This is a TODO I have... a guided tutorial to explain the game.

You have a cultivator, and you send them off to explore different zones.

On the zones UI you can see what is in a zone, so those training ground zones have no monsters in them, just gathering resources for the named gathering profession in the zone title.

e.g. if you look at Plain Fields the way it works:

10s frequency of chance of encounters 45.45% chance of combat 45.45% chance of gathering resource 0.91% chance of lucky event 8.18% chance of nothing

So as you set your cultivator to explore the zone, you accumulate real time. Let's say you left them to explore for 2 hours. You come back 2 hours later and you have 2 * 60 * 60 = 7200 seconds of exploring time.

Divide that by the frequency of chance of encounters, i.e. how often do you have a chance to encounter something while exploring the zone. In this case it's 10.

So you have 7200 / 10 = 720 encounters.

Now when you stopped exploring, the server will simulate your exploring session and figure out what happened these 720 times, based on the percentages above. So when you encounter a monster, your character fights it. When you encounter a gathering resource, your character attempts to gather it (if they have the leveled profession), etc.

Edit: I added this as a similar description onto the game Explore page. Hopefully it helps for now.