A Way to Develop a World Autonomously

A staff member came down carrying a briefcase.

Several armed personnel carrying real guns escorted him.

"Are you Mr. Shen Hui? This is your reward. Please confirm your identity with your fingerprint."

He pointed to a sensor on the briefcase.

Shen Hui pressed his thumb against it.

A green light flashed, indicating that his identity had been confirmed.

Only then did the man hand the briefcase to Shen Hui.

"Mr. Shen Hui, I wish you all the best. Goodbye."

The man briskly got into the jeep and drove away.

He didn't say another word to Shen Hui. The whole process was extremely by-the-book, but also very efficient.

Ye Long looked at Shen Hui and smiled. "I won't keep you any longer, Brother Shen. I'm off too. See you at the gathering."

Ye Long got into his sports car and sped off with a stomp on the gas.

That left only Shen Hui... and the middle-aged and elderly people around him, all eyeing him hungrily.

They had already more or less guessed what was going on.

Based on Shen Hui's age and the little they knew about him,

and adding that to what had just happened,

their gossiping instincts immediately led them to conclude that Shen Hui had become an Awakened.

And that he had done well in the test.

That was why those special people had come for him.

Never mind what kind of abilities Shen Hui had. Just the fact that he was an Awakened

meant he was destined for far greater success than a Common person.

After all, Common people still made up the majority of this world's population.

That made being an Awakened a prestigious status.

Naturally, Common people wanted to curry favor with the Awakened.

At once, all the old men and women crowded around him.

"Xiao Hui, do you remember my granddaughter? She's about your age. How would you like me to introduce you?"

"My Xiao Yuan is two years younger than Xiao Hui. Wouldn't she be even better?"

"Is your girl as pretty as mine? Xiao Hui, how about Aunt Wang introducing my daughter to you?"

"If you're not interested in her, what about Aunt Wang herself?"

"Xiao Hui, if you don't like girls, my boy could work too!"

Shen Hui immediately squeezed his way out and sprinted home without looking back.

"This is ridiculous! They're getting more and more ridiculous. How come none of them were ever this enthusiastic before?"

Back in his rented room, Shen Hui breathed a sigh of relief.

The people living here were all poor Common folk who naturally wanted to change their fate, so they'd immediately set their sights on Shen Hui's status as an Awakened.

"Looks like I have to move out of here."

That strengthened Shen Hui's resolve to move.

But there was no rush today. Shen Hui opened the supply box that had been delivered.

Inside were several bottles of potion, a few cards, and a gemstone.

Shen Hui checked the contents. Everything was there.

He immediately used his world power to store everything away.

Then Shen Hui immersed his mind in his world and began examining what the items did.

[World Origin Potion*2]

[Quality: Intermediate]

[Effect: After consumption, grants 250 units of World Origin Power]

[Terrain Construction Card*1]

[Quality: Advanced]

[Effect: After use, reshapes the terrain within a five-kilometer radius]

[Time Flow Rate Card*1]

[Quality: Advanced]

[Effect: After use, affects the flow of time in the world. It can fast-forward up to five years or halt time for up to five years]

[Scenario Progression Card*1]

[Quality: Advanced]

[Effect: After use, simulates an event that can occur in the world if the conditions are met. The creator decides whether the event's outcome is applied to the world]

[World Origin Core Crystal*1]

[Quality: Advanced]

[Effect: After use, stabilizes the world's origin and increases the speed of the world's development]

Shen Hui understood what all these items did at a glance.

The last two were the most unusual: the Scenario Progression Card and the World Origin Core Crystal.

As Shen Hui understood it, the Scenario Progression Card was like an extra chance to draw a prize.

For example, suppose Shen Hui had a treasure chest with a 50% chance of containing a reward.

If Shen Hui used the Scenario Progression Card and the simulation showed that he would get a reward,

he could make that outcome real.

If the simulation didn't yield a reward, he could still open the chest himself afterward.

So this card was incredibly rare and powerful.

The World Origin Core Crystal was just as rare and powerful.

The World Origin Core was the foundation of a world's structure.

Improving the World Origin Core was equivalent to increasing the world's potential.

It could be said that these two items weren't just invaluable to Common people like Shen Hui, who had no status.

They were also impossible to buy, even for those great families.

Shen Hui guessed that he'd received these two items because of his ranking and his record-breaking achievement.

Shen Hui first used the two intermediate World Origin Potions and the one low-grade potion.

After he consumed them, his world began to absorb and refine the three bottles of World Origin Potion.

Shen Hui gained 650 units of World Origin Power. Adding the 100 he already had brought the total to 750!

Having World Origin Power didn't mean he could use it without limit to create things.

He had to take his world's level into account, or it wouldn't be able to withstand it.

Shen Hui's world had already reached level two, so he could spend those 750 units freely.

Shen Hui then used the World Origin Core Crystal.

As his world began refining it, a sphere of light appeared within his world.

Its white light quickly dimmed.

In its place, black light began to shine.

It was now the same color as Shen Hui's world.

The World Origin Core Crystal had transformed to match Shen Hui's world, becoming the corresponding World Origin.

And Shen Hui's world was naturally a Death World.

A thick aura of death began to spread throughout the world.

The world, which had already been bleak and cold, became even bleaker and colder.

For creatures like Sadako, who Shen Hui had created and who didn't need life but survived on negative energy and the aura of death,

this was incredibly exciting.

But Shen Hui was a little dumbfounded.

"Holy crap, if I keep improving my world like this, won't that make it even harder for life to appear in it or survive?"

Shen Hui's plan had been to figure out how to transform his world

so that humans could live in it and the strange tales and ghosts he created could spread,

allowing the world to develop and grow stronger on its own.

But using the World Origin Core Crystal had made the aura of death and negative energy in the Death World even denser.

And if Shen Hui kept upgrading his world, it would definitely lead to the same result.

After all, death was at the core of Shen Hui's world.

Thinking of this, Shen Hui felt a little distressed.

"Could my world really be unable to make that breakthrough? Do I have to rely on creating everything myself?"

"You're bound to run into limitations later on!"

"If only there were some way to keep them separate."

Shen Hui muttered to himself, but just then, an idea suddenly occurred to him.

He immediately looked excited. "Separate them-haha! Of course! I just have to keep them separate!"