Chapter 1143 – Changing Game Mode

7. Strengthened distance communication functions.

The period of sending letters through the relay is over.

Be it usually or during war time, Gaia would not restrict the long-distance communications of players. On the contrary, it would strengthen it to basically the same level as modern day.

Each player would obtain a communication compass for free. After adding someone as a friend, they could obtain messages and even talk.

Of course, Gaia would collect fees for that.

This communication compass would have video connection and would even have the ability to have group chats.

As for sending emails, logging onto forums, searching the net, finding information, and the like were all available. It was similar to modern day handphones.

The difference would be that this time, Gaia did not show biasness for players. Amongst NPCs, King Ranked and above talents would obtain one and have the relevant usage techniques.

This was another way to blur the gap between players and NPCs.

Without a doubt, the appearance of the communication compass would not only give rise to new challenges in war but also affect the civil servant system.

While it raised efficiency, it increased the risk of information being leaked.

8. Officially releasing cultivation realms.

A person's ability could be roughly split into internal cultivation, moves, and equipment. After removing the equipment stats, the cultivation method would decide one's ability.

Gaia would officially release the cultivation realm after analyzing the player cultivation situation.

Currently, there were acquired and innate levels, and each was split into nine. One being the lowest and nine being the highest. Each three stages had a bottleneck.

After the 9th stage of the acquired level would be the 1st stage of the innate level, which was another huge gap.

If a martial artist could break open the Ren and Du meridians, merging these two Ying and Yang meridians, one would reach the innate level.

Innate level experts could merge the Ying and Yang energy in their body, controlling temperature and hardness. Their internal energy would be brimming, and they could also directly connect with external energy to accumulate energy to cultivate at a shocking speed. Only then could one reach a level where acquired level experts were unable to reach.

Legends had it that when one was still a baby in the womb, one's blood and flesh were pure. Not only was the Ren and Du medians opened, but even the other meridians and veins were unblocked. The entire body became a full cycle of rotation, which was the innate level. After one was born and breathed in external air, these meridians naturally shut. Additionally, with bad food, one's blood and body would not be so pure anymore, going from innate level to acquired level.

The cultivation process was to remove all these impurities and get back to the innate level.

Based on Gaia's analysis, above the innate level, there should be an even higher celestial rank. However, due to limited data, it could not predict what it would be.

As Ouyang Shuo had awakened his bloodline and opened up his Ren and Du meridians, he had reached the innate level. Even so, even after reaching the 5th layer of Yellow Court Scripture, Ouyang Shuo was only at the 2nd grade.

The road of cultivation had just begun.

9. Raise of generals and soldiers' combat ability.

After this update, all soldiers, including King Rank and below generals, would obtain a basic cultivation method - War Soldier Codex. This will let them cultivate to the 6th stage of acquired realm.

King Ranked generals would get a War General Codex, which could get them to 9th stage of the acquired realm. Emperor Rank and above can obtain a high ranked War God Codex that can get them to the innate realm.

One did not need to start from zero.

Rank 3 normal soldiers were 1st stage of the acquired realm, rank 6 was stage 2, rank 9 was stage 3, rank 12 war elite soldiers were grade 4.

King Ranked generals automatically entered grade 7 acquired realm and Emperor Ranked generals were grade 9.

Apart from that, based on the generals' historical legend, Gaia would give them a degree of strengthening. For example, war god Lu Bu became Grade 3 innate realm right away, which was even stronger than Ouyang Shuo.

The stronger the general, the stronger the strengthening effects seemed.

Along with this round of updates, the ability of the armies would experience a great increase. A new development away from the cold weapons era of history was occurring.

In the future, when they clashed against firearms, who wins and who loses was still unknown.

Of course, along with the personal ability of generals increasing, the specialties of generals were also removed. To Great Xia, which was star-studded, this would definitely have an effect.

10. Change to territory falling settings.

Cities will no longer have stone steeles.

War would return to its origin and would not be restricted to a stone that could not be moved, much less forced teleportation.

With Great Zhou as an example, even after someone took down Handan City, it would not mean that Great Zhou was destroyed. Only by occupying the entire Great Zhou would it be destroyed.

This also meant that even if one sneak attacked the main city, one would not be able to win an all-out war.

Through the four updates, one could feel that Gaia was trying to make the game world more real, and the reason was for the future on Planet Hope.

Be it players or NPCs, the way they acted would welcome a huge change.

11. Change imperial city settings.

Reducing imperial city restrictions; dynasties can move freely and join the battles between empires. All of the Gaia's works on the imperial cities will cease to exist.

The imperial guards scale would be reduced by half, from 1 in 10 to 1 in 20, falling to around the same level as player territories.

This was fair.

With China as an example, the eight imperial cities would now have 500 thousand troops on average, having the ability to survive in the wilderness. But there should not be a way for them to use one prefecture of land to destroy a territory dynasty.

While releasing a tiger out of its cage, they naturally needed to bring them back to reality.

Along with Gaia not being biased to the imperial cities, adventure gamemodes would not be able to gather in an imperial city without balance.

Living in player territories and splitting into prefectures and counties was the wise decision.

Of course, many players would choose to join sects or form sects in player territories to band together and continue surviving.

Without levels, cultivation would become the main focus for players.

Another fetter of the imperial city on the players was the underground world. This was the fastest way for combat occupation players to gain exp.

This was also their main economic source.

Facing such a situation, Gaia naturally had a solution. Even to say that the bright spark of this update was through the information piece and not in the update terms.

The moment it was pushed out, it instantly affected the entire wilderness.