Chapter 43: Game Launch 3
And what are these digital screens? They are similar to the semi-digitized worlds created in novels where everyone has a screen that only they can view, recording everything about them in great detail.
But there is no level-up system like in other novels. Instead, players have to increase their cultivation levels, similar to xinxia novels, where players need to cultivate and do their best to gain immortality.
This is not just in this world but is similar across all other races. They may call it differently or practice it in a different way, but they all have the same cultivation realms, which are:
Lower world:
Body Building 1-9
Foundation 1-9
Golden Core 1-9
Nascent Soul 1-9
Incarnation 1-9
Middle world:
Voidbreak 1-9
Wholeness 1-9
Perfection 1-9
Nirvana 1-9
Emperor 1-9
Xu Qianghua only knows realms up to the middle world level. In his last life, the world had only crossed the middle level, and the area of the void that their world is in does not have a high world, meaning no one in this area does.
That does not mean there are no ancient transcripts that might have higher realms, but those are closely guarded even if they are never understood.
Each of these realms is divided into 9 levels: 1 means you have just stepped into the realm, and 9 means you have mastered the realm and are ready to strive towards the next realm.
Xu Qianghua and his group need to focus on the foundation-building realm. This realm will allow them to use the Family token and other tokens.
Although this is the second realm in the cultivation path, as this world is still a lower world, there is not much spiritual qi at the beginning, which limits the intake of pure qi.
Each realm takes years to progress through, depending on one's physique, which helps with the speed of cultivation and has different effects.
Then there are the Meridians inside our bodies. These are semi-real as they cannot be found if we dissect, but are always present inside everyone.
They are the highways for the spiritual qi taken from the outside world into our bodies. If a cultivator loses their meridians, they will lose all the spiritual qi in their body and will not be able to cultivate anymore, as the meridians are not there to regulate and transport the spiritual qi into different parts of the body.
Getting back to the game, the World's Will made the game a simple one that allows you to cultivate in your own space with nothing else, along with a map that gives a general view of the world inside the game.
It lets us choose the starting position inside this world but does not transport us. Instead, it requires you to reach the body-building realm peak stage.
What does peak stage mean? The cultivation realms are divided into 9 levels, so everyone subdivided the levels into early, middle, late, and peak.
Levels 1-3 are the early stage, 4-6 are the middle stage, 7-8 are the late stage, and finally, level 9 is the peak stage, which us when the cultiator is not able to advance anymore and needs to breakthrough to the next realm.
In the beginning, there was no peak realm, but as higher realms started to be introduced and people were not able to move to the next realm but were stuck in that realm, the peak stage was established.
Although now the peak stage is used similarly to all the other stages, it is usually symbolized as being the most powerful in that stage.
'In my last life, it took me about a day and a half to reach the peak body-building stage' Xu Qianghua thought as he watched the intro clip to the game.
Usually, any cultivator takes from a few years to a decade to complete the body-building stage and then tries to challenge the bottleneck toward the foundation realm.
So why did it take Xu Qianghua only a day and a half? The game time is sped up, so an hour in real-time is about a month in the game.
If the game is online for 3 days, which is 72 hours, that means 72 months or 6 years have passed in the game.
Calculated, Xu Qianghua spent 36 months to finish the body-building stage, which is fast considering the game world is still a lower world and a new one at that.
He didn't spend a lot of money on the game at that time. This was also due to the pills and other heavenly materials that helped speed up the process.
As for Liu Meiying, Liu Anwei, and the maids who were with him? They took a little more time than him, around 4 to 5 months, as there weren't many pills and heavenly materials available.
But in this life, he planned to empty the game mall so he would be more prepared. As a bonus, each mall is individual, meaning all the low-level items like pills and low-level heavenly materials are available in certain amounts per individual.
So Xu Qianghua and his group can stock up on these materials for themselves or future family members to cultivate faster.
This doesn't include the special rare items like Platinum and above Family tokens and other tokens needed to create a legitimate force in the new world.
These items are rare and synchronized across all the malls, meaning if someone buys them, they're gone.
Xu Qianghua plans to clear out his and all the ladies' shops of these items, then buy the rare items they need today and all the leftover rare items on the last day to avoid wasting them after the game merges.
Why don't we buy all of the rare items? It's simple. He doesn't want to hoard all these items and act like those protagonists in novels who think they're keeping them safe from bad people who might exploit them.
This is stupid because if they are bad people, they will find ways to get these items. They're not stupid enough to buy items from the game without knowing their value.
The only people who would buy these items are rich second generations who like games or some stupid people who accidentally bought them.
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