Wu Pifu carefully washed his hands, then sincerely prayed to all the deities he knew, including but not limited to the Jade Emperor, the various celestial constellations, Marshal Tianpeng, Bi Ma Wen...
Odin, Valkyries...
Zeus, Athena...
God, Jesus... and so on and so forth.
He even prayed to his parents from hundreds of years ago.
He hoped to draw out a useful good item, preferably something extraordinary like the Tiger Demon Technique, a dream world with a baseline reality of 0.7, where the extraordinary techniques were far beyond what the Tiger Demon Technique could compare to!
After doing all this, under the puzzled gaze of Jiujui, who tilted its head, Wu Pifu activated the dream world’s full random lottery, locking the world range to the baseline reality of 0.7 during the late Northern Song Dynasty, where he had established his sanctuary.
There were no sound or light effects, nor any large glowing spheres; an extremely ordinary object appeared directly in front of Wu Pifu.
It was a worn-out seashell with seaweed attached?
What the hell!
Wu Pifu was about to angrily smash the seashell.
However, this was normal; in a full random lottery, even drawing a piece of dirt would be normal.
On the contrary, it was truly miraculous that he had drawn the Tiger Demon Technique! However, some seniors had mentioned that for newcomers, the main brain seemed to pay special attention during the first sanctuary lottery?
Wu Pifu held the seashell, unsure whether to throw it away or keep it.
Nevertheless, he subconsciously used the main brain to identify the seashell.
“Miraculous Seashell.”
“From ******... land, possessing unique powers. By asking it questions, answers can be obtained, possibly correct, possibly incorrect, possibly useful, possibly useless…”
“Can be asked once every twenty-four hours.”
Wu Pifu stared blankly for a moment, turning the seashell over and over in his hands, feeling an urge to curse.
Now that he had a Miraculous Seashell, how far could SpongeBob be!?
Could it be that the information in the garbled message from the main brain indicated that this item came from the indescribable underwater world of SpongeBob!?
Wu Pifu looked at the seashell in his hand with a fluctuating expression.
After thinking for a long time, he finally spoke to the seashell: “Seashell, what should I do next to safely get through this ‘week’?”
After waiting for a long time, the seashell remained silent, and Wu Pifu looked at it in surprise.
Since the main brain had displayed its characteristics, it proved that this was no ordinary item, so it must be that his method of inquiry was wrong...
Did he need to say the full name?
“Ahem, Miraculous Seashell, what should I do next to safely get through this ‘week’?” Wu Pifu asked with a hint of embarrassment.
To his surprise, the seashell began to tremble slightly, and then a low, wave-mixed female voice emerged from the seashell.
“Survive.”
Wu Pifu immediately exclaimed in delight: “Right, survive through this ‘week’! No problem... No problem at all! I already know I need to survive!!”
It seemed he had randomly drawn a valuable piece of junk...
Wu Pifu helplessly set down the Miraculous Seashell.
Although it was junk, it was still a magical item.
He would see if he could sell it in the dream world later.
After using the lottery, the next step was to enhance his attributes.
This was the reward given by the second-level sanctuary.
So far, Wu Pifu knew what the rewards for first to fourth-level sanctuaries were.
His seniors had told him that, reportedly, someone had once established a third-level sanctuary, but it was not in their area; it was maintained by personnel from another area of Gaia.
Unfortunately, they could no longer contact them, and he did not know if the powerful person who established the third-level sanctuary was already dead.
Establishing a first-level sanctuary would allow him to know what the rewards for a second-level sanctuary were, as the main brain would provide hints.
Currently, Wu Pifu knew that a first-level sanctuary would grant a full random lottery for the dream world where the sanctuary was located.
He might obtain a stone, a piece of dirt, or perhaps a rare treasure from that dream world, even the supreme treasure of that dream world.
In any case, it was all random, and he would mostly end up with useless junk.
A second-level sanctuary would grant an attribute enhancement, which could increase any physical attribute by one level, but this attribute had to be one that the main brain had determined, meaning it had to be displayed in the main brain.
This was actually the initial form of human information digitization; only by establishing a third-level sanctuary would personal information be fully digitized.
One would be in the world where the third-level sanctuary was established, and the other could choose another world for information digitization.
Wu Pifu had long thought that if he established a third-level sanctuary, the first world he would choose would definitely be the real world.
Before that, now in Gaia, Wu Pifu only had partial attribute digitization.
“Wu Pifu.”
“First-level maintenance personnel.”
“Physical body level one, soul level one, inspiration level one.”
“National Art: Ming Jin, Tiger Demon Technique: Entry Level.”
This was the information Wu Pifu could currently display, and among them, the physical body, soul, and inspiration all had a small plus sign, indicating they could be clicked open.
However, he could not open them now, which showed insufficient digitization.
As for attribute enhancement, it could enhance all currently displayed attributes except for his name, including the first-level maintenance personnel.
After the enhancement, he would become a second-level maintenance personnel, possessing more permissions, equivalent to the total permissions of ten first-level maintenance personnel.
Once he enhanced this, he could unlock some blocked channels.
According to his seniors, if a third-level maintenance personnel enhanced by another level, they would become a first-level citizen, and their permissions would undergo a qualitative change.
Not only could they unlock most channels, but some Gaia projects that maintenance personnel could not use would also be directly accessible to citizens, such as customized services for bioengineered humans.
Of course, one must first go to the bioengineering factory.
As for the other options, they were as literally displayed: the physical body represented physical strength, level one was the level of an ordinary person, while level two would cause all strengths to surge, almost equivalent to a twenty-first-century Olympic champion in all attributes, running as fast as Bolt, punching with the strength of Tyson, and reaching the peak of human physicality in high jump, weightlifting, and neural reaction speed.
It was said that all citizens would automatically be adjusted to the most optimized genes at birth, meaning all citizens would have a level two physical body at birth.
As for the soul and inspiration, Wu Pifu was not very clear.
Could inspiration also be enhanced? But it seemed no one would bother enhancing it.
In addition to the basic life attributes, the skills he possessed could also be enhanced.
These included National Art and Tiger Demon Technique, which were actually different classifications.
The levels of National Art were divided into three external skill levels: Ming, An, and Dark, and three internal skill levels: Golden Core, Gang Qi, and Divine Not Damaged.
This was the classification of overall strength.
Although the Tiger Demon Technique was a part of National Art, its levels represented the proficiency and depth of cultivation in the Tiger Demon Technique, divided into five stages: Initial Entry, Entry Level, Transcendence, Peak, and Ultimate Manifestation.
This did not represent one's strength but rather the depth of one's cultivation.
These were all the options Wu Pifu could enhance at present.
He had long had plans in mind, but what truly caught his attention was the description of the main brain's enhancement reward.
“You have received a personal attribute enhancement of one level (non-limit-breaking) reward.”
Since there was a non-limit-breaking, did that mean there was a limit-breaking enhancement?
Breaking through limits?
Just thinking about it was quite profound.
This was the reward given by the second-level sanctuary; the third-level sanctuary would provide an information interface, while the fourth-level sanctuary would be even more impressive.
The fourth-level sanctuary would allow the acquisition of designated items from the world!
It would directly grant any item from the world you were in, as long as you specified it, you could obtain it directly!
Even the supreme item of that world; if there were a world like the Primordial World from novels, you could even obtain Hongjun's Creation Jade Tablet!!
As for what the fifth-level sanctuary rewarded, Wu Pifu did not know, but with the non-limit-breaking attribute enhancement, perhaps the fifth-level sanctuary was for limit-breaking attribute enhancement, of course, it could also be something else.
So far, Wu Pifu only knew that the highest sanctuary was level five; whether there were level six or seven sanctuaries, he was completely unaware.
At that moment, Wu Pifu directly said: “Main brain, use attribute enhancement, designate Tiger Demon Technique.”
“Using one personal attribute enhancement of one level (non-limit-breaking) reward, designated enhancement option is Tiger Demon Technique, confirm?”
“Confirm.”
In the next moment, Wu Pifu seemed to fall into that dream-like reality again, an endless void.
He screamed wildly within it, his entire being had fallen into madness.
But at that moment, a crimson tiger roared out, appearing before the mad Wu Pifu.
This giant red tiger was enormous, with Wu Pifu only reaching its claw tips.
A frenzied blood color spread out, and he trembled all over.
Then the red tiger lowered its head, its blood-red tiger eyes locking onto Wu Pifu's gaze.
In the next moment, Wu Pifu's body trembled as he continuously retreated.
In his perception, that frenzied blood color seemed to linger, almost driving his thoughts to madness.
However, that spark of inspiration in his consciousness suddenly expanded, its magnitude increasing at least tenfold.
No matter how many crazy thoughts surged in his mind, that spark of inspiration remained steadfast, suppressing everything.
Gradually, Wu Pifu's mind calmed down.
This was not because he had no distracting thoughts or demonic thoughts; on the contrary, the distracting and demonic thoughts had multiplied several times.
However, the unyielding spark of inspiration had increased more than tenfold, completely suppressing these distracting and demonic thoughts, allowing his mind to settle.
The self-reflection effect on his physical body and consciousness had improved by more than tenfold!
Wu Pifu silently sensed the changes in his body and mind, and then he subconsciously began to practice his punches.
Wind-Running Tiger Steps, Mad Tiger Pouncing Ravine, Tiger Demon Claw, Reversing Tail...
Various practices and techniques of the Tiger Demon Technique were demonstrated one by one from his hands.
He continued to demonstrate martial arts in this dream-like reality for at least ten minutes, then he struck a damaged wooden table among the miscellaneous items in this maintenance base with one palm.
Silent and without a sound, he did not even break the not-so-sturdy wooden table, but when he lifted his palm, a palm print was left indented into the wood, penetrating three-tenths of an inch, yet not harming the surrounding wood.
“Dark Jin! It worked!”
Wu Pifu exhaled a puff of white air, which shot out like an arrow for a distance of ten feet before slowly dissipating.
Sure enough, the information displayed on the main brain showed that Wu Pifu's attributes had changed.
“National Art: Dark Jin, Tiger Demon Technique: Transcendence.”
The random draw was used, the attribute enhancement was used, and Wu Pifu looked at the Buddha Mud in front of him.
He thought for a moment but did not use it immediately.
He planned to awaken the five maintenance personnel first; after all, having one more person meant one more layer of protection.
If he experienced any adverse reactions after using the Buddha Mud, these newcomers could take him to the medical chamber.
Otherwise, if he were alone and something went wrong, he wouldn't even be able to enter the medical chamber.
That would truly be a grievance.
Then Wu Pifu returned to the sleep chamber.
He looked up and said, “Main brain, use five awakening qualifications.”
“Awakening five maintenance personnel, confirm?”
“Confirm.”
As soon as the words fell, the metallic foundation of the sleep chamber began to move partially.
One by one, the sleep chambers rose from the metallic ground, a total of five, and then they began to open one by one.
After the sleep chambers opened, first, a middle-aged man stepped out, followed by a plump young woman, then a slightly gentle-looking man, followed by a boy who appeared to be only fifteen or sixteen years old.
And from the fifth sleep chamber...
Dozens of dark tentacles stretched out, and the nearest boy, still in a daze, was immediately entangled by these tentacles and pulled directly toward the fifth sleep chamber.
A creepy creaking sound echoed...
The boy's eyes widened in shock as he rolled out from the fifth sleep chamber.
(End of Chapter)