CHAPTER 296: CHAPTER 296: LET’S GO, START PIONEERING!

"No, no!" Wan Mingchuan hurriedly waved his hand in denial, "Who cares about being some young patriarch? I’m not interested!"

"If you’re not interested, why not refuse? If you truly don’t want it, you should have refused when they offered it."

"Ah, Long bro..." Wan Mingchuan, seeing the situation, could only use his trump card, hugging the other’s arm and shaking it, "I’m just inexperienced, not stupid. I can still tell who’s good to me and who’s not.

I know master and grandpa are the best to me, and you all are the second best in the world. I’m reluctant to leave everyone. But the reason I didn’t refuse is because I have my own plan!

Mother sacrificed her divine soul to give me a chance of survival, and what did Lin Shuo do?

He didn’t even search seriously for a few days before marrying a new noble lady who could help him in snatching the patriarch position. Such a person doesn’t deserve to be my father, so..."

He almost impulsively revealed his plan but managed to swallow it back and diverted the topic, "Luckily, you and Sister Hu helped, and they voluntarily offered an opportunity to enter the Silent Cultivation Tower for closed cultivation.

Long bro, that tower is extremely important to me; otherwise, I wouldn’t put on a good face for Lin Shuo!"

"Is that really so?"

"Absolutely! I’m going there just for the Silent Cultivation Tower. When I come out from cultivation, you’ll understand my reasoning."

"I have no interest in knowing what your reasoning is." Bai Yunqi rolled his eyes dismissively, though the anger in his eyes had already dissipated.

Hu Zhile covered her mouth and laughed, "So Little Chuanzi is such a good actor, even deceived me. When you hesitated, I really thought you considered staying. Later, when we went to see that tower together, Senior Bai was hinting strongly to uncover Lin’s big pretense, fearing you’d be fooled due to inexperience."

"Thank you, Sister Hu, thank you, Long bro!" Wan Mingchuan grinned broadly at the thought of possibly teaching them Heavenly Level cultivation techniques personally.

Bai Yunqi, knowing his young age and inexperience yet not foolishness, and acknowledging his favor, felt very pleased.

He then urged them not to bother him for a couple of days if there’s nothing urgent and slipped into the Spirit Pool to study a new cultivation technique.

"Sister Hu, is there another bucket?" Quietly sitting by the river for half a day, Yun Shu, almost ignored by everyone, came over holding a fishing rod and a full bucket of fish in her right hand, "There are so many fish in the river; they don’t fit in the bucket."

Hu Zhile turned her head and widened her eyes, "You caught all those fish?"

In the morning, when Jiang Yuan went out, he left her to watch the house and thought she might as well catch fish since she had nothing else to do, just handing her the fishing rod, thinking that if she could catch a variety of fish, they could be directly kept in the fish pond.

Unexpectedly, Yun Shu, without saying a word, managed to fill the big bucket with fish.

"Master didn’t teach me how to use a fishing rod, so I can’t fish." She extended her slender left hand in demonstration, "To complete the task assigned by the master, I subdued them when I saw the fish."

Saying this, a few light blue arcs of electricity were released from Yun Shu’s left hand, circling around.

Just then, Jiang Yuan came out from the kitchen with a sumptuous lunch to call everyone to eat and was stunned at the scene. Isn’t this electrofishing?

However, she obviously controlled the intensity well, enough to stun the fish without hurting them, and could scoop them directly into the bucket, where they would recover after a while.

Truly an intelligent automaton from the Otherworld!

Just wonder how much "power" she consumes; it’d be great if a more economical power source than Immortal Jade could be found.

After lunch, tasks were assigned. Xiao Bai went into closed cultivation temporarily, and Yun Shu took his place to help with land reclamation.

[Consume Wood x100; Planks x80; Iron Ingots x38; Copper Ingots... to Repair the Broken Wooden Bridge]

Jiang Yuan stood in front of a dilapidated wooden bridge connecting two areas, clicked repair, and the bridge was enveloped in gray mist. After several seconds of clanking from within, the progress bar filled, and the gray mist dissipated, revealing a brand-new bridge in front of everyone.

"Wow!" Wan Mingchuan exclaimed, even after seeing it so many times, "It’s amazing!"

Yun Mo and Hu Zhile nodded in agreement;

Yet Yun Shu evidently couldn’t quite grasp it, tilting her head and pondering for a while before stepping onto the new, sturdy bridge, revealing a deep confusion in her eyes.

"Master, do puppets have intelligence?" Wan Mingchuan, carrying an axe, crossed to the other side and began chopping a big tree, asking quietly, "If they do, where does it come from? If not, isn’t she unable to think?"

Jiang Yuan considered that this thing shouldn’t be understood as a chip-equipped intelligent robot and replied, "If intelligence can emerge, it probably belongs to the category of Artifact Spirit. It’s born from weapons or items filled with spiritual energy, coupled with certain conditions for catalysis..."

"Demons!" Before he could finish, Wan Mingchuan answered, lowering his voice further, "My grandpa told me that some old objects after existing for a long time can turn into demons.

He said there was once a family with a hereditary jar that somehow became spiritual and could speak! Later the family was so frightened that they smashed it with stones, burned it in a fire for half a day, and buried it in a pit. But the person who smashed the jar died of illness within days."

Jiang Yuan:...

It’s not entirely wrong to understand it that way. Since the system identifies Yun Shu as having self-learning ability, she should be considered intelligent, right?

Sooner or later, it’s better to have the meticulous Hu Zhile gradually guide her to become more and more human-like, increasingly intelligent!

"Phew!"

A gust of wind swept over the newly unlocked land, and the dense forest moved with a terrifying roar of beasts, giving an unavoidable sense of danger.

"In the farther forest, there seems to be something frightening and huge." Hu Zhile sniffed the incoming wind, her expression grave, "It feels like the aura of a gigantic Demon Beast, maybe already dead. I didn’t catch the scent of anything alive."

Yun Mo flapped his wings, took off, looked around briefly, and shook his head, "That forest is still shrouded by some unknown power; it’s impossible to see what’s inside."

Jiang Yuan nodded, signaling them to continue their work, thinking that ununlocked regions by the system certainly couldn’t be peeked into. Considering the area of land unlocked each time, further exploration may have to wait until the homeland levels up to about level six or seven. Who knows what secrets remain on this vast land.

Lately, there hasn’t been a channel to acquire that senior named "Ya"’s diary. Nobody knows where he has gone. The SOS signal previously received by the Teleportation Array, could it have been from that senior who explored Shuiyun Lake, leaving numerous traces and clues, and then vanished?

As for the Heaven-Reaching Wood he was searching for on the Deserted Island, who knows whether he found it...

"Phew!"

Another wind mixed with roaring sounds passed by, making Jiang Yuan involuntarily recall when he first bonded with the system and entered the Wilderness World. Back then, to disguise itself, the system even deliberately played soothing background music, which would stop or change style upon leaving the yard to distinguish scenes.

Additionally, with precise data, farming felt pixelated too. Each hoe dug thirty centimeters deep, and digging a few more times could turn the soil a meter deep, completely defying the laws of physics. It left him feeling for a long time as if he had fortuitously entered a mobile game.

Thinking about it now, he wondered again, if crossing into the Otherworld was a given, why did the system go to great lengths to disguise the real world as a game?

Could it have been to ensure that people enjoy the experience without any pressure?