Hiro opened his eyes, only to be greeted by a vast, open stone hall.
He was kneeling on one knee in the center of the hall, his right fist cupped into his left palm at chest level, and his head was lowered so that his vision was t with a flowing white dress and two pretty bare feet.
He could feel an immortal aura pressing down on him from above, but it was also perating the entire stone hall.
"Hear my decree, Daoist Hiro; you will join my Lunar Serenity faction, but you will start as an in-na disciple. Don't be rude to your seniors in the sect, and cultivate diligently to reach the Golden Core realm—only then will you be accepted as an official disciple of the Lunar Shift Sect and receive our core teachings!"
Countless notifications filled Hiro's vision, but he could guess the gist of it since this wasn't his first ti playing this ga. After all, the {Simulation Space} derived from Hiro's personal gaming experience and the 10,000 fantasies to co up with these modified gas.
The plot progress of most gas shared a common skeleton to reference, allowing avid and seasoned gars to quickly grasp the gaplay rhythm.
Hiro bowed his head and expressed his gratitude to the Peak Master of the Lunar Serenity faction, and slowly retreated from the hall without lifting his head to peek a look.
These cultivators and their stupid god complex, Hiro thought to himself. I can almost imagine soone shouting "Courting Death!" at if I dared to raise my head and look. But seriously, her voice sounded so sweet and divine, that I almost couldn't hold myself back from looking.
Hiro was escorted to his private cave dwelling by a fellow disciple. Then, the mont he sat down on the spirit formation, a pop-up window displayed his current in-ga stats and progress.
[Daoist: Hiro.]
[Sect: Lunar Shift.]
[Realm: Foundation Establishnt 1/10.]
[Cultivation Base: 100/10,024]
[Spirit Array: 2 per second]
...
Hiro calculated silently and murmured, "This spirit array is quite good."
He touched his chin and searched for the notifications that explained the cultivation process, and once he did, his excitent died down a bit.
As expected, things weren't so simple.
The cultivation base bar would reset with each breakthrough; it didn't matter if the breakthrough was minor or major. While AFK, the cultivation base would accumulate on standby and wait for Hiro to enter the ga, because so advancents required the use of pills or undergoing tribulation, and such activities had to be initiated by the player.
Soon, a minor breakthrough would require 100,000 spirit units, then 200,000, and it would only increase. By then, 2 units per second would amount to nothing! However, if he wanted to upgrade the spirit array, he needed to pay the sect for these upgrades, and this required him to beco an official disciple first.
Should I embrace the darkness and enter the pay-to-win hell? If Hiro spent so gems, he could easily upgrade his spirit array.
After thinking about it, Hiro gritted his teeth and said, "Rewards are ant to be used! Also, the cheapest lottery ticket cost 5 gems, so I can use 5 gems here first!"
After he made up his mind, he used the 5 gems to upgrade the spirit array five tis in succession, each upgrade increasing the value of units per second by 2 points.
Hiro then checked his spirit array; 12 per second—much better!
This ans that my first breakthrough will arrive in 15 minutes!
But Hiro didn't want to wait here and do nothing for the coming 15 minutes, so he decided to mark 19:00 O'clock to be his daily log-in window and cash in the accumulated spirit energy on a daily basis.
With that in mind, Hiro left the {Simlation Space}, imdiately feeling the lack of spirit energy and the immortal vibe in the air. He sighed, already feeling tempted to get back into the ga just for the sake of that relaxing atmosphere.
Before leaving, Hiro spent the remaining achievent points on basic lifestyle skills such as {Imrsive Reading Skills} and {Professional Caligraphy Skills}.
After the purchase, Hiro was left with 10 AP to his na, which he decided to keep as a backup just in case he was forced to use the {Synchrnization} function of the system for so stupid reason.
You can never be too careful, Hiro told himself. What if I'm not the only guy with protagonist cheats in this world? Most transmigration cliches happened in mystical worlds after all.
After absorbing a load of stimulations to his brain and neurons to assimilate the skills, together with the load from mastering the {Profesional Combat Skills}, Hiro's mind was already at a tipping point.
The mont he left the system space, he fell asleep in record ti.
...
After a fruitful night of deep sleep, Hiro slowly woke up to the sound of his roommate's morning alarm.
Hiro slowly sat up and rubbed his eyes, looking around in confusion.
His expression clearly said, What's this noise?
"Ah, I'm sorry…" Hiro's roommate quickly woke up and shut off his alarm. "I forgot to switch off my alarm, I got used to sleeping alone in the room."
He smiled apologetically and rubbed the back of his head.
"It's fine," Hiro waved it off with a smile and checked the ti. It was 06:30 O'clock, quite early in the morning.
He rembered that the clothing store opens at 9 in the morning, but employees would arrive around 8, one hour in advance.
Seeing that he had plenty of free ti, Hiro was bored.
"Why did you wake up so early?" Hiro asked curiously. "Oh—I'm Hiro by the way, and you don't need to tell if you're not feeling like it."
Hiro climbed down his bed and reached for a handshake with a faint smile.
"Oh… Marcus, nice to et you…"
Not expecting his new and handso roommate to be so agreeable, Marcus was caught off guard for a mont before quickly relaxing.
"The library," he answered. "It opens in about half an hour, and with the entrance exams coming up in five days, everyone is in a hurry to study the four major subjects."
"Oh," Hiro rembered that the four major subjects were Math, Religion, Physics, and Chemistry.
He understood math, physics, and chemistry being among the top four, but Hiro was confused about the religon.
That was until he learned that religion was unified across all countries under the banner of the Holy Church, where the different Gods and Deities of the various cultures were recognized as mbers of the Pantheon of the Gods.
Any religion with a set number of followers, basically a minimum of 1.2 billion followers, would be recognized by the Holy Church.
Hiro's first thought about this when he learned of the religious system was, What in the na of…?
But he quickly realized that this way, the church was capable of contending with the worldly superpowers, major countries, and the famous World Council.
In a way, this was just another setting for the hidden conflict between the Church and the State to enter yet another stalemate.
Judging by the existence of religious institutions and teachings in the student curriculum, the church must have gotten the upper hand.
Wait, why am I wasting my ti on that nonsense?! Hiro snapped back to his senses and straightened up, energized.
"I'll tag along with you," he said to Marcus, already stretching his body. "I also need to study for the exam, so I'll take this opportunity to check things out… Will you be my guide?"
Marcus blinked. "Well, of course… why wouldn't I?"
He smiled.
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