Chapter 55: Signing a contract has been completed, and five different pets have been obtained...
"System, can you tell what that white thing was just now?"
The system tried: "No, we either need to catch it and use regular identification, or we need to start a non-directional scan directly."
Qianchuan suddenly asked, "How many points are needed for that non-directional scan?"
System: "Based on the previous holographic scanning points consumption... it will probably require around 100,000."
The Suanni was astonished: "So many?"
System: "After all, this is similar to splitting two worlds completely and recording them as data. The level of detail in the data is beyond your imagination."
Suanni flicked its tail and snorted softly. Just as it was about to say something, Qianchuan suddenly spoke up: "Then I'll go harvest those flowers."
At this point, everyone could tell that something was wrong with Qianchuan.
After Qianchuan, Xiaojiu, and Fuyu went to dig for flowers, Suanni whispered to the system, "Regarding your holographic scan results, wasn't Qianchuan underground at that time? Could you know what he was doing then?"
System: "I'll give it a try."
A few seconds later, the system said, "There really is a data update!"
It also lowered its voice: "There is indeed something underground where Qianchuan was before, but it looks like just a few small pebbles."
Suanni: "Stone fragments?"
At that moment, something seemed to be happening in the farmland, so the system said, "I'll go take a look," and then disappeared.
Suanni stood there, watching Qianchuan's retreating figure, lost in thought.
When the system rolled to the edge of the farmland, it saw its host vaguely holding something, looking somewhat bewildered.
It quickly jumped onto Xiao Jiu's back: "Host, what's wrong?"
Xiao Jiu pulled his hand back, and then a strange crackling sound came from his palm.
Xiao Jiu: "System, flower, Xiao Jiu, harvest, no."
Upon inspection, the system noticed that its host was clearly holding something in a vague, unrealistic way, yet a sound was indeed making noise.
What's even stranger is that the field in front of them was completely empty.
At this moment, Fu Yu, who was standing next to him, said, "System, this rose seems to be disappearing."
He thought for a moment and gestured for Xiao Jiu and Qian Chuan to let go together.
Once the three of them put down what they were holding, the rich fragrance returned.
At the same time, as if by magic, several semi-transparent deep pink spots suddenly appeared in the field.
After a dozen seconds, the pink color deepened and gradually revealed the shape of flowers.
The flowers are about two centimeters in diameter, very small, and there is one every four or five centimeters. They float in mid-air, reflecting delicate light under the soft white light of the fairy tree, and look very beautiful.
The system rolled off Xiao Jiu's shoulder.
The moment it landed in the field, all the flowers in the field vanished in an instant.
The system scrolled twice and said, "The stems and leaves of this flower are all invisible, and once it is subjected to external force, the entire flower will become invisible as well, and its toughness has also increased dozens of times."
Fu Yu then asked, "How do we get it out?"
After all, everyone is familiar with this situation: if the net-like spiritual flower is not held by an external force, it will definitely burrow into the soil immediately.
But if you're going to grab such a big piece of land, you'll definitely have to use some strength, right?
But if you put in a little effort, the flower will play tug-of-war with them.
The system thought for a moment: "This shape should be a spirit flower... How about this, you guys help me tear off a corner, and I'll try to swallow it directly into the warehouse."
To put it simply, this flower is "the stronger the opponent, the stronger it becomes." The harder you pull on it, the more resilient it becomes; you can only do it slowly.
So Xiao Jiu and the others gently pulled out a corner as the system instructed, and the system began to roll along the farmland until it had slowly rolled over the entire farmland, at which point the announcement sounded above their heads.
【bite--
Obtain Level 5 crop: Rose (Spirit) x1
Quality: Perfect
Operation performed: Storage
It really is a spirit-transformed flower.
Once the system was a bit further away from the farmland and the flowers were taken out, Xiao Jiu said, "Sell."
[Sale successful, 5000 points added, total points: 155000]
After the system recorded the new selling price data, they used the same method to harvest the remaining nine plots of spiritual roses.
Because preparations were needed for the subsequent "spiritual energy revival" plan, all these spirit flowers were stored in the warehouse.
The flowers were harvested, but the points remained basically unchanged. Everyone was worried that the system might use far more points than expected during the scan, just like before, so they all agreed to plant another round of roses.
A few hours later, Xiao Jiu looked at the ten fields in front of her that had been sown, and then at Qian Chuan, who had barely spoken since the white creature appeared...
He shifted his gaze back and turned to look in the direction of the rift valley.
Because he was carrying the Elf Tree, his face was completely shrouded in shadow.
In the darkness, his irises looked like spilled ink, gradually turning his entire eyeball black.
On the fairy tree, the red mist that was slowly swirling around the branches seemed to be attracted by something, and its swirling stopped abruptly.
A few wisps of blood mist were drawn out and diluted into the surrounding air.
All of this happened so quietly that no one noticed.
A few months later, the roses yielded another harvest.
System: "Great! It's a mutated flower!"
Not only is it an expensive mutated flower, but it also doesn't have any buffs!
In the farmland, giant flowers, some over two meters tall, are blooming in abundance.
They are completely different from normal roses. Ordinary roses grow in clusters, while these huge, mutated flowers are single plants.
Each of the black petals of this mutated rose is larger than the palm of your hand, with layers of petals curling outwards, completely enveloping the stamen.
Fu Yu clutched his chest and exhaled, "Thankfully, this time the mutated flower wasn't too terrifying."
Since everyone was in a hurry to use the points, no one hesitated and immediately started digging up the roots of the rose.
Xiao Jiu and Qian Chuan were skilled workers, and the two of them quickly dug out the flower roots.
However, this rose is a little different from the previous mutated flowers—its blossoms are too big and too heavy.
Xiao Jiu, of course, didn't understand anything about leverage points or center of gravity, so without noticing, the mutated rose he had just dug up fell to the left.
"Smack."
Upon hearing the sudden sound, Fuyu, who was squatting to Xiaojiu's left, subconsciously turned her head to look.
In the dim white light, something rolled out from the center of the huge flower.
As it rolls forward, it unravels the whisker-like structures that wrap around its body until they are fully extended before it stops rolling.
It was a very light yellow with pink veins on it, and a crack suddenly appeared at the end that was not connected to the whisker-like structure.
The crevice was filled with hollow holes of varying sizes.
Fuyu: Ah! Ah!
Fuyu clutched his head, making a silent scream.
This thing really looks like an eyeball connected by tendons and blood vessels!!
Xiao Jiu: "For Sale!"
[Sale successful, 500 points added, total points: 150,500]
Xiao Jiu ran up to Fu Yu and squatted down: "A Yu, what's wrong?"
Fu Yu was on the verge of tears: "I'm fine..."
Suanni yawned: "Didn't you think flowers with that shape smelled pretty good before?"
Fu Yu broke down, saying, "I didn't want to either..."
God knows how desperate he was after discovering that one of his exclusive food recipes was a mutated balsam flower, which looked like drooping eyeballs.
In the words of a glutton, it will also burst with juice.
Fu Yu took a deep breath: "Xiao Jiu, I'm fine, let's hurry up and harvest."
Xiao Jiu looked at his face carefully again, staring at it for five or six seconds before nodding and walking away.
The Suanni saw this scene, and only watched Xiao Jiu's back with interest, flicking its tail.
When the roses were still seedlings, there were 200 plants in total in the ten plots. Each plant had many branches, and almost every branch had a flower bud.
Perhaps for this reason, its total number did not change after this mutation, remaining at 200 plants.
The rose bush that Xiao Jiu knocked down earlier was slightly damaged, so it was of ordinary quality and only sold for 500 points.
When the harvest was finally completed, apart from one plant that was of ordinary quality, 50 of the remaining 199 plants were of perfect quality, and the rest were all of excellent quality.
The price of the mutated rose was the highest among all the flowers they had ever grown, and the total number of points sold reached a staggering 470,500.
Now that the points were earned, the system immediately began the long-awaited undirected scanning.
The total points of over 600,000 decreased rapidly, like water in a bottle with a hole, until they stabilized at nearly 500,000, at which point the system spoke.
It said, "Qianchuan, is that world with the red sky your hometown?"
Xiao Jiu tilted his head in confusion, while Fu Yu next to him stared wide-eyed in surprise and immediately turned to look at Qian Chuan.
Suanni just closed his eyes and shook his head: "Sigh, system, you really are an idiot."
Qianchuan's previous behavior clearly indicated that he didn't want to talk about this, but the system still asked him about it in front of everyone.
Suanni looked at the system with a "you're hopeless" look: "Tsk tsk."
The system belatedly realized it had done something wrong, but it was too late.
Qian Chuan was silent for a few seconds, then sighed softly: "That's right, that was the world I used to live in."
The system quickly replied, "Sorry, you don't have to say if you don't want to."
Qian Chuan shook his head: "It's not that I want to hide it from you, but I feel there's no need to say it."
He gave a smile, but it was full of bitterness: "There... is nothing left there."
The Xuan Turtle clan is born with a vast amount of spiritual power within their bodies, so even without cultivation, a demon core rich in spiritual power will form within them.
Human cultivators are unaware that when a demon cultivator reaches the end of their lifespan, the spiritual power within their demon core can be sealed.
Many demon beasts with offspring will choose to do this after realizing that they have no hope of attaining immortality. This is to give their demon cores to their descendants so that they can take fewer steps on the long road to immortality.
The Xuan Turtle clan should have been the same.
In reality, their demon cores are no different from ordinary stones, except that they are much harder than stones.
"We don't know when it started, but by the time we noticed, the spiritual energy circulation in that world had already stopped."
A sadness shone in Qianchuan's eyes: "At first, there was no rain, the rivers dried up, the grass and trees withered day by day, and finally one day, even the sun stopped setting."
In order to save the creatures in that world, the Xuan Turtle clan began to forcibly disperse their spiritual power from their bodies.
The Xuan Turtle, who should have lived for tens or even hundreds of thousands of years, gave up the path of cultivation and ascension, and died one after another.
After they died, even their corpses completely turned into spiritual energy and dissipated, and even their demon cores lost all their spiritual power and turned into round spheres like stones.
Qianchuan survived because his people sealed him away.
He was the youngest child in his tribe, and his people couldn't bear to see him turn to ashes.
So one day, as he was sleeping nestled against his mother, they sealed him away.
Thousands of years later, when the seal dissipated as spiritual energy, Qianchuan awoke.
For Qianchuan, it was just another ordinary day.
But when he woke up, he found that he was all alone in the world.
Qianchuan said, "When I crossed the cliff below the rift valley a few months ago and got there, I just felt that the place was familiar. It wasn't until I found the cemetery of my people that I realized I wasn't mistaken."
However, this time, even the petrified demon cores were gone.
The entire tomb was filled with only some fine, pebbly debris.
When Qianchuan said those words, his expression was not sad; in fact, it could be described as very calm.
But it is precisely because of this that it makes others feel extremely uncomfortable.
In the silence, Qianchuan suddenly laughed again, and said with a relaxed expression, "That happened a long time ago. Don't worry, I'm really fine. If the tribesmen knew I was still alive, they would be very happy."
He changed the subject: "System, do you know what those white creatures we saw earlier were?"
The system paused for a moment, then immediately replied, "I don't have any records of this species in my data. I'll show you what it looks like."
A silvery-white spot of light appeared on its golden, spherical body, and then a simplified image was projected into the air.
It was a creature that looked a lot like a cat, but its ears were much bigger than a cat's. If it weren't for the tuft of long downy hair on the tips of its ears and its less pointed mouth, it would look exactly like a desert fox.
The Suanni recognized it immediately: "Ah, a spirit."
"Spiritual beings?"
The Suanni hummed in agreement: "They are some little guys who are not good at cultivation, as light as paper. As for their lifespan, well... only six or seven years, but they can regenerate themselves, so they can be considered to have achieved a kind of immortality."
Fu Yu exclaimed in surprise, "Give birth to yourself?"
His eyes were still a little red, and his voice sounded a little like he was about to cry, but everyone kindly pretended not to notice.
The Suanni simply said, "Yes, they are hermaphroditic, so they reproduce through self-reproduction. Sometimes they will give birth to individuals that are different from themselves, and then that individual will stand alone and be considered another kind of spirit."
That sounds pretty amazing.
The Suanni flicked its tail and asked in confusion, "But the question is... how did he get here?"
According to the holographic scan data from a few months ago, there are no other living beings in these two worlds besides them and Granny Tai Li.
System: "This issue is addressed in the scan results."
It sorted out the data and translated it into language that everyone could understand: "It's really strange that the previous spatial gap was actually opened to the outside. He came out from there when it opened."
The Suanni's tail, which had been swaying gently, suddenly froze.
The system then said in the next second: "According to the data records of that energy fluctuation, the energy reaction at the moment of activation is completely consistent with the bio-energy on Granny Mountain God!"
"Bang!"
Everyone looked in surprise toward the direction of the sound and saw that the tip of the Suanni's tail had sunk deep into the ground, and sparks were rising all over its body.
As the sparks grew brighter and brighter, a gray claw suddenly appeared and shoved the Suanni's head directly into the ground.
Everyone stared in disbelief at the Taotie's sudden attack, while the Taotie sweetly said, "Don't be angry."
The Suanni struggled free from the Taotie's claws and began washing its face and licking its paws without saying a word, but at least it seemed to have calmed down.
Grandma Tai Li is in poor health. According to Suanni, her divine power is nearly exhausted, so waking her up will consume a lot of her remaining divine power. Therefore, they cannot wake her up for this reason.
Then we'll have to go down and take a look.
Taotie rarely spoke when it came to discussing when to go down, how to go down, and how to come back up.
He looked at the system: "System, unbind Qianchuan and the farmland and transfer them to Fuyu first. Then, give me the same rose seeds as before."
He hopped over to Xiao Jiu in a few leaps, raising his big head: "Xiao Jiu, Xiao Jiu, I need two thousand grains, will you give them to me?"
2000 grain blocks are worth 100,000 points, which is a considerable number.
Logically, the system should have muttered something, but at this moment, the system didn't say anything and just obediently started changing the rose seeds for Taotie.
Under the soft white light, when the Taotie turned its head, something resembling ripples on water seemed to appear in the air.
This thing enveloped the system and Qianchuan, but bypassed Xiao Jiu.
Taotie used its hind legs to support itself on the ground, stood up, and lay on top of Xiao Jiu.
He was now almost as tall as Xiao Jiu, and when he got close, the mouth on his big head became particularly noticeable.
Its mouth was crooked and twisted, like a broken stitch, looking very eerie.
But Xiao Jiu still did what he always did: he picked up the big gray ball of fur that was lying on him.
He sat down on the ground, let Taotie sleep on his lap, and then began to change Taotie's food.
Taotie turned around.
Throughout the entire process, this infamous beast simply watched him quietly.
The grain blocks also had to be taken out of the warehouse.
The grain blocks were always packaged in small bags of five, and 2,000 grain blocks instantly piled up into a small mountain of paper bags around the system.
Taotie then looked at Fuyu and Qianchuan: "Fuyu, you and I stay here to plant flowers. System, you take Qianchuan to the bottom of the rift valley."
After saying that, the system didn't ask a single question. As if it had been possessed, it started rolling towards the rift valley, and Qianchuan followed closely behind without saying a word.
Taotie climbed off Xiao Jiu, picked up the Suanni that had been licking its fur, and carried it into Xiao Jiu's arms. Then, wagging its tail at Xiao Jiu, it said, "Xiao Jiu, Xiao Jiu, Meow Meow wants to go too. Can you keep him company?"
Xiao Jiu looked at Fu Yu, then at Taotie, and nodded: "Okay."
After Xiao Jiu and the others completely disappeared into the darkness, suddenly, the water ripples in the air vanished without warning.
Fuyu glanced at the gluttonous beast sucking up the grain in the storm, then at the rose seeds in her hand, and made a difficult swallowing motion.
How come he and Taotie are the only ones left here?
Just as he was panicking, a paper bag suddenly flew into his arms.
Taotie said without turning his head, "If you're hungry, take it yourself. I need to eat first, and I'll come back to help after I finish eating."
Fuyu stammered a reply, grabbed the paper bag, took two steps back, and then ran quickly toward the big pot next to the farmland.
Meanwhile, the system, which had stopped in front of the rift, suddenly paused, and after a couple of seconds of stunned silence, asked in surprise, "How did I get here?"
The Suanni, which was licking its fur in Xiao Jiu's arms, suddenly stopped and froze in a position with its tongue sticking out.
He scrambled onto Xiao Jiu's shoulder and roared at the people behind him, "You just wait!!"
System: "What's going on?"
The Suanni huffed and puffed as it climbed back into Xiao Jiu's arms, its tail swishing loudly: "It was that Taotie who used his power on us! He didn't even say anything after recovering to this extent, just you wait! Humph!"
After understanding what had happened to him, the system said, "Damn it, I still have this crazy urge to rush down."
Qianchuan: "Me too."
Suanni said angrily, "Let's go, let's go down. If we don't go down, this thought will only get stronger and stronger, and eventually it will feel like claws are scratching at your brain, which is extremely uncomfortable."
System and Qianchuan: !
Having already scanned the area once before, they knew the situation at the bottom of the rift valley, so they didn't bother exchanging for any items and simply jumped down into the rift valley.
Although the laurel grass no longer blooms new flowers or glows, its resilience remains as good as before, making it a natural trampoline.
Guided by the system, Xiao Jiu and the others arrived at the cliff face.
Although the system had previously detected that the spirit was hiding below the rift, it was now concealed, and Xiao Jiu and the others hadn't encountered it along the way.
However, Xiao Jiu and the others' purpose for this trip was to check the situation at the spatial rift, so they didn't specifically go looking for it.
Just like before, Xiao Jiu held onto the system, with the Suanni on her head, and held hands with Qian Chuan.
As the Suanni's tail lit up with fire, they were instantly sucked into the cliff face in front of them.
After the cliff face returned to its normal appearance, a very faint sound of plant leaves rubbing together could be heard all around.
Meanwhile, Xiao Jiu and the others seemed to be spat out from an invisible giant mouth, falling onto the dry, cracked earth with a few plops.
The sky over this world is still fiery red, like a giant oven, and even the air is so dry and scorching that it feels like it could burst into flames at any moment.
The Suanni compared the feeling of crossing the spatial gap three times: "There's no difference, it's quite stable."
The system also said, "Yes, the results here are exactly the same as those from the non-directional scan. The current fusion rate is 2%. At this rate, it will probably take more than a hundred years to fully fuse."
The system couldn't help but feel fortunate: "Luckily, my host is a zombie, otherwise I really couldn't afford to waste this much time."
The lifespan of demonic beasts is too long. Qianchuan, who is three thousand years old, is still just a baby in the Xuan Turtle race. Suanni is even more so. Although it looks small, it may be several thousand or even tens of thousands of years old.
They went to check the location where the water flow had been discovered earlier and examined the condition of the Moon Spring that flowed from the Eternal Night World.
Just as the system data recorded, the flow of this spring is too small. After all, there are no natural weather phenomena in the world of eternal night. The amount of water produced by the Moon Spring is the same amount that flows into this world.
The system sighed: "The flow rate of the Moon Spring determines the speed of the fusion of the two worlds, and to increase the flow rate of the Moon Spring, the two worlds must be merged to create a complete spiritual energy circulation system..."
This is a vicious cycle, and there's nowhere to intervene.
Then we can only go back and wait patiently.
Just as they were about to head towards the spatial gap, perhaps fearing that everyone was still worried, Qian Chuan took the initiative to show Xiao Jiu and the others the empty, sunken underground tortoise tomb.
The tomb was very large, and it once contained thousands of demon cores of the Xuan Turtle that had turned to stone.
But now, all that remains is a small mound of earth, about the size of a palm, containing a few fragments of demon cores that look like pebbles.
On the way back, everyone was silent.
Crossing the spatial gap once more, just before the flames on the Suanni's tail went out, Xiao Jiu saw the small white creature.
Xiao Jiu: !
The tiny kitten with big ears shrank back in fright at the sudden appearance of this group of non-humans.
The fire went out.
There was not a sound in the darkness.
"Mmm..."
Seemingly noticing the other party's movement, the Suanni perched on Xiao Jiu's head suddenly jumped up: "Stop right there!"
After a chaotic commotion, the Suanni, panting, ran up to Xiao Jiu: "Xiao Jiu, sign the contract with me!"
His voice was filled with undisguised anger: "I can tolerate the Taotie, but this little thing is bullying me too! I won't stand for it!"
The system was speechless, trying to persuade the Suanni to stop its antics, when it heard that crisp sound echoing through the space—
[Ding—Congratulations on obtaining a new pet]
[Quality: Rare]
[Achievement: Obtain five different pets. Rewards are being distributed...]
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