Chapter 227: Tier Separation
Regardless, this significantly boosted the speed at which he could complete many simple tasks. Less than twenty minutes after connecting to the supercomputer, he had once again completed the modification and optimization of a Spirit Art structure.
"It's just a pity that its functions are too powerful; it places a considerable burden on the body. While it has no effect on me, ordinary people using it directly would undoubtedly be suicidal."
When Bai Mo was researching the information interaction device, he also referenced a lot of VR-related research materials, as the two shared numerous commonalities, both involving information transmission between a biological entity and a computer.
After successfully manufacturing a finished product of this conduction cabin, he would only need to make corresponding adjustments to the equipment parameters, such as power, and then convert the signals output by the computer into visual, auditory, and tactile signals that ordinary people could accept and process. A fully functional VR Helmet would then be unveiled.
"Placing the core computing server in Tian Qiong City, and ensuring personal terminals don't have thought acceleration effects, should prevent too much burden on ordinary people's bodies."
"This supercomputer is already perfectly sufficient for all current mental operations. I can now prepare to begin the true plan."
With all core issues resolved, in less than two days, Bai Mo cobbled together a simple yet extremely expensive virtual reality helmet.
It was simple because most of its input and output devices were ordinary components casually bought on the market, not at all on the same level as the supercomputer it connected to.
And it was expensive because it was directly connected to the supercomputer host behind it.
This "helmet," with hardware worth over a billion, still lacked a core at this point: a virtual reality simulation engine to bring everything to life.
"Combat Power Assessment Center..." Bai Mo muttered to himself as he rapidly wrote the source program.
Using his thoughts, at a speed exceeding fifty lines per second, he inputted the core code for the software he was about to release into this supercomputer, which possessed terrifying simulation and computing power.
Then, Bai Mo debugged and experienced the world he had designed.
"As expected, a team of artists is still needed..." He lamented resignedly from within the conduction cabin, looking at the abstract-style buildings he had sketched out in the software.
Under Chen Xi's arrangements, a top-tier team from the industry was invited to Tian Qiong City, the core city Bai Mo envisioned for the Spirit Energy Network project after its first phase was complete.
"Your mission is to construct this virtual reality world to be sufficiently realistic." Bai Mo, who rarely appeared in person, materialized in an office in Tian Qiong City.
"Virtual reality? Sir, do you mean you already have a product ready for market launch?" The perceptive team leader of the art department immediately realized this.
"I've basically encapsulated the code; the rest is your work." Bai Mo produced a project plan, on which he had written his current ideas and requirements.
"Could we experience this VR world you've set up first?" Everyone present was quite excited to hear this. A game that could afford to hire their top-tier art team for such a large sum of money was certainly no small production.
"Terminals for ordinary people have only just begun ordering for production." Bai Mo didn't say another word and simply vanished from the office.
"My apologies, everyone, but the boss's personality is just like that..." Chen Xi, who was in charge of the handover, could only come out to smooth things over.
"No worries, no worries, we all understand. Geniuses are always a bit eccentric." The team leader chuckled, gently patting the young man behind him whose expression was not so good.
"Please keep your work confidential for now."
"Of course, we certainly adhere to professional ethics."
"Then, I'll leave it to you."
"Certainly."
After Chen Xi left, the atmosphere in the office immediately became lively.
"I can't believe that beautiful streamer is actually that eccentric's assistant. What a waste."
Ever since Chen Xi was promoted to be a streamer last time, her popularity had skyrocketed, but being entirely unconcerned with money, she directly declined all advertising invitations.
"They're rich and powerful. Who knows, maybe she's just someone who has secretaries do all their work. What does it matter if he's a bit eccentric? Let's just get to work. This job looks quite complicated." An experienced modeler said.
"You bunch of rascals, do you really not know who he is?" The art team leader clearly knew a lot.
"Boss, don't keep us in suspense. You're the only Ability User here. How would us mortals know about things from your circle..." The people around him teased.
"He is one of the colossal pillars of the entire Huaxia. He could crush us with a single thought. It would be abnormal for him to be polite." The team leader stated solemnly.
Within the Huaxia Ability User community, Bai Mo's reputation was actually quite high, not only because of his own power but also because many of the materials appearing in the Contribution Points system bore his name.
And this was even after he had anonymously published a portion of the materials.
The first basic reference material for most Ability Users' cultivation was also his work. Influenced by him, some even recognized anonymously published materials as Bai Mo's work based on his writing style.
As a pioneer, in terms of sharing ideas, he was even more famous than Mo, Li, Hua, and Lei, the four who publicly released the Martial Edict.
However, for ordinary people who couldn't cultivate, their only common ground with Bai Mo should have been the Ten Thousand Phantoms Sutra, a scripture that theoretically anyone could cultivate. They wouldn't waste their precious Contribution Points to purchase cultivation experiences that were meaningless to them.
But precisely because the Ten Thousand Phantoms Sutra he released was unsigned, few people knew it was also his work, leading to Bai Mo's low public recognition.
"Combat power and life tiers do not necessarily match. A monkey learning to pull a trigger can also kill someone. This is one of the reasons why killing opponents above one's own rank frequently appears in various novels."
As the main creator of the current ranking system, Bai Mo naturally didn't have much fondness for defeating higher-tiered enemies, because this was, in effect, an invisible slap to the face for the power-tiering system he had established.
Perhaps those who could transcend tiers to defeat opponents were still extremely rare, but he believed that with the passage of time, constantly improved and innovated cultivation methods would grant more Ability Users of the next generation the ability to defeat those predecessors who cultivated simpler methods.
In that case, the single-tier system he had established would likely require repeated troublesome reforms to constantly adapt to the arrival of new eras.
Thus, an idea sparked within him: to separate life tiers from combat power tiers. A change in life tier, like from the Spirit Animation Stage to the Life Field Stage, should not be directly linked to combat power.
He planned to utilize the soon-to-be-built VR system and existing machine learning algorithms to create a platform purely for assessing combat power.
In his vision, combat power would be divided into numerical tiers, simply marked as First Tier, Second Tier, and so on, to facilitate future extensions and allow for a straightforward comparison of the combat power of cultivators who walked different paths.
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