Chapter 131: Ray Tracing

“Extreme Survival? Civilization Simulation? Bed Wars?”

After absorbing the knowledge orbs Lu Ze threw over, which contained information about various new worlds, the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao’s surrounding light cluster immediately brightened.

These were all rules he had never heard of, or even imagined.

For example, Extreme Survival.

It limited survival conditions: some worlds were filled with blood zombies, some environments were eroded by the Lower Realm, and some simply had only a single dirt block floating in the air.

Plus various difficult challenges.

For instance, increasingly powerful demonic creatures, increasingly harsh environments, increasingly less time...

The Fragment of the Heavenly Dao found it interesting just thinking about it.

It even began to anticipate the Cultivators, knowing the immense difficulties, yet still challenging it at the risk of their lives,

and ultimately dying tragically under various hardships...

However, what excited him the most was Civilization Simulation.

Cultivators were divided into factions, scattered across different regions, developing their respective civilizations.

After the countdown ended, the barrier isolating them was lifted, and multiple civilized forces began to engage in offense and defense.

Under these conditions, it tested both the players’ skills and the unity between the factions.

Thinking of the deceit and treachery arising from human nature,

the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao’s smile grew even more sinister.

As for the last world, called Bed Wars,

it was the most baffling to him.

A battle revolving around a bed?

Resource accumulation, team combat, offense, defense?

Couldn't understand it.

Couldn't understand it at all.

“The first two worlds, I can roughly understand the fun you want to create... but relying solely on them, I’m afraid it won’t be enough to increase the speed by ten or even a hundred times, right?”

The Fragment of the Heavenly Dao bluntly stated his conjecture.

“Extreme Survival” increased difficulty, and “Civilization Simulation” increased the number of participants; both were indeed ways to improve the efficiency of death.

But it wasn't that exaggerated yet.

It was far from reaching the point Lu Ze mentioned, shortening it to within a hundred years.

Lu Ze smiled confidently:

“Don’t worry, the first two are just other pastimes... the real highlight is ‘Bed Wars’.”

In fact, even without the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao, Lu Ze would have created these popular integrated packs from his previous life.

The first two were to expand the player base and increase player retention.

Bed Wars, however, was the ultimate weapon for earning Demonic Path Value.

Simply put, Bed Wars was a team competitive mode.

Players would continuously die and Rebirth during the battles.

This type of game was the ultimate form for harvesting Demonic Path Value once the server was built.

And later on,

if he brought classic FPS modes, MOBA modes, battle royale modes, and tomb raiding modes...

he could level up while lying down.

The Fragment of the Heavenly Dao could also erase Karma while lying down.

Of course,

the freedom in “my world” was almost limitless.

This meant that he could, in fact, bring all the above modes into “my world”.

But Lu Ze didn’t plan to do that.

You have to eat one bite at a time.

For now, one “Bed Wars” would definitely meet the demand for Demonic Path Value.

“Hmph, then I’ll trust you this once... Within a month, I need to see the efficiency you spoke of, capable of shortening it to within a hundred years!”

After a rapid calculation in his mind, the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao finally decided to give a one-month trial period.

“It’s a deal.”

Lu Ze narrowed his eyes, smiling and nodding.

“However, besides the server, there’s one more thing that, if achieved, could further speed things up.”

“What is it?”

“Graphics.”

Lu Ze looked up, saying with a steady gaze.

“You’ve seen the current Illusion Realm graphics; if they can be improved, the Cultivator group participating can be further expanded.”

“How to improve?”

The Fragment of the Heavenly Dao scoffed.

“Are you suggesting this little brat wants me to improve [N O V E L I G H T] his Realm or something?”

“That would be even better if possible.”

“Get lost.”

“Then we’ll just have to find another way.”

Lu Ze hadn't really expected such a good thing; he merely raised his arm, and a primitive wooden block appeared in his palm.

He slightly used his Divine Thought, and the texture of the wooden block optimized at a visible speed.

The grain became clearer, and the texture significantly improved.

Finally, the graphics of this wooden block were so magnificent that they stood out sharply against the surrounding pixelated graphics.

“Oh? Since a block can achieve such a degree, why isn’t the Illusion Realm like this?”

The Fragment of the Heavenly Dao was quite curious.

The currently implemented Illusion Realm, while its blocks were not like the original primitive materials, was still far from this luxurious version.

“My Divine Sense is limited; I cannot apply this material to all blocks.”

Lu Ze honestly explained.

“Heh heh, an ant.”

“...”

Lu Ze pouted, not taking it to heart.

After all, in front of this guy, even the Sect Master of Lingxiao Sect would be called an “ant”.

“If you want to resolve Karma faster, you can provide Cultivators with this material optimization.”

Lu Ze continued.

“Oh? Why should I do such a thankless task?”

The Fragment of the Heavenly Dao retorted.

“Firstly, it’s not a thankless task for you — improved graphics mean an expanded player... no, Cultivator group, and the efficiency of death will increase.”

Lu Ze leisurely held up two fingers.

“Secondly, if you’re worried about too much burden, you can have Cultivators actively supply Spiritual Qi to you while playing, helping you solve energy consumption.”

He had already planned this point.

How could one use the internet without paying for it?

Reasonable!

“Hmm...”

The Fragment of the Heavenly Dao pondered for a moment.

“It sounds feasible.”

“Since you think this suggestion is fine, I have an upgraded option.”

Lu Ze smiled cunningly, then used his Divine Thought again.

A beam of light shot from the direction of the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao towards the wooden block in Lu Ze’s hand.

The light and shadow on the surface of the wood became even more three-dimensional.

Even the water droplets on the branches and leaves had a crystal-clear feeling.

“This...”

The Fragment of the Heavenly Dao was somewhat astonished.

“It’s not over yet.”

Lu Ze pushed his Divine Sense to the extreme.

The wood turned into a tree.

The tree turned into a forest.

Soil grew beneath the forest, and rivers formed between the soil...

In an instant, a small patch of forest loaded with top-tier material packs appeared.

Coupled with the exquisite light and shadow effects,

for a moment, the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao couldn’t tell that this place had been a pixelated world made of blocks just a short while ago!

“What kind of Dao is this? Why is it so profound?”

Even the well-informed Fragment of the Heavenly Dao was utterly shocked at this moment.

He had seen countless Illusion Realm worlds created by human Cultivators.

None dared to try to fool him with a pixelated world stacked with blocks like Lu Ze.

But similarly,

absolutely no one could transform this block world into something nearly realistic!

“This is called...”

Lu Ze thought for a moment, then smiled faintly.

“Ray Tracing.”

This was a special Formation he had developed, inspired by Ray Tracing technology from his previous life.

He had researched this technology before.

However, the energy consumption required was too great, so he gave up.

Now with the Fragment of the Heavenly Dao as a supercomputer, he felt it would be a pity not to take advantage of it.

“Ray Tracing... Not bad, it’s a good thing.”

The Fragment of the Heavenly Dao rarely praised, then asked with some doubt:

“It’s just that the consumption of this Dao...”

Lu Ze’s eyes widened upon hearing this:

“No way, no way, you’re not going to tell me you can’t even run an ant’s Dao, are you?”

“?”

The Fragment of the Heavenly Dao paused, then immediately said proudly:

“Hmph, mere ant’s Dao, no matter how many, it’s irrelevant!”

Lu Ze immediately brightened at this:

“You said it, okay...”