"I, I Like Ren Suo"

"Let's proceed according to this character setup."

After watching the second livestream of "Gate of Truth," Ren Suo had gained a thorough understanding of the Gatekeeper's advancement system.

Back in the game, although Ren Suo had reached the level a Fourth Cycle Cultivator should possess through Thought Cards and Reaction Cards, his enemies had been a full lineup of three Fourth Cycle Cultivators and three Third Cycle Cultivators. Furthermore, he could not strike too ruthlessly and had to maintain a continuous combat state in order to obtain battle memories. As a result, he had focused nearly all his attention on the battle, leaving him no time to observe his enemies' expressions.

Only now, through the livestream, could he see how the Seekers' morale had collapsed because of the lies he had fabricated and the strength he had displayed. It proved that the character setup he had prepared for the Gatekeeper was extremely effective.

Incidentally, through comparing Dong Chengling, Qiao Muyi, and Bai Ji with one another, Ren Suo discovered that his former self had been far inferior to these normal Fourth Cycle Cultivators in both reaction speed and thinking ability. Only his communication skills could be considered comparable to Dong Chengling's.

Normally, when cultivators advanced, they were enhanced in nearly every aspect. Aside from their worldview, which could not be changed, most attributes could develop and improve further.

That was perfectly normal. It was like an elementary school student who had never learned the four arithmetic operations naturally being unable to compare in thought to a college student whose brain was being blasted apart by augmented matrices while expanding Taylor series—Ren Suo's former self had been like that uneducated elementary school student. Becoming a Fourth Cycle Cultivator had only made his body grow up; his brain had remained that of