A Brief Stroll

The figure of the Taiyin Human Emperor vanished, leaving behind only a cubical person made of pixels with a blank expression, and a young girl in an ancient-style dress.

The girl lowered her head slightly, showing the reverence a descendant would have for an ancestor, and didn't look up for a long time.

Fang Zheng was still busy looking around. After a few minutes of floating sprints through the void, he finally noticed them. He looked left and right, and the atmosphere became a bit awkward. He cleared his throat and broke the silence first: "Uh, you can look up now. Miss, elder sister, fairy, how should I address you?"

Jiang Tingting responded softly, then looked up and replied respectfully, "My surname is Jiang, my given name is Tingting. I have received the grace of the Taiyin Human Emperor senior and learned the 'True Scripture of Taiyin'. Since you are a friend of the Taiyin Human Emperor senior, please address me as you see fit."

Looking at the scene before him, something he had only seen in TV dramas, Fang Zheng felt even more awkward. If the Block Person had toes, he would have wanted to dig them all out.

He said uncomfortably, "Uh, you don't need to be so respectful. I'm not much older than you, we're peers. Just talk normally, it feels weird like this."

Jiang Tingting still replied respectfully, "Senior is joking. I am only 205 years old and am merely in the second realm of the Immortal Platform. How could I dare compare myself to senior?"

"Ah? 205!" Fang Zheng stared at her face, which looked at most sixteen or seventeen, and said in surprise, "But I'm only in junior high, 13 years old. Ah, no, counting the MC world, I should be 18 now. But my great-grandmother who passed away when I was in elementary school wouldn't even be 80 if she were alive now!"

"People in your Cultivation World look too young, don't they? You're older than my great-grandmother's great-grandmother," Fang Zheng couldn't help but exclaim.

Jiang Tingting was a little surprised by Fang Zheng's childishly astonished tone.

Although the Taiyin Human Emperor had already informed her through Divine Sense that this Block Person was his friend, and that she should take care of him as a junior because he had a youthful heart.

She had originally thought that the Block Person senior had cultivated some secret technique, like the Jiang Family's Divine King Jiang Taixu, and had lived a second life, thus shedding his old body and returning to youth in body and mind.

But she hadn't expected him to say he was only 18, and that his deceased great-grandmother wasn't even 80?

For cultivators, this age was too young!

Moreover, if his deceased great-grandmother wasn't even 80, did this Block Person named Fang Zheng only start his cultivation path in this generation?

However, despite her surprise, Jiang Tingting didn't ask further. She simply stopped being as reserved as she would be when facing someone of an ancestor's generation.

She said with a faint smile, "The Taiyin Human Emperor senior instructed me to take good care of you and ensure you have a pleasant time."

"Except for the Jiang Family's forbidden areas, you can go anywhere within the Jiang Family's territory. Now, I will take Senior Fang Zheng to appreciate some of the better scenery of the Jiang Family."

Looking at the magnificent spiritual rivers and mountains around them, which would be impossible to see on Earth, Fang Zheng also became a little excited and said to Jiang Tingting, "Then introduce me to some interesting places. I want to have a good time."

Jiang Tingting smiled slightly and began to stroll with Fang Zheng in the mountains.

She looked at the Block Person's block-like legs, which bounced around on the ground without bending, and explained as they walked, "Senior, please look. We are currently on one of the many sacred cultivation mountains of my Jiang Family, named Qingming Mountain. The earth's vein power is rich in yin energy, which can guide the yin fire of the earth's veins to refine pure yang energy..."

As they walked, they saw that Qingming Mountain's terrain resembled a coiled dragon lying in a deep pool, with the main peak piercing the clouds. The summit was covered in ten-thousand-year-old ice year-round. Amidst the swirling clouds and mist, the sword marks and Dao Patterns left by the Jiang Family Sages of ancient times could be vaguely seen emerging in the void.

Below the mountainside, it was densely packed with ancient trees. The bark of the ancient trees was cracked like the scales of a true dragon, and thick vines coiled like qilin dragons, even faintly taking on dragon shapes.

Mountain streams cascaded down from broken cliffs. The mist refracted sunlight, forming a colorful Bifrost. At the bottom of the stream lay an unhatched Ice Flood Dragon Egg, obtained by a Jiang Family senior after slaying a Demon Dragon. On every full moon night, it would emit a faint blue glow.

To Fang Zheng, the greatest feeling from these sights was their beauty.

He was just a junior high school student who hadn't read much and wasn't good at Chinese, so he couldn't come up with more flowery words.

He had never traveled far from home in his life, and the only mountains he had climbed were a few small, barren mountains near his hometown.

After transmigrating to the MC world, everything he saw were mountains made of pixel blocks, each uglier than the last. They looked somewhat presentable from a distance, but up close, they were simply eye-sores.

And within the Mighty Passes of the Immortal Ascension Road, although there were various mountains and trees, they were all ridiculously large.

It's important to note that Fang Zheng was not a cultivator. His visual range and the range of his telescope were not very far.

In the Mighty Passes of the Immortal Ascension Road, a leaf was as large as a mountain, and a mountain was as large as a planet. From afar, he could only see a dark, general outline. Too close, and he couldn't see any scenery.

It wasn't until he was brought here by the Taiyin Human Emperor that Fang Zheng finally saw the Cultivation World he had imagined while secretly reading Xianxia Novels in class.

On Qingming Mountain, although the earth's vein yin energy was abundant, it did not extinguish life.

This mountain was tens of thousands of meters high and occupied an area of hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, a super spectacular sight that could never be seen on Earth.

Its height alone surpassed Mount Everest by several times, and its land area was equivalent to a medium-sized country.

It was less like a mountain and more like a country with a high altitude, teeming with countless rare and exotic beasts, and a profusion of various flowers and trees.

Although Fang Zheng couldn't identify any of the plant species, he just felt that the scenery everywhere was beautiful.

As they walked halfway up the mountain, Fang Zheng spotted a kingfisher. Its feathers were as brilliant as amethysts, and its chirping was pleasant to the ear.

Fang Zheng chuckled, opened his flight ability, and rushed over. The kingfisher, which was happily chirping, turned its head and was startled by the strange-looking Block Person. It let out a squawk and flew away in a hurry, unable to find its way.

Continuing forward, an Old White Ape, over two meters tall with silver-white fur, carefully carried two crystal-clear large peaches and walked slowly.

From the ape's kind and benevolent face, Fang Zheng saw an expression of cautious flattery.

The Old White Ape approached, holding the peaches, and respectfully knelt down, as if to offer the peaches to Fang Zheng and Jiang Tingting.

Seeing that Fang Zheng did not move, Jiang Tingting remembered what the Taiyin Human Emperor had said – that this Block Person senior seemed unable to hold things with his hands. So, she took the initiative to reach out and accept the peaches from the White Ape.

Then, she flipped her palm, condensed a drop of Moonlight Essence with the Taiyin Power within her body, and flicked it into the White Ape's mouth.

Fang Zheng asked curiously, "Is this big white monkey a monster? How old is it?"

Jiang Tingting explained to Fang Zheng, "This can't quite be called a monster, it's just a Spirit Monster. It's the Old White Ape from a monkey tribe living on this mountain. I encountered it by chance thirty years ago when I came here to cultivate."

Jiang Tingting put away a peach and took a bite. The sweetness of the peach spread in her mouth. She said, "Senior Fang, although the Spirit Peaches in this mountain are not very old, they are sweet and delicious. It's a pity that you seem unable to taste them."