I Am a True Immortal

He gained one skill point each time he leveled up.

The new skills available at each realm could only be unlocked once he had invested a certain number of skill points in the previous realm's skills.

In Immortal Journey, every ten levels marked a watershed, corresponding in turn to each realm in the world of cultivation.

Levels 1–9: mortal; levels 10–19: Qi Refining Realm; levels 20–29: Foundation Establishment Realm; levels 30–39: Golden Core Realm; levels 40–49: Nascent Soul Realm; levels 50–59: Spirit Transformation Realm; levels 60–69: Void Refining Realm; levels 70–79: Body Integration Realm; levels 80–89: Mahayana Realm; levels 90–99: Tribulation Transcendence Realm.

Gao Yunyi was now level 10, which meant he was in the Qi Refining Realm.

That was the real reason he felt so fortunate. If his level had been knocked back to 1, he wouldn't even have been able to find a sect to join. Ghosts knew whether this ancient world had any cultivation sects.

If it didn't, he really would have cried himself to death.

Thank goodness, thank goodness.

At that thought, Gao Yunyi's expression instantly returned to normal.

He immediately opened the skill tab.

Blazing Sun Sword Qi: a Fire Element skill that transformed the user's own Law Power into searing Sword Qi to attack enemies, dealing additional burn damage.

Available at level 10. Skill points required: 1.

This was a beginner skill of the Azure Profound Sect. It was trash, but that was in the game. In reality, it was an honest-to-goodness Immortal Method.

Gao Yunyi was thrilled. Bringing a skill from a game into reality was a feeling he really couldn't contain.

He could hardly wait to find someone to test it on right then and there.

For some reason, County Magistrate Zhang's fat, respectful, fawning face suddenly appeared in Gao Yunyi's mind.

"No, no. I'm a disciple of a righteous sect. How could I slaughter innocent people?"

Gao Yunyi shook his head and hurriedly cast that outrageously treacherous thought out of his mind.

This wasn't a game world, and the people outside weren't NPCs made of data. They were living people of flesh and blood, with feelings and thoughts.

In the game, it was fine for him to slaughter in every direction and bathe a hundred miles in blood, but in reality, his morals wouldn't allow him to kill innocent people indiscriminately.

His moral bottom line might have been low, but it wasn't nonexistent.

Besides, he still hadn't figured out the true state of this world. What if it had cultivators too? What if one of them saw an injustice and slapped him dead?

After all, he was just a level 10 small fry now.

He simply had no capital to act arrogant.

He would wait until he had a clear picture of this world, and he also had to find a way to raise his level quickly.

Then he could consider whether or not to eat beef.

But that thought gave Gao Yunyi another headache.

Leveling up required experience points.

In the game world, he could get them by killing monsters and completing quests, but what about in the real world?

How was he supposed to gain experience points and raise his level?

Looking at his 0/310 experience points, Gao Yunyi rubbed his forehead, somewhat at a loss.

"Forget it. When the cart reaches the mountain, a road will appear. I'll spend the skill point first and worry about the rest later."

Gao Yunyi stopped dwelling on it and immediately spent his only skill point on Blazing Sun Sword Qi.

He spent the point,

but didn't feel anything.

There was none of the strange surging Law Power or the heat throughout his body described in novels. Everything was as placid as still water, without a ripple.

"Could my body be my game character's?"

Gao Yunyi's expression changed slightly. He sprang to his feet and hurried over to the dressing table in the room, where a bronze mirror stood.

A face wearing a look of incredulous shock appeared in the smooth bronze mirror.

"So damn handsome."

Gao Yunyi stared blankly at himself in the mirror and couldn't help exclaiming.

That face wasn't his, but it was incredibly familiar.

It was the face of the game model he had spent a full two hours carefully sculpting, combining the looks of Southern Jiao and Northern Gu with his own.

The faces of the three most handsome men, Southern Jiao, Northern Gu, and him, had been blended together. "Handsome" could no longer describe the result. It was so astonishingly beautiful it could be taken for a celestial being, with an elegance unmatched in the world.

This was the face Gao Yunyi was most satisfied with. It only looked one-third like him, but what did that matter?

He was handsome. What more could he ask for?

Gao Yunyi gave the bronze mirror a nonchalant smile and nearly swooned at his own handsomeness.

"So my soul transmigrated into my game character, and then I physically transmigrated into this unfamiliar ancient world."

Gao Yunyi sat back down in the chair and stroked his chin. He arrived at this incredible conjecture and immediately accepted the result without a qualm.

"If this body of mine is a game character, does that mean I can't get hurt?"

After all, Immortal Journey had no injury mechanic, and there were no scenes of blood spraying everywhere after a character took damage.

At that thought, Gao Yunyi returned to the dressing table, found a pair of scissors in the drawer beneath it, and slashed hard across his palm.

No blood came out. The skin wasn't even cut, and he didn't feel the slightest pain. But a red "-1" appeared in the lower left corner of his vision, and his health bar dropped to 109.

Gao Yunyi's experiment wasn't over yet. He took the scissors and stabbed hard at the sleeve of the Nine Heavens Flowing Cloud Immortal Robe he was wearing.

The Nine Heavens Flowing Cloud Immortal Robe was completely intact. There wasn't even a white mark.

"Just as I thought."

Gao Yunyi casually tossed the scissors onto the dressing table, unable to hide the smile on his lips.

He wouldn't be injured, because no matter what damage he took, it would only deduct his health.

Whether he was poisoned, burned, drowned, or even jumped off a cliff or had a rock smash into his head, his health would simply decrease. There would be none of those cruel, bloody scenes of him growing weak, being charred, having his body smashed to pieces, or splitting his head open and bleeding.

As for what would happen when his health was depleted, Gao Yunyi understood that too.

Besides, Immortal Journey had another mechanic: game items had no durability. Unless he sold them to a merchant or destroyed them, they would remain intact forever.

That was why he couldn't puncture the Nine Heavens Flowing Cloud Immortal Robe even with scissors.

The Nine Heavens Flowing Cloud Immortal Robe was only a cosmetic outfit sold in the game's cash shop. It had no attributes and served no purpose beyond looking good and having gorgeous special effects.

But in the real world, it was a genuine immortal garment, untouched by worldly dust, impossible to wear out, impervious to fire and water, and proof against blades and spears.

And what did that make him, who possessed all these things?

A true immortal, of course.

Gao Yunyi had originally worried that his act as an immortal wouldn't be convincing, and that his cleverness would backfire and arouse suspicion.

But now,

why the hell did he need to pretend?

I am who I am,

the true immortal is me,

I am a true immortal.