Jiang Liu: Showing Off to Me?

Although the school said it would support Jiang Liu, it did not give him a single Spirit Stone.

After all, Jiang Liu was not the only one at Third Middle School with a Supreme Spiritual Root!

If Jiang Liu received Spirit Stones, then everyone else would have to receive them too. That would violate school policy.

Want school resources?

See you in the Immortal Examination Class!

Jiang Liu had not expected the school to offer gifts just because he shook his mighty body. That was unrealistic. He merely wanted to quietly drain the water.

Hopefully, this would be the last time his meridians and marrow were cleansed. If he really got blasted apart...

After draining the water, Jiang Liu returned to class. The noise of climbing back onto his desk alerted Li Dongze beside him.

"Jiang Liu, let me ask you something."

Li Dongze nudged Jiang Liu and whispered, "Do you think I'd get my account banned if I held an NPC and made out with her?"

Jiang Liu gave him a puzzled look, not quite understanding what he meant.

"Ah, I forgot. You're not VIP1!"

Li Dongze suddenly looked enlightened and explained with a grin, "Spend 1,000 Spirit Stones and you can advance to VIP1, unlocking a feature called 'Immersive Experience.' It lets you insert yourself into the story when clearing plot stages. It's like lucid dreaming—so damn real!"

"I want to use it to make out with the City Lord's daughter. Ah, you probably don't know this either. She's a female NPC from a later storyline, and she's gorgeous."

"In the 1-6 storyline, she wears a red bridal gown. It got me hard just looking at her. I want to make out with her right in front of the groom, but I'm afraid I'll get banned."

"What do you think? Would that get me banned?"

Li Dongze voiced his question with great enthusiasm, not forgetting to reveal that he had already spent over a thousand Spirit Stones and cleared the 1-6 storyline.

It sounded like a question, but he was really showing off.

Wasn't spending money in games all about showing off?

It was just that he had picked the wrong target.

Making out with the bride in front of the groom, then killing the groom.

When it came to playing games, you really had to look at rich second-generation heirs!

The look in Jiang Liu's eyes changed. He had also unlocked the Immersive Experience feature and met the City Lord's daughter.

But he had used that feature to practice real combat. He had not even spared a glance for the City Lord's daughter lying dead on the ground.

Then there was Li Dongze, who had gone straight for the adults-only content!

Was this the difference in their values? Jiang Liu truly felt the gap between himself and Li Dongze.

A thousand words condensed into one sentence.

"Brother Ze, we really shouldn't be into NTR."

Jiang Liu earnestly advised him. After more than two years of gaming friendship, he truly did not want to see his good brother stray down the wrong path.

"What are you thinking? That's not what I mean!"

Li Dongze went numb under Jiang Liu's gaze and hurriedly explained, "I just want to test where this game's limits are. What if I cross a line someday and get banned?"

"Besides, don't you want to try adults-only gameplay?"

Adults-only gameplay.

Hiss.

Jiang Liu briefly imagined it: the Immersive Experience feature, infinitely repeatable stages, NPCs as real as actual people, powerful strength, and... privacy that would never leak!

Holy shit!

This cultivation game could turn into an adults-only erotic game!

That would not do.

"Of course I don't!"

Jiang Liu denied it immediately, righteous and solemn. "I am irreconcilable with porn, gambling, and drugs. I seek immortality with one heart and care nothing for romance!"

He genuinely thought that way. Otherwise, he would not have repeatedly used the Immersive Experience feature to train in actual combat.

If Li Dongze had not brought it up, Jiang Liu would never have connected Cultivation Era with an adults-only erotic game.

This was ridiculous. How could those even be related?

"Heh, who are you trying to fool?"

Li Dongze looked at Jiang Liu with contempt. "You just can't experience what Immersive Experience is like. Otherwise, you'd pounce even faster than I would!"

"Oh, right. You need VIP1 to unlock Immersive Experience. You'll have to check in for two hundred days."

Jiang Liu's shameless words had irritated him, and he mocked him in return.

Check in for two hundred days?

You really have never played the 0.1-discount Welfare Version. Oh, right, he really had not.

Jiang Liu did not care about the mockery and asked instead, "Have you beaten the Lingyun Sect senior brother in 1-6?"

"No. Huh?"

Li Dongze answered instinctively, then realized something was wrong. He froze and said, "How do you know the 1-6 stage has a Lingyun Sect senior brother?"

"Because I'm Qi Cultivation Layer 5."

Jiang Liu spoke casually. "The monster in 1-7 is a Lingyun Sect Outer Elder—the old man sitting in the back. He's the difficult one. If I didn't have a Supreme Water Spiritual Root, I really wouldn't know who would win."

Li Dongze: "?????"

Qi Cultivation Layer 5?

He had cleared 1-7?

A Supreme Water Spiritual Root?

Li Dongze was completely stunned. He stared blankly at Jiang Liu, disbelief written all over his face, and could not help crying out, "How is that possible?! Where did you get so many Spirit Stones?!"

He had gone home and asked his father for more than a thousand Spirit Stones. He bought every gift pack he could and swept through the Mall before reaching Qi Cultivation Layer 5.

After reaching Qi Cultivation Layer 5, he had been so excited that he could not sleep all night. He repeatedly ran the storyline, and only after truly being unable to beat it did he shift his attention to the bride.

Less than a day after the server opened, he had reached Qi Cultivation Layer 5, unrivaled throughout the school. He believed his realm had to be number one in the entire school, and he had become completely swollen with pride. If his father had not told him to keep a low profile, he would have come to school that morning wearing a full set of artifacts and wings to make a name for himself.

Keeping a low profile was fine. He was not some rich second-generation heir who liked causing trouble, but he truly could not suppress the urge to show off, so he set his sights on Jiang Liu.

When they played games together before, he often spent lavishly on equipment. Jiang Liu's envious and jealous expression had always made him feel incredibly good.

That was what he had planned to do today as well. He wanted to see Jiang Liu's envious expression and jealous gaze, then harvest a wave of emotional satisfaction.

Yet instead of harvesting emotional satisfaction, he was dealt a heavy blow by Jiang Liu.

A Supreme Water Spiritual Root!

He had not even drawn one!

No. Absolutely impossible!

He knew Jiang Liu's family circumstances perfectly well. They were not dirt poor, but they definitely could not afford Spirit Stones.

How could Jiang Liu have a Supreme Water Spiritual Root? How could he have cleared the 1-7 storyline?

"You looked it up on the forums, didn't you?!"

Li Dongze felt he had guessed the right answer. He rolled his eyes hard and said irritably, "Using online information to show off, huh? You almost fooled me."

Jiang Liu: "..."

Jiang Liu did not reply. He quietly switched to Cultivation Era and sent Li Dongze a friend request. "Come on, add me."

Li Dongze gave Jiang Liu a suspicious look, then added him as a friend in Cultivation Era.

Then he saw a character panel sent over. The instant he opened it, he felt as if he had been struck by lightning.

VIP1, Qi Cultivation Layer 5, Supreme Water Spiritual Root!

Li Dongze stared fixedly at the character panel. Recalling how he had just shown off to Jiang Liu, his face instantly flushed red, then changed from red to green, green to black, performing a classic rapid change of expression.

The former gaming underling had turned things around!