Apologies for anyone who got their hopes up seeing this, this is not a real Spider Core chapter. Just posting this here to let my followers know that I have published my second story here on RoyalRoad, called Nephilim Ascension! If you're interested in cultivation stories with more western influences set in a very strange setting (spoiler: they live on a ringworld) then Nephilim Ascension might be for you! There will be minor litRPG elements, but with a lot less numbers than Spider Core had.

You can read Nephilim Ascension here: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/80853/nephilim-ascension

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Snynopsis:

Alina Blake is a Nephilim and the reincarnated soul of the strongest cultivator to have ever lived. She just doesn't know it yet. Born in a small Beastkin village on the Ring, she's a social outcast amongst most of the villagers. At first, it's due to being different, a presumed Demon adopted by a poor family. Then, after she catches the attention of a Wandering Cultivator, it's due to her training under him. Most mortals hate or fear cultivators, after all.

But she wants more from the world than to live her whole life in a small backwater where she isn't welcomed by the majority of her peers, and she'll push through the pain of training and become a powerful cultivator, even if it takes hundreds or thousands of years.

Until her System unlocks and she finds out, it definitely will not take anywhere near that long.