Wang Yu was amazed because when the village chief was just approaching he could see a [?] above his head but now when he was done introducing himself, the [?] is now replaced with [Village Chief, Rakan. “Ah, is this suppose to help me remember their names, how convenient.” Wang Yu thought to himself while smiling at the village chief, he found this game feature amusing.
Rakan continued with a question, “Before I start with the basic introduction, If I may ask, what should we call you?”
“My name is Wang Yu, nice meeting you village chief.” Wang Yu answered.
Rakan nodded and continued his speech, “For you to be specifically sent to our Raccoon Village out of thousands of others means that you and our village are tied in destiny, so from now on, Wang Yu, you are now a citizen of this village. As long as you’re within the village’s territory you are under the protection of our village. All outsiders will have to think twice if they want to harm you and of course since our tribe follows the righteous path, you have to uphold justice and do no evil. Be careful though, when your health points reaches zero or die, a forth of your total exp will be lost and all the items you’re carrying will be dropped except for the bound one’s. Be sure to visit the village altar to leave your soul imprint there, if incase you suffer death, you will be revived at the altar and not be just randomly revived at the wilds. I advise that before you venture outside the village, take a few tours around the village first, you learn some interesting things that can be of help.”
The ¼ of total exp penalty when dead, is the price to pay for remolding the body but if resurrected on the spot, the penalty is just 1/8 total exp. Though the penalty is still heavy considering losing so much exp hard to make, it still decrease your losses by a half.
“Thank you for your kindness village chief.” Wang Yu replied. “Oh.. If this is the case, being randomly assigned to a village, it would be hard for me to meet up with someone I know in real life.” Wang Yu thought to himself while thinking over Rakan’s words. “And death is not an option for me because every exp I gained is hard earned for sure. For me to die is a huge waste in my part.”
“As you just have started your path in cultivation, I’ll explain to you some basic things you need to know. Every time you level up, you’ll receive 3 talent points which you can add to improve your 3 talents. These 3 talents are the body, the essence and the soul. Adding talent points to your body will improve all aspects with regards to your physical body, like your stamina and strength. Adding points to your essence will increase your body’s compatibility with the world essence which allows you to faster absorb, store more, faster transform more world essence, you will gain the ability to use secret arts, martial skills and world magic’s. Adding points to your soul increases your ability to comprehend and fine control of your powers. The power of your soul also affects your capability to maximize the strength of your body and ability to use your essence externally. Adding a point to a talent will also will also slightly improve the other two because in theory these three are connected with each other.” Rakan explained.
“I know my explanation is kind of lacking because what I just have told you are the limits of my abilities, a true master can elaborate everything but finding one at your level is impossible. Even me, at my age have never seen such legendary experts. Now its up to you on how you distribute your talent points. Your talents will also increase through practicing various things, consuming heavenly objects and encountering fruitious events. Your base talent is equal to your past, before you came here. Of course here it starts with zero but your past talents are still there, so nothing wasted. Remember in the path of cultivation there are no mistakes, you just have to move forward. ” Village chief Rakan further explained.
“Before I bade my farewell, I have a gift for you in behalf of Raccoon Village.” Village Chief Rakan passed an ordinary looking box to Wang Yu. And when Wang Yu received it disappeared from his hand, “Ting.” A system message has appeared saying, “You have just received a newbie box.”
“Thank you for your gift village chief.” Wang Yu thoughtlessly replied. He was still deeply in thought with the information he received from village chief Rakan, so his actions were just instinctive respond to the happenings.
Village chief Rakan nodded and hurriedly left.
“So with such a set up, I should have a great advantage in the soul aspect. Following the doctors advice, if I put every talent points to body, my real body’s recovery will be faster. Here, immortal energy is referred as world essence, maybe because their orthodox path of cultivation is more perfect than my past universe. The cultivators in my past are quite lacking in terms with their body cultivation and even the other Elder Gods thought their physical body to be the peak.” Wang thought to himself. Even with this little hints, he was able to conclude that this universe is a superior one in terms of cultivation.
But what Wang Yu was ignorant about is the difference between Gods and Cultivators.
At first the universe is like a huge metal cage with only few lifeforms exist and these lifeforms were called Elder Gods. When they discovered that there’s someone exist besides them in this huge empty space, a normal person’s reaction would be happy, but it seems that they all are natural born enemies because there was only conflict when Elder Gods met, however no one managed to kill anyone, their strength is equal and cooperation between Elder Gods is impossible.
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These conflicts continued until an Elder God made discovery on how to improve his powers, through using his own flesh and blood he created the first great world and cultivated the world essence along with immortal energy. Being the creator of the world enabled perceive the laws faster. Immortal energy enables perception of the true laws of space and time while world essence enables the perception of the new laws including the minor space and time laws, this is why only the Elder Gods have eternal life. With a new power at his deposal, that Elder God managed to kill another god but he had done the feat with much difficulty. He thought that he was special from the others because he manage to create a new cultivation method and it was only unique to him but when they were in battle, he realized that he was gravely wrong. He was just the key holder of the many that entered the treasure room. By just fighting with him the other Elder God manage to learn the new laws and even made an addition but the other Elder God’s struggle was put in vain, eventually the other Elder God died due to his injuries that weakened him greatly. This greatly alarmed him but it was too late because after an Elder God’s death came a phenomena that allowed the others to have a knowledge of the happenings. The others too, hastily created their own great worlds to improve their power.
Elder God Yopa, the first Elder God to make a great world never stopped his hunt and found a second prey. He too succeeded for the second time in a pyrrhic victory because all of the Elder Gods except Yopa, inherited the deceased Elder God’s laws. Which made Yopa realized that now killing other Elder Gods gives him no advantage at all but just disadvantages, so he stopped his killing spree. With this, the whole universe once again came into standstill in conflicts but in terms of activity, worlds were created. The whole cosmos was filled heavenly bodies, lifeforms thrived, mortals cultivated and some of these cultivators became Gods themselves. The only criteria to be called a God, is the creation of a world which gives birth to lifeforms. But satisfying such criterion requires a body cultivation in God level and the process was very difficult because the creator should have enough understanding of space and time laws. The greatest benefit of creating a world though is that it will deepen the God’s understanding in the space and time laws. This is the main difference between a cultivator and a God. There might be cultivators that is far stronger than a God in terms of combat power but it still impossible for a cultivator to kill a God just because of this difference. Based on the criteria Wang Yu can’t be called a God but being one of those first existence he can considered as one. Beside no one knew the fact that he never created something. Even Miracle who saw everything in Wang Yu’s past haven’t understood everything in his memories. This is because of the Elder Gods Mastery of the space and time laws, they often stay at a place with different perceived space and time which made her unable to recognize that such memory exist. Imagine watching drama movie that is fast forwarded into a thousandth times, then good luck to you remembering even the title of the movie, what more of its dialogues. Or talking to someone face to face but your actual distance is billions of light-years away.
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“This village chief is quite helpful, however I can’t help but feel he is hiding something. I can feel his anxiety while explaining things like he want to get it done already and aren’t there supposed to be a crowd villagers to welcome a new citizen, but they just stood afar taking a few secret glimpse which is kind of weird. They just left all the custom responsibility to the poor old chief.” Wang Yu smirked as he thought of this, he was pretty sure that some thing is up with this villagers behavior. But for now could do nothing for it so he just shove this thought at the back of his mind.
Wang Yu was still unfamiliar with his current situation so he chose to first examine these various tabs in his consciousness. He first check his character status window.
[Character Name] Wang Yu
[Character Level] 0
[Status] Afflicted with {God Suppressing Curse}
[Cultivation Method] None
[Bloodline] Human
[Title] None
[Guild] None
Health Points: [1/1]
Essence Points: [0/0]
[Talent Points] 0
Body: 0
Essence: 0
Soul: 0
“Base on this status window, I’m pretty much a weakling with just taking on only a hit, I’d be dead. This {God Suppressing Curse} should be?” Wang Yu hovered on the status and a link window popped out.
{God Suppressing Curse} The user that is afflicted will suffer an experience points penalty when killing monsters and completing quests.
[This curse is permanent]
“So I’m a cursed weakling now, how is that even fair.” Wang Yu was slightly depressed when reminded with the penalty.
Then Wang Yu next checked his inventory and was surprised what he found. In the item slots, two slots were filled, the second item slot is filled with an ordinary looking box and the first one is a bracelet. “When did I got this bracelet?” Wang Yu asked himself. But when he examined the bracelet, he soon realized its origin.
[Miracle’s Pity](Bracelet, Unique Item)
An item that has formed due to Goddess Miracle’s compassion. A tool to do the impossible.
Special Skill(True Miracle): Allows the user to use an ability or an item active ability, no matter what are the conditions that restricts from using an ability or an item active ability. For example: the user is still able to use teleport even with the surrounding space is locked or the user is able to use an on cooldown ability or item active ability .
Charges: [1/1] Restores 1 charge everyday.
“What is this? Is that girl serious or is she just too naïve? Is she making a joke while giving me this thing?” Wang Yu was shocked with the bracelet’s description.
But contrary to Wang Yu’ questions, even Miracle doesn’t know that her pity for him having a hard time gaining exp would manifest into an item. And if she would know about it, she would not find any fault of such an item.
“Aside from mocking me, although I don’t understand much of this game but this skill should allow me to turn around a hopeless situation.” Wang Yu was still happy with the item skill.
Wang Yu then went to open the second item in the item slot.