This is Swallowed Star, not Resident Evil.

Chapter 39 Competition Activities, Explaining the Dao and its Interpretation

The Celestial Alliance of Stars, the Purple Vine Realm.

"Phew~"

Ye Yang opened his eyes and let out a long breath.

"Li Yao is dead, and he actually gave me over 2000 million Destiny Points! I've become rich overnight."

"I was originally planning to go to Australia, but time doesn't allow it. There's a very important opportunity with the Celestial Alliance that we must seize!"

Ye Yang opened the school terminal, clicked on the resource exchange list, and filtered the resources.

"If you want to quickly grasp the basics of understanding the laws of nature, you'll need some special spiritual treasures from heaven and earth!"

He set the filter keywords: Fire element, Law.

兑换列表显示出来：极品火灵—1学分、幽光暗焰—2学分、特级地肺岩—2学分、不尽木枝—2学分、暮日火水—3学分……

"Sigh, all of this requires credits~" Ye Yang shook his head and turned off the terminal.

He went to the living room, opened the refrigerator, and took out a bottle of chilled fruit juice to drink.

"I must quickly comprehend a trace of the fire elemental law, so that the 'true meaning embryo' can drive the understanding on the other side of the Devouring Realm, and cross the threshold of the fundamental fire elemental law!"

"Then obtain the inheritance from Meteorite Star and enter the universe!"

Ye Yang thought to himself, while also glancing at the two people who were fiercely clashing in the living room.

Cheng Dachuan and Lin Yuansu are playing chess. The chessboard is a third-order magic artifact, which can add different properties to the chess pieces or the chess game environment depending on the amount of energy input.

Each round, the two players must input different amounts of energy, adding a 'variable'.

The pieces in the game will automatically evolve, and they can both attack and kill each other, or create new pieces on their own.

This is actually a simplified version of a civilization war simulator.

"Oh, Ye Yang has emerged from seclusion?" Zhou Gu, who was watching the battle from the sidelines, looked at Ye Yang.

"Hmm, why are they suddenly doing this? Are they planning to sign up for the 'Simulated Strategy Competition'?" Ye Yang leaned closer to take a look and asked.

"Hey, how could that be? Our instance has only just begun development; we haven't even established our own faction yet. Without our own faction, without advisors or a think tank, how could we possibly compete with those senior students?"

Cheng Dachuan laughed and said, "We can only enjoy playing chess to pass the time."

"That's true." Ye Yang nodded.

The main purpose of dungeons is to develop your own dungeon world; it's basically impossible to do it alone, as that would be too inefficient.

We definitely need to establish our own power!

Of course, this excludes cheaters like Ye Yang who are familiar with the dungeon's storyline.

While the dungeon master's dungeon potential is important, the ability to monetize that potential is equally crucial. Therefore, the dungeon master's cultivation level and management skills must both be excellent.

Every year at the end of the year, the official Xianmeng organization holds a "competition" event for college students.

These competitions offer numerous benefits as rewards, thereby motivating college students to strive for excellence and grow rapidly.

The "simulated strategic competition" that Ye Yang just mentioned is one of them, and it is a very important competition.

The top 10 in the university internal competition will receive academic credits.

The rewards for achieving good results in the Star Region University Tournament, Galaxy Semifinals, and Grand Finals are even more generous!

Not only the dungeon owner, but even ordinary cultivators are very envious.

Unfortunately, this requires a specific world for the instance; it must be a world with a rich cultural and historical heritage, possessing sufficient history of civilization and warfare, and numerous strategic game cases.

Only those kinds of dungeon worlds can cultivate the corresponding talents.

In primitive, prehistoric-style dungeons, it's difficult to cultivate talent capable of waging interstellar warfare.

At the same time, the dungeon owner must develop a sufficiently powerful force before these talents can serve him!

"By the way, I'm going to sign up for the 'Daoyan Diagram Competition,' do you guys want to join in?" Ye Yang asked.

While playing chess with Lin Yuansu, Cheng Dachuan said, "Of course! Our college entrance exam ranking is also among the top ten on the planet. The 'Daoyan Diagram Competition' is a competition that purely tests comprehension. Maybe our comprehension is the strongest in the whole grade."

"Ha, you?" Lin Yuansu sneered disdainfully, and was then utterly defeated by Cheng Dachuan in the game of chess.

"See! At least your understanding of this game is not as good as mine!" Cheng Dachuan said with a smug smile.

"Hmph, do you dare to duel me with a sword?"

The two ended their game of chess amidst their bickering, and the four students from the dormitory went out to register at the activity venue.

The event venue was packed with people, with at least two or three thousand students gathered there.

After all, the "Daoyan Diagram Competition" is one of the most popular competitions, given its low entry barrier.

"Daoyan is a theory proposed in the ancient times of Taoism. At that time, it was believed that the Dao gives rise to all things. Some sages proposed: Dao gives birth to one, one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, and three gives birth to all things."

"But after the emergence of the Star Core Ascension Method and the Star Ascension Method, the Middle Ages began, and one after another, true immortals were born and began to roam the universe freely."

"They discovered 'abnormal regions of laws' near extreme celestial bodies such as neutron stars and black holes. This led them to realize that 'the Tao is ever-changing,' and thus separated the concepts of 'Tao' and 'law'."

"The Way of Heaven remains unchanged, but its laws are subject to change; the Way of Humanity is immutable, but its laws can be altered!"

"Thus ushered in the era of ancient immortal cultivation!"

"Until the Gate of All Heavens appeared, countless instances opened. Our predecessors explored countless worlds where the laws differed, thus laying the cornerstone of modern immortal cultivation theory!"

"But the term 'Dao Yan' has been passed down and has gradually evolved from the 'Dao Yan Diagram,' which attempted to depict the mysteries of 'Dao' in ancient times, into a tool for describing the laws of the world in modern times."

"The Dao Evolution Diagram, after extensive simplification, can serve as an introduction to Dao Evolution for low-level cultivators. It is divided into 'Orthodox Dao Evolution' and 'Reverse Dao Evolution,' which correspond to the cultivator's creativity and comprehension, respectively."

"The righteous path of cultivation helps to train a cultivator's creativity. Every choice of the path of cultivation has infinite possibilities and endless variations."

"Reverse Dao Derivation: Deriving from the existing incomplete Dao Derivation results in reverse, rigorously proving, and filling in the missing parts one by one!"

"Just like in reality, powerful beings can use a trace of the law they accidentally capture to deduce the entire picture of the laws of heaven and earth! A cultivator's comprehension is honed in this process."

Zhou Gu was reading the text on the bulletin board word by word, while Lin Yuansu had already finished reading and was impatiently urging him on.

"We bought back the 'Daoyan Diagram,' 500 Destiny Points each." Cheng Dachuan and Ye Yang returned with four scroll-like magical artifacts.

"Huh? 500 Destiny Points?!" Lin Yuansu exclaimed in shock, "That's too expensive! I... I only have... a few hundred left... Ah! I'm doomed, I only have 3000 points left in savings!"

"I only earned 400 points in dungeons last month," Zhou Gu said with a helpless smile.

"Alright, consider it a loan to the brothers!" Cheng Dachuan waved his hand, intending to cover it all.

Dungeon owners who dare to take the production route must be incredibly wealthy, unless the dungeon world type is suitable!

Otherwise, you won't even be able to get started.

As far as Ye Yang knew, Cheng Dachuan's family really did own a mine—his father was also a dungeon owner, and the dungeon world produced a fixed amount of over a billion every year.

As for Ye Yang... the fact that his dungeons are very profitable was already known within the dormitory.

Ye Yang handed one of the two scrolls of Dao Evolution Diagram to Zhou Gu, and then looked at the hundreds of Dao Evolution questions stored in the scroll of Dao Evolution Diagram in his hand.

"This interpretation of the Dao Derivation Diagram, especially the 'Reverse Dao Derivation Diagram,' has a similar feel to the 'Rhinoceros Emperor Formation.'"

The Rhinoceros Emperor's Formation was created by a powerful figure named Rhinoceros Emperor from the Origin Continent. From the strongest to children, everyone enjoys solving the Rhinoceros Emperor's Formation.

The Rhinoceros King Bureau is used by various forces as a tool to screen disciples' comprehension, and at the same time, it can also train disciples' comprehension.

This evolution diagram can be used by everyone from True Immortals to Foundation Establishment cultivators.

It feels like a low-budget version of Rhino King.

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