Isn't This a Game? Why Are You All Cultivating for Real!

Chapter 140: Chapter 140: Even a Clever Housewife Can’t Cook Without Rice

"What? Are you kidding me?"

The person on the other end seemed taken aback by the possibility. They paused for a moment, then chuckled. "Don’t joke around. Where would you even find that kind of technology in the country right now?"

Zhan Sheng considered how she might explain it in a way they would believe, but still said, "It’s a game, a virtual reality game. I know you won’t believe me..."

"Are you kidding me? A virtual reality game?"

Just as she expected, the person cut her off.

"Sheng, has your condition really gotten this bad?"

Zhan Sheng: "..."

She pursed her lips. "I’m not kidding. It really is a game that appeared here in the country. You can look it up online; it’s pretty big news right now..."

She was cut off again before she could finish. "Sheng, you must be delirious. What kind of technology do you think exists right now that could create a virtual reality game? Are you trying to tell me a game can cure your headaches? Stop joking around. Your condition will only get worse the longer you wait. Doctor Allison isn’t someone just anyone can see. I went to a lot of trouble to get him to agree to look at your case. Now that you have this chance, are they really not going to let you leave the country?"

Zhan Sheng knew they wouldn’t believe any explanation she gave, and she was tired of repeating herself. "Just look it up online yourself. I know you mean well, but I don’t really like going abroad. You know what happened to me. Now that I have this chance, I’d rather try my luck here at home than pin my hopes on some unknown treatment plan."

With that, Zhan Sheng hung up the phone.

Even now, as she recalled the data from the game, her head began to throb with a dull ache.

But the things she had calculated were perfectly clear.

This meant she wouldn’t forget the data she calculated in the game even after returning to reality.

’The game... it can stop my headaches from coming back.’

’What a truly magical game.’

Likewise, Zhan Sheng didn’t believe this game could have been created with the country’s current technology. ’So where did this game come from?’

Holding onto this question, Zhan Sheng eagerly logged back into the game.

It had been a long time since she had been able to enjoy the feeling of thinking so freely, without any inhibitions.

「Meanwhile, the battle inside the game was raging.」

As the players fought, they realized their current methods were inefficient and began to figure out better ways to respond.

Aside from the hard-to-deal-with aerial threats, there were still the ones on the ground.

The players first used Spells to turn the ground outside Wang’an County into a massive bog, slowing the advance of the demon beasts.

The power of a single person was meager, and this method wasn’t very reliable on its own, but their combined combat power was not bad at all.

They understood that cooperation was better than chaotic fighting.

Second-tier Demon Beasts were incredibly strong, so trying to bog them down with Spiritual Energy alone was unrealistic. The deeper the mud, the more it would affect the demon beasts’ speed.

Those that fell into the pits could be immediately roasted with fire or struck by lightning from the Cultivators. Mixing various Spells together even created a synergistic effect, achieving twice the result with half the effort.

Moreover, when some demon beasts fell into the mud pits, the ones behind would trample right over them, inadvertently crushing their own kind to death.

As for the aerial forces, they could only be left to the disciples of the Feique Sect.

Su Huanli was holding off two Nine Netherworld Spiders, so the other disciples had to deal with the remaining Second-tier Demon Beasts.

Some lifestyle players seized every opportunity. Not daring to venture too far onto the battlefield, they came out with their Jiezidai to collect corpses.

A quick touch and a corpse would disappear. The moment they saw a Second-tier Demon Beast charge at them, they would scramble back.

The Feique Sect disciples who saw this couldn’t help but exclaim in amazement.

"Are they risking their lives just to pick up materials?"

The attack range of a Second-tier Demon Beast was quite wide, not to mention the venom and toxic gas mixed into the mud everywhere. A single careless splash could be fatal.

Normally, you’d only clean up the battlefield after the fight was over.

"We have no choice," Zhou Xiao said from amidst the crowd, her expression grim. "If we don’t collect them, the pile of corpses will become high enough for them to climb right over our city walls."

This wasn’t about being greedy. The corpses were just piling up, and who knew how many more demon beast bodies there would be?

If they didn’t deal with them, the corpses alone could bury the entire outskirts of Wang’an County.

The lifestyle players from the Longevity Sect at least had something to rely on before they dared to venture out.

Most of them were already at the Mid-stage of Qi Refining.

The Feique Sect disciples at the Early Stage of Qi Refining couldn’t go out at all; they could only stay behind and help process the corpses brought back by the Longevity Sect disciples.

It was then that the Early Stage disciples of the Feique Sect realized something was wrong.

’How are they all at the Mid-stage of Qi Refining?’

’Isn’t this rate of advancement terrifying?’

’I remember they were all at the Early Stage of Qi Refining at the very beginning, right?’

Some Feique Sect disciples had never left the sect grounds and had been on the mountain the whole time. Unaware of these recent developments, their impression of the Longevity Sect was still stuck in the era when it only had a Sect Master at the Foundation Establishment Stage.

They would just occasionally eat some of the new food developed by the Longevity Sect disciples.

Zhu Xiangchen, who was now in charge of procurement, was quite fond of buying the delicacies made by the Longevity Sect.

Mainly because they were delicious.

It was just that in the eyes of the Feique Sect disciples, a Sect that enjoyed dabbling in such unconventional developments must surely have a low overall cultivation level.

But who would have thought that now, every single one of them was at the Mid-stage of Qi Refining?

Moreover, the Palm Thunder they used from time to time also made the Feique Sect disciples feel that something was off.

’Is the Longevity Sect so rich that everyone can use Palm Thunder?’

They were completely dumbfounded.

There was also a gap among those at the Mid-stage of Qi Refining. Some lifestyle players only dared to loot corpses, while some at the same stage fought directly on the front lines.

Zhou Xiao and the others, for example.

’Why is there such a huge gap?’

’It feels like in just a few months, the whole situation in Wang’an County has changed.’

Zhou Xiao’s face was pale. Having depleted her Spiritual Energy several times, even chugging Elixir Pills wasn’t helping much anymore. Buying Third-stage Elixir Pills was still a luxury for them; they couldn’t afford more than a few.

She had no choice but to retreat to the city wall, close her eyes, and begin meditating to recover her Spiritual Energy on her own.

Zhan Sheng came to her side. Zhou Xiao sensed someone was there, but knowing it was a player, she paid it no mind.

Zhan Sheng said softly, "Fighting like this won’t work. If you encounter a wave of demon beasts, your formation will immediately fall into chaos."

Zhou Xiao’s eyes snapped open. She looked at Zhan Sheng, a new player who hadn’t even unlocked her Spirit Root, and said, "We have no other choice right now. A portion of our high-level combatants are still outside, and the main force of the Feique Sect disciples hasn’t returned yet. We can only hold on for now."

Zhan Sheng asked, "Can this game use voice chat for commands?"

The system sighed. "Not at the moment."

’I don’t have enough energy.’

Zhan Sheng’s expression was complicated.

’You can’t even turn on a voice system... this game is simultaneously too advanced and too primitive.’

System: "..."

’You can’t make bricks without straw.’

Right now, it had to relay messages to players one by one, because broadcasting to everyone at once consumed too much energy.

Zhan Sheng said to Zhou Xiao, "I’m not familiar with your combat capabilities, so I can’t give a detailed analysis. All I can see is that the demon beasts outside are all clustered together. You need to find a way to split their formation into several battlefronts and deal with them in squads. Otherwise, if a High-level demon beast appears later, you’ll be wiped out by a single charge."