After working overtime for two straight months, Liu Xi finally died gloriously from overwork. She then became the master of a secret realm in the cultivation world.
Secret realms are usually ownerless spaces filled with countless mechanisms, formations, and guardian beasts. Every year, sects send batches of promising young disciples there to explore and test their skills.
A secret realm can be controlled at its master's whim. With nothing better to do, Liu Xi simply turned hers into an escape-room-style space.
During the sect trials in the first year, a group of disciples nearly got wiped out by all the Cthulhu NPCs inside.
During the sect trials in the second year, the disciples came equipped with stronger gear and more advanced protective artifacts, and played a cultivation-world version of Werewolf combined with an escape room.
The third time they entered the secret realm, the cultivators got their first look at the cyberpunk world's electromagnetic cannons, plasma lightsabers, and blaster guns.
Cultivators: ...So flashy! They're so cool we're shaking all over!
Spiritual energy is a kind of energy too! In that case, artificial reactors can produce spiritual energy as well! Physical transference! Spatial teleportation!... Cyberpunk cultivation is right within reach!
Before anyone knew it, the secret realm had become bustling with activity.
Senior Brother of the Xunfeng Sect: Junior Sister, aren't you going to morning class today?
Junior Sister of the Xunfeng Sect: Ahem, I've already been through the trials. Aren't you going to teach the disciples, Senior Brother?
Senior Brother: Uh, improving our strength is important. Anyway... I've already been through the trials too.
After watching for a long while, Liu Xi began to smile. "If you like playing games, just say so. Why pretend?"
The stronger the mechanisms in a secret realm, the more precious the spiritual treasures it contains. The more explorers there are, the more spiritual energy flows back into the secret realm.
After breaking open the entrance to the spirit realm, Liu Xi discovered that, perhaps because her soul came from another world, she could enter the secret-realm space through the electronic sea, with a full-immersion game as its medium.
Cultivators are few in number, but have abundant spiritual energy. People on Blue Star have little spiritual energy, but their population is enormous. So one day, the company Silknet Reality (SWR) Technology and Entertainment also launched its product.
With the help of spirit stones and energy fields, a truly groundbreaking full-immersion game began sweeping across the globe on the second day after its official launch, becoming an incredible sensation.
The explosive growth in players, together with spiritual energy as vast as the sea, surged toward the master of the secret realm.
Silknet Reality, boundless frontiers wherever you go.
"Boundless Frontiers Everywhere."
Probably starting around the end of the year. I really want to write about a game developer in the cultivation world... Cultivation with spiritual power isn't interesting enough without some technological twists!!
Theme: Hard work
