Qu Heng Questioned His Entire Existence

Drones.

Fighter Jet.

Ballistic missile.

And even

"Boom!"

The violent fluctuations spread from Yingzhou in all directions, and the surging light and heat, along with a mushroom cloud that spread into the atmosphere, instantly ignited public opinion throughout Taiheng.

"Lord Hengming has made his move again?"

"No, this is a weapon called Nuclear Bomb, created by a group called the Players!"

"What?"

Qu Heng and a group of Taiheng elders arrived in Yingzhou and stood on the original site of the Yingzhou Sect, the largest sect in Yingzhou. They looked at the huge pit in the ground and exchanged bewildered glances.

So alike, so incredibly alike!

Wasn't this the same thing that destroyed Southern Forest back then?

Both produced intense light and heat, both created massive mushroom clouds, and both left huge craters after the explosion.

Qu Heng took out his phone, connected to the local network in Yingzhou, and slowly learned the whole story.

It turns out that two years ago, a group of people called "players" suddenly appeared in Yingzhou.

These people cultivate at an extremely fast pace, possess astonishing comprehension, and can learn any Divine Abilities and Sorcery at a glance and master it in no time.

The major sects of Yingzhou immediately felt that this was a blessing from heaven. Perhaps the heavens were unhappy with Yingzhou being suppressed by Taiheng and Tianyi Sect, so they sent down so many geniuses!

As a result, the major sects immediately recruited these players into their sects and then invested a lot of resources in their training.

But soon, the people from these sects realized that something was wrong with these players.

Besides their terrifying talent for cultivation, these people have another miraculous characteristic: they cannot die!

It's not that they're invincible, but rather that after death they will respawn in a fixed location, which players call the respawn point.

Not only are they unkillable, these players are also incredibly vengeful. In fact, even if a player has been cultivating within the sect and has never met anyone else, they can still summon a large number of players to help them after being bullied by other disciples, and then beat up the bullies.

Some even went so far as to commit murder.

At first, the various sects just watched from the sidelines, since disciples would benefit from their rivalry.

But everything changed when these players began to reveal their Peerless Divine Abilities.

There are no Peerless Divine Abilities in Yingzhou itself!

What does that mean?

This means that as long as these players can cultivate to the Qi Refining Stage, they can rely on the power of their Peerless Divine Abilities to defy immortals and launch a counterattack against the sect leaders!

That's right. In Yingzhou, which lacks Peerless Divine Abilities, the highest Qi Refining Fourth Level.

It's not that you're not allowed to have Peerless Divine Abilities, nor that you're not allowed to surpass the sect leader in cultivation.

But that only applies when you've been trained to be loyal to the sect; at that point, it doesn't matter how high your cultivation level is!

But what do these players say?

One hundred pounds of meat, ninety-nine pounds of rebellious bones!

These players are not only impossible to cultivate a loyal following, but they also have a strong desire to form their own factions and gangs.

After forming a gang, they would attack other sects. Players from the attacked sects would often not only not help, but would also lead the way.

If you're doing this before your cultivation has even reached the Qi Refining Stage, what chance will our sect have when you do?

Consequently, the major sects of Yingzhou immediately launched a vigorous campaign to exterminate the players.

At that time, Yingzhou was truly engulfed in flames of war, with conflict raging everywhere.

However, Yingzhou was just a rural area in Taiheng, and their war was completely ignored.

The reasoning is simple: would you pay attention to warlord conflicts in Africa?

Wouldn't it be better to spend that time watching the ladies of the Tianfei Palace dance?

However, the players are not easy to eliminate.

First, their strength increased rapidly in two years, and a large number of them broke through to the Qi Refining Stage, catalyzed by the war.

This is the effect of the cultivation buff.

Secondly, players are highly stealthy.

Unless the player reveals themselves, as long as they deliberately hide, no one can tell whether they are a player or not.

Checking the apprenticeship time is useless, because players don't all become apprentices on the same day; they do it gradually.

Checking its origins is useless; Yingzhou has no order whatsoever, and certainly no census.

There are countless villages in the countryside, and countless young people emerge from those villages. Eight or nine out of ten of them have no household registration and their origins are unknown.

Moreover, there are many Yingzhou Sect, and they dare not cross each other's boundaries. If someone claims to be from another sect's territory, you won't be able to find out.

Third, players are more united.

Not only do the Yingzhou Sect not communicate with each other, but they are also enemies. The result of hundreds of thousands of years of fighting is that their hatred for each other runs deep, making it very difficult for them to sit down and cooperate.

All players are one family, and as long as the game developers don't deliberately create conflict, they won't clash.

Even if they've made enemies over things like stealing monsters or digging up ruins, they wouldn't mind stopping and cooperating when facing NPC factions.

Fourth, players will engage in scientific research.

Players include not only those who practice martial arts but also those who conduct research. Long before Wu Yi revealed the principles of firearms, players in Yingzhou had already created firearms.

It's just that Yingzhou has too little influence, so nobody pays attention.

Players can also purchase machine tools and equipment from the store, directly accessing cutting-edge technologies such as drones and Fighter Jet.

Even though the locals of Yingzhou were willing to learn, the players wouldn't give them the time.

Not to mention that building an industrial system requires time and a lot of resources, and it's really difficult to understand it from scratch without someone teaching you.

As a result, the Yingzhou Immortal Sect faced far greater difficulties than those in the Great Ming Kingdom. Within just six months of the start of the war, eight or nine tenths of the Yingzhou Immortal Sect had been wiped out.

Even the Yingzhou faction wouldn't need to use Nuclear Bomb.

However, the players felt that since they had already created it, wouldn't it be a waste not to use it?

Then they released them!

"Player." Qu Heng casually scooped up a player and grabbed him in his hand. Then, he invaded the player's brain with his Divine Sense and directly Soul Searching.

In an instant, a flood of information rushed into the player's mind.

"Blue Star, Dragon Country, five thousand years of history, a game?"

"Taiheng, is it just a game?"

"How is that possible? I'm just an NPC in the game?"

In an instant, Qu Heng was completely stunned, followed by endless absurdity, fear, and bewilderment.

How... how is that possible?

My Taiheng has the Dragon Clan before me and a 300,000-year-old cultivation civilization after me, glorious and splendid, with countless heroic figures, clear records, and real power. How could it possibly be a virtual world projected by a computer?

"Curved Shaft Plow, tractor, tank, automobile, and poetry," Qu Heng read out familiar things again.

"So Yang Ning is also from Earth?"

"He's... a game tester?"

Qu Heng was completely devastated.

He didn't know that Yang Ning had originally set up anti- Soul Searching runes for players, but later retained them.

Why set this up? Is it to prevent powerful cultivators from finding Earth and then going there?

But he had already observed 480 million stars in this universe, and he couldn't find the Milky Way, nor could he find Andromeda or the Virgo Cluster.

If a powerful cultivator could find the Milky Way galaxy, and even find that Earth in some remote corner of the Milky Way, Yang Ning would have to thank him for helping him find his homeland!

Moreover, the reason why time travelers are afraid of revealing their origins is simply because they are afraid of dying!

But I, Yang Ning, am already dead!

Moreover, a time traveler would be afraid of being exposed.

But how many players are there now?

Seven hundred million!

Even if I reveal all my information to you, what can you do about it?

Moreover, I've exposed Earth, the Dragon Country.

A world that doesn't exist at all, a virtual world.

Even if you know, what can you do about it?

Besides, it's not even certain who truly belongs to the virtual world right now!

Just like the famous brain-in-a-vat experiment, how can you be sure that the world you live in is not a virtual world?

At least in the worlds created by Yang Ning in his Spirit Realm, no one could distinguish between the real and fake worlds. This is the power of infinite computing power.

Moreover, Taiheng is a real world without a single bug.

If you can find bugs, it means you're living in a virtual world.

If you can't find any bugs, it means the virtual world you live in is technologically advanced and perfect!

"How... how is this possible?" Feeling the real power within his body, the aura above his head, and the player he was carrying, Qu Heng was completely bewildered.

Do these things prove that the world they live in is real?

No, because these could all be pre-programmed.

Even dragons and Dragon Pearl can't prove that this world is real, right?

No, because that might also be part of the design!

And

Qu Heng realized that Hengming's behavior over the years had been very strange.

The strange wars that the Great Ming Kingdom waging in recent years are also quite unusual.

In the players' words, this is called a "version update"?

"Sect Leader Qu?" After all, they came from the same sect and their styles were similar. The other elders had also finished searching their souls.

The group exchanged glances, their expressions equally bewildered.

This world is just a virtual game, created by a company using programming?

How is that possible?

How could that Dragon Country, with its limited technology, possibly create such a realistic world?

But if it's not a virtual world, how can we explain that these players were captured from another world by some powerful being?

That's even more terrifying!

"Boom!"

Not far from them, a rocket painted with the four large characters "[Tai Heng One]" was roaring into the sky.

In the past, if you didn't know what something was for, you could just destroy it.

But now that Qu Heng has some understanding of technology and knows what this thing is used for, he no longer has the intention to discourage it.

After all, the whole world is virtual, just someone else's playground, so what's the point of living?

Let them launch whatever they want.