I might have been playing a fake cultivation game.

Chapter 078: Innate Perfection, Late Foundation Establishment!

While Zhou Yunshen was talking to his mother on his phone, a family dinner was taking place in a luxurious villa.

At the long, elegant dining table, a middle-aged man with a composed appearance who bore a striking resemblance to Chen Xin'an, and a beautiful woman in her forties with light makeup, were having dinner with a boy of about fourteen or fifteen. The family was chatting quietly, appearing to be enjoying themselves.

Chen Xin'an sat alone on the other side of the dining table, eating his meal in silence, looking completely out of place with the rest of the family.

After finishing his meal, Chen Xin'an stood up and said, "Dad, I'm done eating. I have something to do, so I'll be leaving now."

The beautiful woman looked at him, a smile on her face: "Xin'an, your brother has finally come home from school, won't you like to stay a little longer?"

"Auntie, I really have something to do," Chen Xin'an said perfunctorily, then turned and left.

The middle-aged man didn't call out to him once until he walked out of the living room and out of the villa.

After returning to his residence, Chen Xin'an took out his cell phone from his pocket.

The phone screen displayed the game screen of Xuan Yuan Invasion.

Chen Xin'an had just sat down on the sofa when a woman's voice came from the phone: "Young Master, Madam invites you to dinner."

A smile appeared on Chen Xin'an's face as he replied, "Okay, I'll be right there."

He prefers his home in the game to his home in the real world.

At least in the game world, he can feel the warmth of home and be cared for.

……

Time passed day by day.

In the time that followed, Zhou Yunshen continued his cultivation methodically.

His suggestion seemed to have worked, and for a long time afterward, the government did not conduct any large-scale collective operations in the Hell instance.

However, Zhou Yunshen would still occasionally go to the Hell Dungeon.

As time passed and the number of players reaching the Foundation Establishment stage increased, the wandering ghosts outside Fengdu City in the Hell Dungeon were all cleared away by the players.

In order to kill monsters, players have to fly into Fengdu City.

However, for players, Fengdu City is a den of dragons and tigers, filled with far too many powerful ghosts, and the ghost messengers are always in groups.

No player, including Zhou Yunshen, survived for more than a minute after flying into Fengdu City.

As the number of Foundation Establishment players increased, Zhou Yun Shen encountered more and more players when entering Hell dungeons.

Most of the players are from China, but occasionally you'll encounter some players from overseas.

These foreign players, in this game world, all have East Asian faces and speak the same language as the Xia Kingdom players, which makes Zhou Yun Shen feel somewhat uncomfortable.

If a player sends an invitation, Zhou Yunshen will team up with them to venture into Fengdu City, and then they will all be killed together in Fengdu City.

In a team setting, if a monster drops an item, it comes down to who has the fastest hands.

Whoever grabs an item first gets to keep it; this has almost become a consensus among team players.

When Zhou Yunshen is in a team, if anything drops, it's basically his.

Who told him to be a naturally gifted martial artist, with an exceptionally fast reaction speed?

Some players, frustrated and angry at not being able to outbid him, attacked him, but these were mostly foreign players.

The players from this country are all in the same group, and they see each other all the time. They all know that he is very strong, so under normal circumstances, they would not dare to make a move against him.

Zhou Yunshen is a vengeful person. He will write down the names of any player who dares to attack him after he kills them.

On September 2, 2026, Zhou Yunshen finally raised his martial arts cultivation to the Innate Perfection Realm and successfully mastered the Blood Burning Secret Technique.

The Boiling Blood Secret Technique at its peak after the day after tomorrow is already ruthless enough. It can greatly stimulate a person's various physical potentials and greatly enhance a martial artist's combat power.

This Blood Burning Technique is even more ruthless. Once used, it makes the blood in your body feel like it's on fire, and your mind goes crazy, filled with all sorts of cruel and bloodthirsty thoughts.

But it is truly powerful; its improvement in various bodily functions far surpasses that of the Boiling Blood Secret Technique.

The side effects are also quite significant.

Overuse of the Boiling Blood Secret Technique will only cause discomfort and weakness throughout the body.

When this blood-burning secret technique is overused, it seems to burn away all the vitality and essence in the body, which can be fatal; it is commonly known as "burning out".

Zhou Yunshen tested this in the Hell World, and it's true that people can die; he himself died once.

Then, Zhou Yunshen often used this method of dying in the hell world to escape from hell.

He preferred to burn himself out rather than be killed by a ghost.

Furthermore, whether it was an illusion or not, after breaking through to the Innate Perfection Realm in martial arts cultivation, Zhou Yunshen felt that his body in the real world seemed to be getting better little by little.

Previously, he was a typical office worker who lacked exercise and was in a sub-healthy state.

But ever since his character reached the Innate Perfection Realm, his strength seems to be increasing, his vision seems to be getting clearer, and his hearing seems to be getting clearer.

On September 12, 2026, Zhou Yunshen successfully raised his cultivation level from the mid-Foundation Establishment stage to the late-Foundation Establishment stage.

This represents another significant improvement in strength.

Zhou Yunshen tested it in the hell world. Under normal circumstances, his divine sense could spread outwards by 66 meters, and the number of fire locusts he could condense had increased to 89.

The power of other spells, such as the Fire Serpent Technique, has also been greatly enhanced.

Upon entering Fengdu City, Zhou Yunshen remarkably survived for a full minute, killing over a dozen ghost messengers and various kinds of ghostly spirits in one fell swoop. Then, during his battle with one of the Yin Generals, the Ghost King, he burned himself to ashes.

After consciousness returns to the real world.

Zhou Yunshen lay on the bed in his rented room, recalling the fierce battle scene in the hellish world, his heart unable to calm down for a long time.

He felt that with his current strength, if he went all out, he should be able to have a go at the Yin generals in the underworld.

He'll most likely be the one who dies.

But it certainly won't be like before, where we were mercilessly crushed by these underworld generals.

This feeling of gradually getting stronger is really great.

Keep up the good work! Goal—Foundation Building Complete!

Zhou Yunshen felt that once he reached the peak of Foundation Establishment, his strength would increase again, and he should be able to defeat these Yin Generals in the Underworld.

As for the bosses in the underworld...

These bosses are definitely at the Golden Core level. To defeat them, one must raise their own strength to the Golden Core realm.

The problem is that this Hell Trial instance has entry requirements; only players at the Foundation Establishment stage can enter, while players at the Golden Core stage cannot.

This is quite frustrating.

In this situation, if a Foundation Establishment cultivator wants to overpower a Golden Core cultivator, they either need to overwhelm them with sheer numbers and exhaust the Golden Core cultivator to death.

Or you could learn from the protagonists in fantasy novels and become invincible within your own realm, capable of killing across realms!