"Luo, a Heavenly Prodigy, Lin Bai destroyed every building in Flower-Washing Valley, rested there for four hours, then started pursuing us. But he's moving very slowly. According to the Heaven-Sent Ones there, they're conflicted now too and don't know what to do next." [Fairy Lover] ignored the valley master and reported the latest developments to Luo Xue instead.
Flower-Washing Valley and Hundred Flowers Valley were both subordinate sects of the Moon Spirit Sect.
Their cultivation techniques were much alike, but all had beautifying and body-shaping effects. As a result, the female cultivators at the Golden Core stage and above were all exceptionally attractive.
Female players could customize their faces and enter the game looking beautiful, so hardly any of them wanted to join sects like these.
Consequently, most players who joined such sects were men.
And why would male players join a sect that wasn't known for its cultivation techniques?
Players and natives alike knew perfectly well.
These looks-obsessed admirers and lechers weren't treating this as a cultivation game at all. They were treating it as a dating sim.
Those with good talent might need only a decade or so to form a Golden Core.
Those without it needed at least several decades, or even a century. With decades of life experience behind them, how could these women possibly behave as the players wished, even if they retained their youthful faces?
Besides, the natives were wary of players to begin with and merely used all sorts of tricks to keep them dangling...
Some players enjoyed being surrounded by a flock of beauties. They didn't care how old the NPCs were and considered it part of the fun.
More players, once they could no longer find any enjoyment with those women, turned their sights on genuinely young and beautiful cultivators like