Bodhisattva, please help me in my spiritual practice!

Ao Peng rested at the rescue site for half a day.

He now has two things to solve. The first is to find a stable part-time job to pay off his debts.

The second thing is to get revenge on that bastard Zheng Han!

If Zheng Han helps to cover this expense, Ao Peng will naturally remember his kindness.

But who would turn around immediately after hearing that someone else has fallen into a well?

Moreover, you were the one who led others to the well, so naturally that's an enemy!

However, this is a new era. Even if Ao Peng beats Zheng Han up, let alone kill him, he still won't be able to get away with it.

At that point, not only will his mother be worried, but he won't even be able to play games, which would truly ruin his future!

If you want revenge, you naturally need to play the game well first.

With his meager fate, he has no future if he doesn't play games well!

With 63,000 worshippers, Ao Peng can be considered a small-time millionaire.

He has carefully studied the information provided by the forum over the past two days.

Several patterns were identified.

First, why are people drawn into this game?

That is, I encountered ghosts and monsters in real life, and overcame them with my own abilities in real life, and then the game naturally came knocking on my door.

Secondly, the game has been running for about two or three months. You can check the earliest forum posts to see that everyone is still in the newbie phase. The most skilled player has only just reached level one in town and is still stuck there.

Ao Peng immediately thought of his younger brother Ao Wu and his mother.

I definitely want to play this game, and the sooner the better.

Others cannot control the power of ghosts in reality, but Ao Peng himself is a ghost!

He first booked a night bus ticket home, which was not only cheaper but also wouldn't interfere with his gaming during the day, since he was entering the game in his real body, unlike others.

After exchanging contact information with Li Cunhao and saying goodbye, Ao Peng did not immediately head to the station after leaving the house. Instead, he went into the woods and found a secluded spot to start the game.

[You vile heir, you have once again set foot on this old soil.]

Well, Ao Peng felt that the system had a problem with him.

At first, he was the successor to the new era; then, he became a cautious successor.

Now they've become despicable successors.

Your "good neighbors" have all moved away because of your bad reputation. What will you choose this time? Are you going to stay in this small temple for the rest of your life, waiting for your "good neighbors" to come back?

Ao Peng ignored the system's sarcastic remarks.

He first spent 1000 incense sticks on the forum to buy the later strategy guide.

Because the system acts as a guarantee, the price of this guide is itself an estimate by the system.

"Everyone's starting quest has three paths."

"What matters is not which path you choose, but where you are!"

"The old land can influence the present, and just as the present can influence the old land!"

"The starting system gives you several identities to choose from, most of which are common and ordinary. Most people have encountered missionaries before, hence the hints. This isn't a choice you make; it's a system prompt for you to get through the game!"

Ao Peng's eyes lit up when he read the beginning of the guide; it was indeed the work of a master.

He remembered the missionary's explanation: "This is a belief left behind by outsiders. It won't work in this old land. Perhaps you can find another way out."

The implicit condition is that the old land is vast and boundless, but it is also divided into areas, and different areas have different characteristics.

The division of areas is partly based on where people are in the real world, which is why there is talk of seeking alternative paths.

Once this key information is revealed, passing the first hurdle becomes much easier.

Once you find a place in the real world with a temple where incense is passed down, the difficulty of the first hurdle will be greatly reduced.

Reality and the old world influence each other; this is the message the starting village wants to tell the players.

"After leaving the starting village, you will encounter different things because of the different regions you are in. For example, there are secret societies in Chengdu, corpse drivers in Xiangxi, and shamans in the Guanwai area. But basically, they all have one characteristic: you will encounter villages and towns where a large number of people gather together."

"However, don't completely trust those 'people' from the old era. They are different from us; they have their own set of behavioral guidelines."

"At this point, the role of destiny becomes very obvious. If you want to become an apprentice, it is basically impossible to enter the upper nine classes such as Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism if your destiny is low. Don't waste your time going to martial arts schools or similar places; they simply won't accept you! Those with low destiny can only enter the lower nine classes."

Upon seeing this, Ao Peng couldn't help but frown slightly. His current fate value was only 2.2 taels. Although he still had a little over 1 qian of life-saving money, it only amounted to 2.3 taels in total, making his fate slightly better than that of a beggar.

Moreover, life coins are rare. He obtained life coins by exploiting a bug. Other newbies, without the skill of asking for a seal, have no way to improve their fate.

He immediately felt the malice of reality shining into the game.

In reality, it's better to be born into a good family than to do well on exams. Is it the same in this game that seems to allow you to defy fate?

He calmed himself down and continued reading. In any case, if it could improve his destiny, then there was always a way out.

"However, having a low fate isn't necessarily a bad thing. I learned something from chatting with someone: this game allows you to increase your fate, and a few coins can be enough to change a person's destiny."

"If one's destiny is greatly improved, one will face a tribulation, similar to a separate dungeon in a game, where one can obtain opportunities that no one else has."

"But people die in dungeons! People die in dungeons! People die in dungeons!"

The other party emphasized the important thing three times.

Ao Peng breathed a sigh of relief.

He entered the instance in his real body, so he didn't care too much about dying in the instance, since he would die in the normal game anyway.

However, this can be considered part of the game's balancing mechanism.

People with low destiny will suffer when they first join a sect and become apprentices, but the game provides separate mini-dungeons to help them change their fate.

He continued reading.

"So, all things considered, the potential of the two-life character should be the greatest. But can the two-life character really survive past the beginning of the game? I mean, the encounter with the ghost in the real world at the start of the game."

At this point in his writing, even this big shot himself had some doubts.

Then he continued writing.

"There's also a hidden strategy guide for new players entering villages and towns."

"About two or three days after entering the village, you'll encounter a peddler from whom you can buy skills!!!"

The expert used three exclamation marks here.

"Skills in this game are extremely difficult to acquire, as you can see from the apprenticeship system mentioned above. A good master first checks if you have the right destiny; if your destiny isn't good enough, you won't even find a door!"

"Even if you get the hang of it, if you want to learn real skills, hmph... you can look up how those masters in the old days guarded their apprentices. So even though they had unique skills, they were still replaced by us, the people of the new era."

The experts here even use "them" to describe them, which shows how rare the skills are and how torturous those "masters" are.

"The reason skills are so rare is that they can connect with the divine, and the divine can control the Dao! Each skill corresponds to a deity, and this deity also controls the corresponding Dao. Once you have mastered the skill enough, you can summon the deity. This is the key gameplay of this game. As for how to summon the deity, don't ask me, I haven't reached that point yet."

"So when you enter the game, the system will assign you a basic skill based on your life experience. That skill is usually very useful. Remember to study how to upgrade it."

"Around two or three days after entering the town, you will encounter a 'peddler'. This is the last benefit the system gives to newbies. The peddler will refresh different goods based on your current situation. Be sure to buy a good skill from the peddler! With two skills, even if you don't find an apprentice, you can still play the game smoothly if you are careful."

"Therefore, incense offerings are also very important. In this game, incense offerings not only have the concept of money, but also the concept of cause and effect. So if you or someone else accepts incense offerings and agrees to something, you must do it, otherwise there will be corresponding retribution."

"That concludes my words. I wish all fellow Daoists continued success on the path to enlightenment, and that one day you will reach the pinnacle and together witness the splendor of the world!"