It's Only a Game, Why Do You Have to be Mad? [Contemporary Cultivation]

[American Capitalistic Xianxia, Two Worlds Collide] Leo Chen didn't expect to transmigrate while shopping at Costco. One moment he was looking for Pokemon cards, the next he and his dad were staring at a million-dollar flying sword hovering between the toilet paper and the olive oil. The cheat comes a little late. A VR game that turns out to be a portal to a real cultivation world, and three Foundation Establishment Americans who adopt him and decide the best way to train his divine sense is to literally crush his consciousness to death every three hours. The good news? He respawns. The bad news? His tiger mom thinks this is a legitimate tutoring program and is thrilled to pay $600,000 a year for spiritual trauma recovery tea if it means Harvard admission. Now Leo's divine sense is growing at impossible speeds, and the school's Flying Aces coach has taken notice. Suddenly he is being scouted as the next star player in America's most prestigious cultivation sport. All it will take is dying eight times a day while helping his new friends plan an interdimensional adventure using flying swords, self-detonations, and a dash of ingenuity. --- This story takes systems from Chinese cultivation novels and reimagines them in an American context. High School, College Football, NFL, Capitalism, and the US Military. Inspired by “I Have a Cultivation World”, “No Money to Cultivate Immortality?”, “World’s Best Martial Artist”, and “Immortality Through Array Formations”. This is a work of fiction. While certain real people, historical events, and organizations are referenced, all depictions are entirely fictional and reimagined for a fantasy setting. Nothing in this story should be taken as fact or as representing the author's opinions.