Travelers from Another World

Ali looked at the options before her.

[Option One: Esteemed Goddess of Life, World Tree Cheng Jue, what can we do for you?]

[Option Two: Esteemed Goddess of Life, World Tree Cheng Jue, may we become your strength?]

Looking at the two options, Ali could not help complaining, "Is there any difference between these two choices?"

"Esteemed Goddess of Life, World Tree Cheng Jue, what can we do for you?"

Since they were both the same, Ali casually picked one and said it.

Ali saw World Tree Cheng Jue nod in satisfaction after hearing her answer, then she said:

"While observing the world, I discovered that a great calamity will soon descend upon the Primordial World. Travelers, I appreciate your desire to help me, but your strength is still far too weak..."

A great calamity! Ali pondered it, then typed into the party channel:

[ID Ali: Everyone, could the great calamity the goddess mentioned be the Beast Calamity?]

[ID Young Mistress: Beast Calamity? What is that?]

Seeing Young Mistress's reply in the party channel, Qi Lin, standing beside her, gave her a curious look.

Seemingly sensing Qi Lin's gaze, Young Mistress glared back as if to say:

"I was born overseas. Of course I don't know these local mythological legends."

Qi Lin nodded as though enlightened, then replied in the party channel:

[ID Tianhe Sheriff: The calamities passed down in Primordial World mythology are the Beast Calamity, the Dragon-Phoenix Calamity, the Witch-Demon Calamity, and the Investiture Calamity.]

[ID Young Mistress: Then, according to what the goddess means, the Beast Calamity is about to begin?]

[ID Ali: Wouldn't that put the goddess in grave danger? During the Beast Calamity, even the weakest were Daluo Golden Immortals.]

Dun Qu Qi Yi, who had remained silent until now, felt her heart skip a beat when she saw this. Big Sister's realm is only at the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal stage, right? It will be very difficult for her to survive this calamity.

Just as Dun Qu Qi Yi's expression was about to crack, fortunately, Qi Lin spoke up.

[ID Tianhe Sheriff: Not necessarily. According to the records in mythological legends, this calamity mainly concerns the Fierce Beasts transformed from Chaos Gods and Devils, and the Innate Deities and Demons formed from Chaos Gods and Devils who survived Pangu's opening of heaven.]

[Fierce Beasts wished to devour the Primordial World and obtain Pangu's comprehension of the Great Dao, while the Innate Deities and Demons wished to comprehend Pangu's Dao and advance their own Dao another step. Thus, the Beast Calamity began.]

[ID Dun Qu Qi Yi: Then the goddess can safely survive the first calamity? That's wonderful.]

What they did not know was that a system interface had also appeared before their goddess, who watched their conversation with great interest.

Safely survive? They think too highly of her. Which calamity did not sweep across the entire Primordial World? Let alone the very first Beast Calamity. Cheng Jue smiled bitterly to herself.

Still, what warmed Cheng Jue's heart was that they were worried about her.

Then I should arrange more missions for the Travelers. With that thought, Cheng Jue looked at Ali, who was communicating with her, even more kindly.

Cheng Jue said gently, "Travelers, I am very happy that you are willing to help me. But your strength is far too weak. Before long, the World Gate developed by Sumeru and Fontaine will be installed at Traveler Camp. It connects to a world filled with evil and darkness."

For the World Gate to achieve the ability to travel between worlds, Cheng Jue merely used the power of her own World Tree to connect the Grotto-Heaven World and Hell with a single line.

As for the World Gate's purpose, it was only to stabilize that line and prevent the connection from breaking apart.

Even without using the World Gate, Cheng Jue could easily send the players to Hell. It would simply be too troublesome.

Since Cheng Jue controlled the space within the Grotto-Heaven World itself, why not open a tunnel between the two worlds?

Thus came the Astral Express Project, jointly participated in by Sumeru, Fontaine, and Natlan.

This World Gate was merely an early component of the Astral Rail Project. It had been sent here only because Lesser Lord Kusanali had said that preliminary experiments were needed.

Wasn't that perfect? This place lacked everything except players. When the time came, Cheng Jue could issue a mission to explore Hell and casually test the World Gate's effectiveness as well.

With that in mind, Cheng Jue said solemnly, "Traveler, are you willing to venture into a perilous world and grow stronger?"

Without even looking at the system prompt that had appeared, Ali said, "Goddess, I am willing to help you and venture through unknown worlds."

Ali had not followed the prompt at all, catching Cheng Jue somewhat off guard. Yet after hearing Ali's words, Cheng Jue nodded in satisfaction.

Not only Cheng Jue, but even Hongmeng and Xiao Yi, standing beside Cheng Jue, nodded with satisfaction.

The moment Ali finished speaking, the system's voice rang out once more:

[Ding]...

All the players opened the system mission panel and found that a mission had appeared on it.

[Main Story Mission Activated...]

[Chapter One: Travelers from Another World.]

[Mission Description: The World Gate jointly developed by Sumeru, Fontaine, and Natlan will soon be constructed at Traveler Camp. Before that, you must become official classes.]

[Mission Activated: Reach Level 10 and advance to an official class.]

[Time Limit: None]

[Player Limit: None]

[Mission Tip 1: The other world is extremely, extremely dangerous. Travelers will need equipment from Mondstadt and Liyue, which can be exchanged from the traveling merchant Jiu Yue.]

[Mission Tip 2: Jiu Yue's goods require currency. The Adventurers' Association has a large number of bounties suitable for your current level. Completing bounties will earn considerable Mora.]

[Mission Tip 3: Main story missions carry high risks. Please ensure you have revival attempts before combat. Players with the revival debuff will not lose levels after dying and reviving, but each debuff can only revive you once.]

[Mission Tip 4: Revival attempts can be purchased from Skadi using Creation Crystals.]

Revival attempts were merely Cheng Jue's adjustment to the revival mechanic. The original rule, where players had to level up all over again after dying, had only been meant to make those overly unruly players behave themselves.

To make players work and fight even harder, Cheng Jue had deliberately added the revival mechanic.

Creating a body only consumed mana and spiritual energy. To Cheng Jue, already a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal, that was utterly insignificant.

On the other hand, the Genesis Crystals in the players' hands were truly valuable. They contained Merit, and the Merit currency issued to the players was the genuine article.

They could be used not only within the Grotto-Heaven World; even in the Primordial World outside, they would be recognized by Innate Deities and Demons.

With this exchange coming and going, Cheng Jue used spiritual energy to trade the players for solid Merit.

Therefore, if players wanted revival attempts, they needed to obtain Merit. As for how to gain Merit, they needed to eliminate Demonic Beasts and accept missions from Katheryne...

"This main story mission..."

Seeing the system prompt, the players outside the air wall grew excited...

"Looks like this is an early-stage mission. There'll be a dungeon mission afterward."

"There are even revival attempts... Good heavens."

"A treasure!" With a thump, Lord Xin dropped to his knees among the players outside the air wall.

When everyone looked closely, they were shocked to discover that he was only Level 4. Even the lowest-level players were already Level 7.

How did he even level up? He doesn't even know how to play a game. That was everyone's reaction.

Lord Xin wanted to cry but had no tears. He had already lost count of how many times he had died and how many times he had started leveling from scratch.

Then the Goddess of Life, World Tree Cheng Jue, said from within, "Travelers, thank you for your support. To help you grow more quickly, I will grant you corresponding rewards."

At those words, Ali, Young Mistress, and Qi Lin all trembled slightly.

"The mission is complete. We finally have mission rewards."

Ali could not help cheering excitedly, "Long live the goddess!"

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