Chapter 73

In the evening, after finishing dinner, they sat together to watch TV.

The TV was showing an episode of "Love Apartment Season 3," which featured Guan Gu filming a scene with Tang Youyou. It was the second scene.

Tang Youyou was waiting on the roadside with breakfast she had bought for Ou Haochen, while Zhang Wei, playing Ou Haochen, walked over from a distance.

Seeing Ou Haochen approach, Tang Youyou waved and called out, "Ou Haochen, I declare my love to you, my heart, my liver, every single organ in my body declares its love to you!"

Suddenly, a car sped by and directly knocked Tang Youyou over, making her fly like a rag doll... The suddenness and the special effects of the crash were very comedic.

Seeing this scene, they all burst into laughter.

"Beep."

A system notification sounded in Wang Tian's mind.

Player 27859391 has recharged 100 yuanbao for you. Please check.

Someone recharged yuanbao for him? Was it a stroke of luck? Wang Tian was puzzled.

Player 27859391 requests a video call with you. Do you want to connect?

Wang Tian knew that this player must have something to ask him. First, they recharged yuanbao, then requested a video call. Could this player be his old acquaintance, Dugu Yuntian? Besides Dugu Yuntian, Wang Tian didn't know any other players.

Wang Tian was ready to connect.

"You guys keep watching TV. I'll go back to my room."

"Okay," the two girls responded, more interested in the TV show than in Wang Tian's words.

Back in his room, he closed the door.

Wang Tian opened the game panel.

A video call icon appeared on the panel, and Wang Tian clicked to connect.

A chat interface appeared in his mind, like a maximized QQ chat window. On the left was the chat box, and on the right was the video window. As the other side's image flashed, the player with the number 27859391 appeared on the screen.

Wang Tian saw that it wasn't Dugu Yuntian. This person had a square face, thin lips, and could be considered quite handsome. He was wearing a long robe and had a sword on his back. He was sitting at a stone table, with a stone wall behind him, as if he were in a cave. Wang Tian looked him over and confirmed that he didn't know him.

"Hello, brother," the man greeted Wang Tian as if he knew him.

Unlike QQ chat, which required typing, his lips didn't move. Wang Tian knew they could communicate with their thoughts. "Do we know each other?" Wang Tian asked.

"Of course, take a closer look and see if you can remember who I am."

"Definitely, I don't know you," Wang Tian said, shaking his head out of habit.

"Zhao Xiaqiang, do you remember?" the man said.

"It's you!" Wang Tian remembered; he was the one who asked him to play the game for him.

"You remember? But I'm not Zhao Xiaqiang anymore. In this plane, I'm called Lin Feng..."

"Okay, how did you contact me?" Wang Tian asked, puzzled. He was also very happy to see an old friend.

"Normally, we can't contact each other in different planes, but our situation is different. It's like having the same ID registered for two accounts, so the system mistakenly thinks we are in the same plane," Lin Feng explained.

"Then, in reality, would there be two players in the same plane?" Wang Tian asked, suspecting it might be another player from Earth.

"No, the system only places one player in the same plane. On Earth, you are the only one," Lin Feng said.

"Okay, how are you doing now?"

"Not bad," Lin Feng's face showed a smile, indicating he was very satisfied with his current situation. "I'm in a cultivation plane, where the spiritual energy is very abundant. I have already cultivated to the ninth level of Qi Refinement."

"Just the Qi Refinement stage? I thought you were something great," Wang Tian said dismissively.

"Damn, I've been in this plane for less than a month, and I'm already at the ninth level of Qi Refinement. Do you think anyone can do that? Before I crossed over, the body I'm in was a waste, unable to cultivate!" Lin Feng was very dissatisfied with Wang Tian's dismissive attitude.

"Still, you're only at the Qi Refinement stage," Wang Tian said.

"Seems you don't know the cultivation levels here. To cultivate, one must first temper the body, which has nine levels: skin, bones, hair, marrow, blood... After the ninth level of tempering the spirit, one can start cultivating Qi. I went from a waste to the ninth level of Qi Refinement in a month. Isn't that heaven-defying?"

"It does sound impressive. How did you go from a waste to a genius? Tell me your story," Wang Tian asked curiously.

As a real role-playing game player, being the only one in the same plane and having to keep the secret of being a player, he felt very lonely. Now seeing someone like him, he was very excited, and Wang Tian felt the same way.

"I crossed over to become the son of a cultivation family's patriarch..." Lin Feng was extremely excited and began to recount his experiences in detail. "At first, I was a waste, born with broken meridians, unable to cultivate. I was bullied by my cousins, other family members, and the elders of the family, often getting slapped..."

"Hey, you're the son of a patriarch, who should have some authority. How could they bully you? Could it be that you have a face that invites slaps?" Wang Tian couldn't listen anymore.

"Can't help it, maybe these NPCs are all brain-dead," Lin Feng said.

"What happened later?" Wang Tian asked.

"I also had a fiancée, but she was a genius, a key figure in the academy. When she heard I was a waste, she brought the academy's elders to my home to break off the engagement..." Lin Feng continued to recount his experiences.

"Stop, stop, stop, let me continue for you..." Wang Tian quickly interrupted him.

"Do you know my story?" Lin Feng was stunned.

"Of course," Wang Tian said confidently. "When the engagement was broken, you were very angry and said, 'Thirty years on the east side, thirty years on the west side, don't underestimate a poor young man...'"

"How did you know? Even the words I said were exactly right?" Lin Feng was amazed.

"Guess," Wang Tian said mysteriously.

"You Earth people are truly amazing. Your strength isn't much, but you have abilities like great prophecy," Lin Feng said.

"What happened after that? How did you go from a waste to a genius?" Wang Tian asked.

"Isn't it thanks to the yuanbao shop? I bought a high-level cultivation technique from the yuanbao shop, and I soared. I broke through the body-tempering stage in a few days, reached the seventh level of Qi Refinement in half a month, and then took revenge on those who bullied me..." Lin Feng said, his face full of excitement. "That feeling was just too good!"