Chapter 88: Sending Players to Infiltrate Other Sects
Song Jiulai happened to return to the Sect.
However, with the System around, Players didn’t need to see Song Jiulai anymore.
“Replan?” Song Jiulai had that thought. “It’s not impossible.”
What she initially thought of was building roads. If roads were to be built, Wang’an County would definitely have to start the work.
This was no longer just her own affair, but rather the Game would continue to open, and many more Players would enter later. People couldn’t just be crammed together in a chaotic mess.
There were only a hundred Players now, but later there would be more than a hundred.
The Longevity Sect’s area was clearly no longer enough to accommodate them.
System: “You want to make a move now?”
Song Jiulai: “How can you say something as unpleasant as ‘make a move’? My Longevity Sect was born in Wang’an County and contributes to the local common people. What do you call this? This is called serving the people! Serving the people! In the Yunzhou Continent, you won’t find anyone else with my level of awareness.”
System: “Of course, you won’t find anyone else. You’re not from the Yunzhou Continent.”
“…That’s different. Am I not transmigrated now? Once I transmigrated, I became a person of the Yunzhou Continent.”
After bantering with the System, Song Jiulai analyzed Su Huanli and the others’ states of mind.
Then she said, “There is a possibility of replanning. The Flying Sparrow Sect has never managed these matters, and they might find it strange. At that time, let the Players say they can’t stand the decoration style of Wang’an County. As long as the mortals feel it’s for their own good, they won’t stop the actions of Cultivators.”
System: “Then how do you plan to handle the Flying Sparrow Sect?”
Song Jiulai knew it was asking about merging the Sects. She said, “We have Palm Thunder.”
Palm Thunder wasn’t something ordinary Sects could afford.
Moreover, there was a prerequisite for Players to gift Palm Thunder to others after cultivating it.
That was that they themselves had to fully master it.
For a Player to master Palm Thunder with their current Talent, it would take at least one to two years.
The condition for Players to gift it away no longer existed.
The brilliance of Palm Thunder lay in the fact that it was a Cultivation Technique available in the current Yunzhou Continent and could be replicated.
As long as their Cultivation increased, they could replicate it with the Materials obtained from the Jade Slip.
“Let them have a chance to obtain Palm Thunder by joining the Sect.”
The System didn’t disagree with this method, but rather said, “You want to merge the Flying Sparrow Sect and the Longevity Sect?”
“No.” Song Jiulai’s initial idea wasn’t this model. “Players are Players, and locals are locals. Adding people would only disrupt the balance of the Players and make it easy to discover Player issues. The Flying Sparrow Sect is the Flying Sparrow Sect; it can belong to the Longevity Sect without affecting the Flying Sparrow Sect’s own existence.”
It was like how the Longevity Sect was essentially dependent on the Flying Sparrow Sect now.
It’s just that the Flying Sparrow Sect didn’t manage the Longevity Sect.
And Song Jiulai intended to implement a management model.
People from the Flying Sparrow Sect could also receive a portion of the Longevity Sect’s resources, but it would only be an additional branch belonging to the Longevity Sect.
This was the only way to preserve the Players’ secret.
Actually, once the Longevity Sect’s Strength increased, the Flying Sparrow Sect would definitely be tempted.
Everyone liked to be affiliated with a powerful Sect.
System: “Just give resources and don’t manage?”
“How is that possible?” Song Jiulai said. “Outsiders can’t come in, but it doesn’t say Players can’t go to other Sects. As long as the Flying Sparrow Sect belongs to the Longevity Sect, this concept is valid. Even if I assign Players to manage the Flying Sparrow Sect, it would still comply with the Game’s rules, right?”
“And you also haven’t said that Players can’t join other Sects, have you?”
It’s just that their birthplace was all in the Longevity Sect.
But what if Players had ideas about other Sects?
System: “I haven’t said that, but what do you intend to do?”
Song Jiulai stroked her chin. “I want to send some Players to other Sects as spies. Like how we just got one with Orange Talent? For example, recommending them to the Guanhai Sect would be quite promising. However, their level is too low now, and the Longevity Sect is still inconspicuous. Sending them as spies doesn’t have much meaning.”
“And what if a Player with Golden Talent appears? They should definitely be sent to the Myriad Immortal Sect to absorb resources. It would be a waste in the Longevity Sect! If they work hard to grow stronger and eventually become the Sect Master of the Myriad Immortal Sect—people always need dreams.”
“…”
It seemed the System had truly underestimated Song Jiulai.
She was already planning such long-term matters in her mind.
However, it still poured cold water. “If Players can become the Sect Master of the Myriad Immortal Sect, you might even achieve Ascension.”
Song Jiulai pouted. “I’m just using an analogy. We can start by forming factions. Keeping them here to absorb resources is indeed a waste. And can’t you exploit bugs to send more Players into Secret Realms? Some Secret Realms only have Quotas for Major Sects. If we can get a Quota for a Secret Realm, someone from our side can enter.”
As Song Jiulai thought about it, it seemed increasingly feasible.
And the more she spoke, the more excited she became.
The System was surprised. “You truly are a little genius—this is actually feasible.”
With the System controlling the Players, there was no worry of betrayal, and there was simply no point in betraying.
System: “Then you’ll have to pick reliable ones. To enter a Major Sect, you need at least Orange Talent. They really don’t care about Purple Talent, especially if they’re this old. Currently, among the Players, only one named Shuitan meets the criteria.”
Song Jiulai: “Shuitan? That third batch of Players?”
Too many Players had entered, so Song Jiulai only remembered their codenames.
However, she paid close attention to those with Orange Talent.
Song Jiulai was still cautious. “If I send Shuitan directly, will Major Sects have ways to read Player memories?”
System: “No, Players involve two Worlds. Even a Tribulation Stage cultivator can’t read Modern memories. They haven’t ascended, nor do they have the ability to shatter dimensional worlds. At most, they’ll see a blank slate. Furthermore, reading memories is a rather malicious method in the Yunzhou Continent; doing so usually harms one’s Spiritual Root and Talent, unless there’s a deep-seated hatred. Shuitan just needs to be detected as not a Demonic Cultivator to pass.”
After all, Demonic Cultivators could also transform into human form, and some would indeed enter other Sects to cause trouble.
Song Jiulai pinched her chin. “If I recommend him directly, it might still make the Guanhai Sect notice the Longevity Sect’s peculiarity. How about this: let Shuitan go by himself, and say that the Longevity Sect is too small and he doesn’t like it.”
Going to a Major Sect was a normal operation; it couldn’t be considered betraying the Sect.
Besides, he was just an Outer Disciple. In the Cultivation World, Cultivation was what truly mattered. Qi Condensation stage Disciples were not worth paying attention to at all.
If they wanted him for the Guanhai Sect, then so be it.
System: “What if the Guanhai Sect doesn’t want him?”
Song Jiulai: “…Then I’ll take him back.”
System: “…”
Of course, this was a ‘difficult’ Task, and it would depend on whether Shuitan himself agreed.
Song Jiulai planned to ask Su Huanli if she had any way to send Shuitan to Liuxian City.
Meanwhile, Shuitan was still struggling with Zhen Weida and the others.
Suddenly, he heard the System’s ‘stern words’.
“Hello Player Shuitan, you have been given a Hidden Task. Do you wish to become an Outer Disciple of the Guanhai Sect?”
