Three Million Amateur Ninth-Dan Swordsmen

"Ding 423, do you want to come with us...?"

Several teenagers beside him called out Jiang Ding's randomly generated name, inviting him along.

They seemed to be university classmates planning to leave Shallow Water Fishing Village and head to the prefectural city in search of Immortal Destiny.

If they died, they could revive and continue practising cultivation, spells, and swordsmanship.

"No, I plan to stay here for a while and do quests to cultivate first."

Jiang Ding politely declined.

Various small quests could be accepted in the fishing village, yielding Blank Cultivation Techniques, weapons, moves, and the like.

But the system would only assist with the use of moves. Players still needed to practise and explore on their own, requiring comprehension and effort. It was not some foolproof game where everything could be activated with a single click.

This was an application of the Illusory Realm's "assisted learning" function within a game.

The Immortal Sect had originally possessed this technology. It had been developed by True Lord Shuling, the dean of the Immortal Sect Academy of Sciences, though it was not particularly refined. The developers of Sword Ascends the World had applied it to the game and perfected its various details.

Thus, they needed to pay expensive patent fees to True Lord Shuling's research team.

That was only proper.

According to research articles in Social Science, the application of this technology had raised the Immortal Sect's talent cultivation rate by one to three percent.

If another ten years of testing and refinement revealed no problems, Jiang Ding might receive an "Immortal Sect Annual Top Ten Social Practitioners" award.

For Golden Core cultivators, this award was one of the highest honours, with a Nascent Soul Opportunity as its reward.

"Let me see..."

Jiang Ding closed his eyes, logged into the Game