Chapter 123: Simulation: Essence of the Moon Spirit
In the final circle, with a radius of just over thirty meters, the three searched everywhere and found no other people.
Instantly, both the scholar and the elder realized.
The last enemy was none other than the other two people beside themselves.
In a flash, Qianli Xing aimed his shotgun at Shi Dan and pulled the trigger.
Bang! Bang!
Two shots rang out, and Shi Dan fell to the ground, turning into a box.
Xu Sheng hastily took a big step back, aiming his gun at Qianli Xing. The other man's gun was also aimed at him, and they stood off against each other, gazes ice-cold.
"He's just a child!"
"How could you be so cruel!"
Xu Sheng cursed, trying to attack the other's conscience and seize the opportunity to take down the elder.
"Heh heh!"
Qianli Xing revealed a mocking smile, "When you roam the Jianghu, the most important thing is this, never trust anyone! Besides, this kid made a move on me right from the start, so of course, it's a relief to get rid of him!"
He had always been one to hold a grudge.
In the Jianghu, surviving to his age depended on being cunning.
Xu Sheng's expression turned ugly, but he was wearing level-three armor and a level-three helmet. That shotgun wouldn't kill him with two shots, and because they came from different worlds, their physiques were somewhat different as well.
Among the three, Qianli Xing was the weakest.
As long as he found the right opportunity, he could definitely survive to the end.
"Kid, you must be thinking you can win, right?" Qianli Xing sneered, "Before entering this final place, I injected myself with a shot that greatly enhances my physical abilities."
"Now, I'm no less physically capable than you!"
He had injected himself with adrenaline. Although temporary, he believed that with years of experience in the Jianghu, killing a scholar who only knew basic boxing was no challenge.
However, he ultimately overestimated himself.
The scholar fired instantly, throwing himself to the ground as he did so, avoiding Qianli Xing's shooting. He pulled the pin of a grenade from his hand and threw it at the other man.
Boom!
A blast sounded, shaking Qianli Xing to his core and causing him pain all over.
He avoided the explosion and was left unharmed, but the health bar above his head had only a sliver left, flashing dangerously red.
"Damn it!"
He fired wildly, but at this time, Xu Sheng had already pulled out a smoke grenade, filling the surroundings with smoke and clouding Qianli Xing's vision.
"Where are you?"
Qianli Xing remained on high alert, only able to see vague figures darting through the smoke.
Bang!
Bang! Bang!
Qianli Xing randomly pulled the trigger, firing off shots in all directions, but he hit nothing.
Thud!
Suddenly, Qianli Xing felt a pain at the back of his head, lost consciousness, and fell to the ground.
Xu Sheng was panting heavily, breathing hard.
As he became the last winner, a golden light suddenly descended from the sky, and a fragrant roast chicken floated down within the light.
"Is this it?"
Chapter source: My Virtual Library Empire (M|V|L4EMPYR).
Xu Sheng suddenly felt as if he was in a demon's Gu-rearing field.
Surviving to the end, and all he got was a roasted chicken?
"Sigh—"
Looking at Qianli Xing's box, then at Shi Dan's box, Xu Sheng suddenly felt a sense of emptiness.
With a blink of his eyes, the entire person was gone...
[Game Over!]
Sun Shisheng watched the three from a god-like perspective. From the initial panic to becoming familiar with the entire process of the game, he mused, "These game-worlds should maintain a certain game characteristic, but they need to be made more realistic."
"For example, when jumping from the plane, one could remove the automatic parachute deployment at a certain altitude. But dying from the fall doesn't offer much of a gaming experience. Instead, we could make it so that life would drop to a critical point."
"Or perhaps, the driving of the cars, making them like the real ones..."
These three who came through the dream gave Sun Shisheng plenty of ideas, being akin to internal testers within the Taixu Illusory Realm.
However, there were also some benefits.
As a result of their experiences in the elite battleground illusion, upon returning, all three would have their mental cultivations slightly enhanced, having gone through a life-and-death ordeal.
Whether these three would be able to enter the Taixu Illusory Realm again would depend on fate.
After all, their entry was accidental, and their mental realm hadn't reached the Stable Realm of deep meditation.
The scholar had an epiphany while reading deeply into a book...
The elder had decades of experience in the Jianghu and entered during a night's rest...
And that child, with a spirit different from ordinary people, had sensed something by chance...
"Taixu Sphere, if other beings from different worlds enter in the future, just cast them into the illusionary world I have planned in the Taixu Illusory Realm. Record all their actions to identify and mend any shortcomings," Sun Shisheng instructed.
The Taixu Sphere hummed, receiving Sun Shisheng's command and recording it.
This object was akin to Sun Shisheng's True Spirit avatar, functioning as an external brain similar to the Heavenly Dao governing everything within the Taixu Illusory Realm.
Afterward, Sun Shisheng left the Taixu Illusory Realm, his consciousness returning to the outside world.
The virtual reality project cannot be rushed.
The era is still developing; computers haven't even entered every household yet. If Ming Lun Martial Arts Hall were to suddenly introduce a virtual game, who knows what kind of shock it would cause this world.
It would be wiser to develop for a while longer and bolster the underlying foundation.
Three months flew by in a hurry.
During this time.
Wang Chao measured the earth with his feet, in the midst of his travels...
Tang Zichen had already taken care of the Tang Sect's affairs and returned to Ming Lun Martial Arts Hall...
Chan Yinsha practiced boxing while instructing students, then competed with Tang Zichen and sparred with GOD...
Li Hansha immersed himself in Alchemy Dao, researching the modern industrial system, and had already achieved minor success. He was able to create a diluted form of Moon Essence using the modern system.
However, this type of Moon Essence was not silver but transparent in color, and extremely addictive.
Only those who have reached the second stage of deep sleep or higher in their mental cultivation could consume it.
If one's mental cultivation was insufficient, the medicinal power would make an ordinary person extremely active, unable to stop.
Therefore, Li Hansha named it "Spirit of the Moon Essence," to distinguish it from the real "Moon Essence."
Besides that, Li Hansha also created Sun Essence.
That is, the energy of the sun.
He condensed the sunlight's rays and gathered them into a liquid form of energy, whose effects were far stronger than those of Moon Essence.
However, it was too violent, and only those in the Stable Realm could consume it.
After researching Sun Essence and the derivative of Moon Essence called "Spirit of the Moon Essence," Li Hansha began to study combining the two. He had a premonition that if only he could successfully merge Sun Essence and Moon Essence, his own Mental Realm would also reach the final stage of Embryonic Breathing Realm—Primordial Respiration.
When the sun and moon converge, begins the Primordial!
By then, his life force would surge dramatically!
Ordinary people, at the Embryonic Breathing stage, even at Primordial Respiration, would have a life force of only around 50, while Li Hansha's life force had already broken into triple digits, surpassing one hundred.
If he were to break through to Primordial Respiration, his life force might very well be close to a thousand!
Not just him, Wang Chao was the same.
Although Tang Zichen and Chan Yinsha's life forces hadn't yet broken into triple digits but were close to one hundred, they were special individuals. If they broke through to the Primordial Respiration stage in the future, their life forces might also reach nearly a thousand.
Besides these developments, Ming Lun Martial Arts Hall experienced something else: Cao Jingjing and Zhao Xinglong were taken in by Chan Yinsha as true disciples.
This happened because the coastal martial arts tournament also took place during these three months.
Sun Shisheng did not show up; both Cao Jingjing and Zhao Xinglong left no one standing among the coastal experts.
Although the coastal experts also realized that mental cultivation is the key path, lacking the conditions of Ming Lun Martial Arts Hall and consuming numerous supplements only served to sustain their own consumption.
Moreover, they were all too eager for quick success and were not true experts. Their life forces were basically between 0.8 and 1, with not a single person exceeding 1.
"You two did well; you may be my disciples," said Chan Yinsha, her gaze intensifying.
At that look, both of them felt a blur before their eyes as if they were about to fall into an illusion, but they clenched their teeth and endured.
"Not bad."
Being able to withstand one of her glances, they had the potential for Embryonic Breathing.
Cao Jingjing and Zhao Xinglong, however, were pale.
Just now, they both thought they were going to die!
And that was merely one ten-thousandth of Chan Yinsha's unremarkable gaze!
Having acquired the true legacy, they understood the true essence of the Embryonic Breathing Realm. Once a person enters this realm, by standing in one place, they can materialize their spirit tens of thousands of miles away through their mental cultivation.
Soaring through the heavens, diving into the earth, overturning rivers and seas, splitting mountains and cleaving valleys!
It was nothing extraordinary!
It was just too powerful!
"Since you both have learned hypnotism, start with this. From now on, help the martial arts hall hypnotize guests. It will both train your spirit and earn you ten percent commission, with a deduction of tuition fees," instructed Chan Yinsha.
Hypnotism practice.
Whether it was the Hypnotist or those being hypnotized into deep sleep, both could benefit.
The Hypnotist would expend mental energy, and after recovery, their spirit would grow; the hypnotized, needless to say, would greatly develop their body's potential while in deep sleep, becoming much healthier.
"Yes," they responded in unison.
They naturally knew hypnotism, but they did not dare to treat guests within the martial arts hall, practicing only with fellow students or earning extra money outside.
Cao Jingjing came from a wealthy family, but she was a girl who strove for self-reliance and didn't want to always ask her family for everything.
At the very least, she wanted to earn her own money.
Now that she had become Chan Yinsha's disciple, she could hypnotize guests and receive ten percent of the fees.
Within Ming Lun Martial Arts Hall, the ranks of Hypnotists had also been established, divided into Hypnotist Apprentice, Junior Hypnotist, Intermediate Hypnotist, Senior Hypnotist, and finally, the Master of Spirit.
Hypnotist Apprentices, in the first stage of deep mental cultivation sleep, could use various physical movements, cooperate with guests in exercise, and with the aid of external tools like pendants or Crystal Balls, could put guests into deep sleep.
Junior Hypnotists could induce the state in guests through movements alone.
Intermediate Hypnotists could forsake movements, with just a glance sending people into a hypnotized state.
Senior Hypnotists could hypnotize multiple people at once.
Masters of Spirit could, in an instant, put an entire city, kingdom, or even the whole planet into a state of hypnotism.
Cao Jingjing had already reached the third stage of deep sleep, attaining the standard of a Junior Hypnotist. With one session worth a million, ten percent was one hundred thousand.