[Temporarily on hold because I haven't figured it out yet.
What I know for sure: max-level powerhouse + secret identity + cultivation + infrastructure building. The rest isn't fully decided.]
Shu Ci is a veteran player of the full-dive RPG game Path of Cultivation.
By now, she has racked up a series of achievements: top-ranked PVP player across the server, first place in PVE, a perfect score in every lifestyle activity, and the only player on the server to complete every achievement.
The game should have nothing left to offer her.
There's only one reason she keeps playing: the developers of Path of Cultivation have always claimed that the game contains a hidden sect waiting to be discovered.
If players find it, they can claim hidden achievements, titles, weapons, and even skills!
So even now, Shu Ci keeps up the habit of logging in every day and wandering around the game.
That day, as usual, she logged in. While exploring the desolate Liubo Mountain, she casually rescued a rabbit and suddenly triggered a quest:
[You rescued the beloved pet of the Liubo Sect's leader and passed her test. The leader has appointed you as her chief disciple, entrusting you with all affairs of the sect.]
Shu Ci: Well, look who I've finally found!
Shu Ci: Hidden sect, hand it over.jpg
But just then, Shu Ci's vision suddenly went black, and she transmigrated.
Shu Ci: ¥##...%&&*&...%
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When Shu Ci opened her eyes again, she'd transmigrated into the game and become the leader of the Liubo Sect.
After looking into things, Shu Ci learned that, as far as the sect leader knew, the Liubo Sect was in ruins and had to finish building up its foundations before recruiting disciples. That was why it had remained hidden in the game all along.
Shu Ci: So you just left a treasure vault full of goodies with an SSS rating for players untouched, playing the miser?
Well, how hard could a little infrastructure building be?
After all, the game account she'd played for years had come along with her.
Shu Ci could freely switch back and forth between her two identities.
Shu Ci (sect leader) needs 10 pieces of mid-grade nanmu to repair the main hall.
Shu Ci (player) takes 100 out of storage and hands them over to the sect.
Shu Ci (sect leader) needs 50 top-grade spirit stones to restore the sect's spiritual vein.
Shu Ci (player) takes 500 out of storage and hands them over to the sect.
Shu Ci (sect leader) needs 100 high-quality demon beast gallbladders to feed the sect's guardian beast.
Shu Ci (player) takes 1,000 out of storage and hands them over to the sect.
Finally, the time comes to recruit disciples:
Shu Ci (sect leader) needs several disciples. Any level will do, and the more the merrier.
Shu Ci (player) opens her friends list and sends out a mass message. The server's top players immediately defect from their sects and swarm into the Liubo Sect, turning a once obscure little sect into the number-one sect in the cultivation world.
The leaders of the other major sects, which had taken millennia to reach their current heights, are left speechless.
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