Chapter 8: Chapter 8: The Vastness of Yunzhou
"Holy shit, for a second there, I really thought I’d transmigrated."
After entering the woods, one player spent the whole time sniffing this and that.
At this point, he probably would have found even the droppings of small animals to be fragrant.
"Right?" The player next to him clutched a handful of dirt. "How can they get every single detail so perfect?"
How could technology take such a huge leap all at once?
It’s like it did the splits!
At this moment, they were like Granny Liu entering the Grand View Garden for the first time.
"Holy fucking shit, there’s a snake!"
Someone shrieked. The mountain forest had some harmless little animals, and seeing one had given a player a huge fright.
"You can’t even describe this as ’realistic’ anymore. This is a second world, isn’t it?"
The players whispered among themselves, having no complaints even after being given tools by A Wu and herded into the woods to chop down trees.
However, they soon discovered that chopping down trees was also a high-difficulty task.
In reality, they were a bunch of homebodies who even ordered takeout for their meals. The number who worked out could be counted on one hand. Tasked with chopping wood, they just stared at each other, clueless about where to even begin.
Fortunately, someone who often watched wilderness survival shows, despite having no experience, had the theoretical knowledge to talk a big game. He stepped up to instruct everyone on how to choose suitable trees, telling them to fell them first and then trim them.
"These are temporary shelters for tonight, so they don’t need to be perfect. This is a long-term project."
Han Tian stepped forward and looked at the excited players around him. "We can run an experiment."
Wu Dahu immediately looked at him. "What kind of experiment, boss?"
Han Tian glanced at the dense surrounding forest and said, "Let’s see if the material physics in this game are similar to our reality."
Wu Dahu understood in a second.
In the game world, were materials made of the same elements as in reality?
A Cultivation World would surely have its own magical properties, but if some materials behaved identically to those in the real world, that would be incredible.
They could totally use their modern knowledge to build all sorts of things.
The surrounding players quickly formed a group. Han Tian was a veteran gamer, after all, and when playing games, everyone subconsciously listened to the pro.
Only a few scattered individuals broke away to do their own thing, but Han Tian didn’t mind.
Zhou Xiao had posted in several groups, but not everyone knew of Jing Bao Tian’s great reputation. There were always lone wolves who wouldn’t join a group.
While the players were busy, Song Jiulai, for her part, was worrying about dinner.
Tonight, they would just have to make do with steamed buns bought from the foot of the mountain.
The kitchen stove was cold and deserted. Shamefully, A Wu was the only one on the mountain who could cook.
In any case, Song Jiulai couldn’t cook.
’She could, but she didn’t want to.’
People who pursued Cultivation could practice Fasting, but there was no need.
For one, Song Jiulai was only at the Early Stage of Qi Refining, nowhere near the level required for Fasting. And as someone from Blue Star China, her cravings were insatiable.
The food from the town below tasted alright, but there were too few cooking methods. The Cultivation World had plenty of resources and no shortage of food types, but it lacked the dazzling variety of the modern world.
And she had to arrange rations for fifty people tonight.
The flow of time was different in the two worlds; two hours here were equal to one hour on Blue Star. Moreover, Song Jiulai didn’t limit their login times.
Hardcore grinders who played for a day and a night straight were common, and with a game this stunning, they were even less likely to log off.
Right now, all fifty people were still online.
The one silver lining, however, was that Song Jiulai could see the players’ movements and had absolute control over them.
This was arguably the greatest safeguard the system provided for recruiting people.
But as long as the players didn’t do anything to cross her bottom line, she generally wouldn’t restrict their freedom.
For instance, if any of them wanted to court death by going down the mountain right now, she wouldn’t stop them—as long as they didn’t cause any trouble.
Below Feique Mountain was a mortal town, roughly the size of a county seat in ancient times.
On the Yunzhou Continent, Cultivators were held in the highest esteem. There was no concept of nations, only cities and towns that attached themselves to Major Sects.
This county was attached to the Feique Sect, but the surrounding area, spanning thousands of miles and containing dozens of human cities, all belonged to a single, massive Sect.
The Ten Thousand Immortals Sect.
Just hearing the name told you how ridiculously over-the-top and arrogant it was, straight out of a Long Aotian novel.
It actually dared to have "Immortal" in its name!
And yet, the Ten Thousand Immortals Sect wasn’t even the most powerful Sect.
The Yunzhou Continent was vast beyond the imagination of mortals, and beyond the continent itself lay so-called forbidden zones.
But even Cultivators couldn’t travel freely across the Yunzhou Continent, as many territories were a chaotic mix of good and evil. Demon Cultivators and Loose Cultivators were scattered all over the continent, and every powerful Cultivator had their own domain.
If you weren’t strong enough, you’d be discovered the moment you crossed into someone else’s territory.
But none of this was Song Jiulai’s concern at the moment. Humming a tune, she had already arrived in the mortal county seat, Wang’an County.
Wang’an County was definitely not as large as a county seat back in Huaxia; its single main street ran from one end to the other.
Song Jiulai didn’t know the county’s population, but it usually seemed quite lively.
Here, Cultivators and mortals were able to coexist peacefully, as long as the Sect’s management was competent.
Today was market day. Because of the different flow of time from Blue Star, it wasn’t yet evening in Wang’an County.
Many small stalls lined the roadside, most of which had sold out and were packing up to go home.
Song Jiulai immediately went to a stall selling steamed buns and baozi and first bought 100 large steamed buns.
Mortals had their own currency system, but the universal currency was Spirit Stones.
Mortals couldn’t use them for cultivation, but Spirit Stones could still 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 baozi for free.
’Counting the Spirit Stones in her bag, she realized that food costs alone were a significant expense. The Longevity Sect needed to find a way to make money.’
When she had bought the puppets, her Senior Sister Su Huanli had given her a very small Jiezidai, which was a Magic Treasure made by Cultivators that contained a small pocket dimension.
It could be used to store things, but not living creatures.
Storing living creatures required a higher-grade Jiezidai or an even more miraculous Qiankun Jade Token.
A Qiankun Jade Token was something only Cultivators from Major Sects would possess.
’This poor backwater certainly doesn’t have any.’
Having just arrived in the Cultivation World, Song Jiulai herself still found it all quite magical.
Before she transmigrated, she had been an orphan with no one to tie her down. It was a stroke of luck to get a whole extra life.
If she cultivated well, she could even live for a very long time.
Plus, the system had said that once her Level was high enough, she could even open a portal back to Blue Star, and she rather wanted to go back and see it.
After buying the steamed buns and some other ingredients, she reflected that she couldn’t just let A Wu be responsible for everyone’s food. The players had to learn to be self-sufficient.
’I need to think about how to properly assign tasks to these players.’
The most important thing was to distribute the fifty Spirit Root Pills to the players tonight. Once they established their Spirit Roots and officially joined the ranks of Cultivators, they could become a real help to her.
And so, a system notification simultaneously appeared in the minds of all players.
[Newbie quest about to begin. Please gather at the spawn point after dinner. Sect Master Song Jiulai will distribute Spirit Root Pills. After consuming a Spirit Root Pill, you will formally embark on the path of Cultivation.]
[Note: The talent of the established Spirit Root is determined by the player. The stronger your willpower, the stronger your Spirit Root.]
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