Meanwhile, on the other side,
after Chu Ge returned to his room, the very first thing he did was open the system and check the system notifications that he had not carefully reviewed earlier.
[Ding! The Child of Fortune Luo Lingtian has been forcefully defeated by the host. Congratulations to the host for obtaining 10,000 Villain Points.]
[Ding! The Child of Fortune Luo Lingtian has suffered mental turmoil. Congratulations to the host for obtaining 5,000 Villain Points.]
[Ding! The Child of Fortune Ye Chen has suffered mental turmoil. Congratulations to the host for obtaining 3,000 Villain Points.]
[Ding! The Child of Fortune ...]
Several messages of roughly the same nature appeared before Chu Ge's eyes.
Chu Ge examined them carefully.
From Luo Lingtian being defeated by him, falling into mental turmoil, his Dao heart shaking, losing a damaged Supreme artifact, sinking into madness, and finally giving rise to a heart demon—after that entire chain of events,
together with the 3,000 points contributed by that little nobody Ye Chen, Chu Ge had gained a total of 58,000 Villain Points in this wave.
Adding in the 65,500 points he already possessed, his total Villain Points now amounted to 123,500.
This could be called a sudden fortune windfall. Not only was it enough to raise the Diary module to Level 4, he could even further upgrade the Check-in or Sign-in module by one more level, reaching Level 3.
Without hesitation, Chu Ge immediately communicated with the system.
"System, spend Villain Points to upgrade the Diary module."
[Ding! 80,000 Villain Points consumed. Upgrade in progress. Remaining Villain Points: 43,500.]
Chu Ge did not rush to spend all of his Villain Points.
He planned to wait until after the grand competition to see whether his Villain Points could once again reach the 100,000 mark and attempt to unlock a random system module.
After all, even if the Sign-in or Check-in module were raised to Level 3 at present, it would still not unlock any brand-new functions and would not bring about a qualitative transformation.
After glancing at the upgrade time, Chu Ge made a rough estimate. Once this upgrade was complete, it would already be evening.
"Let me take a look at that damaged Supreme weapon first. I hope my earlier intuition wasn't wrong..."
Chu Ge pondered briefly, then took out the damaged weapon he had obtained from Luo Lingtian.
The moment the tattered chessboard entered his hand, Chu Ge felt his star apertures within his body respond faintly.
'My perception wasn't wrong—this chessboard really is related to the power of the stars...'
He thought to himself as he gathered a thread of spiritual energy in his palm and tried to inject it into the chessboard. The result—there was not the slightest reaction.
'Ordinary spiritual energy doesn't work...'
With that thought, Chu Ge withdrew the spiritual energy after a brief consideration.
He then circulated the star apertures within his body. A wisp of star power condensed and slowly flowed into the tattered chessboard in his hand.
In an instant, the originally shabby and broken chessboard radiated dazzling brilliance. Rich stellar power surged forth from within it, instantly filling the entire room.
On the chessboard, the interwoven dots and lines were no longer as blurry as before. Instead, they became clear and distinct, with dense intersections emitting faint glimmers of light.
And at this moment, Chu Ge had already closed his eyes. A thread of his consciousness followed the star power and entered the interior of the chessboard.
A long while passed.
Chu Ge opened his eyes again. A streak of starlight flashed through his pupils, and joy immediately spread across his face.
This damaged Supreme weapon—no, rather, this "Myriad Stars Board."
Not only was it related to the power of the stars, it was even closely connected to the Great Zhou Heavenly Cycle Star Aperture Refining Diagram that Chu Ge was cultivating!
After his consciousness entered it, he learned the true name of this Supreme weapon, and also came to understand the functions of the Myriad Stars Board, as well as its current specific condition.
First was its effect.
Within the Myriad Stars Board, there was innately a grand formation that combined the functions of attack, defense, entrapment, and gathering.
Rather than saying that the Myriad Stars Board contained a formation, it was more accurate to say that the Myriad Stars Board itself was the carrier of this grand formation.