Online Cultivation
episode 76

"Ouch!"

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"Aah!"

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"Dirt!"

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“Ak!”

Yuan spent nearly half an hour trying to cultivate while enduring the intense pain that came from him but to no avail, feeling nothing but pain and without progress.

‘Why? Why can't I cultivate when there is clearly a reaction? Every time I feel like I'm about to achieve a breakthrough, the pain immediately disrupts my breakthrough!’ Yuan breathed deeply.

‘I think I should ask Xiao Hua and see if she knows anything about this ..’

As soon as Yu Rou returned to the room with dinner a few minutes later, Yuan decided to stop cultivating for a while for dinner.

A while later, Yu Rou said to him, "Brother, you can sleep first, I'll scour the internet to see if there's anything we can do together tomorrow."

"OKAY. Good night, Yu Rou.” Yuan said to him.

“Goodnight, brother.” After putting Yuan to bed, Yu Rou went to her computer and started surfing the internet, and as usual, Yu Rou went to her computer, he looked at the forums to see if there was anything new or important he should know.

‘Yuan players make headlines again? What did he do this time?’ Yu Rou saw the post marked ‘hot’ and quickly clicked on the link.

[Yuan Players have become the first players to learn a Heaven rank technique!]

[The Yuan player shocked the world again with his insane speed of development!]

[How is Player Yuan a high-level technique!? Click here to find out!]

‘So the Yuan Player now has Divine-level techniques and Heaven-level techniques, while we are all still running around with mortal-level techniques ..’ Yu Rou shook her head.

This Yuan player was simply too outstanding and unfathomable. How could he achieve such a result? What is he doing different than the others? Is he really a real player? What if Player Yuan was actually an admin toying with everyone? It looked more reasonable than Player Yuan being a con man.

After reading all the new forum threads about Player Yuan, Yu Rou for some reason decided to turn to look at her brother, who was already sound asleep in his bed.

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After pondering for a moment, he returned to the internet and searched for the Wealth Ranking Board.

"What! There are already so many people on the Wealth Ranking Board ?! ” Yu Rou exclaimed in a low but surprised voice.

It had only been a few days since the Wealth Ranking Board was opened by Yuan Players and there were already a thousand players from all over the world who had managed to collect over a million gold.

Obviously, these thousands of people are not your regular players, either, but some of the richest players in the world are leveraging their wealth to buy gold coins from other players through Real World Trade so they can get into the Wealth Ranking Board.

‘Let's see if I can find my brother's name here ..’ Yu Rou started browsing through thousands of names.

After all, if Yuan could easily take out 431,000 gold coins and spend them for him without batting an eye, he should be on the Wealth Ranking Board.

However, Yu Rou was unable to find the name ‘Yu Tian’ on the Wealth Ranking Board even after scrolling all the way to the very bottom of the list, which was not too surprising, though, because he had already spent nearly half a million, and that could kick him off the Wealth Ranking Board.

‘Now I think about it, what is Brother Tian's name in Cultivation Online? I never asked him,’ he thought inwardly after this realization.

‘Serah, I will ask her tomorrow ..’ Yu Rou shrugged before returning to the forum, where she navigated to the ‘Acara’ section.

Once he was in the ‘Acara’ section, where players from all over the world cultivate sharing their experiences with past and ongoing events to others for contribution points, he said, which they can exchange for gold coins in the game.

‘Let's see if there are any events taking place near Spring City that we can attend together ..’ Yu Rou goes on to type ‘Spring’ City in the search bar.

Literally, a second later, over 10 pages of results mentioning the Spring City were in front of him.

‘Hmm... Most of it is over... Oh? What is this?’

[There will be a big event tomorrow in Spring City where city lord” Xuan” Family will host the Disciple Recruitment Exam for the Dragon Essence Temple, a very prominent sect in the cultivation world! Only those above the level 3 Spirit Apprentice realm can join!]

“Dragon Essence Temple? Recruiting students?” Yu Rou raised her eyebrows.

He then opened a new tab in his web browser and searched for the term ‘Sekte’.

"I! So they were basically a school for Cultivators! ”

Yu Rou then turned to look at Yuan again, thinking to herself, ‘If I remember correctly, brother always expressed his desire to experience school life. Although he could not do that in this world, he could definitely do it in the cultivation world! Although it will be different from our school, it is better than nothing!’

‘Good! It's decided! We will try to join this sect together and do our best as Cultivators!’ Yu Rou nodded to herself with a stern expression on her face.

After looking around the internet for a few more minutes Yu Rou also went to sleep, but since Yuan could not feel her body and her own body were quite fragile, he had to make sure to keep a safe distance from her and even put some pads between her to make a small wall, he said, because it would be disastrous if he accidentally rolled towards her and injured her body.

As soon as he closed his eyes, Yu Rou fell asleep rather quickly.

”

Yu Rou got up early in the morning, as usual, to clean up before preparing herself for her piano lessons.

After his morning lesson was over, Yu Rou went to prepare breakfast for Yuan.

“Good morning, Yu Rou,” Yuan greeted him as he returned to the room with food in his hands.

"Good morning brother. It feels weird greeting you in my own room,” he chuckles.

After washing Yuan's face and brushing his teeth, Yu Rou gave him chicken soup.

"Brother, I think I know what we have to do next," she told him as she fed him.

"What do you want to do?"

“You always wanted to feel the school, right? Well, there are places known as ‘Sekte’ in Online Cultivation, and basically they are schools for Cultivators. I know they're not the same, but it's the only way for you to feel school now.”

“Sect? How coincidental! I'll also ask if you want to join me! ” Yuan said in a surprised voice.

"Thul? Then should we join? ” he asked.

"Of course!"

"Big! Then we should participate in the event in Spring City today!” Yu Rou said to him.

"Events? What show?"

“There is an event in Spring City where the city lord, the Xuan Family, will recruit disciples for the Dragon Essence Temple! If we pass this exam, we should be able to join this sect!”

"The Xuan Family and the Dragon Essence Temple?" If Yuan could see now, he would stare at Yu Rou with wide eyes full of surprise.

How coincidental! Not only did he plan to join the Dragon Essence Temple in the future, but he also knew the Xuan Family!

"Okay, that sounds good," Yuan said.

"Then it's decided!"

“Ah, one more thing, brother. Your room is still cleaned by the waiter, so you will play beside me today, ” he told her.

“Oh I forgot your gaming helmet was also submerged in that black shit and dumped in the trash last night, so we had to buy you a new one.”

"What?! They threw away my game helmet?! What about my account? Don't tell me I have to create a new account! You should take that helmet no matter how bad it smells!” Yuan shouted loudly, his voice filled with panic. He could not imagine what he would do if he really had to create a new account because of this! What would happen to Xiao Hua, who was still inside the necklace? Will he stay there forever? It was scary even to think about!

“No need to panic, brother. Did you forget? You can only have one account and one character, and no matter how many times you change the game helmet, you can still play your character.”

“Oh right I did forget about that.” Yuan said in a low voice before sighing in relief.

“By the way, I'll tell someone to buy it now.”

Yu Rou left the room to tell the waiter to buy another console for Yuan.

About an hour later, the maid returned to Yu Rou with a new gaming helmet.

After everything was ready, Yu Rou and Yuan both lay on the same bed with the game helmets on their heads.

"I'll see you inside, brother." Yu Rou said to Yuan before pressing the power button on his helmet, sending him into the game first before going inside himself.

“Welcome back, Brother Yu” Tian” Xiao Hua left the necklace shortly after he entered.

“Xiao Hua Thank goodness you won't be stuck inside that necklace forever” she sighed again after seeing her cute face.

“???” However, Xiao Hua only looked at him with a puzzled expression on his face. Why is he stuck in that necklace forever?