Plan

Buildings were merely the most basic thing in Dream Space. If he could not even get the space right, there was no point talking about anything else.

Li Ming only stopped after making a full circuit of the place. It resembled a small city, neither particularly large nor small.

Of course, that was not a major problem. This was a Dream; he could make it as large as he wanted and expand it later.

There was no benefit in making it too large. For now, he positioned Dream Space as a high-end venue. Those allowed in and out should at least be above level fifty.

Li Ming raised a hand, and a Satellite Spirit immediately appeared in his palm.

In the blink of an eye, the satellite transformed into a Space Station.

Li Ming blinked and stared at the Space Station Martial Soul.

Naturally, it was not real. After all, this was a Dream; as long as one had imagination, anything could be imagined.

However, as an integrated Dream Space, this would make the Dream uncontrollable. If everyone could imagine anything they wanted into existence, then this Dream would become far too uncontrollable.

Li Ming needed to solve this problem.

It was actually simple. The Dream was controlled by Satellite AI, and everyone who appeared here was merely a set of data uploaded from their personal Dreams.

As long as Satellite AI screened the data and selectively downloaded it here, it could restrict each person's data.

Anything forbidden from being imagined would be filtered out by Satellite AI, preventing such data from being downloaded here and keeping Dream Space from spiraling out of control.

Li Ming immediately issued an instruction to Satellite AI: currently, only personal data could be downloaded into Dream Space.

In other words, nothing but their bodies could be brought in. That would greatly increase his control over the Dream.

Of course, with Satellite AI here, he did not need to solve everything himself.

Dream Space now existed, but he had merely taken the most important first step.

If he wanted to realize the monopoly plan in his heart, he first had to give Dream Space enough users.

As for how to bring users here, that was an urgent and major problem to resolve.

Only something valuable could retain people.

He needed to give Dream Space sufficient value. Simply letting them meet here held little value; they could meet in reality as well.

To them, this Dream was undoubtedly someone else's Soul Skill.

For them to willingly place themselves inside another person's Soul Skill, there had to be a sufficiently compelling reason—one of immense value to them—before they would choose to remain here.

Only if they stayed would Dream Space have meaning.

What was more, the people he wanted to keep were top-tier Soul Masters.

He had to present something that could move those Soul Masters. Everything else was secondary.

If there was anything, it would be intelligence.

Li Ming smiled faintly. There were over a thousand satellites in the sky, and that was his advantage.

Whether it was finding people, locating objects, or searching for Soul Beasts, it was all extremely easy for him.

As long as he was given a portrait, he could precisely pinpoint a person's location, provided that person had ever appeared beneath his satellites.

As for Soul Beasts, that was even easier. Whatever Soul Beast someone wanted, he could find it directly.

Whether it was a Century-level Soul Beast, Millennium Soul Beast, Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, or even a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, he could pinpoint them all precisely.

As long as they paid enough, he could even plan out a safe route.

And for the same type of Soul Beast, whatever exact age they wanted, as long as he had one, he could find it precisely. That was his advantage.

Therefore, one of Dream Space's future core industries would be intelligence.

But one core business was not enough. It was not tempting enough.

As for the other advantage, Li Ming already had the answer in mind.

It was Satellite AI.

Satellite AI actually had many uses for cultivation.

For instance, it could record data in real time and monitor the human body through various cameras, detecting a person's physical condition.

This offered many benefits when practicing Soul Skills. It could help cultivators assess the specific data of their current Soul Skills, compare it, determine under what conditions the data was highest, and thereby guide their training.

Of course, that required sufficient data.

Yet over the past few years, Satellite AI had been continuously collecting data.

Almost no one knew they were being watched by Satellite AI. As a result, many Soul Masters openly trained under the satellites' watchful eyes, and Satellite AI recorded all of their Soul Skills and other data.

There were truly many Soul Masters across the world, so Satellite AI had gathered enough data.

Based on that data, Satellite AI had developed a Soul Skill Large Model.

Not only could it guide Soul Masters in using their Martial Souls and Soul Skills, it could also provide the Soul Ring choices best suited to them.

It could even plan a sufficiently perfect Soul Ring path for them from the very beginning.

Fed with massive amounts of data, Satellite AI's knowledge of Martial Souls and Soul Skills was no weaker than that of any Soul Master.

That was the power of AI.

Beyond that, Satellite AI could also help them create Self-Created Soul Skills. Based on their physical condition, Martial Soul, Soul Rings, and more, it could offer the guidance best suited to them and help them create Self-Created Soul Skills most suitable for themselves.

This would be Dream Space's second core industry—personalized instructors.

These two offerings alone should be enough to retain quite a few Soul Masters.

Once enough Soul Masters remained here, Dream Space would naturally gain value.

If Dream Space had so many high-level Soul Masters—high-quality customers, so to speak—then they would naturally develop Dream Space's industries themselves.

He would only need to sit back and wait for the money to roll in.

As for how to collect that money—

He had long since thought it through, though accomplishing it would not be easy.

First, he needed to create a currency belonging exclusively to Dream Space.

This could be said to be easy, or it could be said to be difficult.

Currency could be created at any time. With the power of Dreams, creating currency in any form would be effortless.

But currency needed to be given value. That was the hardest part of the entire process.

That was how to give the currency value.

He planned to name this currency Dream Coupon.

For Dream Coupons to have value, people first needed to recognize them. Second, they needed to possess genuine value.

For example, the Dream Coupons he issued could be exchanged for Gold Soul Coins in reality.

That required a place where such exchanges could be made.

Second, people needed to be willing to exchange Gold Soul Coins for Dream Coupons, while Dream Coupons also had to be exchangeable for Gold Soul Coins.

Only once all these conditions were met could Dream Space be considered complete.

Likewise, when that time came, he would become rich. Once Dream Coins circulated widely enough, he could exchange them for Gold Soul Coins without worrying about anyone noticing, thereby cashing out the gains from Dream Space.

That was the meaning of Dream Space: to seize enough money for himself.

However, that step was still far away.

His most urgent task was to first test Dream Space's environment, see what flaws existed, and solve them once discovered.

If the environment had no problems, he could proceed to the Closed Beta. If the Closed Beta had no problems, he could proceed to the Public Beta.