Fame Spreads Across the World, an Immortal Cultivator's Tomb Appears
A system commendation appeared in the Fairness System's Mission Hall, surrounded by auspicious clouds and radiant colors as immortal music chimed.
The commendation read: "Congratulations to Wen Ziqian, Zhou Yu'an, and Shen Zhixia on successfully cultivating rice with a yield of a thousand jin per mu.
It is hereby named 'Wen Ziqian Rice,' and a reward of 100 million Energy Points is granted. This notice is issued as encouragement. We hope you will continue to improve and develop more high-quality food crops."
The sensational news of the commendation instantly spread to more than 80 million system hosts.
Astonished discussions erupted one after another, quickly reaching the top of the trending lists on the forum and TikTok.
The comment sections were instantly flooded with discussion:
"This is ridiculous! I thought the reward for an invention would only be a few million Energy Points, but the system went straight to 100 million! That's incredibly generous!"
"I've been working myself to death promoting System Seeds in Changxing Prefecture and haven't even earned 10 million Energy Points. Meanwhile, Wen Ziqian and the other two got 100 million in one go. I'm jealous, and I'm putting my real name to it."
"The system's rewards are really generous as long as you complete the missions! I'm going to do research and invent something too, and make a killing in Energy Points!"
"If rice that yields a thousand jin per mu is widely cultivated, there'll be plenty of food. Think how many fewer people will starve to death. They really deserve that 100 million reward!"
"There was actually enough food to go around before, but the great clans and powerful elites hogged it all. Ordinary people had no land to farm and no money to buy food, so refugees and beggars were everywhere.
Now that the system's here, beggars can sell a few Energy Points and survive. The system has truly saved countless people at the bottom."
"Exactly! Now wealthy merchants and great clans are frantically driving up prices to buy Energy Points. The competition's fierce, and plenty of people have benefited.
And farmers who've learned martial arts can work their fields quickly and easily. It's completely different from before!"
"Isn't anyone jealous that Wen Ziqian and the others are famous throughout the world? Nobody had even heard of them before, and now, all of a sudden, they're celebrities known to everyone!"
"I'm jealous! This is the first time the system has personally issued a commendation, and every system host saw it. Their fame is skyrocketing!"
"The system even named the rice he created after Wen Ziqian. You could say his name will go down in history, his glory remembered for a hundred generations.
If I could achieve something like that, I'd be willing to die right now."
Wen Ziqian and his two disciples stared at the commendation that had appeared. Their faces were flushed with excitement, and their bodies trembled.
One hundred million Energy Points! A whole hundred million!
They had never dreamed they would receive such a generous reward, much less expected the system to publicly commend them and make their names famous in an instant.
Wen Ziqian had been somewhat well-known before, but at most, only a hundred thousand people had known of him.
Now, though, all the system hosts knew their names. Whose blood wouldn't boil with excitement?
Wen Ziqian exclaimed, "We have to keep working hard, cultivate even better grain seeds, and spread Wen Ziqian Rice to more places!"
"Yes, Master!" Zhou Yu'an and Shen Zhixia were just as excited, answering in unison.
Shen Zhixia suddenly had an idea. "Master, there's only so much the three of us can do. It would be wonderful if everyone in the Shennong Sect could bind the system."
"Everyone could use the system to make rapid progress in cultivation, and we'd have more people researching together, speeding up the improvement of food crops."
Wen Ziqian's eyes lit up, and he nodded. "Zhixia is right! We'll spread the rice first, then return to the Shennong Sect and have everyone bind the system. We'll get all the sect members and disciples involved in researching and improving food crops!"
Three months later, in the Shennong Sect, Wen Ziqian and his two disciples had returned to the sect, traveling day and night without pause after finishing the rice promotion.
To them, time was Energy Points.
As soon as they returned to the sect, Wen Ziqian couldn't wait to introduce the system to Sect Master Li Xuan and the six elders.
Seeing the doubt on all seven faces, Wen Ziqian promptly stopped explaining.
He exchanged for seven System Seeds from the system and held them out, gesturing for everyone to bind them.
Li Xuan and the others completed the binding, still half-convinced. When the system interface unfolded before their eyes, revealing its wondrous functions and the profound, unfathomable cultivation methods in the store-
Everyone's eyes widened, their faces filled with shock and wild delight.
Li Xuan stared at the cultivation methods in the store, breathing rapidly. Suddenly, he slammed his hand on the table.
"Today, I'm going to make a decision that defies our ancestors."
"We'll upload and sell every cultivation method in the sect, including our inherited cultivation methods, and exchange them all for Energy Points!"
"At the same time, we'll organize the disciples to devote themselves fully to improving food crops. We'll also send people everywhere to promote the system. We must seize this opportunity to make a fortune!"
"Wise decision, Sect Master!" the seven elders chorused. Not a single one objected to selling the inherited cultivation methods.
They understood that the sect's existing cultivation methods truly weren't worth mentioning compared to the top-tier manuals in the System Store.
It was wiser to cash them in while they still had value.
Otherwise, if the system deemed those cultivation methods worthless in the future, or someone else uploaded them first, they would lose out badly.
Everyone present was a veteran of the jianghu with decades of experience. Naturally, they grasped the stakes as soon as they were pointed out.
At that moment, Liu Yi stared nervously at Little Yellow, his palms sweating.
During this time, Little Yellow's strength had progressed by leaps and bounds with the system's help.
Now Little Yellow was attempting to break through to the Divine Sea Realm.
Suddenly, a dazzling yellow light burst from Little Yellow's body. A powerful presence spread out in an instant, then quickly withdrew.
Little Yellow slowly opened his eyes and called out awkwardly, "Master."
"That's wonderful! Little Yellow, you've finally broken through to the Divine Sea Realm and can speak!" Liu Yi was thrilled.
"Master! Little Yellow can really talk!"
Little Yellow hopped and jumped with excitement, circling Liu Yi over and over, his tail wagging like a propeller.
Liu Yi immediately put away his smile and warned him seriously, "Little Yellow, remember, you must never speak casually when you're outside. If someone mistakes you for a dog demon and kills you, what an unjust death that would be!"
Little Yellow drew back his neck in fright, his ears drooping, and hurriedly nodded.
"Don't worry, Master. Little Yellow will be careful and keep his mouth tightly shut outside!"
Watching Little Yellow nod earnestly, Liu Yi nodded in satisfaction.
Though Little Yellow usually loved playing pranks and causing trouble, he had never dropped the ball at a critical moment.
"Go stabilize your cultivation first." Liu Yi's expression turned serious as he waved Little Yellow away.
Only after Little Yellow left did he lazily collapse into a rocking chair and scroll through TikTok and the forum out of sheer boredom.
Suddenly, one video made him sit bolt upright, his gaze as sharp as a hawk's.
The screen showed a barren mountain somewhere in Changxing Prefecture. As the camera shook, a tomb covered in runes appeared and disappeared from view.
"An immortal cultivator's tomb found in Changxing Prefecture? Judging by the footage, it really does look like an immortal cultivator's burial place."
He rubbed his chin and murmured to himself, a blazing light kindling in his eyes.
But he quickly suppressed the impulse. "There's no need to rush. I'll wait and see first."
With the help of the Subsystem Computing Power Matrix, Liu Yi had now comprehended 512 Great Dao Principles from various martial arts manuals.
But he was still 2,488 short of 3,000 Great Dao Principles.
Of course, the so-called three thousand Great Dao Principles was merely an approximation.
In truth, the Great Dao Principles between heaven and earth were as vast as a sea of mist. There were far more than three thousand.
If he could get his hands on profound immortal cultivation manuals, perhaps he could comprehend even more Principles from them.
After all, immortal cultivation manuals contained more profound truths of the Great Dao than ordinary martial arts manuals.