After Chu Liuxiang logged off, Yuan prepared to meet with Wang Ming and the others.
"Young Master, what about us?" Feng Yuxiang asked him.
"It's going to be crowded, so it would be better if you stayed here as well." Yuan said.
"I can just enter your body if it's crowded." She said.
"Oh, right, you can do that… Well, it's up to you."
Feng Yuxiang didn't say anything else and entered his body.
Xiao Hua also did the same since she'd rather not stay behind while Feng Yuxiang went with him.
"Do you want to come as well?" Yuan asked Meixiu.
"Yes."
"Alright. We should be back by tonight." Yuan said to Min Li.
"You don't need to worry about me. Even though I just had a breakthrough, cultivation never ends," she said with a smile.
Yuan nodded, and he left the hotel with Meixiu shortly after to meet up with Wang Ming and the others.
Sometime later, they arrived at the square where people that leave the Stairway to Heaven gather, and sure enough, there were still new players that had decided to ascend from the Lower Heavens appearing in the square every few minutes.
"Do you see them?" Yuan asked Meixiu as they walked around the massive square that was also crowded with people.
"No… Oh? I think that's them over there." Meixiu pointed at a certain group of individuals, and these people appeared to be in a fight.
"Are they fighting?!" Yuan was shocked to see this.
He immediately rushed to them, but he quickly realized that it was a misunderstanding and that they were just sparring with each other.
"What are you guys doing, sparring with each other in the middle of a city?" Yuan asked them with a helpless look on his face.
Just how much do they love training? They were like a bunch of addicts that cannot stop training or they'll die.
"Hm? Oh, you're finally here. We got bored of waiting, so we started sparring with each other." Wang Ming said with a smile on his face.
"I told you that I would come at noon, right? Why didn't you just do something else till then? Hell, you could've trained in the field at home."
"That won't do. We won't last a minute sparring with Li Jinxi outside. However, we can defeat her with ease in Cultivation Online." Wang Ming laughed out loud.
Yuan raised his eyebrows and turned to look at Li Jinxi, who was sitting on the ground not far away, seemingly exhausted.
"You don't get to see such a sight often, right?" Wang Ming chuckled.
"I guess so…" Yuan nodded in a dazed manner.
"Anyways, now that I am here, let's head to the Myriad of Techniques." Yuan said to them a moment later.
Once they were prepared, the group began following Yuan.
"So you're all Spirit Warriors, huh?" Yuan noticed their aura.
"We were only Spirit Apprentices not long ago. Most of us were below fourth level since we didn't play much then." Shi Lang said.
"Huh? How did you all level up this fast?" Yuan was curious.
"We purchased a lot of treasures with real money." Wang Ming said without a shred of shame on his face.
"It was quite expensive, you know? It took us almost 100 million each to reach Spirit Warrior."
Yuan shook his head with a smile and said, "Spirit Warrior is just the beginning. Although there is nothing wrong with paying for your levels since everybody does it in this world as well, in the form of buying treasures to ȧssist their cultivation, don't expect that it will be as effective in the future. It will become super expensive really quickly."
"We know. We just needed to boost ourselves so that we're not completely behind." Wang Bingbing said.
Sometime later, they arrived at the Myriad of Techniques.
Once they entered the store, someone checked their destiny, and the Divine Crystal of Heavenly Fortune deemed them all to have a minor destiny.
"Do you guys have any techniques that you want in mind? If not, we can head to the fourth floor, where all of the Heaven-rank techniques are located."
"Heaven-rank techniques? Aren't they going to be really expensive?" Wang Bingbing asked.
"Normally, but I can get them for free since I am part of the faction that runs this place." Yuan said.
"What? If that's the case, let us join too! Where do we go to sign up?" Wang Ming said in an excited voice.
"You don't exactly sign up for it… And I was offered to join by someone in the upper heavens. I don't think they exist in this world." Yuan shook his head.
"So you've been to the upper heavens already?" Shi Lang looked at him with a surprised face.
"Not exactly. The place we met was in a different dimension that didn't exist within the Nine Heavens, so it wasn't like I went up there to speak with them."
"Though I will speak with them the next chance I get and see if you guys can join as well." Yuan said.
"That's good enough for me." Wang Ming nodded.
After arriving at the fourth floor, Wang Ming and the others scattered to look for a technique of their suiting.
"What about you, Meixiu?" Yuan asked her, who stayed behind with him.
"You only have a movement technique, right? Why don't you find a new technique— one that you can use to protect yourself?"
"I will go look around." Meixiu nodded and went to look for a technique as well.
While Yuan waited, he suddenly heard a voice resound in his head.
"Yuan, come meet me as soon as possible."
"Senior Bai?" Yuan immediately recognized his calming voice, but it sounded urgent.
After looking for Meixiu and letting her know that he will be gone for a bit, Yuan went to seek Senior Bai in his dimension.
A few minutes later, he entered Senior Bai's dimension and flew towards the platform they usually met at, and sure enough, Senior Bai was standing there with a pondering expression on his face as he stared at the horizon.