Chapter 57 The Energy Supply Portal is About to Open

The water was incredibly fast, reaching the snow-white lion almost instantly.

"Bang!"

"Splash—"

The water burst open in all directions and then continued to rush out in all directions.

This small space was instantly filled with splashing water, as if it had rained.

Suddenly, a strong gust of wind blew by, and all the scattered water droplets disappeared.

A tall, slender figure appeared in the wind.

However, this world of eternal night was too dark, so it was impossible to see exactly what the figure looked like.

Soon, the figure shrank little by little, turning into a gray ball of fur with a big head, short legs, and a short body.

He looked around, picked a spot, and started drinking water.

The Suanni was still reeling from the shock.

After a long while, he finally said, "Where did this water come from?"

The gluttonous beast had been drinking from the Moon Spring for quite some time, and he grunted twice in response.

Suanni: "Moon Spring? How did Moon Spring become like this?"

Although the Suanni had regained its strength, the current of water still posed a significant threat to it. Even though it had recovered from its previous shock, its fur remained bristling.

His thick, icy blue mane was now all fluffed up, making him look like a white frilled lizard.

Although he wasn't wet, the Suanni still felt a little uncomfortable. He shook his fur and said, "Shall we go back and check?"

Taotie nodded.

Half a minute later.

Suanni: "Can you please stop eating! Let's go!"

The gluttonous beast continued to nod, and then... continued to swallow the Moon Spring.

Suanni: "......"

Meanwhile, below the cliff...

Xiao Jiu and Qian Chuan Fu Yu were staring in disbelief at the massive torrent of water above them.

The water flow is like a high-pressure water gun, shooting far away while scattering many tiny water droplets in the air. These droplets float in the air, forming layers of fine water mist.

It's a pity there's no sunshine right now, otherwise we could see a beautiful rainbow.

Just then, a golden sphere rolled down from the cliff next to them.

Seeing this, Xiao Jiu and the others quickly went to greet them. Qian Chuan asked, "System, what's going on?"

The system's voice carried an undisguised excitement: "I put that spring into the bottle, and now the bottle, the spring, and the fairy tree form a cycle!"

It rattled off a whole bunch of complicated terms and concepts, then excitedly summarized: "This is a powerful energy supply device!"

With a power supply, this world of perpetual night can be replenished with energy as quickly as possible, and the two worlds can merge more quickly.

Fu Yu's eyes widened in disbelief: "So, this is Moon Spring!?"

Thinking back to how beautiful and elegant Moon Spring was before, and then looking at this scene now, which resembles a flood...

Fu Yu: "...It's...it's pretty good."

Qian Chuan subconsciously wanted to express his joy at the good news, but his eyes carried a hint of sadness.

The merging of the two worlds means that the place where he lived for three thousand years will never exist again.

But he also understood that if it weren't for Xiao Jiu and the system, that world would have collapsed and been destroyed long ago after he was attacked by that human cultivator.

Qianchuan took a deep breath, burying all those bad emotions.

He asked the system, "So what do we do next? Do we need to move the farmland further away?"

After all, the current scene looks quite dangerous, with a feeling that the water could flood this place at any moment.

The system calculated: "Let's move over there. A stream will appear there in about fifty hours, which will be enough for us."

After all, now that the waterfall is "suspended" in mid-air, the lake that was there before will soon dry up, and there will be no river in their area.

The system used the remaining points to move all ten existing farmlands away.

Just after they finished moving, a large gray ball of fur appeared where the farmland used to be.

The little orange cat, who had been hiding in the Taotie's long, fluffy fur to "take shelter from the rain," poked its head out, looked around, and said angrily, "Fine, they didn't even tell us they were moving!"

Suanni: "Let's go, we're not playing with them anymore!"

Taotie: "No way, I'm going to find Xiao Jiu."

Suanni: "How can you be so spineless? No, if you go back, it will make me seem petty. You can't go."

Taotie sighed, "Meow, you should be flat."

The Suanni was completely bewildered: "What's flat?"

Taotie: "Then there will be cat cakes."

Suanni: ?

So the two furry balls started fighting again.

About a kilometer away from the waterfall, the system watched Fuyu carefully checking the condition of the flower seeds in the field. After thinking for a moment, it carefully recounted what had happened below the rift valley to Fuyu.

When Fu Yu heard that "spirits are probably not the last uninvited guests," he visibly panicked.

He quickly asked, "Will humans come in?"

System: "Insufficient data, unable to confirm. I can only guess; not just anyone can get through this gap."

The system did not say "impossible".

All they know now is that there will be a creature at the gap that is connected to Granny Tai Li through this matter, but they also know how bad Granny Tai Li's condition is.

The spiritual energy in the space is currently scarce, and the energy expenditure when she wakes up would cause her more pain, so they couldn't bear to wake her.

Fu Yu bit her lower lip so hard that the flesh turned completely bloodless.

After a few seconds, he clenched his fist and tried to speak: "Isn't Miaomiao very familiar with Grandma? Can, can we ask him?"

System: "Okay, let's wait for them to come back."

Aside from Xiao Jiu, the three non-humans, including the system, all knew that Suanni and Taotie had gone to fight.

But they didn't expect that the battle between the Suanni and Taotie would last for almost a year.

Not much happened this year; it was basically the same few things as before.

Plant flowers, harvest flowers, and accumulate points.

The farmland has been upgraded once again, and now there are a total of twelve farmlands used for growing flowers.

Separated from these twelve farmlands, there are five fields side by side over there, which are specifically used to grow the ingredients for a special grain.

The location where the farmland is situated is relatively flat, while about ten meters away from the farmland is a high mountain.

Because of the diligent irrigation efforts of the "enhanced Moon Spring," this world of eternal night is undergoing tremendous changes every day.

The fairy tree at the highest point in the world is still in the pose of a "handsome boy holding a water bottle," but because the water in the bottle is "launched" straight into the distance, there is no longer a waterfall under the tree.

However, the Elf Tree didn't rest during that year either.

Its root system has become increasingly developed, and it has covered the entire mountain at its feet with its fine roots.

This spirit tree still carries a trace of its original power, so the mountain completely covered by its roots is now shrouded in divine power.

It is the most indestructible place in this eternal night world, and the core of the entire world.

Meanwhile, beside this "core of the world," a short figure was squatting on the ground, bending over and fiddling with something.

He seemed to be burying something, his hands were covered in mud.

After burying it, he took a small bamboo tube and carefully poured the water from it onto the small mound of earth in front of him.

The big-eared white cat standing at his feet watched his movements intently until he muttered "All done" to himself, at which point the cat softly meowed.

Upon hearing the voice, Xiao Jiu turned to look at the little spirit. He spread his hands out to the little spirit and said, "Xiao Jiu's hands are dirty, you can't hug them."

The little spirit just blinked at him, then jumped up and landed steadily on Xiao Jiu's shoulder.

Xiao Jiu turned its head and rubbed the soft fur on its ear tip, then got up and walked to the other side.

There is a stream beside the mountain.

The stream is peculiar; it flows out of thin air a few meters away, as if there were an invisible mountain there, and the shape of the stream in the air is the undulating shape of that mountain's surface.

However, although it appeared out of thin air, the stream was just ordinary water and had no special power.

The only special thing about this place is that the stream is very cold because there is no sunlight in this world.

Xiao Jiu walked to the stream and carefully washed her hands and the bamboo tube. She then took the little spirit off her shoulder and let it lick a few mouthfuls of water.

Suddenly, a loud bang rang out from the horizon.

"Bang!!"

Xiao Jiu, who has exceptional hearing, and the spirit were both startled, nearly falling into the water.

After they finally regained their footing, a furious roar rang out from not far away: "It's been over a year! When are you going to stop fighting?!"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Jiu picked up the bamboo tube by the stream, grabbed the little spirit, and ran over.

When Xiao Jiu ran to the edge of the farmland, a golden sphere was bouncing around and roaring: "If the soil in this world hadn't returned to normal, you would have collapsed this whole place long ago by attacking like this!"

Its voice is quite loud; powerful demonic beasts can hear it with just a little spiritual power.

However, no one replied.

The system got even angrier.

At this moment, a young man with fair skin and delicate features walked over and said helplessly, "System, forget it. We can manage on our own anyway, so let them have fun."

The boy was dressed in a red outfit, and his hair was braided into a long braid that hung down in front of his chest and tied with a ribbon of the same color.

The boy noticed the footsteps and turned to look at Xiao Jiu.

The moment his gaze fell upon Xiao Jiu, the silver-gray specks in his turquoise eyes immediately zoomed in and out, allowing him to clearly see the objects in his field of vision.

Fu Yu immediately ran over with a smile: "Xiao Jiu, did you have fun today?"

Xiao Jiu nodded, holding the spirit: "Okay."

Xiao Jiu has been leaving the farmland for a while almost every day lately because he said he wanted to go out and have fun. Everyone figured there was nothing dangerous in the world, so they let him do as he pleased.

Upon hearing Xiao Jiu's answer, Fu Yu simply smiled gently and patted Xiao Jiu's head lightly: "Well, that's good."

He lowered his gaze to the big-eared kitten nestled in Xiao Jiu's arms: "Did Xiao Xue have fun too?"

The spirit called Xiaoxue looked at Fuyu and softly said, "Meow."

Actually, Fu Yu named this little spirit Qing Xue, but because Xiao Jiu couldn't pronounce the two characters together at the time, she just called it Xiao Xue from then on.

The little spirit itself said it liked it very much, so everyone called it that.

Xiaoxue signed a contract with Xiaojiu a year ago.

Its condition is somewhat similar to that of the Taotie, which is congenitally flawed.

However, because Taotie could eat and eat, it recovered very quickly, while Xiaoxue could only recover slowly.

Xiaoxue is not much different from what she was a year ago. She has the intelligence of a human child of about two years old. She can't speak and can only roughly understand some words, which is somewhat like Xiao Jiu from before.

The system, which had already jumped onto Xiao Jiu's other shoulder, exclaimed, "Luckily, Fu Yu was there back then, otherwise this little guy's name would be 'Bai Bai' now."

in vain.

Bye-Bye.

The system could already imagine how Suanni would react upon hearing this.

That wicked cat will definitely laugh itself silly!

Thinking of this, the system got angry again: "Those two Suanni and Taotie are really... We've already harvested three rounds of flowers, and they still haven't come back."

At that moment, Qianchuan walked over carrying a bunch of green plants.

He seemed to realize something and asked with a puzzled look, "So, when they were fighting, was the Suanni suppressing its power?"

The Suanni was at its peak, but the Taotie was still an embryo.

If the Suanni hadn't held back, there wouldn't have been a chance to fight under these circumstances, let alone after fighting for over a year.

Upon hearing this, Fuyu's body suddenly stiffened.

He blinked quickly, then acted as if nothing had happened and continued to play with Xiaoxue with his head down.

The system didn't notice Fu Yu's little movement. It sighed and said, "Never mind them. Shall I start the routine check?"

Everyone responded, "Okay."

A white light streaked across the surface of the system's golden sphere and then shot directly into the sky.

The light, like a flash of lightning, illuminated the sky for a fleeting moment before vanishing.

Two seconds later, the system said: "Fusion degree 11%, no energy fluctuation in the spatial gap, hmm, same as before, everything is normal."

This is a new scanning method developed by the system. It extracts information from only a few key scanning points, then imports it into a program for derivation, and can quickly obtain several key pieces of information.

This scanning method is fast and only consumes a few hundred points, making it highly efficient.

Although the flow of Moon Spring has increased significantly, the fusion of the world is not an easy task, so only 10% has been fused this year, and there is still a long time to wait.

System: "But it's still better than the initial situation."

At the very beginning, the calculated fusion speed was only one-tenth of what it is now, and the entire fusion process would take a hundred years to complete. Compared to that time, things are much better now.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief knowing that the world was peaceful and tranquil as always.

At this moment, Xiao Jiu looked at the plant in Qian Chuan's arms and asked, "Qian Chuan, what is this?"

Upon hearing this, Qian Chuan squatted down, looking at Xiao Jiu at eye level, and handed the green plant in his hand to Xiao Jiu: "This is a freshly ripened lettuce. I wanted to let Xiao Xue try it and see if it's the material for her special food."

Since it's a product from the farm, once it's removed from the soil, the soil particles on it will automatically return to the field, so the whole lettuce is very clean and doesn't need to be washed at all.

Qianchuan first broke off the lettuce leaves, then tore off the lettuce stem core with his bare hands for Xiaoxue to try, but Xiaoxue only touched it with the tip of her nose and was unwilling to eat it at all.

Fu Yu said disappointedly, "Ah, it's not this one either."

Xiaoxue's appetite is too small. They all thought that if they could make her special food, she would recover faster than if she ate special food blocks.

Xiao Jiu patted Xiao Xue's head, then looked at Fu Yu: "A Yu, want to eat A Yu's?"

Fu Yu patted his stomach: "Hmm... Let's eat. I'm not hungry yet, but it's almost time to eat."

Xiao Jiu could understand such complex sentences by now, so she replied, "Okay, Xiao Jiu will do it."

The system immediately retrieved Fuyu's exclusive grain materials from the warehouse.

A serving of Moon Spring water, a corn cob, a sweet potato, a spirit-transformed cherry blossom, and a... mutated balsam.

The mutated balsam flower, which had just been taken out of the warehouse, with its deep purple blossoms resembling clasped claws, suddenly twitched on the ground.

Its stem suddenly lifted backward, immediately revealing the cluster of tiny eye-like structures in the center of the petals.

When those tiny, closely spaced eyes "looked" at him, Fu Yu couldn't help but shiver.

The flower seemed to realize that Fuyu was particularly afraid of it, so it immediately waved its roots and leaves and rushed towards Fuyu like a large reptile!

Fu Yu: !!!

Just as the flower had climbed up to Fuyu, a small, bluish-gray hand pressed it down.

Xiao Jiu grabbed the flower and shoved it into the light screen in front of her with swift and decisive movements.

[Materials collected: 20%, please continue adding]

Fu Yu, who had just been frozen in fear, was on the verge of tears: "Why is the mutated flower moving...?"

The mutated flowers used to be just scary-looking, but now, for some reason, once a flower mutates, it always ends up in this bizarre state.

What's even more agonizing is that, actually, one plant is already quite good at this point. When the flowers are just ripening, the scene in the farmland is a complete mess.

System: "The two worlds are becoming increasingly integrated, there's nothing we can do about it."

This is also a conclusion the system reached not long ago.

—These mutated flowers have mutated again.

Just as the system initially deduced, the farmland it produces will change as the world changes.

In the world of the red sky, those sunflowers, having parasitized Granny Tai Li and been influenced by her divine power, began to exhibit behaviors and reactions typical of animals.

Unfortunately, as the two worlds gradually merge, some energy reactions that existed in the other world will gradually synchronize with them.

Simply put, it's like a contagion.

System: "The world's integration level is not high right now, so the mutated flower will only chase after things rich in energy. In the future, it might grow teeth and bite directly."

Fu Yu: "......"

He was really about to cry.

At this moment, Xiao Jiu had already put the last spirit-transformed cherry blossom inside.

Verbena is already a relatively small plant, and now that it has been transformed into a spirit, it has become even smaller, with each plant only about ten centimeters tall.

Its color is a beautiful light pink, and the patterns on its petals reflect a delicate white pearlescent sheen under the light. Compared to the mutated flower just now, it's like heaven and earth.

[Materials collected: 100%, production has begun]

[Production progress: 5%......20%......80%......]

Soon, Fuyu was able to eat his own special food.

"Waaaah... those flowers were scary, but the grains they made were so delicious..."

He ate while crying, which made everyone feel both amused and helpless.

Qianchuan patted his shoulder reassuringly: "Eat more while the flower can't bite yet."

Fu Yu: "......"

Qianchuan would get hungry again after a long time, and Xiao Jiu had already remembered these details, so she didn't ask him if he wanted to eat any grains.

Suddenly, a muffled sound came from afar.

"Thump, thump, thump."

The sound stopped abruptly behind the mountain, and a moment later, a white figure circled around from behind the mountain.

He ran wildly in this direction, shouting, "Ah—I'm starving! Little Jiu! I need some grains!"

The system charged forward with a flying attack: "Then why don't you come back and get to work!"

The Suanni nimbly dodged, and with a flick of its tail, it sent the system back to it exactly as it had come from.

The moment the system landed, the Suanni appeared in front of Xiao Jiu. It squatted down, looked up, and began to howl, "Xiao Jiu, Xiao Jiu, I'm hungry, I'm hungry—"

Then, a gluttonous beast, half the size of his head, leaped out from his mane.

Taotie trotted over on its short legs, lay down on Xiao Jiu, and said pitifully, "Xiao Jiu, I'm hungry."

Xiao Jiu immediately exchanged a bunch of universal food blocks and started making food blocks for Taotie.

Suanni: ?

Suanni: "Hmph!"

Previously, the Suanni was small and it would take it half a day to gnaw on a single grain. But now, it eats the hard grain as easily as if it were candy, crunching away several grains in one bite.

As he ate, he watched the busy Xiao Jiu and the system, and said, "Can't these special grain blocks be stored?"

Xiao Jiu blinked, thought for a moment, and then shook her head: "No."

Suanni's eyes lit up immediately: "Wow, Xiao Jiu, you can even understand this? Not bad."

Xiao Jiu: "Mmm! Xiao Jiu is awesome!"

The Suanni chewed on the grains with a crunching sound, tilted its head slightly, and walked towards Xiao Jiu. However, Xiao Jiu was still focused on preparing the special grain materials and did not turn around to look at him at all.

The Suanni clicked its tongue.

He raised his big hand and slapped Xiao Jiu on the head.

He used to do this often when he was still in his cat form, but this time, having unleashed his power, Suanni had no idea how strong he was.

With that, he pressed Xiao Jiu directly into the ground.

"Thump!"

Non-human beings: !

Xiao Jiu, whose body was completely buried in the soil from the shoulders down, blinked twice in a daze.

Three seconds later.

"Click".

Xiao Jiu's head fell off.

Non-human beings: !!

The system charged forward, yelling, "I'll fight you to the death!!!"

The Suanni quickly dodged, saying, "I didn't mean to!"

System: "I don't care, you're going to die!"

Just as they were playing around, a broadcast suddenly sounded in the space.

The portal is about to open.

[Time remaining until opening: 10, 9, 8...]

The Suanni, which had been focused on dodging system attacks, suddenly turned its head toward the rift valley: "This aura—!"