Internet Divine Art Has This Function Too?

After checking and confirming that there were no problems in the Magic Forest basement, Yu Sheng'an's consciousness returned to his body.

He planned to update the Internet.

After spreading for more than half a month, his Internet user count had surpassed the 10 Million mark. During peak evening hours, the number of concurrent users exceeded six million.

On the propagation simulation map Yu Sheng'an had drawn, the spread of Internet Divine Art looked remarkably like a plague game.

From the simulation map, he could clearly see dozens of transmission lines extending from Willis City, radiating toward major cities.

Each city at the end of a transmission line then sprouted new lines, spreading onward to lower-level administrative regions.

The red dots representing users spread densely around where those lines landed! In just half a month, sixteen red-blotched regions had appeared across the Kevil Empire—the Empire's sixteen major cities!

Scattered red dots also dotted the wilderness forests, desert badlands, mountains, and hills between the cities.

They were either isolated villages or hunters and mercenaries.

With such a massive user base, his original Internet framework was naturally no longer suitable.

Especially the forums.

He still remembered when he had first launched the forums. To create the impression that they were bustling with activity, he had stayed up for days on end posting threads.

He had copied nearly every novel he could remember.

Now, there was no need for him to post anymore. Forum activity had exploded.

Tens of thousands of new threads appeared every moment. Refreshing the page once was enough to bury every thread he had just read without a trace.

That kind of user experience was definitely awful.

So Yu Sheng'an decided to divert the traffic.

He decided to imitate Blue Star's Tieba, splitting the forums into dozens of subforums based on interests, hobbies, and regions. This would disperse traffic and make browsing easier, while also making the forums more specialized.

Aside from that, he made some minor optimizations to the other functional modules, though the overall changes were not significant.

To be honest, the features Yu Sheng'an most wanted to add were images and videos.

Unfortunately, the Contract Godhead wielded the power of language and writing, so if he wanted to add image and video functions, he could only seek other methods.

His Online Courses were currently bare-bones audio-only versions.

Luckily, the Internet users of this world had never seen much of anything. Otherwise, he would have been laughed to death.

"When all was said and done, the Internet I have now is basically an unlimited-speed 2G text era. Upgrading to the 3G image era, much less the 4G video era, is still a long way off!"

Yu Sheng'an sighed, feeling as though he was going bald.

Only after quite a while did he come back to himself. He sent an update pop-up to all users, then upgraded it directly online.

In an instant, the Internet erupted! In Yu Sheng'an's eyes, the 2G text era was boring beyond belief, but to the Internet users of the Kevil Empire, it was unquestionably a groundbreaking innovation!

In many people's eyes, it had practically become another virtual world.

Here, people could learn news from thousands of miles away.

They could learn of major events in the Empire.

They could even directly lodge complaints against the Magic God and monarch!

But who could have imagined that this virtual world could actually be upgraded and updated? It was simply beyond the limits of many users' imaginations.

In many people's minds, this had to be some super magical artifact of the God of the Internet.

Weren't magical artifacts difficult to modify once they had been completed?

"Everyone, get online and take a look! The forums have been revamped and updated!" A diner at Mage's Hat Tavern suddenly slapped the table and cried out.

"What the hell? Revamped and updated? What does that mean?"

"My god! The forum has actually become dozens of forums!"

"Each of the sixteen major cities in our Empire actually has its own independent forum!"

"Hahaha, wonderful! There's even a Magic Forum now. At last, there's a dedicated place to discuss Magic."

"Long live the God of the Internet!"

"Damn, there's even a Women's Forum. What would women talk about? Gems? Clothes? Makeup?"

For a time, people in the real world called out to friends and companions, rushing to spread the news.

All kinds of astonished remarks also emerged endlessly across the Internet.

Even Yu Sheng'an found the scene astonishing.

He had not expected that merely splitting up the forums would cause such a huge sensation.

If he introduced images and videos, wouldn't they be so excited that they ascended on the spot?

Yu Sheng'an smiled, activated Divine Perspective, and casually selected a user at the border of the Kevil Empire to take a look around.

It was a ragged old man.

After summoning the Internet Phantom Scroll with a prayer, he did not perform any further actions. Instead, he lowered his head and began weaving something from vines.

The night did nothing to conceal his practiced skill.

The vines danced in his hands, quickly taking the rough shape of a small basket base.

Yu Sheng'an watched in confusion, unable to understand it. Why would he open the Internet while weaving something? "Old man, stop weaving and go to sleep early!"

An old woman brought over a bowl of water.

"I'll weave a little longer. I'm not sleepy."

The old man took the water, drained it in one gulp, gave a casual explanation, and went right back to work.

The old woman seemed to know how stubborn he was, so she stopped trying to persuade him.

She sat beside him and helped sort the vines. Then she suddenly sighed. "Ah, the God of the Internet truly is a merciful god. No wonder Master Mage told us to chant his name."

"Isn't that so? With this thing providing Illumination, I can weave one more basket every day. Our Grandson can have quail eggs every few days too. Life finally has something to look forward to. Ah, if it had come out sooner, maybe our family would be living better than we are now."

The old man agreed.

Watching this scene, Yu Sheng'an's expression turned stunned, then enlightened. At last, he understood why the old man had summoned the Internet.

So he had been using Internet Divine Art as an Illumination tool? At the same time, the old man's words made Yu Sheng'an realize something.

The Empire's illiteracy rate was actually quite high. By Yu Sheng'an's estimate, it was at least above 95%. With the Empire's population at roughly sixty million, his active user count was absurdly high and did not match reality.

He had always thought there was a problem with the Empire's statistics, that the population had been undercounted.

Now it seemed that a considerable number of people had simply been using the Internet as an Illumination tool.

Come to think of it, although this magical world had all kinds of magical lighting artifacts, ordinary people simply could not afford them.

Once night fell, even major cities had no Streetlamps, much less remote rural regions.

Yu Sheng'an fell into thought.

Maybe he needed to develop a Flashlight Function. No, he absolutely had to develop it! With so many potential customers, a flashlight feature could bring every last one of them into his grasp. Back on Blue Star, he would be laughing in his dreams.

If heaven gave it and he did not take it, he would be punished for it! Starting tomorrow—no, starting now—I'm going all in on Light Magic! Yu Sheng'an made a grand vow in his heart! Yet before he had even read for two minutes, a private message completely shattered his inspired mood.

The sender was Felix, a Magic Apprentice taking Wood Spirit as an elective. She had unexpectedly sent him a proposal with ideas about crop cultivation.

When Yu Sheng'an opened the chat window, he was instantly dumbfounded.

The blue chat bubble had turned into a Golden Cudgel packed full of text. He did not even need to read it; the godhead's power told him that it contained exactly 36,263 words.

Good heavens! He had held a gathering yesterday afternoon and made the initial arrangements.

At most, twelve hours had passed, yet she had sent more than thirty thousand words. What did that mean? It meant that she might have done nothing else during that time and had spent it all writing.

Most importantly, among the 374 Wood Spirit Magic Apprentices, she was the only one who had sent an ideas proposal so far.

Yu Sheng'an felt that no matter what she had written, her attitude alone meant he had to reward her with something tomorrow.

With that thought, Yu Sheng'an carefully began reading through her insights.

The more he read, the more shocked Yu Sheng'an became.