Prologue:
A young boy wrote on his computer; he was just an ordinary sixteen-year-old boy with black curly hair. The name of his boy was Le!
Le was a Vietnamese boy and a game developer; he was talented in game development and game design. Therefore he was working on his own game!
He was working on this game for over three years, and finally was the day come where he could play it! It was a "Cultivation-OpenWorld" game in VR. He designed his game with his friend "Tyron." they both were anime, manga, manhwa, and manhua fans.
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It is the year 2025, The coronavirus was defeated, but billions of dollars were invested. And the world changed; not only the coronavirus crisis were over, the technology evolved due to the corona crises. And the gaming branch was at its highest point. The PlayStation 6 and Xbox X were all defeated because of VR. The whole VR genre was so dominating that all consoles died except for computers and the VR.
Nowadays, every teen with a bit of talent could develop a game. The only thing you needed was a VR glass and a computer.
And ninety percent of all teachers lost their job because many teens became millionaires thanks to their games.
Especially the anime, manga, and webtoon branch dominated the games market. All games nowadays were based on cultivations, action or romance animes, mangas, or webtoons.
Our protagonist, Le, and Tyron, were big fans of novels and manhuas. They loved the feeling of reading a book with an untouchable protagonist. And he loved the cultivation genre, and their talking wise; he was a boy who didn't care about the story because every manga or novel he read didn't satisfy him until the day he found a book where an immortal was reborn back to earth. He was so addicted, and while quarantine, he read every cultivation manhua on the market.
(Author note: Yeah, that was me in quarantine)
Le was already working three years on his game called "The immortals," but he didn't plan to release his game. He only made this game for himself so that no one could annoy him. Le and Tyron invested every free hour in their game. They did many tests and created several sects, NPC, Martial arts, cultivation techniques, and many items for alchemists and blacksmiths.
Le was a genius if it came to development. He created the AI of the NPCs all by himself, even if it took him three years!
Tyron was a true master of arts and design, he could also develop a bit, but that wasn't his strength. Therefore he designed every character, structure, herb, and other minor and significant things.
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"Hello, it's now the 23rd of May, and it's 8 p.m. I hope everything goes as I expected!"
The reason why Le never joined in his game was the reason that he wanted to play the game without bugs or anything; he asked friends for him to test, and they did, and everything was perfect, and now the day comes where he can finally play his game he was working hard for!
He took his VR glass and put it on...
WHISH
When Le woke up, he was sitting on a giant golden throne; the throne was over twenty meters high.
"Wow, it looks so much more significant in VR. I should make it to two or three meters, but it looks fantastic!"
He was glad everything seems perfect, and the place he woke up was also his sect-clan called the "Immortal dragon sect," and as his game said, he is the only immortal in that world!
"Hehe, finally!" Le shouted out and flew out of his main-hall.
The sect was monstrous and protected by three array layers. The first was the reflectarray that reflect every spell or martial art back. The second array was an illusion array, and the third one was a protective array that could erase every attack.
"Hmm, well, I never thought about the things when I'm done with my game and play it; it's a weird feeling," Le said and rubbed his chin.
"Well, I look pretty handsome in this game. To be honest, my white hair and silver eyes make me look like a badass-handsome anime boy." Le smirked
"Dang, I should stop talking to myself!"
"Well, I'm at the celestial stage as well known as the 'Immortal stage.' so I guess I'm just chilling," Le added.
He went to his treasure hall, and when he'd opened it, he was shocked.
"He completely exaggerates it..."
Le saw billions of "Dragon coins" as for "Martial coins." thousands of martial art books, and many more herbs and other things.
The truth was that Le wasn't the only one who was working on the game. His best friend, "Tyron." was also working on his game.
"What a crazy bastard!"
"Oh, dammit! It's already at 8 p.m. Tyron should also arrive now, or am I wrong?"
"Oh wait, nope, 10 seconds. This dude was way too excited in school.."
Five hours ago...back in school...
"LE YOU CRAZY BASTARD!" A deep voice appeared behind him. It was a boy with long curly hair and blue eyes. He was about 6'2-3; he had a big smile on his face and looked at le with his eyes joyfully.
"Yeah, I know. I know you're excited but calm down!" Le poked him and said with a silent voice, even if he was proud of their game progress, he doesn't like other people's attention.
"PFFF, man, your way too shy and humble!" Tyron cheered and put his arm around Le.
"Ok, Ty, you know I was on vacation with my family so that I couldn't look over the game. I hope you didn't go crazy!" Le said in a stern tone.
(Author note: Ty \= Tyron. It's only a nickname Le gave Tyron because he was lazy)
"Yeah yeah, just chill mate. I would never pfff!" Tyron said in a serene tone.
'F**k, I can't log in now, and I'm coming five minutes later than Le. How should I do that then?!' Tyron thought and tried to stay calm.
They were in the same class for over eight years now, and they were more brothers than just friends.
They were a deadly duo in any game! They always reached the top of every ranking in the world!
At the end of the school day...
"Yo, I'm home soon. Don't forget to join us. It's we can finally play a good game without any dudes that steal our loot!" Tyron commanded.
"Pfff yeah yeah, I know you're excited, but you're still coming 5 minutes after me; I can't be late this time!" Le responded with a confident smile.
Back to 8:04 p.m...
"Oh, 5 seconds..."
"5"
"4"
"3"
"2"
"1"
BOOOOM
"Oh, dang," Le said to himself and pressed his ears with his hands, knowing what was about to happen.
"I'M HERE!" A loud voice appeared; it was a young boy with white hairs with blue eyes wearing a blue-white robe.
"Yeah, Ty, I know you're excited, but you have entirely overdone it. Man, you just filled our treasure room till the end with techniques, pills, and coins!" Le complained.
"Yeah, hehe, I wanted to make sure that we're op!" Tyron responded with a smile.
(A/N: Op\= Overpowered)
"Pff, you're never going to change, do you?" Le joked.
"Hehe, you know it, bro," Tyron responded with a big smile.
"Dang, let's try to fight a bit!" Tyron added and smirked. He was a person without any patient, so Tyron was already used to the combat system.
In general, there was nothing special about the combat system, but it is always weird to fly for the first time or even using attacks that could destroy a whole mountain.
"Well then, let's start!" Le said and flew up and released his qi-aura.
"You already learned how to fight, huh?" Tyron asked with a wry smile.
"Pfff, don't act as you don't know! We're friends for years and played many of those VR games. Did you forget about that?" Le joked as Tyron also flew up.
"Well, GOOOOO!" Tyron screamed.
As Tyron was screaming, he also used a martial art with the name "Fist of the Pheonix." a big fist covered in fire fell from the sky.
'This dude always has to overdo it!'
"Martial God art, I see!" Le smirked.
"Dragon sword of heaven!"
A sword suddenly appeared and countered the attack just by its appearance.
It was the "Dragon sword of heaven," shining in the sun as if it were fashioned from the brilliant rays themselves. The broad black metal was warmed as the sky began to turn red. In all the landscape, it was the thing that drew the eye, a symbol of the kind of might that enables others to kneel in front of it. Yet, like the moon, it reflected the destruction and the duty to destroy all enemies.
Le weighed the sword in his right hand, slashing it delicately at the air with a divine-like apprehension, and as he did so. The handle of the sword was bound with red-metal and spirit stones, the hilt decorated yet understated, and the blade was thin but long. Le was a big fan of swords, and that's why he created a sword with such an impact.
"Shall we start?" Le grinned.
"Of course!" Tyron answered and flew towards Le with immense speed.
"Pheonix talon first form!"
A talon appeared that was able to cut mountains. The talon was so monstrous and powerful that even a martial saint would be nothing in front of it!
"That's what I imagined!" Le shouted out with a big smile.
"Dragon sword technique first stage!"
"Slash if destruction!"
The sword gave out a Qi slash that was on pair with the Pheonix talon. And when the attacks clashed with each other, a phenomenon happened.
BOOOOM
All mountains around them were destroyed. Le and Tyron were immortals and at the pinnacle of cultivation.
Le was a sword-cultivator and pill-god. And Tyron was a martial arts-cultivator and also a pill-god.
The game they made had three cultivation ways. One was absolute, and you had to cultivate with the "default" one ranked in 7 realms.
The first one was the Qi gathering realm; the second one was the Qi forming realm; the third one was the core condensing realm. These three are the human realms after these realms, the inhuman ranks come, and that would be the earth-core realm, the sky-core realm, the Heaven realm, and at least the Divine realm. Each domain has ten stages. The first stages were known as the low-stages. These stages were stages 1, 2, and 3 after the low-stages, the mid-stages came, and the mid-stage also has three sub-stages 4, 5, and 6, and then the upper or high step 7, 8 and 9 and the tenth would be the breakthrough.
If you reached the "Divine realm," you could continue as a "Sword" or "Martial" cultivator.
The sword realm had ten stages. The sword-disciple, sword-master, sword-grandmaster, sword-supreme, sword-sovereign, sword-monarch, sword-dominator, sword-saint, sword-god, and the last and ultimate stage the sword-deity.
The martial realm also had ten stages. Body-tempering, martial-king, martial-emperor, martial-ancestor, martial-dominator, martial-monarch, martial-sovereign, Martial-saint, martial-god, and the ultimate realm, martial-deity.
Tyron and Le were losing their consciousness. In usual cases, nothing serious would happen, but this time, something was wrong...:
"Bro, what happens? My sight gets blurry!" Tyron asked.
"What do you mea-?" And before le could finish his sentence, he fell as same for Tyron
"B...Bro-" Tyron grasped.
"D...Don't...worry!" Le tried to say with all his strength and closed his eyes...
Two young men were sitting on their thrones.
The young man that was sitting on a golden-black throne had white hair and silver eyes. The throne he was sitting on was monstrous. The throne made of black metal and gold, covered with several jade and spirit stones, formed an elegant coat of arms, namely a dragon circling a phoenix.
The other man was sitting on a similar throne with the same coat of arms.
The two were, of course, Le and Tyron!
After a while, they both opened their eyes.
"B. Bro, are you okay?" Tyron asked
"Yeah, but I have a little bit of headache, damn.," Le responded.
"W...We're still in the game?" Tyron asked in shock
"I...I don't know; I only remember how we both lost our consciousness, but as I can feel, everything still works, and we're at our sect, and nothing serious happens." Le responded and stood up.
As for Tyron, they both stood up, and when they came out to take a look, they were shocked.
"T. This is not our world!" Le and Tyron screamed in shock.
"Am I dreaming?" Le asked Tyron
"Do we still have our cultivation level?" Le added
"I can't give you an answer, bro; I'm shocked as you, but should we try to release our martial spirits?" Tyron responded and asked him in fear of what would happen if they would try to use their martial spirit. The martial spirits were the sign that you've entered the martial arts realms. And everyone had an individual soul; even if Le weren't a martial arts cultivator, he was still at the martial-god realm.
Le and Tyron took deep breaths. They were excited as feared what would happen now.
"RELEASE!"
As Tyron and Le shouted out, a dragon and a Phoenix came out of their body!
They were just spirits, but it looked quite impressive! Le and Tyron were shocked. The spirit of the creatures looked way more powerful and impressive than in their game!
Le and Tyron felt like every fiber of their being was vibrating with anticipation. Adrenaline was coursing through their veins. Their hands trembled, and their eyes were wide. 'This is what a protagonist in a manhua must felt!' They thought.
"Bro..."
"Yes..."
"I think... I think we're cultivators... REAL CULTIVATORS!" Le shouted out in joy.
"Ahem, but we're in an otherworld... And our spirits feel way more substantial. Does that mean that the general cultivation is much weaker here?" Le tried to act cool and asked.
"Well... I'm still shocked, but I think so, yeah." Tyron answered and tried to process the situation.
"Ok, I'm more or less calm, but I think we should get a map as soon as possible. So I would say we should fly to the next city?" Tyron added after a minute of silence.
"Good idea. I guess we just sense the most potent Qi and fly there." Le suggested.
Le and Tyron looked at their spirits again and back to each other.
'Dude, how cool is that?!' Le thought
And touched his dragon spirit with his hands; his whole body trembled with excitement, and his eyes widened.
'It's a long dragon! Dang, i'm so happy that Ty is such a god in designing and designed my Chinese dragon!' Le thought and had a big smile on his face and jumped on his dragon.
While Tyron still stares at his Phoenix spirit, Le was waiting for him patiently. Le knew how Tyron felt, so he just waited some minutes.
Point of view of Tyron:
'W. Wow' He had no words; he looked at his Phoenix spirit with all his admiration.
'God dang, I've designed those creatures hehe, oh dang I shouldn't let Le wait!' Tyron praised himself, and when he noticed that Le was waiting, he hurried up and jumped on his Pheonix.
"Le, let's go!" Tyron shouted out with a smile.
"Yeah!" Le responded, and their spirits began to fly.
They both flew towards the most significant Qi source they could detect. And when they arrived, they were shocked.
The city was ten times bigger than the cities Le and Tyron created, but even if the city was several times bigger than their creation, all people's cultivations were pretty bad.
Le and Tyron landed inside the city and hid their spirits. And when they both walked inside the crowd, all gazes were at them.
"Uhm bro, why do they look at us?" Tyron whispered.
"I don't know either, but we may take a look at their faces and so on and not only in their souls! We may take a look at their physical body." Le responded in a silent voice.
Of course, they were looking at Le and Tyron! Leas Tyron looked more than handsome! Their face as hair and eyes were enough to make girls fall for them. And not only that, they had even white-blue robes on that the people only knew of sect members!
"Wow, so handsome."
"I wish I could marry him!"
"Pssht! Be quiet. They are cultivators. Do you think you could pull them?"
Some girls were talking about Le and Tyron as Le walked to one of them.
"Hey, may I ask what the name of yours is?" Le asked with a smile.
" I.I'm Zhang Yingtai!" The girl responded and blushed. She was too nervous. It was the first time that she met such a good looking man. And on top of that, even a cultivator! She couldn't afford to irritate him!
Le looked at Tyron, and they both thought the same...
'Chinese names!'
"May I asked what the name of yours is?" The girl asked and bowed.
'Chinese name! I need a Chinese name!'
"I'm Yin Long, and my companion name is Lan Fenghuang." Le responded and pointed with his index finger to Tyron.
'Wait... I'm speaking the whole time Chinese... But since when can I speak fluent Chinese?' Le thought.
"Tell me, do you know anything about cultivators?" Le asked in curiosity.
"I only heard of them, but I can't give you any information. If you want information, you have to go to the martial art pavilion." Yingtai responded and pointed to a monstrous building.
"Thank you. I shall owe you something. Take this token if you're in danger, break it." Le smiled and took a token out of his pocket and gave it to Yingtai
"Y...Yes!" Yingtai bowed politely, and Le went to Tyron, but when Le saw Tyron's face, he knew what was going on.
"You heard it, bro 'Martial art pavilion.' I think it's my turn now, hehe." Tyron clenched his fists and grinned.
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You guys should I give the chaps names or just call them ”Chapter (Number)” ?
Le and Tyron went a while to the pavilion, and when they stood in front of it, they were pretty disappointed.
'50 Body-tempering cultivator 10 Martial-king and only two martial emperor cultivator.'' Tyron sighed and wanted to go.
"Come on, bro, don't be so disappointed. We may have a sect but no disciples, so may we can find some talented disciples!" Le tried to persuade him.
"You right, but it's disappointing, but I'm curious here's no heaven cultivator. How can they be in the body's tempering realm?" Tyron asked in curiosity
"Well, that's not our game. May those cultivators don't have those stages and begin at the Body-tempering stage and sword-disciple realm." Le responded.
"Well, let's take a look," Tyron said and wanted to walk in, but he tried to walk in, two guards blocked the way.
"Can I see your badge?" One guard asked.
"I don't have one. I thought it's a pavilion, and everyone can join." Tyron responded.
"You brat, you dare to make fun of the martial pavilion ?" The guards went mad and grabbed Tyron by his robe.
"Oh, oh, you guys are done for," Le said while he witnessed the scene.
"You guys dared to touch me? I'll give you 10 seconds to kneel and beg for forgiveness." Tyron commanded, his voice became deep and way scarier; the anger inside him was at his limit.
Tyron always had a bad temper, even in the real world. He was still messing with other people if they didn't respect him. So Le knew what would happen if they won't kneel. Tyron was a cultivator and not only a little fish. Le and Tyron were the strongest beings in their new world.
"Yo, if you guys don't kneel soon, your family won't exist anymore, haha," Le joked, even if he was laughing; he knew that Tyron would be able to wipe the whole city out in one breathe.
"You brat, you think you can threaten us?" The guards thought and released their power.
"Martial kings, how cute," Tyron said and slapped them.
BOOOM
"WHO DARE TO ATTACK THE PAVILLION?" An older man appeared in front of Tyron and Le.
"You guys? You brats, you dare to provoke this older man?" The older man asked them and released a terrifying power.
"A Martial emperor cool," Tyron said calmly
"Brat, if you kneel, I shall forgive you," The old man commanded.
'Oh dang, this pavilion, if done for' Le, thought and put an array on to protect the outsiders who did nothing. Le was always someone who wanted justice and someone who would never insult an innocent person. His temper wasn't too bad as Tyron's, but if someone would dare to harm his lovely ones, people had to pay.
"On old man, tell me who you are," Tyron commanded.
"Elder Zhou Hu of the Laohu Wushu sect (Tiger martial arts sect), you shall know who killed you!" The older man said and attacked.
"Tiger fist."
The older man attacked, and a big fist formed of his Qi and slammed Tyron.
BOOOOOM
"Pff just an arrogant brat." The older man said and went back.
"Old man, this attack was fun and healthy if you were a Martial God, but you're unqualified to have such a martial art. I shall let you alive, and if you show me where your sect is, I shall forgive you." Tyron commanded and released the aura of the martial-dominator realm.
'D...Dominator realm'
"Senior, forgive me for being so stubborn!" The older man kneeled and begged for forgiveness.
'This mysterious young man in several times stronger than our grand elder and two times more potent than our sect master...' The older man thought and regretted to offend such a being.
"Old man, I'm glad that you're not so stubborn and now show me your sect, or otherwise, I shall wipe out this pavilion." Tyron smiled.
'I'm glad that he's not such a cliche dude who said," This is a cheap trick" God dang may some manhuas are only exaggerating.' Tyron thought
"Yes! YES! This older man will follow your commands!" Zhou Hu was still kneeling and worried about his life and that of his family.
"Well, let's fly then," Tyron said and looked to Le.
"Yeah, I'm bored," Le responded.
"Senior, it's three days, and even if we fly, it takes one day." Zhou Hu explained.
"We'll be there in some minutes, come," Tyron said and released his spirit.
'B. Blue phoenix he can even summon his martial spirit that means he's at least a martial monarch..' Zhou Hu thought, and his whole body began to tumble just if the thought that the man in front of him could be a higher realm than the martial monarch.
"Le, come on!" Tyron commanded.
"Pfff impatient as ever." Le thought and released his martial spirit.
'Dragon spirit! Who are these seniors?! Even if all cultivators in the continent would fight against them, all of them were just mere ants.." Zhou Hu felt helpless in front if he were two deities compared to the ancestor of the Rongyao continent.
"Seniors, the sect is at the Longhu mountains in the west of the continent. An array protects the sect, so it's hard to find it, but I can open the array with my badge!" Zhou Hu explained.
"Well then you shall come with us. We don't want to settle a war, but if your sect disrespects us, we won't show any mercy." Le explained with a smile.
"Y. Yes! Of course!" Zhou Hu trembled. He has to contact the sect as fast as he can. He couldn't afford to provoke Le and Tyron.
"Old man, just so by the way, we have a particular reason to see your sect." Tyron explained.
'Bro, what did you just planned now?' Le thought in silence.
"Senior, what is your intention to visit our sect?" Zhou Hu asked in curiosity.
'Maybe they want to rob us? Or just kill random? Dammit! Why did I just enrage such deities?!' Zhou Hu thought? He couldn't imagine and was paranoid about what would happen.
"Well, we're seeking disciples for our sect." Tyron responded.
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