System notification: The Mountain Tree has successfully completed its metamorphosis and advanced to a Silver-level creature.

Alchemical Creature: Mountain Tree, Name: None available

Talents: Resilience and immortality, affinity with nature, and the ability to rise into the mist.

Abilities: Purification, Kindness

Basic Assessment: Silver Beginner (Can be trained, lacks Transcendent Energy Materials)

Additional comment: This is a remarkable tree with extraordinary potential.

Wu You looked up at the ancient giant tree that seemed to be a pillar of heaven and earth.

Ordinary people could never understand Wu You's feelings at this moment. When a person stands under a 400-meter-tall skyscraper and looks up, it can bring a strong sense of shock and insignificance. But what if the building were replaced by a tree?

This feeling is indescribable.

Perhaps because of his ability to benevolent, Wu You was able to understand the effects of all the abilities and talents of the Mountain Tree immediately.

He focused on understanding the rising mist and the kindness of the heart.

The rising mist creates a unique protective barrier around the entire tree. Even unrelated individuals who approach the mountain tree's vicinity will inexplicably lose their way and eventually find their way back to their starting point.

From a distance, all you can see is green, making it look like a large, vegetated mountain.

A kind heart will make everyone who sees the mountains and trees feel close to them and be unwilling to do anything to harm them.

Both seem to stem from the talent and ability to protect oneself, but their effects are quite powerful.

Wu You was initially worried that the sudden appearance of such a giant tree on Shiniu Mountain would be too abrupt and attract the attention of those with ulterior motives.

The appearance of these two abilities eliminated all his worries; at least so far, the system has never let him down.

Wu You had high expectations for the Mountain Tree. He believed that, given the right conditions in the future, with continuous cultivation, it would become closer and closer to the fantasy in his heart.

The naming of alchemical creatures is not immutable; the key is whether the system determines whether they have broken through the original boundaries. If so, they have evolved into a completely new species and need to be renamed by Wu You.

This is described in the training instructions, but Wu You currently has no creatures that have truly broken through their original essence, not even the two creatures that advanced from bronze to silver.

Although it underwent a transformation, this was more of an improvement in power level, and in the system's view, it still could not be considered a breakthrough in the essence of its life.

...

The trees on the mountain have taken root here, which means Wu You's Ten Thousand Beasts Manor has a foundation.

Yes, Wu You plans to build the entire Ten Thousand Beasts Manor on the trees of the mountain range, making it a true castle in the air.

However, there are still some structural requirements in the architectural design of the villa that are a problem that needs to be solved.

Wu You used to be just a painter, and he tried to make himself look like a half-folk artist, but when it came to architecture, he was completely clueless.

However, in the information society, this difficulty is no obstacle for Wu You.

Back home, Wu You turned on his computer and drawing tablet and began drawing based on the miniaturized 3D images of mountains and trees in the system data.

Because it was a direct copy from memory, the brushstrokes were extremely precise, depicting the roots, crown, trunk, and branches of the tree with remarkable realism.

After an hour of careful comparison, the first overall 3D model was completed.

After returning home, Wu You stayed in his room drawing on his drawing board until dinner time. Only after Zhang Guihua urged him for the third time did he go downstairs, quickly eat a bowl of rice, and then run back to his room to continue.

At 10 p.m., Wu You, yawning repeatedly and feeling exhausted, finally finished all his paintings.

There are 20 drawings in total, each one incredibly detailed, with a drawing scale included. They include floor plans, elevations, and detailed branch drawings of the building that will be placed on them.

After organizing these electronic diagrams, I opened a webpage and entered a forum called "Zhuchongzhijia" (筑虫之家).

This forum, called "Building Insects' Home," is the most popular gathering place for architects and engineers in China, with everyone from experts and scholars to students hanging out there.

Wu You registered a new account and deposited a total of two million RMB worth of forum coins into it.

Ten minutes later, an edited bounty post appeared in the design discussion section.

"Rational Creative Design Competition - The Manor in the Trees, 2 Million Yuan Reward"

The content of the post is a hypothetical design.

"Imagine there is a gigantic, towering tree, and every branch of it is indestructible. If you wanted to build a treetop manor on its magnificent branches, how would you design it?"

Unleash your imagination and design a beautiful, elegant, and artistic cluster of buildings in the trees.

Requirements: Must comply with the principles of structural mechanics; all materials used must be genuine and reliable.

A three-dimensional model needs to be established, and each performance data point must be actually measured and a calculation report provided.

The best design will be selected, and the reward will be paid in a lump sum.

Below are 20 electronic images of mountain trees.

...

After posting this, Wu You couldn't stay awake any longer and went to take a shower and go to bed.

All he wanted was a feasibility analysis and a design plan. By then, the materials might be replaced with something else, and building a manor is not something that can be done overnight.

Many difficulties will need to be addressed one by one later.

He was confident that he could create alchemical creatures to meet all the needs of the manor's facility replacements.

However, the post ignited the forum within 10 minutes of being published.

The forum currency of Zhuchongzhijia can be exchanged for physical currency in real time. However, there is no limit to the amount of physical currency that can be exchanged for Zhuchongzhijia currency, but there is a daily limit of 50,000 Zhuchongzhijia currency that can be exchanged for physical currency.

Wu You's post is equivalent to offering a real reward of 2 million.

Once a bounty is posted, it cannot be withdrawn, so those who see this post believe that the bounty will eventually go to a designer who satisfies the poster.

This sparked heated discussions on the forum, with countless people leaving comments under the post.

1st floor: Holy crap, is this for real? Leaving my name before it gets hot, waiting for the answer from the floor below.

2nd floor: Sofa.

3rd floor: Damn, I missed out on the first comment. Waiting for the answer from the floor below.

4th floor: The poster is an idiot, confirmed!

...

Within one minute, 50 floors were refreshed, but they were all just for casual experience points and people waiting to leave their names before the fire broke.

Of course, a real design solution can't appear so quickly.

The authenticity of the post was also questioned by many "Zhu Coins" (a type of virtual currency), who posted to ask the forum administrators if the forum server was infected with a virus, causing a large number of Zhu Coins to be generated as a joke.

However, the forum administrator quickly appeared and posted a statement confirming that the poster, nicknamed "Master of Ten Thousand Beasts Manor," was indeed authentic and that the reward post was genuine and valid.

The administrator also pinned Wu You's bounty post to the top of the entire site.

This completely ignited the forum.

For a time, the rational creative design competition initiated by Wu You sparked the vitality of the entire forum.

However, to date, no designer has expressed interest in designing this building.

Most "construction bugs" are just watching the show; if their skills aren't up to par, they can only spam the comments.

Meanwhile, experienced builders with real skills are also eager to try their hand at designing, having downloaded 20 images and discussed their feasibility with each other.

The unprecedented spectacle at the Zhuchong Forum quickly spread throughout the industry.