While Others Cultivate, I LVL UP In My Sleep Using The Dungeon System

"The ancient lands are hidden and secret places that are spread around the world where the ancients live. One couldn't even get close to them and even if an ordinary person did get close to them using some sort of vehicle, they wouldn't be able to find it with all the arrays around the ancient lands that make them impossible to find"

"One couldn't leave the ancient lands once one became an ancient and who would want to leave them. Using arrays they had formed the perfect environment for cultivation of thousands of years and it was a heaven on earth. It was safe from any external dangers and if one stayed there, compared to the rest of the world, they could think of themselves as gods of sorts, since they could roam around the rest of the world freely"

"Even children on ancient lands are peak Novice Cultivators and Advanced Cultivators and the ancient land I was from was one that you would call Asian. Even if I didn't go out of my way to cultivate, by the time I was your age, my body would be just as strong as yours and you shouldn't restrict yourself. These families that you call large cultivation families are merely ants" 

"There are only two ways to leave the ancient lands. One was if you had permission to leave or was sent on some sort of mission that required you to go to the ordinary lands. While the other was to have their memories and cultivation wiped out" stated his master.

"There was a third way, which was to gain permission from the ancient council that was made up of leaders of different families and organisations within the ancient lands. You could think of them as gods that could easily topple any country and were revered and worshipped by all cultivators that knew of them. However, there was no chance of that happening"

Hearing everything that his master was telling him about the ancients and the ancient lands, Adam was shocked and could only imagine what it was like and how amazing it would be to live there.

Adam had always imagined cultivators that flew around on swords and destroy mountains with single punches, but he had never been able to picture or believe that it was real.

However, at the rate he was progressing and from all the things he had seen and heard of so far, Adam was amazed and realised that such things were possibilities.

"Listen Adam. I am telling you all of this not to scare you but because I see potential in you to reach them and maybe even surpass those that call themselves gods. You have done things and have abilities that I haven't seen even in the ancient lands and I am sure that you can continue to progress at this level. I am not sure what it is, but something is special about you"

"Don't be restricted to the families in New York and even the government and military. Even the council of ancients that are basically like gods are under the control of something. And before you ask, there are things that even I do not know, and even if I knew, wouldn't tell you yet"

[I need to become stronger. I am still too weak and don't know enough about cultivation and the world. Even with everything that my master has told me, and I have still barely scratched the surface of the world of cultivation in terms of knowledge and power] thought Adam to himself as the feeling of weakness began to resurface.

[Just because I gained a bit of strength, I cannot become overconfident and from what my master is telling me, what I have seen and know is merely a drop of water in the deep ocean that is waiting for me to explore it. Even an elder of one of the large cultivation families in New York can easily crush me, let alone the ancients. I must become stronger] Adam said to himself as he clenched his fists tightly.

"Relax. All in due time and I will help you build your power, but for now, I will continue my story" reassured him his master as he placed his hand on Adam's shoulder and gave it a light squeeze.

Taking a deep breath, Adam turned to his master and prepared to hear the rest of what his master was going to tell him.

"I wasn't much of a special individual despite coming from a large ancient family after not progressing for such long periods of time, so I used that to my advantage. I didn't want to stay another second in the ancient lands and all I wanted to do was build a new life and forget about all the pain and sadness that I was leaving behind"

"I put myself forwards for a mission that required me to go to the outside world and was accepted onto it, as it was a simple mission to subdue and destroy a small evil cultivation sect that was starting to grow in China. Before leaving for that mission, I made sure to make an enemy and offend quite a few powerful figures. There were many ways to get off the ancient lands and travel at incredible speeds, and even teleport, however, I didn't have access to many of them. Although I didn't have them, those that I intentionally offended did, and it was the perfect chance to fake my death"

"After faking my death and leaving large amounts of my blood that they tested and found matched the blood of mine that they had integrated into the family, I was declared dead and nobody thought much about it. I was seen as a leech and was merely getting in their way and using their resources, so when I was supposedly killed while out on a mission, nobody cared"

Adam had thought that he had a life with quite a lot of struggle, but it seemed as though he had failed to remember that most others were also experiencing some sort of hardship no matter how good their lives seemed.