[Blizzard has arrived. Protect your home.]
At nine sharp that evening, the blizzard notification appeared.
The blizzard would bring disaster and damage the players' homes as well.
Ye Fei walked into the yard to take a look. He had already added two more rings of fencing, and he still had some Wooden Fences in his inventory to replenish them at any time.
Outside the yard, the blizzard had twisted into something extreme. Some parts formed tornadoes that wreaked havoc everywhere, while others hurled snowballs in every direction.
"Wooo~"
Qingxue the Little Fox crouched on Ye Fei's shoulder, watching the wild, violent winds and snow outside. Her little paws clutched his padded coat, and even her ears drooped.
Although this was her first time seeing it, information about this kind of weather was embedded in her bloodline, so she instinctively felt afraid.
"It's all right. Our home is very safe."
Ye Fei cradled Little Dumpling in his palm and watched the blizzard raging beyond the yard, thankful that he had already cut down all the trees near his home.
Neither the frozen snow nor the frozen soil could stop the dead trees from being uprooted.
Tornadoes rampaging across Snow Mountain-this had to be pretty unusual weather, didn't it?
Wanting to see what others were saying, Ye Fei opened the chat channel.
But the chat was still filled with much the same chaotic bickering as during the day. Surprisingly, no one was talking about tornadoes anymore.
Surely these blizzard tornadoes weren't only happening near my home?
This feels a little strange...
After searching for quite a while, he finally found someone talking about the blizzard disaster.
But only a few people mentioned it, and others accused them of lying, so the subject was brushed aside.
"Sure enough, things have changed..."
Ye Fei was now certain that the players might already have been scattered across different locations. It was just like that Junior Schoolmate had said: the tall mountain they used to be able to see from all over Grassland had later become almost impossible to see.
The blizzard stayed outside the fence. After watching for a while, Ye Fei stopped worrying and returned indoors, leaving the window slightly open so he would hear if anything happened.
Only then did he sit on the bed and begin what he had originally planned.
Cultivation.
The Spirit-Guiding Art: Qi Intake, cultivation.
The first step in cultivation was to draw spiritual energy over, absorb it, then circulate it...
The process was tedious and boring. Perhaps because his sensitivity to spiritual energy was lacking, he sat motionless until dawn before finally sensing the slightest change as he tried Qi Intake.
Spiritual energy had entered his body. He had finally done it!
[Spirit-Guiding Art cultivation successful. Spiritual energy +1]
After Ye Fei opened his eyes, he saw a notification.
He had practiced the Spirit-Guiding Art all night and gained only one point of spiritual energy. But that single point finally changed his cultivation progress, which had still shown that he had not even begun yesterday.
[Cultivation realm: Qi intake, spiritual energy 1/1000]
Ye Fei looked at his spiritual energy reserves. His current limit was 1,000 points, yet he had cultivated only one. He really was pathetically weak.
Moreover, even at the qi intake stage, he still felt no change in his body. His combat power remained at just three.
[Grassland/0090-1144-3656: Senior, now you really are my senior! Look, look! I'm a Cultivation practitioner too!]
Early that morning, before Ye Fei had shaken off his disappointment over cultivating without feeling any change, he received a message from that Junior Schoolmate.
[Grassland/0090-1144-3656: Human (Cultivation practitioner), combat power 11]
Ye Fei opened his friend's information and saw it.
This guy had chosen cultivation too.
And his combat power had risen by another point.
[Me: Why did you choose cultivation too?]
Ye Fei sent him a message.
He did not want to ask how the other man had earned 500 Survival Points. If he could do it, it would not be difficult for the other man either.
[Grassland/0090-1144-3656: Senior, we're aiming for long-term growth. Cultivation is great! Just imagining the day we can fly on swords makes me happy.]
The Junior Schoolmate continued enthusiastically describing his hopes for the future.
Cultivation really was great.
Ye Fei felt the same way. He had a deep attachment to cultivation, and even knowing that progress would be slow, he had chosen it without hesitation.
But this Junior Schoolmate...
[Me: Have you successfully completed Qi Intake yet?]
Although he suspected the answer would leave him feeling miserable, Ye Fei asked anyway.
He just wanted to know how weak he really was.
[Grassland/0090-1144-3656: No. I tried just now, but I didn't feel anything.]
The other man suddenly had a little less to say.
[Me: I meditated all night and completed Qi Intake, gaining one point of spiritual energy. Give it another try. With your strength, you should be a little faster.]
Ye Fei sent him a reply.
He was not sure how each person's aptitude differed, but since the other man had chosen this path too, they might need to exchange cultivation insights from time to time.
[Grassland/0090-1144-3656: Senior, thanks! I'll finish today's task first, then try again. Wait for my good news!]
The reply was cheerful.
Ye Fei did not bother him any further. He got out of bed, washed up, then continued cleaning the yard.
The blizzard outside the yard was still going. Although it was not as violent as the night before, the swirling wind and snow still obscured his view.
"Ying, ying~"
The little fox woke up and found Ye Fei missing. She ran out the door, spotted him, then jumped onto his shoulder and tilted her head to nuzzle his cheek.
"You're awake? I'm not sure whether we can go out today. Let's tidy up the house first, have breakfast, and see how things look."
Ye Fei glanced at the wind and snow beyond the fence and explained the current situation to the little fox.
Although the chances of Little Fox understanding were practically zero, Ye Fei had grown used to telling her about everything.
"Ying, ying!"
Qingxue the Little Fox lay obediently on his shoulder. Her eyes were also fixed on the wind and snow beyond the fence, tracking certain things hidden within it.
After sweeping the yard, Ye Fei went inside to prepare breakfast. The little fox jumped off his shoulder and went out to play in the pine tree in the yard.
By the time Ye Fei finished making breakfast and went outside to call the little fox in to eat, the enormous creature in the yard nearly scared him out of his wits.
"Qingxue, where did you drag this back from?!"
Ye Fei took a step back, clutching his Longbow. The fingers gripping the bowstring were trembling.
He had only been making a meal, and his little fox had already brought him such a huge surprise?
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