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Chapter 86: Observations in the Blocky Town
Chapter 86: Observations in the Blocky Town
Cao Hui, who was floating on the water vein, was stunned.
He looked at the blocky town with its drastically different style, then at the square-shaped world around him, his eyes widening, his vertical snake pupils gradually becoming round.
"This is the totem realm of the God of Abundance, the Fertile Plains?"
Subconsciously, Cao Hui glanced at the water vein map again, then at the bustling Qingqiu and the desolate Chaoyang beside him, confirming his current location.
"I didn't come to the wrong place..."
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"This is indeed a narrow strip of land between Qingqiu and Chaoyang, a unique geographical environment that the God of Abundance calls an alluvial plain."
"This place is indeed an open totem divine realm. Although there are certain restrictions on outsiders like me, I have not sensed any malice towards outsiders."
But... why is the style of this divine realm so strange?
At first glance, it seems quite suitable for mortal beings to live in, very peaceful and serene.
But when he opened his senses, he found no cultivation resources, only neat squares.
It doesn't resemble at all what a divine realm, a totem wielding the power of abundance, should look like.
For example, there's Cao Hui, the totem who wields the power of Orange Light.
The divine realm will be built in the most grand, magnificent, and resource-producing way possible.
Don't be fooled by the fact that the Orange Light Divine Sea didn't gather many incense offerings before; all its other resources were coveted by the many sacred mountains surrounding it, each with its own totem.
The fine sea sand along the coastline of the Orange Light Divine Sea, spanning billions of miles, is a special material capable of gathering the power of stars.
Not only can it be used as building material and material for refining spiritual artifacts, but it is also a special bloodline resource that can be refined and transformed into nourishing bloodline potential. It is also an immortal being with an affinity for starlight and a stronger digestive ability.
Within the Orange Light Divine Sea, there exists a species of shellfish called Star Shells. They consume these fine sea sands, accumulating over time to form a bead they call "Starlight Pearls," which slowly enhances their bloodline power and aids in their transformation.
The seawater of the Orange Light Divine Sea, needless to say, is also a bloodline resource that slowly nourishes one's own bloodline.
As for the minerals deep in the trenches of the Orange Light Divine Sea, the various crops planted in the shallow sea, and the fish raised in deeper areas... these resources, which require a long time to harvest, are even more important cultivation resources.
Although Cao Hui's current cultivation level is completely beyond the reach of these resources, the Heavenly Python Clan has gradually developed by relying on these cultivation resources.
In Cao Hui's understanding, as a totem that wields the power of abundance, even if it is still young, it still possesses the power of heaven and earth at the same level as the phoenix, and the resources within the divine realm can definitely be described as "rich".
"Why are there only blocks here?"
"However, apart from the lack of various resources, the town has a rather unique style."
The town is surrounded by verdant mountains, with golden grains laid out, and the rustling sound conveys tranquility and peace.
In front of the town stands a memorial archway inscribed with the two Daoist characters "Chen Ming". The archway is made of rough wood with a mortise and tenon joint structure and is square and upright.
The beams and pillars of the archway are faintly entwined with the patterns of heaven and earth, carrying a sense of antiquity, simplicity, and vastness. The whole structure has a certain "squareness", and one square vine after another climbs on it. Without careful observation, it is difficult to discover its wonders, and one can only feel a certain visual "comfort".
Beneath the archway lay two square-shaped dogs with cow horns on their heads.
Their bodies were made of square stones of white, brown, and black, and they had fluffy hair and were very sturdy.
Its eyes were two dark, square stones, their gazes somewhat blank, and the way it looked as it stared back at the road it had come from was rather endearing and simple.
Cao Hui admired it for a while, and sighed in his heart: "The God of Abundance is indeed a totem from outside the Nanshan Mountain Range. The pantheon it belongs to is powerful and has a very rich foundation."
"After looking at it for a while, you can appreciate a novel kind of beauty and feel a subtle, different kind of cultural charm from the Nanshan mountain range."
"I find it hard to describe accurately in words, but it just looks very comfortable."
"It looks more comfortable than my divine palace, even more comfortable than some buildings above the Dan Cave."
Just as Cao Hui was thinking this, a small fox with two tails and a light yellow body ran out of the blocky town, came to a lush tree, activated its power, and stretched out its fox paw to gently pat the green block that looked like a combination of branches and leaves.
"Splash..."
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"Splash..."
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The green cubes, interspersed with branches and leaves, trembled slightly, scattered, and disappeared into the air, as if disintegrating into strands of heaven and earth, merging into all things in the universe.
The next moment, several orange-yellow, square fruits fell from the green squares mixed with branches and leaves, and were picked up by the light yellow fox.
"Um?"
Watching the little fox carry a bunch of orange-yellow fruits back to a house in the town, Cao Hui was somewhat stunned again.
At this moment, within his perception, the pale yellow fox was holding a cultivation resource that replenished his vital energy and blood, a resource for achieving immortality.
"The blocks have become resources?"
Cao Hui's gaze, and his corresponding senses, couldn't help but look further into the distance.
There was a little dog with cow horns, who was using the power of heaven and earth to manipulate a tool similar in style to these cubes, waving it at clumps of golden, rustling, square-shaped, and rather loose-looking "grass".
"Splash..."
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"Splash..."
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"Splash..."
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As the golden "grass" continued to break apart, handfuls of unknown grains emitting a faint fragrance fell to the ground and were collected by the little dog with cow horns.
This is a special cultivation resource. Although it belongs to the mortal realm, the faint fragrance and lingering tranquility it carries make Cao Hui certain that this resource can still play a certain role for most ordinary immortal beings who have only undergone three transformations.
If one does not seek any benefit to cultivation, even a being that has completed six transformations could, after consuming large quantities of this unknown grain, satisfy its daily needs without additional resources, maintain its original cultivation level, and feel full.
"The blocks have become resources again."
Above the water vein, Cao Hui's expression became subtle, finding the way this resource appeared quite novel.
A sudden surge of curiosity arose within him, prompting him to take a closer look at this divine realm that seemed to be divided into countless cubes.
The monstrous python swayed slightly, its body suddenly shrinking ten thousand times to only three meters in size. It swam from the watercourse to the shore and headed towards the pixelated town.
Suddenly, Cao Hui saw a group of foxes, not yet at the Immortal Realm, entering and leaving the town in droves.
On a night when the stars and moon shone brightly, they arrived at a square that shone with a faint moonlight, carrying various resources.
The town has a unique style, and so does the square located in the center of the town.
It is also square, paved with neat, regular blue square stone bricks, with one stone after another emitting a faint golden glow, arranged in an orderly manner, illuminating the life-size statue of the god of abundance located in the center of the square.
Now, these little foxes are placing one cultivation material after another in front of the statue, as if they are performing some kind of special ritual.
"These little fox cubs, which look like they're still young, must all be from Qingqiu, right?"
"Isn't the Qingqiu totem preparing for its own advancement, undergoing its fifth transformation?"
"He just let these little foxes run off to the realm of the God of Abundance so carelessly?"
"Furthermore, are the foxes of Qingqiu worshipping the god of abundance?"
Before he could continue thinking, dogs with horns of slightly different colors, but whose fur was tinged with three different colors, came here carrying different kinds of resources and placed them in front of the somewhat sturdy statue of the god of abundance.
The scene immediately became lively, with a series of joyful and excited animal sounds ringing out.
Cao Hui only needed to glance at them to know that these dogs with horns on their foreheads and slightly different coat colors were all servants of the god of abundance.
"The followers of the God of Abundance get along so well with the little fox of Qingqiu?"
Cao Hui was quite surprised.
Normally, between two god realms that are so close, almost adjacent, the races belonging to them are basically hostile to each other. The struggle for various public resources and power and status often leads to numerous disputes and even local wars.
Even if the two totems who are in charge of the divine realm reach a tacit understanding and coordinate, at most they can only sweep the snow from their own doorstep and not cause trouble for each other.
It's extremely rare to see a little fox from Qingqiu playing together with a dog from the Land of Abundance. Even rarer is that they both seem to be offering incense to the God of Abundance.
"Have these little foxes from Qingqiu betrayed the Qingqiu totem?"
"That doesn't seem like it either. Their connection with the totem of Qingqiu is still intact and has never been severed."
Cao Hui watched the fox cubs in the square climbing onto the dogs and chasing and playing with them, his gaze deep and unsettling.
He thought to himself, "Hundreds of young foxes who haven't yet reached immortality—this should be the next generation, and even the generation after that, of Qingqiu. Are the old foxes in Qingqiu really so at ease?"
"This method of joint worship is somewhat similar to the scene in the Danxue pantheon where multiple totems are worshipped together."
"Could it be that the Qingqiu pantheon and the Kunlun pantheon have reached some kind of special agreement?"
"So, has that old ox from Chaoyang Mountain Range gotten involved?"
Cao Hui continued forward, gradually approaching the square containing the statue of the god of abundance.
Suddenly, he sensed a pent-up calamity appearing within his perception and rapidly converging towards him.
"A ferocious beast?!"
Cao Hui's expression turned wary, his snake-like eyes narrowed, and his gaze sharpened as he looked out of the blocky town.
A small beast with a single horn, covered in wisps of fiery red fur, about the size of a calf, and possessing a very thick, snake-like tail, ran excitedly from the distant, verdant mountains towards the square of the pixelated town.
"Well?"
"A ferocious beast... a cub?"
Cao Hui's wary expression instantly changed into astonishment.
He never expected that he would see a ferocious beast in the realm of the God of Abundance, and that it would be a ferocious beast cub with a very strong "milky" smell.
"This person has only recently been born. Their cultivation level and realm have not even undergone a single transformation."
"Furthermore, why hasn't this ferocious beast cub been affected by the calamity within him, preventing it from becoming violent and savage?"
Cao Hui stared at the ferocious beast cub that had already run into the Cube Town. His orange-light authority spread out slightly and swept over the cub's body in a very subtle way.
The next moment, Cao Hui's expression became quite interesting.
"Does he have the blood of that old ox from the Chaoyang Mountains in his veins?"
"Hundreds of thousands of years ago, at the Sweet Spring Banquet, that old ox solemnly declared that it needed no kin and would not reproduce, in order to minimize the obstacles to its own breakthrough?"
"How did we suddenly get another son?"
"Moreover, it was a child born from some unknown ferocious beast..."
Cao Hui's expression suddenly became somewhat hesitant.
Actually, he wasn't without his suspicions.
A fat relic ran into the Chaoyang Mountains and caused trouble for that old ox. This news was known to all the totems in the Nanshan mountain range who had a decent ability to deduce celestial secrets.
But this is a Fei Yi, a ferocious snake that even the ten-thousand-foot-tall serpent would keep at a distance. How could this old ox bring itself to bite it?
What Cao Hui found even more unbelievable was that this fat calf actually gave birth to a son for the old ox.
If totems are to reproduce, the cost can be considerable.
The concept of reproduction is completely different from that of ordinary immortal beings who do not possess the authority of heaven and earth.
Whether it's the origin of life or the accumulated essence of transformation, both will suffer enormous losses, almost like hundreds of thousands of years of arduous cultivation gone in a single day.
"Year~"
In the square, a small beast with a single horn, covered in wisps of fiery red fur, about the size of a calf, and possessing a very thick tail resembling a snake, howled loudly and joined the game of many little foxes and dogs, making the atmosphere increasingly lively.
Suddenly, the little beast stopped, shaking its fur. Wisps of fire energy swirled around it, and sparks burst from its fiery red fur.
"Is the ferocity within the beast out of control, its mind about to be manipulated by the calamity energy within it, and it about to go berserk?"
Cao Hui's expression turned solemn.
If this little beast gets out of control, he will use his authority to suppress it.
This is the divine realm of the God of Abundance. He cannot simply stand by and watch a ferocious beast go berserk here, turning the Abundance's retinue and the little fox of Qingqiu into corpses.
However, what this little beast did was completely beyond Cao Hui's expectations.
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