Global Games: Reporting the Great Ascension Stage at the Start

The following evening, in the rented cave dwelling, Shen Hua refined the second batch of pills.

Upon opening the lid, the aroma of the [Qi Gathering Pill] quickly filled the entire room.

"Two pills? Very good, very good!" Shen Hua was very pleased. At the bottom of the medicine furnace, in addition to four ordinary pills, there were two "Spiritual Essence" level [Qi Gathering Pills] lying there, which meant that his control of the heat was just right!

"If we really want to 'slice the sausage,' how about adding three tomorrow?" Shen Hua thought to himself.

But he quickly shook his head: "No, three is too conspicuous. Let's keep it at two and increase it in a couple of days."

With that thought in mind, Shen Hua began to prepare to put all the refined pills into his storage bag.

But just as he was collecting the medicine, he was slightly taken aback, because one of the spiritual-quality pills was emitting a faint golden light!

"Oh, it's a golden pill!" Shen Hua was somewhat surprised, but his emotions didn't fluctuate much.

I took it in my hand and looked at it.

【Qi Gathering Pill】

Rank: Tier 1, Low Grade

Quality: Golden Spirit

Suitable cultivation levels: Qi Refining Level 1 to Qi Refining Level 6

Core effect: Moderately accelerates spiritual energy absorption and stabilizes the foundation of meridians.

……

The quality of this pill is no longer "spiritual essence", but "golden spiritual essence".

The quality of items in the game is divided into five categories: Common, Spiritual, Mystic, Heavenly Craftsmanship, and Divine Creation.

But in addition to quality, there is another attribute: "gold" and "non-gold".

Whether an item is gold or not has no effect on its attributes.

For example, the "Golden Spiritual Essence" [Gathering Qi Pill] in Shen Hua's hand has the exact same effect as the "Spiritual Essence," with no difference.

But the purpose of "gold" is to bring it back to the real world!

Items in the game cannot be brought back to reality at will; otherwise, the starting village would have been emptied long ago by the swarms of players.

To bring it back to the real world, it must have "gold" in it.

As for the production of "gold" equipment and items, the production rate is about one in ten. Players have a one in ten chance of getting gold items when they complete tasks or craft their own magical artifacts and elixirs.

Because of the property that "gold" can be brought back to the real world, gold equipment is often much more expensive than non-gold equipment.

For example, a low-grade magic weapon is priced at approximately 10 low-grade spirit stones in the game;

However, if it is a low-grade golden magic weapon, it can be sold for about 100 low-grade spirit stones in the early stages, which is almost equivalent to the price of a high-grade magic weapon!

It wasn't until later in the game when everyone started using magic items and high-level talismans that the price of golden magic items gradually decreased.

However, despite the magical artifact, Shen Hua wasn't particularly excited upon seeing the golden pill. The reason was simple—a golden pill and a magical artifact are two different concepts.

Golden magical artifacts can fetch ten times their original price, but golden elixirs are often ignored, especially cultivation-related elixirs like the Qi Gathering Pill.

After all, non-golden Qi Gathering Pills can be traded and consumed within the game, and their effects are exactly the same as golden Qi Gathering Pills. So why bother bringing them back to the real world?

There's not much difference between consuming cultivation pills in-game and out-of-game, right?

Due to the special nature of elixirs, golden elixirs have always been lukewarm in popularity, with prices not much different from non-golden elixirs. Therefore, Shen Hua didn't react much when he saw this golden [Qi Gathering Pill].

"I'll just eat this golden one tomorrow, since it's not much different from the non-golden one anyway," Shen Hua thought to himself.

He composed himself and prepared to go out to the market to buy some food to fill his stomach.

The food in the game is still quite unpalatable. After all, it's set in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, so there are few food options and no modern seasonings. Describing it as "tasty as chewing wax" would be an insult to candles.

But in order to survive, he had no choice but to eat.

"Should I refine some [Grain-Clearing Pills]?" he wondered to himself.

However, at that moment, a flash of inspiration suddenly exploded in his mind like a thunderclap!

Wait!

Wait!

Sacks at the bridgehead!

Golden Elixir!

No, the golden pill is extremely useful to him!

This thing allows him to bypass "divine will"!

Shen Hua was overjoyed!

He cannot use the "Eight-Nine Arcane Arts" in the game, but he can outside the game!

If you take the golden elixir out of the game and then absorb it using the "Eight-Nine Arcane Technique," wouldn't that allow you to bypass the "divine will"?

"This is indeed feasible!" Shen Hua was overjoyed, unable to hide his excitement.

Although there are only 14 hours in the outside world, it is no problem to fully activate the "Eight-Nine Mystic Technique" and complete two cycles of circulation with the help of two pills.

Over time, the five years he spent offline allowed him to accumulate a lot more power, which was equivalent to cultivating for five more years than others, and he was using the top-level "Eight-Nine Arcane Arts"!

Thinking of this, Shen Hua was overjoyed.

He decided to stop eating and rushed back to the alchemy room in his cave to prepare to refine another batch of medicine!

In any case, he must refine another [Qi Gathering Pill] of golden spiritual quality within the next eight days!

His top-tier martial art, the "Eight-Nine Arcane Arts," can finally be put to good use!

……

……

For the next two days, Shen Hua did nothing but cultivate and refine medicine, his days were fulfilling yet monotonous.

Day four of the game.

Whether it was spurred on by Shen Hua or not, a second player's name appeared on the ranking list, a full day earlier than in my previous life.

2. [Reverse Butterfly] (Celestial Race) Level 0 1/200

"So it's [Reverse Butterfly]!" Shen Hua was slightly taken aback upon seeing the name.

He had never met this person in his previous life, but he had heard [Local Necrosis] mention him repeatedly, so he had a lot of reservations about him.

According to the theory of "localized necrosis," he originally thought of this name because it could take advantage of people.

"Who are you?" "I am [Reverse Butterfly]!"

When I tried to enter the name, it was found that it was already taken.

Later, he thought of a name called "The Whole Good Job," but it was still taken.

Finally, having no other choice, he could only use the antonym of "whole good life," namely "local necrosis," as the name.

Aside from mentioning this person in the context of "localized necrosis," Shen Hua had no other recollection of him.

"He's probably someone who's powerful in the early stages but becomes unknown later on," Shen Hua thought to himself.

……

On the fifth day of the game, in the evening, at Xu Lan's small shop.

"Did you refine all of these?" Xu Lan stared wide-eyed at the handful of pills Shen Hua poured out onto the counter like beans.

"Of course I made it myself, it's very fresh." Shen Hua said with a smile.

Xu Lan picked up one of the pills, looked at it, and nodded, saying, "Hmm, it really was refined by you."

The pills emitted a rich medicinal fragrance, and their outer layer was not yet fully stabilized, indicating that they were pills that had just been made a day or two ago.

"But isn't this quantity far too many? And, my goodness! There's even a single 'Spirit Essence' among them?"

Xu Lan picked out a Qi Gathering Pill with a bluish-green spiritual quality from the pile of pills, her face full of disbelief.