"Although "Work at Sunrise" is a slow-paced cultivation game, this slowness is relative.
In real-life cultivation, a single meditation session might take several years, and learning a spell could take several months.
However, this pace is obviously not playable for gamers; if it took over a decade just to get started in a game, who knows how long it would be to actually enjoy it.
Therefore, Fang Cheng deliberately slowed down this process, but he didn't expect that players would use resources from other worlds to feed back into their own progress, further accelerating the pace.
While the Monarch watched the Monkey warily, the Monkey didn't wait for him.
Upon realizing that his previous attack had been ineffective, the Monkey immediately retreated to create some distance, then struck again with his sword.
This time, the Monarch was prepared; dark water coalesced in front of him, blocking the sword light.