I might have been playing a fake cultivation game.

Section 063 Player Gathering

One day later, in Luchuan Prefecture.

A luxurious and spacious carriage travels along a smooth bluestone road, and pedestrians make way for it wherever it goes.

Inside the spacious carriage, Zhou Yunshen, dressed in casual clothes, sat cross-legged with his eyes closed.

He did not cultivate in the carriage, but instead emptied his mind and rested.

Spiritual practice also requires a balance between work and rest.

Zhou Yunshen treated this gathering among players as a vacation, a chance to rest properly.

I don't know how much time passed, but the carriage stopped.

The coachman's voice came from outside the curtain: "Master, we've arrived at Yunlai Restaurant."

"Hmm." Zhou Yunshen responded, lifted the curtain of the carriage, and bent down to step out of the carriage.

Then Chen Xin'an, who looked like a child, came quickly to greet them with a smile on his face.

Three other people followed behind him.

Two men and one woman.

One of the men and one of the women looked to be around twenty years old, similar to Zhou Yunshen.

There was another person who looked about the same age as Chen Xin'an, with a very youthful expression.

"Brother Zhou, we've been waiting for you!" Chen Xin'an said with a smile and cupped his hands in greeting.

"Brother Zhou," the others greeted him.

Zhou Yunshen returned the greeting with a somewhat apologetic bow, saying, "The journey was quite long, I'm sorry to have kept everyone waiting."

"It's alright, it's alright, we just arrived too," Chen Xin'an said with a smile.

Led by Chen Xin'an, the group entered the luxuriously decorated Yunlai Restaurant.

An hour later, Zhou Yunshen came out of the restaurant.

His face was flushed, and he had a slight intoxication on his face.

But as he circulated the energy within his body, his complexion quickly returned to normal, and his eyes regained their clarity.

As they rode back to their residence in a carriage, Zhou Yunshen sat with his eyes closed, seemingly resting, but actually thinking about the gathering.

This gathering was initiated by Chen Xin'an.

The three people who came were all players from the vicinity of Luchuan Prefecture. After spending an hour together, Zhou Yunshen had gained some understanding of them.

Li Bin, male, 20 years old, with a fourth-grade spiritual root, started with three points of cultivation aptitude, two beautiful maids, and a special bloodline inheritance.

Li Bin is currently living in the small courtyard arranged by Chen Xin'an, and is practicing a Heaven-rank cultivation technique provided by Chen Xin'an.

Unfortunately, his spiritual root aptitude is not very good, and he has only cultivated to the ninth level of Qi Refining so far, not even reaching the Qi Refining Perfection stage.

He only brought one maid with him this time, and I must say, she was truly beautiful, deserving the title of "exquisite beauty."

Even though Zhou Yunshen had seen countless beautiful women on his phone, he was still amazed by her.

It is said that Li Bin spends every day indulging in pleasure with his two beautiful maids, indulging in revelry every night.

Wang Chuchu, female, nineteen years old, with a fourth-grade spiritual root, initially chose two points of cultivation aptitude, a special bloodline inheritance, a natal spiritual treasure, and a heaven-rank cultivation technique.

Regardless of what Wang Chuchu looks like in the real world, she is quite pretty in the game world, but she pales in comparison to Li Bin's beautiful maid.

Wang Chuchu's current cultivation level is the eighth level of Qi Refining. She lives in a house arranged by Chen Xin'an and acts very attentive to him.

Xiang Jiang, male, eight years old, with a third-grade spiritual root, chose three points of cultivation aptitude, a special bloodline, and a Golden Core family at the start.

Zhou Yunshen discovered that the characters of these players who chose the Golden Core family were all relatively young in the game world.

Upon closer reflection, this is actually quite normal.

After all, a disciple of a cultivation family with decent spiritual roots would have to be twenty years old without having started cultivating or having any cultivation at all. Is that reasonable?

This is clearly unreasonable and doesn't make any sense at all.

Seven or eight years old is just the right age to begin cultivation, so this age is quite reasonable.

The Xiang family, to which Xiang Jiang belongs, is a renowned cultivation family in Luchuan Prefecture, with a Golden Core True Monarch presiding over them.

However, the Xiang family's foundation was not as deep as that of the Chen family, to which Chen Xin'an belonged, and the core cultivation technique of the Xiang family was only a low-level earth-rank technique.

Under these circumstances, Chen Xin'an lent Xiang Jiang a Heaven-Rank cultivation technique for him to practice.

Now, Xiang Jiang has cultivated to the Qi Refining Perfection realm using this Heavenly Rank cultivation technique.

However, he was also unlucky. Like Chen Xin'an, he failed to break through to the Foundation Establishment realm and is now recuperating, preparing to try again in a few days.

It can be said that all the players who gathered at Yunlai Restaurant, including Zhou Yunshen, had received favors from Chen Xin'an to varying degrees.

Anyone with half a brain can see that Chen Xin'an is cultivating his network of connections in the game world.

As for whether Chen Xin'an's network of connections was useful, Zhou Yunshen had no idea.

After returning home, Zhou Yunshen took out the "Innate Return to Origin Technique" and began to study it...

Time passed day by day.

In the following period, Zhou Yunshen practiced the "Red Sun Burning Heaven Scripture" step by step.

Occasionally, he would change things up and practice the "Innate Return to Origin Technique".

Every three days, when the cooldown period of the Hell Dungeon ends, he will go to the Hell Dungeon to kill monsters. Then, he will leave the Hell Dungeon in a few minutes, ten minutes or a long time, or an hour.

In fact, he could have used fire-based techniques to prolong the time in the hellish dungeon, but he felt it was unnecessary.

He felt that rather than pointlessly wasting time in the hellish dungeon, it would be better to finish the battle quickly, die sooner, and continue his cultivation.

In the game world, after taking the medicine for a period of time, Zhou Xiaoya's leg ailment improved significantly, and she could walk much more normally.

This would be unbelievable in the real world.

If traditional Chinese medicine in the real world could have such effects, what would be the point of Western medicine?

Before we knew it, the date had arrived: August 2nd, 2026 in the Earth calendar.

In the hellish dungeon, the sky was as dark as ever, and the air was filled with a putrid smell.

Zhou Yunshen stood on the desolate black earth and released his divine sense power.

Currently, his divine sense can extend outwards to 22 meters, an increase of 7 meters compared to the 15 meters when he first entered the Foundation Establishment stage.

After scanning the surroundings with his divine sense to confirm that there was no danger, Zhou Yunshen began to condense fire locusts.

One by one, fire locusts were condensed, and Zhou Yunshen stopped after condensing 19 fire locusts.

Nineteen fire locusts represent the limit of his current ability to precisely control them.

When he first entered the Foundation Establishment Realm, that number was 9.

After condensing the fire locusts, Zhou Yunshen began to run across the desolate black earth.

As he ran, a faint white light shone in his eyes.

This is the unusual phenomenon that occurs when one gathers innate vital energy in the eyes.