This is a cultivation game, but its operation is terrible.

[You gifted your Daoist partner, Fu Qiluo, a love ring. Your affinity with Fu Qiluo has increased by 100, and your affinity level has been upgraded.]

[You have reached the maximum amount of Affinity Points you can earn today. Please try again tomorrow.]

Jiang Liu: "......"

Yes, as expected, almost all games have a daily limit on gift-giving, and Cultivation Era can be considered to have removed the essence and kept the dross.

You can only feed it 100 affinity points a day. If you raise it according to the lifespan of a cultivator, wouldn't it take hundreds of years to max out the affinity level?

After thinking about it, Jiang Liu suddenly lost his expectations for the Dao Companion System and opened Fu Qiluo's personal panel again.

【Fu Qiluo】

Qualification: Metal and Earth Spiritual Roots

Realm: Mid-Foundation Establishment

Sect: Divine Might Sect

Daoist Companion: Jiang Liu

Affinity Level: 1 (0/200)

Romance unlocked: Making a living

To make a living: Fu Qiluo condenses spirit stones every day, the number of which depends on her cultivation level.

[Your Daoist companion, Fu Qiluo, seeing that your cultivation level is too low, has specially condensed 10.4 spirit stones to give to you. Please receive it in your in-game mail.]

"Wow, there really is such a beautiful woman in this world?!"

Jiang Liu gasped, utterly shocked. The fact that female cultivators in the cultivation world would keep Daoist partners was truly a reversal of the natural order.

One Daoist partner gives 10 spirit stones a day, 1000 Daoist partners give 1000 spirit stones a day, and more than 300,000 spirit stones a year. Moreover, the spirit stones given can increase as the cultivation level increases.

Please give him a hundred such good Daoist partners first, thank you.

"I'm now looking forward to the other features that will be unlocked at higher relationship levels."

Jiang Liu said cheerfully that he had added another daily task to his routine, and it was the most important one.

Sign in daily, claim monthly cards, farm resource dungeons, and nurture your Daoist partner!

Others lose money raising Daoist partners, but he makes money raising them!

In a good mood, Jiang Liu couldn't help but stare at Fu Qiluo's character portrait a few more times, and then gently tapped it a few more times before leaving after realizing that he couldn't tear off her clothes.

After arranging his Daoist partner, he finally got down to business.

After clearing the Demonic Cultivator Invasion event, a brand new dungeon was unlocked in the Immortal Cultivation Era: a world boss dungeon that refreshes weekly. The first world boss in the dungeon is Gui Miechen, whom we just defeated.

Jiang Liu turned his attention to the newly appeared [World BOSS] function at the top of the main interface and clicked on it casually.

Upon entering the world boss area, Gui Miechen's character portrait, shrouded in dark demonic energy and with blood-red eyes, appeared before his eyes.

Gui Miechen's character portrait is in the center, with a countdown to this week's update above, his current health bar below, this week's damage ranking on the left, and an "Encourage" icon in the lower right corner.

That's too common. Ninety-nine out of a hundred world bosses in games are like that.

Jiang Liu first glanced at Gui Miechen's current health bar, which was 99.8%. He seriously doubted whether he could take him down again this week.

I clicked on [Encourage] without even checking how many spirit stones it cost, and maxed it out, adding a 50% damage increase.

After changing into the title of "Demon Slayer" and getting ready, Jiang Liu charged into the dungeon with high morale.

A solo fight against a world boss in the mid-Foundation Establishment stage!

If I can push you down once, I can push you down a second time!

Inside the instance, the sky was covered with dark clouds, the distance was gray and blurry, the scene was extremely gloomy, and there was a demonic aura in the air, making the atmosphere very oppressive.

As soon as Jiang Liu opened his eyes, he saw the enormous demonic shadow fifty meters away. After a moment of surprise, a question mark slowly appeared in his mind.

"This doesn't seem right, does it?"

Fifty meters away, Gui Miechen stood two and a half meters tall, with the words "World Boss" above his head. Ten meters of demonic energy surged around him, and he held a two-meter-long demonic sword in his hand. He stared intently at him with a pair of bloodthirsty red eyes.

The story version of Gui Miechen: 1.9 meters tall, unarmed.

World Boss version of Gui Miechen: 2.5 meters tall, wielding a 2-meter-long demon sword.

So the one being attacked by thousands of people is a weakened version of Gui Miechen!

"three!"

"two!"

"one!"

"Three Spirit Sword Formation! Dividing Stream Sword! Heart-Piercing Drop!"

At the very moment the countdown ended, Jiang Liu decisively unleashed several techniques simultaneously, delivering his strongest attack within a single second.

He moved, and Gui Miechen moved too.

Gui Miechen swung his two-meter-long demonic sword, the blade lifting ten meters of dark demonic energy from bottom to top, splitting the ground with cracks, sweeping in with unstoppable force, attacking from fifty meters away!

"Earth-Splitting Demonic Void Sword!"

"Oh my god..."

Jiang Liu stared at the pitch-black sword aura that was several stories high, and felt a chill run down his spine and his heart pound with fear. He lost all interest in continuing to cast spells and hurriedly dodged away.

Earth-Splitting Demon Sword?

I thought all you knew was the Divine Might Fist and Divine Might Palm!

Jiang Liu flashed away, barely dodging the attack of the demonic sword. Just as he was about to regain his footing and regroup, he suddenly felt a whistling sound from his side, and his heart sank.

When I looked up again, my vision was already covered by a tall, demonic shadow.

Fifty meters is nothing to him now, let alone Gui Miechen, who is in the mid-Foundation Establishment stage.

Jiang Liu was sweating profusely. As Gui Miechen, who was almost within reach, slowly raised the demonic sword, he forced a dry laugh and asked, "Excuse me, is it possible to revive someone here?"

A terrifying pressure descended like a collapsing mountain.

A sword cleaved down!

"Golden Bell Strike!"

"Heart-piercing, heart-piercing, heart-piercing!"

A golden light appeared around Jiang Liu, forcefully blocking Gui Miechen's sword strike.

duang!

They didn't even accept it!

The golden bell shattered.

The golden body, hammered a thousand times, shattered.

Jiang Liu's body was sent flying more than ten meters away as if struck by a heavy blow. Before he could regain his footing, a jet-black sword aura slashed down from a distance.

[You are dead. 】

[You dealt 0.53% damage to Gui Miechen, currently ranking first on the damage leaderboard.]

[Would you like to try again?]

【no. 】

This is hardly a challenge; isn't it just about getting abused?

Jiang Liu cursed and retreated. "The world boss-level Gui Miechen is outrageous. This is something that a Qi Refining stage cultivator can fight?"

Fifty meters passed in an instant, the sword energy soaring several stories high, and the demonic sword in his hand might even be a mystical weapon.

A Foundation Establishment mid-stage cultivator wielding a profound weapon, and you want me, a Qi Refining tenth-level cultivator, to challenge him?

Isn't this a joke?

We can't afford to mess with him. Let's wait until we reach the Foundation Establishment stage before dealing with him.

Jiang Liu sighed deeply. The number one player in the fourth region couldn't even take down 1% of the world boss's health. It's so embarrassing. I don't want the weekly reward. Can you please remove my name from the damage leaderboard?

After being thoroughly defeated, he was extremely frustrated. After leaving the world boss dungeon, he immediately plunged into the 1-10 story levels.

Senior brother, please give me your guidance.

Senior Brother: ? ? ? ? ?

After repeatedly defeating his senior brother in levels 1-10, Jiang Liu returned to the training room feeling refreshed and continued his foundation-building work.

On that day, he pushed the spiritual energy compression progress to 20%, and only stopped the next morning after receiving a call from the principal.

Chapter 72 Practical Application: Lightning Tribulation, Inner Demons, Karmic Fire

After receiving the principal's notification, Jiang Liu and Li Dongze left their classroom together and headed to the Immortal Examination Class on the top floor of the teaching building.

Today is the opening day of the Immortal Examination Class, as the principal mentioned. The thirty students with the highest cultivation level and best aptitude in the entire senior class will be trained together to prepare for the Immortal Cultivation College Entrance Examination in 290 days.

290 days later... Jiang Liu couldn't imagine what level he would reach by then.

Are they Golden Core cultivators or Nascent Soul cultivators?

In the Immortal Examination Class, the students who arrived first were stunned for a moment when they saw Jiang Liu walk in, and then burst into enthusiastic exclamations.

"Isn't that Jiang Liu who stood his ground against the boss yesterday? He's actually from our school?"

"Wow, I didn't know that! Is he really that low-key?"

"I feel like I've never seen him at school before. What's his rank in the grade?"

I'm the 36th from the bottom of my grade, now you know me, right?

Jiang Liu rolled his eyes as he listened to the discussions in the Immortal Examination Class, and silently walked in.

I glanced around and spotted the huge fireball huddled in the back corner of the classroom by the window. I walked straight over and greeted it: "Good morning, Su. Thanks to you yesterday."

If Su Weiyang hadn't tanked the boss several times yesterday, he might not have been able to kill it so easily.

The Pure Yang Fire allows for 24-hour body tempering; this bug is just too awesome.

The flames flickered, and a figure could be vaguely seen inside. The figure nodded slightly and asked in a calm voice, "You don't need to return the 3000 spirit stones, right?"