Virtual Universe Network

Biodata

Background

The Original Ancestor established the Virtual Universe Network. Its operating intelligence is described as a Machine Race intelligence at the level of a Universe Master 257 271. The network covers human territory and can admit countless users at once while simulating the real world with complete accuracy 238 367.

Jiang Li first accesses it with a consciousness-sensing helmet purchased from the Virtual Universe Company. He later brings helmets to Blue Star, giving Hong, Luo Feng, and Thunder God access to the wider human universe 155 163.

Abilities & Services

Access and virtual presence

• Consciousness-sensing helmets connect users to the network. At Black Kun Star, Jiang Li buys twenty helmets bound to twenty anonymous accounts 155.
• Anonymous accounts last 100 years and cost 2,000 Black Dragon coins, or 1.6 Ganwu coins, each; ordinary accounts require a citizen identity 155.
• Users entering from Ganwu Universe Country appear on Ganwu Continent and receive a small virtual assistant 155.
• Without virtual property, a user appears on the street. A property owner instead appears at their virtual home 168.

Communication and commerce

• Users can speak with friends billions of light-years away, pay to teleport to meetings, learn martial arts, place orders, and trade 155.
• Intelligent devices can remain partly connected to receive messages, but sending a message or making a call requires the user's consciousness to enter the network 168.
• The Virtual Universe Company uses an internal points system for its treasury of cultivation resources and secret techniques 238 285.

Training and assessment

• The Killing Field lets users set opponents for repeated combat practice. Jiang Li uses it to train against a fourth-stage Stellar Level opponent with a second-level domain and three fused laws 167.
• The Heavenly Bridge tests comprehension and strength; clearing levels brings opportunities to study Chaos Tablets 245.
• Network performance is used to assess World Masters for military rank, from ordinary warrior to World Master War General 297.

Simulation limits

• Its simulations can be compelling enough that some users confuse virtual life with reality and struggle to leave it 155 367.
• Although it reproduces the forms of laws with complete accuracy, Jiang Li observes that it does not fully reproduce a black hole's complete state 320.
• Certain spaces block its signal, including the Universe Saint inheritance space. Babata monitors the connection until access returns 271 275.

Notable Locations

Story Role

• Peak Genius Battle: A proclamation visible across the network announces the competition. Contestants receive rules by email, then enter standardized virtual world zones and trial spaces 201 202 203 220.
• Jiang Li's company membership: The network authenticates him on entry to the Primordial Region and provides access to his company messages and treasury 237 238.
• Battlefield authorization: World Masters entering the Extraterrestrial Battlefield receive ranks based on their recorded performance in the network 297.