Since Ding Yun had converted the abilities of most esper users into martial arts manuals, she had little else to do, and the Esper Research Institute basically gave her a leave of absence.
She was allowed to come and go freely, to reunite with her parents.
Only when she occasionally encountered one or two rare esper users.
Would she be called back to help materialize the manuals.
Although Ding Yun was happy to be relaxed and at ease, she also had some worries from time to time, worrying about her own low influence.
The Human Alliance, though well-intentioned, had concealed Ding Yun when propagating the manuals, attributing them solely to the Esper Research Institute's achievements. The facts also proved that the Human Alliance's decision was not wrong, because for a long time after the birth of martial arts, the Esper Research Institute was continuously attacked.
If any concealment was not made, and it was directly stated that those martial arts manuals were created by Ding Yun, she would likely have been subjected to mad attacks from the Sea Clan, with no peace.
However, the concealment by the Human Alliance directly led to Ding Yun's own influence being meager, which was a fact.
The most critical point was that as martial arts manuals gradually became popular and were taken for granted by everyone, even if the official disclosure in the future was that these martial arts manuals were all created by her, her influence would probably be very weak.
It would absolutely not be enough for her to engrave a brand on the world's origin.
And besides martial arts manuals, Ding Yun could not think of any other channel or means by which she could simultaneously gain immense influence from both humans and the Sea Clan.
That's right, the existence of the Sea Clan civilization meant that if Ding Yun wanted to engrave a brand on the world's origin through influence, she had to gain considerable influence in human society while simultaneously gaining influence in the Sea Clan civilization.
Because the so-called influence was actually the intelligent life affected by it. Sea Clan's intermediate and above intelligent life could be considered orthodox intelligent life. With billions of them, without considering them, how could the world's origin be shaken?
"It seems that the path of influence is basically blocked.
The next step is to promote the evolution of the world. Although this world has undergone spiritual energy revival for over a hundred years, it has not actually completed its evolution.
Spiritual energy revival is spiritual energy revival; the formal evolution of the world requires extraordinary beings that break the world's limits. It seems that to engrave a brand, I can only cultivate martial arts and esper abilities diligently and break through the world's limits as soon as possible.
Then, I will cultivate some companions who can break through the world's limits, and the world should be able to successfully evolve!"
After determining that the path of influence for engraving a brand was essentially blocked, Ding Yun immediately and decisively chose to change her plan and take another path that had been successful once and should not have any problems now, which was the path of promoting the world's evolution.
As Ding Yun confirmed the change in the direction of task completion.
She naturally cultivated martial arts and esper abilities even more diligently. Not only did she cultivate the martial arts materialized by the system, but she also made significant modifications and improvements to the martial arts materialized by the system based on her past experience. She raised the ultimate realm of martial arts manuals to the Golden Core and Dharma Aspect levels, cultivating and advancing.
High-level manuals, combined with the game system.
Ding Yun cultivated without any bottlenecks.
It only required time to slowly improve proficiency and thus increase her realm, which could not be rushed.
In order to speed up her cultivation.
To be precise, in order to more easily obtain more experience points and proficiency, Ding Yun specially applied to go to the coastline to fight on the front lines. After all, staying at home all day, the experience points and proficiency gained from the daily tasks she received were too little.
They were far from comparable to the experience gained from fighting on the battlefield. For Ding Yun, those Sea Clan members were essentially monsters in a game, and the speed of leveling up by fighting monsters would naturally be faster than the speed of leveling up by doing daily tasks.
The Esper Research Institute was initially a little worried, fearing that Ding Yun might encounter an accident fighting on the coastline.
Although Ding Yun's esper ability did not seem to be very useful at present, it had already been discovered that even a seemingly useless esper ability could have extraordinary effects after reaching a certain level. Therefore, everyone generally believed that after Ding Yun's esper ability reached a certain level, more magical effects would definitely appear.
Thus, they were naturally unwilling to let her go to the front lines. If an accident were to happen, it would likely be a loss to humanity.
But Ding Yun insisted. Coupled with her easily defeating the current top esper users, the Esper Research Institute was not so insistent. They just told her not to overexert herself, to prioritize her life if she encountered danger, and prepared a lot of life-saving items for her before letting her go to the coastline to fight.
And upon reaching the coastline, Ding Yun.
Naturally, she began to frantically level up, engaging in a frenzy of killing.
In less than a month, she was on the Sea Clan's kill list. The Sea Clan even dispatched several giant sea monsters to surround and attack her. Ding Yun was already worried that killing ordinary Sea Clan members gave too little experience and leveling up was difficult.
Therefore, she did not retreat despite the Esper Research Institute's warnings but insisted on staying on the coastline to meet the enemy.
The worried Esper Research Institute pleaded with other departments for reinforcements, hoping they would help and ensure that their core figure, Ding Yun, did not get into trouble.
However, they were too worried.
As soon as the thousands-of-meters-long sea monsters descended, Ding Yun, with rare full effort, displayed martial arts strength far exceeding that of top esper users. After a hard battle, she not only difficultly but also annihilated those sea monsters.
Then, she gained a large amount of experience on the spot and leveled up.
She broke through to the Martial Arts Golden Core realm on the battlefield.
The various phenomena will not be elaborated. After all, as the first being in this world to reach the Martial Arts Golden Core, the world consciousness happily provided ample phenomena. However, the current upper limit of this world had been greatly raised by a century of spiritual energy revival. A mere Martial Arts Golden Core was temporarily insufficient to reach the world's limit and help the world evolve.
Therefore, Ding Yun's plan to engrave a brand on the world's origin still had a long way to go.
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With her breakthrough to the Martial Arts Golden Core, Ding Yun briefly explained the situation to the Esper Research Institute and passed on some manuals and techniques for breaking through to the Martial Arts Golden Core, then continued to kill enemies. Moreover, she was no longer fighting on the coastline but directly using technological means to constantly travel to high-level Sea Clan gathering places, killing everywhere, annihilating everything.
Martial Arts Golden Core in the current era.
Was essentially equivalent to a human nuclear weapon.
It was no match for the Sea Clan.
Even if they gathered dozens of sea monsters, or even tens of thousands of high-level esper Sea Clan members, combined with the encirclement and attack of dozens of top-level esper Sea Clan members on Ding Yun, it was useless.
In a short time, their encirclement was broken through by Ding Yun. In retaliation, Ding Yun specifically sought out high-ranking Sea Clan members to kill.
If their status was too low, she wouldn't bother to act.
In less than half a year, the Sea Emperor and many high-level Sea Clan leaders had been replaced several times due to Ding Yun's slaughter. Positions that many Sea Clan members had originally vied for became hot potatoes that no one was willing to take over. Some Sea Clan members even disguised themselves as low-level Sea Clan members to save their lives.
Ding Yun's actions.
Directly led to the complete collapse of the marine civilization empire.
Most of the Sea Clan members were terrified and began to contact humans, seeking to negotiate peace with humans. It could be said that Ding Yun, with her own efforts, directly caused the initially somewhat unified Sea Clan to fall into a state of fragmentation again.
The major high-level Sea Clan members were terrified by her killing.
They were so scared that they had to withdraw their troops and express their willingness to provide appropriate compensation, and that they would retreat three steps whenever they saw humans in the future, hoping only that Ding Yun would stop her attacks.
They really couldn't bear it anymore.
As the news spread.
Ding Yun was astonished to find that she didn't need to go through so much trouble to continue improving her cultivation and helping the world evolve, because her influence was already enough. At this moment, her influence was enough for her to engrave a brand on the world's origin.
She had always tried to gain positive influence, but she had overlooked negative influence. Negative influence was also influence. Making people happy and cheerful was influence; making life better and happier was influence; but making people fear and tremble, and making their lives worse, was also influence!
Now, humans regarded her as a superhero.
The Sea Clan regarded her as a terrifying demon.
Positive influence and negative influence did not cancel each other out; they only accumulated. Both were counted as influence. In this way, her influence was naturally enough.
As her influence reached the standard, Ding Yun immediately and unceremoniously took the opportunity to knock on the door of the world's origin and engraved her brand into it.
And she was not in a hurry to leave.
Instead, she stayed behind to wrap up loose ends.
After all, if she left and disappeared immediately, she didn't know if the Sea Clan would go back on their word. Therefore, Ding Yun waited until the humans and the Sea Clan signed a treaty, received compensation from the Sea Clan, and then, relying on the internal energy converted from the experience points she had accumulated during this time, as well as her own internal energy, she forcibly boosted and nurtured several Martial Arts Golden Core experts for humanity as their reliance.
Only then did she prepare to leave.
Before leaving, Ding Yun, still not at ease, specially patrolled all the seas and annihilated all the hidden giant marine beasts in the major sea areas.
Only then did she feel relieved and pretended to break through to the Martial Arts Dharma Aspect realm.
Using the world authority she had mastered after engraving her brand, she created an illusion of breaking through the void and left.