Chapter 26: The Twenty-Sixth Day of Making Games with Two More Apprentices...

Big white eggs, round and round. Two round eggs rolling around, one fried and one baked, so cute.

Yuan Yi hummed the adapted song in her heart, but she also knew that these two eggs were laid by Yuan Feng in the volcano and were extremely resistant to high temperatures. Even if she used Samadhi Fire, it probably wouldn't cook them, and it would only shorten their hatching time.

"Hey, we can't eat them." Yuan Yi squatted down in front of the two eggs and sighed.

The two eggs seemed to sense Yuan Yi's ill intentions, and even inside the cartridge case, they struggled to roll. The two white eggs wobbled gently, exerting all their strength, and then collided.

Tongtian quickly scooped up the two eggs, held them in his arms, and warned Yuanyi, "You can't eat these. These two eggs not only have great fortune, but they also belong to the young master of the Phoenix Clan."

As the old saying goes, even a starved camel is bigger than a horse. Although they can be dealt with at will, the two young masters who ate the phoenix will surely be hunted down by the phoenix clan.

“Once you get caught up in this karma, you won’t be able to escape it,” Tongtian emphasized again.

Yuan Yi: "But we can't just throw these two eggs here."

In the desolate wilderness, surrounded by yellow sand, neither eggs nor chicks are suited to live here.

Yuan Yitian carefully held the two eggs in his arms, afraid of bumping or damaging them.

Yuan Yi teased, "I see you really like these two eggs, protecting them like their own mother. Why not just take them as your apprentices and make the master-disciple relationship real? These two eggs are exceptionally talented and will surely achieve great things in the future."

After all, one of the eggs contained Kong Xuan, the future Buddha Mother and the number one person below the sage, and the other was the Buddha's maternal uncle, the Golden-Winged Roc who had fought against Sun Wukong.

These two eggs will both go to the West to become Buddhas and ancestors. If you think about it carefully, most of the disciples of the Tongtian Jiejiao will also be sent to the West in the future. From the perspective of the future, these two eggs can be said to be destined to be with Tongtian.

"What kind of ancient hellish joke is this?" Yuan Yi dismissed the strange associations: "These two eggs will definitely become powerful figures in the future. Taking them will not tarnish your reputation."

Tongtian glared at Yuanyi.

Who is all this for? It's all because we're worried you'll eat those two eggs because you're greedy and cause trouble.

Tongtian, taking the joke seriously, shook his head: "No, I have no master-disciple relationship with these two eggs. Besides, if I bring the Phoenix Clan's eggs back to Kunlun, I'll definitely get nagged by Yuanshi."

Although his second brother often called him reckless, Tongtian knew what was important. He held the two eggs in one arm and began to calculate with the other.

When he opened his eyes again, his gaze toward the egg became strange: "It has a mother but no father, and its aura is somewhat similar to yours."

Tongtian turned to look at Yuanyi, but he couldn't see Yuanyi's origins either. No wonder the phoenix entrusted these two eggs to Yuanyi.

"You have some connection with this egg?"

Seeing that Tongtian was about to wander off somewhere, Yuanyi quickly waved her hand to defend herself: "No, this is the first time I've seen these two eggs, and I've only seen Yuanfeng once in a dream. I have absolutely no connection with them before this."

What a joke! She's only a hundred years old, and she stays at the Wuzhuang Temple, never leaving the temple grounds. How could she possibly have two eggs this big?

"And if you look closely, this egg might be older than me," Yuan Yi pouted disdainfully. Who isn't a baby who's only a hundred years old?

Tongtian, who didn't actually doubt the blood relationship, nodded stiffly. He wasn't so heartless as to believe that two women, one of whom was still an infant, could lay two eggs.

"As for the similar auras..." Yuan Yi pondered for a moment, and it was probably because he was an unregistered member of the Heavenly Dao who did not follow the rules, and these two eggs were born because the Heavenly Dao violated the rules and was thus able to produce them. They both violated the rules, which is why their auras were similar.

But Yuan Yi didn't want to bring this up again, so he changed the subject: "Since you don't want to take on any disciples, then let's see who else can take these two eggs as disciples."

Tongtian, holding an egg in each hand, said, "I've calculated it. Although they have great fortune, they are not destined to be master and disciple."

Yuan Yi thought about it and agreed. In the original stories of the prehistoric world and the Investiture of the Gods, although Kong Xuan was powerful, it was never mentioned that he had a master. He was probably self-taught.

"Never mind, never mind." Seeing Tongtian carefully holding the two eggs, worried that he might abandon them, Yuanyi took the eggs from him.

She softened her tone: "Then I'll keep them here for now and see if I can find them a good home later." After all, she had received a favor from Yuan Feng, so she couldn't just leave these two eggs unattended. She would leave them at Wuzhuang Temple and ask her brother to give them some pointers when he had time.

Yuan Yi had intended to raise them freely, but things didn't go as planned. As soon as she finished speaking, she sensed in her mind that the two eggs had already established a master-disciple relationship.

Yuan Yi's pupils dilated in shock as he looked at the round, smooth egg the size of a goose egg in his hand. This was even a case of forced buying and selling.

The two eggs sensed that the person in front of them was different from before, and they began to wobble around in their hands, swaying like two roly-poly toys. Yuan Yi quickly grabbed the two eggs, afraid that his two disciples, whom he had just been forced to take in, would turn into burnt eggs in the desert in the next second.

Tongtian watched as Yuan Yi went from jokingly giving him disciples to unexpectedly gaining two disciples himself, his expression of shock genuine.

So he imitated Yuan Yi's previous tone and teased, "Congratulations, Fellow Daoist Yuan Yi, on the birth of your two disciples. These two are exceptionally talented and will surely achieve great things in the future."

Now it was Yuan Yi's turn to glare at Tongtian. This guy was really wicked; he actually repeated his words to him word for word.

She gently patted the two mischievous boys, and couldn't help but frown at their destined master-disciple relationship.

Yuan Yi has almost no cultivation, and his orthodox cultivation only has theory without practical foundation. How can he teach disciples under such circumstances?

Could it really be as I initially thought, that I should simply hand it over to my elder brother and let him teach my two apprentices?

Tongtian watched as Yuan Yi's expression shifted from bewilderment to frowning, then to worry, and finally to a sudden realization.

Yuan Yi stuffed the egg into his sleeve, then clapped his hands and said confidently to Tongtian, "I have a plan. When the time comes, I will have my disciple learn all the skills of the hundred schools of thought, including yours."

After saying that, he even imitated Tongtian by raising his chin.

Seeing that Yuan Yi was deliberately emphasizing "your" appearance, Tong Tian thought it was cute and wanted to reach out and rub it.

Yuan Yi had already honed her skills under her brother's tutelage, knowing exactly where a hand would land. With a quick movement, she bent her body, stepped back, and turned to run.

Her hair and skirt fluttered in the yellow sand, leaving a long trail in the sand with Yuan Yi's light footsteps.

Tongtian stared for a long time before belatedly realizing that a smile had appeared on his face, and even the gloomy mood he had felt from being trapped in the yellow sand for several days was swept away.

Yuan Yitian, who had walked quite a distance, did not follow and instead waved to him from a short distance away.

The young man in white smiled, but still spoke defiantly: "Naive. Even a three-year-old wouldn't boast like that. But considering our friendship, I might as well teach you a few skills."

After saying that, he walked over, completely following the footprints Yuan Yi had left in the sand. After the two of them passed, only a row of footprints was left in the desert, which was quickly covered by the yellow sand.

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What lies at the end of the desert? Snow-capped mountains, oases, and streams flowing down from the melting snow.

Looking up from the sky, one mountain after another stretches out before an endless expanse of mountains and green forests.

Yuan Yi hadn't seen any water for half a month, so she took off her shoes and socks and stepped barefoot into the river. Her feet felt cool, but she quickly felt grounded.

The roots on its feet quickly grew along the cracks in the rocks, scraping over moss, touching crabs, and then penetrating deep into the ground, making intimate contact with the earth's veins.

Yuan Yi's face also showed a blissful expression of finally coming back to life.

Tongtian discovered that the longer he knew Yuanyi, the more carefree he became. At first, he was still sitting upright, constantly talking about punishing evil and promoting good, and about advancing on his path. Now, along the way, apart from playing games, checking the farm, and looking for people, Yuanyi wished he could just lie down on the puppet horse, and his expressions became much more lively.

But this is fine too, Tongtian said, sitting cross-legged with a gentle expression.

Suddenly, Yuan Yi's expression turned serious, and he retracted all his newly grown tentacles: "This place is also tainted by demonic energy."

As he spoke, he opened the game on his phone, but when he scrolled through the information, he found that none of the previous operations could be performed.

Yuan Yi then took out a brand new copy of "Farm Battle" from his pocket, intending to place it here. The formation had just been activated when it quickly retracted, as if it had malfunctioned.

Yuan Yi's expression darkened. In just half a month, it had already expanded to this extent?

Tongtian opened his game, only to find the unfamiliar words "Poor Signal" on the screen, preventing him from entering the game.

He showed the screen to Yuan Yi, who pressed his forehead and explained, "I use the ley lines to connect the various games. You can play the game wherever there are ley lines, but the spiritual energy conversion efficiency is higher where there are base stations."

"But now the earth veins here have been tainted by demonic energy, and I can't fully control them or connect to Wuzhuang Temple, so I can't continue the game."

Tongtian said, "Then what should we do? There are only two hours left before Yuanshi's mutated Soul Heart Grass is ready to be harvested. I need to go to him to pick it as soon as possible."

Yuan Yi broke out in a cold sweat: "This is demonic energy, and you're still thinking about stealing vegetables?" How come Tongtian knows so much about the ripening time of the Primordial Spirit Plants? It seems he cares about them more than his own farm.

Tongtian glanced at Yuanyi and said matter-of-factly, "With you around, even the calamity could be resolved, let alone a little demonic energy." Compared to such a trivial problem that could be easily solved, it was of course more important to wait for the right time to steal Yuanshi's vegetables.

Ever since he gained the ability to play the game for all twelve hours of the day, Tongtian has been keeping an eye on Yuanshi, making sure to use up all four hours of the day before stealing crops. This way, even if he's unfortunately caught by the guardian beast, he can still AFK for an hour without having to face the tranquility package arranged by Yuanshi.

The thought of Yuanshi logging in every day only to find his earnings reduced by 5% and his helpless rage makes stealing crops in Tongtian even more exciting.

Stealing other people's vegetable gardens is only for raising spirit beasts; stealing Yuanshi's vegetable garden is simply for pleasure.

Anyway, they're all brothers, and Yuanshi has visited his farm quite often. If he really doesn't want to, he can turn off the online option. If he doesn't turn it off, doesn't that mean he can just barge in at will? Tongtian thought righteously.

Yuan Yi faced Tongtian's expectant gaze and ultimately chose to change the formation in time, allowing Tongtian to manipulate spiritual power to eliminate the demonic energy and restore the signal.

Since this was only the edge of the area, the demonic energy that had overflowed was quickly eliminated. Tongtian then multitasked with the fox while listening to Yuanyi's subsequent demonstration of the demonic energy removal plan and formation.

A complex and ingenious formation was continuously improved between the two, but Yuan Yi was still not satisfied and discussed changes with Tong Tian.

"...The transfer and purification arrays embedded here require more spiritual plants of the same attribute to work together."

After speaking, Yuan Yi noticed that Tong Tian remained silent for a long time. When Yuan Yi looked up, he found that Tong Tian was completely absorbed in the game.

After calculating the time, it had been almost two hours. Yuan Yi put his hand to his head and reflected on whether his game was really that fun.

She snorted coldly and described in a calm tone: "The player with user number 23765 in your friend list is undergoing their 3rd mutation of Soul Heart Grass, with a mutation probability of 3.68%. Based on calculations, the outcome of this mutation is a major failure."

Mutation is an upgrade item she specifically set up to rip off whales; you basically can't get it unless you're close to the pity system.

Tongtian's eyes suddenly lit up: "Indeed!"

Yuan Yi nodded reservedly, but then Tong Tian opened the game screen again, found the player with the nickname "Second Brother" and edited it: "[I won't be going to steal vegetables today. I already foresaw that your Soul Heart Grass mutation failed. My condolences (candle) (candle) (candle)]" and sent it.

Then, skillfully select the pin, block, and do-not-disturb combo, turning the messages sent by the other party into red exclamation marks.

Yuan Yi's eyes widened as he recalled the events of the journey, during which Tongtian had treated his second brother rigidly and violently, and how he had brought his eldest brother along to suppress him. The memory became real.

She looked at the naive white-clad swordsman in front of her with a complicated expression; some beatings were indeed justified.

However, Tongtian is usually quite nice, only acting this way towards Yuanshi. Yuanyi thought, resting her chin on her hand. Perhaps this is just Tongtian and Yuanshi's unique way of getting along. After all, even though they are at odds, they haven't deleted each other as friends and are still playing around with each other, which already says it all.

After thinking it over, Yuan Yi decided not to get involved. Seeing that the Tongtian Game had come to an end, he set off again: "Let's go, let's go to a place polluted by demonic energy and do something big."

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Author's note: Tongtian [to others]: Stealing vegetables is just a normal way to play; just complete the daily tasks.

Tongtian [Facing Yuanshi]: My second brother's food is my food, I can't let a single batch go to waste, I'm going to be online 24/7 to completely exploit my second brother's resources. [doge]