Cultivation Online novel Chapter 6

Chapter 6 - Servants

"How is the search going? Have you found any information on this player Yuan yet?" A handsome young man sat on his bed with Cultivation Online’s console—the helmet— still on his head, his gaze at the middle-aged man standing by the door.

"Sorry, young master, but this player seems resolute in keeping his identity a secret. Not even our offer was able to lure him out," said the middle-aged man in a tired tone. He has gone without sleep for the past two days just to look for information on Yuan, but alas, the results came back in a box of disappointment filled with a whole lot of nothing.

"Not taking the bait? Then all we have to do is increase the temptation. Go and adjust the reward to twenty million. Unless this player is already super wealthy, then he will surely bite the bait sooner or later," said the young man casually, as though twenty million means nothing in his eyes.

"Understood." The middle-aged man then left the young man alone.

"I will have my hands on this player no matter the price. This individual is either Lady Luck’s child or has connections to the game creators, allowing him to obtain things in the game that normal people will never have a chance to obtain. If I get him to join my faction, then my family’s position within the ranks will surely rise!"

Similar scenes played out throughout the world with many high-standing figures doing whatever they can in their power to learn more about this player Yuan who is already light-years ahead of everyone else in the game, unaware that Yuan still has no idea how much of a stir he has created in the real world just because of a few system announcements. While Cultivation Online is just a mere game in Yuan’s eyes, that was not the case for others, who have their own ulterior motives.

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After eating breakfast, Yuan went into the game, but alas, the small figure of Xiao Hua’s was still nowhere to be found.

"Did she get in trouble with her family for staying out so late?" He thought of that possibility. "Maybe she was lying about her family not worrying so we could play for a bit longer..."

Yuan sighed, missing the cheerful little girl. Without her, what else is there to do in this world? Strength, wealth, fame — Yuan was not interested in any of these. All he wanted to do was have fun and use his body normally, something he cannot achieve in the real world. _{ƒreewebηoveℓ.com}

He pulled out the necklace she gave him before she left. Shaking his head, he sighed. "I shouldn’t be so impatient. I will wait for her just like she had waited for my return."

Thus, he sat down to cultivate again. While it was boring at first, as he slowly grew used to cultivating, he began feeling pleasure, like getting a massage during a nap.

Time passed quickly, and the night sky appears once again.

160,000/160,000

«You have absorbed enough Qi for a breakthrough»

«You have reached Sixth Level Spirit Apprentice»

«All stats +350»

320,000/320,000

«You have absorbed enough Qi for a breakthrough»

«You have reached Seventh Level Spirit Apprentice»

«You have learned Enhanced Senses»

«All stats +400»

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«Enhanced Sense»

«Rank: N/A»

«Description: Permanently enhances the functions of all available senses. Requires no activation.»

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320,295/640,000

"I believe it is someone known as Lightning Emperor, who is a Sixth Level Spirit Apprentice."

"Whoa, what an edgy name..."

"That’s what you’re concerned about?" Yu Rou chucked. "Say, what’s your cultivation now? Since you spent most of your time fooling around, it should be pretty low, right? Let me take a guess... you are a Second Level Spirit Apprentice."

Yuan grinned, "Wrong!"

"First Level Spirit Apprentice?"

"Wrong again."

"What... Don’t tell me... you have yet to cultivate?!"

"Yu Rou, since when have I become so pitiful and weak in your eyes? Your brother is disappointed..." Yuan said in a sorrowful voice. "Aiii, nevermind, I am just a nobody in the game, anyway. And like you have said, I have been fooling around, so hurry up and play with me so we can do things together."

"This week is impossible since I still have school, but next week for sure when summer break begins."

"School, huh. I am envious." Yuan smiled bitterly.

"Going to school is nothing to be envious about, brother. It is boring and tiring," sighed Yu Rou.

"But I still envy you and every student out there..." He sighed inwardly.

After talking for a few more minutes, Yu Rou went back to her room to sleep, and Yuan himself also went to sleep.

"If she doesn’t appear by tomorrow, I should use that necklace..." He told himself before falling asleep.