"Ho ......"

In the cave, Lao Tan suddenly opened his eyes and spewed out a stream of hot steam from his mouth, and his originally bloated figure contracted rapidly like dehydrated foam while releasing steam, and the big fat man quickly turned into a delicate teenager.

"Finally broke through, the fifth layer of qi refining." Lao Tan looked at his hands that had recovered their thinness, and couldn't help but be overjoyed.

After separating from Zhao Han that day, Lao Tan has been hiding in the Red Fire Forest to cultivate, hunting the surrounding demon beasts, making their meat into various "delicacies", and then eating them.

For a whole month, Lao Tan absorbed nearly a thousand units of spiritual energy from it, and after four days and four nights of refining, he finally broke through.

According to Zhao Han, Lao Tan's cultivation speed is very amazing, if he hadn't been imprisoned in the Xiao family's dungeon for two months before, Lao Tan might have become a seventh-level Qi refining monk like Zhao Han.

After taking off the clothes he wore when he was a fat man and putting on new clothes, Lao Tan walked to a pile of animal corpses the size of a hill with his hands behind his back.

These corpses are the remnants of the demon beasts that he has eaten in a month, most of them are first-order first-grade and second-grade demon beasts, and some are third-grade and fourth-grade, but they have never been seen by Lao Tan, who is like the previous eight-grade flame mink. As for the demon beasts above the second order, let alone it, even if they encounter it, with Lao Tan's cultivation, they must run away as soon as possible.

This is a world where strength is paramount, Lao Tan clenched his fists, and his mind flashed back to what Zhao Han had said that day.

"What exactly are we going to do in this world? Why did you come here? I can't answer any of these questions, and I think other players, even those who have been in this world for more than a decade, can't answer them either. Because everyone is the same, people have already come here when they wake up, and if it weren't for the existence of the system, we ordinary people from the earth might have died a long time ago. As for the rules of the game, they are not really rules, they are just for survival. ”

"Survival?"

"You should have found out, right? If we die in this world, then we will really die, this is not a game, but a real world, as for whether it is an otherworld or a balanced world, I don't know. ”

"I know that, because I almost died."

Hearing Lao Tan say this sentence with a calm expression, Zhao Han was annoyed for a while and said: "You know a fart, that night, when Shanmen Xiaobi was in the ring, you guy didn't want to die, don't you know, once the player's blood qi is zero, if you don't have enough lifespan to be deducted by the system, you will die." ”

"Lifespan?"

"Look at your expression, there are still things you don't know, open your character bar, there is a hidden attribute table in the upper left corner, where to see your lifespan. In addition, let me tell you one thing, the female player who was killed by you and the second miss of the Xiao family, she may not really die, with the lifespan of the foundation building period, it is basically enough to be deducted by the system once and not die, she has probably been resurrected somewhere now, maybe she is looking for you everywhere. Zhao Han gloated.

Memories come here to interrupt.

Lao Tan swiped open the system menu, and saw a floating gossip cursor on the player's avatar in the upper left corner, and with a slight stroke of his index finger on it, a hidden attribute table that he had never noticed immediately popped up.

Life and Death Thin –

Name: Lao Tan

Gender: Male

Karma: 34

Age: 16 years old

Lifespan: 140 years

Reincarnation (times): 0

"Life and death?"

There is not much content in the attribute table, but the name and the content on it are shocking, it is actually called "Life and Death Book" and can directly show the player's lifespan?

"I can actually live to be 140 years old at the fifth level of Qi refining?" The corners of Lao Tan's mouth twitched slightly, this number looks very big, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is an old birthday star, but Lao Tan knows that this is a very dangerous number.

According to Zhao Han, once a player loses all his blood and dies, the system will first deduct the player's lifespan, and one deduction is 200 years of life.

In other words, with Lao Tan's remaining lifespan now, it is simply not enough to cope with a deduction from the system, and once he dies, he will really die.

Moreover, Zhao Han also warned Lao Tan, saying that the player's death is different from ordinary people, once the player dies, the soul will return to the "Heavenly Dao", and suffer the pain of the soul with the operation of the "Heavenly Dao", and life is better than death.

I didn't expect that there would be so many things about the death of the player, and when Lao Tan heard Zhao Han say this, he was really scared. Zhao Han couldn't say what the "Heavenly Dao" was, and Lao Tan was not interested in wanting to embody it in person.

"It is said that the monks in the foundation building period will have a lifespan of 300 years ~ 500 years, which means that the foundation building period is a safety line, no wonder Zhao Han will say that the female player named Tian Fuling may have been resurrected......" Lao Tan touched his chin and fell into deep thought.

Although Zhao Han said a lot that day, he always felt that there were still many unknown rules in this world, for example, in addition to increasing the player's lifespan by increasing his cultivation through cultivation, was there any other way to increase his lifespan? Also, on the hidden attribute table, what does the attribute "karma" represent?

Staring at the 34 points of karma on the attribute table, Lao Tan clearly remembered that he had killed a lot of people in this world, and every time he killed someone, the system would prompt him to get 1 point of karma. At that time, he still wondered what the use of these karma was, but he didn't expect that the attribute of karma was hidden here.

Of course, Lao Tan also asked Zhao Han the same question, and Zhao Han also said that he also had a lot of karma on him, even more exaggerated than Lao Tan, and he actually accumulated hundreds of points.

It's just that what karma is used for, he, an "old player", said he doesn't know.

"It seems that if you want to know more about the secrets of this world, you still have to contact those old players who have cultivated above the foundation building period, but ...... Before that, I have to have the ability to talk to them on an equal footing. ”

In the final analysis, the most fundamental and fundamental rules of the game in this world can be summed up in nothing more than these four words - the supremacy of strength.

Thinking of this, a gleam flashed in Lao Tan's eyes.

"The Red Fire Forest is really a good place, and the partial land is full of 'ingredients', so it seems that it is not necessarily a bad thing for me to leave the Xiao family." Looking at the mountains of corpses in front of him, thinking of the demon beast meat that he had eaten in his stomach these days, Lao Tan couldn't help but sigh.

Opening the character bar, Lao Tan saw his latest character attributes.

Player: Old Tan

Cultivation: Fifth layer of qi refining

Blood: 275, Mana: 60

Root bone: 13, body method: 8

Psychic: 3, Perception: 3

Fortune: 2

Heaven-sent power –

Crape Myrtle Personality: Spiritual Sense +1, Perception +2, Fortune +2

Exercise: Nameless recipe

Stage: Treasure Chapter 5 (241.3/5000)

"After refining the fifth layer of qi, you need 5,000 units of aura? Tsk, it looks like it's time for me to practice in a different place. Seeing the amount of aura needed for the next stage, Lao Tan couldn't help but smile bitterly.