Zong Shou/First Life

The Zong Shou on his first life is supposed to be from an era thirteen thousand years in the future compared to the current timeline.

Description
He had a normal and common face, the type that one would not be seen if thrown into a crowd. He was working as the manager of a library in one of the small countries of the Cloud World, sitting around and waiting for his turn to die. His identity could not be any more normal.

In his last life, he had another name, but living in the present and in this place, that previous name no longer held any meaning to him.

Cultivation
In the game during his last life, he trained the martial artist basics to the ancestor level. In the entire Cloud World, only around a thousand people had a similar achievement.

The sword theories, the sword changes; he had grasped all of it. Zong Shou was famous for the sword. Within the game, out of the Seven Emperors and the millions of players, he was a pinnacle existence.

He says he was above Celestial Realm in the game and forcefully got Ascended Ancestor(I'm not sure it is this level, can someone check?) in real life

Cloud World
The Cloud World in the future prohibited fighting. With the spiritual energy in the land drying up, only some special regions known as Shrines had thicker energy. Cultivation started to fall behind. With the appearance of various machines, technology started to rise up.

However, the people of the Cloud World still inherited the genes of their ancestors, to continue to strive to become stronger, to fight against Heaven and Earth.

Unable to cultivate normally, they could only make up for that in the virtual game worlds. The most famous one was a virtual reality MMORPG known as God Emperor. It was said that they had hired all the famous martial artists of the era and hundreds of historians. They were able to recreate the era of thirteen thousand years ago. It was the time before the God Emperor descended, where heroes and legends were common. Martial arts and chanting cultivation methods proceeded as a part of daily life, and everything was exceedingly close to reality.

He remembered that in the last life, his last bit of consciousness was within God Emperor. The battle of the Seven Emperors of the Cloud World. He had one sword, challenging groups of heroes. However, at the final moment, his body suddenly felt a current, and he lost consciousness. After he woke up, he found himself in a different body. Everything in front of him was not the familiar world from before. So was he currently in the game, or was he truly in an era thirteen thousand years in the past?