A Good Night's Sleep Was All It Took to Advance

It was a shame, but the deduction had already been made. There was no getting it back.

So he could only swallow his anger.

He hadn't expected such a lucky start right after joining the Chat Group.

"Zhen Yuanzi, I told you your luck was pretty good. You just joined, and you're already off to a great start."

Tongtian burst out laughing.

"Not bad, not bad. There's room for improvement. If you get another answer wrong, you might be replaced."

Jieyin was just as gleeful.

The others were all right, at least. None of them kicked Zhen Yuanzi while he was down.

"Hmph. Since the number of Ginseng Fruits this year has been reduced, I imagine neither of you needs them that much. I'll just strike your shares off the list this time."

Zhen Yuanzi snorted and immediately went offline.

"Don't be like that, brother! We were only joking. Don't take it to heart."

"No way. Did he really log off...?"

Tongtian and Jieyin wore long faces.

They wanted nothing more than to smack themselves across the face.

They were entitled to Ginseng Fruits once every three thousand years, and given their power and status, they could expect at least three each.

Sometimes, they could even get four.

The fruits would be a tremendous help to their cultivation.

But now it seemed those fruits were gone, which would set back their cultivation plans for the next three thousand years.

The two were already thinking about how to make it up to Zhen Yuanzi.

The others in the group tried hard to stifle their laughter.

Even Hong Yun, who had just been hunted down, felt a rush of satisfaction at seeing the two suffer.

While everyone chatted in the group, Qin Feng, the group owner, was already counting his gains in the cave where he was hiding.

Getting an answer right naturally brought far more rewards than getting one wrong.

A correct answer earned double the reward from the system.

A wrong answer only meant that something was deducted from the other person.

In Zhen Yuanzi's case, for example, ten Ginseng Fruits had been deducted.

They had already arrived.

But the system's own rewards were far more substantial.

Tens of millions of merit points, countless magical treasures, and the thousand years of cultivation Hong Yun had contributed.

All of it was good stuff.

"I'm rich! I'm rich! With this boost, I should be able to reach the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm. My chances of survival will improve enormously!"

After indulging his greed for a moment, Qin Feng used the thousand years of cultivation without hesitation.

Even if using it all at once would waste a great deal, he couldn't afford to worry about that now.

He sat cross-legged, and with a single thought—

A thousand years of cultivation poured down over his head.

Qin Feng felt his entire body begin to tremble.

There was simply too much of it. Compared to the eight hundred thousand years he'd received last time, the difference was immense.

Naturally, the pressure he had to withstand was far greater, too.

Qin Feng felt like he was about to scream.

But the crushing pressure kept him from opening his mouth. All he could do was stare, eyes nearly bursting from their sockets.

Worse, once the cultivation had been released, even the system couldn't take it back.

Was my glorious life really going to end just after I'd crossed into this world?

That was Qin Feng's final thought.

Then he felt himself pass out. He could no longer withstand the pressure.

[System notification: The host's strength is too low. The system is activating self-preservation mode.]

A cold electronic voice rang out. Then a beam of light flowed through Qin Feng's meridians.

The thousand years of cultivation were gradually absorbed as the light circulated through him.

When Qin Feng woke again, his head throbbed, and his body felt as if it no longer belonged to him.

"Am I dead? Where is this? The underworld? No, that can't be right. The underworld hasn't been created in the Primordial World yet."

"System, are you there? System?"

Qin Feng instinctively opened the Chat Group interface. He was relieved to find he could still access it.

That meant he was all right.

After taking a moment to recover, he could make out his surroundings. He was in the same cave where he had been hiding.

"What happened? How am I not dead? I absorbed all that cultivation, but my body hurts so much. What's going on?"

Qin Feng forced himself to endure the pain and took a Ginseng Fruit from his system inventory.

Then he bit into it with a crunch.

The fruit turned into a warm current that flowed through his body, gradually easing the pain.

"I didn't know Ginseng Fruits could relieve pain, too."

Qin Feng's eyes lit up. Without hesitation, he took out three more and ate them all at once.

At last, the pain inside him disappeared.

He could move around freely again.

"Not bad. I didn't expect to reach the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm after a single nap. But advancing further is going to be much harder."

"I'd guess I'll need at least fifty million years of cultivation. Maybe even more."

"But why can't I see the path ahead?"

Qin Feng tried to divine the way forward, but the end of the path he saw was nothing but a vast, chaotic void.

"Maybe it's because Nuwa created humanity, and no human has ever reached that level of cultivation. That's why I can't divine it."

Qin Feng sighed softly and didn't dwell on it.

The quiz had ended. From the system's recent messages in the Chat Group, he saw that he had been unconscious for only two hours.

He still had plenty of time to go out and explore. Besides, the immense pressure from his breakthrough might have attracted some ill-intentioned beings.

He could handle a Grand Unity Golden Immortal, but if a Grand Luo Golden Immortal showed up—

That would be trouble.

In the Primordial World, challenging someone above your level was extremely difficult. It had been the same when he killed Qiongqi.

Without the Immortal-Slaying Formation's help, he wouldn't have stood a chance against someone above his level.

What's more, that Qiongqi had only just broken through and hadn't stabilized his cultivation. Otherwise, Qin Feng could never have killed him.

He went outside and took a deep breath.

Qin Feng suddenly felt that the world was beautiful.

But in the next moment, a tremendous pressure bore down on him. His eyes flew wide as he turned to look behind him.

A Golden Lion King had appeared there. Qin Feng couldn't tell what kind it was.

Its golden-yellow mane filled him with an overwhelming sense of pressure.

More importantly, it was a Grand Luo Golden Immortal!

Of course this would happen now!

"Human boy, I can smell Ginseng Fruit on you. Hand it over, and I'll let you go."

The Golden Lion King spoke, greed filling his eyes.