Chapter 1: Shattered Sect
【The large-scale holographic virtual game 《Shattered Sect》 is about to launch its first non-wipe test! The first phase of test slots is limited to 50 people, ending in two days, first come, first served! 】
【Shattered Sect non-wipe test slot recruitment address: www.……】
“What kind of trash game is this? It’s not even the year 4012 yet, and they dare to advertise holographic virtual reality?”
“Anyone who believes this kind of game exists will surely be the main force buying health supplements when they get old.”
Late at night, an advertisement for a new game quietly appeared on a large game forum. Only a few bored night owls glanced at it, immediately suspecting it was a scam game, and clicked the X button.
“God bless me, I really hope someone signs up!”
Song Jiulai clasped her hands together towards the sky, murmuring a prayer that the recruitment test she had posted would be filled.
System: “I didn’t expect your little brain to be quite clever. Given how much your planet’s players like good deals, our sect won’t be short of people in the future.”
Song Jiulai: “Can you help me pick players with high talent? Preferably those who can reach Foundation Establishment in ten days, Golden Core in a hundred days, Nascent Soul in a year, and Ascension in ten years…”
System: “How about I make your Longevity Sect the number one sect in Yunzhou Continent right now?”
Song Jiulai: “That works too.”
System: “Works too, your head! Do you think I don’t want to?”
“……”
Song Jiulai transmigrated to Yunzhou Continent a month ago.
Before that, she was just an ordinary corporate slave. She was hit by a drunk driver while saving a cat on the road.
A miraculous thing happened; the System appeared at that very moment.
It claimed she happened to appear when it was choosing a host, and that she was kind, calling it fate. After spewing a lot of empty words, it brought Song Jiulai to this cultivation world called Yunzhou Continent, along with a fake identity.
The next successor of a small local sect, and that sect was the Longevity Sect.
Even the name carried the previous Sect Master’s beautiful and simple wish, because the previous Sect Master was only at the Foundation Establishment Stage and had not broken through to the Golden Core Stage in a hundred years, eventually passing away.
The System tampered with the Longevity Sect a month ago, leaving a prophecy that a Daughter of Destiny would soon come to save the Longevity Sect, and she would be the next Sect Master.
Apart from the deceased Sect Master, the sect only had one attendant who gathered herbs. It was so poor that it didn’t even have a canteen lady, so why would it need a prophecy?!
What’s more, she was a transmigrator!
She had no cultivation or talent. The System forcibly opened a Spiritual Root for her. The books for Qi Condensation Stage were begged from the neighboring Artifact Refining Sect. Fortunately, the brothers and sisters of the Artifact Refining Sect were straightforward…
Besides this, the System’s requirement was for Song Jiulai to lead the Longevity Sect to become the number one sect in Yunzhou, as this was its main quest.
First, it stipulated that the sect needed to have 50 members to unlock the next stage of the quest.
And then, that was it.
Yes, it couldn’t even provide a single Low-grade Spirit Stone.
Song Jiulai looked at her bleak future.
She sincerely said to the System, “How about I jump off a cliff and restart my life?”
This is a cultivation continent!
There are cultivators here!
This is truly a world of the jungle, where the weak are prey to the strong!
Someone at her level couldn’t even freely travel outside. How could the System dare to do this?
And it wanted her to recruit 50 people.
My god, the previous Sect Master of the Longevity Sect, who was at the Foundation Establishment Stage, couldn’t even recruit anyone besides an herb-gathering attendant.
This world values talent. People with Spiritual Roots who can cultivate are already few. In such a small place, there are countless sects. Anyone with even a little talent would rather go to a larger sect to do odd jobs. Who would want to join a sect so poor that it can’t even afford to pay Spirit Stone wages?
Song Jiulai closed her eyes and decided to give up: “It’s my life anyway, just kill me.”
“……”
Perhaps Song Jiulai’s attitude of giving up shocked the System, and it offered another method.
“I can open a passage to temporarily connect with other worlds, but I need energy from your main body. Your current energy is insufficient. At most, I can pull over people’s soul consciousness. To open a passage, you need to be more powerful. Therefore, you need to provide a vessel, and it must be voluntary.”
“But you can’t reveal my existence or your mission requirements. This difficulty is too high. Who would willingly hand over their soul consciousness to your world’s control?”
Little did they know, after the System said this, Song Jiulai’s eyes suddenly lit up.
Who wouldn’t be willing?
There’s a method that is 100% effective!
This is why 《Shattered Sect》 appeared on the Blue Star forum.
The only difficulty is that Song Jiulai needs to find a way to provide vessels for the Players, which are essentially their ‘bodies’ when they come to this world.
People are out of the question, but what about puppets!
The moral standards in the cultivation world are different from other worlds. Some cultivators make puppets that are just like real people. Powerful cultivators can even split their consciousness and possess the puppets. This is basically a necessary safety measure for high-level cultivators.
For low-level cultivators, the puppets they create are just decorations. Of course, it’s not impossible that they might use puppets for other things…
The cultivators of the Artifact Refining Sect make puppets.
Song Jiulai excitedly went to the neighboring ‘Flying Sparrow Sect,’ which specialized in artifact refining.
However, when she asked about the price of puppets, the sky seemed to fall.
“The lowest-grade puppets are made from First Order Spirit Herb powder, and each one costs ten Low-grade Spirit Stones. If you need better materials, there are more expensive ones.”
The person talking to Song Jiulai was a Senior Sister from the Flying Sparrow Sect, Su Huanli. She asked curiously, “Puppets aren’t particularly precious things. You should be able to make them yourself, and the cost would be even lower.”
Song Jiulai: “I… this… temporarily… don’t have time…”
I don’t know how!
Senior Sister!!
I only transmigrated here a month ago. I struggled just to understand the introductory cultivation method for the Qi Condensation Stage. How could I possibly know how to do this!
Fortunately, Su Huanli didn’t ask further, “How many do you need?”
Song Jiulai’s lips trembled, her heart felt like it was bleeding: “Fifty, I guess…”
Su Huanli was stunned: “Why do you need so many puppets?”
Song Jiulai: “For some experiments.”
Every cultivator in Yunzhou Continent has their quirks, so Su Huanli didn’t ask any more questions: “Alright, pay the deposit first, and I can give you fifty puppets tomorrow.”
In Yunzhou Continent, Spirit Stones are the hard currency, equivalent to money.
One hundred Low-grade Spirit Stones equal one Mid-grade Spirit Stone, and one hundred Mid-grade Spirit Stones equal one High-grade Spirit Stone.
Fifty puppets would cost five Mid-grade Spirit Stones, and the deposit requires one Mid-grade Spirit Stone.
The total assets left by the previous Sect Master of the Longevity Sect were only ten Mid-grade Spirit Stones.
Ten of them!
That was only enough to buy some of these things.
Anything else related to materials needed by cultivators started at tens or hundreds of Spirit Stones.
Song Jiulai, being so poor, cried at night but had to wipe her tears away.
She was afraid of lacking water, and couldn’t even afford to replenish it.
Even when Song Jiulai was a corporate slave before, she had never been this poor. She still had to keep one Mid-grade Spirit Stone to pay the salary of the only herb-gathering attendant in the sect.
The sect’s only source of income was these herbs, but they didn’t sell for much.
Fortunately, after ordering the puppets, the System gave her some good news.
“Someone has started filling out the information.”
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