Wu Pifu carefully washed his hands, then devoutly prayed to all the sacred beings he knew, including but not limited to the Jade Emperor, various constellations, Marshal Tian Peng, Bi Ma Wen... Odin, Valkyrie... Zeus, Athena... God, Jesus... and so on and so forth.
He even prayed to his parents from several hundred years ago.
Bless him so he can draw something useful and good, preferably a transcendental cultivation method similar to Tiger Demon Skill. A Dream World from a benchmark reality 0.7, the transcendental cultivation methods inside are not comparable to Tiger Demon Skill!
After doing all this, under Qiū Qiū's tilted head and puzzled gaze, Wu Pifu initiated the Dream World full random draw, locking the World range to the late Northern Song period, benchmark reality 0.7, where he established his Sanctuary.
There were no sound or light effects, nor any large light spheres or similar things; a very ordinary item directly appeared before Wu Pifu.
Was that a worn-out conch with seaweed attached?
What the heck!
Wu Pifu was about to angrily smash this conch.
However, this is normal. With a full random draw, it's normal even to draw a lump of dirt. On the contrary, drawing his Tiger Demon Skill was truly a miracle. But some Seniors have mentioned that for a newcomer's first Sanctuary draw, it seems the Mainframe gives special consideration?
Wu Pifu held the conch, unsure whether to throw it away or keep it, but he still subconsciously used the Mainframe to appraise it.
"magic conch."
"From the land of ******..., it possesses strange power. By questioning it, you can receive answers, which may be correct, may be wrong, may be useful, may be useless..."
"Can be questioned once every twenty-four hours."
Wu Pifu stood dumbfounded for a moment, examining the conch repeatedly, his inner thoughts practically bursting forth.
With the magic conch here, is SpongeBob SquarePants far behind!?
Could it be that the information in the Mainframe's jumbled code suggests this thing is from the unspeakable SpongeBob's underwater world!?
Wu Pifu looked at the conch shell in his hand with an uncertain expression. After thinking for a long time, he still said to the conch, "Conch, what should I do next to safely get through this 'Terminal'?"
After waiting for a long time, the conch shell remained motionless. Wu Pifu looked at the conch shell in surprise.
The Mainframe displayed its characteristics, proving it was no ordinary item. So, his method of questioning must be wrong... Must he say the full name?
"Ahem, magic conch, what should I do next to safely get through this 'Terminal'?" Wu Pifu asked with a slight sense of shame.
The conch shell actually began to tremble slightly, and then a low, female voice mixed with the sound of waves emerged from the conch shell.
"Live on."
Wu Pifu immediately said with pleasant surprise, "That's right, live through this 'Terminal'! No pro... What the heck, no problem! I knew I had to live on!!"
It seems he randomly drew a valuable piece of junk...
Wu Pifu reluctantly put down the magic conch. Although it was junk, it was at least a magical item. He would see if he could sell it in the Dream World later.
After using the draw, the next step was attribute enhancement.
This was the reward given by the Level Two Sanctuary.
So far, Wu Pifu knew what the rewards for Level One to Level Four Sanctuaries were. His Seniors had told him that, supposedly, someone had established a Level Three Sanctuary before, but not in their sector, rather by maintenance personnel in another sector of Gaia. Unfortunately, they couldn't be contacted now, and he didn't know if that strong person who established the Level Three Sanctuary was also dead.
By establishing a Level One Sanctuary, you could know what the reward for a Level Two Sanctuary was; the Mainframe would provide hints.
What Wu Pifu knew currently was that a Level One Sanctuary would grant one full random draw from the Dream World where the Sanctuary was located. You might obtain a stone, a lump of dirt, or possibly a treasured item of that Dream World, or even the supreme treasure of that Dream World. Since it was completely random, you basically got useless junk most of the time.
A Level Two Sanctuary would grant one attribute enhancement. This attribute enhancement allows you to choose any physical attribute and promote it by one Rank, but this attribute must be one that the Mainframe has appraised, meaning an attribute that can be displayed in the Mainframe.
This is essentially the datafication of Human information, but only in its embryonic form. You must establish a Level Three Sanctuary for character information to be fully datafied. One option is within the World where the Level Three Sanctuary is established, and the other is to choose another World for information datafication. Wu Pifu had already decided that if he established a Level Three Sanctuary, the first World he would choose would definitely be the real World.
Before this, currently within Gaia, only some of Wu Pifu's attributes were semi-datafied.
"Wu Pifu."
"Level One Maintenance Personnel."
"Physical Body Rank One, Soul Rank One, Inspiration Rank One."
"National Arts: Bright Force, Tiger Demon Skill: Entering the Hall."
This is the information that Wu Pifu could currently display. Among these, Physical Body, Soul, and Inspiration all had a small '+' sign, indicating they could be clicked to open, but they couldn't be opened now. This was a sign of insufficient datafication.
As for attribute enhancement, it could enhance everything currently displayed except for his name, including Level One Maintenance Personnel. After being promoted by one Rank, it would become Level Two Maintenance Personnel, possessing more permissions, equivalent to the total permissions of ten Level One Maintenance Personnel. Once he enhanced this, he could open some blocked passages.
According to his Seniors, if a Level Three Maintenance Personnel were to be enhanced by another Rank, they would become a Level One Citizen. Permissions would immediately undergo a qualitative change. Not only could they open most passages, but citizens could also directly use some Gaia projects that maintenance personnel could not, such as the cyborg customization service. Of course, you would first have to go to the cyborg factory.
As for the other options, they were as displayed literally. Physical Body represented physical strength. Rank One was the level of an ordinary Human. Rank Two immediately saw all strengths surge, almost equivalent to a full-attribute 21st century Olympic champion, meaning running as fast as Usain Bolt, having boxing power on the same level as Mike Tyson, and Peak Human physical abilities in high jump, weightlifting, nerve reaction speed, and so on.
It is said that all citizens are automatically adjusted to have optimized genes at birth, meaning all citizens are born with Rank Two physical bodies.
As for Soul and such, Wu Pifu wasn't very clear. And Inspiration... This thing could actually be enhanced too? But no one would probably choose to enhance it.
Besides basic life attributes, learned skills could also be enhanced.
These were National Arts and Tiger Demon Skill, which were actually different classifications.
The Ranks of National Arts were Bright Force, Dark Strength, and Transformation for external cultivation Ranks, and Golden Core, Astral Qi, and Guoshu Realm of Reaching God and Not Decaying for internal cultivation Ranks. This was a classification of overall strength.
While Tiger Demon Skill was a National Art, its levels here represented the proficiency and depth of cultivation of Tiger Demon Skill. These were Initial Threshold, Entering the Hall, Sublime Mastery, Peak of Perfection, and Supreme Manifestation, five Ranks in total. This did not represent your strength level, but rather the depth of your cultivation proficiency.
These were all the options Wu Pifu could currently enhance.
He already had a plan in mind, but what truly concerned him was the description from the Mainframe during the enhancement reward.
"You have received a reward of one personal attribute increase by one level (non-breakthrough)."
Since there was non-breakthrough, did that mean there was breakthrough enhancement?
Breaking through the limit?
This thought was quite profound.
This was the reward given by the Level Two Sanctuary, the Level Three Sanctuary provided an information interface, and the Level Four Sanctuary was awesome.
Specified item acquisition from the World where the Level Four Sanctuary is located!
It directly gives you any item in this World where you are located. As long as you specify it, you can obtain it directly!
Even the supreme treasure of that World. If there was a Primordial World from a novel, you could even obtain Hongjun's Creation Jade Plate!!
As for what a Level Five Sanctuary rewarded, Wu Pifu didn't know, but since there was non-breakthrough attribute enhancement, perhaps a Level Five Sanctuary offered breakthrough attribute enhancement. Of course, it could also be something else.
To date, Wu Pifu only knew that the highest Sanctuary was Level Five. Whether there were Level Six, Level Seven, etc., he was completely unaware at the moment.
Immediately, Wu Pifu directly said, "Mainframe, use attribute enhancement, specify Tiger Demon Skill."
"Use one personal attribute increase by one level (non-breakthrough) reward, specified enhancement option is Tiger Demon Skill. Confirm?"
"Confirm."
The next moment, Wu Pifu seemed to fall into that seemingly real, seemingly illusory heavy dream again. In the boundless void, he roared and howled, his entire being already sinking into madness.
But just then, a crimson tiger roared out and came before the mad Wu Pifu. This crimson tiger was incredibly huge; Wu Pifu only reached the height of its paw's toes. A surge of frantic blood-red color spread out, and he trembled all over. Then the crimson tiger lowered its head, its blood-red tiger eyes meeting Wu Pifu's gaze.
The next moment, Wu Pifu's body trembled as he continuously retreated. In his senses, the frantic blood-red color seemed to linger, almost driving his entire mind insane. But the point of Immortal Spirit Light in his consciousness suddenly expanded, its magnitude increasing by at least tenfold. No matter how the frantic thoughts surged in his mind, this point of Immortal Spirit Light remained unshaken, suppressing everything. Gradually, Wu Pifu's mind calmed down.
This wasn't because his mind was free of distracting and demonic thoughts; on the contrary, these thoughts increased severalfold. However, the Immortal Spirit Light surged by more than tenfold, completely suppressing these distracting and demonic thoughts, allowing his mind to become calm. The effect of self-awareness on his Physical Body and consciousness increased by more than tenfold!
Wu Pifu silently perceived the changes in his Physical Body and mind, and then he subconsciously began to practice his punches.
Wind-Walking Tiger Steps, Mad Tiger Leaping into the Ravine, Tiger Demon Claw, Turning Tail...
Various Tiger Demon Skill practice methods and combat techniques were demonstrated one by one by his hands. He continued to demonstrate and fight in this seemingly real, seemingly illusory state for at least ten minutes, and then he struck a broken wooden table among the maintenance station's miscellaneous items with his palm.
Silently, he didn't even smash the not-so-sturdy wooden table with one palm strike. However, when he lifted his hand, a palm print was imprinted on the wooden table's surface, sunken into the wood by more than three fen, yet not damaging the surrounding wood.
"Dark Strength! Success!"
Wu Pifu exhaled a puff of white air. This puff of white air shot out like an arrow for a distance of one zhang before slowly dissipating.
As expected, the information displayed by the Mainframe showed that Wu Pifu's attributes had changed.
"National Arts: Dark Strength, Tiger Demon Skill: Sublime Mastery."
The random draw was used, the attribute enhancement was used. Wu Pifu looked at the buddha mud before him. After thinking about it, he decided not to use it immediately. He planned to wake up five maintenance personnel first. After all, one more person meant one more layer of care. If he had any rejection reactions after using the buddha mud, these newcomers could send him into the medical pod. Otherwise, if he were alone and had a rejection reaction, he wouldn't even be able to get into the medical pod, which would truly be a great injustice.
Next, Wu Pifu returned to the hibernation pod chamber. He looked up and said, "Mainframe, use five awakening qualifications."
"Five maintenance personnel awakening. Confirm?"
"Confirm."
As his voice fell, the metal foundation of the hibernation pods partially shifted. Hibernation pods rose from the metal floor, five units in total, and then they began to open one by one.
After the hibernation pods opened, first a middle-aged man walked out of a pod, then a young woman with a full figure, followed by a man who appeared slightly gentle, and then a youth who looked only fifteen or sixteen years old. And from the fifth hibernation pod...
Dozens of dark tentacles stretched outwards. The youth closest to it was still in a state of confusion and was immediately entangled by these dozens of tentacles, directly pulled towards the fifth hibernation pod.
With a horrifying crunching sound...
The youth's head, with wide eyes, rolled out from the fifth hibernation pod.
