As spiritual energy revived in the real world,
many people tried practicing martial arts there, with varying results.
As time passed,
competitions sprang up everywhere.
They were simply contests between cultivators.
Those who placed well could also earn generous cash prizes.
The competition Shao Junyi was about to enter was just such an event.
In fact,
many of the Origin Sect's players had been spending all their time in the Library Pavilion lately.
After all,
pills were useful, but they could only be taken inside the game.
Martial arts, however,
could be practiced outside the game.
There was one curious point, though.
Some players had tried writing out martial arts from memory in the real world and giving them to others to practice, but they had no effect whatsoever. They were no different from fake manuals bought at roadside stalls.
This had also completely put an end to
the plans of players who wanted to extract cultivation methods and martial arts from the game through other means and sell them.
As for the Origin Sect players' unusual behavior,
Qin Shujian could not be bothered to pay attention.
As he saw it now,
the only thing he needed to do
was suppress his cultivation as much as possible, slowly accumulate Life Source, then break through the True Domain shackles and reach the peak of a spirit domain in a single step.
Before that,
Qin Shujian spent another forty points of Fortune Value to raise Thousand Mountain Blood directly to the level of a Two-Mark Dao Artifact.
A Two-Mark Dao Artifact!
Its power was far beyond that of a one-mark Dao artifact.
If a one-mark Dao artifact could easily slay Outer Astral cultivators within a True Domain,
then a Two-Mark Dao Artifact
could make Outer Astral cultivators bow down merely by releasing