Even before he officially began experiencing the gameplay, Ji Chen was won over by the game's flawless presentation.
Everything his eyes captured and his body felt told him this was a real world.
If he had not entered through a Game Pod, and if not for the existence of Spatial Nodes, he would certainly have thought he had transmigrated to the Otherworld again.
"This technology... is incredible."
Recalling his fantasies back then, he could not help laughing.
Back when he transmigrated to the Otherworld, influenced by all kinds of transmigration stories, he had also fretted over why he had not activated a system yet.
He had wondered whether the time simply had not come.
After all, following the normal transmigrator's trajectory, he was bound to come with a cheat.
His early hardships were merely setup for showing off and humiliating his enemies later.
His turnaround in life would soon arrive.
Between his initial anticipation and his eventual descent into utter despair, he had spent a stretch of time fantasizing.
In his fantasies, he rose from humble beginnings and advanced triumphantly.
For example, whenever he finished cultivating late at night, with everything quiet around him, he would rest his head on straw and imagine that perhaps, when he woke tomorrow, mysterious star patterns would appear on his left palm.
When he touched the glowing Spirit Runes with his fingers, a voice like a mighty, resonant bell would boom in his mind:
"The Host Must Be Awesome System has activated. Automatically generating a beginner gift package..."
Or perhaps, one day, an old man's voice would suddenly sound in his mind:
"I am the last supreme elder of the Primordial Sword Sect. Treacherous villains ambushed me, leaving only a fragment of my soul. After lying dormant for a thousand years, I have finally