How to Cultivate a Game

Chapter 6

I watched the little bunny fight using my Mind's Eye.

This quintessence and system were heaven-defying! The Mind's Eye was a unique power I recently created using my remaining quintessence. To think that it could allow me to see from unseen distances and watch the fight was just too convenient.

My Mind's Eye was only temporary though. It was because the ability was too broken. While the system and quintessence had allowed me to defy the natural bound laws of the world, it had its limits too. There must be a fair exchange. Clearly, the amount of quintessence I had was not enough to create a permanent skill, so I had to settle with this temporary Mind's Eye.

[Name: Fu Shi

Quintessence: 0

Players: 1/1]

It is sad that my balance was now zero but the investment was worth it. I had to watch Bi Yuan's fight as it was both a learning opportunity and an experiment on my part of how I should shape up the future class system.

When Bi Yuan was thrown into the creek, I panicked! I thought it would be the little bunny's loss, but at the last second, she turned the table against her foe!

The fox was easily made a goner. To think that Sacred Ash was that powerful, and it made a beautiful combo with an Aura of Virtue and Divine Fortification. It pleased me greatly. Even as its creator, I underestimated these skills.

I no longer have a spiritual root and my Dantian was now inexistent. So I could only rely on quintessence to gain power. I could also imagine being able to use some of the skills of the classes I made! It was inevitable I would be disadvantaged given old Fu Shi's blatant antagonism to the heavens back then.

The silver lining is that I am lucky enough that I was able to transmigrate without any hindrance. I was not truly sure of the nature of my 'coming' here. Whether it was reincarnation or transmigration, I didn't care. I didn't even believe in the reincarnation of six paths whatsoever.

The important thing was that I was alive. This was why I was not even blaming the old Fu Shi for my current situation. This was also why I was so daring to bet my life just to create this Game Master System which allowed me to get in touch with quintessence.

Through my Mind's Eye, I watched Bi Yuan skedaddle at the words of the scary croc just below the creek. The croc have an impressive mass compared to the crocodiles I knew.

The croc didn't notice my gaze. It was a happy development as this proves that Mind's Eye was fairly powerful. I must make Mind's Eye completely mine, and make it a permanent superpower.

I observed the croc. It had marvelous scales with the sheen of jade and brass. It was about the size of a bus in my estimate.

In the far future, I imagined it becoming a dinosaur or something. It wouldn't be a bad idea to make the Croc a player either. Still, I didn't know about its loyalty if it did happen.

I changed my object of observation. I observed Bi Yuan making another round of killing spree, "It looked like she was farming." I unwittingly commented, weirded by the bizarreness of how close Bi Yuan was to imitating a 'player' or a 'gamer' was... in every sense of a word...

"On the other hand though, while Yuuan'er had been always an oddball, it was undeniable that she could become weirder in the far future..."

I attentively watched Bi Yuan's farming. Hmmm... more like, thrashing some random chickens, I thought that was a more apt description for the angry bunny.

Bi Yuan seems to be pissed about the croc, that was why she was venting her anger to some random wild chickens and squirrels. She was not even bothering to make traps, and simply hunted in the rawest primal form.

I happily watched her through my Mind's Eye. It was entertaining seeing the little creature stomp others. I was appalled by what I was feeling. I wasn't always this barbaric.

I continued watching.

However, that didn't last for long as my Mind's Eye shuts off on its own with my mental concentration and quintessence duration slowly declining. Instead of qi, I now have to rely on mental power huh? I continued to deliberate on my temporarily acquired superpower.

I remembered creating the 'system' through the Heavenly Dao. I didn't move any qi at all in the process. But I did remember spurring my mind. It was mental concentration that was the foundation of the connection.

It was a migraine-inducing process. I wouldn't be able to do it if not for the help of meditation. Manifesting your Dao insights without any cultivation base was suicide after all. However, I was different. The strongest contributing factor in my case should be the robustness of my soul. Meditation, while simple, was the most effective method of cultivation for me.

Meditation was the most basic form of cultivation. In every level of cultivation, meditation was a method that never got useless. the only reason it was forgotten by most cultivators was because their own cultivation methods were many times better.

Only when a cultivator had reached Perfect Immortal, the pinnacle of cultivation, meditation was deemed invaluable.

That's why I thought--- maybe I could still cultivate even without the Dantian, I felt confident of achieving something even if it was only through meditation. I felt that I could cultivate my mind instead!

It was a fascinating thought.

I sat in a lotus position as I relaxed my mind. I closed my eyes, trying to feel the calmness within...

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....zzzzz Zzzzz zZZZ

....zzzzz Zzzzz zZZZzzz ZzzZzZZZZ

"Hik!"

I... I fell asleep?

24 hours passed just like that.

Damn, that was unexpected.

I checked my system, trying to find a breakthrough. Meh… There was nothing at all…

[Name: Fu Shi

Quintessence: 1

Players: 1/1]

Was there a way for me to increase my quintessence income?

I have a gut feeling that increasing my players would increase my net income. But I could only think of spending quintessence to achieve that. There was a limiter in the subcomponent of 'player' in the form of a fraction. It couldn't be that [0/1] was the maximum player I could have. I hypothesized increasing the maximum number of players on my server would increase my quintessence gain.

I should not worry too much about it for now.

My highest priority should be learning how to operate quintessence or possess a method to fight back. It would be better if I could make a road map to a new cultivation path. Hmmm… I could not use qi. I could use quintessence, but that was too wasteful considering my daily quintessence gain.

How about mental power? After all, mental power was the foundation of my system's creation.

Using my experience with Mind's Eye as a reference, I began my diligent cultivation. I sat on a lotus position and entered a meditative state.

I urged my mental power to move. I activated and emulated Mind's Eye using my thoughts, and with a little bit of luck, I gained some interesting results. I continued for days, and while at it, accumulated a few quintessence points which I used to fuel a temporary Mind's Eye.

I manipulated the Mind's Eye as if it were a magnifying glass. I saw with my eyes the truth of matter and non-matter.

As if there were lenses on top of my eyes, I saw the outside world in folded dimensions. I saw the mortal plane for what it really was. It was a world of cycles interconnected with each other. Wherever I looked, I saw life. The world was teeming with energy all derived from all sorts of phenomena such as life itself, even death, and other sorts of occurrences either invisible to the naked eyes, or something easily ignorable.

I inspected my spiritual artifacts with the Mind's Eye, successfully learning their blueprints. I felt giddy, hehehe... It seems that I will be able to design weapons for future reference.

I continued waiting for my quintessence to go up as I idly observed the world through my Mind's Eye.

And then I changed perspectives from the outside to the inside. I check up on my soul!

It was like seeing through a microspore, but psychedelic... as if I was drawn to another universe. It was a dimension within me. I understood that I had come closer to my essence while meditating, perhaps this was my soul I was perceiving. The Mental World was vague, obvious to my lack of understanding.

This was a breakthrough, I thought. There was more to mental power than meets the eye. Who knew, the human mind might be actually holding profundity a mere mortal could never understand.

Three months mercilessly passed and my bones were feeling weaker each day. Sheesh... I am so old...

As the little bunny continued to provide me with food, I lived an easy life.

Too bad, I could not still see a way to improve my quintessence net income.

Ping! Bi Yuan has reached the maximum level.

[Name: Bi Yuan

Class: Paladin

Level 20 (1st—Martial Tempering) (MAX LEVEL)

Vitality: 100%

Qi: 100%

Stats: See more...

Exp: 6500/6500]

That was fast...