Chapter 27 Hongjun Appears: The Twenty-Seventh Day of Game Creation
"We have built game servers that comply with the rules."
"The so-called demonic energy is a virus! It hinders network processes, interrupts game signals, and prevents people from communicating with each other. When it breaks out later, it will directly damage the earth's veins."
Yuan Yi said earnestly: "Therefore, in order to protect the earth's veins, we must do a good job of virus removal in the early stages, build a brand new server suitable for the local area, and then find professional antivirus personnel."
Yuan Yi carefully set the demonic energy aside and inscribed the connecting array on the key earth vein nodes.
Tongtian snorted coldly: "Why bother with all this trouble? I'll just kill him with one sword."
The Azure Lotus Sword was drawn once more, its light as clear as water. In an instant, it slashed thousands of times, the sword energy weaving into a dense net that isolated the demonic energy, causing it to visibly fade. A deep, unfathomable sword mark was left on the ground beneath its feet.
Tongtian raised his chin. He knew that with a sword in hand, there was nothing in the world that he could not cut down. Why bother drawing arrays one by one to deal with the demonic energy? He could simply cut them down.
Look, the demonic energy has lessened, hasn't it? Tongtian looked proudly at Yuanyi, but could only see Yuanyi's face turned to the side with her lips pursed, and her right hand slowly raised, which was wrapped in dense demonic energy.
Yuan Yi felt a sticky sensation on his hands, as if he had scooped up a puddle of black mud from the bottom of a lake. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't shake the mud off.
So he could only find the fuse that had entangled him in this black mud, and stretched out his hand: "Help me cut it clean."
Tongtian carefully sheathed the Azure Lotus Sword, first using his hand as a sword to dispel the demonic energy with his spiritual power. Finding that he couldn't completely eradicate it, he then obediently began drawing an array with his hand.
“Actually, I’m quite interested in formations as well. I originally wanted to discuss the Dao of Formations with you.” Tongtian said, looking down at Yuanyi with a hint of embarrassment on his face, like a furry little animal that had made a mistake and was waiting for forgiveness.
While working, Yuan Yi completely ignored the beauty before her. Using the array drawn by Tongtian, she quickly completed the task with her other hand and withdrew her hand.
“I know you’re bored. Why don’t you go out and play for a while, and I’ll finish drawing the formation here.”
Tongtian is always playing games, but today he spent almost four hours drawing a formation underground. It was really kind of him to keep him company.
Yuan Yi took out the game array he had created from his own body: "This is an account directly connected to Wuzhuang Temple. There are no signal restrictions. You can take it and play."
Tongtian put the leaf into his pouch, but still looked straight at Yuanyi: "I can also draw formations, so the two of us will be faster."
Yuan Yi nodded: "Yes, yes, I'm more familiar with the ley lines. I can draw them all by myself. You go and have fun." As the embodiment of the ley lines, it's better for him to draw the array on the ley lines himself.
After hearing "Go ahead and play" twice, Tongtian felt that Yuanyi was treating him like a child. He had only cut off the demonic energy with his sword. He was clearly very capable with his dual sword formations. Why did he have to push him out?
"Besides, I promised to protect you. What if you encounter danger alone in this place teeming with demonic energy?"
"I'm safe underground, so you can go and have fun without worry."
As Yuan Yi spoke, he pushed Tongtian toward the exit: "I'll send you a message when I'm done drawing, and you can come pick me up."
Tongtian felt a tightness in his chest, but didn't know how to speak, so he could only leave the underground with the help of Yuanyi's strength.
While still thinking about those three "Go play" messages, I absentmindedly opened the game. On the screen, all I saw was a little ginseng congratulating the player on arriving at the Wuzhuangguan server, becoming the third player in the server, and receiving a mysterious gift pack.
For the first time, Tongtian didn't really want to play the game. He skipped straight through the game without even checking what was in the gift pack in the warehouse. After swiping past the Primordial Farm and seeing that it was full of seedlings, he turned back home.
Tongtian stuffed the leaves into his sleeve, stood up and leaped onto the tree. He then used a branch to practice his swordsmanship, and halfway through the dance, he finished drawing the array he hadn't completed before.
Sunlight streamed through the gaps and fell on the boy's face. His handsome features were expressionless, yet they exuded a subtle sense of pressure.
Tongtian reflected on the journey he had taken with Yuanyi over the past two weeks: traveling, repairing formations, inspecting farms, playing online games along the way, occasionally discussing Daoist principles, and talking about formations together.
It feels like so much has happened, yet only half a month has passed. Tongtian twirled the branch in his hand, but after experiencing so much, why is he suddenly unhappy today and wants to leave?
He clearly stated that he was her first friend outside of marriage.
The branch was held in the hand and then thrown from the tree, where it plunged deep into the ground.
Tongtian wanted to go down and find Yuanyi again, but he couldn't bring himself to do it, so he simply stared at the chat interface and unblocked the messages, waiting to see when Yuanyi would call him.
As a result, the message from "Brother Tortoise Hair" instantly reached the top of the page. However, Yuan Shi was forgotten; Tong Tian had pinned Yuan Yi to the top, effectively blocking Yuan Shi's messages.
I'm not in the mood to argue with Yuanshi today; he has important things to do.
Even if he can't help dispel the demonic energy, he can still prove his competence. Didn't Yuan Yi ask someone to find that rogue cultivator with profound cultivation and who was mentioned in the Daluo Golden Immortal's language? Bringing that person back can also prove that he can help Fellow Daoist Yuan Yi.
Thinking this, he cast a divination and then followed his intuition to walk into the forest.
On the other side, Yuan Yi had no idea about Tongtian's complicated thoughts. She just felt that Tongtian had gotten bored of keeping her company, so she sent him out to relax.
Then he quickly summoned the earth veins to fill the cracks in the ground that had been cut open by the Azure Lotus Sword, and then used both hands to complete the formation.
Although a formation can be completed in a few seconds, it is still too slow.
Yuan Yi closed his eyes, and his whole body gradually became transparent and merged into the earth veins. While feeling the sticky demonic energy wrapped around his body, he relied on the earth veins to wholeheartedly draw arrays on his body.
While Yuan Yi was drawing enthusiastically on the ground, Tong Tian also found a suspected object based on Yuan Yi's description.
On an open ground, a Taoist priest in purple robes, with black hair and bare feet, sat suspended in mid-air. Beneath him were pure golden lotus flowers. Beside the lotus flowers were many spirits and tree spirits who had absorbed a trace or two of spiritual energy, thus gaining wisdom and becoming spirits.
The moment Tongtian saw him, he knew that the other party was definitely not simple. He could not see through the other party's foundation. Moreover, this Taoist could produce golden lotuses from the ground simply by the spiritual energy overflowing during cultivation. His Taoist skills were manifest and he was truly extraordinary.
When Tongtian walked over, all the enlightened spirits hurriedly left. The purple-robed Taoist slowly opened his eyes. His eyes were black and white, clearly distinguishable yet deep and dark.
The Taoist priest seemed not to have spoken to anyone for hundreds of years, his voice hoarse: "...You shouldn't have come to see me at this time."
Upon meeting, the Taoist recognized the young man opposite him. He was Tongtian, one of the future sages appointed by Heaven, a manifestation of Pangu's pure energy.
Tongtian sat down opposite him and replied in the same tone, "Then when should I come to see you?" Although he had never met the person opposite him before, the person opposite him seemed to know him very well, and Tongtian was very experienced in this.
The Taoist said, "It should be after this battle." He and Rahu were destined to fight, and the victor would unite with the Dao, become a saint, and pass on the three thousand lineages of Dao. If he won, he would take Tongtian as his disciple, thus establishing a master-disciple bond.
The outcome is still uncertain, and meeting too early is not a good thing.
The Taoist shook his head and took out a jade tablet, covering the two of them: "If you leave, then pretend we never met."
The Jade Disc of Creation can conceal heavenly secrets. He covered up this encounter so that even if Rahu becomes a saint in the future, he will not be able to explore the mystery of this encounter and will not disrupt Tongtian's destiny of becoming a saint.
"I'm not leaving." Tongtian was completely confused by the Taoist's words, but based on his experience with Laozi, he knew that the Taoist was bound to have an important encounter with him in the future, and was a Taoist who followed the principles of heaven and earth.
But his path is to seize the last thread of life in the world; fate is not something that cannot be changed.
Tongtian: "We have already met. You know and I know, so how can we pretend that nothing has happened? Since it has already happened, pretending to be deaf and dumb is not my way."
"Besides, I came here specifically to find you." The moment Tongtian saw the Taoist, he knew that this was the person Yuanyi was looking for.
He boasted that he was amazing, that he could find people like dragons, phoenixes, and unicorns without even looking for them.
"My name is Tongtian, and I do not know your name."
"My name is Hongjun." Hongjun shook his head and put away the Jade Disc of Creation. The two had already exchanged names, and the Jade Disc of Creation could not completely erase their acquaintance.
Tongtian: "So it's Senior Hongjun. I have a favor to ask. A friend of mine is looking for a highly skilled rogue cultivator and would like to invite Senior Hongjun to meet him."
"Is this why you came?" Hongjun's voice carried a hint of confusion.
She deviated from her original destiny for this reason, and it was only for the sake of meeting him once.
"Of course." Tongtian said firmly. He had come here today following Yuanyi's request. "The moment I saw you, I knew you were the person Fellow Daoist Yuanyi was looking for."
“Yuan Yi?” Hongjun slowly uttered these two words, a hint of confusion flashing in his eyes. Did such a person exist in the prehistoric world?
Since he was friends with Tongtian, he must not be an unknown nobody, but there was no trace of him in the fate I observed.
When the topic turned to his friend, Tongtian began to speak: "That's right, Yuanyi is the ginseng fruit tree, one of the ten innate spiritual roots."
Isn't the ginseng fruit tree Zhen Yuanzi? How come someone else took over after he only secluded himself for a few hundred years?
"She was compassionate and cared for the weak. She must have seen the harm that the Dragon-Phoenix War was causing to all living beings in the prehistoric world. So she created 'Eliminating Calamity Qi' and 'Farm Battle' to eliminate calamity qi and clear the earth's veins, so that many minor cultivators could also gain a foothold in the prehistoric world."
Tongtian showered Yuanyi with praise, but the more Hongjun listened, the more confused he became. Could such a change have occurred in the primordial world in just a hundred years? Why was this fellow Daoist Yuanyi's fate not within the Heavenly Dao?
"...Fellow Daoist Yuanyi wishes to create another game in the West to expand the market and sought a fellow Daoist with high cultivation to give it a try. I never expected to actually find such a senior. I wonder if you would be willing to accompany me?"
Tongtian recounted all of Yuan Yi's glorious deeds in one breath, and tried hard to recall why Yuan Yi had told him on the way that he wanted to find this fellow Daoist.
Since I've already met her, I might as well invite her to meet. It won't cause any trouble anyway. If she doesn't come, I'll ask Yuan Yi to come and visit me. Or I can just send Yuan Yi a message and bring her over without waiting.
Tongtian was about to open the game and send a message to Yuanyi to show off a bit.
But Hongjun slowly nodded: "Alright, I will go with you."
He already knew that the reason for the change in the destiny of the Heavenly Realm was Fellow Daoist Yuan Yi. He wanted to see who this Fellow Daoist Yuan Yi was. He couldn't find his own destiny, so could it be that Luo Hou was in disguise?
Hongjun held the Jade Disc of Creation in his palm. Although he knew that he would have to fight Rahu, he couldn't calculate the exact date. Could it be today?
Hongjun, barefoot, followed behind Tongtian: "Where are we going?"
Tongtian retracted the game screen he had just unfolded. "Perhaps I should surprise my friend," he thought. "She'll definitely be happy when she comes out and doesn't see the Taoist she's been searching for."
With the intention of surprising his friend, Tongtian happily led the person back to the entrance of the ley lines.
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Author's Note: Good news: Hongjun has been found!
Bad news: They brought Hongjun back.
Yuan Yi (Heavenly Path Black Household): You're the one who brought the Japanese devils into the village? [Fearful]
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