Divine Martial Battle Net, the first thing Shen Hex did after logging in was not to find someone to challenge, but to level up.

That’s right, Divine Martial Battle Net can also be upgraded.

There are two sources for upgrading in Divine Martial Battle Net.

One is through device scanning of oneself, however much cultivation you have in reality, that’s how much cultivation you have online.

The second is "experience" enhancement; you can gain experience through battles, and experience can level you up.

Theoretically, even if you’re just a Tier One small fry in reality, you can accumulate experience through battles, level up, or simply spend money to have Tier Seven or Eight power on the network.

Divine Martial Battle Net can simulate enhancement of the user’s cultivation and even has some paid customization features that allow you to customize all kinds of cultivation bodies, Golden Cores, Divine Techniques—anything imaginable can be done.

This is also a major source of income for Divine Martial Battle Net.

Got defeated badly in reality?

No problem, come to Divine Martial Battle Net; as long as you have money, you can simulate and experience even the power of a Martial God.

Although this virtual enhancement won’t become real cultivation, it can accumulate experience and allow you to feel the power and utility of higher realms, providing some help in cultivation, so many cultivators try it, some even get addicted.

Of course, many cultivators are also indifferent to it, thinking that such virtual enhancement would ruin their path, so they never use this feature, only battling with cultivation equivalent to their true selves.

This is understandable, as the network is ultimately a virtual world, and such enhancement has obvious drawbacks; fidelity inevitably decreases. If one is excessively addicted, they might lose themselves in false power, unwilling to return to reality.

Perhaps due to this reason, among others, the fidelity of virtual enhancement is significantly reduced.

Otherwise, as one of the nine super brains of the Empire, the Divine Martial Celestial Secret, which is known as the god of the network, could completely raise fidelity to create a nearly real virtual world.

But it hasn’t.

So many Battle Net players are resistant to virtual enhancement.

However, Shen Hex is not among them, because he has the Zhuang Zhou’s Dream of the Butterfly method, making his actual realm completely unmatched by his current cultivation. Using the virtual enhancement of Divine Martial Battle Net, he can instead unleash his true strength.

Thus...

Wu Wudi (Battle Net ID: 9527222189786255)

Battle Level: Tier Five Level Nine.

Battle Cultivation Body: Dragon Tiger Golden Core (Ninth Transformation)

Battle Martial Arts: Xingyi Divine Martial Scripture.

Seven years have passed, Shen Hex’s actual cultivation is still Tier Four, because he wants unity of the Three Methods to create the Dao Golden Core, so he suppressed the progress of Martial Dao and Spirit Control, waiting for the power of True Qi cultivation to be enhanced, then unify the Three Methods and enter the Golden Core Realm.

And now, the virtual enhancement has only reached Tier Five, customizing a Martial Dao cultivation body of Nine-Transformation Dragon Tiger Golden Core.

As for why not reach Tier Seven and simulate Dao Golden Core, Great Dao Primordial Spirit, and other cultivation bodies or Dao fruits... not enough experience, no money to upgrade.

In these seven years, Shen Hex not only has to conquer the Taiyuan Realm but also has to handle various matters concerning the Special Bureau and farm activities, leaving no time to go online and play games.

Thus, his battle experience accumulation is limited, only enough to rise to Tier Five and customize a Nine-Transformation Dragon Tiger Golden Core.

As for spending money, if he had money, would he need to come here to fleece and harvest?

Don’t just think "Wu Wudi" easily earned billions and assume Divine Martial Battle Net is a gold mine, where one can effortlessly make a fortune. Reality is far from that simple.

In the online world, traffic is king!

To make money, being skilled is necessary but not primary.

What’s the primary thing?

Creating buzz, hyping up, pulling traffic!

When Wu Wudi debuted, why could he earn so much?

Because that "cheating incident" was a hot topic, attracting a lot of traffic and viewers, Shen Hex took advantage of it, staged some cross-border battles and instant kills, capturing a wave of popularity, and ultimately earning those billions.

But that was it, popularity and traffic don’t last forever, once you run out of tricks, lack topics, the audience will leave you, and battle income will naturally decrease.

Sounds familiar like an internet celebrity, doesn’t it?

That’s exactly right, Divine Martial Battle Net is doing the work of "internet celebrities"!

If you’re not an internet celebrity, without traffic, relying only on battle gambling, how much can you earn?

Not much!

After all, people may not beat you, but they can avoid you.

Knowing you’re unmatched in your realm, who would foolishly send you money?

Even a few reckless individuals will learn prudence after a few defeats, and won’t easily come to challenge again.

And viewers, after multiple viewings, won’t keep buying expensive tickets to watch your repeated performance.

Money doesn’t fall from the sky, so why do you charge so much, just because you’re skilled?

It’s a joke, the Human Empire is so vast, with thousands of Star Realms, billions of planets, lacking nothing except skilled people, it’s not that easy to make a living.

You need to know how to liven things up, got it?

Create something attractive, only then will the audience be willing to pay for you.

Shen Hex certainly understands this principle, but a clever woman still can’t cook without rice. Previously, his cultivation accumulation couldn’t support him with Tier Four cultivation to challenge Tier Five or Six opponents, Wu Wudi’s deeds were the limit.

But now...

Tier Four against Tier Six is still unrealistic.

But Tier Five against Tier Six should not be a problem.

Tier Six martial artists already have some wealth; even if the previous popularity of the cheating incident can’t be replicated, relying on challenge bets and battle recordings, a profit can still be earned.