Chapter 52 Lighthouse This is home!
Zhu Jiuyin, also known as Zhulong or Zhuolong, is an extremely powerful deity!
The system was so excited that it couldn't speak, and just kept trembling on the ground, like it was leaking electricity.
Suanni said, "Grandma, there's still a naming process in this contract before it's complete. What name would you like to use?"
Zhu Jiuyin: "Either way, let Xiao Jiu take it."
Xiao Jiu exclaimed happily, "Da Jiu!"
The non-humans: "..."
Zhu Jiuyin: "Not bad, not bad. In this way, I and Xiao Jiu together will be Big Jiu and Little Jiu."
Suanni wiped his face: "Mother-in-law, please be serious."
Zhu Jiuyin was bewildered: "I'm being very serious."
Fuyu, who was watching: ......
I felt that this legendary powerful deity was not quite the same as I had imagined.
He tried saying, "How about using the word 'separation'?"
Zhu Jiuyin is also known as the Fire Essence, and Li can be used to correspond perfectly.
Qianchuan: "Then let's call it Dali?"
Suanni: "...Okay."
It's better than calling it "Big Nine".
Suanni turned to ask, "So, what do you think, Mother-in-law?"
Zhu Jiuyin: "Not bad either."
Seeing that the name was about to be decided, Fuyu quickly said, "How about using another pronunciation of the character '大' (da), taking the pronunciation of '太' (tai)?"
Xiao Jiu nodded vigorously: "Ayu, great!"
Zhu Jiuyin: "Haha, not bad, not bad at all, pretty good."
Suanni was too exhausted to complain anymore, and could only say wearily, "Alright, let's settle on that."
Thus, the deity Zhu Jiuyin was given a new name: Tai Li.
The announcement rang out the instant the naming was completed.
【Name: Tai Li, Level: 99, Upgrade Value: 99.9%, Growth Value: 99.9%】
[Skill: Power of the Mountain God]
Satiety level: 99.9%, Mood level: 60% (Happy)...
The system, looking like it had struck it rich, rolled around wildly on the ground, with Xiao Jiu chasing after it with terrifying running speed. When Taotie saw Xiao Jiu running away, it also ran away.
Qianchuan realized something and rushed over immediately: "Be careful! Don't go that way!"
Seeing this, Fuyu quickly followed.
It was incredibly noisy for a while.
Grandma Tai Li curled up her body, rested her head on her snake, and quietly watched them.
Suanni didn't join Xiao Jiu and the others' running game. He just sat next to Grandma Tai Li, wagging his tail curiously: "Grandma, what are you doing here?"
Grandma Tai Li said, "I found a place to take a nap before, and I don't know what happened, but when I woke up I was here."
Suanni frowned, recalling the gruesome state of the "corpse" he had just seen: "But your bones were exposed, and your flesh was torn to pieces. Doesn't it hurt?"
With most of my flesh and blood gone, how am I supposed to sleep?
Grandma Tai Li laughed a few times.
She said, "My flesh and blood will turn into soil and into a gentle breeze, bringing the power of continuation to all living beings in the world. That's enough."
The Suanni noticed that she hadn't mentioned whether it hurt or not, so it stopped wagging its tail and just let it droop slowly.
After a few seconds of silence, he said in a very calm, even somewhat indifferent tone: "However, not all living beings in the world have the need to continue. Those filthy, greedy things should not exist."
Before Grandma Tai Li could speak, the voices of Xiao Jiu and the others could be heard from not far away.
The system shouted from a great distance, "I know where the sound of water is coming from!"
Suanni simply replied, "Oh."
The system didn't notice anything unusual about the Suanni. It simply rolled over to the Suanni and said, "According to my calculations, this place is in the process of merging with our world, which is why spatial distortion has occurred!"
In short, the moon spring water from their eternal night world has flowed into the underground of this world through a distorted spatial flow.
The system's voice was extremely excited: "As long as the situation here improves further and the two worlds merge, I will be able to directly run your cultivation world's spiritual energy system."
At that time, the system will not only be able to control the blood mist, but also manipulate spiritual energy.
It fantasized: "Maybe in the future I'll be able to control whether the flowers in the field are spirit flowers or mutated flowers!"
As a result, Suanni remained silent for a long time.
The system also realized something was wrong at this point.
It rolled forward a little further, but before it could reach the Suanni, the Suanni said in its usual provocative tone, "Tsk tsk, congratulations! You've finally gotten rid of the title 'useless system'."
The system was immediately enraged and roared as it rammed into the Suanni's rear end.
The cat and the ball began a new round of chasing each other. Qianchuan looked at them, then looked back in the direction they had come from.
He suggested, "There might be cavities beneath the surface here, it's not safe to step on them, let's go back over there."
No one had any objections.
Although this place is desolate, it is a real dimensional world.
The spatial gap from before was precisely the point where the two worlds merged and intersected.
However, precisely because the energy of both worlds is very weak, the fusion process proceeded very smoothly, which also made the state of the fusion intersection very stable.
Rather than describing it as a point of convergence or intersection, it's more like a door connecting two rooms; there's no danger in passing through it normally.
In the eternal night world over there, this "door" is located on a cliff at the bottom of the rift valley, while here, the door is placed on the ground.
After arriving at the marked spot, they thought about it and unanimously agreed to first turn Xiao Jiu's head over.
Fuyu was already very familiar with the assembly process, and for a moment he was like an emotionless jigsaw puzzle machine.
After Xiao Jiu's head was treated, he held the spherical system in one hand and Fu Yu's hand in the other, looking at the ground with a serious expression.
The key point is that at this moment, Granny Tai Li was wrapped around Xiao Jiu's shoulder, Suanni was perched on her head, and Taotie was hanging on her back.
It's just like a load-bearing frame.
The system couldn't hold back any longer: "...Does it really have to be this way?"
A flame flickered on the Suanni's tail: "That's fine too. Each of you can take a ball of my fire, or let the dog swallow you."
system:"......"
System: "Never mind then, this is fine too."
The Suanni grunted twice: "Alright, get ready to jump."
Fu Yu tightened his grip on Qian Chuan and Xiao Jiu's hands.
"one two three--"
Xiao Jiu, Fu Yu, and Qian Chuan immediately bent their legs and jumped forward.
Although the land in front of him was no different from the surrounding area, the moment Xiao Jiu's toes touched the ground, the cracked earth rippled like the surface of water.
A suction force surged in and swallowed Xiao Jiu and the others in a flash.
According to Suanni, although there is this passageway and the passageway is very safe, the passageway still needs to be opened before one can pass through.
The thing that opens the door is the energy from the same life form, that is, the spiritual power within the same cultivator.
Although Qian Chuan also possesses spiritual power and both worlds contain his spiritual energy, he is completely unfamiliar with the matter of traversing different planes. Just in case, it would be safer to let Suanni handle it.
The entire time travel process was very fast; it was basically like the blink of an eye before everything went dark.
Fu Yu moved his feet, and only after hearing the familiar sound of plant leaves rubbing together did he let out a heavy breath and release his grip.
Even though he knew there was no danger, he still couldn't help feeling nervous.
The moment it emerged, the Suanni immediately extinguished the fire on its tail, making the entire space pitch black, so dark that there was no desire to struggle at all.
Darkness always brings a sense of oppression, especially when there is no light at all.
At this moment, Grandma Tai Li spoke.
Her voice was deep and gentle: "Close your eyes, and count like you just did. Open them when you count to three."
No one asked any questions and just did as instructed.
The next second, a golden light suddenly appeared in the darkness.
The vertical slit on Granny Tai's head slowly opened to both sides, revealing an eyeball that looked like flowing gold.
She opened her eyes completely.
In an instant, the whole world was bathed in sunlight.
She slowly exhaled, and a gentle breeze swept through the empty yet peaceful world.
In the rift valley, white, star-shaped flowers sway gently in the breeze.
The sun was shining brightly, and the sky was crystal clear.
This is what Xiao Jiu saw when she opened her eyes.
The system, seeing that he hadn't moved for a while, became somewhat worried: "Host..."
Xiao Jiu blinked and held the system in front of his face: "System, Xiao Jiu wants to be here."
System: "Huh? You don't want to go to other dimensions anymore?"
This was an agreement they made when they were bound together: the system would take Xiao Jiu to the happiest place in the entire universe to see the most beautiful sights.
Xiao Jiu shook her head.
In the sunlight, his dark eyes seemed to be bathed in light.
He looked up at the sky and held the system high in the air.
Xiao Jiu looked at it and said loudly, "This is home!"
The system suddenly felt like crying.
Once upon a time, in that desolate, post-apocalyptic world, it said the exact same thing.
At that time, the world, which no longer had any living beings, was collapsing and disintegrating. The little zombie, who looked like a child, sat on the ruins of the human base. Even though the spatial turbulence was close by and about to crush him, he just stared numbly ahead.
Until I heard the system say, "Bind me! I'll take you to see the bluest sky and the brightest stars!"
The little zombie finally moved.
But at this moment, the grown-up Xiao Jiu said to it: This is home.
The system remained silent for a long time.
It rolled off Xiao Jiu's hand and pressed against his cheek: "Okay, whatever you want to do, I will do it for you."
The system was feeling touched and moved when it suddenly heard a voice: "If you two don't exchange water soon, this stupid fish will suffocate."
System, Xiao Jiu: !
Xiao Jiu quickly exchanged the water and poured it directly into Qian Chuan's palm.
After the water flowed onto Qianchuan's hand, it did not continue to flow down due to gravity, but gradually condensed into a water ball.
Fuyu, now in fish shape, opened and closed her mouth rapidly, clearly struggling to hold it in.
Xiao Jiu stood in front of the water balloon and said, "Ayu, I'm sorry, Xiao Jiu was wrong."
Fuyu exhaled a series of bubbles, then flicked its tail and gently touched Xiao Jiu's face with its tail out of the water ball, indicating that he was alright.
Taotie watched them quietly from the side, while Suanni yawned while perched on Taotie's large head.
At this moment, Xiao Jiu realized that Grandma Tai Li, who had been perched on his shoulder, was gone.
He shouted at the top of his lungs, "Grandma!"
A few seconds later, Grandma Tai Li's deep voice rang out throughout the world: "Hey! I heard you."
Xiao Jiu called out again, "Grandma, where is she?"
Grandma Tai Li: "You'll be able to see it when I close my eyes."
Suanni: "Wait—"
Before he could finish speaking, it got dark.
Fuyu was swimming peacefully in the water, but the next second he turned into a human shape like a compressed spring.
Qian Chuan was holding a water balloon, and he happened to be in a daze when Fu Yu, who suddenly transformed, delivered a powerful elbow strike to his face.
The bodies of demon cultivators at the Golden Core stage are very tough.
Moreover, Fuyu is an invulnerable tilapia.
Even the Xuan Turtle was momentarily stunned by the blow, leaving Qian Chuan seeing stars.
Fuyu: "Ahhh, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry!"
Qianchuan covered his nose where he had been hit and shook his head: "It's nothing."
Grandma Tai Li's figure gradually solidified like a phantom, and soon reappeared on Xiao Jiu's shoulder.
She noticed Qian Chuanfuyu's condition and quickly said, "Oh dear, it was my oversight. I'm so sorry, you two children. I'll change back right now."
Suanni: "No—"
Daylight broke again.
This time, because they didn't count to three, everyone was temporarily blinded by the golden light just before dawn.
Fu Yu turned into a fish again with a splash. After Xiao Jiu recovered, she quickly exchanged for water, and Qian Chuan continued to hurriedly make water balls. For a moment, they were in a panic.
The Suanni let out a drawn-out wail: "Grandma!"
Grandma Taili whispered, "Oh dear, it seems I've made a mistake again. Wait a minute, I'll be right back."
The next second, it got dark again.
Because it got dark so quickly this time, and Xiao Jiu was right next to the water sphere, when Fu Yu opened up like a spring again, Xiao Jiu was punched away by him.
Xiao Jiu, who had been beaten and embedded in the cliff face, blinked blankly.
Fuyu: Ahhhhh!
Qianchuan, however, was more experienced this time. The moment it got dark, he ducked down and managed to dodge the attack.
The Suanni was on the verge of collapse: "Grandma! Grandma!"
"Hey!" Granny Taili, who was perched on Xiao Jiu's shoulder, responded and used her tail to pull Xiao Jiu down from the cliff.
She asked the Suanni, "What's wrong?"
Suanni wiped his face in great pain and took a deep breath: "Mother-in-law, why don't you get us upstairs first?"
Meanwhile, Fuyu was frantically apologizing to Xiao Jiu and Qian Chuan.
Xiao Jiu saw that Fu Yu had already frantically circled around him twice, so he grabbed Fu Yu's hand, looked into her eyes and said, "A Yu, Xiao Jiu is alright."
Fu Yu's eyes were brimming with tears, and she was about to say something—
System: "Please put your clothes on."
Fuyu: "......"
The Suanni, now shrunk into the form of a kitten, looked at the non-humans before it and once again began to doubt itself.
Just as he was in this state of utter speechlessness, he suddenly caught a glimpse of Taotie.
Taotie lay quietly to the side, watching Xiao Jiu and the others without moving.
Suanni first instructed Granny Taili not to open her eyes, and then walked up to Taotie: "Hey, hey."
Taotie: "What's wrong?"
Suanni lowered its voice: "It's not about me, it's about you. Don't you like Xiao Jiu a lot? Why don't you go and find him?"
Taotie: "But Xiao Jiu is having a lot of fun now."
Suanni was a little confused by the other party's thought process: "What does this have to do with you not going there?"
However, Taotie only shook its big head and didn't say anything more.
Suanni thought for a moment, then leaned close to Taotie's head and whispered, "By the way, I know you were worried about Xiao Jiu's tribulation before, but you can't just throw a tantrum like that."
Suanni continued, "That stupid fish was stupid to begin with. He was almost scared to death by you. The strength of your grip, wow, I almost got strangled to death by you too."
Taotie: "But I didn't lose my temper, I was just telling the truth."
Suanni: "Hmm?"
Taotie said earnestly, "Look, he can still move now, he's still alive."
Suanni: "......"
The Suanni roared, "How come you still don't understand after all these years? That's just throwing a tantrum!"
Taotie denied it: "I didn't."
After several rounds of discussion, Suanni broke down, and Fuyu also broke down.
For the first time, he hated his acute hearing so much.
He retracted his earlier statement that the Taotie's personality was quite peculiar.
The ferocious beast was truly terrifying.
After they had all calmed down, Granny Tai Li said, "Then I will send you up now?"
All the non-humans nodded in unison: "Okay!"
In the darkness, only a series of cracking sounds could be heard, sending chills down one's spine.
Suanni wondered why it wasn't dawn yet. He was about to call out to Granny Taili when he turned around and was completely dumbfounded.
In his field of vision, a huge, mutilated snake appeared in the rift valley, and the snake's size seemed to be gradually increasing.
Soon, the rift valley could no longer contain the snake.
Suanni saw the giant snake swimming towards them. The snake opened its mouth, revealing a humanoid skull without any flesh. The movement produced a cracking sound.
The giant snake swallowed them whole, then with a powerful leap from its tail, it sprang upwards into the rift!
The enormous serpent soared into the air, and in this world of eternal night, only the white tree at the highest point emitted a soft light.
The Moon Lake at the foot of the tree reflects the light of the fairy tree, resembling a moon lying down.
The giant serpent's body swayed slightly in the wind, its movements graceful and agile in the air, and it landed steadily on the ground beside the rift valley in just a few breaths.
After she gently spat out all the little creatures from her mouth, her body quickly shrank, and in no time she turned back into a small red snake about the thickness of a thumb.
Grandma Tai Li said, "I'm going to rest for a while. If you need any help, just call my name."
After saying that, the little red snake stopped moving and became as if it were a sculpture made of gemstones.
Following the sound, Xiao Jiu walked to the edge of the rift, carefully picked up Granny Tai Li, and asked worriedly, "System, Granny, what's wrong?"
The system looked at the data, equally bewildered: "Health, level-up, and growth values are all maxed out..."
At this moment, Suanni said, "Grandma is tired."
Xiao Jiu: "Tired?"
For once, Suanni didn't crack a joke. He walked over to Xiao Jiu and sat down: "Grandma is a deity, and divine power and spiritual power are both the deity's reliance and its burden."
“My mother-in-law is fine. She will stay in this state as long as we don’t call her name.”
Suanni didn't elaborate, but simply raised its head and gazed at the pitch-black sky.
He murmured, "If this place were to become a blessed land of spiritual energy someday, perhaps... Grandma could fully recover?"
Suanni was feeling very down for a while.
His ears drooped, and his tail stopped wagging.
The system remained silent.
In the darkness, Xiao Jiu suddenly reached out and scooped up the Suanni.
He wrapped Grandma Tai Li around his neck, put the Suanni in his arms, picked up the system with his other hand, and walked straight ahead in a certain direction.
Both the Suanni and the system were dumbfounded.
System: "Host, where are you going?"
Xiao Jiu: "Xiao Jiu is going to find Tian."
Although the system was pleased that its host was so motivated, it was still a little worried and couldn't help but ask, "Host, why did you suddenly decide to go find farmland?"
Xiao Jiu said, "Xiao Jiu, I want to."
System: "You have something you want to do!?"
Xiao Jiu: "Mmm!"
The system was extremely excited: "Great! What do you want to do?"
Even though Xiao Jiu couldn't see anything in this environment, he wasn't afraid of falling or anything that might appear in front of him.
He simply took one step at a time toward the direction he had chosen.
He said, "Xiao Jiu wants spiritual energy, wants the system, the dog, and the cat to be well-fed, wants her grandmother to be good, and wants Ayu and Qianchuan to smile."
His voice had a strange hoarseness, and his words were incoherent, but none of the non-humans present made a sound; they all listened quietly.
Suddenly, a sweet voice, yet tinged with something else, rang out in the darkness: "Where is Xiao Jiu?"
Xiao Jiu was a little confused: "Xiao Jiu?"
Taotie asked, "Little Jiu, what do you want?"
The others then belatedly realized that Xiao Jiu hadn't mentioned them at all.
Xiao Jiu straightened her chest and declared loudly, "Xiao Jiu wants to be the Zombie King! To help Nian Nian fight the bad guys!"
Taotie's voice returned to its soft and sweet tone as he said, "Okay, okay, I want to go fight the bad guys too!"
As he spoke, he jumped right into Xiao Jiu's arms.
This jump nearly crushed the Suanni, who was probably thinking something, into a pancake.
Suanni: "Ah! Are you going to kill me?!"
Taotie: "Meow meow, have you ever heard of the saying 'there's a cat pancake'?"
Suanni: "..."
Suanni: "Prepare to die!!"
Fu Yu and Qian Chuan couldn't help but laugh.
Qianchuan looked toward the rift valley, a hint of sadness and longing flashing in his eyes, which could see clearly in the darkness.
He lowered his eyes and turned his head, let out a long sigh, and after a few seconds of contemplation, he picked up Xiao Jiu and put her on his shoulder, then picked up Fu Yu and put her on his other shoulder.
Qianchuan: "Alright, alright, although the Elf Tree can glow, it's still too dark here. Let me do it."
That fairy tree, growing at the highest point in the world, is like a lighthouse that never goes out.
With Qianchuan's eyesight, finding it by following its direction would be a piece of cake.
As they got closer to the Elf Tree, the light became brighter. Xiao Jiufu and the others didn't want Qianchuan to suffer any more, so they jumped off his shoulders early on.
They quickly found the river.
After walking upstream for several hours, six square plots of farmland came into view.
The reason they could be seen at a glance was because the color of those four fields was much darker than the surrounding soil.
The system popped out of Xiao Jiu's hand and rolled all the way towards the farmland: "Haha, let's get to work!"
Fuyu mimicked Qianchuan's earlier muscular display and said, "Now I can help!"
Qianchuan: "Okay, Xiao Jiu can plant whatever she wants, I'll help her too."
The system bounced around, saying, "Come on, come and see what we should plant!"
However, the system was stunned when it opened the store.
300,000 points!?
The system's voice was almost cracking: "Didn't we only have a little over 40,000 before?"
Xiao Jiu proudly declared, "Xiao Jiu made this!"
After figuring out how Xiao Jiu got those hundreds of thousands of points, everyone fell into a strange silence for a moment.
The Suanni spoke first: "Mutant flowers can have variants?"
System: "It's not mentioned in the database..."
However, the system hesitated for only a few seconds: "Forget it, we can't figure it out anyway, let's just keep accumulating points. If we have too many points, I'll just use the most powerful non-directional scan and everything will be clear in one scan."
After all, they still don't understand how that red sky space suddenly began to merge with this place, or why Granny Tai Li appeared in that world.
The system boldly declared: "As long as you have enough points, I can know everything with a single scan!"
The Suanni drawled, "Oh? I'll remember."
Fuyu tentatively asked, "Then...shall we start planting flowers first?"
System: "I think we can upgrade the farmland first, and then you can choose one to bind to the farmland."
Non-humans: ?
The non-humans: "Binding?"
System: "Yes, the pet function is originally designed to assist the planting function; simply put, it's about adding buffs to the farmland."
It added, "Of course, binding also has benefits for the pet itself, such as increasing the probability of awakening skills, randomly unlocking exclusive food recipes, and so on."
The system had this idea from the beginning, but subsequent events made it realize that the original spatial rift was likely to be torn to pieces by the Heavenly Punishment Lightning, so it stopped mentioning it.
But things are different now.
This is a different dimension, protected by the system and the Elf Tree; the Heavenly Dao absolutely cannot destroy this place.
Once the world with the red sky is integrated, the system will be even less afraid.
If the Heavenly Dao tries to strike Xiao Jiu with lightning again, the system will directly clash with it.
"So..." the system asked, "Who among you wants to be tied to the farmland?"
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