Setting Out Again

After leaving Jeston in that twin world, Feng Xue decisively returned to the Tower of Babel. She even spent several months laying the groundwork for herself to become Weird Tale. Although there were reasons for the frequent downtime and maintenance during the Closed Beta, considering Jeston's intelligence, it would be remarkable if she could create the first Weird Tale within two or three years.

However, Feng Xue wasn't in a hurry. In two or three years, even if Jeston didn't succeed, other players would become Weird Tale. He could just find someone he didn't like, kill them, and see how it went. It wouldn't stop him from doing something else.

Moreover, there isn't much to explore in the Game World itself, because ultimately, in the eyes of players, no matter how many tricks you pull, it's just a set of "code," something the designers did. Even if related Weird Tale do appear, they point to the "tricky designer" rather than the "tricky character" created by the trickky designer.

Don't be fooled by his "[Skill Tutor Who Plays with Coffin board]" Weird Tale; who knows, there might be another Weird Tale about a designer who designs NPCs later on.

That Weird Tale likely points to the game- Supernatural Tale Itself.

Creating something functional might be fine, but if you want to create supernatural Weird Tale with high-level elements like "[all people in Yan Kingdom know martial arts]", "[all things have spirits]", or "[Mysterious Lord]", you still need to find a proper world.

"But this can't be rushed. It's not like I can open a door every time I drink a bottle of Lucky Milk, right? If I did, I could make a fortune selling milk at a stall, wouldn't I?"

Despite saying that, Feng Xue still bought a carton of milk from the vending machine at the Tower of Tower of Babel and casually synthesized it into Lucky Milk.

"Hey, that was pretty good!"

Just as Feng Xue was about to go back inside to drink milk (the door was already connected to the martial arts Game World and was fixed in the open state), a voice came from behind her. Feng Xue turned her head and saw Cain with purple eyes and brown skin standing not far away.

"Manufacturing Type abilities shouldn't be uncommon in this tower, right? But this thing works pretty well, do you want to give it a try?"

Despite the fact that this "ancient god" could walk silently and even bypass her senses, Feng Xue still adopted a respectful attitude towards her senior. Even though the Tower of Babel could not fight, it was best not to offend such a person who completely ignored her senses.

Although Feng Xue spoke kindly and sincerely offered the milk, Cain sighed and said:

"There's nothing I can do. I'm cursed. Any food, whether it's crops or livestock products, will turn into dirt and become inedible if I touch it. Even Phantom Object can't defy this supreme rule."

"Ah..." Feng Xue then remembered that Cain was indeed punished in the legends to be unable to accept any food from the earth. This is why Cain was later made into a vampire in fan fiction. After all, according to the logic of foreigners, if you can't eat, then drink blood.

Feng Xue could only express her helplessness regarding Cain's fate, and lamented that he had never been to the world of the Yan Kingdom system, otherwise he would probably be Breathing Technique the essence of the sun and moon by now.

The Tag of the Human Ancestor!

Even if he's not the Human Ancestor from the Eastern tradition, the Supernatural Tale Itself have the characteristic of having a grand, overarching setting. If this character were to enter a prehistoric world or a fantasy world with a merit or wish system, wouldn't he be set to take off?

However, this thought was fleeting. In the end, Feng Xue was not yet qualified to acquire this Tag, which was almost exclusively reserved for those Innate Supernatural Tale.

It's not that we can't get it, but this thing requires too much time to develop.

For example, if Feng Xue wanted the "Human Ancestor"Tag, the best way would be to find a world, kill all humans (of course, it would be even better if she could find a world without humans), leaving only a few women, or directly bring women from other worlds to that world, have them conceive in the Infinite City, and then give birth in that world, thus creating a new human race (the protagonist has the "[Human]" Tag, but the main problem is that she cannot give birth in the Infinite City and cannot conceive in the Real World).

After a dozen or so generations of reproduction, when humanity has multiplied to a level sufficient to condense Weird Tale, he will naturally become the Human Ancestor.

However, putting aside whether such behavior is against nature or violates one's own principles, the first thing is that it would take hundreds of years, and at least none of the Wu from Infinite City have the resources to do so.

Of course, it's not impossible to take shortcuts. For example, you could find an uncivilized primitive country, brainwash people, and create myths. Although the quality of the knowledge generated by brainwashing is extremely poor, as long as the descendants of these people grow up in such a culture, it will only take twenty or thirty years to form a specific Tag.

The quality will be poor simply because there are so few people.

After exchanging a few casual words with Cain, and casually mentioning the legends of spirits that absorb the essence of the sun and moon (light radiation?), Feng Xue turned and went home.

Feng Xue chugs down the entire bottle of milk, once again Lucky Charm the "Disintegration Iron Man" and "Lucky Cat" skills.

"If the door opens again this time, it will prove that this milk really does have this magical effect."

Thinking this to herself, Feng Xue first checked her equipment, and then took out a Jade Pendant that looked quite oriental from the box that was specially used to store True Thing collected from various Garbage Dump.

This Jade Pendant plaque is made entirely of the finest mutton-fat white jade, about the size of a palm, and is engraved with two large characters, "Xuan Xin," in ancient script that is incomprehensible even without the power of Translation Konjac.

"Judging from the design of this token, it's either from a martial arts or fantasy story, and it belongs to a powerful and wealthy family. Otherwise, they wouldn't have cut such fine jade into this shape just to make a token."

With that thought in mind, Feng Xue decided to create a fantasy Weird Tale in the Xianxia genre this time. She then started walking and pushed open the doors of the villa one by one.

Bedroom, bathroom, attic, study...

As the door to the kitchen was pushed open, Feng Xue's vision suddenly blurred. Her open kitchen, which was originally filled with all kinds of ultra-modern technology, transformed into a cramped corridor filled with cooking fumes as the glass door was pushed open.

"Hiss... Is this some kind of kitchen in the Apartment Building?"

Almost instantly upon seeing the passageway filled with all sorts of Miscellaneous Item, Feng Xue understood what kind of place this was. After all, during his childhood, he had lived in an Apartment Building where several families shared a single gas stove and toilet.

"Judging from the conclusion, it's actually a modern society. Hmm, maybe this token belongs to this world from hundreds of years ago? Or perhaps... it's a forgotten artifact?"

Feng Xue muttered to herself, but didn't linger there. After all, while not everyone in Apartment Building was poor, judging from the variety of Miscellaneous Item in the alley, they probably weren't wealthy. Plus, with the simple stoves that reflected the era, computers and the internet were out of the question.

If you want to gather information, perhaps you should look for a more bustling neighborhood.

(You'd never guess what kind of crap I threw this time...)

I was too lazy to even say anything, but some people keep irritating me with their ignorance.

First of all, that statement, "Isn't cultivation just a system from Qi Refining to Foundation Establishment to Mahayana, and finally transcending tribulation and ascending to immortality?" is so ignorant it's headache-inducing, and it's the most absurd kind of statement—"because I only know this, I have to use this thing to summarize everything."

The progression from Qi Refining to Nascent Soul and then to Mahayana was popularized by novels like The Journey of the Immortals. You could say it's a school of cultivation, but you can't say it's the entirety of cultivation. This is because the traditional cultivation path of Refining Essence into Qi into Qi, refining Qi into spirit, refining spirit into emptiness, and refining emptiness into the Dao only has four realms, which wasn't enough to cover, so it was expanded upon by the author.

Then the question arises: the first step of this traditional approach is Refining Essence into Qi into qi, which means transforming one's own essence into qi. Since qi is generated by oneself, what does it have to do with external spiritual energy?

Moreover, cultivation is a real-world concept. Whether it's using a false form to cultivate or using a Yin or Yang spirit, it predates your Nascent Soul and Mahayana cultivation by a thousand or two. As for spiritual energy... the so-called Qi cultivation in novels is actually borrowed from Daoist Qi refining. It's just that back then, the input method couldn't find Qi, so it became spiritual energy.

If you insist on taking this seriously, try to understand what the concept of "qi" in traditional Chinese philosophy is. Its essence is flow and interaction, which is the law governing the operation of the world. In other words, your so-called saying that "without spiritual energy, it's like a fish out of water" is nonsense. Without the laws governing the operation of all things, everything is just chaos.

There's more to come, but I can't write anymore. I'll continue in the next chapter.