"Are you leaving early, old man?"

Edward was about to put on his coat and head for the door when he heard the voice and turned to Elliot.

“Yeah, I'm craving some ramen, I haven't eaten in a long time.”

“Ramen? I haven't eaten in a long time either, Is it somewhere nearby? Maybe I should go too" he said, smiling.

“I think she's in a hard place for you to go,” he said, and smiled mysteriously.

He walked out the door, leaving a confused Elliot behind him trying to make sense of his words.

A light rain was slowly wetting the streets of New York.

After walking for a while on the street and finding a place away from the cameras and people, he spoke.

"System, let's check the other side. oh don't forget to change my clothes"

"Of course, host."

After getting the answer, he found himself in the other world. Edward hadn't come to this world much in the past years when he was making the game.

He still remembers what happened when he first stepped into this world. It was not pleasant to watch a person amputate, especially if it could happen to you too.

Therefore he tried to study the cultivation manuals in the system's memory to protect himself, but it didn't take long to realize that he had no skills in this cultivation business. But this didn't depress him much because he learned that he didn't need these manuals to get stronger.

As the number of people playing the game increased, the extra years he would gain brought with him some strengths. At least he understood that from his conversations with the system.

But today he was supposed to be here, on this world - after all, the game was released here at the same time. And as in the other world, terms like a game, forum, and live broadcast were not common terms in this world. So he needed to be here and see how things were going.

"System, how are things on this side?"

"Host, there are currently 17 million live players in the game. Despite a lot of confusion, there seems to be a lot of interest in the game."

Edward nodded. Since he did not want the two worlds to be aware of each other's existence immediately, he had planned to broadcast features such as forums and live broadcasts on their own private servers for now.

Since the places where these two different worlds started the game were separated by an ocean, it would take some time for them to be aware of each other's existence. 

With a smile on his face, he began to walk the cobbled sidewalks of this exotic town. His aim was to see the reaction of the town and to breathe the air of traveling the world, which he had not been in for a long time.

This wuxia world had clean air that was incomparable with the other world. While thinking, 'Maybe I should build a villa or something and stay here, he reached his goal.

The ramen counter is where it hasn't been for almost 20 years. In fact, he wasn't really feeling old, having worked for most of those 30 years. He spent these years like a robot. Eat, work on the story, sleep, wake up, eat, work on the tasks, sleep. When this cycle was finally unable to continue, it would end with giving himself a few days' vacation.

But it was all worth it. He had finally finished it and was eagerly waiting for the players to play the game.

The bench hadn't changed much in the past 3 years. Of course, it did add a few wrinkles to the face of the matriarchy woman working the counter, but that was to be expected.

Edward smiled and sat down on one of the stools in front of the counter.

"A bowl please."

"Of course, sir," said the woman, and began to prepare the meal.

Before long, there was a bowl of steaming ramen in front of him.

He had listened to the conversations that took place next to him while he was eating the food.

"No news from the Cultivators, I guess they don't know anything about this 'game' either."

"Hey, lower your voice a bit! Are you trying to kill us both?"

Edward was lost in thought as he listened to the conversation and ate his dinner. I wonder which world would be more affected by this game, this world where some people already have superpowers or the other where all people are equal.

Edward ate his ramen in silence.

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The sword path sect was in turmoil.

A meeting was going on in the elders' meeting room.

This meeting was so important that even the sect patriarch, who had been in closed-door meditation for 60 years, was involved.

The room was as quiet as could be, and all the elders were being as careful as they could not to do anything to offend the patriarch.

One of the elders was questioning the core level sect members in front of them.

“So you are saying, when you said Play the Game, your consciousness went to a different world. And the Surrounding Qi was several times greater than our sect field.”

The room went cold as the Core level members nodded their heads at the elder' words.

The place where the Sword Path Sect was established was not a normal place. Being one of the most powerful sects of the continent was not easy, it required many resources, and most importantly, it was necessary to be established in a place rich in Qi.

The Patriarch had listened to the interrogation from the beginning to the end without speaking a word . You could n't tell what he was thinking on his face.

When he finally spoke, all eyes turned to him.

"hmm, interesting I'd better go check it out.."

"Patriarch, this is too dangerous, let's check fir-," said the current leader of the Sect.

When the patriarch turned his eyes to him, he stopped and bowed.

After placing a few formations around him with his hand, the patriarch sat in the lotus position and tapped the start game text on the screen in front of him.

When the patriarch found himself in a white room, he was faced with a question he had not thought about for a long time. name. When he decided to walk the path of the sword, they had given him a lot. But he chose the name that he had n't heard for a long time, and that he loved the most, the name that his mother gave him.

"Yu Chang"

After choosing his name, he found himself on a lawn. When he wanted to direct his inner Qi and fly to inspect the surroundings, a screen appeared in front of him.

"The player's power level has been rated as level 57. The player's powers are locked until someone playing the game reaches the same level. The player can gain as many levels as the current highest-level player. The current highest level player is level 2"

A smile appeared on Yu Chang's face.

"Interesting" he muttered.