After Jiuge finished performing the Xiaoyunyu Jue, he sat on the ground again and began to practice his skills. He exchanged himself for the Changchun Gong, which made his qi, blood and spiritual power relatively last longer.
I was too late planting rice yesterday and was offline. When I logged in early this morning, I found that my character's body had been dragged into a small thatched hut. When I stood up, I directly overturned the roof.
"Why can your Small Cloud and Rain Technique cover such a large area?" Jiuge asked. He found that the technique he used could only irrigate a small piece of spiritual field, which was not enough.
Bingxue Piaopiao smiled and replied, "Because I've been using it constantly, my proficiency has increased rapidly. It's now at level 2. I plan to upgrade this skill to the maximum level 5, so that I can cast it on the entire spiritual field with one cast. I also plan to learn a few other spells. Watering alone isn't enough. I heard that these spiritual rice plants might have aphids, and I need to kill them."
"My next goal is to upgrade first, then buy a cave of my own, and build it into the place I dream of bit by bit."
Bingxuepiaopiao is extremely serious about farming and has even done a lot of research work.
Jiuge chatted while recovering his spiritual energy: "The small courtyard here in the Huanyu Market sells for 100 low-grade spirit stones. It's very expensive. How much have you saved?"
"I only have two spirit stones at the moment, but once I harvest the spirit grains from my spirit fields I'll be able to sell a lot."
Playing the game is also difficult in the early stages, as there is no way to cultivate more land. You can only harvest once a season and then use the money earned to expand production.
What's more, 100 low-grade spirit stones are not expensive at all, and I have a discount coupon, so I can buy it for 80 low-grade spirit stones.
Jiuge didn't quite understand the female player's reasoning. He tried to analyze it, saying, "We're actually leveling up very quickly. We're almost at level 10 in just a few days. By then, we can move to other cities or sects. There's no need to stay here. Buying a small courtyard will depreciate its value. You should at least buy one in a large city or a prime location."
Almost everyone thought the same as Jiuge, thinking that it was impossible to build a market town from scratch on the land of a mere novice village.
It is only lively when the player level is low. When the player level is high, the map will change. Who will come back to the courtyard here?
100 low-grade spirit stones can do a lot of things, and using them to buy a useless asset is a waste.
This is like going to a rural area in the 18th tier to buy a house in reality. It has no investment value and is of no use.
Who knew that Bingxue Piaopiao had a different opinion.
"I think this place actually has great potential for appreciation. The most important thing is that the level of the sacrificial spirit is constantly improving. If his strength continues to increase and he becomes strong enough, naturally many people will come to this market to trade."
"Besides, the price of a small courtyard in other markets is definitely much higher than this figure, possibly ten or a hundred times more. I don't plan to join a sect. I plan to follow the path of the gods to accumulate merit. I hope to cultivate more land and help others."
When playing games, just make yourself happy.
She doesn't pursue true ascension, she just likes farming, harvesting, and hoarding.
Jiuge nodded: "That's good, as long as you have a clear plan. By the way, let's add each other as friends, just in case we need help each other someday."
It’s always good to have one more friend, especially a farming friend who will definitely become a big stockpiler.
Bingxue Piaopiao had no idea the player opposite her was trying to borrow money from her. She readily agreed to the friend request, "If you come across any suitable seeds or spirit beasts out there, you can sell them to me. Or if you know of any places suitable for us business-oriented players, you can let me know."
"no problem!"
Jiuge practiced his skills while chatting, and soon recovered to full strength, and the total amount of spiritual power increased by 1 point.
Two small clouds gathered by spiritual power drizzled down rain above the spiritual rice seedlings. The seedlings seemed to grow very quickly, rising several centimeters overnight and even becoming much thicker.
The survival rate reached a terrifying 100%!
"I wonder how many kilograms of spiritual grain they'll yield when they're ripe, but I have a feeling it'll definitely be a good harvest."
"I thought it would take a long time before I could see them harvested, but now it's been harvested in less than a week, which is pretty fast."
For spiritual rice, spiritual energy is equivalent to the fertilizer they need for growth, and there is no need to apply fertilizer separately.
Because their growth consumes spiritual energy, large-scale cultivation is particularly limited.
The planting area can only be expanded near sects or cultivation families with high-level spiritual veins. Otherwise, planting near low-level spiritual veins will lead to two results.
One is that the spiritual rice does not have enough spiritual energy and may not be able to mature in a year.
Another thing is that spiritual rice consumes spiritual energy, leaving cultivators with no spiritual energy to practice.
Therefore, even in many markets, only cave dwelling monks are allowed to grow spiritual medicines and plants, not spiritual rice.
Furthermore, a cave dwelling occupies a very small area. For spiritual rice, one acre of spiritual field is nothing, and only hundreds of acres can be considered small-scale.
Bingxuepiaopiao didn't think she had enough money to buy a spiritual field anywhere else.
If Lin Xiang had not obtained the Cave Heaven Seed, he would never be so generous as to irrigate the spiritual valleys with spiritual energy.
The cave heaven seed can evolve into a cave heaven blessed land, which is much stronger than any top-level spiritual vein.
Innate spiritual energy is produced continuously every day, and after this innate spiritual energy is decomposed into acquired spiritual energy, its amount increases tenfold or even a hundredfold.
Therefore, the abundance of spiritual energy in Dongshan Village and the market town is increasing day by day.
However, the players still don’t have a clear idea of the abundance of spiritual energy. They have not experienced the previous situation of spiritual energy scarcity in Dongshan Village. At that time, it was probably not enough to support an acre of spiritual rice!
A drizzle was falling on the two mu of spiritual fields over here, and an earthworm appeared on the wasteland over there, turning the soil up and down. Then a dark mud suddenly appeared, and wherever it went, it leveled the uneven land.
What surprised them most was that an extremely huge river clam actually flew into the air, opened its shell, and performed the Small Cloud and Rain Technique.
When the Small Cloud and Rain Technique was used by the river clam, it turned into a large spell covering an area of more than 50 square meters. These raindrops rich in spiritual energy were quickly absorbed after falling into the soil.
The nearby players were all dumbfounded.
"There's a monster!"
"The monster is helping with the work?"
"What combination is this?"
"Oh my god, this big clam meat must be delicious, right? Maybe there are pearls in it."
"I'm so scared, what are they doing?"
"Can you kill him?"
"Wait, they're green now, in a friendly state, so they shouldn't be able to be killed, right?"
At first, the players were all very scared, thinking they were attacked by monsters.
However, after seeing the combined actions of these three monsters, I suddenly realized that they must be spiritual beasts brought from the land, specifically responsible for managing the spiritual fields!
Facing the clam monster's magic, Jiuge felt inferior: "The land is indeed the land. The spirit beasts under its control are all skilled farmers. The Little Cloud and Rain Art that the clam monster is performing must be level 5, right?"
The players were all a little surprised. A few of them were still paying attention to the river clams, especially after noticing that the opponent was only lv.15, they became even more eager to try.
But they did not dare to take action directly, because this was the land's territory, and it was not worthwhile to offend the land for a monster. After all, the resurrection point and the novice village were still here.
Lin Xiang originally didn't want to expose these two monsters, but the players' efficiency was really low.
Players who are cultivating spiritual fields are procrastinating, and many give up halfway or go off to do other things in the middle.
As a result, there are only two acres of spiritual fields in Dongshan Village now.
Of course, the task of reclaiming the spiritual field is indeed not easy to complete. After all, you need to reclaim it first and then perform the Small Cloud and Rain Technique over and over again, which is boring.
Since the mud monster and clam monster are idle, it is better to let them start.
Lin Xiang himself was checking the transplanted silver arrow grasses, carefully irrigating them with spiritual energy, and using the land god's innate skills of a bountiful harvest.
On the surface, a bumper harvest only has an effect on rice and grains, but in fact it also has a promoting effect on other plants and can greatly increase the harvest.
Especially when used in the flowering scion stage, the yield can be increased. If it is past the flowering period, the only thing that can be done is to improve the quality. After all, grains will not appear out of thin air, and we must always follow certain rules and principles.
The ten-year-old silver arrow grasses are all full of vitality, with not much wilting.
After all, Lin Xiang was so ruthless that he dug out all the soil and whiskers, so it was relatively intact.
Another important benefit of silver arrow grass is that its roots will rot quickly after harvesting, thereby increasing the soil fertility in the area.
Many sects of cultivation use this ability of silver arrow grass to rotate some spiritual medicines that have high requirements for soil fertility.
Lin Xiang is now burying the roots of the century-old silver arrow grass that he harvested in the Universe Cave to increase the fertility of the apricot kernels of the fairy apricots and other spiritual medicines.
The sooner we finish these things, the sooner we can return to Qingwei Sword Sect to exchange for new things.
He has so many things he wants to improve.
In particular, there is a trial tower in the Qingwei Sword Sect where disciples at the Jindan stage and below can participate in the trial and hone their swordsmanship.
A swordsman's swordsmanship is honed through actual combat and cannot be improved through meditation and practice in a cave.
No matter who you are, you only have one chance to use the Trial Tower every month. If you miss it, you will miss it.
According to the introduction in the introductory jade slip, the monsters and demons in it were all captured from various places by the sect's elders and disciples. They are not little lambs in a greenhouse.
In the Trial Tower, in addition to honing swordsmanship, the rewards from killing monsters also belong to the disciples, which can be considered a disguised benefit.
Seeing that June is about to pass, Lin Xiang cannot miss the trial opportunity this month and must go in to improve himself.
With both security guarantees and enough experience points, there is no need to worry about upgrading.
Seeing that the highest player has reached level eight, if we don’t work harder, we will be caught up.
He didn't know whether the players would also have the Ascension Order, and changing their professions was a hurdle.
If players can go directly to the Ascension Conference like himself and be brought into the sect, they will be able to access the market inside the sect and naturally there will be no need for the Universal Market.
What's more, players don't have the ability to create a pseudonym themselves.
One's soul can be teleported back and forth between the Sword Cultivator's Clay Man and Dongshan Village. Once players leave, how can they teleport back?
Lin Xiang couldn't wait to find out.
Once all the players disperse and leave, this market town and even Dongshan Village will become quiet and depressed.
That is definitely not what Lin Xiang wants to see!
"We need to let a player reach level 10 first."
He planned to find a player to be a guinea pig and assign a large number of tasks to the other party so that he could quickly reach level 10.
The ice and snow Piaopiao in front of us is a good experimental subject. After all, she has a spiritual field here, and she will come back even if she leaves.
If the other players really leave, they will never come back.
So when Bingxuepiaopiao finished performing the Small Cloud and Rain Technique for her spiritual field and was about to take on the task of reclaiming the spiritual field and planting silver arrow grass, Lin Xiang suddenly appeared next to the spiritual field.
He pretended to look at the two acres of spiritual fields, casually used the skill of abundant harvest, and then turned to Bingxuepiaopiao and praised him, "The spiritual grain seedlings are growing very well. It seems you haven't been lazy."
[Lin Xiang, the landowner of Dongshan Village, commends you for completing your mission. You receive 100 experience points and your impression level increases by 10!]
"Thank you, Lord Land." Bingxuepiaopiao had already received the reward for completing the task, but she didn't expect there would be a new reward.
Then Lin Xiang said to her, "Now that your Little Cloud and Rain Technique has become more mature, go and cultivate the spiritual fields with the clam monster."
[Ding, Lin Xiang, the landowner of Dongshan Village, has issued you a special mission: Assist the clam monster in reclaiming spiritual fields. Do you accept?]
Originally, cultivating spiritual fields relied on the power of earthworms, but now, with the powerful clam monster as the main force, at least several acres of spiritual fields can be cultivated in a day. The efficiency is definitely not as simple as a player fighting alone.
Bingxuepiaopiao originally planned to complete this task to accumulate some more spiritual grain seeds and other rewards for herself.
She readily agreed.
Who knew that Lin Xiang directly handed her two jade bottles and said, "Take these two bottles of Qingxin Pills and don't save your spiritual energy."
The effect of Qingxin Pills is to restore 20% of the total spiritual power. There are 20 pills in total in two bottles of Qingxin Pills here, which can be said to be quite luxurious.
Not to mention Bingxue Piaopiao, even the player next to her, Jiuge, had his eyes widened.
Get pills directly after completing tasks?
And with the monster!
Lin Xiang deliberately raised the task requirements and wrote the level 2 Xiaoyunyu Jue into the task requirements as a hard condition, so as to create an illusion.
He issued the exclusive task because the other party had a high professional skill level, not for any other reason.
In order to test whether players can successfully change jobs, Lin Xiang has made great efforts.
Bingxuepiaopiao knew that time was running out, so she didn't care about Jiuge and the players watching from a distance, and immediately ran to meet up with the clam monster.
Lin Xiang was about to leave when Jiuge volunteered, "Lord Landlord, is there anything I can do for you?"
After seeing Bingxuepiaopiao take on the task with ease, Jiuge was very excited and took action immediately.
Since the other party has spoken, Lin Xiang might as well hand over the tedious task to the other party to save himself some trouble.
"I'm planning to build a lake behind the Earth God Temple in Huanyufang City, but progress is slow right now. You should be in charge of this project."
After Jiuge heard this, a task reminder suddenly appeared on the virtual game panel in front of him: [Lin Xiang, the land god of Dongshan Village, has issued you a limited-time task - to build an artificial lake. Do you accept it?]
This task is slightly different from the one on the public task bar. The task description requires him to urge other players to complete the task. The faster the task is completed, the higher the reward.
So the player immediately started to call for help in the game forum, asking nearby free beta testers to come and help.
…
Lin Xiang can basically complete all the tasks issued to players by himself.
But he knew that completing it would waste incense points, and he couldn't take the opportunity to give players experience points and other item rewards.
"I hope those players who went to the mountains and forests to collect herbs will have better luck and bring back more raw materials. Otherwise, I won't be able to refine my Red Dragon Pill, Pure Heart Pill, and Bigu Pill."
Lin Xiang has now finished all the things that need to be dealt with. He wants to make the elixir but has no raw materials. Even a good cook cannot cook without rice.
From time to time, players would be resurrected in the land temple, and their bodies would be reunited bit by bit. It seemed that they were in danger.
After taking a Red Dragon Pill, he began to practice the Taixuan Sword Sutra at high speed, which allowed him to continuously increase his proficiency in this technique. Like the other players, he also visited the game forum while practicing the technique.
The most common questions in the game forum are about the time and quota for the next batch of internal testing and public testing. Most netizens can only watch the other lucky ones have a great time in the game.
"When will the next round of closed beta beta start?"
"Can you let others use your virtual reality headset? If so, I'll buy it for 10,000 yuan."
"There are too few spots for the closed beta test. I'd better look forward to the open beta test."
"Is the game really that powerful? I just can't believe it."
"I asked my family to look up the company, but they couldn't find any relevant information. They only knew that all the qualifications met the requirements."
"When will the public beta be released? I really can't wait!"
"Please give me an exact time, even if you have to postpone it, so that I won't be obsessed with it all the time."
"No way? There's no top-up channel in the game. Are you planning on opening it or will you open it later?"
The popularity of the game "Ascension" is really too high.
The game videos produced by players have high click and discussion volumes on various platforms.
Whether they believe it or not, netizens all want to go in and experience it for themselves.
Faced with the enthusiasm of potential players, Lin Xiang actually had no way to give an accurate answer. In the end, he just used his GM authority to post a notice on the official website that "the third batch of internal test registration has started."
Let them sign up first and give the players something to think about.
After seeing the eager anticipation of netizens, he turned his attention to the complaints of the beta test players, wondering if these things were related to him.
If so, how can I improve or deal with it?
Tractorski: "Brothers and sisters! I'm freaking out! The mud monster that attacked me turned out to be the land's pet. There's no hope for revenge!"
Chibi Maru-chan: "Big guys, please guide me. My level is a bit low. I was finally released from the land temple, but ended up getting killed by a wild boar in the Ten Thousand Mountains."
Meng Zongzhu: "Do you know what this sacrificial spirit is trying to do? He wants to build a market, cultivate spiritual fields, and plant some kind of ghost silver arrow grass. Is his ambition so great that he can really develop it?"
Evil wind entered the body: "It was supposed to be a cultivation game, but after entering, there is not even any skills. I am so disappointed."
Master Tai Er: "Brother, you have to complete the mission. You can't just wait for a technique to fall from the sky."
Liu Bing: "I'm guarding the stall. If you rich people or big guys need to buy some pills, you must come to me. I will give you a discount!"
Sun Junping: "Big speculation about the identity of the sacrificial spirit! I think this sacrificial spirit in Dongshan Village is very suspicious, or has a very important background. First of all, the game certainly wouldn't throw us into a novice village for no reason. Secondly, he doesn't do his job as a sacrificial spirit and just develops a market for no reason. Moreover, as a sacrificial spirit, where did he get all these skill books, elixirs, and spirit stones? Those who have come into contact with the sacrificial spirit, please share your speculations."
"Could he be one of the protagonists in the game world?"
"What's the main plot of 'Ascension'? Is there no plot, so it's just going to develop randomly?"
"I think Lin Xiang might turn evil at some point in the future. For example, this sacrificial spirit identity is just a disguise, and he's actually a peerless demon."
"Is it possible that he is a master or even a god in the gaming world? He is just waiting for a destined person."
"Rather than these speculations, I'd rather explode that clam monster of his. There should be something good in it."
Everyone knows that the strongest NPC in the Novice Village must have some secrets. After all, how can a young scholar be qualified to serve as a land god and a sacrificial spirit?
Where do all these good things come from?
It can be said that Lin Xiang’s existence is the bridge for them to communicate with the world of cultivation!
Everyone knew too little information to make any guesses, and after some fruitless discussion, they came to the conclusion that it would definitely be the right thing to do to improve the favorability between themselves and Lin Xiang.
Lin Xiang couldn't help but shake his head as he looked at the players' ridiculous speculations.
The game "Ascension" does not have a main plot to speak of, and naturally, there are no so-called protagonists or supporting characters. Every cultivator is the protagonist of his or her own story, some of which are tragic and some are comedic.
Even if he is the planner, he has no way of knowing the subsequent plot. It all depends on the characters in the game to advance.
Any decision could lead to completely different results.
If he knew the plot, Lin Xiang would have become the protagonist's personal grandfather long ago instead of staying in Dongshan Village to run his business.
Just as he was browsing the forum posts, a group of refugees suddenly appeared outside Dongshan Village.
They looked nervous and flustered. Not to mention their luggage, many of them were even in dishevel, running all the way in straw sandals or barefoot.
“Help!”
"Hurry up and save us!"
Players doing quests nearby and villagers working in the fields couldn't help but become alert when they saw these people.
Lin Xiang was also affected by the discordant voice. He exited the game forum and wanted to see what was going on.
A villager carrying a basket full of corn suddenly recognized one of the men and asked in surprise, "Are you Huang Laosan from Xishan Village? Why are you here? What happened to your village?"
The players originally thought it was a stranger, but it turned out to be Xishan Village across the mountain.
The two villages are not particularly far apart. In the past, when the evil spirits were not rampant, they used to visit each other frequently. They even fought with hoes over the issue of water diversion in the ditch. Young men and women from the two villages also married each other, so it can be said that they were more or less related.
Huang Laosan's eyes nearly filled with tears when he saw his acquaintance: "Big Nose Wang, quickly alert your village's sacrificial spirit! Our village's sacrificial spirit has been killed!"
"What?"
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