Data Template

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Data Template (数据模版)
Classification	Unique derivative ability that developed into a configurable software, network, and growth-template system 128 218
Creator / Controller	Systrom, later known as System 128 261
Affiliation	Golden Banana Federation; Pay-to-Win Network 305 531
Occupation / Role	Grants users tools, structured growth paths, network access, ability-learning functions, and later Super Network services 218 351 528
Status	Active; Version 6.0 can be installed by users in other worlds 744
First Appearance	Chapter 128

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Data Template (3/13)	128	Obtained during System's third Pupation as a derivative of Numerical Code, Datafication, Data Compilation, and Mind Transfer. It could grant targets portions of Numerical Code and Tool Menu functions.
Growth-template function discovered	136	System learned that it could record a living being's growth pattern and guide another target to develop similarly.
Version 1.1	241	Installed on the Nine-Headed Hydra; included Pay-to-Win Points and the Golden Banana interface.
Version 2.0 — Pay-to-Win Internet Age	262	Integrated with the Data Network and allowed users to access the network by expending mental power.
Version 2.2	276	Added customizable interfaces and retained categories including entertainment, network, games, food, music, and tools.
Level 21 / Template Simplification	311	Could isolate selected abilities from a growth template—such as wind-element control—without forcing the recipient to follow the donor's entire developmental path.
Version 3.0 — “Making Abilities Within Reach”	351 363	Introduced the Ability Mall, which used thought-consciousness recordings to help users learn skills and magical abilities.
Version 3.1	385	Installed on Heroic Spirit Augustus under a non-resistance prompt.
Version 4.0 — M Intelligence	403	Added Intelligence Modules, enabling calculation, cultivation assistance, career planning, and assisted ability activation.
Super Network integration	528	Authorized users could borrow network functions for experience, intelligent assistance, energy use, transmission, and data storage.
Versions 5.0 and 6.0	532 535	Finalized as the Super Network Era and Hyperreal Era, respectively.
Mass-distribution capability	530	Ordinary users could distribute Data Templates through the Super Network using their own experience points.

Background / History

System acquired Data Template during his third Pupation, alongside Datafication and Scan Analysis. Its earliest known function was granting targets limited Numerical Code-derived functions, though every installation consumed System's experience and could even consume lifespan if used excessively 128.

System's first experiments used soil, mushrooms, and plant seeds rather than his ant subjects. He discovered that a template could preserve a plant's growth pattern: two separately templated seeds developed into nearly identical plants after being accelerated with Plant Growth 136. He initially considered using the ability to cultivate stronger ants, but the experience cost was prohibitive and templates had to be applied from the egg stage 136 137.

Rather than prioritize its original growth-guidance purpose, System developed its auxiliary interface functions. Simplified Tool Menus were distributed among intelligent ants such as Shawa and Black, giving them clocks, compasses, measuring tools, calculators, games, and eventually office software 137 178.

Data Template became the foundation of the Pay-to-Win Tower and later the Pay-to-Win Network. Its users generated a persistent power that strengthened System's Sea of Numbers, leading him to expand its entertainment, communication, trading, and quest functions instead of relying solely on biological templates 217 218 261.

Abilities & Functions

Growth Templates

Data Template's primary function is to fix a target's direction of growth according to a recorded template. It can guide living beings toward paths comparable to a warrior, mage, or knight class rather than merely displaying information 218.

• A template can reproduce a donor's developmental tendencies, but it cannot guarantee identical results because the recipient's innate “hardware” may be inadequate 311.
• Early templates had to be bestowed from the egg stage and could not be modified afterward 136.
• Applying incompatible templates can cause malformed development; two ants forcibly pushed toward ant-knight development developed mismatched body proportions 311.
• At Level 21, Template Simplification allowed System to retain specific abilities—such as Wind Blast Bomb and Levitation—without copying the donor's entire growth path 311.
• Specialized templates remain experience-intensive, while activation costs for simplified abilities are paid by the recipient 311.

Tool Menu Interface

The visible interface and software functions are auxiliary functions rather than Data Template's original purpose 218.

• Early simplified versions provided clocks, compasses, thermometers, length measurement, calculators, and simple games 137.
• System could add office software to individual templates; Black used these functions for reports, tables, and mapping underground areas beneath the Floating Island 178.
• Later versions added communication software, quests, trading, media, music, food-tasting functions, games, websites, and customizable interfaces 262 276.

Installation and Distribution

Data Template was initially distributed through Mind Transfer, making qualified distributors such as System, Jenny, and Shadow particularly valuable 265.

• The Pay-to-Win Tower could scan visitors and install Data Template after a prayer, granting first-time users Pay-to-Win Points 217.
• System retained remote access to granted templates, allowing him to inspect and alter their contents through the Data Network 261.
• Even altered copies distributed by Duke, the God of Trade, remained under System's control 276.
• After the Super Network emerged, ordinary users could distribute Data Templates themselves by paying experience costs, greatly accelerating expansion 530.
• Installation can be resisted, but outdated versions may repeatedly prompt users to update under the Pay-to-Win Network Protocol 534 538.

Data Network Access

Every Data Template can function as a Data Terminal connected through System's Data Network 261.

• Data Terminals can connect to other terminals and Data Nodes by consuming energy 261.
• System configured users to expend mental power while online, including an additional one-third fee under the network's early payment model 262.
• Data Nodes support websites, quests, information storage, communication, and cross-plane knowledge collection 265.
• System can locate distant templates, including Shadow's template on an unknown primary plane, though long-distance access has a substantially higher cost 262.

Ability Mall

Version 3.0 introduced the Ability Mall, which records and shares thought-consciousness videos for ability learning 351.

• Videos recorded while using Focus Technique and Mental Excitement can amplify the creator's recorded thoughts and perceptions 351.
• Users with sufficient mental power can learn cultivation methods, spells, and technical skills from these recordings 351.
• Mental Focus improves learning efficiency when viewing ability videos 352.
• System provided mental-power assistance and Meditation tutorials for users too weak to access the Ability Mall normally 356 357.

Intelligence Module

Intelligence Module is a Version 4.0 function derived from Numerical Code, Data Compilation, Digital Intelligence, and Data Template 402 403.

• It provides partial calculation and judgment functions while consuming mental power 402.
• It can assist users with meditation, cultivation, spellcasting, and combat ability activation, provided they do not resist its assistance 403.
• Users can connect to Little M for career planning and personalized cultivation support 403.
• Installed in inanimate objects, it can serve as a digital control core for machinery, magical puppet constructs, automated appliances, and building systems 404.

Super Network Functions

The Super Network allows authorized Data Template users to access powers previously unavailable to those without cultivation talent 528.

• Energy Conduction — lets users borrow magical, battle-qi, or other powers, though their mental strength and life level limit how much power they can bear 528.
• Quantum Transmission — enables transmission to locations covered by the Super Network at a mental-power cost 528.
• Data Repository — can preserve recordings, objects, and intact living beings; it may retain the souls of dying users so long as System survives 528.
• Users cannot safely borrow power vastly beyond their own life level; excessive use can cause irreversible harm 528.

Relationships

• Systrom / System — Creator, administrator, and primary controller; he can inspect, modify, reclaim, and update connected templates 128 261.
• Black — Intelligent ant user whose customized template included office software for record-keeping and mapmaking 178.
• Jenny Tennyson — Received Data Template and Mind Transfer from System; subsequently distributed templates among humans 205 262.
• Duke, God of Trade — Distributed altered Data Templates to orcs while falsely claiming authorship, but System retained control over the copies 275 276.
• Kazashimo — Long-term researcher of Data Template functions who later created the simplified Old Lich Happiness Template 718.
• Little M — Digital Intelligence associated with Version 4.0; provides cloud-based assistance through Intelligence Modules 402 403.
• Shen Gongbao — Received Data Template 6.0 from Beasley and used it to investigate the connection between Great Primordial and the Primordial World 744.

Trivia

• Data Template can be bestowed on soil, metal, plants, fungi, liquids, and other non-intelligent targets, though inert objects originally served little purpose beyond acting as detectable marks 136 404.
• When a templated living organism is divided, the template remains with the portion retaining the greater share of its life; on destroyed inanimate objects, it disappears 136.
• System originally intended to use Data Template to mass-produce high-potential insect beasts modeled after Shawa, but instead developed its software functions into the foundation of the network 527.
• The old lich Kazashimo considered Data Template far more sophisticated than a Heaven-Sent System: he compared the former to an electronic computer and the latter to a calculator 718.