I might have been playing a fake cultivation game.

On June 27th, 2026 (Earth Calendar), many people came across a cultivation game called "Xuan Yuan Invasion" on their phones. Zhou Yunshen casually downloaded it. The game didn't require an account to log in, the graphics were excessively realistic, and the NPCs were unnervingly intelligent. In the game, he started as "Zhou Erzhu," a young man from a mountain village, making a living by gathering herbs; he experienced hunger and fatigue. Zhou Yunshen realized he might be playing a fake cultivation game. The Xuan Yuan Realm in the game didn't seem to be a virtual world, but a real cultivation world. And the game's promotional claim that the Xuan Yuan Realm was about to invade Earth might actually be true…