Cultivation: When you take things to the extreme-Chapter 1077 - 654: The Battle Begins

Advancing one's own civilization is different from advancing an existing civilization. In an existing civilization, once you advance, the path ahead is already paved, and you just need to meet the advancement conditions to unlock related technologies and constructions.

Creating and advancing a civilization from scratch, however, requires first improving technology, then using that technology to upgrade buildings, troops, and Heroes, before finally advancing the civilization.

Take Xu Yang's current Wandao School as an example, he needs to first advance the Heavenly Mechanics Methods and other related technologies to Seventh Rank, then use those Seventh Rank technologies to upgrade the White Jade Capital, Heavenly Craftsmanship Institute, and Mingxiao Taoist Institute, before finally being able to elevate the Wandao School to a Seventh Rank civilization.

This requires a huge investment of resources, especially for Heavenly Mechanics Methods, which can be described as a bottomless pit.

At this time, the advantage of "datafication" becomes apparent because the technology of the civilization can be developed, having a digitalized progress tracker. This progress can be directly boosted through means such as "money consumption," or through slower self-research.

As long as you have enough Heaven-Connecting Coins and combine various resources and technological items, you can directly upgrade the level of technology, the same goes for Fifth Rank, Sixth Rank, as well as Seventh Rank, Eighth Rank, and even Ninth Order and Tenth Order.

You might not even need any other resources, as long as you have enough Heaven-Connecting Coins, you can directly upgrade the technological Rank of your civilization.

Because in the Sky-reaching Tower, Heaven-Connecting Coins are omnipotent. As long as the quantity is sufficient, there's almost nothing they can't achieve, whether it's upgrading technology or advancing Heroes and troops. The reason to pair them with other resources and items is solely out of cost-effectiveness considerations.

For example, if a Hero is advanced using only Heaven-Connecting Coins, it might require about one billion Heaven-Connecting Coins. After spending this one billion, regardless of the situation, whether attributes meet the standards or tasks are completed or not, you can advance. Heaven-Connecting Coins will solve all problems for you.

However, if you complete the Advanced Task, your attributes meet the standards, and you have prepared the corresponding items and resources, you can also complete the advancement, possibly spending only about one hundred million Heaven-Connecting Coins, maybe even less, as few as several tens of millions.

This cost-effectiveness is quite apparent!

According to Xu Yang's understanding, these "Heaven-Connecting Coins" must be the essence of Heaven and Earth, possessing considerable authority and power. As long as the quantity of Heaven-Connecting Coins is sufficient, you can make the Sky-reaching Tower, or so to say, the "Heavenly Dao" of this world work for you, whether deducing Mana Point or improving strength, it can all be directly achieved—truly proving the saying that money makes the world go round.

But this wouldn't be cost-effective; the consumption is so massive that it's unbearable, which is why Lords usually try their best to gather resources, complete tasks, and construct buildings to reduce the direct consumption of Heaven-Connecting Coins.

Although Xu Yang also wants to directly advance Heavenly Mechanics Methods to Ninth Order or Tenth Order, the amount of Heaven-Connecting Coins required is beyond even a massive description.

Let alone Ninth Order or Tenth Order, even for Seventh Rank or Eighth Order, with his current wealth accumulation, it's impossible to directly enhance.

Millenniums of development and such accumulation are still insufficient to directly elevate Heavenly Mechanics Methods to Seventh Rank, such a direct upgrade is immensely consuming.

Given this, why say the advantage of "datafication" has become apparent?

Apart from money consumption, it has other ways of improvement, and the effect of "datafication" is akin to "Heaven rewards hard work." As long as you do the necessary work, there will be rewards, somewhat like accumulating "proficiency."

Take Heavenly Mechanics Methods for example, Gongshu Ling, the head of the Heavenly Craftsmanship Institute, along with her Heavenly Craftsmen and students, can all engage in the research and development of Heavenly Mechanics Methods, ensuring progress is made. Theoretically, given enough time, she can even independently develop Nine-level Creation or Ten-level Creation.

That is the advantage of datafization!

In realms like the Earth Immortal Realm, Azure Star Realm, and the conventional world of Divine Martial World, without the effect of datafication, the deduction of Heavenly Mechanics Methods often gets stuck, and it's normal to have no progress for thousands or even tens of thousands of years.

But in this data-altered Mystic Yellow Realm, there are no such difficulties, because the Special Skills and Effects of Heroes and buildings guarantee progress and enhancement, albeit slowly, but surely reaching the endpoint, breaking through the barriers.

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Xu Yang had conducted experiments previously where, without any interference from him, Gongshu Ling autonomously advanced Heavenly Mechanics Methods over thousands of years from Fifth Rank to Sixth Rank.

This is also a significant reason why Gongshu Ling was able to advance in the Immortal Spirit tier, relying on the effects of dataization and her own efforts, she carved out a path for herself and truly became the head of the Heavenly Craftsmanship Institute.

Now, the same principle applies, even if Xu Yang doesn't spend a penny, solely relying on his subordinates' independent research, he can still push Heavenly Mechanics Methods into Seventh Rank.

But this requires an exceedingly long time, estimated to need at least ten thousand years, and Xu Yang currently only has a three thousand-year term, so in this case, spending is still necessary. Taking a dual-pronged approach is the most reliable.

This is also one of the reasons he manipulates Ten Thousand Dao Points!

Indeed, manipulation!

The outside speculation is indeed correct, the collapse of the Ten Thousand Dao Points, half caused by powers such as the Heaven-connecting Immortal Palace stirring up trouble from behind, and the other half by him, the Ten Thousand Treasure Pavilion, helping to escalate the situation in collaboration.

Had he not intended this, even if the Heaven-connecting Immortal Palace wanted to suppress, he could have easily stabilized the market of Ten Thousand Dao Points without needing complicated measures, simply by revealing his achievements over the years and auctioning a few Heavenly Craft Mechs during the Ten Thousand Dao Conference to stabilize public confidence.