Chapter 1 A Different World

As Shi Feng posed his question in the high-end suite, the entire room fell into an uncanny silence. Everyone present, whether Gu Jiuji or Jing Wuming, turned their gazes towards Yu Luo.

Since arriving here, they had encountered too many unknowns and astonishing things.

Considering the various possibilities, all they could do was remain silent, quietly observing everything, including the so-called NPCs and players.

In their eyes, these NPCs, monsters, and players were like alien beings, especially the players. They were supposed to be players, but they felt completely different from them.

It was as if these players weren't players at all, but rather residents of this world. They had fully accepted this virtual world.

No!

To be precise, these players had treated this world as if it were real, and they had been living here for so long that it was unimaginable. Otherwise, the sense of strangeness wouldn't be so obvious.

Shi Feng was particularly familiar with this strange feeling. It was like seeing Feng Qianyu back then, except Feng Qianyu was even more remarkable than these people. She seemed like a player, but wasn't. In short, she gave off a strange vibe that he couldn't quite put his finger on.

The players here gave him a similar feeling, and the surprise in his heart was far greater than that of Jing Wuming and the others.

However, he couldn't say it explicitly. After all, Feng Qianyu involved too much. Moreover, just as they noticed the strangeness of these players, the players also noticed their strangeness. Clearly, these players were also unfamiliar with their kind.

Adding to their previous conversations and understanding, Shi Feng felt that they were living in completely different worlds.

The old man in the cave had said that this world was the ancient God's Domain Continent. Logically, there shouldn't be any players here. Yet, there were quite a few players.

A rough estimate of the number of players in Meteor Fire City alone exceeded five million. This number wasn't much different from a kingdom's royal city. According to Liang Yun, there were many such human main cities, more than five hundred.

A simple calculation put the player population at over 2.5 billion.

Such a large population was unheard of by the major forces in the real world. Hardly anyone knew about the ancient God's Domain world, which was simply unbelievable.

"That's right, it's just as you guessed." Yu Luo looked at the gazes fixed on her. The relaxed and cheerful expression on her face instantly disappeared, replaced by a serious and earnest look. "Whether it's this God's Domain world or the players here, we're not from the same world!"

"Not from the same world?" Gu Jiuji's breathing became heavy. "How is that possible?!"

Although he had some guesses in his heart, he still found it incredible to hear Yu Luo confirm it. The more they understood God's Domain, the more problems arose, and the intervention of major world-class conglomerates was unlike any virtual game of the past.

But to say that they weren't humans from the same world was truly unbelievable.

"No! It can't be said that we're not from the same world." Yu Luo shook her head and said with a smile, "It's just that these people don't live in the same era as us."

"What do you mean?" Shi Feng asked curiously.

"You should all know about the immigration plan a hundred years ago, right?" Yu Luo asked.

"Of course. Back then, Earth was running out of resources, and environmental pollution was getting worse and worse, making it increasingly unsuitable for human life. So, the immigration plan was launched. I heard that many people were sent to explore habitable planets in the universe." Gu Jiuji nodded, somewhat incredulously. "Could it be... are you saying that these people are the descendants of those explorers?"

"That's right, they are the descendants of those explorers," Yu Luo said slowly. "Back then, Earth had discovered several planets that could be habitable, but they were too far away, and the journey would take too long. So, the world pooled its resources to build hundreds of interstellar spacecraft, carrying various resources, top-notch technical personnel, a self-sustaining living environment, and over a hundred million outstanding people, to these habitable planets."

"And in the past hundred years, these people have been living on interstellar spacecraft. However, the time they've experienced on the journey is much longer than the time we've experienced on Earth. I've heard that they've been living in space for over six hundred years. Some spacecraft on certain routes have even been living for over nine hundred years..."

"The population on the spacecraft has also been growing over time, and it has long exceeded ten billion. The original interstellar spacecraft have been continuously acquiring resources from various planets, constantly transforming and upgrading themselves. They can no longer be called spacecraft; they are more like interstellar continents, still on their way to habitable planets."

"However, because resources on these interstellar continents are limited, most people can only live in the virtual world. Only a small number of people can move around outside. Therefore, their familiarity with the virtual world is far greater than that of professional players, because it has become their entire lives."

"Especially the opening of God's Domain, which has become their everything, something we can't compare to."

After Yu Luo finished speaking, the entire room was silent for a long time. Gu Jiuji and the others listened with their mouths wide open. They never expected that such an astonishing thing had happened outside of Earth, and they didn't know anything about it.

They couldn't even imagine what it was like to live in space for hundreds of years.

"So that's how it is." Shi Feng suddenly understood somewhat.

In his previous life, before his rebirth, God's Domain suddenly released an expansion pack ahead of schedule. This was the most unique expansion pack in God's Domain.

Normal expansion packs were upgraded directly in God's Domain, and then players were notified. However, this expansion pack first spread in the real world.

Even the name of the expansion pack was revealed in advance.

World War!

This expansion pack made it clear that several worlds would be impacting the God's Domain Continent, and these worlds would launch an unprecedented great war and struggle for their own survival.

The victor would be king, the loser would be a bandit!

The winner would live, and the loser would die!

At that time, countless people in God's Domain were excited, because the territory of the God's Domain Continent was basically fixed, and there were fewer and fewer disputes, becoming more peaceful.

The sudden appearance of several worlds to compete and fight in was exciting.

The major forces had already begun to gear up, waiting for the new expansion pack to open, preparing to rush to those worlds and start a new journey.

That was why he was fired...

As everyone in the room came to a realization, Yu Luo smiled bitterly and said, "My coming here was completely an accident. When I was exploring the underground space of Dragon Heart City alone, I was suddenly caught in a temporal storm, and when I woke up, I was directly here. I've been here for twenty days now. I want to go back, but whether it's dying or jumping into other temporal storms, I can't go back. The most frustrating thing is that I can't log out here..."

"Can't log out?" Gu Jiuji and the others were shocked and quickly checked if they could log out.

If they couldn't log out, then things would be serious.

Although current virtual reality pods have nutritional fluids that can supply for a month or even two months without any problems, and the latest models have even been upgraded to allow players to remain immersed in God's Domain for three months, even if the nutritional fluid can't support it, the system will issue an alarm in advance, and professionals will come to deal with it, so there's no need to worry about starving to death.

But this is ultimately not a good thing.

"No way! We really can't log out!" Gu Jiuji was also anxious.

If they couldn't log out, it would be very inconvenient for them, because there were many things in real life that needed to be dealt with. Not being able to log out would be extremely inconvenient, and it would also have a certain impact on their bodies, which meant they couldn't stay here for too long.

"Can't log out?"

Shi Feng looked at the log-out button displayed in the system bar. The log-out button was still lit up, indicating that he could log out at any time, unlike the others who couldn't log out.

"Could it be because of the World Stone in my bag?" Shi Feng thought about it. The only possibility was the World Stone, which could stabilize the laws of all things, representing the rules of this world. He should be able to pass through as well. "It seems I don't need to be too anxious."

The ancient God's Domain was excellent, but he also had many things to do offline, so he couldn't be online for a long time.

But now he could rest assured.

Afterward, Shi Feng chatted with Yu Luo about the basic information of this God's Domain world, especially the information about inheritance.

After chatting, Jing Wuming and the others couldn't help but sigh.

It had to be said that worlds were indeed different.

In this ancient God's Domain world, player advancement was much easier than in the God's Domain Continent. As long as you had a team, getting a complete Tier 3 inheritance was no problem at all. You could even exchange rare materials for a complete inheritance directly from a Tier 3 instructor, but the only drawback was that you could only exchange three times.

As for the advancement of Tier 4 classes, it was a lot more difficult, but it was still much easier than on the God's Domain Continent. At least you didn't need to find any inheritance grounds. You could directly go to the Tier 4 instructor to accept the Tier 4 class-change quest and go directly to the Tier 4 inheritance space.

However, the price wasn't low. One inheritance cost 15,000 Magic Crystals. As for the difficulty of the inheritance, it was the same. You had to learn a Tier 4 magic skill within the specified time, or you would fail and have to wait twenty natural days before you could challenge again.

So far, only three people in Meteor Fire City had successfully passed.

Hearing this, Shi Feng couldn't wait to bring all of Zero Wing's Tier 3 experts who had reached the Flowing Water Realm. Even if it cost a lot of Magic Crystals, it was still much better than searching for inheritance grounds. After all, searching for inheritance grounds took a lot of time and largely depended on luck.

If the major forces of the God's Domain Continent knew that they could solve the problem of finding inheritance grounds by just spending Magic Crystals, all the forces of the God's Domain Continent would probably fight to the death.

"Guild Leader, I wonder if I can borrow 10,000 Magic Crystals from you first?" Jing Wuming couldn't help but look at Shi Feng and ask, "I'll pay you back double as soon as I go back."

"Guild Leader, you can't favor one over the other!" Gu Jiuji said quickly.

He knew that Shi Feng didn't bring many Magic Crystals with him to the ancient God's Domain. Borrowing 10,000 was 10,000 less.

Yan Ya and Mu Xiao Xiao also looked straight at Shi Feng, as if saying, "It's up to you."

"Don't worry, I don't have many Magic Crystals with me." Shi Feng smiled wryly. "But I still have a way to let each of you challenge once, and even you, Yu Luo, can challenge once."

"Me?" Yu Luo was also stunned. "But I don't have that many Magic Crystals..."

She also envied the Tier 4 class change, but Magic Crystals weren't easy to accumulate in Meteor Fire City. Magic Crystals were needed for daily use, so there wasn't much left over after each transaction.

So far, she only had over 4,000 Magic Crystals in her hand, which was far from 15,000.

"As long as you help me with one thing, I'll consider 15,000 Magic Crystals as your reward, how about it?" Shi Feng looked at Yu Luo and said.

The ancient God's Domain was a huge treasure trove, even more precious than the first-order veins by hundreds of millions of times. No wonder the three super guilds among the five super guilds in his previous life directly blocked the secret realm.

If such a secret was known to the outside world, it was unimaginable what would happen.

Of course, it wasn't easy to obtain various resources and items from the ancient God's Domain. After all, the basic currency here was Magic Crystals, which were very scarce in the God's Domain Continent, but not in the ancient God's Domain. Not to mention that the God's Domain Continent's various aspects, such as weapons and equipment, and even lifestyle classes, were behind the ancient era.

Simply relying on the current technology and items of the God's Domain Continent, it was impossible to earn resources here. It was like a person from the Stone Age running to modern times. Except for doing hard labor and accumulating little by little, it was really difficult to obtain resources from the ancient God's Domain.

Fortunately, it wasn't that there was no way to make money. The current ancient God's Domain wasn't very good at mental and soul aspects, especially in terms of mental recovery, which was actually weaker than the God's Domain Continent.

This could be seen from the mental recovery potions made by Liang Yun, a master alchemist, and the potions on the market. Mental recovery methods here were extremely scarce, and because of the death penalty here, everyone's spirits were in a long-term state of sub-weakness. Everyone couldn't exert their original level of magic control. If they could recover, everyone's combat power could be improved a lot.

"Okay!" Yu Luo also understood that Shi Feng wanted to help her and agreed directly. "What do you need me to do?"

Shi Feng took out a Soul Crystal from his bag and looked at Yu Luo. "Take this Soul Crystal to the auction house for consignment. You're a member of the Knights Order, so it should be easy to spread the news. Just say that this Soul Crystal cured Angelica Theresa, and the Soul Crystal also has a trace of strengthening the soul, greatly increasing the chance of advancing to Tier 4. Is that okay?"

"No problem. If it's just spreading the news, I'm afraid it will spread throughout the city in a few hours." Yu Luo took the Soul Crystal and nodded.

She had personally seen the effect of the Soul Crystal. What Shi Feng said was true. As for the problem of advancing to Tier 4, if the soul was strong, it would also improve some learning ability, so it wasn't considered lying. And to spread this news throughout the city, it was too simple for her, a member of the Knights Order.

Afterward, Yu Luo left the guest room to spread the news, while Jing Wuming and the other four returned to their rooms, preparing to sort out their thoughts and prepare for the upcoming Tier 4 challenge.

Shi Feng looked at the empty guest room and took out a Memory Crystal from his bag. This crystal was the Complete Inheritance Guidance Crystal obtained by killing Todria.

"The effect of this room is really good. The perception is 30% stronger than outside. Now there's still some time, so I can try it."

Shi Feng then took out 100 Magic Crystals and began to drive the Inheritance Memory Crystal in his hand.