"What should we call a system and a group dedicated to exploring supernatural powers? It seems a little like the sorcerers of legend!"
Lu Zhiyu decided to give this civilization a name. That was right—this was a civilization. He felt that if the use of spiritual power and Deified Cells continued to develop, they could absolutely give rise to a civilization, one no less advanced than technological civilization!
Lu Zhiyu thought it over. Calling it a magic civilization felt too mysterious, too idealistic. After a moment, he said, "How about the Wizard civilization?"
The first step was to open access to the Zero-Dimension passages throughout the entire Maria World. However, Lu Zhiyu didn't plan to make them freely available to everyone. Instead, he would open them indirectly.
Lu Zhiyu planned to establish a passage on the one-dimensional level, drawing Source Substance from the Zero-Dimension World. He would set a threshold: once a person's consciousness reached a certain strength, they could connect to the one-dimensional passage and draw Source Substance from the Zero-Dimension World through it, strengthening their spiritual power!
"Let's call it the Magic Network. Any being that draws Source Substance through the Magic Network will have sixty percent withheld. The remaining forty percent will belong to them. That'll also be a way for me to reap Source Substance!"
The Source Substance reading in Lu Zhiyu's Hourglass had risen from its original 129 to 3,363. That was the result of more than a thousand years' effort. At the beginning, it had taken two hundred years to gain just a few dozen units, but the pace had grown faster and faster since then. Now, it increased by eight or nine units every year!
It had to be said that ordinary life contained very little Source Substance. When Lu Zhiyu had harvested