I Hear Once You Loved Me As Life - Chapter 34

Follow Benjamin Joyce, an elderly man with a passion for blacksmithing who spent his life travelling the world and learning new things. Now, after helping out the developers of the first ever real VRMMO game, he gets the chance to play said game earlier than the majority of other people.

Just as nuclear weapons are only a byproduct of scientific exploration, immortality is merely a small gift along the path of seeking the Dao. The New Dao Master, Grand Wise Teacher, and the strongest cultivator in millennia, Real Person Zheng Fa, is recruiting a personal disciple. The reference materials for applicants are as follows:Topology in Talismans: Starting with the Little Rain TalismanResearch on Artificial Intelligence in Magical Tools: A Preliminary Exploration of Tool SpiritsElemental Decomposition of the Nine-turn Golden PillBasic Pathways of FormationNote: Priority will be given to those who have published papers in the Immortal Dao journal.

From the moment they set foot on the colony spacecraft, 10 million volunteers started a new journey.
This book is about farming in the early stage, and fighting for hegemony in the middle and later stages.
Guan Gong fights Qin Qiong, and Chitu wants to turn into a dragon. As an online game for hegemony, famous officials and generals in Chinese history are indispensable.
In addition, some non-human intelligent races left over from prehistory are active in this era that belongs only to human beings, adding luster to the new glory.
Everything starts from the island, let us follow the footsteps of the protagonist, keep moving forward, and create a new great

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