My Perfect Immortal Cultivation Life

[I've just recovered from my illness, and I'll finish revising these chapters soon.]

"Ah Xiao, stop!"

At 10:30 p.m., the internet cafes in the university town were still packed with people and bustling with noise.

Li Xiao stared intently at the screen.

His face was clean-cut, and his short hair was neat. But his eyes looked slightly dull from staring at the screen for so long. And his lips were unhealthy, pale, and dry.

Li Xiao felt like her throat was on fire, and she couldn't even swallow.

What he wanted to do most at that moment was to drink a big bucket of ice water and then sleep soundly for the rest of his life.

But right now, the most important thing is to finish this order of game boosting and gaming companionship.

Li Xiao is a sophomore at the University of Science and Technology in City A.

He also works as a game boosting and gaming companion. In the currently popular game "Splendid Era", he managed to get three accounts into the top 100 in the national server in just four months.

"Xiao, stop! How long has it been since you slept?"

Li Xiao's roommate, Gao Lei, placed a bottle of chilled electrolyte drink in front of him, looking at him with some concern.

Games are fun, but doing them as work is a different story.

Li Xiao glanced gratefully at Zhao Lei, then downed half a bottle of her drink in one gulp: "Brother Lei, you know I have to make money."

Six months ago, Li Xiao's mother was diagnosed with a chronic illness. Although the family is managing to get by so far, the costs increase significantly as the illness progresses.

He didn't touch the living expenses his family gave him; he was already able to support himself by playing games for others.

But that's not enough. His goal is to seize the next big opportunity in the gaming industry by leveraging his skills.

The world's most popular online game, *Splendid Era*, has over ten million concurrent users. Furthermore, next month, it will release an immersive neural connection version that will revolutionize the entire gaming industry.

Through an immersive neural connection simulation pod, players can experience the game as if they were truly there. Many streamers and media outlets have already participated in the closed beta test, stating that this game will change the world.

What's even more unusual is that even the Chinese government paved the way for this game in advance, launching national and local subsidies for the simulator.

Some people online have interpreted the meaning behind this message. Industries that receive government support are definitely the hottest sectors for the next ten or even fifty years.

However, even after subsidies, the price of gaming pods remains shockingly high.

"Including the gaming pod and the top-of-the-line console, it will cost a little over 10 yuan. Plus, the dorm room won't be big enough for the gaming pod, so I'll have to rent an apartment. All things considered, I'll need to prepare at least 11 yuan."

For an average student, this is an astronomical figure. Li Xiao had been a demon king's escort in "The Era of Myriad Things" for over two months and had already saved more than 20,000 yuan, which was quite a lot.

But we are still a long way from our goal.

"Xiao, you're really good at playing Era of Myriad Things right now. But have you ever thought that you might not be able to adapt to the new neural connection version of the game?" Gao Lei asked.

Games of this era rely on precise mouse positioning and keyboard input for extreme movement techniques.

But what a game with neural connections will look like is anyone's guess. Maybe those athletic students will dominate others in the game.

Gao Lei was worried that Xiao would be working himself to the bone every day to save money, and that he wouldn't be able to reach his current level in the Neural Connection game.

Then Li Xiaoke will lose everything.

"I have confidence."

Li Xiao had also thought about this issue.

His athletic performance has always been average, never particularly good. If the Neural Link game really does have high physical requirements, it will definitely be a significant blow to him.

But gaming is the only thing he's good at, and he's confident in himself.

After all, courage is the player's seventh piece of equipment.

"Enough talk, Brother Lei, the BOSS is here."

On the screen, the level 79 world-class BOSS, Greedy Wolf, appeared.

Li Xiao heard his boss's voice through his earpiece: "After ten hours of fighting, we finally saw the Greedy Wolf! This time we have to succeed!"

The towering 100-meter-tall Tanlang is one of the four Genshin Impact pillars in the game, and only 3% of the more than 1 billion players worldwide have achieved the feat of defeating Tanlang.

Moreover, groups that come to fight the Greedy Wolf usually consist of five ranked experts. If a boss wants to fight personally, he will also hire four Demon Kings to escort him.

It can be said that if there are fewer than four Demon Kings protecting the Greedy Wolf dungeon, the probability of clearing it is almost zero.

Of course, this applies to other people.

Li Xiao is different from others.

He dared to bring four bosses to fight against Tanlang at once.

The bosses weren't fools, of course; they knew that the Greedy Wolf was difficult to defeat and required four Demon Kings to protect him.

But Li Xiao couldn't stop himself from lying to the bosses that everyone else on the bus was protected by the Demon King.

Li Xiao wasn't crazy; he had been prepared for this.

As a world-class boss, the Greedy Wolf's damage output is excessive; a single normal attack from it will leave a player with very low health.

The wolf's frenzied claws whipped up several gusts of wind, instantly engulfing the figures of the bosses.

"Oh no! I'm done for!"

"It's up to you guys!"

"..."

In just one encounter, all four bosses in the convoy were wiped out.

Fortunately, they couldn't communicate with each other via voice, and each thought that only they had been defeated, while the other escorts were still fighting.

Li Xiao's eyes flashed; the time had come.

His profession is "Pilot" in the Titan series, and he pilots a blue-black heavy Titan. It is over forty meters tall and is the strongest Titan he can currently pilot.

Li Xiao looked at the enormous, evil wolf in front of him, but felt no tension whatsoever.

So what if it's a world-class boss? The advantage is mine!

"Activate skill modules, detach pilot, activate weapon modules, auto-lock..."

Li Xiao's fingers flew across the keyboard, while Gao Lei, sitting next to him, swallowed hard. Even though he'd seen Li Xiao's typing speed hundreds of times, the sight was still astonishing.

In the game, Li Xiao's Titan kept emitting an eerie blue light.

[WARNING! WARNING! Titan system overheating, error code 17501, subsequent skills will malfunction]

[The Glorious Sacrifice module has begun to mutate...]

[The Valiant Module has begun to mutate...]

[Glory Module... Fearless Module... Beginning Mutation]

[An error has been detected in the invisible wall. It will be reset in ten seconds.]

……

Yes, Li Xiao is frantically exploiting bugs in the game.

Titan's skill modules all mutated, fleshy buds began to grow on the blue-black steel, and the originally cold and ruthless spotlights gradually became crazy and chaotic.

Simply exploiting a bug wouldn't be enough to make Titan look like this.

Li Xiao used his precise control and grasp of timing to make these bugs start to balance each other.

It reached a bizarre state where everything was wrong, but it could still function.

It's probably impossible to find another person in the world who can replicate Li Xiao's skills.

……

About twenty minutes later.

The once invincible world-class Greedy Wolf's health bar finally reached zero, and with a loud thud, he collapsed to the ground.

With the settlement and cutscene, Li Xiao finally completed his escort mission, which had taken him more than ten hours.

Everyone in the team saw a message.

Victory!

MVP: Escort (concentrated by me, stable manual output, 99% of the total damage)

Gao Lei shook his head: "That's outrageous! What's the difference between that and soloing a boss?"

As Li Xiao's roommate, he once bribed Li Xiao to teach him bug-hunting techniques, only to find that he couldn't even catch the first bug. He was kicked out of the system as soon as the first error message popped up.

Li Xiao shrugged: "If I could afford those top-tier Demon King sets from professional players, I'm confident I could manage without exploiting bugs. But their equipment is too expensive; it's not worth it."

After taking a sip of water, Li Xiao started checking her phone messages to find the next order.

……

A night of hard work.

……

The next morning at seven o'clock.

When the all-night session ended, Li Xiao felt she couldn't stay up any longer and weakly got off the plane.

Li Xiao wondered if she should eat some hot dry noodles before going back to sleep, since her roommate Gao Lei had gone back to the dorm last night.

But when he pushed open the door of the internet cafe, he was immediately startled awake.

"Where did I get this for?"

Not far in front of them, an incomprehensibly large red tiger was lying down and gnawing on its prey!

"Holy crap! Are you dreaming?"

Li Xiao slapped himself; the burning pain told him this wasn't a dream. Looking back, he saw not the internet cafe entrance, but a chilling pool of blood!

At the same time, a message with a red exclamation mark popped up on his phone.

Chaos navigation has been activated.

You have entered the brink of chaos.

[Current Mission: Eliminate Tiger Vanguard (0/1)]

Please select your initial class.

【…】

"Holy crap! Is this right?!"