Chapter 9：Cultivation Mechanics (2/2)

”Yeah. Let's go to the cafeteria. By the way, what classes did you choose?” Matt asked.

Alex opened his phone and showed him the schedule.

”Woah, you got lucky. I think I might have to cut down on my games from now on. The schedules are so erratic for me.” Matt sighed

”Me too. I have classes at 7 on Fridays. University is going to somehow make me hate Fridays, isn't it?” Logan said from the side.

”Well, sucks to be you guys, cause mine is pretty good,” Eric said from the side. His schedule seemed somewhat similar to Alex's.

They went to the cafeteria to have their afternoon lunch and quickly returned to their room.

As if doing anything else would be sacrilegious, the 3 friends jumped onto their beds the moment they got to their room and started playing their games.

Alex changed his clothes to something freer and sat on his bed. He wanted to immediately go into the game as well. But, he couldn't.

Previously, he was just fascinated by the game and wanted to play it casually. Afterward, when he learned about pills earning a lot of money he wanted to play the game because he wanted the money.

But now, things were different. He could no longer 'want' the money. He needed it. So, he could no longer stay ignorant about the games.

The game and the game developers made almost no effort to teach the players about the game except for the bare-bones stuff so that the players could experience things on their own.

However, the players weren't as inconsiderate and openly posted stuff about what they learned or found. In fact, there was an entire forum about it.

There were a few pinned forum posts, but the very first one caught Alex's eyes. It simply had 2 words in the title, 'Don't Die.

Curious he opened the post and learned shocking stuff, if you died in the game, your character would be deleted, and you would have to start all over again. Some comments said this might have been to give the players a 'reincarnation' feeling.

The next thing he learned was about cultivation. The cultivation was the level equivalent of these games. From what the players had learned, the cultivation realms were divided into 3 parts.

The self tempering realm, or also commonly knows as the common Qi realm. The second was the True Qi realm, where one's common Qi elevated to become True Qi. The third one, being mostly hearsay, was the saint realm.

The true Qi realm had 5 realms each with 9 levels as well. They were True Disciple, True Master, True Lord, True King, and True Emperor.

The players did not know the saint realm as of yet. The highest known cultivation among the players was True Master 5th realm. Of Course, many were hiding their cultivation, playing in secret.