Chapter 10: The Tenth Day of the Self-Initiated Ginseng Making Game...
Although Yuan Yi cut corners and misappropriated the appearances of the spiritual plants recorded in the ley lines when making the game, it was to save time.
But Yuan Yi was certain that she had screened all the spiritual plants' appearances, and the ginseng fruit tree she had envisioned would definitely not look like this.
Even if a tree that looks exactly like its brother's original form appears by chance under multiple random events, the small tree that is its original form will never appear.
After all, the Ten Great Spiritual Roots are the top-tier spiritual plants in this game. They are precious, rare, and one in a million, so naturally they need to have the appearance and prestige to match their level.
The game's prototype is a thin, small ginseng fruit tree with sparse leaves, looking like it would fall over in the wind and never bearing fruit. If a player finally obtains a rare seed and grows it into something like this, they'll definitely give the game a bad review.
Yuan Yi pushed up his non-existent glasses and pretended to be serious: "So, brother, what did you and Little Ginseng do to this perfectly good ginseng fruit tree?"
What did he do, and what could he do? The little ginseng's legs were trembling—of course, it was selling skins!
As we all know, appearance has always been a significant part of in-game spending. Whether it's costumes, weapon skins, or manor scenes, these often lead to big spenders in the game spending lavishly.
In her previous life, Yuan Yi, who was a planner, was proficient in all 360 strategies for selling products based on appearance. As the little ginseng created by Yuan Yi, she naturally inherited this skill as well.
So when Zhen Yuanzi obtained the second ginseng fruit tree seed, he was troubled about how to plant it into Yuan Yi's original form.
The little ginseng's pay-to-win radar started beeping.
In the game, he helps his master's older brother. He grows a "master" as a memento, and Lord Zhen Yuanzi is endlessly willing to spend a fortune on it.
With his favorability rating maxed out and greedy for money, the little ginseng naturally came up with the brilliant idea of selling skins.
"Lord Zhen Yuanzi, would you like to buy a skin? Not 98,000, not 9,800, just 999 spirit stones to take it home. Place your order now and immediately enjoy the exclusive and prestigious skin for the owner of the Ginseng Fruit Tree, exclusively for you."
Zhen Yuanzi, who was not short of spirit stones, naturally agreed without hesitation. As for how to proceed afterward...
As a little ginseng personally trained by Lord Yuanyi, possessing the second-highest game management authority after her, it quickly searched the earth's veins and found Yuanyi's original form, importing the ginseng fruit tree. Thus, two identical replicas of the ginseng fruit trees at Wuzhuang Temple were created.
Unexpectedly, Lord Yuanyi arrived at the farm at this time, and Little Ginseng was caught red-handed doing his little trick.
Having understood the cause and effect of the original meaning, I felt very complicated looking at the little ginseng in front of me that seemed to want to burrow into the soil.
Little Ginseng is truly dedicated, diligently contributing ideas and efforts to the game's operation, seizing every opportunity to entice players to spend money. In his past life, he would definitely have been the most valued planner by the leadership and the most criticized by the players.
But when she thought about how the little ginseng was a reflection of her own heart, Yuan Yi couldn't help but wonder if she had been that bad to the players in her past life. She had never put her boss into the game as a skin just to make money in the game.
Feeling a sense of foreboding from Yuan Yi's icy gaze, the little ginseng wondered if it would have to be remade.
"I didn't want this to happen either, but the Great Immortal Zhen Yuanzi really gave too much." The little ginseng decided to save itself. "Master does like the master's skin. It is also the responsibility of the novice guide NPC to meet the player's needs within a reasonable range."
As the little ginseng spoke, it boldly tugged at the hem of Lord Zhen Yuanzi's robe, after all, the lord was the elder brother of Master Yuanyi.
The little ginseng's violation of regulations in creating the skin was partly due to this reason. Given the deep bond between the master and his sister, even if the master were alive, he would certainly have created the skin for Lord Zhen Yuanzi; he was merely sharing the burden on behalf of his master. The little ginseng tried to justify himself in his heart, but in reality, he dared not utter a single word.
Zhen Yuanzi, who had been watching his younger sister manage her creations, finally received the little ginseng's plea for help. He stepped forward and said, "This was just a sudden idea of mine, so don't blame him."
When Zhen Yuanzi came into contact with the little ginseng, he found it to be truly wondrous. It was not a creature born of nature but created by an array, yet it could run, jump, and even have its own thoughts, making it no different from a living person in the game.
However, Zhen Yuanzi was fully aware that this was created by Yuan Yi through an array. In the past, the creatures he had enlightened could only perform simple tasks. It would take thousands of years of cultivation to attain enlightenment and gain even a slight understanding of human nature. Seeing that the little ginseng was so agile so soon after its birth, he couldn't help but test it a bit.
"But I really didn't expect him to include sentimentality in his calculations." Zhen Yuanzi hesitated before continuing.
He knew that the ginseng fruit tree for his sister was not based on the Wuzhuang Temple, but when he told the little ginseng that he was Yuan Yi's older brother and that they had a deep bond, and that he wanted to recreate the sibling relationship in the game.
Upon seeing this little ginseng doll, the usual formulaic "it can't be done" attitude immediately changed. They promptly devised a way to sell him skins and even offered to help him with his worries.
She had a perfect grasp of human relationships and social dynamics. Even Zhen Yuanzi, a highly accomplished master who had cultivated in seclusion for ten thousand years, couldn't help but reveal some of his true abilities under the sweet words of the little ginseng.
The student surpasses the master; now Yuan Yi fully understands that the little ginseng is a reflection of his own inner self. In his previous life, Yuan Yi had mastered all these social skills and the money-spending tactics he used when receiving Zhen Yuanzi.
It turns out that I was the culprit.
"I originally intended to tell you this after this trip. I just didn't expect you to visit me midway." Zhen Yuanzi's gaze became slightly less intense as he said this.
After all, it was he who, together with the little ginseng, committed the violation; in a way, he was the source of this whole mess. If he had just clarified things himself, it would have been fine, but his sister, the game's creator, discovered it halfway through. When she found out, he was happily playing with the little ginseng fruit tree that looked exactly like his sister's.
Even though he had been the elder brother for a hundred years, he couldn't help but feel a little flustered and short of breath at this moment.
Yuan Yi never expected that her older brother and the little ginseng fruit would produce such a wonderful chemical reaction when they came together.
Seeing his elder brother tense and his heart pounding, yet still maintaining a calm and serene demeanor, the little ginseng seemed to accept its master's punishment with composure, though its roots had actually sunk three feet into the ground.
Am I really that scary? Yuan Yi sighed. This matter was partly due to his own poor handling of it.
"This is the last time." Yuan Yi made further modifications to the formation of the little ginseng. If any permissions need to be adjusted next time, it must be reported to Yuan Yi in a timely manner.
As for the elder brother, "Why did the elder brother want to replicate the scenery of Wuzhuang Temple on the first day of the game?"
This is the real problem that Yuan Yi is worried about: players started doing weird things on the very first day of the game. Although players often do things that the developers can't predict, they usually don't do them until later in the game.
On the first day, players will explore the world and familiarize themselves with the new gameplay. How come my own brother is already building a Wuzhuang Temple in the game?
Zhen Yuanzi shook his head: "The game is good, but it is nothing more than birth, death, withering and flourishing." As he spoke, he made a hand seal, and the plants in the farm quickly grew from seedlings to mature, wither, and die in a continuous cycle.
"Although there are millions of kinds of plants, the constant repetition of planting, harvesting and selling can become tedious." Zhen Yuanzi reservedly demonstrated his magic. "I have already tried planting for a hundred years in Wuguan Village, and now I am just reminiscing."
I get it. When veteran players come to a new server, they've already mastered the tricks and started doing fancy moves while other players are still figuring things out.
Master the gameplay, level up to the maximum, cultivate all the land, even complete the encyclopedia, and have a warehouse of 999.
Normally, to keep a game alive, it either needs to constantly release new gameplay, new storylines, and new items, or it needs to find a different approach, like competing with other players, which is endlessly fun.
Yuan Yi turned his gaze to the leaderboard. He hadn't expected his brother to be so fast; so far, he was the only one who had accessed the leaderboard, perfectly avoiding the arena feature.
However, given his skill level and spending spree, he's not destined to be number one. Everyone else poses absolutely no threat to him. This ranking is just for show.
Yuan Yi sighed heavily: "So the game still lacks playability. I thought that the 368.91 million plant illustrations in the Primordial World would be enough to support 'Farm Battle' in collecting the necessary spiritual energy to complete the earth vein dredging."
"But it seems I was lazy. I'll go prepare the data for the next version update now." Yuan Yi was greatly discouraged and decided to add some long-lasting gameplay features in the next version.
Online multiplayer, crossbreeding, decorating, tower defense, stealing crops... there's so much to do on the farm.
Zhen Yuanzi watched his sister disappear in frustration, but due to the game's limitations, he couldn't stay in time and only managed to touch another harbinger bird that pounced on him.
Now I'm admitting to my sister that I've only half-finished farming. I'm also remembering the joy of suppressing the evil spirits every day at Wuzhuang Temple, so I started setting up the farm according to Wuzhuang Temple's layout halfway through. Actually, is it too late to open the encyclopedia yet?
Even with Zhen Yuanzi's ability to instantly spend money to collect all 300 million+ illustrations, it would take forever. Not to mention his sister's frustrated expression as she tried to add more content to the game.
He looked at the small ginseng at his feet: "Did I say something wrong just now?" The premonitions of a Great Immortal are usually not wrong.
Little Ginseng had vaguely guessed what Yuan Yi was thinking, and said with a sense of vicissitude, "It's just a bald head and a few terabytes of update packages."
He just finished teaching the beginner tutorials, and now he has to arrange a new beginner tutorial. Are all the players in the game this good?
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Qingqiu, next to the ancestral hall.
While most of the Qingqiu people entered the game, only a few little foxes broke into the formation, digging holes and burying seeds in the mud, not even caring that their snow-white fur was covered in mud.
"Qingshui, can planting really save Little Ginseng?" asked an even smaller fox. He couldn't even transform into human form and was forced to quit right after planting. However, he also liked Little Ginseng as a friend, so he followed Qingshui to plant in order to save Little Ginseng.
Qing Shui said firmly, "That's right. When I quit the game, Little Ginseng told me that planting more crops is the only way to bring back life."
Although Qingyi and her parents are still unconscious, the clever Qingshui has already determined that the farm in the game is Qingqiu. The absence of ginseng is definitely because Qingqiu doesn't cultivate crops.
So to save the little ginseng, it definitely needs to be like in the game, with flowers and plants everywhere.
However, Qing Shui tried hard to decipher the words carved on the stone in front of the formation: "Forget-me-not daylilies are planted here."
"Does anyone have daylilies? I only have six seeds." The seed bags distributed by the elders all contained seeds, but the quantities were not exactly the same.
I have five.
"I only have three."
"I have ten here!"
With so many little foxes working together, they can still finish planting this whole plot of land.
Qingshui led a group of even smaller foxes and taught them how to dig holes and bury seeds faster. Before long, they were all mud foxes.
"Qingshui, what are you doing?" Qingyi, who had been waiting for four hours, stared in disbelief as her younger sister rolled around in the mud.
"I'm planting! I'm going to save the little ginseng." Qingshui said as he planted another seed.
Seeing that her younger sister, Qingyi, only knew primitive farming methods, grabbed several foxes and said, "There's no need for such trouble."
The man in green channeled his spiritual energy into the inscribed stone, and the entire spiritual field, including both planted and unplanted areas, was revealed.
Qingyi took out the seeds and chose to plant them. In an instant, all the empty land was planted with daylilies. They were neat and orderly, completely different from the haphazard plantings of the little foxes.
"That's amazing." "It grows just like in the game." "Is this also a game?"
Several little foxes chattered, and Qingyi patiently explained, "This is the automatic planting feature taught later in the game. You can plant anything using spiritual power."
“Spiritual power is very important. You need spiritual power to continue playing the game. When I quit, Little Ginseng told me to cultivate well and said he looked forward to seeing me tomorrow.”
Qing Shui continued to channel spiritual energy into the formation, wanting to try out this novel farming method.
But upon hearing that only spiritual power could allow him to return to the game and meet the little ginseng tomorrow, he instantly disregarded everything else. He broke free from the green robe's restraints and began meditating facing the sun.
"I need to cultivate diligently, and see you, Little Ginseng, tomorrow!"
A note from the author:
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Little Ginseng: Bringing the boss into the game [heart emoji]
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