Subtle Influence

"There's no reason for this. Could I have misunderstood?" Feng Xue sat in front of the Thatched Shed, slowly scratching at the Coffin board, secretly wondering to herself. The second closed beta test had been running for half a month, but the players' enemies were still those small animals in the mountains. Some players even went to the County Town to wash dishes for restaurants in order to earn money. She heard that someone had even applied to be a head chef, hoping to use Real World recipes to give this Wuxia World a little culinary surprise.

It seemed like nothing, but it was quite different from what Feng Xue had expected. According to his understanding of the rhythm of online games, as players entered the game, there should be some humanoid monsters or hostile forces that would start attacking. Whether they were bandits or outlaws, players should at least have a way to fight monsters and level up.

Even if this game doesn't seem to have levels, you still need equipment and money. Otherwise, with this kind of get-rich-quick scheme, it would take half a month to learn even the basics at a martial arts school. Once the initial novelty wears off, wouldn't everyone become a casual player?

He knew this world was a Real World, but since it involved Weird Tale, these Weird Tale had to at least conform to the characteristics and authority of a game. With this slow and leisurely pace, Feng Xue didn't know when she would have a chance to show off her skills!

"Sigh--" Feng Xue sighed and glanced at Yun Yao beside her. With the help of modern technology, the girl had finally managed to extract the song "Winter Solstice". Feng Xue could only accept it with a displeased expression.

At this very moment, she was practicing the Crane Stance – a single-leg stance developed by Feng Xue based on the standing posture of birds such as the red-crowned crane and various stance training methods. It trains the lower body, balance, and temperament, and also makes it convenient for instruments such as the Erhu, guzheng, and guqin, which require a seated posture, to be played at any time. The three rock-style anchors practiced this before.

However, the Game System's assistance to players seems similar to the Tag given to Infinite City; to delve deeper, one still needs to practice on their own. Seeing Yun Yao trembling all over, Feng Xue mercilessly carried the Coffin board over and placed it on her curled-up legs.

"Ah!" Yun Yao, who was already feeling weak all over from standing, was suddenly weighed down by a heavy object. She lost her balance and fell to the ground. Before she could speak, Feng Xue sighed again:

"Your health is terrible! With this level of skill, I Think you should give up martial arts. I know a few brothels; how about I introduce you to a musician job? At least you'll be set for life. Don't worry, they're all legitimate courtesans; they wouldn't allow someone like you to go out and solicit clients."

"Who wants to go to a brothel!" Yun Yao, who was about to complain, exploded upon hearing Feng Xue's words. She gritted her teeth, forced herself to stand up straight, and said angrily:

"You suddenly put such a big board up there, I definitely wouldn't be able to react in time!"

"Is it big? This size is the standard size for a guqin, and because it's hollowed out, it's even lighter. If you think this is too heavy, a guzheng would be even heavier!"

Seeing that this girl was indeed easily provoked, Feng Xue grinned. Although he didn't quite understand the game's progress, creating a unique Tag for this world seemed like a good idea.

For example, the "devil teacher" type is quite interesting.

Seeing Feng Xue's smug expression, Yun Yao almost gritted her teeth to powder, but giving up felt like a defeat, so she could only stubbornly persevere, while complaining:

"Isn't there some kind of secret manual or something?"

"What secret manual do you need for a stance training exercise? I've already taught you all the key points. If you don't understand something, just ask me, right?"

"I..." Upon hearing Feng Xue's words, Yun Yao initially wanted to say how could she use the system to learn without the manual, but then, realizing that NPCs wouldn't understand this, she First Turn:

"It doesn't have to be stance training, I'm just bored standing here and want to look at something to distract myself... Ah! Why did you hit me?"

"I've already told you that standing meditation is for adjusting the balance of mind and body. How can you maintain balance when you're distracted? Saying something like that proves you haven't listened to anything I've taught you. Tell me, don't you deserve to be hit? If you're afraid of being hit, then don't do this job!"

After Feng Xue finished speaking, he returned to his seat. Of course, he knew that giving players the secret manual would allow them to learn faster, but that would make him different from other NPCs. It was precisely this uniqueness that created a sense of "specialness" and allowed players to make more connections.

"I'm determined to learn it!" Yun Yao gritted her teeth, watching Feng Xue begin humming a tune, her resolve growing stronger to master it. However, at the same time, a new idea dawned on her—

"He doesn't have a secret manual, but I can write one myself, right? Players proved during the first test that anything in the Game World can be identified, so how can my own secret manual not be a secret manual?"

As this thought arose, Yun Yao's mind became increasingly active, and then Feng Xue noticed that in the following days, Yun Yao asked him more questions than usual.

From seemingly trivial questions that even a child could understand to rather profound ideas, and even a few sketches he drew for her guidance, Feng Xue couldn't help but wonder what had made this guy put aside his arrogance as a player.

Unbeknownst to Feng Xue, Yun Yao's booklet containing information about the Crane Standing Posture grew increasingly thick.

However, when Yun Yao thought there was nothing wrong with her handwritten manual and used the system to examine it, she suddenly realized with embarrassment that she seemed to no longer need the manual...

"Ughhhh, it's great that I learned it, but I'm so annoyed!!!"

After logging off, Yun Yao, increasingly angry, stomped her feet repeatedly until her left leg went numb before finally stopping. She then reopened her computer, uploaded the music she had recorded that morning, and skillfully began transcribing the score.

"Zheng zheng zheng--"

The phone suddenly rang. Yun Yao instinctively kicked her right foot, trying to pick up the phone that was lying on the bed by turning her chair. But instead of getting the phone, she fell to the ground with a thud. Looking around in a daze, she realized that her chair had been lying to the side the whole time.

"I... I wasn't even sitting in a chair?"

Yun Yao felt a little dizzy, even wondering if a Transparent Person had entered the house. However, the constant ringing of her phone finally made her put aside her chaotic thoughts and pick up her phone.

Hello, who is this?

"Hello, this is the Dog Game Store. You have been selected as..."

"Beep!"

Hanging up the harassing call, Yun Yao tossed her phone onto the bed. Looking down, she suddenly realized what had happened. Without realizing it, she seemed to have gotten used to resting in this one-legged, air-stool position...

"So what's all this about?!"

[Settings determine the upper limit, perception determines the lower limit]—just twelve characters, is it that hard to understand?

Is it genuine incomprehension or just deliberate nitpicking to constantly suggest "finding a medieval or ancient era to create an omniscient and omnipotent entity"?

No matter how high-end your goals are, it only guarantees that you can reach that level at your maximum potential. You need sufficient knowledge to truly achieve it.

How many people were there in the Middle Ages? Could they possibly support an omniscient and omnipotent being?

Moreover, as I mentioned from the beginning, Weird Tale from different worlds are counted separately (in the vampire era, if you create vampire Weird Tale in a world without vampires, then you are the originator of vampire Weird Tale in that world).

Although multiple Weird Tale with the same attribute can stack their power (Sea Monk), they are actually multiple Weird Tale. That is, the Weird Tale in world A and the Weird Tale in world B do not share powers and cognition (they only share Tag).

You can use the powers of world A in world B, but replicating the same Weird Tale will only give you one more Trait with the same name. So even if you create omniscient and omnipotent Weird Tale in multiple worlds, you'll only have one half-baked version, not a truly omniscient and omnipotent one.

In a sense, Old Li, that Qigong Master, was a low-budget version of omniscience and omnipotence. But even at his peak, he was just a mini-superman, not truly omniscient and omnipotent, because a mere few hundred million people couldn't support such a grand Weird Tale. Of course, if you can find an ancient, mentally challenged world with trillions of people, then go ahead.

Finally, to say that such a world is unreasonable and doesn't exist... that's just absurd, okay? This story is purely fictional, please understand! If you want to take this seriously, go watch a realistic drama, okay?