103: Chapter 102 System Update
The post began with a single sentence: "The Revival Society's selection list won't be announced until six tomorrow morning. But with over 1.3 billion of us, we should have our own answers in mind."
Following this was a detailed voting leaderboard, complete with each candidate's talent information, age, links to strength demonstration videos, and a channel for universal voting.
Zhang Chengming was a smart man. He didn't rank them himself; instead, he built a framework and let the over 1.3 billion Yanhuang Survivors cast their own votes.
The traffic pool of the God-Seeing Society, with its 900 million followers, instantly pushed this post to the forum's homepage.
In less than half an hour, the vote count exceeded 100 million.
An hour later, an unofficial leaderboard shaped by the will of the people had taken form.
Of course, Zhang Chengming set the leaderboard's permissions to be visible only to Yanhuang Civilization Survivors.
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[Yanhuang Civilization Top 1000 Hot Candidates · Universal Voting Leaderboard]
(As of 23:30 on the 13th day of the Magic Sea Calendar, Total Votes: 1.32 billion)
1st Place: Yang Hang
Age: Unknown | Talent: Unknown (Top of the merit ranking, Merit Value: 29,017,832,106, suspected to be the Fate Master himself)
Votes: 991,267,433
[Note: The individual has not submitted a strength demonstration video and has not made their Personal Information Panel public. Votes are from spontaneous universal voting.]
2nd Place: Zheng Yuanshan
Age: 62 | Talent: Undisclosed | Identity: 02 Chief of the Revival Red Federation
Personal Merit Value: 21,930,000+ | Strength Demonstration: Recorded footage of commanding the Renaissance in Overlimit Mode
Votes: 104,582,109
3rd Place: President Shen Qing
Age: 28 | Talent: Minor Life Technique (Gold Tier) | Identity: President of the Little Life Society
Personal Merit Value: 5,125,883 | Strength Demonstration: Recorded footage of near-resurrection on a large scale during the beast tide
Votes: 89,415,670
4th Place: Zhang Haotian
Age: 39 | Talent: Gravity Compression (Silver Grade), Underwater Breathing (Silver Grade) | Identity: General Commander of the Revival Society Operations Department
Equipment: Silver Grade Great War Axe, suspected to have authorization to borrow the incomplete Gold Tier sea gods horn
Strength Demonstration: Solo frontal resistance against a mid-tier sea beast horde, axe split the skull of a twenty-meter sea beast, capable of killing high-tier sea beasts.
Votes: 42,876,003
5th Place: Zhao Zheng
Age: 31 | Talent: Iron Wall (Silver Grade) | Identity: Head of Armed Forces of the Little Life Society
Capable of killing high-tier sea beasts.
Votes: 38,224,518
6th Place: Lin Zhaoyang
Age: 27 | Talent: Grasp of Thunder (Silver Grade) | Identity: Core Hunter of the Deep Sea Hunter Alliance
Strength Demonstration: Single punch shattered the shell of a mid-tier sea beast, three-meter radius lightning paralysis, capable of killing high-tier sea beasts.
Votes: 35,109,442
7th Place: Su Wanqing
Age: 25 | Talent: Ice Crystal Domain (Silver Grade) | Identity: Independent Survivor
Strength Demonstration: Froze a fifty-meter radius sea area, sealed three mid-tier sea beasts in ice coffins, capable of killing high-tier sea beasts.
Votes: 31,887,651
8th Place: Master Blacksmith Meng Haoran
Age: 44 | Talent: Forging Intuition (Silver Grade) | Identity: Forging Great Master of the Iron Anchor Workshop
Strength Demonstration: Tore apart the scales of a mid-tier sea beast with bare hands, simultaneously demonstrated the full process of forging a Silver Grade weapon, capable of cooperating with multiple Silver Grade weapons to kill high-tier sea beasts.
Votes: 29,455,217
9th Place: Gu Qingyi
Age: 22 | Talent: Wind Walker (Silver Grade) | Identity: Independent Survivor
Strength Demonstration: Used wind power to move at high speeds on the sea surface, speed exceeding 120 km/h, easily beheaded mid-tier sea beasts, capable of killing high-tier sea beasts.
Votes: 27,331,890
10th Place: Zhou Dayong
Age: 51 | Talent: Sonic Resonance (Silver Grade) | Identity: Independent Survivor
Strength Demonstration: One roar shattered a fifty-meter sea area, caused sea beasts to bleed from seven orifices and float belly-up (the "Lion Roar Grandpa" deified in the comment section), capable of killing high-tier sea beasts.
Votes: 26,483,102
11th Place: Instructor Liu Qiang
Age: 41 | Talent: Continuous Power Punch (Silver Grade) | Identity: Instructor of the Revival Society Defense Headquarters
Strength Demonstration: Wore a pair of Silver Grade gloves, threw fifty consecutive punches, capable of killing high-tier sea beasts.
Votes: 26,483,102
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23rd Place: Qin Lie
Age: 30 | Talent: Shadow Stab (Silver Grade) | Identity: Independent Survivor
Strength Demonstration: Underwater stealth assassination of mid-tier sea beasts, completely silent, one-hit kill, capable of killing high-tier sea beasts.
Votes: 17,226,004
37th Place: Chu Ning
Age: 20 | Talent: Thread Control (Silver Grade) | Identity: Captain of the Blue Sea Chamber of Commerce Guard
Strength Demonstration: Controlled twelve spider threads simultaneously, three-dimensional trap net cut apart mid-tier sea beasts, capable of killing high-tier sea beasts.
Votes: 13,801,556
51st Place: Captain Ye Shuang
Age: 33 | Talent: Poison Mist Spread (Silver Grade) | Identity: Deputy Director of the Development Department of the Little Life Society
Strength Demonstration: Released large-scale toxic fog, low-tier sea beasts within the coverage area were wiped out, capable of dealing with high-tier sea beasts.
Votes: 11,330,847
78th Place: Guan Tiezhu
Age: 48 | Talent: Rock Armor (Silver Grade) | Identity: Frontline Heavy Armor Warrior of the Revival Society Defense Headquarters
Strength Demonstration: Whole body turned to rock, hard-tanked a tail strike from a super high-tier sea beast without moving an inch, capable of dealing with high-tier sea beasts.
Votes: 9,425,613
132nd Place: Yang Yue
Age: 18 | Talent: Water Control (Silver Grade) | Identity: Independent Survivor
Equipment: Silver Grade long halberd
Strength Demonstration: Controlled over ten waterspouts to create a tsunami, held the halberd to slaughter low-tier sea beast hordes, capable of dealing with high-tier sea beasts.
Votes: 5,024,338
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(133rd to 5000th place omitted)
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Once the leaderboard was released, the Fate Platform was in an uproar again.
"Hahahaha, the Fate Master is firmly in first place! He didn't even post a video, yet out of over 1.3 billion people voting, two-thirds voted for him!"
"This isn't a vote, this is faith."
"General Zheng is firmly in second place. Regardless of whether these two are the same person, the first and second strongest Yanhuang Civilization Survivors are set."
"Who is the 7th place, Su Wanqing? Ice Crystal Domain? Freezing a fifty-meter sea area? This talent is too fierce!"
"132nd place, Yang Yue! An eighteen-year-old little sister! She plays with Water Control so skillfully! And this surname..."
"Stop guessing, stop guessing. There are many people with the same surname."
"But what if? (Dog head)"
As for those strong individuals who were originally calm and only followed the official registration channels without intending to show themselves, they couldn't sit still after seeing this leaderboard.
Zhang Chengming, Vice President of the God-Seeing Society, left a pinned supplementary note —
"This leaderboard refreshes every ten minutes and is open for voting until registration closes. For candidates who have not released strength demonstration videos, their vote count may be limited due to insufficient information."
The implication: If you don't show yourself, don't blame the low vote count.
This gentle knife stabbed with extreme precision.
In the next hour, hundreds of strong individuals who had previously remained silent flooded into the forum to release their strength demonstration videos.
The content output of the Fate Platform forum reached its peak per hour since its establishment in this last hour.
Over 1.3 billion Yanhuang Civilization Survivors, on this night, for the first time, saw the military map of their civilization so clearly.
Time passed slowly.
Midnight arrived.
Zero o'clock sharp.
The registration channel for the Yanhuang Civilization Top 1000 Tournament closed, but the heated discussion on the Fate Platform remained high.
Only a small number of people chose to exit the Fate Platform to rest.
But just three seconds after midnight.
Ding—
A golden light screen covered the Fate Platform interface of all Yanhuang Survivors without warning.
Simultaneously, a clear prompt sound rang in the consciousness of every Yanhuang Civilization Survivor.
It was not an ordinary System notification sound.
It was the kind of golden prompt that only appears when the Fate Platform undergoes a major update, carrying a faint aura of Karma.
The eyes of over 1.3 billion people focused simultaneously.
On the golden light screen, text slowly emerged.
[Cause and Effect Fate Platform · Major Functional Update Announcement]