Chapter 25: The Internet Divine Technique Has This Function Too?
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Chapter 25: The Internet Divine Technique Has This Function Too?
After confirming that there were no issues in the basement of the Magic Forest, Yu Sheng'an's consciousness returned to his main body.
He decided to update the Internet.
Over the past half-month of dissemination, his Internet user base had surpassed the ten-million mark, with peak concurrent users exceeding six million during evening hours.
In the propagation simulation diagram Yu Sheng'an had drawn, the spread of the Internet Divine Technique resembled a plague-like game.
From the simulation, one could clearly see dozens of propagation lines radiating outward from Willis City to major cities.
Each endpoint city along these radiating lines would, in turn, spawn new propagation lines, spreading to lower-level administrative regions.
The red dots representing users densely clustered around these endpoints!
In just half a month, sixteen "red zones" had emerged across the Keville Empire—its sixteen largest cities!
Scattered across the wilderness, forests, deserts, mountains, and hills between these cities were sporadic red dots.
These represented either isolated villages or hunters and mercenaries.
Such a massive user base naturally rendered his original Internet framework inadequate.
Especially the Forum.
He still remembered the early days of the Forum when, to create the illusion of activity, he had spent sleepless nights posting for days on end.
Nearly every novel he could recall had been shamelessly plagiarized.
Now, though, there was no need for him to lift a finger—the Forum's activity index had exploded on its own.
Tens of thousands of posts appeared every minute. A simple refresh would bury previously viewed threads into oblivion.
This kind of user experience was far from ideal.
So Yu Sheng'an decided to implement partitioning.
Inspired by Blue Star's forum model, he planned to split the Forum into dozens of sub-forums based on interests and geographical regions. This would disperse traffic for easier browsing while also making the Forum more specialized.
Beyond that, other functional modules would undergo minor optimizations, though the overall structure would remain largely unchanged.
To be honest, what Yu Sheng'an most wanted to add were image and video features.
Unfortunately, the Contract Godhood governed only the power of language and text. To incorporate images and videos, he would need to seek alternative methods.
For now, his Online Classes were limited to ultra-low-quality audio versions.
Thankfully, the netizens of this world had no frame of reference—otherwise, he’d be the laughingstock of the century.
"At the end of the day, the Internet I’ve built is essentially an unlimited-bandwidth 2G text era. Upgrading to a 3G image era, let alone a 4G video era, is still a long and arduous road ahead!"
Yu Sheng'an sighed, feeling the onset of a headache.
After a while, he snapped out of it and sent an update notification to all users, initiating an immediate online upgrade.
Instantly, the Internet erupted!
What Yu Sheng'an saw as a mind-numbingly dull 2G text era was, in the eyes of Keville Empire’s netizens, nothing short of a groundbreaking innovation!
To many, it had already become a virtual world of its own.
Here, people could learn news from thousands of miles away.
Stay informed about imperial affairs.
Even directly petition the God of Magic or the monarch with grievances!
Yet who could have imagined that this virtual world could still be upgraded?
This utterly defied the imagination of countless users.
In the imaginations of many, this should be a super magic artifact of the Internet God.
Aren’t magic artifacts supposed to be difficult to modify once they’re finalized?
"Everyone, hurry and check the Internet! The Forum has been updated!" A sudden exclamation erupted from a patron in the Mage's Hat tavern, slamming the table in excitement.
"What? Updated? What does that mean?"
"My heavens! The Forum has split into dozens of sections!"
"All sixteen major cities in our empire now have their own independent forums!"
"Hahaha, fantastic! There’s even a Magic Forum now—finally, a dedicated place to discuss magic!"
"Long live the Internet God!"
"Whoa, there’s even a Women’s Forum? What do women even talk about? Gems? Clothes? Makeup?"
In the real world, people eagerly called their friends and spread the news. Online, astonished comments multiplied endlessly.
Watching this unfold, Yu Sheng'an was equally amazed. He hadn’t expected that simply reorganizing the Forum would cause such a sensation.
If he rolled out images and videos next, wouldn’t they be so thrilled they’d ascend on the spot?
Yu Sheng'an chuckled, activating Divine Perspective, and casually selected a user at the border of the Keville Empire to observe.
It was an old man in tattered clothes.
After summoning the Internet’s Virtual Scroll with a prayer, the man didn’t proceed further. Instead, he bent his head and began weaving something with vines.
The darkness did nothing to obscure his practiced skill.
The vines danced in his hands, swiftly taking shape as the base of a small basket.
Yu Sheng'an stared in bewilderment. Why would someone open the Internet just to weave?
"Old man, stop weaving and get some rest!"
An elderly woman brought over a bowl of water.
"Just a bit longer. I’m not tired yet."
The old man took the water, drained it in one gulp, and resumed his work without further explanation.
The woman, knowing his stubbornness, didn’t press further.
She sat beside him, helping sort the vines, and suddenly sighed. "Ah, the Internet God truly is a merciful deity. No wonder the mage lords urged us to chant His name."
"Absolutely. With this thing lighting the way, I can weave an extra basket every day. Our grandson gets quail eggs every now and then, and life finally has some hope. Ah, if only it had come sooner—our family might’ve been better off by now."
The old man nodded in agreement.
Watching this, Yu Sheng'an’s expression shifted from shock to realization. He finally understood why the old man had summoned the Internet.
He was using the Internet Divine Technique as a lighting tool!
At the same time, the old man’s words clarified something else.
The empire’s illiteracy rate was staggeringly high—by Yu Sheng'an’s estimate, at least 95%. With a population of roughly sixty million, his active user count was absurdly inflated, defying logic.
Previously, he’d assumed the empire’s census was flawed, undercounting its people.
Now it was clear: a significant portion of users were treating the Internet as nothing more than a lamp.
Thinking about it, in this world of magic, though there were countless magical lighting artifacts, none were affordable for commoners.
Once night fell, even major cities lacked streetlights—let alone remote rural areas.
Yu Sheng'an fell into deep thought.
Perhaps he should develop a flashlight feature—no, he absolutely had to develop it!
With so many potential users, a simple flashlight could capture them all. Back on Blue Star, he’d be laughing in his dreams at such an opportunity.
When Heaven bestows a gift, refusing it invites calamity!
Starting tomorrow—no, starting right now—he was going all-in on light magic!
Yu Sheng'an made a grand vow in his heart!
Yet, barely two minutes into his reading, a private message shattered his newfound determination.
The sender was a Wood Spirit Magic apprentice from Felix, who had boldly sent him a proposal on agricultural cultivation.
When Yu Sheng'an opened the chat interface, he was stunned.
The blue chat bubble had transformed into a golden cudgel, packed to the brim with text. Without even reading, the power of his Divine Spark told him—it was a whopping 36,263 words long.
Damn! He had only held an assembly yesterday afternoon and made preliminary arrangements.
At most, twelve hours had passed, yet she had already sent over 30,000 words. What did that mean?
It meant she might have done nothing else in that time—just writing.
The key point was, out of all 374 Wood Spirit Magic apprentices, she was the only one who had submitted any ideas.
Yu Sheng'an decided that regardless of the content, her dedication alone warranted a reward tomorrow.
With that thought, he began carefully reviewing her insights.
And with that review, Yu Sheng'an was thoroughly impressed.
After confirming that there were no issues in the basement of the Magic Forest, Yu Sheng'an's consciousness returned to his main body.
He decided to update the Internet.
Over the past half-month of dissemination, his Internet user base had surpassed the ten-million mark, with peak concurrent users exceeding six million during evening hours.
In the propagation simulation diagram Yu Sheng'an had drawn, the spread of the Internet Divine Technique resembled a plague-like game.
From the simulation, one could clearly see dozens of propagation lines radiating outward from Willis City to major cities.
Each endpoint city along these radiating lines would, in turn, spawn new propagation lines, spreading to lower-level administrative regions.
The red dots representing users densely clustered around these endpoints!
In just half a month, sixteen "red zones" had emerged across the Keville Empire—its sixteen largest cities!
Scattered across the wilderness, forests, deserts, mountains, and hills between these cities were sporadic red dots.
These represented either isolated villages or hunters and mercenaries.
Such a massive user base naturally rendered his original Internet framework inadequate.
Especially the Forum.
He still remembered the early days of the Forum when, to create the illusion of activity, he had spent sleepless nights posting for days on end.
Nearly every novel he could recall had been shamelessly plagiarized.
Now, though, there was no need for him to lift a finger—the Forum's activity index had exploded on its own.
Tens of thousands of posts appeared every minute. A simple refresh would bury previously viewed threads into oblivion.
This kind of user experience was far from ideal.
So Yu Sheng'an decided to implement partitioning.
Inspired by Blue Star's forum model, he planned to split the Forum into dozens of sub-forums based on interests and geographical regions. This would disperse traffic for easier browsing while also making the Forum more specialized.
Beyond that, other functional modules would undergo minor optimizations, though the overall structure would remain largely unchanged.
To be honest, what Yu Sheng'an most wanted to add were image and video features.
Unfortunately, the Contract Godhood governed only the power of language and text. To incorporate images and videos, he would need to seek alternative methods.
For now, his Online Classes were limited to ultra-low-quality audio versions.
Thankfully, the netizens of this world had no frame of reference—otherwise, he’d be the laughingstock of the century.
"At the end of the day, the Internet I’ve built is essentially an unlimited-bandwidth 2G text era. Upgrading to a 3G image era, let alone a 4G video era, is still a long and arduous road ahead!"
Yu Sheng'an sighed, feeling the onset of a headache.
After a while, he snapped out of it and sent an update notification to all users, initiating an immediate online upgrade.
Instantly, the Internet erupted!
What Yu Sheng'an saw as a mind-numbingly dull 2G text era was, in the eyes of Keville Empire’s netizens, nothing short of a groundbreaking innovation!
To many, it had already become a virtual world of its own.
Here, people could learn news from thousands of miles away.
Stay informed about imperial affairs.
Even directly petition the God of Magic or the monarch with grievances!
Yet who could have imagined that this virtual world could still be upgraded?
This utterly defied the imagination of countless users.
In the imaginations of many, this should be a super magic artifact of the Internet God.
Aren’t magic artifacts supposed to be difficult to modify once they’re finalized?
"Everyone, hurry and check the Internet! The Forum has been updated!" A sudden exclamation erupted from a patron in the Mage's Hat tavern, slamming the table in excitement.
"What? Updated? What does that mean?"
"My heavens! The Forum has split into dozens of sections!"
"All sixteen major cities in our empire now have their own independent forums!"
"Hahaha, fantastic! There’s even a Magic Forum now—finally, a dedicated place to discuss magic!"
"Long live the Internet God!"
"Whoa, there’s even a Women’s Forum? What do women even talk about? Gems? Clothes? Makeup?"
In the real world, people eagerly called their friends and spread the news. Online, astonished comments multiplied endlessly.
Watching this unfold, Yu Sheng'an was equally amazed. He hadn’t expected that simply reorganizing the Forum would cause such a sensation.
If he rolled out images and videos next, wouldn’t they be so thrilled they’d ascend on the spot?
Yu Sheng'an chuckled, activating Divine Perspective, and casually selected a user at the border of the Keville Empire to observe.
It was an old man in tattered clothes.
After summoning the Internet’s Virtual Scroll with a prayer, the man didn’t proceed further. Instead, he bent his head and began weaving something with vines.
The darkness did nothing to obscure his practiced skill.
The vines danced in his hands, swiftly taking shape as the base of a small basket.
Yu Sheng'an stared in bewilderment. Why would someone open the Internet just to weave?
"Old man, stop weaving and get some rest!"
An elderly woman brought over a bowl of water.
"Just a bit longer. I’m not tired yet."
The old man took the water, drained it in one gulp, and resumed his work without further explanation.
The woman, knowing his stubbornness, didn’t press further.
She sat beside him, helping sort the vines, and suddenly sighed. "Ah, the Internet God truly is a merciful deity. No wonder the mage lords urged us to chant His name."
"Absolutely. With this thing lighting the way, I can weave an extra basket every day. Our grandson gets quail eggs every now and then, and life finally has some hope. Ah, if only it had come sooner—our family might’ve been better off by now."
The old man nodded in agreement.
Watching this, Yu Sheng'an’s expression shifted from shock to realization. He finally understood why the old man had summoned the Internet.
He was using the Internet Divine Technique as a lighting tool!
At the same time, the old man’s words clarified something else.
The empire’s illiteracy rate was staggeringly high—by Yu Sheng'an’s estimate, at least 95%. With a population of roughly sixty million, his active user count was absurdly inflated, defying logic.
Previously, he’d assumed the empire’s census was flawed, undercounting its people.
Now it was clear: a significant portion of users were treating the Internet as nothing more than a lamp.
Thinking about it, in this world of magic, though there were countless magical lighting artifacts, none were affordable for commoners.
Once night fell, even major cities lacked streetlights—let alone remote rural areas.
Yu Sheng'an fell into deep thought.
Perhaps he should develop a flashlight feature—no, he absolutely had to develop it!
With so many potential users, a simple flashlight could capture them all. Back on Blue Star, he’d be laughing in his dreams at such an opportunity.
When Heaven bestows a gift, refusing it invites calamity!
Starting tomorrow—no, starting right now—he was going all-in on light magic!
Yu Sheng'an made a grand vow in his heart!
Yet, barely two minutes into his reading, a private message shattered his newfound determination.
The sender was a Wood Spirit Magic apprentice from Felix, who had boldly sent him a proposal on agricultural cultivation.
When Yu Sheng'an opened the chat interface, he was stunned.
The blue chat bubble had transformed into a golden cudgel, packed to the brim with text. Without even reading, the power of his Divine Spark told him—it was a whopping 36,263 words long.
Damn! He had only held an assembly yesterday afternoon and made preliminary arrangements.
At most, twelve hours had passed, yet she had already sent over 30,000 words. What did that mean?
It meant she might have done nothing else in that time—just writing.
The key point was, out of all 374 Wood Spirit Magic apprentices, she was the only one who had submitted any ideas.
Yu Sheng'an decided that regardless of the content, her dedication alone warranted a reward tomorrow.
With that thought, he began carefully reviewing her insights.
And with that review, Yu Sheng'an was thoroughly impressed.
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