134: Chapter 132 The Anomaly in the Sequence War Ranking
"Enter the Karmic Trading Realm, click on the food god shrine, place the dishes you've prepared on it, and select 'direct conversion.' It will score it based on how delicious it is, and the score will be your karma points. It's that simple."
"You can also choose not to convert it and instead list it for sale at a price you set yourself."
"Lijuan, this is the path Fate Master has opened for us ordinary people who can't fight monsters."
Li Xiulian's voice choked up.
"Who says we're useless? Who says we can only rely on others' charity of sea beast meat to accumulate karma points?"
"If I cook for a day—even if I only earn half of the karma points I just made—that's over a hundred karma points of income in a month. It's enough to trade for Bronze Grade weapons and armor for my daughter and husband, and I won't have to worry about the dangers they face when encountering sea beasts all day long."
"Lijuan, you have to realize that those Bronze Grade Survivors in the team, who risk their lives to kill sea beasts, only make this much in a month. Some even make less than us."
"Lijuan, I remember you're also a good cook..."
The other end of the phone was silent for a long time.
"...Wait for me," Zhang Lijuan suddenly said.
"Wait for you to do what?"
"I'm going to borrow a pot."
"No, time waits for no one. Lijuan, the food I made only achieved such high deliciousness because I used seasonings. Right now, we need to use all our karma points to exchange for seasonings on the trading platform, otherwise, we definitely won't be able to buy them later."
"This... okay, I trust you."
Zhang Lijuan also knew how to cook, and she wasn't actually stupid; naturally, she understood the meaning behind Li Xiulian's brief words.
If what Li Xiulian told her and showed her was true, then in no time, the spices on the Fate Platform would skyrocket in price, or even be bought out, leaving none for sale.
Then the taste of the food they made would certainly be inferior, and they wouldn't be able to get high scores. They had to seize the opportunity to earn more.
And what happened between Li Xiulian and Zhang Lijuan was just one of many microcosms of the Yanhuang Civilization Survivors still active across the Magic Sea.
Countless Survivors who were originally ordinary and not good at fighting suddenly discovered that they could also contribute to themselves, their families, and their teams by earning karma points. Relying on this food god shrine, they were no longer the dispensable existences they once were, and many wept with joy.
Meanwhile, on the trading platform, those expensive spices and seasonings that were once listed in large quantities but rarely attracted any interest were being sold off one by one.
After the food god shrine opened, Yang Hang didn't pay any more attention to it. Instead, he let his Divided Soul, which was monitoring the Fate Platform, keep a silent watch, letting it develop on its own.
Yang Hang turned his attention to something else he hadn't originally paid much mind to: the Sequence War.
It had been over an hour since it opened. He casually clicked on the points leaderboard for the Faction Sequence Battle.
The leaderboard expanded.
[Faction Sequence Battle · 5v5 · Real-time Points Leaderboard]
[1st Place: Yanhuang Civilization · Wall of Despair, Wins: 53]
[2nd Place: Yanhuang Civilization · Lucky Squad, Wins: 51]
[3rd Place: Stars and Stripes · Freedom Falcon, Wins: 50]
[4th Place: Teuton · Iron Cross, Wins: 49]
[5th Place: Fog City · Red Dragon Knights, Wins: 49]
[6th Place: Winter Palace Guard, Wins: 48]
[7th Place: Tianzhu · Hand of Brahma, Wins: 48]
[8th Place: Gaul · Rose Iron Cavalry, Wins: 47]
[9th Place: Southern Cross, Wins: 47]
[10th Place: Hebrew · Solomon's Ring, Wins: 46]
Yang Hang scanned it. First and second were both Yanhuang Civilization, but third through tenth were all foreign civilizations. The win counts were neck and neck, with only one or two matches difference between adjacent positions, and some were even tied.
This wasn't surprising. The top ten were all elite teams with Gold Tier combat power. As long as they didn't match against each other in the early stages, the other opponents were basically one-shot kills for them. Playing around fifty matches in over an hour was normal.
It was also reasonable that the gap couldn't widen—they were all playing at the same ceiling, so it came down to hand speed and matchmaking intervals.
Yang Hang continued to scroll down. The problem started after the top ten.
Within the top one hundred teams, the number of Yanhuang Camp teams dropped off a cliff.
Between the eleventh and one-hundredth place, foreign civilization teams accounted for nearly seventy percent.
Stars and Stripes, Teuton, Fog City, and Polar Bear each had over a dozen teams clustered in the twenty to eighty range, while the thirty percent of Yanhuang teams didn't occupy the top spots either; instead, they were scattered between eleventh and one-hundredth place, and even the eleventh place was not a Yanhuang Civilization team.
Yang Hang frowned. Logically, among more than two hundred factions, it was already very strong for a single faction like the Yanhuang Civilization to occupy dozens of spots in the top one hundred.
But behind this track record were the various exaggerated functions of the Fate Platform and the recently concluded Yanhuang Top 1000 Conference as endorsements.
In his vision, the Yanhuang Civilization had to occupy at least half of the top one hundred to be considered qualified. And this was the result?
In the rankings from one hundred to one thousand, Yang Hang did see all the teams from the Yanhuang Top 1000 Conference.
It's just that the rankings were still mediocre, and some teams were even being firmly suppressed by foreign civilization teams.
It wasn't until after one thousand that the team sequences were basically dominated by the Yanhuang Civilization.
Although most of the Yanhuang population participated in the Individual Sequence Contest first, with a massive base of over a billion, the number of Yanhuang Civilization teams participating in the Faction Sequence Battle was still as high as hundreds of thousands.
But none of this was important. Yang Hang had a big doubt in his heart at this moment: could it be that the wild-growing Silver Grade powerhouses of foreign civilizations were really that strong?
Could Yanhuang Civilization Survivors, armed with large batches of Silver Grade equipment and supported by the Fate Platform, only reach a stalemate or a state of mutual contention with them?
Was there really such a huge gap between powerhouses grown in a greenhouse and the desperate outlaws who fought their way out of a dark forest?
He didn't understand!
Yang Hang continued to scroll to the Individual Sequence Contest leaderboard.
[Individual Sequence Contest · Real-time Points Leaderboard]
[1st Place: Hans Weber (Teuton), Wins: 61]
[2nd Place: Yuri Volkov (Polar Bear), Wins: 59]
[3rd Place: Lin Ke (Yanhuang Civilization), Wins: 57]
[4th Place: Elena Rossi (Gaul), Wins: 56]
[5th Place: David Thompson (Stars and Stripes), Wins: 55]
[6th Place: Ding Lanling (Yanhuang Civilization), Wins: 54]
[7th Place: Matsumoto Yuto (Fusang), Wins: 53]
[8th Place: Chen Hai (Yanhuang Civilization), Wins: 52]
[9th Place: Muller (Teuton), Wins: 52]
[10th Place: Ivan Petrov (Polar Bear), Wins: 51]
This leaderboard still didn't look good. There were only three Yanhuang Survivors in the top ten.
Yang Hang scrolled down. Within the top one hundred, there were thirty Yanhuang Survivors. Although they were distributed across the top, middle, and bottom, showing a state of contention, there was a faint feeling of exhaustion.