The Crucial Link

"I wonder if Your Excellency could demonstrate it in detail."

Yu Yuanzhen cupped his hands and asked for instruction.

"Of course."

Li Ming immediately waved a hand, and a panel appeared before Yu Yuanzhen.

Within the Dream, Li Ming had set the Personal Cultivation Assistant to appear as a screen.

None of them had seen such a thing before, so they could not help but feel curious and gathered around it.

"To use the Personal Cultivation Assistant, you must first verify your own strength.

But remember, this place is only a Dream and cannot specifically examine your true strength. So, if you want the Personal Cultivation Assistant to be effective, it is best not to fabricate your strength at random."

Li Ming offered a reminder from the side.

This was, after all, a Dream. If he wanted them to be able to display their strength here, he needed to grant them a certain degree of permission to create within the Dream—in other words, permission to dream.

Then they could dream up their own strength and Martial Souls, but they could likewise dream up strength and Martial Souls that did not belong to them.

For example, as long as their imagination was vivid enough, even the lowest-ranking Spirit Scholar could dream up the strength of a Title Douluo here.

Of course, Li Ming had ways to limit this. After all, if someone dreamed up something that did not belong to them, there would inevitably be discrepancies in the details. A Spirit Scholar might dream up the strength of a Title Douluo, but he certainly could not account for every specific detail, so there would be a degree of falseness.

His Satellite AI could inspect this kind of data. Once it discovered flaws within the data itself, it could reject its upload to and download from the Dream Space.

However, one could avoid such inspections if they possessed sufficient mastery over the details of something. For example, if a Title Douluo dreamed up the strength of a Spirit Saint, there would naturally be no falseness. Likewise, if someone understood other Martial Souls and Soul Skills extremely deeply, they could evade this AI inspection.

Here, playing the pig to eat the tiger was possible, but borrowing a tiger's might to scare others was not.

Li Ming had another solution for that: bind the data here to the data detected by real-world satellites. If the data could not match up, the Satellite AI could reject its upload and download.

However, he was not using that method for the time being. There was no need for it yet.

As Yu Yuanzhen tentatively touched the screen, a Dummy suddenly appeared beside him.

The Dummy had been generated by the Satellite AI. It could be considered a testing device, and this particular Dummy was merely a simulation based on the average data it had collected on ten-year Soul Beasts.

Following the prompt on the panel, Yu Yuanzhen's expression shifted. He directly waved his hand, and a Blue Lightning Dragon Claw appeared before the Dummy, tearing it apart with a sharp crack.

Then, another Dummy appeared. This was a hundred-year Dummy.

Yu Yuanzhen once again cast the dragon claw from a distance, shredding the Dummy with apparent ease.

Even though this was merely Yu Yuanzhen's First-Ring Soul Skill, it easily instant-killed the hundred-year Dummy.

Li Ming's eyes flickered slightly. The gazes of the other four were all fixed on the Dummy, and none of them noticed the flash of excitement deep in Li Ming's eyes.

The corners of Li Ming's lips curled up slightly. His heart churned with waves of emotion, and he felt somewhat excited.

What appeared to be an ordinary strength test was actually anything but ordinary.

The Satellite Spirit was ultimately just a satellite, an integration of technology from his previous life. Even though it possessed all kinds of advanced equipment, such as various cameras, it was still a technological construct and was somewhat ill-suited to this world.

Because of this limitation, the Satellite AI's ability to assess the strength of Soul Masters, Soul Beasts, and the like was ultimately limited. Much of its data had been simulated.

Over the years, the Satellite AI had used an array of technological equipment carried by the satellite—multispectral cameras, particle detectors, radiation detectors, and more—to collect data and build a large model, allowing it to accurately identify a Soul Master's rank.

But this large model could only tell how strong someone was. Exactly how strong depended entirely on simulation.

The test Yu Yuanzhen was conducting now was making up for the crucial data the Satellite AI lacked.

That was the measurement of concrete power—the numerical values a Soul Skill could achieve.

At this moment, the Soul Skill Yu Yuanzhen displayed was being synchronized to the Dream Space in the form of data.

If that data could be added to the large model, the Satellite AI would very likely be able to calculate specific numerical values.

Once enough such data had been gathered, the Satellite AI would complete its most important link and truly construct a comprehensive large model.

At that point, even in a dream, the Satellite AI would be able to precisely test the power of a Soul Skill displayed by a Soul Master.

It could be said that this Dream Soul Skill compensated for the shortcomings of the satellite's detection equipment. This Dream was equivalent to a detector!

Once the AI large model was sufficiently complete, it could simulate this place with almost no difference from reality!

After the hundred-year Dummy was destroyed, a five-hundred-year Wooden Dummy immediately appeared.

And so Yu Yuanzhen continued smashing the Dummies. As the Dummies' age increased, he used more Soul Skills, completely unaware that Li Ming was feeding all this data to the AI.

However, the highest-level Dummy was only ten thousand years old.

The Satellite AI's simulated data for a hundred-thousand-year Dummy might differ too greatly from that of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, making it easy for them to notice, so there was none for now.

"Next, Sect Master Yu only needs to use the Self-Created Soul Skills you normally practice, or incomplete Self-Created Soul Skills.

If there is no specific direction, I'm afraid it will require more time."

Li Ming spoke at once.

Upon hearing this, Yu Yuanzhen glanced at the other three. This was, after all, something private, but in order to verify the effects of the Personal Cultivation Assistant, he could only demonstrate it on the spot. Besides, it was merely an immature Self-Created Soul Skill.

The next moment, a Dummy appeared on the main street of Purple Heaven City. Unlike the previous Dummies, this one could be called invincible and was used solely to collect data.

Yu Yuanzhen stood more than ten meters away from the Dummy, while Emperor Xue Ye, Tang Xiao, and the others had already moved far to the side to watch from a distance, so as not to interfere with him.

Yu Yuanzhen looked at the Dummy in the distance, and waves stirred within his heart.

He had long entertained the idea of creating his own Soul Skill, but for a Martial Soul like his, creating one was even more difficult. Moreover, his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon was known for its overwhelming power and domineering nature. A slight misstep could injure him, and then the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan would lose its pillar of support, putting it in a very bad position.

Therefore, despite all his years of trying to create a Soul Skill, he had never succeeded.

Now, he hoped that this Mysterious City Lord had not been boasting.

Looking at the Dummy in the distance, Yu Yuanzhen's body suddenly began to transform. His entire body expanded, and parts of his body—his hands, feet, and more—gradually became draconic.

In the end, a fully transformed Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon appeared before everyone.

Li Ming's gaze flickered slightly. It was his first time seeing one. Faint lightning glimmered across its body, and it indeed looked tyrannical.

The next moment, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Yu Yuanzhen had transformed into moved.

With a fierce flap of its dragon wings, its body rose a meter into the air and shot forward. A violent gust swept over everyone, and they all watched without blinking, their faces solemn as they saw the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon charge toward the Dummy.