was flooded with various posts showcasing strength. Each one was set with privacy permissions visible exclusively to the Yanhuang Camp; visitors from other civilizations could not see them.

This was a reminder issued by the Revival Society after they discovered the trend and urgently posted it to the survivors of the Yanhuang Civilization, following the rising wave of strength-showcasing videos.

The format of these posts was surprisingly uniform—the title was the name plus the talent, and the body was a thirty-second to one-minute combat recording, all sourced from the combat replay function of the magic sea compass.

Some were clearly ranked very low on the individual merit leaderboard, thousands of places behind, but the self-proving strength videos they posted were extremely powerful, not losing in the slightest to many of the top-ranked experts.

There were scenes of people solo-killing intermediate sea beasts during beast tides, people demonstrating the continuous release of talent skills, people showing off enhanced weapons and equipment, and some simply making their full Personal Information Panel attributes public.

There was a burly man in his early thirties with the talent [Lava Fist]. He punched the sea surface, and hot lava cracks spread dozens of meters along the seawater, directly boiling three low-level sea beasts that floated to the surface. The video title read: "Born as a cook, cooking requires the right heat."

There was a girl who looked weak and delicate, with the talent [Thread Control]. Silver Grade spider silk shot out from her fingertips. Controlling twelve thin threads simultaneously, she wove a three-dimensional trap net with a diameter of thirty meters in mid-air. An intermediate sea beast crashed into it and was strangled into seventeen pieces. Her video title was: "Just a sweater knitter, my hand speed is just a bit faster."

There was also an old man in his fifties with the talent [Sonic Resonance]. He opened his mouth and roared, and the seawater within a fifty-meter radius of the Houseboat was directly shaken into a misty water screen. Three low-level sea beasts underwater bled from their seven orifices and flipped their white bellies. His video had no title; he only replied in the comment section: "Young people, make way. This old man has a bad back and doesn't want to bend over to fight."

The comment section collectively knelt.

"Grandpa, please do as you please. Standing up to solve it is fine."

"Is this damn thing called a Lion's Roar or a Dolphin's Sound?"

"I suggest you directly parachute into the Top 1000 Tournament as a gatekeeper. With one shout, who would dare to be late?"

And just in the gap where countless experts appeared in turns and the comment section's popularity was exploding—

A video quietly climbed to the top of the popularity list.

Released by: Yang Yue.

In the video, on the deck of a Silver Grade Houseboat under the sunset, a girl with a high ponytail held a Silver Grade halberd in one hand, the body of the halberd emitting a cold, silvery-white luster.

She took a step, and her whole body soared into the air.

The halberd swept across, and the sea surface exploded.

Countless seawater was pulled by her Water Control, turning into a dozen water tornadoes with a diameter of several meters that rose from the ground, whistling and circling around her.

She spun in mid-air, the halberd drawing a sharp arc of light. The water tornadoes changed in response, converging into an overwhelming tsunami wall that pushed forward with a roar.

As the tsunami passed, the sea surface within a hundred meters was forcibly lowered by three feet.

A few low-level sea beasts that didn't know any better couldn't escape in time and were directly crushed into meat paste by the water pressure.

In the final shot, the girl landed back on the deck, the halberd propped on the ground, her ponytail lifted in the sea breeze. She tilted her head towards the camera and revealed a bright smile.

The video ended.

The comment section instantly boiled over.

"Is this the Sea Goddess of War?"

"Water Control plus a halberd, this operation is as silky smooth as using a cheat!"

"The key is that her looks are also on point! Who can resist this smile!"

"Wait, Yang Yue... Yang Yue... this surname plus this name..."

"No way? With that person at the top of the leaderboard..."

"Don't overthink it, there are plenty of people with the same surname."

But no matter how the comment section speculated, the popularity of Yang Yue's video truly rushed into the top ten, with the number of followers climbing at a rate of tens of thousands per minute.

Meanwhile, in the rest cabin of a certain 300-meter-class giant ship.

Yang Hang was staring at the cauldron of entropy increase in his hand, and the thirty-first experimental item that had finished strengthening was casually tossed into his space.

A private message on the Fate Platform popped up.

Yang Yue's message, accompanied by a string of smug emoticons.

"Brother! Did you see it! Did you see it! (≧▽≦)/"

"My video got into the top ten in popularity!!! Top ten!!!"

"So many people in the comment section are praising me! Someone said I'm the Sea Goddess of War! Goddess of War! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧"

"And some said I look good! Hehehehehe~"

Yang Hang glanced at it and replied:

"Those water tornadoes... they feel a bit ugly."

The other side was silent for five seconds.

"Yang Hang, are you a devil!!! I'm sharing my joy with you, can't you say something nice!!! (╬▔dish▔)"

"My sister is the most beautiful in the world, and the water tornadoes are also good-looking."

"..."

"...What did you say?"

"I said your water tornadoes are good-looking."

"Not that sentence! The one before!"

"Which one?"

"You said I look good!!!"

"I said the video quality is the most beautiful, 4K."

"YANG!! HANG!!!!!"

The corners of Yang Hang's mouth twitched, and he didn't reply again.

When he exited the chat box, he saw that Yang Yue had sent a dozen more angry emoticons.

He didn't open them.

He thought to himself that the progress in Water Control was indeed not small. The talent, which was relatively ordinary in Silver Grade Medium Grade, was being used quite decently by her; she had put in hard work.

Although he had helped, it was still very good.

For the Top 1000 Tournament, there was a high probability she would be selected even without riding on his popularity.

Time passed, and the heat of various skill-showing and discussions in the Fate Platform continued to rise.

10:47 PM.

Just over an hour before the registration deadline, a new post appeared in the Symphony Realm of the Fate Platform.

Poster: Zhang Chengming.

Identity tag: Vice President of the God-Seeing Society.

Post title: "Yanhuang Civilization Top 1000 Popular Candidates · National Voting List"