With the cosmic memory leak permanently plugged and the universal heap fully reclaimed, Lin Tao was confronted with the greatest buildup of refined power in the history of existence.
Hovering directly above the central dais, glowing with blinding golden radiance across twenty light-projected panes, sat the storage partition labeled /var/data/ancestral_reserves/.
Lin Tao stood beside the composite stone stand, adjusting the blood-soaked linen bandage on his right thumb. The huge heat-powered discharge from clearing the memory leak had left his veins humming with leftover warmth. But his core remained pure, clear, and perfectly empty.
He queried the storage volume through his star-white-gold land-mapper metal pen:
Four hundred and eighty thousand tera-units of pure, clean living life-force sat waiting in the system cache.
Lin Tao parsed the historical breakdown across the glowing data ledgers.
The numbers documented thirty thousand years of relentless royal extortion. The Jade Heaven Empire had stockpiled twelve thousand tera-units during their reign of fire. The Obsidian Dragon Dynasty had pulled out thirty-four thousand tera-units from the slave mines of the Northern Crags. And the High Archon Board had devoured over one hundred and ten thousand tera-units, hoarding the refined life-force of five hundred million mortal workers in crystal-clear deep-storage vaults.
