NOVEL WEB Chapter 19: Game System Upgrade
After gaining a skill, Li Chunhua placed the little fox in the bedroom and began helping him remove the toxins left by her dish.
In the midst, she began to sniffle up because, besides being a salted fish cook, cooking was her hidden dream, but ever since she blew up the kitchen in the Master's pavilion, her Master had forbid her from entering the kitchen again, and as a compensation, her Master would fetch people to bring her food every day.
Her Master would usually visit the Mortal Realm to conduct investigations about the sightings of demonic creatures, and while at it, he didn't forget his disciples. He would come back every time with gifts and lots of delicious delicacies.
Inner disciples had already practiced grain liberation, but, though an inner disciple as well, Li Chunhua's interest in food outweighs her interest in cultivation, so she only takes Biguo pills when she's about to break through.
Li Chunhua inserted a strand of her qi onto the little fox's body, letting it flow along his meridians, and closed her eyes. After a few seconds, she saw the faint black strands slowly streaming towards its lower abdomen, where his essence core was located. Li Chunhua carefully separated these impure strands and guided them to exit Little Mantou's body with extreme concentration.
If Little Baozi's Master were present, he would surely be startled because Little Baozi rarely displays such behavior. On normal days, this little lady would just lay somewhere in the pavilion or rock formation, read books, and eat snacks. Even if her Master chided her and pushed her to work hard, Little Baozi would pretend to agree before returning to her humble abode and adopting a languid lifestyle.
But even so, Little Baozi didn't slack on her cultivation. Every night, she would sit in a lotus position and absorb qi essences until morning.
Her Master eventually gave up when he saw her cultivation had made some improvements.
When roughly five minutes had passed and there were no more impure strands left, Little Mantou showed signs of awakening. Li Chunhua retrieved her qi and observed her little brother's condition.
She saw that the HP bar was slowly being filled up.
Out of nowhere, a loud fart resounded in the bedroom, followed by a suffocating smell. The Little Fox, who was asleep a moment ago, opened its eyes and started squirming in the bed while letting out farts. "What's happening to me?"
Li Chunhua pinched her nose before responding, "Your body had impurities, so I had to remove them from your body." At the same time, her eyes traveled down on its little butt that was still blowing out farts nonstop.
The stench was so bad to the extent that Li Chunhua surrendered, "Ah, Little Mantou, I've forgotten I have something to do."
Then she ran out of the house before greedily inhaling the fresh air. "Ah, I'm alive."
The little fox, in the midst of its salsa dance, fleetingly recalled what Master said: "Who is Little Mantou?"
However, before he could investigate any further, his stomach went berserk. The Little Fox searched for the toilet in the house and squatted down, releasing a series of stench bombs thereafter, the stench was great that if there were any living creatures around, they would pass out just from taking a whiff.
"..." Li Chunhua, who had just gotten her air freedom, ran out of the fence and never stopped sprinting until it was safe to breathe. She swore she definitely saw her health being reduced by [-10] every second when she inhaled the stench.
Maybe she needed to used a different method of healing next time.
I'm sorry Little Mantou!
The little fox that had just finished his 'business' crawled out of the toilet weakly with its drained expression. If there was any person nearby, they would have heard it cursing under its breath.
Meanwhile, in the Global Chat, players were in the middle of a debate because the two global announcements were made just seconds after each other. It was quite suspicious, leading some to associate 'Player Anonymous' with being the owner of the Salted Fish Territory.
But for a Powerhouse Player that most of the other players pictured as a burly man with jam-packed muscles to choose a territory name like Salted Fish, it sparked a lot of theories.
[Beep Bibimbap]: Think about it. Little Brother Baozi said the portal to summon natives would open in a few minutes, and the system had retrieved all the monsters; besides Player Anonymous, who tamed a familiar, there was no one else. Or could it be that players can invite other players to be their residents?
No one answered that question because they didn't know if it was possible, and those who knew the answer chose to shut up because it might trigger a storm.
[Brother Niu]: You have a point, but it's still a little hard for me to agree.
[Beef Noodles]: I reckoned it's really Big Brother Anonymous because it somehow fits his achievement. He is so ahead of the others that he named his territory 'Salted Fish'.
[Ni Ni]: Brother Beef, mind if I ask you what's your territory name?
[Beef Noodles]: There's nothing more to ask; it's 'Heaven Soaring Sect.' One day, I'll crush the monsters under my feet, and I'll soar to the sky and meet heavenly beauties.
[Brother Niu]: Pardon Brother Beef. He must be talking while he's asleep.
[Seafood Noodles]: Brother Niu, are you a prophet because Brother Noodle had just woken up from an afternoon nap and was still drowsily talking to himself?
[Brother Niu]: I expected it. Don't worry. No one was poisoned by his shamelessness.
[3580]: +1
[Under the Earthen Sky]: +1
The heat in the global chat was still on-going when there was a system notification appearing in front of everyone, and it's actually the long-awaited system upgrade.
Everyone left the chat and listened to the emotionless voice attentively.
[The system upgrade had been successful.
The true global apocalypse descended. The world will undergo changes, and in the midst, the battle of ten thousand races will commence.]
[The strong will prevail, and the weak will be eliminated. Within seven days, the game system will give protection to your territory and prevent zombies and beasts' attacks from harming you. After seven days, the first horde will arrive, and you need to defend your territory at all costs, especially the territory crystal. Failure to do so will result in the player's extermination. Remember, you only have one life.]
[Within seven days, the environment will undergo drastic changes. The weather will be unpredictable. Zombies and beasts from other civilizations will come knocking, and they are out to hunt you down.]
[The game system will bestow on you a summoning gate, which will allow you to summon natives to help in your future battles. Players have 10 weekly chances to summon natives, and in order to summon, you must prepare offerings, which are not limited to copper coins, food items, wood, skill cards, weapons, equipment, gems, ores, and so on.]
[Summoned natives have grades from one-star to be the lowest and five-star as the crème' of the crop. The greater the offerings and the greater the luck the player possessed, the higher the chance to summon natives with professions.]
[Every territory building has strategic functions....]
Some of the players who listened to Baozi were grateful.
[Equipment and materials will also have a graded system, with mythical as the peak followed by, in decreasing order, legendary, epic, gold, silver, bronze, copper, and white.]
No way! Who said that there was only white equipment?
[The territory and individual ranking systems will be opened after the one-week novice period.]
[The most important thing is to level up. You will be able to get experience points from killing zombies and beasts.]
[The class pool will open at level five. Players are encouraged to level up fast and obtain their profession.]
There's a class pool!
[Lastly, I wish you all good luck. The true global apocalypse will begin! ]
Li Chunhua, from a distance, saw a huge white arch appear on the back of her thatched cottage.
She plugged her nose with the torn fabric from the clothing equipment before sprinting back, planning to summon her first native.
Even with her territory full of someone's stench bomb, Li Chunhua still went back, determined to summon a cook otherwise she will have to starve because Player Hua's cooking quota per meal couldn't satiate them both.
[A/N: What do you think her first native will be?]