"Can everyone beco the world's number one..."
Guan Tong stood in the small courtyard. After listening to the content of the eighth rule announced by the Fire Thief, he inexplicably thought back to the second marathon rule, when he had secured the world's number one spot thanks to the Shadow's movent speed.
If, according to that rule, he were to create a similar challenge now, he should still be able to easily take first place.
...Well, that's not necessarily certain.
Back then, it was shortly after the Doomsday Rules era began. Every Ascendant was just starting out, and aside from their own exclusive items or abilities, they had almost no other items to assist them.
But now, over half a year later, whether it's items or abilities obtained from opening boxes, they have gradually beco diverse and varied, blossoming into a hundred flowers.
In this situation, no one can confidently say they are 100% certain to achieve world number one in a particular field.
However, Guan Tong didn't feel much pressure. With the Shadow by his side, completing this rule shouldn't be a problem.
"Let's see what this hidden rule is."
Guan Tong opened his Personal Terminal and found a new function had appeared on the panel.
Create Challenge / Challenge List
Out of curiosity, he selected to open it and discovered it was a dual-function feature.
You could either create your own challenge scenario, objective, rules, etc., or you could view challenges already created by others.
Guan Tong casually glanced at the list. Many people had already created challenges.
《Challenge: Total number of push-ups done by the ti the rule ends》
《Challenge: Don't take a shit until the rule ends》
《Challenge: Drink the minimum amount of water until the rule ends》
《Challenge: 3x3 Rubik's Cube solving speed》
...
There were countless challenges of all kinds, so relatively normal, others already bizarre.
To be honest, seeing these diverse and varied challenges gave him a feeling similar to browsing various Guinness World Records for fun before the apocalypse.
Many of those records were also very bizarre, but once included in the Guinness World Records, it ant others could go and challenge them. Anyone who thought breaking the record was "easy with just hands" could definitely go try.
The current rule had a similar situation: every challenge created by a person would be made public and be searchable by keywords. This way, anyone with the sa idea could search for similar challenges and decide whether to challenge the creator.
If there was a difference, it was that you wouldn't know who would be the last one laughing until the rule's effective period ended. Before that, even if there was only 1 second left until the end, the possibility of a reversal still existed.
Guan Tong closed the interface and opened the rule details. If he wanted to create a challenge, he definitely needed to understand the hidden rule first.
【Hidden Rule Eight: Never Satisfied】
【Hidden Rule Content: After this rule ends, achieving world number one results in three challenges will increase your Mind Power Upper Limit by 10 points. For each additional number one achieved thereafter, the Upper Limit will increase by an additional 5 points, with a maximum increase of 500 points. Note: In this rule, each person can only create one challenge.】
【Note: For ordinary people, achieving world number one in any one challenge might be enough to satisfy them. But is just one world number one really enough to satisfy the strong? If you want to beco stronger, go participate in challenges created by others and snatch their number one spots.】
After reading the hidden rule content, Guan Tong's eyes lit up.
"If I rember correctly, this is the first ti a rule has appeared that increases the Mind Power Upper Limit, right?"
Since the Mind Power was unlocked after the first rule ended, for the next six consecutive rules, no thod to increase the Mind Power Upper Limit appeared. Ascendants could only increase it naturally through the cycle of self-recovery—draining themselves dry.
During this period, perhaps it could be increased through items, like the Gene Optimization Serum Guan Tong obtained from the Glory-level Box, or other optimization serums purchased by others from the Ascension Store.
As for whether there were other items that could increase the Mind Power Upper Limit, Guan Tong didn't know. Perhaps there were, but he had never seen any.
Precisely because increasing the Mind Power Upper Limit was so difficult, seeing a reward involving it in the hidden rules now made Guan Tong feel pleasantly surprised.
Achieving world number one in three challenges could increase the Upper Limit by 10 points, and each additional number one after that could increase it by another 5 points... In other words, if you could secure enough number one spots, you could significantly boost your Mind Power Upper Limit through this hidden rule.
It would be false to say Guan Tong wasn't excited. What he lacked most was an increase in his Mind Power Upper Limit—because to open a new page in his exclusive Mind Power item, the 【Wordless Book】, his Mind Power Upper Limit needed to be sufficiently high.
"This rule is a very precious opportunity for , I must seize it." Guan Tong silently resolved.
If there was anything to be mindful of, it was the rule's ntion that "each person can only create one challenge."
This ant that if a strong individual wanted to et the hidden rule's requirents, just getting world number one in their own created challenge wasn't enough; they would have to snatch the number one spot from at least two other people's created challenges.
The two people who had their own created challenge's number one spot snatched away would then, in order to complete the rule, have no choice but to try and snatch the number one spot from challenges created by others.
This ant that for every strong person who completed the hidden rule, there would be two more people who failed to et the rule's requirents, ultimately failing and suffering Mind Power attenuation.
And if this strong person wanted to increase their Upper Limit even more, then two additional number ones wouldn't be enough; they would have to snatch even more, many more challenge number ones.
This would lead to more and more people failing their challenges.
"So that's how it is..."
At this mont, Guan Tong understood the aning of this hidden rule.
"The Mind Power Upper Limit you gain does not co from nothing; it cos from the Mind Power Upper Limit attenuated from those whose number one spots you snatched."
Faced with this sowhat cruel reality, Guan Tong wasn't surprised.
Because from the very first rule, the hidden rule 【Plunder Clarity】 had laid the essence bare before him.
That ti, Guan Tong's choice was "No," but this ti his choice was different.
If you asked where his bottom line was, it was that he didn't want to stain his hands with the blood of innocent people.
During the 【Plunder Clarity】 incident, knocking soone out could really lead to death. But this ti was different; failing this rule only resulted in Mind Power attenuation.
Although Mind Power attenuation was also a painful loss for Ascendants, it was still far less severe compared to human life. Therefore, Guan Tong could make a different choice this ti, as he wasn't so saint anyway.
And also...
Guan Tong thought, this hidden rule was very suitable to beco the first piece of information he would "sell."
Since establishing the Ascendant Ho website until now, he had never sold any information. It wasn't that he didn't want to, but there had never been a suitable one.
This hidden rule was the typical kind that "cannot be proven during the rule's effective period."
Perhaps so people might guess that achieving more world number ones would yield extra rewards. But before the rule ends, unless soone could see the hidden rules like Guan Tong, no one would know what the specific rewards were.
Only Guan Tong knew the reward wasn't Ascension Coins, nor was it so item; it was the most precious thing for every Ascendant: an increase in Mind Power Upper Limit.
In his view, this information would absolutely be worth a fortune to so strong individuals, but to those with insufficient strength, it might not be as important.
For the latter, even achieving one world number one during the 15-day rule period might not be easy, let alone achieving the minimum requirent of three to satisfy the extra rule reward.
But for the strong, even without knowing the hidden information, they would definitely actively try to secure more number one spots.
In this situation, Guan Tong wasn't worried that selling the information would lead to more competition, because whether he sold it or not, competition would exist.
So, Guan Tong decided to sell this information. While earning a large sum of Ascension Coins, he could also further increase the credibility of his information as the Administrator—but he didn't plan to disclose the detailed reward points.
"I want to sell this information. It's best to only say that achieving more number ones will grant a reward that increases the Mind Power Upper Limit. But there's no need to ntion the details like 10 points after three, and an extra 5 points for each one after that."
He knew that if he spelled out all the detailed reward points one by one, then others would know he could know the detailed hidden rules.
But if he was vague, only saying there was an Upper Limit increase reward without specifying the points, others wouldn't be able to determine exactly how detailed his knowledge was.
There was still a difference.
It's like speculating on stocks. Soone telling you that XX stock will rise tomorrow, and soone telling you exactly how many points XX stock will rise tomorrow, are two completely different concepts.
The forr, you'd think this person has good insight, or got lucky with a guess.
But the latter, you'd only feel horrified. Does this person have future sight, or did they ti-travel back from tomorrow?
Guan Tong didn't want others to think he knew every detail of the hidden rules with absolute clarity, so he would only sell vague information. Even though vague, its value was still sufficiently high.
Thinking of this, Guan Tong imdiately returned to his room and opened the website.
The special section "The Administrator's Domain," which he hadn't activated before, was officially opened today.
This section was different from the other four sections. The biggest difference was that only he had permission to post.
Then, he published the first post in this section.
《Selling Secret Intelligence Related to the Eighth Doomsday Rule》
Details: Intelligence price 50,000 Ascension Coins. Not disclosed imdiately; will be uniformly disclosed after 24 hours.
The reason Guan Tong designed the 24-hour uniform disclosure was to prevent the first people to buy the information from reselling it.
As for the price of 50,000 coins, it was high, directly making clear his attitude of not scamming the poor.
It wasn't that he didn't want to take the route of small profits but quick turnover; he just felt that ordinary Ascendants buying this intelligence wouldn't be of much use to them and would only waste their Ascension Coins.
Once the post was published, within just ten minutes, a large number of users flooded in with comnts.
"The Administrator has hidden information related to this rule?!"
"Price 50,000 coins? Sorry, excuse ..."
"Wow, as expected of 'The Administrator's Domain,' the first post is so explosive!"
"Having seen the few posts the Administrator has published so far, I think the credibility of the intelligence is still quite high. Unfortunately, judging by the pricing, the Administrator's target users should be those major Ascendant organizations. Ordinary individuals probably can't afford this price."
"How could it be fake intelligence? Have you forgotten the intelligence post about the Holy Grail, and the one about the Sound Hunter? Especially the Sound Hunter; the official hadn't released any news yet, but the Administrator posted it first. It really startled
at the ti."
"Administrator, why not sell it cheaper? If you sold it for 100 Ascension Coins, everyone could afford it. With so many users on the forum, if everyone bought one copy, the profit might not necessarily be lower than selling at a high price, right?"
The Administrator of Ascendant Ho selling high-priced intelligence, and intelligence related to the newly released eighth rule at that. This news quickly spread throughout the entire forum and also reached the various major organizations, groups, and official departnts monitoring the website.
And each organization, group, including the official departnts, after their relevant staff sought instructions from superiors, all received a unanimous reply.
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