Building a sect from scratch.

Wang Ergou knew that Han Yi had a younger sister, but he wasn't sure of the details, so he asked, "Your sister? Isn't your sister still a minor?"

Han Yi immediately poured out his grievances: "She's over 16, and there's an hour of anti-addiction measures every day. Who knows why she was selected in the first batch! She's been watching Little Sweet Potato every day and her brain is all messed up! She acts like she's some kind of tyrant! She finds fault with everything I do! If I don't take good care of her, she'll definitely go to my parents and complain about me again!"

Wang Ergou, however, was unconvinced: "Come on! You think it's normal just because you watch Bilibili every day? Big brother, don't laugh at me! I heard from my second senior sister that you had a video on your old WeChat Moments where you bullied your sister until she cried, and you still have the nerve to play the victim! Oh right, as for the manuals... I remember I have a ton of them in my warehouse, at least dozens of each kind, the most I have is over seven hundred copies of 'Wind Control Technique,' I'm hoarding them to sell during the public beta! Hehe!"

Han Yi, enraged, retorted, "That's still better than you spamming musical notes all day! It's all white stockings and maid outfits! You don't even spare men! How vulgar! Remember to leave me a complete set of the secret manual!"

Wang Ergou argued vehemently: "Second Senior Sister was even showing off her abs! What's wrong with me seeing some white stockings! Why aren't male and female maids considered maids? I can give you a set of secret manuals, no problem, but you have to pay me the market price, in-game settlement, no RMB! I need money to buy them too!"

Han Yi couldn't help but complain, "Er Gou, why are you getting more and more stingy!"

Wang Ergou, however, still replied confidently, "That's called being thrifty and managing a household well! I'm supporting an entire city's worth of people right now!"

The two exchanged some flirtatious remarks, and before they knew it, it was eight o'clock.

Just after eight o'clock, Han Yiding's alarm clock rang, and he rushed into the game pod.

The scene before my eyes gradually faded from black, and at the same time, a melodious flute sound came into my ears, ethereal and lively. Then came a generous and passionate chord, which became more and more magnificent and shocking.

The background music for this cutscene is surprisingly high quality!

Han Yi was surprised for a moment, but then his attention was drawn to the plot—

A vast, endless deep sea stretches out before a massive whirlpool in the distance. The whirlpool appears to exist in a distorted subspace, its twisted ripples revealing fragments of different environments: eerie red forests, gloomy caves, and desolate wastelands littered with white bones. Beyond the whirlpool lies a colossal barrier, upon which flows a multicolored halo.

As the image zoomed out, the full view of the barrier was revealed—five pillars of light shot into the sky from the five corners, enveloping the vortex within the barrier, clearly indicating a suppression or sealing barrier.

As the background music grew stronger, the entire whirlpool in the sea, sealed by the barrier, shrank into a reflection in the eyes of a cultivator with fluttering robes!

The camera work was so brilliant that Han Yi subconsciously exclaimed "Wow!" and then his eyes followed the cultivator's movements.

The cultivator, his expression resolute, leaped into a pillar of light within the barrier, his figure vanishing instantly. Following him, countless other cultivators, their faces etched with a sense of dread, rushed into the pillars of light.

Immediately afterwards, the scene shifts to a constantly changing array of battlefields and combat scenes. Thousands of swords are unleashed from the withered bones, and spells radiate from the pool of blood. All sorts of magical artifacts and treasures wander through the air, and talismans scatter like petals in the rain.

Fighting the cultivators were numerous bizarre and strange beasts, most of which emitted wisps of black mist, had crazed expressions, and looked incredibly eerie! There was a three-headed bird with a human face, a snake with two pairs of wings, and a deer with three horns on its head—not one of them was a normal animal!
Soon, the cultivators were overwhelmed. As the first cultivator fell, more and more cultivators died on the battlefield, their corpses strewn everywhere. Han Yi finally understood where these human skeletons in such a harsh environment, where it was impossible for humans to survive, came from.

The stirring music turned mournful, and the horrific battlefield scenes gradually faded. In the darkness, a series of striking white characters appeared, their forms shifting several times, recording the history behind these scenes:
In the Battle of the Five-Colored Formation at Guixu Pass, all human cultivators perished.

[Afterwards, the Quanxian and Jiaolong clans guarded the Five-Colored Array. Warriors from these two clans entered the array year after year to protect it, and countless died in battle.]

Now that humanity is thriving and the Taiyin Sect is rising in power, the responsibility of protecting the Guixu Realm should rightfully be shouldered by us once again...

When the text finally faded away, the screen jumped to a scene that Han Yi was very familiar with, and the background music became lively and light.

It's a short film made up of familiar yet hilarious moments from gamers!

Against the familiar backdrop of the timed battlefield, a group of players with lewd expressions rushed into the group of NPCs with an ethereal air. They dragged and pulled an NPC who had been targeted earlier out of the crowd. After sacrificing more than 80% of their players, they worked together to tie the NPC to the airship. At this point, the airship was already littered with NPCs lying haphazardly on the ground!

Then, the camera shifted slightly, and a female player with an exquisitely crafted face and gorgeous clothes grinned as she held a bowl of bubbling grayish-purple unidentified liquid, saying to the terrified NPC, "Give it to me to drink"—this scene was all too familiar, it was a clip from the compilation shown during the meet-up dinner back then!

Han Yi couldn't help but complain: "Although a real story expansion has finally been released, the official team is so lazy! They just used videos made by us players!"

The image flashed again, this time showing a huge, deformed monster made entirely of blackened bones. Countless human skulls were connected to form its spine, with a pair of bone wings several meters wide attached to both sides of the spine. The bone wings were also pieced together from various broken bones, making it look bizarre and strange.

The monster rose and fell as if it were breathing, and soon Han Yi was startled and exclaimed "Holy crap!"

As the monster shrank and receded in the scene, the scenery around it was revealed, and countless headless people were scattered throughout the dark underground environment!
The headless figures were all thin and emaciated, shrouded in red blood mist, wandering around the monsters unconsciously like zombies or ghosts.

Han Yi felt uneasy at the scene, and before he could think about it, he heard a scream.

"You son of a bitch—"

After screaming, a player roared and grabbed a fist-sized bead from inside the monster's body! The monster's "breathing" abruptly stopped, and the headless figures that had been wandering aimlessly around it suddenly turned around, like zombies that had caught the scent of a living person, all facing the player—the same direction visually representing those watching the expansion!

"Holy crap!!!" (End of Chapter)