Chapter 39 p1
◎ Game Update ◎
Yu Chi got up in the middle of the night to list a batch of food. This was, of course, not because she couldn’t sleep.
These past few days, her player shop had acquired quite a few seeds. Basically, all the common vegetables were there. She took out a batch of these seeds for normal cultivation, and another batch for giant crop cultivation.
The normally cultivated vegetables and rice were all placed in her player shop.
Yu Chi didn’t really want to bother processing these ingredients, but she believed that among so many players, there would always be experts in this area. And with the flower fairy, the cultivation of seeds was greatly simplified. She just had to wait to collect the money.
After finishing all these things in a fit of revenge, Yu Chi stuffed a petal of the iceberg snow lotus into her mouth.
The description of the spirit plant said that it could solidify the soul, cleanse the marrow, and regenerate limbs. She had originally thought of eating it when she had a severed limb someday, but now that she had nothing to do, she began to crave the effects of solidifying the soul and cleansing the marrow.
The moment the petal was placed in her mouth, it instantly melted on her tongue.
What came immediately was a huge pain in her body. Yu Chi opened her mouth, her lips instantly turning white from the pain. Beads of sweat, large and small, dripped from her forehead. She supported herself with one hand and saw the sweat drops hit the table and spread out.
Good, now I’m in no mood to think about anything else.
She couldn’t tell how much time had passed. She only felt that it was very, very slow before the pain receded like a tide.
Yu Chi felt that her body was much lighter and became very nimble, but she couldn’t find out the specific changes for a while, so she opened her personal panel.
Each attribute had actually increased by five points!
【Name: DazedFish
Player Status: Official Player
Level: 10
HP: 1040 (Stamina x20)
Skills: First Aid (Excellent), Morph (Rare), Fine Forging (Common)
Stats: Strength (4→35) Agility (6→43) Stamina (5→57) Spirit (11→65) Luck (8) [Fixed]】
As expected of a Legendary grade spirit plant. Yu Chi’s face was full of joy. This level was equivalent to leveling up twice in a row.
After torturing herself for a while and gaining the satisfaction of an attribute increase, Yu Chi finally closed her eyes and fell asleep.
When she woke up the next day, it was almost nine o’clock. Yu Chi’s eyes widened in shock at the time on the screen.
…What about waking up at 5 o’clock to practice saber?
Yu Chi sighed and accepted the fact that reality and her plan were completely different.
She steamed eight corns in the rice cooker and enjoyed the admiration of the players in the channel and on the forum while eating.
All rainbow farts. This is the life of a top player!
Yu Chi also found that since she had gone to the island and the [DazedFish Shop] had closed, the players had deeply realized the importance of life-skill players. The status of the [Dazed Cult] had actually faintly surpassed the [Grass Jelly Cult]!
However, having barely become friends with Zuo He, she had already reconciled with the conflict between the two factions.
She scrolled through the forum and channel for a while. Everyone was just chatting, and nothing new had appeared. Yu Chi stared at the soaring balance in her account, grinned for a while, and finally decided to start today’s saber practice.
For her, time was a bit tight now.
She hadn’t forgotten the prophecy Zuo He had given her before. After the natural disaster ended, the servers would merge, which meant that she only had about twenty days to prepare.
Even with fifty thousand people, the competition was so fierce. If the servers really merged, it was hard to say what would happen.
Practicing the saber was very unfamiliar to Yu Chi, but the beginning was all about laying the foundation. Her current physical attributes were very good, so this aspect was not difficult.
First was to master the correct saber-holding posture, such as a forward grip and a reverse grip, to maintain the stability and flexibility of the saber. Second was the standing posture, such as parallel stance, bow stance, and horse stance, which required controlling the body’s center of gravity to provide support for subsequent movements.
Then came the basic footwork and basic saber techniques. All changes stem from the same source: retreating and side-stepping, chopping and hacking, etc., combined with breathing, such as exerting and retracting force.
Only after mastering all of these could she begin the elementary stage of saber practice.
Thanks to her excellent physical attributes, mastering the basic saber techniques was not difficult for Yu Chi.
For an ordinary person to go from basic to elementary, even with a certain athletic foundation, training two hours a day, 3-5 times a week, would take about three months.
But now Yu Chi’s body had long surpassed that of an ordinary person. She also had a lot of training time on the boat. From waking up in the morning to the evening, she trained for almost six hours every day. From the initial stumbling to the later proficiency, it only took her a week.
Yu Chi touched the muscles on her body. They were firm and well-defined, with a unique sense of beauty.
The elementary stage of saber technique was the improvement of skills, such as combining various basic saber techniques with footwork and body movement, plus special strength and endurance training, and a sense of rhythm, etc.
But you can’t get fat with one bite. Since she started practicing the saber, Yu Chi’s temperament had also improved a lot during this time, and she had become more patient.
She planned to take it slow. In real life, it might take a year or two to reach the intermediate stage. Although she couldn’t be compared to ordinary people now, it would still take a month or two.
【DazedFish】: Found a new island. Want to go?
Yu Chi sent a message to both Li Feng and Zuo He at the same time. Of course, she could explore on her own, but after enjoying the convenience of three people, she felt that the efficiency of one person was too low.
This time, it was also a level three island, named [Phantom Beast Island]. Just by looking at the island’s name, one could know the characteristics of this island.
Li Feng agreed as soon as he saw the island’s name. His appetite was too big. The beast meat he had obtained from Cold Moon Island had already been eaten up. Many times, eating one a day was not enough.
And the beast meat stored with Yu Chi, he didn’t really want to touch. He was worried that he would have no meat to eat for a long time again and wanted to save it as a backup.
Zuo He replied after ten minutes, also with an “OK.”
Yu Chi put the more important items in her backpack, stuffed everything else into the [Two-Sided Mirror] space, made some casual preparations, and then used the Island Exploration Card to teleport.
As soon as the three of them landed on the island, before they could even speak, a terrifying pressure came over them, instantly immobilizing them. Li Feng and Zuo He’s first reaction was to struggle free. Yu Chi’s face was pale, and she whispered for the two of them not to move for now.
This strength was too unusual.
“What species are you?”
Soon, a deep voice echoed throughout the island. Yu Chi’s heart skipped a beat. Could it be that this island has native inhabitants?
She remembered the post on the forum, which made her have a bad impression of the native inhabitants… although they were the ones who had disturbed them first.
Since she was also human, she had to have double standards.
There really were native inhabitants. This voice called itself the Beast God’s Emissary. Just the voice alone brought an unbeatable pressure. The three of them didn’t know his strength, but now they couldn’t even use a teleportation talisman to leave.
“Huh?”
Just as Yu Chi was frantically thinking of a countermeasure, the voice spoke again. He used some kind of divine power to drag her whole person into the air. Li Feng, under such pressure, actually reached out to grab Yu Chi’s foot, but was instead hit by the pressure and let out a muffled groan, spitting out a mouthful of blood.
Yu Chi’s heart tightened, and she subconsciously looked at Zuo He.
Zuo He’s lips were pursed tightly. He barely moved his feet and stood in front of the kneeling Li Feng. The pressure on him increased. His face was pale, and his forehead was covered in dense beads of sweat.
“Why do you have the bloodline of a Cinnabar Finch?” The Beast God’s Emissary didn’t care about the few people’s small movements and just asked Yu Chi.
…Bloodline?
This sentence stunned all three of them.
Yu Chi blinked. [Morph] could indeed temporarily turn her into a Cinnabar Finch, but the term “bloodline” was different. However, she realized that this might be a breakthrough point. Sensing that the pressure on her had lessened a lot, she immediately transformed into a Cinnabar Finch in front of the Beast God’s Emissary.
Since he said she had the bloodline of a Cinnabar Finch, then when she transformed into a Cinnabar Finch, she was a Cinnabar Finch, not just a simple transformation.
The reason was not important. She had to deal with this Beast God’s Emissary first.
After she transformed into a Cinnabar Finch, the pressure on her completely disappeared. Yu Chi only felt a flash before her eyes, and a long-haired man immediately appeared in front of her.
“You are a Cinnabar Finch. Why have you fallen into such a state?”
Yu Chi: “…”
I also think I’m in a sorry state, but I really don’t know how to answer.
Yu Chi transformed from a large red bird into the human form of a Cinnabar Finch, and at the same time, she received the surprised expressions of her two stupid companions on the ground.
Li Feng knelt on the ground and thought, he’s a combat type, the number one on the ranking is a half-combat, half-sound attack type, and Yu Chi is a transformation type.
Changing forms, no problem.
“Hello, senior.”
Yu Chi didn’t know that Li Feng had already vomited blood and still had strange thoughts in his head. She put on a well-behaved smile, her face full of innocence.
The long-haired man had a gentle and kind appearance, and his eyes had a natural elder’s kindness. He pointed to the ground and asked in a gentle voice, “What are these two things? How come I’ve never seen this species before?”
Their appearance was similar to his after he transformed, but their bloodline was completely unfamiliar.
He had already treated Yu Chi as his own kind.
Yu Chi: “.”
What are they? It’s so hard to guess.
“They are a species called humans that I encountered during my travels,” Yu Chi forced herself to be calm. Although this Beast God’s Emissary had removed the pressure on her, the feeling he gave was still very terrifying.
The long-haired man was thoughtful: “I see. So that’s why you disguised yourself as them.”
Even he had almost not noticed the Cinnabar Finch bloodline in this little fellow. She had done a good job of disguising herself.
Yu Chi smiled and nodded, then said carefully, “They are my friends. I wonder if senior can…”
The long-haired man looked at her with disapproval. “Their strength is so weak. How can they be friends with a Cinnabar Finch?”
Li Feng: “…”
Zuo He: “…”
It was the first time the two of them had felt this kind of discrimination. Their expressions did not change, but a desire to strive for improvement arose in their hearts.
Yu Chi began to make things up: “I was once seriously injured, and they saved me, so we became friends who travel together.”
“No wonder your strength is so weak now.”
The long-haired man didn’t really care about the truth. He sighed, and the pressure on the two people on the ground instantly disappeared. “Since they are your friends, then come and be my guests.”
With just a wave of his hand, the three of them were brought to a castle by this long-haired man. Yu Chi found that there were many “people” blinking their big eyes and looking at them curiously—these people’s beast forms had not receded, and most of them had ears, tails, and so on, just like the legendary beastmen.
Yu Chi suppressed her inner surprise and tried her best to make her expression look calm.
This was really a magnificent world, but it seemed that there were no humans. She wondered if this was related to their coming to the “Sea Survival Game.”