Chapter 24 The Twenty-Fourth Day of Journey West: Making a Game
"White Dragon Horse, hooves facing west~" Yuan Yi rode on the puppet horse, humming a song from his memory.
Tongtian peered out from the screen, his subordinates moving to suppress another wave of calamity energy: "Why did you stop singing?"
Because the next sentence will involve Tang Sanzang, who is destined to face calamity in the future. If we talk about him now, we'll be struck by lightning.
Yuan Yi put his index finger to his lips: "Heavenly secrets cannot be revealed."
Tongtian glanced at her, but then chose to lower his head and continue planting "Farm Battle".
After all, her new friend had many secrets, even the mastermind behind the Dragon and Phoenix Calamity knew them. Let her keep these trivial secrets.
"We're heading west all the way~" Yuan Yi changed the song again, but couldn't remember the rest of the lyrics, so she just sang randomly.
Before me stretched a vast expanse of yellow sand, withered trees and broken eaves, and a few crows flew past the branches.
The puppet horse had been walking around here for two days and still hadn't left the desert. The monotonous scenery was so boring that Yuan Yi could only burst into song.
"Are you sure we haven't gone the wrong way?" Tongtian finally asked, closing the game in his hand, as Yuan Yi sang "You and I, hand in hand."
This desert is truly bizarre; the sun hangs perpetually high in the sky, yet forty-eight hours have indeed passed.
Tongtian frowned. Although he didn't sense any danger, his Yuanyi cultivation was shallow and his body was weak, so it was best to leave as soon as possible.
Tongtian pulled out a lotus lantern, which magnified in mid-air, its center just large enough to accommodate two people. The surrounding petals were as clear and translucent as glass, completely blocking the incoming yellow sand.
"Since you cannot fly, why don't you use your magic weapon first and I'll take you away from the desert?"
Yuan Yi was deeply moved by the beautiful and practical lotus flower in front of her, and then refused it.
"No, I still appreciate the feeling of being down-to-earth."
After all, with his feet off the ground, not to mention whether his intelligence could maintain its high position, Yuan Yi, without the support of the earth's veins, would collapse like a noodle in the next second.
Rewind a few days, and the two friends who had been chatting happily online immediately met up in person.
When Tongtian finally saw the person, he was surprised again: "Fellow Daoist Yuanyi, how come you have no cultivation?"
In the game, although he could tell that Fellow Daoist Yuan Yi's cultivation was weaker than his own, he did not expect that when they met offline, he would find that the reason was that she had no cultivation at all, and he could only see that there was spiritual energy circulating around her.
From Tongtian's perspective, that meager amount of spiritual power was hardly worthy of being called cultivation.
A cross appeared above Yuan Yi's head. "You're the one with no cultivation!" She had painstakingly cultivated for a hundred years and her body did have a trace of spiritual power, although this amount of spiritual power was not even comparable to that of a cub from Qingqiu.
But she is not an ordinary primordial being; she is a unique embodiment of the earth's veins, and all the spiritual energy stored within the earth's veins can be used if she wants to cultivate.
Of course, this couldn't be said directly. Yuan Yi smiled slightly: "Because I'm so focused on studying the game that I have no time for cultivation." And I can't even do ordinary cultivation.
Fortunately, Tongtian only mentioned it casually. He and Yuanyi were kindred spirits, so he naturally didn't care about Yuanyi's cultivation level. After all, even if Yuanyi's cultivation level was higher, he still couldn't beat him.
“It’s just that your cultivation level is insufficient, so you can’t use the escape technique. How can you travel to the West?” Tongtian pondered, holding his sword. He used to travel thousands of miles a day when he went out, but this was the first time he had traveled with someone and he had no experience at all.
Since we agreed to escort Yuan Yi westward, we needed to find a way to travel at roughly the same speed as each other.
Yuan Yi, however, was prepared. He glanced at the sword behind Tongtian and asked, "Fellow Daoist, have you ever heard of flying on a sword?"
Which time traveler hasn't dreamed of flying on a sword? If a powerful swordsman comes along and asks how you want to travel, of course you should choose to fly on your sword in the heavens and roam the sky!
Tongtian had never heard of flying on a sword before, but after Yuanyi explained the wonderful words that "flying on a sword is the coolest way," "man and sword are one, true sword cultivators must fly on swords when they go out," and "no magic can compare to swordsmanship," Tongtian immediately decided to draw his Azure Lotus Sword from behind him and try out "the coolest way to fly in the world."
Tongtian, as expected of the legendary earliest sword cultivator in history, still managed to fly steadily on his sword despite it being his first attempt.
With a single sword strike, he traversed three thousand miles, like a shooting star streaking across the sky.
After realizing that flying on a sword was indeed feasible, Tongtian naturally wanted to take Yuanyi with him. However, before Yuanyi could even experience the thrill of flying on a sword, he found that he was completely powerless, limp like a noodle, and almost slipped off the sword.
"?" Yuan Yi slowly typed out a question mark, intending to check his body.
Tongtian, standing to the side, was deathly pale, for Yuan Yi's lower body had begun to dissipate, and his feet had turned into scattered points of light, a sign of death and the dissipation of his Dao.
How could Tongtian, who valued friendship so much, stand by and watch a newly made friend perish before his very eyes?
"Eat some of this first!"
He hurriedly pulled out a jade gourd from his bosom, which contained forty-nine Nine-Turn Mystic Pills refined by his elder brother. He poured them directly into Yuan Yi's mouth, believing that as long as there was a glimmer of hope, these pills could save his life and bring him back to life.
Yuan Yi also received the results of her examination at this time. She is now the embodiment of the earth veins, and her spiritual power is maintained by the earth veins. When she went up to the sky, the earth vein energy was insufficient, so her spiritual power dissipated again.
It's fine to stay for a short while, but if you stay too long, you'll have to dissipate and rebuild your body, which is very troublesome.
Yuan Yi held the gourd's mouth with one hand, thinking that such a refreshing pill couldn't be wasted: "It's alright, I know what I'm doing. Just put me on the ground."
Seeing that Yuan Yi wouldn't eat, he wanted to force her to eat, but seeing her confident and resourceful demeanor, he chose to trust his friend.
Sure enough, as soon as Yuan Yi landed on the ground, his body automatically recovered, his complexion became rosy, and he even hopped around in front of Tongtian.
Tongtian breathed a sigh of relief and stuffed the gourd back into the center: "Thank goodness nothing happened."
“However, your body is weak and you cannot fly.” Tongtian was frightened by Yuan Yi’s pale face as soon as he took to the sky. “Then how shall we head west this time?”
Yuan Yi lowered his head. He couldn't possibly walk all the way to the West on his own two legs. The prehistoric world was so vast that it would take forever to walk there, and by then the Demon Ancestor would have already destroyed all the earth's veins.
That was a miscalculation.
"...I'll go borrow a mount."
Tongtian pondered for a moment: "I have a magical artifact that can travel extremely fast. You can use it to head west."
Having learned from his previous experience of flying through the air, no matter how beautiful or high-grade the lotus in front of him was, Yuan Yi still dared not easily approach the flower's stamen.
She rode on her horse, pulled up the game screen again, and used her game planner privileges to view the distribution of game formations.
Sure enough, a white dot was flashing not far ahead.
"We're about to leave the desert; this is the last stop on our westward expedition."
As Yuan Yi spoke, he used his identity as a game planner to send a letter to the game players on the other side, informing them that he wanted to visit and help maintain the formation.
The other side immediately replied with several overjoyed emojis, and even added in a refined manner, "It is our honor to meet Lord Yuanyi."
Yuan Yi confidently showed the chat screen to Tong Tian: "I told you we'd be leaving the desert soon, right?"
"This is the last western stop marked. After passing this point, we will soon find our destination."
"Alright." Tongtian breathed a sigh of relief as they were finally almost there. Fellow Daoist Yuanyi's health was far too weak, which was truly worrying. He should advise him to go out as little as possible in the future.
At this moment, the last farm in the west, which was modified by the game, was located on the edge of the desert, and a five-element formation completely enveloped this small settlement.
As the creator of the formation, Yuan Yi quickly led Tongtian into the formation. The ground of the formation was also a gravel field, covered with sand ginseng and prickly pear fruit. Only near the center of the formation was a thin layer of black soil planted with some rare and exotic fruits that were not common in the desert.
The mastermind behind this formation was an old cat with one eye, who came to pay his respects with a scorpion missing its tail, a jackal missing half a leg, and several thin cubs, trembling as they expressed their gratitude to the fairy.
Such combinations were extremely rare in the past, since in the law of the jungle, most of these crippled monsters were driven out by their tribesmen and then died silently somewhere in the prehistoric world.
However, since the game's release, in order to obtain spiritual energy to purify the earth's veins as soon as possible, all races have converted any person with cultivation and mobility into game players. Moreover, once they can become self-sufficient through planting, they will not drive away their own people for survival.
"...We were originally wanderers in this desert region. By chance, we obtained the game, so we gathered our old acquaintances from the desert and built the Desert Farm."
At this point, the one-eyed old cat named Shamiao was very proud.
He felt his days were numbered, so he went to the east to try his luck. As it happened, he encountered a group of people in the surrounding area promoting a game. He took one and realized that it could also be used in the desert, so he took the game back to the western desert and built this farm on the edge of the desert.
The old cat said, "We have food and shelter, and the formation can prevent attacks from other ferocious beasts and also prevent sandstorms. The more we plant, the more spiritual energy we have. I wouldn't trade this life for a god."
Yuan Yi checked and found that the game had been running for more than half a month and currently had more than forty players. Almost every player played until the anti-addiction system was activated before logging off.
These sacred sites are indeed well-managed; even in barren deserts, they have taken good care of the golden flowers.
Yuan Yi reinforced the surrounding formations and mobilized the earth's veins to move the loess from afar, so that at least the farm here would no longer need to use gravel for planting.
This is the farthest game site in the West. Any further away, the Earth Vein Essence felt completely eroded by demonic energy, and she could no longer control it.
However, since this was also his own site, Yuan Yi calmed down and sorted out all the earth veins he could control, and completely enveloped the earth veins that he could sense but could not control.
"The formation has been reinforced, and the earth vein signal has been strengthened. We can now connect with other game players online." Yuan Yi reconnected her formation network, and she could more easily control any location where she had set up a site.
Seeing that Yuan Yi had made several modifications, the spiritual energy in the entire farm had become much more abundant, and many of the newly sown seeds had blossomed and borne fruit, the old cat was overjoyed.
"These are the planting kits I prepared. You can use these seeds to sow seeds in the future." Yuan Yi was very generous to the old cat who helped her open a new site.
Old Cat almost wanted to kneel down and bow: "Thank you so much, Fairy Yuanyi. Our farm will never forget your great kindness. If there is anything we can do to help, we will do whatever you ask."
Yuan Yi originally wanted to say no, since it was a mutually beneficial matter, but then he thought that they were getting close to the location of the battle between the Dao and the Demon.
"I need you to help me find someone who is even stronger than my fellow Daoist."
Suddenly called out, Tongtian looked up from the game and exclaimed, "Ah, even stronger than me?"
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Author's Note: Although Yuan Yi complains that all she can do is make games, her games have actually brought about changes to many groups. Even weak loners are now banding together to form groups in order to share game resources and future opportunities, cooperating and developing together. Even in the primordial world, one can experience win-win cooperation and the fact that technology is the primary productive force. [heart emoji]
Thank you for reading this far, my darlings! We are all genuinely changing the world! [heart emoji]
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