Chapter 404 Ninth Level Citizen

"The popularity of the Martial Dao Evolution Path has now surpassed the nine supreme evolution paths."

A few days later, Galaxy Main Star.

Lin Yuan casually glanced at the changes after the 'update' of the Martial Dao Evolution Path, marveling inwardly.

Ever since Year One of the Star Sea Calendar, the supreme evolution paths had always been the evolution paths with the highest popularity in Human Civilization.

That symbolized the Ultimate of a certain evolutionary path, and it was unknown how many Evolvers pursued it.

For the vast majority of Evolvers, unless they had no choice, they would definitely prioritize cultivating the supreme evolution paths.

The only drawback of qualitative evolution paths was that the upper limit was locked at the Eleven-Tier, leaving no chance to impact the Ultimate.

But so what? The Eleven-Tier was already a target that almost all Evolvers dared not even imagine.

Compared to other evolution paths, every level and Realm of the supreme evolution paths was extremely complete or even perfect.

When Evolvers of the same Rank fought in close combat, under normal circumstances

and the methods, capabilities, and foundations of both sides in other aspects were equal,

the side cultivating the supreme evolution path would be stronger by a few notches.

Therefore, within Human Civilization, the popularity of the nine supreme evolution paths was unquestionable.

Only now, Lin Yuan clearly felt that

the frequency of discussions about the Martial Dao Evolution Path on the virtual network surpassed that of the nine supreme evolution paths.

This did not mean that the Martial Dao Evolution Path had already surpassed the supreme evolution paths.

Rather, for more than two million years, no evolution path had ever reached a degree second only to the supreme evolution paths at the Tier 10 level.

Being able to crush the Eleven-Tier at Tier 10—once the Martial Dao Evolution Path advanced to the Eleven-Tier, what would happen then?

Consequently,

countless Evolvers of Human Civilization speculated that the Martial Dao Evolution Path might possibly become the tenth supreme evolution path of Human Civilization.

"The tenth supreme evolution path?"

Lin Yuan shook his head slightly. He had no certainty of stepping into the Ultimate,

and once he failed, even with the protection of the Gate of Myriad Realms, he did not know if he could survive.

"Over the past few days, the number of people cultivating the Martial Dao Evolution Path has begun to skyrocket by a large margin."

Lin Yuan casually pulled up the specific data of the Martial Dao Evolution Path and watched it carefully.

"Rank 1 Chapter: 26,800 trillion."

"Rank 2 Chapter: 8,320 trillion."

"third stage: 4 trillion."

"Fourth-stage chapter: 120 billion."

"Fifth-stage chapter: 53 million."

"Sixth-stage chapter: 860,000."

"Seventh-stage chapter: 17,000."

"Eighth-stage chapter: Zero."

"It has been more than a hundred years, yet not a single Martial Dao Evolver has stepped into the eighth Rank?"

Lin Yuan thought to himself.

Compared to more than a hundred years ago, the cultivation population for the Rank 1 Chapter and fourth-stage chapter of the Martial Dao Evolution Path had increased by a multiple of a thousand to ten thousand times.

The fifth-stage chapter to the seventh-stage chapter had also each seen hundreds to thousands of times increase in their cultivation populations.

But for the eighth Rank, at least up until now,

no eighth-Rank Martial Dao Evolver had registered their own Realm.

"The time is still too short."

Lin Yuan shook his head inwardly. From the time the Martial Dao Evolution Path was uploaded until now, it hadn't even been five hundred years.

No matter how great the potential was, it could not immediately translate into the final number of high-Rank Evolvers.

The evolution of life was long, even with specific guidance from evolution paths.

"It seems that when I have time, I still need to make more video analyses regarding the Peak of the seventh Rank to the eighth Rank of martial dao."

Lin Yuan was pensive inwardly.

Although the Ultimate Leap did not explicitly state the requirement for the number of high-Rank Evolvers in one's own evolution path, the higher, the better.

Anyway, as the ancestor of the Martial Dao Evolution Path, Lin Yuan did not have to worry about future Martial Dao Evolvers threatening him.

In fact, any Martial Dao Evolver, regardless of their Realm or Bloodline, would naturally be suppressed by Lin Yuan.

"In over a hundred years, the split revenue from the Martial Dao Evolution Path has already exceeded six hundred billion cosmic crystals."

A smile appeared on Lin Yuan's face.

Hundreds of years ago, he was still worried about a few thousand or ten thousand cosmic crystals,

but now, in the blink of an eye, his net worth had skyrocketed to be calculated in hundreds of millions of cosmic crystals.

"However, while the income is very high, the cultivation expenses are likewise not low."

Lin Yuan thought silently to himself,

up to now, his main cultivation expenses

came from the Profound Yellow Body, one of the three guardian secret techniques of the Xuanhuang Lineage.

The Profound Yellow Body was inherently a Physical Body method piled up with infinite resources,

coupled with Lin Yuan's terrifying Physical Body foundation, the amplification of the Mysterious Gourd, the amplification of the eternal spring, the amplification of martial dao itself, the amplification from the infusion of the Chaotic Void Origin, and so on,

causing Lin Yuan's current Physical Body strength, even to improve by a tiny bit, to require paying an extremely huge price.

Moreover, the enhancement of the Physical Body by the Profound Yellow Body inherently depended on the original strength of the Physical Body,

ultimately causing the consumption of cultivating this secret technique to exceed Lin Yuan's expectations multiple times.

After all, when Lin Yuan first obtained this secret technique, he had not anticipated that under the infusion of the Chaotic Void Origin, his Physical Body foundation would once again achieve a massive enhancement.

"I can vaguely sense, imperceptibly, the life auras of those who Cultivate the Martial Dao Evolution Path."

Lin Yuan closed his eyes and sensed carefully.

If taking Lin Yuan as the center, all directions were pitch black,

then at this moment, little points of light resembling fireflies emerged, looking extremely weak individually.

But their quantity was huge; looking into the distance, it was like a single spark starting a prairie fire.

"Will these all become the 'assistance' for my Ultimate Leap?"

Lin Yuan thought to himself. These sparks were not limited to the Main Universe; there were also those coming from incomparably distant and vague places.

Even Lin Yuan, the founder of martial dao, could not lock onto their coordinates. They should be the life auras of the martial dao practitioners who spread martial dao to other dimensional worlds during his multiple shuttles in the past.

"Spreading one's own evolution path, letting more living beings Cultivate, and ultimately feeding back into oneself to promote the Ultimate Leap. Such a method can be called incredible."

Lin Yuan thought inwardly. This kind of feedback was not the kind of feedback from the Power Of Faith, but rather feedback from the evolutionary path itself, and basically had no hidden dangers.

"I wonder which Expert created this cultivation method? An existence close to Perfect Time Life?"

Lin Yuan was quite curious in his heart.

Long before the cosmic era, there was no such saying as spreading one's own evolution path; wanting to impact the Ultimate basically relied solely on oneself.

For example, Your Majesty Profound Emperor had never spread his own evolution path on a large scale, because the threshold of the Profound Yellow Evolution Path was too high and not suitable for aimless dissemination.

"It's about time."

"It's time to promote to a Ninth Level Citizen."

Lin Yuan glanced at his own Merit Points balance: 5.2 billion.

Among them, 5 billion Merit Points were precisely the reward obtained after uploading the Tier 10 Chapter of martial dao.

The remaining more than 200 million Merit Points were accumulated by Lin Yuan in the past, including the leftovers from uploading the ninth-stage chapter of martial dao last time.

"Going from Eighth Level Citizens to a Ninth Level Citizen requires 1 billion Merit Points, which is equivalent to the value of ten entry-level twelve-star rare treasures."

Lin Yuan pondered for a moment, then chose to upgrade his citizen Rank.

Every time he upgraded his citizen Rank in the past, he reaped a value far exceeding the Merit Points consumed for upgrading the citizen Rank itself.

The higher the citizen Rank, apart from privileged treatment, more importantly, it could influence some decisions of Human Civilization.

For example, Lin Yuan was now the general speaker of the Northern Cold Star Alliance, the highest-ranking person within hundreds or thousands of Star Domains. A single thought of his was enough to determine Human Civilization's policies targeting other surrounding alien races.

The ordinary ethnic groups and weak ethnic groups within the Northern Cold Star Alliance, or other neighboring alien ethnic groups, all had to hang on Lin Yuan's every breath.

"Goddess of Wisdom."

"Now promote to a Ninth Level Citizen."

Lin Yuan immediately connected to the Goddess of Wisdom and put forward the request to upgrade his citizen Rank.

In an instant.

Lin Yuan's 5.2 billion-plus Merit Points decreased by 1 billion.

At the same time.

On Lin Yuan's personal information page, the column belonging to the citizen Rank silently changed from level eight to level nine.

Ninth Level Citizen.

Ninth Level Citizen of Human Civilization.

This was a weight that any Star Domain or even star alliance could hardly bear.

Even among the many Eleven-Tier Evolvers of Human Civilization, most were not Ninth Level Citizens.

Even as strong as Eleven-Tier Evolvers, wanting to save up 1 billion Merit Points required paying a huge price.

Xuan Yuan Fan, an ancient Tier 10 Evolver of the Xuan Yuan Family, had fought on the Alien Race Battlefield for one to two million years, and the Merit Points he finally accumulated were no more than twenty million.

In order to obtain the chance to enter the Black Planet for comprehension, he still borrowed eighty million Merit Points from Human Civilization in the name of the Family, making up one hundred million Merit Points to complete the transaction with Lin Yuan.

Ancient Tier 10s like Xuan Yuan Fan were like this; even if Eleven-Tier Evolvers accumulated more Merit Points, the gap would not be too large.

Moreover, the vast majority of Evolvers would inevitably consume some Merit Points along the way while accumulating them.

For instance, Xuan Yuan Fan, in order to increase his chances of stepping into the Eleven-Tier, spent his accumulated twenty million Merit Points in advance.

After all, Merit Points were of immense value within Human Civilization, capable of exchanging for numerous unimaginable resources and Legacies.

People like Lin Yuan, who accumulated every single Merit Point to raise their citizen Rank, were extremely rare.

Using Merit Points to raise the citizen Rank was indeed the most valuable approach, but maximum value did not mean the highest short-term returns.

Swish.

Right after Lin Yuan successfully advanced to a Ninth Level Citizen.

One by one, 'emails' from the Central Star Region of Human Civilization were all sent over.

Aside from congratulating Lin Yuan, these 'emails' introduced the numerous privileges and treatments of a Ninth Level Citizen.

"The treatment and privileges of a Ninth Level Citizen."

Lin Yuan browsed through the 'emails' one by one.

First was the routine treatment, which granted a Tier 9 evolutionary agent.

Starting from the Sixth Level Citizen, every promotion by one citizen level would grant a corresponding evolutionary agent.

Even the lowest Tier 6 evolutionary agent belonged to specially supplied resources, which could not be bought no matter how many cosmic crystals one possessed.

Only Merit Points could redeem them, and a Tier 6 evolutionary agent required ten thousand Merit Points.

A Tier 7 evolutionary agent required one hundred thousand Merit Points.

A Tier 8 evolutionary agent required one million Merit Points.

A Tier 9 evolutionary agent required ten million Merit Points.

Moreover, wanting to redeem an evolutionary agent also required obtaining the corresponding authority; lower-level citizens could not redeem it even if they gathered enough Merit Points.

"The right to participate in the Central Council of Human Civilization." Lin Yuan glanced at the second treatment.

The Central Council of Human Civilization was a critical meeting involving the future direction of the entire Human Civilization, at which time Supreme Powerhouses would all descend with their consciousness to participate, and the Three Goddesses would pay even closer attention.

Wanting to participate in a council of this level required at least a Ninth Level Citizen Rank.

"Not very interested."

Lin Yuan was not interested in whether there was a council or not; this privilege had inestimable value for certain citizens skilled at currying favor, but in Lin Yuan's view, it was of little meaning.

"Huh? Gifted with three opportunities to soak in the eternal spring?"

Lin Yuan's gaze lingered on a certain benefit.

The eternal spring was a twelve-star rare treasure of Human Civilization, and any soaker could extend their Lifespan by hundreds of thousands of years without any hidden dangers.

In addition, during the soaking in the eternal spring, the Physical Body would undergo a slow transformation, and its upper limit potential would be enhanced.

Once, an alien Supreme Powerhouse was willing to exchange an eleven-star top-grade rare treasure with Human Civilization for a chance to soak in the eternal spring, to be used on their younger descendants.

Human Civilization did not agree.

An eleven-star top-grade rare treasure was worth tens of millions of Merit Points.

It could be said to be very sincere.

Human Civilization's refusal was not because the eleven-star top-grade rare treasure was not enough, but because there were more considerations.

Within Human Civilization, apart from gaining one soaking opportunity automatically after advancing to Tier 9, wanting an additional soak cost five million Merit Points per time.

Now, advancing to a Ninth Level Citizen, the three gifted opportunities to soak in the eternal spring were equivalent to fifteen million Merit Points.

"There is a chance to let the two Primordial Spirits go have a soak."

Lin Yuan thought to himself, such opportunities to raise the upper limit of Physical Body potential were indeed rare.

"There is also enjoying the redemption discount of the Human Civilization Treasury."

"The redemption discount for civilization coins and cosmic crystals is sixty percent."

"The redemption discount for Merit Points is ninety percent."

Lin Yuan was overjoyed.

The so-called redemption of civilization coins and cosmic crystals was the redemption of routine resources and strategic resources within the Human Civilization Treasury.

They could be obtained through civilization coins and cosmic crystals.

When Lin Yuan was an Eighth Level Citizen, he also enjoyed a corresponding discount, but at that time it was eighty percent.

Now advancing to a Ninth Level Citizen, he directly enjoyed a sixty percent redemption, a reduction of twenty percent, and he did not know how many cosmic crystals this could help Lin Yuan save.

As for the Merit Points redemption discount.

The Merit Points redemptions in the Human Civilization Treasury were all restricted resources, or even resources not open to the outside world.

Among them were numerous twelve-star rare treasures, many special Legacy places, and places similar to the Black Planet that were useful for comprehending Fusion rules.

Although the Merit Points redemption only enjoyed ninety percent, what was reduced were Merit Points, and the rare treasures redeemed were incomparably rare throughout the entire Cosmic Starry Sky.

"Ninety percent redemption. As long as I redeem ten billion Merit Points' worth of rare treasures, I will make up for the Merit Points consumed in this advancement to a Ninth Level Citizen in one fell swoop."

A smile appeared on Lin Yuan's face. This was the effect of raising the citizen Rank; the short-term harvest might not be the greatest, but if time was extended, the benefits obtained would inevitably be far-reaching and enduring.

There were as many as several thousand welfare privileges for advancing to a Ninth Level Citizen.

Lin Yuan roughly browsed through them. Most of them were enhanced versions of the Eighth Level Citizen privileges, and the remaining newly added privilege treatments could also help him.

At least it could save a lot of troublesome periods.

"The Merit Points required to advance to a Tenth Level Citizen."

After checking the many privilege treatments outside, Lin Yuan looked towards the conditions for advancing to a Tenth Level Citizen.

"Fifty billion Merit Points?"

The corners of Lin Yuan's mouth twitched slightly. Such a huge amount of Merit Points, even if all the rare objects obtained in the Two-Dimensional World trip were redeemed, would still be far from enough.

"In today's Human Civilization, apart from the Nine Supreme Experts, there shouldn't be many Tenth Level Citizens and higher-level citizens, right?"

Lin Yuan shook his head slightly. Even for an Eleven-Tier Evolver, gathering fifty billion Merit Points was an almost impossible thing to complete.

Unless one fought their way through a large-scale Alien Race Battlefield, there was no need to even think about it.

And fighting one's way through a large-scale Alien Race Battlefield? Even as powerful as the Four-Armed Divine King during their Peak period, it would be very difficult to achieve, and Supreme Powerhouses could enter the arena and strike at any time.

And even if Supreme Powerhouses did not strike, those Eleven-Tier Peak Experts of the Peak Groups were not so easy to deal with. Under the circumstance of holding supreme weapons, if one couldn't beat them, there would be five or ten.

Under such circumstances, who could withstand it?

Today's Tenth Level Citizens of Human Civilization were basically Eleven-Tier Evolutionary Grand Scholars, or those human citizens from before the Star Sea Calendar Year One who had made tremendous contributions during long years of dormancy.

"Let's buy resources and Cultivate the Profound Yellow Body."

Lin Yuan opened the Human Civilization Treasury and began selecting.

The Profound Yellow Body was one of the three guardian secret techniques of the Xuanhuang Lineage, divided into four levels: Initiation, Minor Achievement, Major Achievement, and Perfection.

Of course, the four levels here targeted each tier.

At Tier 9, cultivating the Profound Yellow Body to the Perfection level, upon advancing to Tier 10, with a massive leap in life level, the Profound Yellow Body would drop to Major Achievement or even Minor Achievement.

Theoretically, if a Twelve-Order Ultimate Existence could Cultivate the Profound Yellow Body to Perfection in this stage, it could easily withstand the grand destruction of the Universe.

One must know that if a Universe entered the period of grand destruction, all things would collapse, and even as powerful as Supreme Powerhouses, only half or even fewer could survive.

Only Supreme Powerhouses who had experienced the grand destruction of the Universe could be considered truly free.

Now Lin Yuan had already cultivated the Profound Yellow Body to Major Achievement, still a step away from Perfection.

With Lin Yuan's basic Physical Body strength, a Tier 10 Perfection Profound Yellow Body would have a physique already strong enough to suppress rules, allowing him to rival the second tier of Eleven-Tier purely relying on his Physical Body.

"Almost done."

Lin Yuan selected for a while, spending roughly two hundred billion cubic cosmic crystals, and after the sixty-percent privilege of a Ninth Level Citizen, he ultimately only paid one hundred and twenty billion cubic cosmic crystals.

He directly saved eighty billion cubic cosmic crystals.

"The expense is really huge."

Lin Yuan shook his head slightly.

Actually, it was not that the Profound Yellow Body cost a lot.

The Profound Yellow Body indeed had very high demands for resources, but a Tier 10 Profound Yellow Body, no matter how high the expense, was still limited.

It was mainly because Lin Yuan's basic Physical Body was too strong, leading to a starting point that was too high, and the Profound Yellow Body increased the Physical Body's strength tenfold.

If a normal Tier 10 life's initial Physical Body strength was ten, increasing it tenfold would be one hundred.

An initial Physical Body strength of one hundred increased tenfold would be one thousand.

The resources spent by the two were naturally different, and Lin Yuan's initial Physical Body strength was far more than one hundred; it was likely ten thousand, one hundred thousand, or even one million!

The resources needed to Cultivate the Profound Yellow Body to the Perfection level were naturally ten thousand times, one hundred thousand times, or a million times that of normal!