SoulLand:Ascending to Godhood through Science

You Chen had often speculated about the possibility of Tang Hao appearing.

The best outcome, naturally, would be using Tang Hao's power to help him deal with his mission targets from the Spirit Hall.

However, he had a good guess that Tang Hao was unlikely to take such a risk. To show himself before You Chen would mean risking exposure to the Spirit Hall, and Tang Hao was not someone who would act recklessly.

The original work provided some insight into Tang Hao's cautious nature.

After Tang San enrolled in school and formally became Yu Xiaogang's disciple, Tang Hao had departed without hesitation, leaving without a word. He then hid in the shadows, silently protecting Tang San while working to recover and enhance his own strength.

During this time, despite the deep-seated grudge he harbored against the Spirit Hall, Tang Hao refrained from launching any revenge attacks. His priority was to reduce any possibility of the Spirit Hall discovering the connection between him and Tang San.

Direct intervention was a last resort, something only employed in dire circumstances. The best way to protect Tang San was to avoid letting the Spirit Hall notice him until Tang San had fully matured.

Tang Hao might not be a particularly clever man, but understanding this didn't require extraordinary intelligence.

No matter how tempting the offer, if it conflicted with this core principle, Tang Hao knew exactly what choice to make.

You Chen wasn't omniscient and couldn't claim to perfectly grasp Tang Hao's mindset.

In countless alternate fanfiction timelines, interpretations of the same character differed wildly. In some, deviations from the original psychological portrayal of Tang Hao worked perfectly, but those interpretations wouldn't necessarily apply here.

You Chen had never considered himself a flawless tactician. He simply moved forward step by step, reducing risks and maximizing benefits with each action, weaving these decisions into a cohesive path forward.

Thus, he mentally lowered the probability of Tang Hao choosing to meet with him. After this evaluation, he returned to his daily life.

Unlike his initial sleepless vigilance, after several rounds of distant probing confirmed that Tang Hao wouldn't suddenly appear and strike him down, You Chen decided to act as though Tang Hao didn't exist and continued his usual cultivation.

Constantly guarding against a Titled Douluo for twenty-four hours a day would be mentally exhausting.

If the worst-case scenario of some deus ex machina death occurred, so be it.

And so… as everything fell into place, time began to pass swiftly.

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The plan to "turn Tang San into Xiao Wu's sycophant" progressed smoothly.

With You Chen serving as the manipulative puppeteer pulling both their strings, Xiao Wu maintained a sense of compassionate tolerance for Tang San while preserving a relatively friendly classmate relationship with him.

Tang San, on the other hand, fell deeper and deeper for Xiao Wu. His gaze increasingly lingered on her, and as he felt their relationship improving, he began to consider himself Xiao Wu's close friend in his heart.

At the same time, You Chen wasn't so kind as to allow Tang San to maintain a consistently positive and motivated rivalry with You Xing.

Whenever Tang San's fighting spirit reached its peak, You Chen always ensured he would "coincidentally" witness You Xing and Xiao Wu's playful interactions.

That feeling… it was like finding feces mixed into chocolate—utterly revolting.

During these moments, Tang San couldn't help but harbor intense hostility toward You Xing, even though he knew he shouldn't. Each of these instances contributed another "defeat quest" to You Chen's growing list.

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Back when Tang San and his teacher had stormed into his home, You Chen had already begun observing them with an experimental mindset.

Over time, multiple tests confirmed some of You Chen's theories.

He gradually introduced the concept of "fate power" regarding the system's task targets.

Simply put, the more pivotal a character was in the original story, the higher their fate power.

If the author were the creator deity of this world, then the protagonist was undoubtedly its favored child of destiny.

The child of destiny possessed the highest level of fate power, and other important characters held substantial amounts as well.

When opposing these individuals, You Chen wasn't just contending with their strength or abilities but also the overwhelming fate power they carried.

The stronger the fate power, the lower the threshold for triggering a system quest. For minor characters, only conflicts significant enough to trigger the system's "minimum guarantee mechanism" would generate quests.

But for characters with high fate power, even minor clashes could directly activate a quest.

For example, if You Chen bumped into both Mu Feng and Tang San, and both felt slight dissatisfaction or hostility (quantified as, say, 1–2 points of negative emotion), Tang San would likely trigger a quest, while Mu Feng wouldn't, even if his negative emotion score were multiplied tenfold.

In addition to this low trigger threshold, the rewards for such quests were proportionally higher relative to their difficulty and requirements.

If the target's strength and status served as the "base value" of the quest reward, then fate power and quest difficulty acted as "bonus multipliers."

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Tang San, being the protagonist of the original story, naturally belonged to the first echelon of fate power. Quests involving him could turn what would ordinarily yield Spirit Master-level rewards into Spirit Elder-level rewards or higher. These quests might even include rare items like "Spirit Ring Age Cards."

Moreover, high-fate-power targets had a special "first-time jackpot" mechanism.

For example, Yu Xiaogang had dropped the "Adaptive Spirit Bone," and Tang San had dropped the "Divine Elephant's Prison-Suppressing Strength."

For their first quests, the system ignored their current strength or status and instead tailored the rewards to their fate power level.

Tang San, as the child of destiny, possessed the world's pinnacle fate power. His first quest reward, the Divine Elephant's Prison-Suppressing Strength, offered the potential to reach the very peak of the world's power system through cultivation alone.

Yu Xiaogang, as a crucial supporting character throughout the story, had fate power at least in the third tier, if not the second. His "Adaptive Spirit Bone" was one of the most top-tier cultivation resources in the world, capable of defying fate itself for ordinary individuals.

Faced with such lucrative rewards, You Chen resolved to squeeze at least one quest out of every major character in the original story.

Even if he ignored all future quests from these individuals, securing the first jackpot was non-negotiable!

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At times, You Chen wondered if he himself might be a character written by some author.

But even if that were the case, what did it matter? Was he supposed to fret over something so nebulous?

Take the Douluo Continent's case as an example. The so-called creator deity, seemingly in control of all destinies, might have simply stumbled into creating this world by chance. The creator might not even be extraordinary—just an ordinary person.

As for fanfiction writers who self-inserted themselves as protagonists? Even less so.

They were probably just broke, ramen-eating, terminally single losers living miserable lives.

Sure, they could "turn Xiao Wu, Bibi Dong, or Qian Renxue into pigs" with the flick of a pen in their stories, but in reality, they couldn't even touch a single hair of these beauties.

By contrast, he, You Chen, wielded extraordinary power, could switch beauties like outfits, and even dared to dream grandly. Compared to those pitiful authors, he was undoubtedly living the life of a true winner!

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