Special Store
Su Luo was puzzled because she didn't see Ye Fan and Ye Zizhen at the top of the list.
Those two guys, one ranked ninety-seventh and the other one hundred and threeth, are hovering around the top 100, I wonder what they're doing.
Father Tali Lang was puzzled by something else—
How did Scholars develop so rapidly without the help of Goddess of Luck?
Everyone guessed the situation on the Goddess of Luck's battlefield; there was no world-ending crisis.
How did the Scholar's civilization catch up with his Tongxiang Civilization, which was also facing a system-generated catastrophe?
Battlefield No. 34321. Pure White Space.
Father Tali Lang sat at the stone table, his gaze shifting from the [Civilization Rankings] to the [Planet Model].
After a moment's consideration, he stood up and chose the Consciousness Descent.
The next moment, he appeared atop the tallest building of the Tongxiang Civilization.
That was 10,000 meters above the ground.
Beneath my feet stands a Sky-Piercing Tower, its body cast from a silvery-white alloy, piercing the clouds. At its top is a transparent observation deck, offering a panoramic view of the entire continent.
The priest looked down.
Below lies a dense urban cluster, with towering buildings, crisscrossing railway tracks, and aircraft shuttling back and forth.
Further away, there are endless fields of farmland, factories, and research bases. Everything is in perfect order, like a finely operating machine.
The Tongxiang Civilization, with a population of 120 million, is wealthy and powerful, and dominates the world order of the entire planet.
Recently, a base has been established on a nearby satellite, marking the first real step towards space colonization.
The fact that it has developed to this extent in just over a hundred years can almost be attributed to one thing—
With One Mind, Many Beings.
They have lived through an era of faith. From primitive tribes to the information society, their faith has never wavered.
That faith is a yellowed Contract.
The Contract is kept in an underground Holy Temple in the capital, sealed with a special crystal, kept under constant temperature and humidity, and guarded day and night.
It was a genuine piece of animal skin, on which were written a few simple agreements in ancient Text, each one radiating a faint golden light.
Article 1: Within the Contract Alliance, killing among members of the same clan is prohibited.
Article 2: Within the Contract Alliance, knowledge is shared and benefits are shared equally.
Article 3: Within the Contract Alliance, everyone must sign Contract, become a member of the Alliance, and agree to the leadership of the Lord of Contracts.
From the primitive era onward, the cohesion of Tongxiang Civilization has always been at its peak.
There was no internal strife, no internal friction, and no wasteful power struggles. Everyone was moving in the same direction, with the same goal and the same pace.
In terms of social structure, it is somewhat similar to the Gestalt consciousness of the Zerg, but each person has independent thinking, creativity, and inspiration.
However, this creativity has been used to advance civilization, rather than hindering each other.
Common interests, common goals, common Fate.
Population, technology, speed of development... in every aspect, it far surpasses other civilizations on the same battlefield.
Before the Information Age, their technology was almost a generation ahead.
Therefore, Father Tali Lang couldn't understand it.
How did the Scholars manage to keep up with him?
"Forget it." He shook his head. "There are still two days left. There's probably another world-ending crisis. We should focus our energy on that."
The Information Age is truly a tough time. Despite the ever-increasing pace of development, we're still in the early stages after all these years. It seems the time span for this stage is enormous.
Father Tali Lang looked down at the bustling city below, his eyes filled with a mixture of kindness and expectation.
"My children," he said softly, "Keep moving forward."
The Civilization Calendar lasted for 140 years.
The population of the Suguang Civilization reached eighty million.
They rank fifth on the [Civilization Rankings], but their civilization stage is still the Early Information Age.
Su Luo had long since withdrawn from worldly affairs.
Since the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse fell into slumber, he has only occasionally stepped in to reinforce the Death Rider's fire seal.
Then, at some point in the middle, a reward was given to Mu Ri.
This refers to an update to the System Store.
But recently, Su Luo updated the panel again, displaying most of her assets.
Most of the cutting-edge technologies on the Technology Side come from the Yuncang Civilization. In the evaluation system of the technology tree, Yuncang's technological level is between the late Information Age and the early interstellar age.
Each of these technologies alone would take a long time for Tracing Light to digest.
It was a groundbreaking debut, and no one will understand it for decades to come.
The technology on the Mana Side, particularly the engineering aspects, mainly came from Yuncang and Su Luo's own research and development, while the Spell aspects were a combination of research and development. There were also a large number of scattered, unfinished products developed by Su Luo.
Then he began to intensively monitor Origin Star, sending out a large number of Subconscious specifically to collect data.
It's time for Tracing Light to repay his "God".
[The System Store has been updated again, with new categories appearing.]
Mu Ri turned his gaze to the panel that had started clanging again, and frowned slightly.
After the last shop update, the interface had been dormant for over a decade. How did it come back to life?
Is another world-ending crisis looming?
He subconsciously looked up at the sky.
The moon is still there, the Four Knights should still be asleep, and everything seems normal.
"But the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse haven't been completely defeated yet?" he murmured.
With a question in mind, he clicked on the store update section.
Then he realized he had been overthinking it.
This time it has nothing to do with the apocalyptic crisis.
[Special Store]
The technologies sold in this shop are all semi-finished products, mostly ahead of the current era, but civilizations need to develop subsequent technologies on their own.
[Dream World Construction Guide (Fragment)]
[Civilization Points: 1500]
[The Nameless Fire Faith Development Scroll (Fragment)]
[Civilization Points: 1800]
[Blueprints for Industrialization controlled nuclear fusion without Mana materials]
[Civilization Points: 2000]
[...]
Mu Ri swallowed hard.
Although he no longer had the physiological response of "swallowing saliva," his body had long been a condensation of the Power of Faith, and he no longer needed to eat or breathe.
He has lost human emotions, but he is still affected by the outside world. The control panel is the thing that makes him frequently lose his composure.
Everything here is so precious.
Obtaining any one of these items could greatly advance technological or Mana advancements.
He even possesses techniques to amplify his own Nameless Fire, as well as techniques to directly manipulate faith.
[Faith Observation Method]
[Civilization Points: 1400]
[Faith Purification Method]
[Civilization Points: 1600]
But Mu Ri quickly calmed down and looked at the descriptions of each technology.
"I see." He nodded. "Most of them are incomplete and cannot be used directly. Even if they can be used, it's only in a specific scenario; they're not general-purpose technology. And they're very expensive..."
Mu Ri fell into deep thought.
This is a test of the entire civilization's scientific research capabilities and the talents of all kinds.