58: Chapter 57 Myriad Realms Text & Energy Perception
Duang~ duang~ duang~
Magic Sea Calendar, January 10th, afternoon, past 1:00 PM.
Yang Hang had just woken up. After stretching his limbs in the morning and feeling refreshed in both body and mind, he sat on the deck of his golden Houseboat.
He felt the surging energy within his Karmic Void Realm, nearly overflowing, and the corners of his mouth curled up uncontrollably.
Over these past few days, as the first batch of 300 million survivors from external civilizations were successfully invited to settle into the Cause and Effect Fate Platform, his Karmic Void Realm's river of energy had been constantly expanding, as if it had overeaten.
By today, the fourth day, all 2.8 billion survivors from external civilizations had been invited to settle in. The total length of his river of Karma had nearly doubled twenty times, and its width had also increased several times over.
Because his fees for external civilizations were double those of the Yanhuang Civilization, and the functions opened to them were "castrated" versions that did not consume much of his Karmic energy, the sentient energy harvested over three full days, combined with the massive amount of karma points continuously generated by the prosperity of the Yanhuang Civilization within the Karmic Trading Realm, had created this current magnificent spectacle.
It could be said that these days, aside from receiving the daily report on the Fate Platform from his Divided Soul, he had been enjoying the pleasure of feeling the energy in his Karmic Void Realm grow in waves—even the joy of opening chests every day seemed lackluster in comparison.
Of course, that said, the daily routine of fishing for sunken sea treasure chests remained one of his most important tasks.
Even now, he still hoped to fish up another diamond treasure chest, but unfortunately, he had not even caught a glimpse of one.
He had spent some capital yesterday, but still could not find the line of Karma related to a diamond treasure chest among the lines of Karma for the sunken sea treasure chests in this Magic Sea world.
So, these days, he had only opened three golden treasure chests.
However, it must be said that even golden treasure chests were of great help to him.
On the seventh day of the Magic Sea, he opened a golden-grade wonder called the Myriad Worlds Textual Book.
Its function, as the name implied, was for linguistic communication.
When he first began architecting the visitor system, he had not considered so much; he just thought that relying on the Power of Causality to forcibly translate the languages of various civilizations—making it so that even if everyone spoke their own language, it would appear understandable to the other party at the level of consciousness—would suffice.
But clearly, he later discovered that while this mode looked high-end, it was also highly resource-intensive. He had tried to architect the linguistic Systems of the hundreds of civilizations on Earth Star, and it consumed a significant amount of his Karmic energy. And that was just the beginning; the key was that this thing was a continuous drain. Relying purely on forcibly pulling Karma was too costly and did not align with his interests.
Thus, this Myriad Worlds Textual Book came into being. Its function was very simple: any text written into it could be translated into the form recognized by the person viewing it.
When he took out this Myriad Worlds Textual Book, he was quite pleasantly surprised at first because, according to his understanding of Karma, it could translate a wide range of languages—even those from civilizations outside this dimension. This saved him from potential language barriers in future civilization clashes.
Then, without further hesitation, he embedded it into the System architecture of the Cause and Effect Fate Platform.
It is worth mentioning that when Yang Hang pushed out the visitor system, he temporarily banned the posting permissions of these survivors from external civilizations who had suddenly flooded in.
He had to let them all arrive, and let them gain a certain understanding of the forum and adapt to the situation, before letting them post; otherwise, it would easily disrupt the order of the Fate Platform that had been so painstakingly established.
Besides that, he further restricted their visitor permissions.
Each person could only post one comment every three days, and he added a new private comment function for Yanhuang Civilization survivors.
They could choose the corresponding mode to set whether their comments were visible to survivors from external civilizations.
The reason for introducing this function was that after 2.8 billion survivors from external civilizations connected to the Fate Platform, Yang Hang personally felt the vastness of this number. He did not need to guess to know that even if they could only post one comment every three days, the enthusiasm of these "Chad" survivors from external civilizations would likely spam the Fate Platform. So, he simply cut it down significantly.
Then on the eighth day, which was the day before yesterday, he had not decided what to open. Accepting the revelation of Karma, he once again opened an Ability Crystal. The ability awakened was Energy Perception. It sounded very ordinary, but in reality, it was quite useful to him.
Energy Perception, as the name implied.
It allowed him to have a vision that could see energy levels, and being able to see meant that he, who possessed the talent of the Lord of Causality, could manipulate them. On the premise that his river of Karmic energy had not grown, this greatly increased the efficiency of utilizing this Karmic energy.
Simply put, originally, he could use 100 units of Karmic energy to easily change the future life or death of a high-level Magic Sea beast; now, he could achieve the same with only 10 units of energy.
The existence of Energy Perception allowed him to increase his utilization efficiency by more than ten times without changing the magnitude of his river of Karma.
When he obtained this ability, he was quite happy. For a moment, he felt he had never fought such a wealthy battle.
Finally, there was yesterday, the ninth day, the reopening of the Faction Sequence Ranking and the individual merit ranking.
The total merit of Yanhuang Civilization had doubled again, and his individual merit had reached a terrifying 25 billion.
Although this merit value was terrifying, he had originally thought it would be higher.
As it turned out, according to this situation, an individual's contribution to faction merit might still have a certain upper limit on the Magic Sea. The higher one went, the more one had to double their contribution to the faction to gain the same merit.
The calculation of faction contribution was not purely cumulative; once it reached a certain height, it became about levels.
Unsurprisingly, his future merit value would only grow slower and slower.
After this ranking was announced, he quietly lurked on the Fate Platform to enjoy the praise from everyone, and went to observe the live stream of President Lu Xingye, the "national girl" of the Yanhuang Camp who was currently the hottest, whom he had "promoted."
Seeing her popularity so high, yet she only opened materials of Rotten Wood Rank and Bronze Rank, he could not help but chuckle.
He simply called upon Karma to take a look, and hmm, he found it reasonable. Her popularity on the Fate Platform and karma points were high, but that did not mean her merit value was high.
It was only at the level of a few hundred. Excluding her personal influence, she just had a little bit of influence, belonging to the category of the most ordinary Yanhuang Civilization survivors.
Even those few hundred were only gained because of her high popularity these past few days.
Seeing others in her live stream accusing her of "seeking fame and reputation" and "putting on an act," Yang Hang disguised himself as an ordinary Fate Platform account to join the fun, posting comments to help boost her momentum and refute the slanderous remarks.
It was actually quite interesting.
He had only been watching for about ten minutes when he received a private message from teacher Qin Feifei in the alumni group, which had not been active for a long time.
When Qin Feifei's private message popped up, Yang Hang was stuffing the third grape into his mouth.
He originally thought it was a daily notification from the alumni group, so he glanced at the beginning— "Hello, student Yang Hang."
Five words, filled with an official tone.
His fingers paused, and he scrolled down.
The message was very long. Longer than any message Qin Feifei had ever sent.
"Approved by the 'Revival Society Academic Institution Management Regulations (Third Edition · Trial)', Donghai University was officially incorporated into the Revival Society's subordinate academic System yesterday, becoming a certified higher education continuation institution. To rebuild complete student files and restore organizational management, we now need to collect basic information for all enrolled and graduated students. The following is the information registration form; please fill it out truthfully—"
The attachment was a copyable message and an extremely detailed form.
The corners of Yang Hang's mouth twitched. It was called a form, but in reality, it was just a long screenshot of a message formatted as a table.
The header of the image was printed with the emblem of the Revival Society and the school badge of Donghai University, as official as a government document from before the Transmigration.
The content was divided into six major sections.
Basic Information. Name, gender, age, major and grade before Transmigration, ID number (if remembered), close relatives and their names.
Current Survival Status in the Magic Sea. Current Houseboat Rank, approximate sea area (optional), whether joined an organization and the organization name, current merit value range (options: "0-10", "10-100", "100-1000", "1000+", "Custom").
Personal Panel Summary. Talent name and Rank, Qi/Spirit/Vitality values, Health points, current status (optional).
Treasure Chest Opening Record. Grade of sunken sea treasure chests opened daily from the first day to the present, and the names of the items opened (optional).
Family Information. Father/Mother/Spouse/Children's names, whether contact has been established, current known status.
Remarks. Can freely fill in special circumstances, skills/specialties, requests for help, etc.
At the end, a line of small print was stamped— "This form collection follows the principle of voluntariness. All information is only used for internal student management of Donghai University and filing with the Revival Society, and will not be disclosed to the public."
After reading the form, Yang Hang swallowed the grape.