The copy has 0 error tolerance, and the last words on the ground are all wrong for me.

Chapter 531 Still at the Top of the Logic World
Wu Chang looked at the skill section on the attribute panel and upgraded to the Realm of Reason, removing the level cap. With the experience he gained in the world dungeon, his level instantly skyrocketed to 37.

Including the free attributes that haven't been allocated yet, his total attributes reached 1372 points.

The plane of the Realm of Reason is more solid, and the plane barrier restricts him more loosely. His individual attributes should not be restricted by the barrier of the Realm of Reason for the time being. Without being restrained, he can show stronger combat power than the Desolate Realm.

Aside from the changes in attributes, the biggest change after the upgrade was that he gained the Barrier of Truth.

Before he ascended to the Realm of Reason, the reason why the sea monster had the illusion that it could control him was because of the Truth Barrier. The Truth Barrier is equivalent to a youth version of divinity. Its existence makes even a level 30 player who has just ascended to the Realm of Reason almost invincible when facing a level 30 player from the Desolate Realm.

Even before he possessed the Barrier of Truth, he was already able to suppress the players from the Realm of Reason who had returned to Earth. Now that this only gap has been closed, the players who have returned to Earth will be completely obedient.

Looking at his own attribute panel, Wu Chang felt a surge of emotion. Unconsciously, he had collected so many items, and even his previously weak skills and talents now numbered more than ten.

After leveling up, he allocated 35 skill points to 11 points in health, 19 points in stamina, and 5 points in strength. Even his lowest agility and stamina attributes reached triple digits.

With no weaknesses in attributes, job change, skills, items, cultivation techniques, or talents, his well-rounded character has finally reached a point where it can be considered a minor success.

Before he could even glance at the attribute panel, another beam of light shone down from above the room.

Whether it was a standard requirement for entering the Realm of Reason or an extra perk bestowed by the world instance, many basic rules about the Realm of Reason surfaced in his mind.

Wu Chang already knew about the safe zone, controlled zone, and wilderness in advance. The changes to the wilderness were mainly the changes to the dungeon and item levels.

Players who can advance to the Realm of Reason are no longer beginners and no longer need many low-difficulty dungeons to progress, so the seven dungeon levels have been reduced to six.

The six levels of the Realm of Reason dungeons are: α, β, γ, Δ, Σ, and Ω, with difficulty increasing from low to high. α is the lowest, equivalent to level e and f dungeons in the Desolate Realm, and Ω is the highest, equivalent to level S dungeons in the Desolate Realm.

The level of items in the Realm of Reason is the same as that of the dungeons, and it has also changed to six levels. Items produced in the Realm of Reason will be affected by the Realm of Reason and will gain certain additional skills or additional characteristics.

This makes the items from the Realm of Reason much more powerful than those from the Realm of Wasteland.

However, this gap is not insurmountable. By completing certain special tasks or achieving a completion rate of over 70% in a dungeon, one can obtain the Stone of Reason, which allows items in the Wasteland to "awaken".

Perhaps out of concern that new players entering the Realm of Reason might be scammed, the information about the Stone of Reason includes a note that the Stone of Reason is not tradable. Items awakened using the Stone of Reason will be bound to the user and will also become untradable.

When the painter told Wu Chang about the information about S-rank items, in order to emphasize the special nature of S-rank items, he said that even in the Desolate Realm, an incomplete S-rank item could easily affect the entire Abyss, including the deepest part of the Abyss.

The "incomplete form" he mentioned refers to the fact that S-rank items can awaken once every time they advance to a new level of the abyss. For example, in the Realm of Reason, S-rank items can be awakened to Ω-rank through the Stone of Reason.

In theory, players need to advance to the fourth level of the Abyss and have an S-rank item undergo three awakenings to obtain its true form.

If the Stone of Reason had to be purchased with decaying silver coins, he might have been scratching his head over it. But when he discovered that the Stone of Reason could be obtained by completing dungeons, he immediately relaxed.

After briefly reviewing the other information from the Temple of Truth, the ascension ceremony concluded completely, and a notification appeared before his eyes.

"Your remaining time in the safe zone is 20 hours. Your time is about to run out. Please recharge in time."

Having confirmed that there was nothing more to the upgrade ceremony, Wu Chang left the room and returned to the corridor of the upgrade area.

He looked around at the rooms and saw that the room that Booker and the priest had entered was open, indicating that they had completed their ascension and left the Temple of Truth first.

He arrived at the circular wheel that traversed the various areas of the Temple of Truth. Possessing the barrier of truth, he had already gained the recognition of the Realm of Reason and no longer needed to rely on missions to move and transfer platforms.

As he stepped onto the transfer platform, a 3D map of the Temple of Truth appeared before him, marking the areas he could currently travel to.

In the map, the Temple of Truth is divided into three levels and dozens of areas, but most of these areas are black and inaccessible, with only five areas lit up.

These are: the main gate, the dungeon waiting area, the upgrade area, the leaderboard area, and the meditation area.

The gate, as the point of exit from the Temple of Truth, needs no further explanation.

The dungeon waiting area is the same as in the Wilderness. Players who want to actively explore a dungeon before being forced into it can use this area for dungeon matchmaking.

The upgrade zone where Wu Chang is currently located not only helps players in the Desolate Realm complete upgrade tasks, but also increases the success rate of upgrades in skills, items, bloodlines, and other abilities by 10%-15%.

However, using a room in the upgrade zone outside of mission periods requires paying a considerable rental fee.

He scanned the map, selected the leaderboard area as his destination, and quickly arrived at the leaderboard area with the help of the transfer platform.

The Realm of Reason retains the mechanism of the Wilderness Rankings section, where you can also see rankings such as Speedrun Ranking, Bounty Ranking, High-Risk Dungeon Ranking, and Combat Power Ranking.

The significance of the Reason Realm Ranking Zone is more important than that of the Desolate Realm.

The Realm of Reason is different from reality; it is under constant pressure and crisis. It is unrealistic for solo players to be lone wolves. Most need to join various organizations to ensure their safety in the wasteland or controlled areas.

When applying to join various organizations, no resume is more convincing than a ranking on a list.

The leaderboard area is located in the Temple of Truth, and ordinary players cannot frequently enter the Peace Zone to view the leaderboard. To solve this problem, Abyss Games kindly provides a subscription service.

For just 100 Decaying Silver Coins, you can subscribe to a single leaderboard for a month. After subscribing, players can view the leaderboard directly on their attribute panel.

By pooling resources among a few friends, with each person subscribing to two or three lists, they can gather information from the mainstream lists. By simply exchanging information regularly, they can understand the situation in the Realm of Reason.

Zeng Hui once said that in the gaming world, if a player subscribes to all twelve mainstream leaderboards on their own without pooling resources, it means that player must be very skilled.

Wu Chang wasn't wealthy, but he could still spare a few hundred tattered silver coins to subscribe to the eight lists he frequently used.

His first focus was on the combat power rankings. Similar to those in the Desolate Realm, when a player's combat power reaches a certain level and they no longer need to prove themselves through the rankings, they tend to hide themselves and not disclose their combat power.

To demonstrate their strength, organizations typically field one or two representatives as figureheads, while the rest of the powerful figures remain hidden.

The one currently at the top of the combat power rankings in the Realm of Reason is not Huanxi, but Thor Peren of the Light Society.

Although Peren is not the strongest member of the Light Society, he is still one of the core members, and his combat power is 30% higher than that of the second-ranked player from the Evolution Committee.

Because the passage from the Realm of Reason to the Realm of Void was blocked, the Realm of Reason accumulated a large number of high-combat-power players. In the Desolate Realm, only the top 20 players can be called ranked players, but in the Realm of Reason, anyone who can enter the top 100 is considered a ranked player.

The threshold for ranking players in the Desolate Realm is the Power of Origin, while the threshold for ranking players in the Reason Realm is a Lower God.

In the power rankings, the highest-ranked member of the Administration Bureau was fourth, named Bai Zhan. Wu Chang noted down this name and then turned his attention from the power rankings to the bounty rankings.

The top bounty on the list was a wanted poster. When he saw the contents, a bitter smile instantly appeared on his face.

Bounty Target: Peace

"Requirement: Life or death is irrelevant."

"Reward: One seed of potential divinity for a high-ranking god."

When he first entered the Desolate Realm, he was number one on the bounty list. Unexpectedly, after entering the Realm of Reason, he was still number one on the bounty list.

It's obvious that the person who posted the bounty must be from the Guangming Society.

There are also differences between divinities. Some scraps of divinity seeds, even if the player can fully fuse with them, will only reach the level of an archangel. It is extremely difficult to advance further and become a mid-level god.

The four fantastical divinities that the Light Society smuggled into the Desolate Realm—Triton, Hatti, and Skul—are all at this level.

Due to his status, the Oracle's Heimdallian divinity was a level higher than these, with an upper limit sufficient for him to enter the realm of intermediate gods.

In the realm of fantastical divinity, only high-ranking deities such as Mercury, Peron, and Gaia, and above, possess the potential to become higher-ranking gods.

This level of reward is so tempting that even players ranked in the Realm of Reason who are dissatisfied with their own divinity would find it hard to resist, let alone those who haven't yet condensed divinity.

Wu Chang shook his head slightly, thinking to himself that the Bright Society would indeed cause him trouble. Putting aside the headlines about him, he continued to scroll down the list.

The power level of the Realm of Reason is high enough, and the top players have been trapped here for a long enough time, which has allowed them to accumulate a large amount of resources.

The biggest difference between the bounty in the Wilderness and the bounty in the Wilderness is that the rewards for the top fifty on the bounty list are almost always items, cultivation techniques, skills, or even job changes, and are rarely settled with decaying silver coins.

Among the top 100 on the bounty list, three bounties caught his attention: finding information related to the Black Tide, finding players whose combined Inspiration and Willpower exceeded 300, and recruiting top-tier game-breakers.

The first two caught his attention because the bounties themselves were related to him; in fact, it could be said that they were looking for him.

The last bounty caught his attention because the reward offered was quite unique. The reward consisted of three items, one of which was a Σ-level consumable called Enlightenment. Using it could directly raise the limit of a cultivation technique by one level, or have a 30% chance to raise the limit of cultivation techniques below the Lord level by one level.

For ordinary cultivation techniques, even those with an upper limit of S-rank, enlightenment at most saves the user a few hundred thousand worthless silver coins, or a tedious cultivation ritual.

Most players who use the Enlightenment skill do so in order to gain the 30% increase in skill cap.

However, the effect of enlightenment on his Beichen Tribulation Crossing Scripture is different. Theoretically, his Beichen Tribulation Crossing Scripture has no upper limit. If he first finds a way to upgrade the technique to the divine level and then uses enlightenment, what will the technique become?

He glanced at the time the bounty was posted; a year and a half had passed since then.

For a year and a half, no one has been able to take on the bounty, and even after another year and a half, it's unlikely anyone will be able to.

This item is destined for me and should be used by me!
Thinking of this, he felt a surge of excitement. Looking at the enlightenment on the bounty list, he already considered it his own.

However, it's not the right time yet. He needs to establish himself in the Realm of Reason first and further improve his level before he can accept the three bounties he has his eye on.

After all, he is currently at the top of the bounty list, and the requirement is that he be killed or alive. If he accepts the bounty for the reward, the bounty poster will probably see him as a reward delivered to his door.

Regarding the information on the high-risk dungeon rankings, he needed to meet with the Bureau of Justice first and use his authority to access the relevant dungeon information, so he didn't waste any more time in the rankings section.

The meditation area was the last area he could enter in the Temple of Truth.

He already understood the function of the meditation area when he was promoted. It has the dual attributes of a training room and a meditation room, and can also regulate the flow of time to a certain extent, allowing users to have more time.

The effect was very strong, but unfortunately Wu Chang already had the Eternal Light Research Institute and no longer needed the meditation area, so he did not go to visit it. Instead, he went directly to the gate of the Temple of Truth and left.

He entered the Realm of Reason ahead of time to familiarize himself with its environment. As a member of the Administration Bureau, he was required to report to the Administration Bureau after his promotion, according to the established procedures.

As he needed to use the Bureau's intelligence to gain a basic understanding of the high-risk instance, he left the Temple of Truth and headed straight for the Bureau's reception office in the city.

Staying in the safe zone is extremely expensive, but it is not difficult for the four major organizations to afford.

To make it easier for their members to find them, the reception offices of the four major organizations are located near the Temple of Truth.

The management bureau's reception area is a predominantly red, antique-style wooden building that stands out prominently in the futuristic city.

Two three-meter-tall stone lions stand at the entrance of the building, and next to the stone lions stands a stele inscribed with the three characters "Management Bureau".

As Wu Chang walked toward the building, he passed two stone lions. Suddenly, they stood up, looked down at Wu Chang, and a scanning light shone from their eyes.

Once it was confirmed that he was a member of the management bureau, the two stone lions returned to silence and squatted back on the stone platform, as if nothing had ever happened.

The reception area door was wide open, and he walked straight in, following the signs to the reception desk.

There was a sign at the front desk that read: Receptionist: Caiyun.

There was a sign at the front desk, but no one was in sight. Wu Chang walked closer and discovered a young girl in a Taoist robe sitting cross-legged on the ground behind the front desk, meditating and practicing.

The city was a safe zone, which allowed her to concentrate on her cultivation, and she didn't even notice Wu Chang's arrival.

Looking at the girl, Wu Chang recalled that when he was in Wanghai City, Zeng Hui had mentioned that the members who stayed at the reception office were rotated every two weeks, and all expenses were reimbursed by the organization. Before they could freely return to Blue Star, working at the reception office was the most sought-after job.

Seeing how relaxed the girl was, it seemed that Zeng Hui was absolutely right.

Wu Chang picked up the bronze bell on the front desk and shook it a few times, which finally woke the girl from her reverie.

She looked at Wu Chang, paused for a moment, then remembered her work and said:
"No one has come to register today, so I meditated for a while. I'll register you now."

As Caiyun spoke, she took out a Polaroid camera from her personal space and pressed the shutter button on Wu Chang.

She tossed the photo around, looked at the text on it, and said:
"Blue Star Seaview Branch Chief, Level 2 Investigator, Conghua."

Wu Chang nodded and said:
"It's me. I've completed my promotion. Where should I report for duty next?"

According to the normal procedure, players who enter the Realm of Reason will be assigned to different private spaces based on their positions.

Caiyun said:

"The time you can stay in the safe zone will not stop once the timer starts. I suggest you enjoy this last peaceful moment before going to the private space."

Wu Chang shook his head slightly and said:
"Thank you for your kindness, but I'm in a hurry."

Caiyun sighed helplessly, offering no further advice, and told Wu Changdao, based on the system's allocation results:
"You've been assigned to Base 44, which is close to the wilderness. It's dangerous for a newly promoted player like you. You'd better find a team that's on your way to the party area. It'll be safer if you go in a party."

Looking at the coordinates of Base 44 sent by Caiyun, Wu Chang said:

"Thank you."

He didn't want to waste time on ordinary players, so instead of following Caiyun's advice to find a team, he spent 500 decaying silver coins to rent a shared flying vehicle and flew directly towards Base 44.

The Authority officially owns fifty private spaces within the Lijie area, which are numbered sequentially.

The private spaces in the Realm of Reason are different from those in the Desolate Realm. They are not rented from the Temple of Truth by spending decaying silver coins, but are obtained by conquering the eroded areas of the controlled zone.

The erosion copy of the eroded realm comes from a copy of the realm that has gone out of control. Different levels of the out-of-control copy will naturally result in different private spaces.

The differences include, but are not limited to, factors such as safety level, energy density, living environment, and whether the location is safe.

Wu Chang was assigned to Base No. 44, which was transformed from a β-level erosion copy. Its living environment can be seen from its serial number.

The space is small, the energy density is low, and it is close to the wilderness, making it easy to encounter danger.

It sounds like the treatment is very poor, but among newly promoted players, Base 44 is basically the best treatment. If it weren't for Wu Changyou's status as the branch director, with his rank of second-level investigator, he would have been assigned to Base 46 at most.

What should I do if I'm dissatisfied with my living environment and want to move to a smaller designated area?
The answer is simple: become stronger.

The rules of the Realm of Reason are that simple and pure: everything is based on strength. As long as you have enough strength, you will receive the treatment that matches it.

Under Wu Chang's masterful mechanical control, the shared aircraft achieved the speed of a custom-made aircraft, arriving above Base 44 in just two hours.

When sending the coordinates of Base 44, Caiyun also sent him the basic information about Base 44.

During the flight, he reviewed the information about Base 44. The most frequently mentioned point about the base was its dangerous geographical location and the fact that the plane where the base was located was frequently attacked.

The message only mentioned "frequently," but not the specific frequency. He had planned to ask other members in the base, but before he even entered the base, he had already experienced what it meant to be frequently attacked.

Below the aircraft, he could see an out-of-control instance located on the edge of the wilderness. Due to the lack of a guide, the out-of-control situation was constantly increasing and was rapidly spreading towards the controlled area.

The direction it was spreading was directly ahead of Base 44, which was the place he was heading to.

(End of this chapter)