On the Creativity of Sand Sculpture Players

"Fellow Immortal Palace Disciples, ferocious beasts have been appearing frequently near the Immortal Palace lately, endangering the people!"

"We cultivators should take it upon ourselves to slay demons and vanquish evil. Are you willing to rid the people of this threat from ferocious beasts?"

The moment Ye Yu finished speaking, the sand sculpture players were all fired up.

"Is this a quest?"

"No doubt about it. It's a quest! This game is seriously interesting. It looks like quests aren't fixed either—they need to be triggered randomly?"

"My god, a quest finally showed up! I was just wondering why the NPC recruited us into the sect and then completely ignored us!"

"Stop talking and accept the quest already!"

Without a second thought, the six players accepted.

They still had not figured out how this game worked. Now that they had finally triggered a quest, why would they wait around instead of taking it?

Once all six players agreed, a line of text instantly popped up on their quest panels.

Sect Quest—Eliminate Spotted Wolves!

The quest prompt could not have been simpler.

However, Gu Du and the others were veteran players, so they naturally would not be at a loss over where to begin.

After issuing the quest, Ye Yu ignored the players and turned to enter the Main Hall.

Seeing the NPC leave, Gu Du and the others did not think much of it.

However, they did not rashly rush off to do the quest. Instead, they gathered together to discuss it.

Gu Du was the first to speak.

"What do you all think about this quest?"

Hearing Gu Du's words, Ye Nima spoke with a worried expression.

"I'm a little concerned. We have nothing right now—no skills, no equipment, not even starter gear. Can we really kill these Spotted wolves?"

The others all nodded in agreement.

"Yeah. We're supposed to kill wolves. With how realistic this game is, these Spotted wolves must be vicious. Can we really take them down?"

"This game is ridiculous. Why didn't it even give us beginner equipment?"

"I think that since the NPC gave us this quest, it means we can definitely handle it. We just haven't found the right method yet!"

"True. This game has to be an open-world sandbox game, and an extremely difficult one at that. But that's what makes it fun!"

Everyone talked at once, yet none of them got to the heart of the matter.

Seeing the conversation gradually go off track, Gu Du shook his head.

"Listen to me."

"This game is completely different from the ones we used to play!"

"We can't judge it based on our past gaming experience!"

"We need to actually use our brains to play it!"

Everyone nodded in unison.

He was right. What game had they ever played that was this cryptic, with no prompts for anything?

"The quest information only tells us that we need to eliminate a monster called a Spotted wolf!"

"No matter what level this monster is, since its name includes the word wolf, it must be a Wolf-like creature. I don't need to tell you how vicious wolves are, do I?"

"So we need to put our brains to work and win through intelligence!"

Gu Du looked at everyone and spoke slowly.

Hearing him, everyone fell silent and began thinking carefully.

After a few minutes, the player whose ID was Ye Nima hesitated before speaking.

"I have an idea, but I don't know if it'll work!"

"When Dan Dan and I were rummaging through things earlier, we saw plenty of Incense Ash in the incense burner in the Main Hall!"

"When we run into those wolves, we can throw Incense Ash at them..."

Before Ye Nima could finish, Gu Du's eyes lit up.

"Great idea!"

"Back then, Wei Xiaobao threw lime during fights. Today, we'll throw Incense Ash while killing monsters! Hahaha!"

Gu Du laughed. He genuinely thought it was a great idea.

It was a little underhanded, but what could they do? They were all only level-one noobs right now!

With Ye Nima's suggestion leading the way, the others seemed to have their minds opened in an instant, one wild idea after another bursting forth!

"I think we can dig a trap and lure the monster into it!"

"There's a bamboo grove on the mountain. We can cut down some bamboo and sharpen it into spears!"

"Wait, what are we going to use to cut the bamboo?"

"There's a kitchen in the Rear Hall. I saw a Kitchen Knife earlier. A Kitchen Knife should work for cutting bamboo, right?"

"In that case, we can stick sharpened bamboo into the trap too. If the wolves fall in, maybe they'll get impaled to death!"

"I remember wolves like meat. Isn't there smoked meat in the kitchen? We can..."

Everyone chimed in at once, coming up with several ideas in the blink of an eye.

Although they sounded somewhat far-fetched, Gu Du and the others felt they were workable!

After all, this game was so realistic that it seemed no different from the real world!

Hadn't humanity's ancestors relied on these methods when they hunted?

With their plan settled, everyone immediately split up and got to work!

Inside the Main Hall, Ye Yu watched the six sand sculpture players begin bustling about, and he could not help but grow curious.

To be honest, even he could not guess how these sand sculpture players planned to complete the quest.

After all, while Spotted wolves were not especially powerful, they were among the first species born after the Divine Domain was created.

Under normal circumstances, the players probably would not be able to kill a Spotted wolf without dying several times.

However, players possessed limitless creativity.

For all he knew, this bunch might really manage to Hunt the Spotted wolves.

A short while later, the six sand sculpture players headed down the mountain in a grand procession.

Seeing the long bamboo poles in their hands, Ye Yu could not help shaking his head.

However, compared to the bamboo poles, the Kitchen Knife in Xiong Da's hand made Ye Yu's cheek twitch several times!

These players had even put the kitchen's Kitchen Knife to use. They truly took things to another level.

The most outrageous one was Ye Nima, who had actually carried off the incense burner from the Main Hall!

They really are worthy of being called the Fourth Catastrophe!

Ye Yu sighed inwardly.

He did not interfere with the players' actions.

After all, he knew that the quest he had just given them was indeed rather difficult for them.

It was all because they were too poor!

"Here!"

"We'll set the trap here!"

Gu Du stopped, surveyed the surroundings, and spoke.

Naturally, the others had no objections.

They immediately rolled up their sleeves and got to work!

Good lord, this group was actually using spatulas to dig the trap!

But they had no choice. They did not have any proper tools.

In fact, if the system had not specifically added a kitchen to the Rear Hall for the sake of plausibility, they probably would not even have spatulas to use!

After working for half the day, a pit trap roughly one square meter wide appeared before them.

"Damn, it's finally done. I'm exhausted!"

"No kidding! We dug this thing with spatulas!"

That one trap alone had worn the six players out like dogs.

After resting for a moment and recovering a little stamina, Gu Du glanced at everyone.

"Now, split up and look for monsters!"

"Whoever finds one, lure it back here!"