Cultivating Through The Game

Divine Martial Secret Realm.

Heaven-Breaking City, Celestial Fire Furnace, Giant God Peak, Floating Mountain... nestled within a vast secret realm.

Lu Yu appeared at the Teleportation Plaza at the center of the secret realm.

Not appearing in the bamboo forest cottage, Lu Yu found it a bit strange, but this was not an issue worth dwelling on.

He performed the Heaven's Edge Ruler Step, setting up a rainbow light, and flew towards the mountain where Heaven-Breaking City was located.

Although there were many dangerous and powerful creatures within the Divine Weapon Pavilion Secret Realm, they were all restricted to certain areas, and flying between the main peaks would not attract attacks from those terrifying creatures.

With Lu Yu's speed, rainbow flight still took a considerable amount of time before he reached Heaven-Breaking City.

Upon reaching Heaven-Breaking City, Lu Yu couldn't help but recall the scene when he first entered the Divine Weapon Pavilion Secret Realm, when he and Ouyang Lie, Qin Feng took half a day to travel from the Teleportation Plaza to Heaven-Breaking City.

Now it took him less than half an hour.

Circumventing the back of Heaven-Breaking City to the bamboo forest cottage, looking at the small house in the bamboo forest, Lu Yu felt inexplicably excited, thrilled, confused... his emotions were somewhat complex.

What would it feel like to see someone identical to yourself?

Branches~ Lu Yu opened the array on the small house and pushed the door open to enter.

To his disappointment, there was no one inside the small house. He touched the place where he originally lay offline and completely felt nothing there.

Yet, his heart told him there was definitely something here.

Something was blocking his perception, blocking his cognition, but internally it was an anti-feeling, anti-cognition.

There was a very simple way to prove that something existed here, which was to destroy it all.

Just as when a player logs offline, although they merge into the background image, if someone destroys and annihilates the entire background image, the players indistinguishable from it would also die as the background perishes.

Now Lu Yu was uncertain, what impact would destroying his original in-game body have on his current self?

In a sense, he was still in a state of one mind, two bodies between reality and game.

Lu Yu had an inexplicable feeling that he couldn't let things go on like this, otherwise big trouble would ensue.

Following his inner feeling, taking a risk, to see if it would affect him? Thus, there would be only one Lu Yu in the world.

Or to retain his original in-game body here, leaving a huge potential hazard to himself?

Lu Yu was a bit hesitant.

Subconsciously, he walked out of the room and headed towards the cave on the mountain.

Seeing Lu Yu appear in front of him, Li Qiuyang was somewhat surprised, he hadn't felt his presence for a while, and he missed several times teaching the Dao.

Previously, Lu Yu would always attend every Dao teaching session.

Seeing the bewilderment in Lu Yu's eyes, Li Qiuyang slightly furrowed his brows and gently manipulated his spiritual power to make a mat appear behind Lu Yu, saying calmly: "Sit down, ask whatever questions you have, and I will try to help you solve them."

Lu Yu lowered his head, hesitated for a moment, then raised his head and said: "I heard a story, Master."

"Someone had a dream, in which he dreamed of having a second body and started a second life. However, one day, someone told him that if he died in the dream, he would die in reality too, so he lived anxiously within the dream."

"Until one day, he entered the dream from reality and saw his body within the dream. That's when he had to choose to take the risk of possibly dying and destroy the body in the dream, preserving himself."

"Or leave the dream body, leaving a massive hidden danger to himself?"

Looking at Li Qiuyang, Lu Yu asked: "Master, if this person were you, what would you choose?"

Li Qiuyang touched the sword placed on his knee and said: "I would try to see if killing my dream self would lead to my own death. If it would, I would hide that body where nobody could ever reach it."

Stunned by these words, Lu Yu then came to his senses and offered his thanks, "Thank you, Master, for your guidance."

He was too anxious before, not considering that he could test first to see if harm would lead to his own death, before deciding whether to destroy or preserve.

And as Li Qiuyang said, even if the body were preserved, it could be hidden somewhere no one could ever reach.

Lu Yu might not find such a place, but with his body's naturally strong concealment thanks to blocked perception, he only needed to put it in a very safe location.

Watching Lu Yu hurriedly get up, Li Qiuyang added, "A swordsman's heart only holds the belief of nothing uncut, to be invincible. As long as I am strong enough, I can sever the connection too."

"My fate is mine to dictate, not the heavens'."

Lu Yu paused in his steps, once again turned back to bow to Li Qiuyang.

This might sound like a youthful declaration, but from Li Qiuyang, it was full of dominance.

Lu Yu could sense that he genuinely thought this way and would indeed act accordingly.

Returning to the bamboo forest cottage, Lu Yu recalled the position in which he lay down at the time and mapped out his body position on the bed, locating where his hands and feet were.

Looking at the drawn body shape on the bed, Lu Yu took a deep breath and decided to start the experiment from the feet.

He wasn't sure if he might roll over, and if he did, his hand's position would certainly change, but the foot's position would be roughly in that area.

No matter how he turned over, it wouldn't come to switching head and foot direction.

If he really did swap head and feet and accidentally got himself killed, Lu Yu would accept it, for he had only himself to blame for having a lousy sleeping posture!

Using the Celestial Falling Bright Flame to burn the lower part of the wooden bed, burning the parts originally belonging to the feet and lower legs.

After burning for half the day, the wooden bed had already been destroyed, yet Lu Yu felt no reaction or feedback to himself.

"Perhaps my defense is too strong, and the Celestial Falling Bright Flame simply can't scorch me." Lu Yu let down his guard, opened his mind, and used the Celestial Falling Bright Flame to scorch his arm.

His arm was shining with a golden sheen, a layer of transparent Astral Qi blocking most of the force, and the remaining force scorching his arm didn't make Lu Yu feel too much pain.

Just feeling slightly hot, not enough to cause harm to himself.

If that's the case, Lu Yu took out the Demon-Breaking Saber and slashed once, despite his perception being blocked, Lu Yu could feel a strange sensation in his heart, as if he really hit himself.

Standing there waiting for feedback from the leg slash, he waited half a day with no sensation of being harmed.

With no feeling at all, Lu Yu felt speechless. Could it be that there was actually no "game body" here, and it was all just him battling with the air?

With this thought, Lu Yu also thought he might have fallen into paranoid delusions.

Looking at the remaining half of the wooden bed, Lu Yu gripped the Demon-Breaking Saber tight, resolutely thinking, "Even if I die, I will only die by my own hand!"

He would never allow himself to die mysteriously in the future because of a "game body." He would rather suffer collateral damage and die by his own hand.

The power long stored within him erupted, dozens of times stronger than his own force.

In an instant, the entire wooden house was destroyed. Looking at the destroyed house, Lu Yu calmed his mind, thinking, "Even if I die, it will be just for a moment, without pain."

Boom! Without warning, Lu Yu lost consciousness.