The joys and sorrows of people are not interconnected. Those dedicated to scientific research, especially scholars in materials science, were overjoyed by the latest announcement.
They had always been committed to exploring how to use the resources of the Cyber Dimension to enhance their own strength, and they had invested tremendous effort into it.
However, although this dedication had earned recognition from higher authorities, most of the rewards were spiritual encouragement rather than substantial benefits.
After all, Cyber Aura, with its replicative properties, could always be mass-produced no matter how many new types of aura they developed.
Now, with the implementation of the new act, they finally had the opportunity to turn their research achievements into real wealth.
From this point onward, they would become the cornerstone of the future cultivation world, and their status would be greatly elevated.
Not only that, some masters of materials science even began considering the manufacture of pills similar to Foundation Establishment Pills and Golden Core Pills, which could help cultivators improve the quality of their Cyber Aura and break through bottlenecks.
Overall, the brand-new Cyber Aura Act brought tremendous impacts and opportunities to cultivators.
For those willing to strive, this was undoubtedly an excellent era to prove their own value.
But for those accustomed to relying on external conditions, this would become an extremely difficult challenge.
It was foreseeable that in the future, a vast number of Cyber Cultivators would remain permanently stuck at a certain realm, unable to advance until they died of old age and released the Cyber Aura they occupied for others to use.
After Xiao's announcement was issued, he directly uploaded the redesigned Cyber Aura program into the Cyber Dimension.
The Cyber Dimension immediately acted like a central control hub, transmitting commands to the Cyber Aura across dozens of worlds.
The Cyber Aura that received the new command immediately began dividing itself, lowering its own quality, and the quality of each individual Cyber Aura unit was reduced by half.
Then it divided again.
And again.
Continuously dividing without end...
This process continued until the quality standard of Cyber Aura finally reached the minimum level established by Xiao, at which point the division stopped.
Afterward, all Cyber Aura rapidly shrank down to the nuclear scale, dissipating from sight like smoke and completely disappearing from the perception of ordinary observers.
After the quality of Cyber Aura decreased, nuclear-scale Cyber Aura could essentially be fully popularized.
This was because producing a single unit of the original-quality Cyber Aura could now create one thousand nuclear-scale Cyber Aura units of the lowest standard.
Therefore, Xiao decided that from now on, all Cyber Aura would be replaced with nuclear-scale Cyber Aura to reduce the scrutiny of those capable of observing it.
This transformation immediately caused a tremendous uproar across several worlds.
In particular, within the major megacorporations of the Cyberpunk World that possessed the ability to monitor Cyber Aura, the shock was even greater.
The executives of these megacorporations fell into an even deeper panic over the sudden disappearance of Cyber Aura.
After all, according to their deductions, there were only two possible explanations for its disappearance.
The first possibility was that Xiao had died, causing the Cyber Aura to lose control and fall into complete chaos.
The second possibility was that Xiao's technology had made another major breakthrough, successfully developing even smaller and more concealed Cyber Aura.
However, the first possibility clearly made no sense.
If Cyber Aura had truly gone out of control, it would have become an unprecedented catastrophe for the entire world.
Thus, only the second possibility remained.
Xiao's technology had once again advanced, reaching a microscopic realm they had never witnessed before.
Technological progress had never been about becoming larger and stronger.
On the contrary, the smaller the scale of the technology one mastered, the more terrifying its power became.
Xiao, who already controlled nuclear-scale nanotechnology, was powerful beyond their imagination.
Technology at such a level could truly be called divine.
This revelation caused the major megacorporations to become deeply anxious.
They realized that, when facing nuclear-scale Cyber Aura, they were completely powerless.
They no longer possessed any effective means of blocking Xiao's surveillance and investigation.
On this planet, there would no longer be any secrets hidden from Xiao.
Even their own research technologies would become completely transparent before him.
Just like in The Three-Body Problem, where the Trisolarans used sophons to lock down Earth's technological development,
If Xiao wished, scientific research throughout all worlds under his control would become impossible to escape from his supervision.
Even research into many microscopic technologies would require Xiao's approval before it could begin.
This was the technological hegemony brought by nuclear-scale Cyber Aura.
It was capable of directly locking down an entire world's scientific progress, naturally filling the executives of the megacorporations with fear.
The more deeply they understood science, the more profoundly they felt true terror and helplessness toward Xiao's technology.
However, compared to the fears of the insider megacorporations, the shrinking of Cyber Aura caused no panic among ordinary Cyber Cultivators.
After all, they had always relied on their senses and perception to observe Cyber Aura.
Their method of absorbing Cyber Aura was to use the aura within their bodies to capture the external aura around them.
Therefore, compared to the shrinking of Cyber Aura, what truly shocked them was the explosive increase in its quantity.
The ownerless aura floating in the air had increased explosively.
Being immersed within such a dense concentration of aura even gave them a sensation of suffocation.
At the same time, Cyber Cultivators also keenly sensed the crazy increase in the amount of Cyber Aura inside their own bodies.
But what frightened them even more was that they felt no increase whatsoever in their actual power.
This realization plunged them into profound fear.
They clearly understood the consequences that this expansion of aura would bring.
With the total amount of aura remaining unchanged, a reduction in quality naturally meant an insane increase in quantity.
But the human body simply could not contain such a massive amount of aura.
As a result, Cyber Cultivators would soon be forced to expel the excess aura from their bodies because they could no longer withstand it.
Even if the surplus could be compressed into Aura Coins, the price would be an overall decline in power, causing their combat capabilities to weaken significantly.
Even the differences in strength between cultivators of different levels within the same realm would continue to shrink, making it impossible to reproduce the overwhelming dominance of the past.
This was a fatal threat to those Cyber Cultivators who relied on their superior cultivation to tyrannize the lower ranks.
Without overwhelming power to support their status, they would quickly lose the position they once possessed.
Even high-level Cyber Cultivators would face enormous challenges.
Although they could still maintain certain advantages,
If the quality of the Cyber Aura within their bodies became insufficient to support their realms, it could very well cause their cultivation realms to collapse.
For those Cyber Cultivators who had struggled for countless years to climb to higher realms, this was undoubtedly a catastrophe.
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