okay first of all, hi MrTylurr!

nice to have you here=)
Well your friend was right, you don't have to even bother to play like the original PW ones. Things are a little bit different here

1. There are two servers, 200x for PVE (not need to be worry from being killed, just go farm money and grind as you like), and 1000x for PVP (a Player-Kill server, you have to expect to be killed and kill someone if you want, and things are way much hostile than the PVE server).
2. NO NEED TO DO QUEST. Just level yourself to level 89, and do you Cultivation Quest called "The Presbytreal Dream" in order to get your little flying fairy

(you can choose between Hell or Heaven, they both have advantages, uniquely different one and another).
3. We have several events each week :
* Netherbeast ( kill a boss which drops you a fortune

)
* Rancor ( get a group of people with different skills in order to start Zhenning : gang banging a horde of monster to get money and loads of EXP )
* TW ( a war between guilds - if the land has been occupied-, or a war with a horde or monsters - if the land is unoccupied-)
* Random events brought to you by GMs ( Killing this and that, or finding this and that, etc

)
Hope this helps

and See you in game!!! =)