221: Chapter 217 Seven Paths for Professionals

Yang Hang was habitually reviewing the results published on the various leaderboards, considering his recent arrangements for the sunken sea treasure chest.

Over at Alola's, the professional system he had asked her to collect and analyze had already yielded preliminary results.

Combining the data on all Survivors and traded items on the Fate Platform collected over these past days, and supplemented by information from various civilizations gathered while building the Combat Assist System, Alola had finally integrated seven professional paths.

Furthermore, for each path, she had combined ability characteristics to provide a reasonable and common promotion route.

Since these seven professional paths integrated dozens or even hundreds of abilities, Cultivation Techniques, and treasures that had appeared on the Magic Sea, each path's promotion channel currently only existed in theory; actual implementation would still require Yang Hang to deduce them himself.

The life ring virtual projection hovered in front of him, displaying the analysis report on the seven professional paths sent by the Alola Type I intelligent entity.

Yang Hang's fingers slid slowly across the virtual operation screen.

【Mage — With Mental Energy as the core, it governs all power systems related to consciousness, such as elements, arcane arts, telekinesis, summoning, sacrifice, and the occult. Promotion Path: Mental Energy enhancement. Tier division: 1–9】

【Martial Artist — With the Physical Body as the vessel, it integrates all combat systems driven by Qi and blood, such as Body Cultivator, battle bodies, hard qigong, and beastification. Promotion Path: life transition.】

【Qi Practitioner — With energy as the foundation, it integrates power systems that require specific energy execution methods, such as immortal cultivation, magic, Internal Skill, and battle qi. Promotion Path: energy enhancement. Tier division: 1–9】

【Bloodline User — With the Bloodline as the key, it smelts all inheritable Bloodline powers, such as beast blood, ancient blood, and divine blood. Promotion Path: Bloodline enhancement. Tier division: 1–9】

【Esper — With rules as the blade, it targets the single rule talent awakened by the Ability Crystal, achieving ability transition through deep mastery of underlying rules. Promotion Path: rule learning. Tier division: 1–9】

【Mechanist — With the Fusion of flesh and machinery as the path, it follows a special evolutionary route of Physical Body mechanization. Promotion Path: mechanical + flesh Fusion enhancement. Tier division: 1–9】

【Scholar — With brain domain development, Mental Energy Ascension, and genetic technology as a tripod, it supports a self-circulating system of civilizational knowledge and technology. Promotion Path: brain domain expansion + Mental Energy enhancement + genetic transition. Tier division: 1–9】

Seven paths.

The underlying principles for the promotion route of each path were different, with tier divisions set to the common 1–9 tiers.

Tier 1 strength was benchmarked against a Rotten Wood Class Survivor with combat means.

Tier 9 was benchmarked against Yang Hang's current Physical Body level, simply put, star-shattering level.

At this stage, the Gold Tier Survivors of the major civilizations on Earth Star were roughly at the level of Tier 5 to Tier 6 in Yang Hang's strength classification.

Seven paths, each a theoretical framework derived by Alola by combining existing data on the Fate Platform, information on global Survivors collected by the Combat Assist System, and samples of Cultivation Techniques and abilities that appeared in previous sunken sea treasure chests.

Yes, theoretical.

Yang Hang knew very well that putting theory into practice would definitely be quite difficult.

The first six were easier to talk about; the core promotion mechanism for each path was not complicated.

Mage relied on stacking Mental Energy.

Martial Artist relied on tempering the Physical Body.

Qi Practitioner opened up energy execution channels.

Bloodline User purified Bloodline concentration and smelted more Bloodlines to strengthen oneself.

Esper dug deep into the essence of talent rules.

Mechanist researched the technology of flesh and mechanical Fusion; these were essentially problems of "getting stronger."

As long as Yang Hang deduced universal promotion Cultivation Techniques or methods, and cooperated with the continuous supply of resources from the Causality Enhancement Realm, the Yanhuang Civilization could cultivate strong individuals of corresponding professions in batches.

But the Scholar was different.

The core of a Scholar was not getting stronger.

It was "generating knowledge."

A civilization's technological development could not rely forever on the plug-in-like functions of the Fate Platform and Yang Hang himself.

1.4 billion people—no! Counting external civilizations, it was now billions of people. With so many people, if they all relied on the Fate Platform to supply materials, enhancements, and trading, and if Yang Hang had to step in to solve problems whenever they were encountered, and if they relied on Yang Hang to study methods and feed them to their mouths to improve strength, then this civilization would only ever be a parasite living on Yang Hang.

No independent survival capability.

No ability to evolve upward on its own.

It meant no potential for self-civilization.

Such a civilization has no hope.

The Earth Star civilization before the Transmigration had the ability to evolve on its own.

He could not let this ability be lost after migrating to the Magic Sea.

Therefore, the core goal of the Scholar path was to cultivate brain domain evolvers capable of independent scientific research and civilizational construction.

They didn't need to be able to fight; they didn't need extraordinary combat power.

What they needed was—

To be better at thinking!

Better at deduction!

Better at creating!

And the difficulty of realizing this path exceeded the first six.

Because brain domain development belonged to the Physical Body enhancement branch of the Martial Artist path, Mental Energy Ascension belonged to the Mage system, and genetic technology was related to the Mechanist; all three paths had to be opened up simultaneously.

And eventually, they had to converge on a "research" path to getting stronger, similar to the upgrading in immortal cultivation and martial arts, rather than fighting on their own.

This required Yang Hang to autonomously set promotion rules and set restrictions.

Each stage had rigid requirements for brain domain, mental, and genetic indicators. If the standards were not met, the ability would be blocked at the rule level, unable to transition to a higher level.

Or to describe it with two other more commonly understood terms.

Artificial upgrade route!

Artificial promotion Bottleneck!

The Scholar's enhancement system and promotion Bottleneck were all hand-crafted by Yang Hang.

"Tsk, how did this make me seem like one of those behind-the-scenes big bosses in Xuanhuan immortal cultivation novels?" Yang Hang muttered in his heart.

But just as he was thinking about how to reasonably arrange the opening opportunities for the sunken sea treasure chest in the next few days, and making choices between strengthening his own strength and realizing the professional system as quickly as possible—a tremor suddenly came into his consciousness.

At the moment he hesitated, a Magic Sea announcement with a black-red border slammed down.

Yang Hang frowned, his consciousness scanned the Magic Sea announcement, and he had already learned all the information.

The corners of his mouth muttered unconsciously: "Acid Rain Season... so that's it..."

Yang Hang withdrew his mind from the Magic Sea announcement.

Regarding his understanding of the Acid Rain Season, he immediately saw that this was a tier screening aimed at Survivors.

He immediately frowned.

The core of the 30-day Acid Rain Season was to screen out all Rotten Wood Class Survivors and some weak Bronze Grade Survivors.

When he read through this Magic Sea announcement, he actually didn't feel too worried about the Yanhuang Civilization.

He had the strength and confidence to rest assured about the Yanhuang Civilization Survivors he had cultivated to date.

At most, there might be some danger in the Late Stage of the Acid Rain Season, but it was not a big problem; at worst, he would just step in again.

Such an awesome "him" was not such an inconvenient thing; use it if he wanted to.

His frown was mainly focused on the external civilization Survivors.

With the help of the Causality Enhancement Realm, the vast majority of Yanhuang Civilization Survivors had long since swapped their weapons for guns, changing their rotten wood class houseboats into Bronze Grade ones.

However, 80% of the external civilization Survivors still had rotten wood class houseboats.

The sunken sea treasure chest was all about luck, and merit points.

The vast majority of external civilization Survivors had no channels to obtain them.

Yang Hang closed his eyes and connected his consciousness to the Fate Platform Divided Soul.

In an instant, everything happening on the Fate Platform was presented in his mind in a holographic image.

The Acid Rain Season announcement.

It caused a sensation as soon as it was sent out.

The Fate Platform Acid Rain Season topic filled the screen.

Yang Hang didn't have much feeling about everyone's panic and confusion.

At the same time, he was not in a hurry to do anything.

He only used one glance to understand the Magic Sea announcement.

He chose to scroll through the Fate Platform slowly; it was definitely not because he liked to eat melons, but simply because he wanted to understand the current situation of the Survivors.