As for the illusion of Shennong's Paradise, Manager Wang had explained a great many things. But in Lu Mingyuan's view, it was basically a virtual service network.
And whether because of limited bandwidth or some other reason, only a small amount of data in the illusion was shared across the whole world.
That was why the result was this semi-local virtual network, with a separate illusion for every city.
In other words, after entering the illusion, you could only meet people from your own city and talk with them, but the classics and records inside were available to everyone in the world.
As for the inheritance stone Lu Mingyuan had just used, it was obviously meant to pass down supernatural abilities.
Using one allowed you to bypass the Heavenly Dao Virtual Network and pass down supernatural abilities in the real world.
In other words, supernatural abilities no longer had to be uploaded to the virtual network for others to learn them.
That way, they could be kept within a group and sold privately rather than made public.
The inheritance stones thus gave the great lineages and schools the means to pass down their exclusive supernatural abilities.
So if you wanted to learn the exclusive abilities of those powerful lineages, there was only one way: join them.
To some extent, that counted as a monopoly.
Of course, a heaven-defying inheritance stone naturally had its limits. Otherwise, the Heavenly Dao Virtual Network wouldn't possibly sell them. That would be like smashing its own rice bowl.
The first restriction was, naturally, the price: one million per inheritance stone, no discounts.
That was more than most people could afford.
The second restriction was that each inheritance stone could hold only one supernatural ability, and its creator had to personally seal the ability inside.
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