Chapter 1769 - 350: The Transformation of the Heart of Terra

Chapter 1769: Chapter 350: The Transformation of the Heart of Terra

With the relationship between Ian and Adalbert, neither of them needed any pleasantries or unnecessary communication to begin working directly.

However, during the summary process of heading to the Domain of Void, Adalbert still reported his recent work to Ian.

Lately, Adalbert, with virtually unlimited funds, has been conducting comprehensive research on the Arcane Pathway.

He is not particularly interested in pure combat strength but is greatly concerned about the improvement of livelihoods brought about by ’Sublimation Power’.

Possessing power leads to a tendency for violence; simply put, when you have a hammer in hand, everything appears as a nail.

With the widespread adoption of Meditation Technique, many ’crimes’ that were previously impossible have emerged in Silver Peak Domain.

For instance, using powerful computation and observation abilities to spy on others’ passwords, or using awakened Soul Perception to peep into others’ surface thoughts for fraud, and employing Spirit Energy to forcibly charm others into acquiring property, among others...

As Meditation Technique becomes prevalent and the distinction in soul power becomes apparent, some ’early adopters’ begin to use their strength for greater gain.

While a small number adhere to morals and laws, maintaining their limits, there are still some who are happy to wield their power at will.

In response, Scott, as the supervisor, posed a requirement to Adalbert, hoping to develop technologies to ’curtail the misuse of power’ and ’quickly identify criminals’.

Adalbert gladly accepted and swiftly achieved preliminary results.

Firstly, to address the need for ’technology that can quickly identify criminals’, Adalbert developed a detection Spirit Energy which he named ’Order Detection’.

This Spirit Energy can use the ’releaser’s’ mindset as a template to determine whether everyone within the scanning range abides by the ’order’ in the releaser’s mind.

Those who abide are encompassed by Spirit Energy, emitting a blue light.

Those who do not abide exceed the order framework, emitting a red light.

It sounds very vague, very chaotic, very subjective. Using this Spirit Energy for detection can at most identify individuals whose worldviews clash with the releaser’s.

After all, everyone’s morals differ, and a consensus on what order entails is entirely unattainable.

However, Silver Peak Domain possesses the ’Soul Sensing’ technology.

After developing this Spirit Energy application technique, Adalbert further improved it, cleverly changing the ’mind template’ from the releaser to the legal standards within Heart of Terra regarding ’compliance’.

As long as it’s within the range of Heart of Terra, anyone who hasn’t complied with Silver Peak Domain laws, or even those who perceive themselves as non-compliant, will emit a red light under Order Detection.

In this way, under the scan, blue light indicates compliance, while red light signifies a definite violation of some regulation.

Although there will certainly be some errors, such as people misunderstanding Silver Peak Domain’s laws and perceiving themselves as criminals leading to their capture, or someone making a malicious joke and reflecting later with self-guilt causing red light emission.

But currently, Silver Peak Domain doesn’t require one hundred percent accuracy; capturing the majority of those with erroneous thinking for re-education suffices.

As for ’curbing the improper use of power’... this aspect is actually quite challenging.

Because Ian and others intended to develop the Arcane Pathway so that people have power and then use it—they designed this system precisely for ’supernatural powers’ to be ’misused’.

Therefore, the objective became ’how to ensure the misuse of power doesn’t harm others’.

After communicating with Green Tide, Adalbert decided to directly begin with refining Life Spirit Energy.

They decided to refine some widespread Meditation Technique and Life Spirit Energy Refinement Method, enabling everyone to possess higher Spirit Energy resistance and defense capacity while reducing cultivators’ active harming abilities.

Humans have power, and they will want to use it; it’s like when someone has a good stick, they’ll certainly wave it—suppressing this instinct is meaningless, better to sever it directly from another source.

That is, no consequences will result from usage.

As long as everyone’s Spirit Energy resistance and defense capacity obtained through cultivation exceed the power gained post-cultivation, then no matter their fights or mutual harm, it won’t endanger lives, allowing Silver Peak Domain’s enforcement teams to arrive on scene timely.

However, this Meditation Technique and Refinement Method is still in development and currently just a theory.

Additionally, Ian granted virtually unlimited funding to Adalbert mainly hoping he could replicate ’Crown Prince Carlos’ Spirit Energy and perfect the sharing platform.

This aspect turned out surprisingly simple.

All People of Silverpeak possess Artificial Souls inherently linked to Heart of Terra—this is the source code designed by Ian and Adalbert.

In other words, Heart of Terra can entirely act as a platform, allowing everyone to exchange knowledge, emotions, and ideas mutually.

But ultimately, Heart of Terra is just a simulation; the connection between People of Silverpeak and Heart of Terra isn’t like the ’Shared Dream’ between Carlos and his companions. Therefore, such knowledge exchange is extremely slow, capacity very low, and scope limited to within Silver Peak Domain, becoming ineffective upon departure.

Moreover, several participating experimenters experienced confused personalities after exchanging knowledge... this horrifying result prompted Adalbert to immediately halt the experiment and decide to alter the direction.