Continuing on with the tutorial, he was introduced to the leveling system.
The process was similar to the spiritual energy cultivation system in real life.
You start at energy gathering, foundation building, golden core, and nascent soul each with ten levels.
After that, it begins to deviate a little.
After nascent soul, it is spiritual body, spiritual domain, spiritual one, and spiritual god.
The higher you go up, the more powerful the tribulation, and the most you can control and destroy.
There's also dao professions that you can take aided by the game's system.
After you complete nascent soul, you are given a choice for your dao, in which you are to reach completion peak which is spiritual god.
There's a lot of professions you can choose from, like the dao of swords, the dao of life, or even the dao of time. Of course, there's levels of difficulty based on what you choose.
Wearing a simple set of robes given for novices, he walked towards the borders of the town before leaving the exit. As for the novice missions, he ignored.
[You have left beginners town Pendle. You can return back any time for a period of 1 month]
The vast forests came before him that seemed to be full of vitality.
Despite the realism, he felt a sense of emptiness, like it wasn't all real anymore.
Feeling bored already, he decided to log out of the game and possibly come back at a later time.
Appearing in the gaming lobbies once more, he searched up another one of the cultivation games for the heck of it.
Just as he was about to take off, his console vibrated as a message appeared.
[Security Alert: two people are knocking outside your door]
'Outside my door? Could they have arrived?'
With no time left, he went to settings and clicked [Log Out}
Confirming his choice, his body gradually turned transparent before feeling his vision turn black.
Opening his eyes with some tiredness, the helmet was on him, and he was staring at a ceiling.
The mask melted off his face into a black liquid once more, and slithered down his arm before turning back to a console.
Looking at the time, only about 15 minutes has passed so far.
Getting off the bed, he quickly went over to the door and peeked out through a camera.
A beautiful young Chinese woman and a very old Chinese man. The young Chinese woman looked to be indifferent and cold, while the old Chinese man seemed to be indifferent but confused as to why they were here.
Activating the door feature, a holographic figure of him appeared on the other side with his consciousness transferred over. Slightly disoriented doing this for the first time, he hide it well.
"You are?" He asked, looking at them warily.
While he received information from their divine sense such as their appearance, he still stayed a little cautious.
The beautiful Chinese woman stepped forward and reached out her hand.
"Bell Yuhan."
Somehow his hand turned physical when he reached out and shook hands.
"Wei Chen, nice to meet you."
He took a little glance at the old man who still seemed confused. However, the old man still reached out to shake hands.
"Bell Zhang." He said indifferently before glancing at his daughter, "Now can you tell me what's going on Yuhan?"
"I'll explain that to you when we get in." She said motioning for Qin Hong to open the door.
"Hold on a second then." He said as he deactivated the holograph.
A few seconds later, the door turned quickly vanished into nothing. Qin Hong stood by the door and motioned for them to come in, which they did. Taking off their shoes, they entered his room.
"Do you want anything to eat or drink?" Asked Qin Hong carefully observing them.
She said indifferently, "Just some tea."
With a nod, he turned and entered the kitchen while they sat at a table. A device present in the kitchen converted some available energy into matter before forming tea, which he didn't know was possible.
Bringing three cups of tea out, he gave the two to them before sitting down with his.
Bell Yuhan broke the silence between the three after a few seconds had passed.
"What's your real name?" She asked in divine sense.
"Qin Hong." He said casually without hesitation in divine sense as well.
Considering the other party was a cultivator with an equally powerful soul, lying was meaningless.
"What region are you from?"
"The outer regions."
"..."
"I was the headmaster of the Qi Sect, the most powerful one in the outer regions." He explained, hoping for further clarification.
"Ah, I think I have heard of you before."
"Well of course, I was the most powerful one-"
"A teacher of mine once told me the sects in the outer regions."
"Wait! Your from the inner regions?" He exclaimed with wide eyes.
"I've been here for 18 years. That's the only reason why my soul strength is the same as yours." She explained indifferently.
'Meaning, her soul strength must've been way higher than mine when she first arrived.'
"Then, what's your real name?" He asked with a little more respect.
Cultivators in the inner realms are not one should casually offend.
"Shi Yuhan, daughter of the headmaster of the God Clan." She casually replied.
Qin Hong nearly stumbled backwards and fell onto the ground in shock and fear.
'The God Clan!'
Considered the top of the top of the inner regions, only two other clans can be compared to them! With the mention of any of those three clans will send even an inner region cultivator shiver in fear!
Established over 100 million years ago, the God Clan has been a force that has stood the test of time longer than the other two clans. They have amassed enough wealth and forces to take over the entire Cultivation Realm! In fact, they are considered the peak of the Cultivation Realm!
In fact, they are so powerful that even at their weak times, the other two clans didn't dare attack. Any member of their clan are not to be offended. Even the maids and servants are to be treated nicely!
Quite literally, they are the gods of the cultivation realm, which is why they are the God Clan. While known to not come out often, their locations are always a secret and constantly changing, with control of several large dimensions that supply them with the necessary resources to thrive.
They have control over the best spiritual veins, the best spiritual herbs, and the best spiritual beasts across the entire realm. Even a clan member with the crappiest talents can become a strong person within the inner regions.
Not much is known of how they operate, or their inner workings, as getting even a spy in is insanely difficult considering most of them know if you have blood ties.
At the same time, they send out clan members all the time to explore the world. It's very difficult to find them as they have highly advanced disguise techniques that give even the other two clans a headache.
The only time you see their forces is when something seriously bad is happening to the realm is something seriously great is happening.
Even when demons from other realms invade the cultivation realm, the God Clan stays silent and does nothing about it. Only when the realm is on the verge of destruction do they send out forces to push them back completely.
Either that, or something equivalent to a dao-grade treasure has appeared in the cultivation realm which is extremely rare.
The rate at which they bring new blood into the clan is so low and random that one should've even think about the possibility. For all you know, the homeless man on the street may be picked up by them. They only do around four a year.
They don't accept talents the normal way like most clans do and only accept those who haven't cultivated. Even if that person selected has no talent, they are still pulled in.
It's a mystery as to how they can turn a normal mortal into a powerful existence, but they do it anyway.
The only reason he knows about the God Clan is because he has interacted with inner region cultivators before.
Yet, the headmasters daughter of the God Clan is right in front of him?!
If this was before time traveling, he might've bowed in fear of offending her. Not to mention any inner region clan, his sect is just a fart and he's just an ant who can barely handle the weak ones.
His calm heart was now having massive waves, as he struggled to calm them down.