The higher the magical powers of the gods, the more people believe in and worship them, and the more temples are built.
For example, temples dedicated to the Three Pure Ones, the Jade Emperor, and Guanyin Bodhisattva are everywhere in the land of Jambudvīpa. There are also numerous temples dedicated to the less prestigious Zhenwu and Dongyue Emperor.
As for temples like the Earth God Temple and the City God Temple, there are many of them, but they belong to different gods.
As long as you cross a boundary, it is another land and city god.
Lin Xiang couldn't abandon his Dongshan Village roots, so he decided to explore new areas. If his suspicions were correct, this hidden ability would allow him to travel between different regions, significantly reducing travel time.
Especially since he was about to enter the Immortal Ascension Conference, if he joined a sect far away, how could he take care of Dongshan Village?
Therefore, the first building built in this alternative way outside was the land temple!
As an NPC, Lin Xiang couldn't give clear commands, so he chose to delegate power to capable people. This way, he could be lazy and see the players' abilities at the same time.
Han Mu naturally became the commander-in-chief. In front of them was a sand table specially condensed by the land god, and the layout of the market town was shown in the sand table.
The entire sand table includes the original area of Dongshan Village and turns it into just a back street.
The front street is for business, the back street is for residence, and further away are the spiritual fields and spiritual medicine gardens.
There are mortals in every immortal cultivation market. They can work and earn money in the market, and at the same time, they can also provide their descendants with a way to cultivate immortality.
As long as the market town can develop smoothly, the quality of life of the villagers in Dongshan Village will be greatly improved, and they can earn spirit stones even by renting out houses.
Han Mu now has a headache. Having a plan is a good thing, but a good cook cannot cook without rice.
How can we build this without any tools or raw materials?
He couldn't do it anyway, so he turned to the land god for help: "Respected Lord, should we build the house with wood, brick, stone, or earth walls? We don't have the tools, and we don't know how to start."
Lin Xiang had been prepared. If he used divine power to solve the problem, it would be too simple and would not achieve the effect of training the players. Moreover, divine power was so precious that using it to repair buildings would be a waste.
"I've decided to use a brick and stone structure. There's an abandoned brick kiln to the south of the village. You can ask the village chief how to make bricks. You can get the raw materials needed for the bricks yourself, and I'll get the tools."
After that, he showed off his tools, including axes, shovels, and hoes, and said to the others, "The faster you build, the higher the reward for completing the task."
If you want the horse to run, you have to let it eat grass.
These new players are not very interested in completing tasks, so the rewards can be placed in front of them in the form of serial tasks, just like hanging a carrot in front of a donkey.
After hearing the NPC say this, the players' enthusiasm was instantly ignited!
Who doesn’t want to get the highest level of mission rewards?
So, a group of people immediately volunteered.
"I'm going to dig!"
"Are there any teams going to cut down trees?"
"If you don't want to walk, come with us to open up the wasteland and level the land."
"Hey, don't you know we're infrastructure maniacs? We can actually get good stuff if we complete the task ahead of time."
"Why are you all still standing there? Get to work!"
Han Mu was also much more motivated. After accepting the task, he saw the location of the abandoned brick kiln on the small map.
The players who took the axes from Lin Xiang knew where the forest was, and the players responsible for digging the clay also knew where their targets were.
After receiving the task, the players called their friends and headed towards their destination.
Although many people have never done these things in real life, they are not averse to them in games and even enjoy doing them.
…
Song Mingming has been in a state of surprise since receiving the anonymous express delivery.
Because she is located in a remote nursing home, express delivery is not delivered to her on weekdays. Instead, she calls the nursing home staff to drive to the town to pick it up.
"How can a disabled girl like me be deceived? The worst that can happen is that I'll be electrocuted."
Song Mingming was originally very timid, but after an accidental injury paralyzed his lower limbs, he became extremely bold. Perhaps the best way to describe him is to say that he indulged himself.
Without saying a word, she put on the virtual helmet, and sure enough, she saw the place to create a character as described in the online guide.
Here you can only enter a nickname and create a face, you can't do anything like professional. But it was not until she finished creating the character that she realized that she could actually stand up in the game!
After entering the game, she jumped up and down excitedly, as if her legs had never been injured in real life.
Whether walking, running, or jumping, it is just like the real thing.
She secretly made up her mind that no matter whether the game content was fun or not, she would like the game "Ascension".
When the spirit in the distance who claimed to be the God of Land issued the task, Song Mingming casually followed the crowd and chose the task of digging.
Everyone carried shovels, hoes and baskets cut from the village chief and walked quickly towards their destination.
The road was overgrown with weeds and there was no road at all. It could only be described as desolate.
The player nicknamed "Zhejiang-style Braised Pork" walked in front, using a shovel to push the weeds to both sides, barely clearing a path.
"I suddenly realized that being too realistic isn't a good thing. I didn't even need to clear the way when I played games before."
"Can you believe this? I just got bit by a mosquito and it's actually itchy!!"
"Are there any snakes here?"
"I seriously doubt I've traveled through time! I'll try to log off."
The female player named Linglong sat down cross-legged right after she finished speaking, looking exceptionally peaceful.
Song Mingming and others stopped in their tracks. Everyone was a little worried that this was a scam by aliens. What if they were caught and taken into this strange world and couldn't go back?
Everyone looked at Linglong's closed eyes and finally understood why the NPC in the Novice Village asked them to build a house.
If you suddenly go offline in the wilderness, your body will be unprotected and you will easily become a target for others or monsters!
Soon, Linglong opened her eyes.
She said with surprise, "I can log off now. I just ordered a coffee takeout. What will happen after I log off?"
"Even though the player has logged off, their character's body is still there," Song Mingming analyzed. "This body may have always existed. When we log into the game, we enter this character's body."
"You have to find a safe place to log off, otherwise it's easy to get into trouble. If you have an emergency, it will be troublesome."
"It's really inconvenient that my character still exists after I log off. What would happen if my physical body was destroyed and I logged back in?"
"Anyone want to try it?"
"Come on."
"I want to try you guys."
No one wants to fall behind at the beginning of the game, because who knows what will happen after the body dies.
Song Mingming said, "Let's dig quickly and see if we can complete the task sooner. The players in the current channel have already started cutting down trees."
"This girl is right, let's complete the task first."
After walking and chatting for a while, they finally arrived at the clay source, and then they began to dig with all their might.
Song Mingming was born in the city and had basically never done similar work. She found that although digging was physically demanding, she could also gain experience points, increasing by just one point at a time.
The excavated clay appears in the game package and is saved one by one.
Everyone is very motivated after discovering that they can gain experience points through labor.
Especially those strong men increased their speed, wishing they could hollow out the clay.
Song Mingming was not affected by the pace of the others and shoveled the soil according to his own breathing speed.
After a while, light began to emerge from the players' bodies and they all upgraded.
It only takes 100 pieces of clay to go from lv.1 to lv.2, but it takes 200 experience points to go from lv.2 to lv.3. What's more, the mining income is also decreasing, and digging out 2 pieces of clay only counts as 1 experience point.
In other words, if you want to upgrade to lv.3, you need to dig at least 400 pieces of clay!
The monotony of digging makes many players discouraged. They can tolerate it at first, but with this wonderful world in front of them, who can stay calm?
"No, no, it's too slow."
"I'll go back and hand in the mission and see if I can take on the rest."
"It's so boring."
"What the hell is that? Did I enter the game just to dig dirt?"
"I won't serve you anymore!"
Originally, more than 20 players came together, but they left one after another in less than an hour. None of them could stand loneliness.
Soon, there were only three people left on the land.
Song Mingming did not complain. It was enough for her to experience the feeling of standing up again. She could accept any hardship or fatigue.
She used a shovel to dig out a pile of soil, and found a jade slip shining in the soil.
"Hey, what's buried in there?"
Without thinking too much, she squatted down to pick up the jade slip, and immediately received a system prompt.
[Congratulations to the player for obtaining the one-time Gengjin Sword Skill Book! ]
Song Mingming's eyes lit up. She had never thought that she could acquire skills at the novice stage, and it sounded like the sword techniques in the world of cultivation.
In order to avoid any further complications, he chose to study directly, and the jade slip turned into dust and disappeared.
Different moves suddenly appeared in her mind, but due to the lack of spiritual power in her body, she was unable to display the power of this sword technique for the time being.
"This should be considered an encounter, right?"
Song Mingming didn't think about keeping the secret, but said to the other two insistent players: "Hey, I just dug up a skill book in the ground. There are good things under the land!"
After hearing what the female player said, Qiao Wenwu subconsciously replied, "Really? Can there be something as valuable as a skill book in this dirt?"
"It's true, you see."
After saying that, Song Mingming used the shovel in his hand as a sword and performed the opening move in the Gengjin Sword Technique. He wielded the heavy shovel with great vigor, stunning the two men.
She looks like a cute girl, but she turns labor tools into weapons that can kill people. The style of painting is really strange.
Seeing this scene, Qiao Wenwu had to believe it.
Fang Hai, who was digging silently, suddenly replied, "I believe you, because I just found a bottle of Qingxin Pills when I was digging, and it contained five low-grade Qingxin Pills."
Unlike Song Mingming, Fang Hai hid himself very well and made a fortune quietly.
If this girl hadn't told him, he wouldn't have revealed his secret. That's why he kept trying to dig deeper even though others had left.
Qiao Wenwu angrily stuck the shovel into the soil: "It seems like you all are lucky, and I'm the only one with nothing."
"Keep digging, maybe you'll find it later." Song Mingming comforted him, "Maybe next time."
"That's right. Since there's an experience point reward, I'm going to fight it today!"
Qiao Wenwu was full of energy. He blew air on his palms and entered a state of concentrating on digging the soil.
In order to encourage players to persist, Lin Xiang specially prepared some prop rewards as surprises in the excavation area, forest felling area and brick kiln firing area.
Lucky people will get rewards the first time they chop down a tree or dig the soil, while unlucky people will not get anything even if they spend a whole day there.
It depends on both luck and persistence.
Of course, there won’t be too many props, basically they are five elements spells and the Qingxin Pills that he made himself.
These things alone are enough to make the players happy. They are now penniless, even poorer than Lin Xiang.
…
At the brick kiln, firewood as fuel was delivered, and clay as the main raw material was also transported to the nearby area by players.
Han Mu called in the village chief and another old man from Dongshan Village who knew how to make bricks to serve as technical instructors, and began to make bricks using the ancient rural method.
In fact, he had already quit the game and looked up some information. He had a certain theoretical basis, but he had not put it into practice.
In reality, making bricks requires a long time of preparation, firing, and drying, but in the game everything is sped up.
After the raw materials are in place, they crush all the soil, then pour water on it and start mixing the mud. The mud must become soft and sticky, just like making rice cakes.
Building your own house with your own hands is very exciting no matter how you think about it.
The village has ready-made molds, straw, and wood ash.
Players put the mixed clay into molds to make bricks. After drying the bricks, they put them into the burning brick kiln and seal them.
This ancient operating method is incomparable to modern mechanical production, but the players are very efficient, especially Lin Xiang who is hiding nearby and quietly helping.
The firing process that originally took several days or even a week or two was completed in just one hour.
This shows how preferential treatment the gaming world gives to players.
The freshly baked red bricks are hot and emit strong heat!
Lin Xiang appeared at this time. He looked at the red bricks here and said, "Congratulations on firing the first batch of red bricks. These red bricks will be used to build the land temple. Next, I will gather a batch of earth bricks for you to use as building materials for the courtyard and residence. The firing here must continue and cannot be stopped."
He planned to use the bricks made by these players to build his own temple, and he would provide the houses that the players needed, thus treating it as an exchange.
Otherwise, even if the game world is accelerated, it will be impossible for players to find a place to live within today.
Lin Xiang also wanted to use this incident to show off his miracles and the presence of the NPC.
The large-scale use of divine power requires the support of incense value, and displaying divine means can increase faith and gain another batch of incense value. It can be said that it is a sure profit!
The players and villagers have all witnessed Lin Xiang's elusive appearances and disappearances, and they are excited and curious at the same time.
"What does this NPC mean? What is he going to do?"
"It seems that he thinks our progress is too slow and wants to use magic power to repair the house directly."
"Record it now!"
"I want to see what this sacrificial spirit wants to do."
"Master Jiling is about to cast a spell! Everyone, come and see!"
The players were skeptical and curious, while the villagers called their friends and even those who had been cooking, feeding the pigs, and feeding the chickens at home. Even the teacher at the village school gave his students a day off and led them out of the village.
The children had known from a young age that the area outside the village was dangerous, and they didn't dare to go out even during the day. Now, after seeing so many unfamiliar faces outside, it would be a lie to say they weren't afraid.
They all hid behind their elders, daring only to stick their heads out and look at the sacrificial spirits over there with their big black eyes.
Some players were still chopping trees, digging soil, or cultivating spiritual fields or helping to harvest early rice and had not returned yet. Lin Xiang would not wait for them. Instead, he used his divine power to move all the bricks out of the brick kiln, and they flowed like a long river in the sky to an open space nearly a thousand meters away.
The bricks connected together and flying through the air look spectacular.
Lin Xiang had already chosen the location of the new land temple when he was setting up the formation. That was the center of the Five Elements Wu Earth Formation.
Not only does it have the most abundant spiritual energy, it also has the strongest defense. At the same time, it can also allow the statue of the land god to suppress the formation, allowing it to exert even greater power.
Building a new land temple early also means confusing future enemies.
Others thought that the land temple fair in the central area of this town was his core and would be the focus of his attack.
In fact, the backyard of the land temple in Dongshan Village is his base!
The villagers and players put down their work and followed Red Brick to the open space.
Then a miracle happened.
Under Lin Xiang's command, red bricks were overlapped one after another, and a spacious land temple appeared, just like building a house in the Minecraft game.
It doesn't look luxurious, but it has a calming quality.
The couplets outside the land temple reappeared, and then Lin Xiang condensed a clay figure that looked exactly like himself on the altar!
“It’s truly a miracle!”
"I thought he would just conjure up a house, but I didn't expect him to build it slowly like this."
"This land god is quite powerful. It seems that he can control all kinds of things."
"Wait a minute, I don't understand. The ground here is clearly dirt, how did it turn into tiles in the blink of an eye? Is he a magician?"
"It's over! I couldn't understand it when I bent down to pick up a pen in math class, and this time I can't understand it no matter how hard I stare at it."
"He's the land god, can't he just use his magic power to change it easily?"
"I haven't watched Journey to the West or any other mythological TV series, but the gods are just so awesome."
"He's not creating something out of thin air, he's just changing the shape of the soil. It's pretty easy to understand."
"This is the real infrastructure maniac!"
Players have seen all kinds of speeds, but no one, organization, or project can be like Lin Xiang, who can build a temple with just a flick of his fingers, without a trace of fireworks, very simply.
Han Mu and Master Tai Er were extremely ashamed.
Is this something a level 8 NPC can do?
I can only say that he is worthy of being a god. If I and others were at level 8, we wouldn't even have one ten-thousandth of this power.
"Old Han, we were so confident back then that we actually wanted to blow him up."
"The frog in the well is us."
Master Tai Er now finally understood how huge the gap between him and Lin Xiang was. It was like an ocean between them!
Judging from his posture, using weapons is considered a sign of respect for himself and others.
As we were talking, the temple was basically completed, and saplings were transported from other places. Wherever they went, the earth would surge with waves and carry them there, just as smoothly as silk.
If he can't control the birds in the sky, how can he control the ground? If he still has to worry about these things, then wouldn't his role as the land god be in vain?
There are currently no spiritual plants or medicines in this new land temple, so it can only be decorated with some ordinary trees, flowers and plants.
Although it was almost done, Lin Xiang still couldn't feel the connection between himself and this new statue. He couldn't descend upon it, as if it was really just a cold statue.
"What happened? Was my guess wrong?"
He originally thought that by building a new land temple, he would be able to achieve instant transfer.
Now the facts have forced him to re-examine his plans.
Just when Lin Xiang was at a loss, the village priest Wang Xiuyuan led the villagers to the land temple.
The old man respectfully lit a few incense sticks, then lit candles, and knelt respectfully in front of the statue with the villagers.
"Thank you, God of Land, for your continued blessings!"
"Thank you, God of Land!"
The villagers spontaneously followed Wang Xiuyuan's actions, and all men, women, young and old bowed down in unison.
At the moment the incense was lit, the players were surprised to find that the statue was flashing with golden light, and its aura had undergone a drastic change.
To put it bluntly, the previous statues looked like they were printed out by a 3D printer. They followed the standards but lacked soul.
Today's statues of the land gods look lifelike, as if they were the product of the painstaking efforts of the master sculptor.
"It turns out the key isn't the statue, it's the people!"
At this time, Lin Xiang finally understood that the core of the land temple is to have believers worship.
Without gods worshipped by believers, no matter how magnificent the temple is, it is just an empty shell.
As soon as he thought about it, he appeared in the new statue of the land god, and then gathered the surrounding spiritual energy, making it so dense that it turned from gaseous to liquid.
"Everyone, get up quickly. Your life will get better and better in the future!"
Then the spiritual energy transformed into light spots and spread into the bodies of every villager, benefiting them greatly.
It’s a pity that none of these ninety-odd villagers possess spiritual roots, otherwise they could have directly stepped into the realm of cultivators!
"Thank you, God of Land!"
"Thank you, God of Land!"
Voices of sincere gratitude came from the villagers' mouths, and they personally felt the benefits brought by this new land god.
Their health has improved a lot, and the old people's snow-white hair has even turned much darker.
The power of incense and wishes was transmitted to Lin Xiang through their devout hearts, making his magical powers stronger and stronger.
The players were all stunned.
Is all this true?
The villagers have gained such great benefits, is it possible for me to gain them too?
So many players followed the villagers and knelt on the ground, wishing that the land god NPC would bless them.
Many people do not believe in Buddhism or Taoism, but when they encounter various gods, Buddhas, and Bodhisattvas in temples, they will worship devoutly and make wishes. They also regard Lin Xiang as this kind of person.
It was precisely because they all firmly believed that Lin Xiang was the land god that they actually generated the power of burning incense and making vows!
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