"Don't ask me what the Virtual World is. We don't understand it either."
"As for where this thing came from, I believe the Dean has already investigated it thoroughly."
"Let me tell you something you don't know."
"What attracted us most about the Virtual World was the endless cultivation methods and knowledge within it."
"Any one of those peerless cultivation methods, taken out at random, could spark a bloody struggle throughout the Cultivation World."
Listening to Long Aotian's account, Chen Xiao smiled faintly. "From the sound of it, the cultivation methods in there must be quite tempting."
"Otherwise, with the status you all have, you wouldn't have fallen for it so easily."
"But there is no such thing as a free lunch in this world. Obtaining those cultivation methods must have required corresponding conditions, right?"
"Of course there were conditions. The Virtual World purchases anything of value. It wants cultivation methods and resources alike."
"So you handed over even your inherited family cultivation methods?"
Chen Xiao asked with a smile, and Long Aotian instantly fell silent.
Seeing this, Chen Xiao sighed and shook his head. "I truly don't know what to say about you. Can something like an inherited family cultivation method be casually leaked?"
"Do you know that in the Cultivation World of old, any disciple or clansman who could access core cultivation methods had restrictions planted in their sea of consciousness?"
"If this had happened in the past, what you did would have been no different from seeking death."
"No wonder you all hemmed and hawed, refusing to speak. So you committed such a grave mistake."
Facing Chen Xiao's reprimand, Long Aotian pursed his lips. "Fortune is sought amid danger, and lost amid danger as well."
"Since we coveted the great opportunities of the Virtual World, it was