Chapter 1: The First Day of Transforming into Earth's Veins and Defying Fate
"If you traveled back to ancient times, what kind of job could you do?"
When Yuan Yi saw this question in his past life, he answered it frankly in front of the keyboard.
[Thanks for the invitation, but there's not much I can do. I'm a video game designer, and there were no computers in ancient times. I can't exactly go back to ancient times to promote Monopoly and Werewolf.]
It wasn't until after he transmigrated that Yuan Yi realized he had made a huge mistake. He could still play games after transmigrating, and he could even save his life by playing games.
However, she traveled to the prehistoric world.
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Wanshou Mountain, Wuzhuang Temple—today marks the 100th anniversary of Yuan Yi's time travel, and also his 100th birthday in this life.
While others celebrate their birthdays, Yuan Yi experiences a tribulation on his birthday.
The sun was shining brightly at Wuzhuang Temple, but Yuan Yi could feel a part of himself being carried away by the wind just by standing there. His body, which had been somewhat solidified by farming, was now dissipating at a visible speed.
The fingertips gradually lost their sense of touch, the color changed from a healthy blood red to pale, and then the green grass on the ground could be seen clearly.
"In the end, we still had to come to this." Yuan Yi gritted his teeth and rapidly traced the activation array patterns with his fingertips.
A diagram depicting the entire panorama of Wuzhuang Temple appeared before Yuan Yi, with the game title "Wuzhuang Temple Earth Vein Purification Spiritual Power Planting Three-in-One Farm" clearly visible in the upper left corner.
She skillfully tapped her profile picture and scrolled to the warehouse in the bottom right corner. Inside, the warehouse was filled with Seven Treasures Glazed Fruit, Hundred-Colored Black Bird Branch, Phoenix Flower Facing the Sun Grass, and all sorts of rare and exotic herbs, each with a full 999.
They've cultivated the land for a hundred years, all for this moment of defying fate.
Yuan Yi dragged all the spiritual herbs in the warehouse into the refining array. The enormous spiritual power generated by the herbs instantly filled the entire array.
The large-scale formation buried beneath Wuzhuang Temple was fully activated, completely blocking the path from the sky to the earth, effectively isolating Wuzhuang Temple from the entire prehistoric land.
Since he has transmigrated into an unregistered person, Yuan Yi will take advantage of this identity, which is outside the scope of the Heavenly Dao, to exploit a bug.
From this moment on, the entire Wuzhuang Temple became her independent server, and as the game's creator, she could abuse her power for personal gain within the game's rules.
Before his spiritual energy runs out, Yuan Yi must use the game rules to resolve his unregistered status. Otherwise, once the formation breaks, his soul will be scattered.
"Who says farming games can only grow vegetables!" Yuan Yi poured all her spiritual power into the game interface. "Today I'm going to show you what it means for mountains of gold and silver to be green mountains and clear waters. I'm going to grow my own ginseng fruit tree!"
After uttering those harsh words, the Five Elements Array lit up one by one. At the center of the array, a small ginseng fruit tree with a few withered yellow leaves looked particularly pitiful under the light pollution of the array.
The five elements of heaven and earth cycle endlessly, and through this vitality, I am reborn.
This ginseng fruit tree is Yuan Yi's true form. Unfortunately, there are only ten innate spiritual roots, and Yuan Yi is the eleventh.
However, the Heavenly Dao only has ten registered members, so Yuan Yi has become an unregistered resident and has to find a way to obtain a formal resident status in the Primordial World.
The wind grew stronger, and Yuan Yi had lost control of his feet. His blue Taoist robe was now completely empty beneath him; he could only float in mid-air.
"Since Heaven won't grant me a household registration, I'll have to take the civil service exam from the Earth!"
Yuan Yi dug his ten fingers deep into the soil, and the green ginseng fruit tree sap flowed from his fingertips into the formation. Yuan Yi's face grew paler, but his eyes shone with an astonishing brightness.
The entire world has become the game interface.
She saw it.
At this moment, Yuan Yi is the sole planner of this game, and she is fully aware of all changes within the game's scope.
Green vitality and red calamity intertwined. At the same time, a green "Increase Benefits" buff appeared in the upper left corner of the field of vision.
Yuan Yi activated the formation, locking onto the red aura of calamity, and blatantly applied a "damage reduction" debuff to the opponent.
As the formation was continuously drawn, the green vitality grew stronger, suppressing and devouring the red aura of calamity.
But that's not enough; her time is running out.
Yuan Yi gritted his teeth, his upper teeth pressed tightly against his lips, and his already transparent hands rapidly traced array patterns on the ground.
With each stroke of the brush, a new bud sprouted from the ginseng fruit tree behind him, and Yuan Yi's body became even more transparent.
Later on, the huge ginseng fruit tree became more and more lush and leafy, and even small green fruits sprouted among the branches and leaves.
Yuan Yi became almost invisible, his spirit body dissipating from bottom to top, leaving only a pair of arms and a head, still outlining complex array patterns on the ground.
It's all or nothing!
Yuan Yi had had enough of living like an unregistered resident, having to hide every day, and even getting struck by lightning for no reason.
Yuan Yi bit her lip tightly, her eyes filled with a determination that could sever everything. Her tongue seemed to taste the bitter flavor of ginseng fruit leaves.
Seeding, acceleration, gain, suppression.
The green vitality grew stronger, the red aura of calamity was devoured, and the disturbed ley lines emitted a ghostly blue light.
The merits of Heaven and the feedback from the earth's veins descended upon Yuan Yi at the same time.
Now!
Yuan Yi could sense the flow and feedback of the earth's veins. She tried her best to extend her root system and stimulate her resonance with the earth's veins.
"Success or failure hinges on this!" She bit her tongue, the bitter taste of the herbs exploding in her mouth. Her translucent fingertips, dipped in spiritual energy, traced patterns on the ground that reversed yin and yang. The large ginseng fruit tree behind her let out a mournful cry, while the already weak small ginseng fruit tree now lost all its vitality.
When the final stroke of the Five Elements Formation, which merged this body into the earth veins of Wuzhuang Temple, was completed, all the spiritual fields of Wuzhuang Temple were ripened by the surging earth vein spiritual energy, and even the ginseng fruit showed faint signs of ripening.
The formation began to break down, and the isolated Wuzhuang Temple finally returned to the primordial world.
The blinding sunlight shone directly into Yuan Yi's eyes, and his vanished body was reconstructed by the earth at that moment.
"I've succeeded." Yuan Yi looked at her newly grown hands, smooth and flawless, completely free of the calluses left from her farming days.
At the same time, all connections with the Heavenly Dao were severed, and one could feel the pulse of the earth at any time.
The spiritual herbs on the ground gently kissed Yuan Yi, for at this moment she was the embodiment of the earth's veins.
At the same time, the intense pain in her meridians told Yuan Yi that although she had escaped the fatal crisis under the Heavenly Dao of a hundred years, she would now bear a share of the responsibility for all the calamities in the primordial world.
"I just dodged a single-target ultimate attack, and now I'm getting hit by the poison team's continuous damage." Yuan Yi couldn't help but laugh at himself.
But who can think about such things when facing life and death? Besides, the continuous damage won't erupt anytime soon; I have at least ten thousand years to resolve it. A full ten thousand years—I'll just take it one step at a time.
Thinking this, Yuan Yi stood up from the ground, wanting to give her adopted brother a surprise.
Her newborn legs wouldn't obey her commands; her left foot stepped on her right, tripping herself and burying her head in the ground.
The newly created ley line incarnations then rushed towards the grass and the earth.
Before his face could completely kiss the ground, a pair of hands caught Yuan Yi in time, helping him to stand up steadily.
Yuan Yi looked up and saw a Taoist priest in green robes. Beneath his sharp, sword-like eyebrows were a pair of phoenix eyes, and his face, which bore a striking resemblance to Yuan Yi's own, clearly showed his dissatisfaction.
Yuan Yi was not afraid when she knew she was going to die, after all, she had lived for a hundred years and had lived enough; she was not afraid when she confronted the Heavenly Dao and faced death to live, because at that time everything was just a game, and she was the game planner and could observe all the changes in Wuzhuang Temple.
But at this moment, facing his brother's disapproving gaze, Yuan Yi felt his legs go weak. Was this the suppression of bloodline?
Faced with this situation, Yuan Yi could only decisively admit his mistake: "Brother, I was wrong."
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Zhen Yuanzi found it hard to describe his feelings upon seeing Yuan Yi appear before him unharmed—was it surprise, joy, or both?
As early as when the earth's veins began to tremble, Zhen Yuanzi forcibly emerged from seclusion, intending to use his own cultivation to shield his sister from this heavenly tribulation.
However, when he came out of the pass, he could not find his sister.
Wuzhuang Temple remained unchanged, with its ginseng fruit tree, spiritual fields, and cave dwellings. However, Yuan Yi was nowhere to be found, and even the small ginseng fruit tree was nowhere to be discovered.
It's as if the sister in my memory is just a phantom, who never appeared in this world.
Was he too late? Zhen Yuanzi wondered to himself, his heart skipping a beat. Even as a Great Luo Golden Immortal, Zhen Yuanzi felt dizzy and disoriented at that moment, wishing he could take the Earth Book and seek justice from the Heavenly Dao.
What wrong did my sister do? Why did she have her life taken away after a hundred years?
Heaven may be heartless, but people are compassionate. Even if it goes against the will of Heaven, he will try to create a glimmer of hope for Yuan Yi.
Fortunately, Yuan Yi was unharmed, and Zhen Yuanzi's expression softened.
Zhen Yuanzi immediately caught Yuan Yi, who was about to fall, and used his spiritual power to explore Yuan Yi's meridians. Yuan Yi's mind was clear, his spirit body was stable, he was free from disaster and illness, and his death calamity had passed.
However, Zhen Yuanzi quickly noticed the anomaly. He frowned slightly and asked, "Why is your destiny chart so strange? Why is it not under the jurisdiction of the Heavenly Dao?"
He tried to divine the future again and again, but he could not find any information about Yuan Yi in the Heavenly Dao. Even if Yuan Yi was right in front of him, he just could not divine her.
No matter how you calculate it, you can only conclude that she has violated the laws of Heaven and is no longer under its jurisdiction. Generally speaking, this kind of divination is used for those who have been punished by Heaven and whose souls have been scattered. But since her own sister is standing in front of her perfectly fine, there is only one reason: she has escaped the calamity and is no longer under the jurisdiction of Heaven.
Of course, it was because Yuan Yi's previous body had indeed died in the Heavenly Punishment, but he later miraculously survived by finding a sliver of life in the earth's veins. He certainly couldn't tell his adopted older brother about such a near-death experience.
Yuan Yi carefully tried to salvage the situation: "Hahaha, it's just that the Heavenly Dao has a limited number of positions, and there's no room for me. So I took the exam for the Earth Vein Bureau's official staff. There weren't many competitors, and look, I got selected. I'll never be in any danger again." Facing his brother's unfriendly gaze, Yuan Yi spoke without thinking.
"Nonsense." Zhen Yuanzi flicked his whisk. What household registration? What employment? This girl is talking nonsense again.
“However, since you will no longer be under the jurisdiction of the Heavenly Dao, it will be difficult for you to cultivate. Let me ask you, what is your Dao?” Zhen Yuanzi said, sitting down and discussing the Dao.
Yuan Yi was taken aback by the question.
The Dao? I'm just a lazy bum who eats and waits to die, occasionally farming. I used to just grow flowers and grass to try and survive. In the past hundred years, there has never been any profound Dao of a cultivator.
Moreover, I have now passed the exam to become a member of the Earth Vein organization, becoming an incarnation of the Earth Vein, living as long as the heavens, and guaranteed a lifespan regardless of drought or flood.
You've already got a government job, why not just coast along and wait to die? Why bother becoming a "Scroll King" and painstakingly cultivating to pursue the Great Dao?
Of course, he couldn't say that to his older brother Yuan Yi, who was urging him to study.
She was about to spout nonsense when, just as she uttered the word "Dao...", she discovered that the earth's veins were beginning to stir.
What was originally just a stagnant aura of calamity erupted at this moment, like a thousand needles sprang from the bone marrow, or like ten thousand bombs suddenly exploding in the blood; the pain of being torn apart by a thousand cuts was nothing short of unbearable. Even the soul was tainted with a chilling coldness.
Is this the consequence of the earth's veins bearing the calamity of heaven and earth? The continuous damage bursts out and it really hurts. Yuan Yi tried to clear his mind.
The earth veins thoughtfully told Yuan Yi that he no longer needed to talk nonsense, because his path had arrived.
Despite the pain, Yuan Yi gritted his teeth and said with unwavering determination, "I have a dream: to dispel the calamity of the entire primordial world and restore peace to the earth's veins!"
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