Three Million Amateur Ninth-Dan Swordsmen

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

Several teenagers nearby called Jiang Ding by his randomly assigned name and invited him along.

They seemed to be classmates at the same university. They planned to leave Shallowwater Fishing Village and head to the prefectural capital in search of an immortal opportunity.

If they died, they would revive and come back to practice martial arts, spells, and swordsmanship.

"No, I'm going to stay here a while and do some quests first," Jiang Ding declined politely.

The fishing village offered all sorts of small quests that rewarded basic cultivation methods, weapons, and moves.

But the system only assisted players in using those moves. They still had to practice and explore on their own, which demanded both insight and effort. This was no mindless game where one button did everything.

It was a game application of the Grand Void Illusory Realm's "assisted learning" function.

The Immortal Sect already had this technology. True Lord Shuling, director of the Immortal Gate Academy of Sciences, had developed it, but it was not yet fully refined. The developers of Sword Across the World had put it to use and perfected its many details.

That meant paying patent fees to True Lord Shuling's research team—and they were expensive.

As they should be.

According to social science research, applying this technology had raised the success rate of Immortal Sect cultivators by one to three percent.

If another ten years of testing and refinement revealed no problems, Jiang Ding might receive an award as one of the Immortal Sect's Top Ten Social Practitioners of the Year.

For a Golden Core cultivator, that was one of the highest honors available. It came with rewards offering a chance to reach Nascent Soul.

"Let me see..."

Jiang Ding closed his eyes, logged