I became a god by treasure hunting after arriving 500 years early-Chapter 398 - 298: Division of Civilization Levels

Having reached this conclusion, people’s expressions remained serious, and they no longer dwelled on this topic, busying themselves with other matters instead.

They began to inventory the assets within the city, eager to know just how much Spirit Essence was produced each year...

The conclusion was...

Civilizations that had completed their Milestone could expect to have some minor output.

A city like Yunhai City might generate about 1–2 units of Spirit Essence.

The majority of cities... almost none!

Of course, the moment human cities entered the Pangu Continent, due to the significant changes in Qi Fortune, some supernatural ore deposits would be born, more or less.

These extraordinary items were considered the initial start-up capital, but they were also nonrenewable, gone once used up!

Craftsmen with "Craftsmanship" received greater attention.

Well, if you combined all human cities, 17 in total, there was a small amount of assets, but just a single city was quite poor.

But there are always more solutions than problems, like Black Iron Material, for instance, which could be forged into a small knife, melted down, and reforged, reused over and over.

Anyway, these supernatural elements wouldn’t be lost...

Best to start practicing those skills, that’s always right!

Then, when inspiration struck, use those one-time, higher-grade consumables.

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"So much to do..."

Lu Yuan did not realize that humans and the Rize Civilization had changed their social operation modes because of his letter.

He was more focused on the trade with the Shu Mi Dam Civilization and the Rize Civilization!

Front-line diplomats sent telegrams every day with the collected data — those messages were truly a mix of joy and concern.

For example, a very important piece of information: Civilization Level!

This was information organized by the Shu Mi Dam Civilization in the previous Epoch, tricked out by Lu Tiantian.

Civilizations within the Safe Zone were basically considered "Inferior Grade Civilizations."

According to the Shu Mi Dam Civilization, if a civilization did not deactivate the Safe Zone and advance into the Pangu Continent within 3000 years, then they would most likely remain an Inferior Grade Civilization for life.

The missed three millennia could not be caught up, and furthermore, after 3000 years, as the Pangu Era moved from the early to the middle phase, opportunities and treasures would slowly diminish, conflicts would increase, and Catastrophe-level Anomalies would become more active.

Inferior Grade Civilizations were essentially destined for extinction, without much else to say.

If one wanted to become a recognized civilization, higher requirements were demanded for both Materialistic and Ideal Technologies.

Generally, Materialistic Technology just needed to pass, meaning reaching the Information Revolution level, developing computers, electricity, monitoring, smelting, and other technologies, enough to support the rise of Ideal Technology.

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Civilizations that could stably produce 10 Spirit Essence units per year were called Level 1 Civilizations!

This was a hard target, as one "Ordinary Level" piece of equipment might add between 1–9 units of Spirit Essence; hence, at least two pieces of Ordinary Level equipment or 10–20 pieces of Inferior Grade equipment were needed to reach this standard.

This was no simple feat!

A Level 1 Civilization meant it had a certain level of craftsman productivity, stable materials from cultivating animals and plants, and had begun exploring Ideal Technology.

And the combat quality of the population wasn’t shabby either!

Such civilizations, as long as they didn’t encounter natural or man-made disasters, lived quite comfortably in the Pangu Continent during the early Epoch.

Then came Level Two Civilizations, the classic hallmark being possession of a "Sky City."

More efficient in collecting extraordinary resources!

The leap from Level 1 to Level Two Civilizations was truly significant.

Living in isolation held no future, struggling all year only to produce 10 points of Spirit Essence.

Another might simply pick up trash and rake in 10–20 points of Spirit Essence.

Moreover, civilizations capable of building Sky City couldn’t possibly have weak material technologies; the volume of work for a city’s construction was substantial, requiring steel and concrete from factories, wasn’t it?

The mobilization of manpower and materials needed organizational ability. The construction of Sky City demanded research and development capabilities; did they really think a haphazard job would suffice?!

In the process of constructing wonders, the society’s strength would be integrated as a whole.

And a Level Two Civilization’s annual income reached 100 Spirit Essence.

If war broke out, a Level Two Civilization could often thoroughly defeat a Level 1 Civilization.

The gap between Level Three and Level Two Civilizations was even wider!

A key point was unique Ideal Technology!

Yes, a Level Three Civilization possessed its own unique technology.

This technology was often developed based on a particular Anomaly and pushed to the extreme of some rule!

The Anomaly didn’t have to be at the Catastrophe Level, but as long as the Ideal Rules were developed to the extreme, combined with a huge investment of Spirit Essence, their war capacity was unimaginably exaggerated, even stronger than the Anomaly itself!

When Lu Yuan read this, he was initially baffled, but soon he understood; take, for example, the powerful Dream ability of the Opium poppy, right?

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But "Green Grass Paradise" was an intensified version of the Dream ability, a sort of development impossible for the Opium poppy.

The power of Painted Skin’s [Spirit Word] was formidable, wasn’t it?

But the output power of Painted Skin was actually limited; even at the height of Painted Skin’s power, [Spirit Word] wasn’t necessarily more powerful than a nuclear bomb, otherwise Lu Yuan’s Tree of Life would have been obliterated long ago.

However, if [Spirit Word] was developed to its limit with power restrictions lifted and a devoted torrent of Spirit Essence, a mind-based weapon capable of apocalyptic destruction, stronger than a nuclear bomb, could be created.

This exaggerated outcome meant that a Level Three Civilization could directly crush a Level Two Civilization!