Taiyin raised an eyebrow as he watched his Block Person friend produce a bottle-shaped object that looked like a thin wooden board, then wave his hand and make the wine in the cup vanish into thin air.
Fang Zheng then looked at the extra bottle in his hand and in the potion bottle slot of his Inventory, excitedly beginning to drink it.
After a series of "glug glug glug" drinking sounds, he finished the liquid in the bottle, only to be deeply disappointed. "It still doesn't have any taste."
So far, the few substances Fang Zheng had collected from this world seemed to possess the same properties as their original versions. In other words, they should have had flavor.
Yet he still could not taste anything. That could only mean this immortal, indestructible Block Person body simply lacked a sense of taste, just as Fang Zheng lacked a sense of touch.
Though disappointed, Fang Zheng was still happy—happy that he could communicate normally with an intelligent being.
Although they still did not share a common language, he chuckled and said, "Thanks for the drink. Want to try mine?"
As he spoke, he checked through his Inventory and took out Minecraft foods such as Honey Bottles, Golden Apples, Golden Carrots, and cake, once again trying to toss them in front of Taiyin.
"You can try them, but first, see if you can pick them up."
"Oh?" Taiyin looked hesitantly at the dropped items before him, which resembled paper cutouts and floated above the ground as they spun endlessly.
He remembered that the Block Person had thrown these things at him a few days ago.
But at the time, he had only been a wisp of resentment, without his sanity restored, so naturally he had not reacted.
Now, when he swept them with his Divine Sense, he sensed nothing at all. He could detect no laws within those floating paper-cutout-like items, nor could he determine how they hovered or what material they were made of.
These things seemed to be nothing but illusory shadows...
No! Even pure light could be captured by Taiyin. These things were not even light and shadow.
Taiyin did not hesitate and immediately reached out to pick one up.
But when his hand approached, the floating dropped items moved directly away, as though an invisible force field made them repel the approach of all objects.
He raised his brows and extended a trace of Divine Power, shaping it into an invisible giant hand that enveloped them completely before tightening.
Yet even so, the dropped items, with all escape routes fully sealed, passed straight through the entire range of Taiyin's Divine Power as if through empty air. Just as Fang Zheng could clip through matter, they passed directly through and emerged outside.
Seeing this, Fang Zheng felt somewhat awkward. "Uh, well... it really looks like you can't touch them."
After lowering his head to think for a moment, Fang Zheng suddenly had an idea.
In the Minecraft world, most blocks were unaffected by gravity. Once placed, they could float in midair even if there was nothing beneath them.
Only a small number of blocks, such as sand, lava, and water, along with dropped items, would fall under gravity.
And dropped items that had been collected into the Inventory and then thrown out were generally miniature versions of the original blocks or tools.
Dropped items were also different from projectiles like Throwable Healing Potions, as well as fired arrows, tridents, and other launched objects.
On their own, they did not possess the functions of their original blocks or tools. Only after being picked up, equipped, or placed by players, Zombies, Skeletons, or Endermen could they return to their original state.
If they were not picked up and used, they would automatically despawn after five minutes.
However, although they could not be directly touched and picked up, it now seemed that the laws of the two different worlds had some common ground. Otherwise, Fang Zheng should not have been able to collect substances from this world.
Therefore, if he could make them appear in three dimensions, perhaps he could bypass the problem of being unable to touch them directly.
After a brief moment of thought, Fang Zheng opened his Inventory, took out a chest, and placed it directly on the ground.
He then placed the Honey Bottles, cake, Golden Apples, and other foods and potions unique to the Minecraft world into the chest one by one.
Fang Zheng called out to Taiyin, "Um, do you want to try taking something out from inside?"
Watching Fang Zheng's actions, Taiyin could not help but grow curious.
He stared at the square wooden chest before him and remarked, "This chest really is all edges and corners, just like you, Daoist friend."
Taiyin reached out to touch the wooden chest, only to discover that although it appeared to have seams, he could not open it.
He used a little more force than an ordinary mortal could muster, and numerous crack-like marks appeared across the chest's surface. But when he stopped exerting force, those cracks quickly vanished.
Taiyin then tried probing it with his Divine Sense, but still found nothing. To his Divine Sense, it was merely a Black Domain whose interior could not be observed at all.
After pondering for a moment, Taiyin curiously imitated Fang Zheng's movements and waved his right hand at the wooden chest from close range.
In an instant, an inexplicable square interface suddenly appeared across the right half of Taiyin's vision. It was a rectangular interface divided into countless small grids, with a partition in the middle, directly blocking part of his field of view.
It had to be known that Taiyin was a Supreme Being. With his secret art, the Taiyin Moon Pupils, he could look down upon galaxies and pierce through the laws within Heavenly Tribulation clouds. Ordinary objects could not block his vision at all.
Yet at this moment, the right half of his vision had inexplicably vanished. Even when he secretly activated Taiyin Power, moonlight gleamed in his eyes and strange phases of the moon shifted within them, he still saw nothing at all. Only the box composed of countless small grids remained crystal clear.
However, as a cultivator, Taiyin's senses did not consist of sight alone. His Divine Sense and other senses continued to function normally.
He curiously observed the objects in the small square grids on the right. They were extremely crude pictures pieced together from different little squares, resembling several bottles of liquid, a piece of cake, and two fruits.
With a thought from Taiyin, one item in the box on the right disappeared.
He took a step back. With a creak, the opened chest closed, and the box that had completely blocked Taiyin's vision closed along with it.
But Taiyin wore a strange expression as he looked at his hand. A golden fruit shimmering with purple radiance was held in his grasp.
This Golden Apple was no longer a thin paper-like dropped item like those in Fang Zheng's hand. It was a three-dimensional Golden Apple, though it retained the same pixelated style, like building blocks assembled from countless tiny golden cubes.
Seeing this, Fang Zheng excitedly stepped forward and circled around Taiyin.
"Just as I thought! The laws of the two worlds can interact! In other words, as long as the right conditions are met, people in this Xianxia World should also be able to use some Minecraft items!"
"Quick, try it! See what a Golden Apple tastes like!"
"See what it tastes like..." Taiyin glanced at the excited Fang Zheng and had already roughly understood what he meant.
As a powerful cultivator standing at the peak of a world, although he could not communicate with Fang Zheng through Divine Sense, Fang Zheng had been chattering nonstop these past few days, and Taiyin had learned some of Fang Zheng's language.
As long as they talked a little more and Taiyin obtained enough linguistic information, he would be able to fully understand Fang Zheng's language and communicate normally.
Looking at the golden fruit-shaped object in his hand, formed from countless small golden cubes and glowing with purple light, he still could not discover anything through Divine Sense.
Still, he did not hesitate. He brought it to his mouth and took a bite.
"This... feels so strange."
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