In the Cyber Dimension, Lana's Nascent Soul emanated a powerful aura, and blue light flickered in her eyes.
Her consciousness was focused on the Nascent Soul, and with a single thought, the Nascent Soul released thirteen thousand six hundred thoughts.
These thoughts quickly transformed into ordinary mortal intentions, wielding mining picks in the Cyber Dimension and beginning to mine data from it.
Every time a pickaxe swung down, it caused a tremor in the surrounding energy, accompanied by a surge of massive energy and computing power.
These energies and computing power spread out like ripples in the Cyber Dimension, forming tiny wave-like undulations.
The Cyber Demons living in the Cyber Dimension keenly noticed this change; being idle, they immediately realized that outsiders had invaded and were secretly mining data.
Thus, they eagerly moved toward the center of the ripples, following the fluctuations of computing power and the direction of energy flow.
When the Cyber Demons joyfully arrived beside the miners, they originally intended to entice them into a deal with generous benefits.
However, the moment they approached, large nets suddenly unfurled, instantly trapping these Cyber Demons, making escape impossible.
"So many?!"
Lana, sitting in the domain name center, stood up excitedly.
She shook the data net bag in her hand, feeling its heavy weight, her face beaming with joy and a sense of accomplishment filling her heart.
However, the haul from this cyber scam genuinely surprised her.
She had originally thought she would need to constantly try and cast a wide net to capture some Cyber Demons, but she never expected to catch so many in one go!
The number of these Cyber Demons even exceeded her expectations.
Originally, she planned to scatter her thoughts to multiple places, hoping to gain something, but the result was beyond her expectations—every thought actually yielded a harvest.
The data from this single catch was enough to build a construction base with an area of at least tens of thousands of square meters.
It is important to know that many ancient cities only have an area of about fifty thousand to eighty thousand square meters.
Such a harvest made Lana realize that she could do much more with this data.
An area of ten thousand square meters would be enough for her to use for a long time.
Initially, she had only wanted to establish a simple manor and open a small market within it, attracting the Cyber Cultivators wandering in the Cyber Dimension.
By selling domain name permissions and providing a sanctuary, she could earn the Cyber Cultivators' data traffic and gear spirit coins.
However, this astonishing harvest made her ambition swell.
Since the current Cyber Demons were inexperienced and easily fooled, why not make a few more hauls?
Lana knew very well that such a good opportunity would not last long.
As time passed, the Cyber Demons might become more vigilant and no longer be easily deceived.
Therefore, she had to seize the time, continue to leverage the beginner's advantage, acquire more benefits, and build a larger Digital World.
Moreover, Cyber Demons are not just for creating the Digital World; it is not that simple!
The data within their bodies is a great tonic for the Nascent Soul!
For the Nascent Soul to grow stronger, it needs to constantly absorb data!
The more it consumes, the faster it grows!
Furthermore, Cyber Demons are composed of human emotional data, so they carry various fragments of human memory after birth.
Relying on these memory fragments, every Cyber Demon understands human weaknesses and the dark side of human nature extremely well.
They can easily deceive inexperienced newcomers, signing contracts by offering power, which ultimately results in exploitation and having all their value drained.
And when the Nascent Soul devours Cyber Demon data, these memories are also swallowed.
Although most memory fragments are not good things, full of depravity and the dark side of humanity,
occasionally, some valuable data will still be preserved.
This is also why Cyber Cultivators can dig out useful data from mining!
In fact, what is called mining is using computing power and energy to filter out negative data in the Cyber Dimension, turning that bad data into pure, clean, and usable data.
And the data fragments obtained by Cyber Cultivators are just a small reward from the God of All Machines for the hard work of unregistered users~
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The concept of time in the Cyber Dimension is very vague; there is no clear way to calculate years or dates, nor can it be measured.
Everyone's perception of time therefore becomes difficult to determine; how it flows completely depends on an individual's hardware processing capabilities and technical level.
Therefore, a very strange scene appears in the Cyber Dimension: sometimes, Cyber Cultivators from different eras can rarely encounter each other.
Even Xiao himself does not understand why this phenomenon occurs, and the probability is so small that it can be ignored; Xiao can only attribute it to the Da Luo Dao Fruit.
Of course, although the Cyber Dimension does not keep track of years, time in the real world still passes, and this time also affects the people within the Cyber Dimension.
That feeling is like having a very long dream, but after waking up, only a few minutes have passed when checked.
Furthermore, when a cultivator deep-dives into the Cyber Dimension, their prosthetic body generates a large amount of heat.
This heat is rapidly absorbed and stored by the Cyber Aura, but the Cyber Aura's storage capacity for energy is limited.
Once the energy within the body reaches a saturated state, one must go offline to dissipate heat to avoid the side effects of Cyber Aura overflow.
Failure to deal with this situation in time may lead to side effects such as a decrease in personal strength and a reduction in lifespan.
This problem can only be solved by reaching the Golden Core Realm; relying on the storage capacity of the fusion reactor, a large amount of energy can be stored to achieve long-term deep diving in the Cyber Dimension.
In addition, most Golden Core cultivators cannot condense controllable nuclear fusion Golden Cores; what they condense are the lowest-grade fusion reactor Golden Cores, which cannot achieve self-sufficient energy supply.
Therefore, many Golden Core cultivators need a large amount of external energy to fill their Golden Cores, serving as combat reserve energy.
And by roaming in the Cyber Dimension, one can not only increase combat power by exchanging technology with compatriots,
but also use the heat generated by deep diving into the Cyber Dimension to increase energy reserves, so as to better cope with combat.
After all, as long as they do not mine, their consumption and subsequent gains in the Cyber Dimension are directly proportional; the longer they stay, the more free energy they obtain.
Golden Core cultivators are naturally willing to stay in the Cyber Dimension for a long time to reduce the energy consumption required for replenishment in the outside world.
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