Chapter 8: The Vastness of Yunzhou
“Holy crap, for a moment there I really thought I’d transmigrated.”
After a Player entered the forest, they were sniffing around everywhere.
At this moment, they probably found even the droppings of small animals in the woods to be fragrant.
“Right?” The Player next to him held a handful of dirt: “How can every detail be so perfectly rendered?”
How could technology take such a leap in one go?
It’s practically split in half!
At this moment, they were like Liu Lao Lao entering the Grand View Garden for the first time.
“Holy hell, there are snakes!”
Someone wailed. There were still some harmless small animals in the forest, and the Players were startled when they saw them.
“This can’t even be described as realistic, this is the Second World, isn’t it?”
The Players whispered amongst themselves, and even though A Wu had given them tools and told them to chop wood, they had no complaints.
However, they soon discovered that chopping wood was also a difficult task.
In reality, they were all Otaku and Otaku Girls who ordered takeout for every meal, with very few even exercising. Faced with chopping wood, they looked at each other blankly, not knowing where to start.
Fortunately, someone often watched nature documentaries. Even without experience, they had the theoretical ability to direct others. They stepped forward to guide everyone in selecting suitable trees, felling them first, and then trimming them.
“The temporary shelter we’ll be staying in tonight doesn’t need to be so refined. This is a long-term process.”
Han Tian stepped forward and looked at the excited Players around him: “We can do an experiment.”
Wu Dahu immediately looked at him: “Big Shot, what experiment?”
Han Tian looked at the dense forest around them and said, “Let’s see if the material reactions in this game are similar to our reality.”
Wu Dahu immediately understood.
In the game world, are the materials composed of the same elements as in the real world?
The Cultivation World certainly has its own wonders, but if some materials could remain consistent with the real world, it would be terrifying.
They could completely use modern convenient knowledge to create many things.
The surrounding Players quickly formed groups. Han Tian was an old Player, and everyone subconsciously listened to the Big Shot when playing games.
Only a few scattered individuals moved away from the crowd on their own. Han Tian didn’t mind.
Zhou Xiao sent out several group messages. Not everyone knew the great name of Jing Baotian, and there were always some loners who didn’t stick together.
While the Players were enthusiastic, Song Jiulai was also worrying about dinner.
Tonight, they would have to make do with buying steamed buns from down the mountain.
The stove in the kitchen was cold and deserted. Shamefully, the only one who could cook on the mountain was A Wu.
In any case, Song Jiulai couldn’t cook.
She could cook, but she didn’t want to.
Cultivators could practice Grain Avoidance, but it wasn’t necessary.
Not to mention that Song Jiulai was currently only in the Early Qi Stage, far from reaching the stage of Grain Avoidance. As someone from Blue Star Huaxia, she was extremely greedy for food.
The food from down the mountain tasted alright, but there were too few cooking methods. The Cultivation World, with its abundant resources, had many types of food, but it lacked the variety of modern times.
The food for fifty people had to be arranged for tonight as well.
The flow of time between the two worlds was different; two hours here equaled one hour on Blue Star, and Song Jiulai didn’t restrict login times.
Players who were willing to grind could stay online for a day and a night without logging off, especially since this game was so astonishing. They probably wouldn’t log off at all.
Currently, all fifty people were still online together.
However, the only advantage was that Song Jiulai could see the Players’ movements and had absolute control.
This was also the biggest guarantee that the System had brought her people.
However, as long as the Players didn’t do anything that crossed her bottom line, she generally wouldn’t restrict their freedom.
For example, if they wanted to court death and go down the mountain now, she wouldn’t stop them—as long as they didn’t cause trouble.
Below Fei Que Mountain was a Mortal Town, roughly equivalent in scale to a county town in ancient times.
On the Yunzhou Continent, Cultivators were revered, and there was no concept of countries, only cities that were affiliated with Major Sects.
This county town was affiliated with the Flying Sparrow Sect, but within a radius of thousands of miles, there were dozens of human cities, all belonging to one enormous Sect.
【Myriad Immortal Sect】.
Judging by the name, you could tell how arrogant and domineering it was.
They even dared to include “Immortal” in their name!
But the Myriad Immortal Sect wasn’t even the most powerful Sect.
The Yunzhou Continent was so vast that Mortals couldn’t imagine it. Outside the continent, there were so-called forbidden zones.
However, Cultivators couldn’t freely enter and exit the Yunzhou Continent. This was because many areas were a mix of dragons and snakes, with Demonic Cultivators and Rogue Cultivators spread across the continent. Each Cultivator had their own territory.
If your strength wasn’t enough, you’d be discovered just by passing through someone else’s territory.
These were not things Song Jiulai had to consider now. Humming a tune, she had arrived at the mortal county town, Wang’an County.
Wang’an County was certainly not as large as a county town in Huaxia. A single long street could stretch from one end to the other.
Song Jiulai didn’t know the population of the county, but it usually looked quite lively.
Here, Cultivators and Mortals could coexist peacefully, as long as the Sect managed things properly.
Today was market day. The flow of time was different from Blue Star, so it wasn’t evening yet in Wang’an County.
Many small stalls were set up along the roadside, most of them having already sold out and preparing to pack up and go home.
Song Jiulai immediately went to the steamed bun and filled bun stall and bought 100 large steamed buns first.
There was a currency system among Mortals, but the universally accepted currency was Spirit Stones.
Mortals couldn’t use them for cultivation, but Spirit Stones could nourish their bodies. People here rarely got sick unless they were injured.
One Low-grade Spirit Stone could buy 100 steamed buns, and the shopkeeper even threw in a few meat-filled buns.
Calculating the Spirit Stones in her bag, the food expenses alone were a considerable expenditure. The Longevity Sect had to find a way to make money.
When buying the Puppet, Senior Sister Su Huanli gave her a very small Mustard Seed Bag, which was a Magic Treasure made by Cultivators with a small space attached.
It could be used to store things, but not living beings.
Storing living beings required a more advanced Mustard Seed Bag or a more magical Jade Token.
Jade Tokens were something that Cultivators from Major Sects would possess.
There were none in this poor place.
Arriving in the Cultivation World for the first time, Song Jiulai herself found it quite magical.
Before she transmigrated, she was an orphan with no attachments, and being able to live another life was already fortunate.
If she cultivated well, she could even live for a very long time.
Plus, the System said that when her level was high enough, she could open up a space to return to Blue Star, and she really wanted to go back and see.
After buying steamed buns, she also purchased some ingredients. She couldn’t let A Wu be responsible for everyone’s food; she had to let the Players learn to fend for themselves.
She needed to think about how to properly assign tasks to these Players.
The most important thing was to distribute the fifty Spiritual Root Pills to the Players tonight, allowing them to open their Spiritual Roots and officially become part of the Cultivation army, thus becoming her better support.
Thus, all Players’ minds uniformly received a System notification.
【Novice Mission is about to begin. Please gather at the Spawn Point after dinner. Sect Master Song Jiulai will distribute Spiritual Root Pills. After taking the Spiritual Root Pills, you will officially embark on the path of Cultivation】
【Note: After opening your Spiritual Roots, your Talent will be determined by yourself. The stronger your will, the stronger your Spiritual Root.】
