Building a sect from scratch.

Chapter 128 Don’t come over
After eating and drinking their fill, Baili Shuang led Jiao Xueling and the other two to register their names at the entrance square and receive their identity jade tokens.

"It's not that I don't trust Fellow Daoist Jiao, it's just the rule in Chang'an City. Look, even I have to register!"

As Baili Shuang spoke, she pulled out an identity jade token from somewhere, waved it in front of the three of them, and then put it away.

"The initial ceremony of the Taiyin Sect's grand ceremony tomorrow will begin at Chenshi (7-9 AM). Whether you attend or not is up to you. The formal ceremony will begin at Youshi (5-7 PM), followed by a sacrifice to Taiyin and a reverence to Heaven and Earth at Xushi (7-9 PM), after which the banquet will commence. During this time, you may wish to stroll around Chang'an City; it will be quite interesting."

"Being respectful is worse than obeying orders."

The group strolled along the square into the city. A row of exquisite stone lanterns dotted the city like stars, making everything as clear as daytime.

The identities of the pedestrians encountered on the road were easy to discern. Those who skipped and jumped around, and excitedly greeted Baili Shuang as "Senior Sister" were players, while those who walked normally and only glanced at Baili Shuang with curiosity were mostly outside cultivators.

Jiao Xueling and the others held back their desire to ask why the disciples of the Taiyin Sect walked like that, but when they turned their heads, they saw two rabbit demons dressed in clothes running past like the wind, seemingly oblivious to everyone else, leaving them speechless.

Lu Wenyuan pointed at the rabbit's figure, which had turned into two small gray dots in the distance, and stammered, "Demon, demon cultivator!?"

“Those are indeed demon cultivators, and also postmen of the Chang’an Post Office, equivalent to couriers in a post station,” Baili Shuang introduced first, and then guessed, “Judging from how fast they are running, they are probably delivering some urgent express package.”

"It's takeout!"

A passing player overheard Baili Shuang's words and leisurely corrected her, "Chang'an City is getting bigger and bigger. The new players who join Chang'an Community can only choose the plots at the very top to build their houses, which are several kilometers away from here! Some people don't want to travel that far, but they still want to eat at the restaurants in the square, so they asked Brother Er Gou to set up a food delivery company. But who in their right mind would deliver food while playing a game? They can only find NPCs! As a result, very few NPCs want to do this kind of strenuous and unprofitable work, so it has to be done part-time by the NPCs at the post office! Anyway, they are fast, and the delivery fee for each order is not bad!"

"I see," Baili Shuang said, this was the first time she had heard this explanation, but she immediately had a new question: "But how do you place takeout orders?"

The player raised an eyebrow slyly, chuckled, and said, "Rely on the reporting system! First, report yourself, then write your takeout requirements and address in the reporting section, and choose the post office as the reporting agency! If the order is accepted, you'll receive a 'report processed' notification from the system; if the order isn't accepted, you'll receive a 'report unsuccessful' notification!"

"hiss--"

Baili Shuang, unusually unreserved, gasped for breath. The reporting system was a patch she created specifically to prevent players from using low-quality language and insults in the game, or from doing things that were considered unhealthy and would result in the loss of public morality points. The addition of a stage to select the receiving management agency at the end of the reporting process was also intended to make the administrators handle reports more accurately and promptly. But she never expected that players would come up with such creative ways to handle it!

If it weren't for her consistently dignified persona, one would have to exclaim at this moment, "These players are all incredibly talented!"

Baili Shuang managed a strained compliment: "You...you really are creative!"

To everyone's surprise, the player actually took it as a compliment and said, "Hehehe, you flatter me, Senior Sister!"

After quickly dismissing the somewhat sleazy player, Baili Shuang began to half-jokingly answer Jiao Xueling's new question—what was a system? "The entire Chang'an City, or rather our Taiyin Sect, actually possesses a communication magic artifact equivalent to a high-grade Heavenly Rank magic treasure. It allows all disciples and cultivators wearing sub-magic treasures to communicate with each other. The so-called system is developed based on this magic artifact. This artifact is somewhat similar to a spirit mirror or other magical artifacts, except it cannot communicate images."

That's right, in the Realm of Return to Nothingness, there are indeed "videophones," the most typical example being the "Mirror of Reflection."

As the name suggests, the Reflecting Mirror is usually a set of spiritual artifacts. The holders of the mirrors can call each other by name and see the reflections of other people through the mirror, and communicate with each other.

These kinds of spiritual artifacts are mostly crafted by major sects, requiring a great deal of rare and precious materials. Some merchant guilds and alliances also sell them, but the prices are extremely high. Even if there are only two or three of them, they can cost tens of thousands of spirit stones.

In addition, there are various "communication" magical artifacts such as communication talismans and sound transmission beads. Even more, there is a magical artifact with functions quite similar to the city building system that Fang Xianyu created—the Heavenly Secrets Eight Trigrams Plate!

The Heavenly Secrets Eight Trigrams Compass is a top-grade Earth-rank magic treasure possessed by every member of the Taiyi Heavenly Secrets Sect! In this small but elite, reclusive sect specializing in weapon crafting, the Heavenly Secrets Eight Trigrams Compass is not only used for communication but also for recording the cultivation progress of the sect's disciples in real time, inputting and outputting virtual tokens called "Heavenly Secrets Coins." These tokens are equivalent to sect contributions or points; they are earned by participating in various group tasks within the sect and completing individual tasks assigned by the sect, and can then be used to exchange for rare and precious materials, secret manuals, and spiritual artifacts. Its sophisticated mechanism and advanced design are far ahead of others in the Guixu Realm, and it astonished Fang Xianyu for a long time during his first playthrough!
However, the way the Taiyi Yiji Sect operates is of no reference value to most sects, because the Tianji Bagua Plate is a unique magic weapon of the Taiyi Yiji Sect. Even if you were given one, you would not be able to figure it out. It is unique among the Ten Continents and Three Islands.

Because there was the Mirror of Reflection in front and the Eight Trigrams Plate of Heavenly Secrets behind, Fang Xianyu's "system" produced by the Taiyin Sect did not seem too outrageous. At most, it made Jiao Xueling and others sigh, "The Taiyin Sect is so proficient in weapon crafting."

"but,"

As Baili Shuang spoke, she gradually stopped walking, tilted her head slightly, and looked ahead.

Jiao Xueling and the other two looked over and saw a group of buildings that were becoming increasingly brightly lit, as if it were daytime. They could faintly hear uniform, unintelligible sounds coming from inside, like schoolchildren learning to punctuate and pronounce words, but they all sounded like adult voices.

"Sometimes I find the rapid changes in Chang'an City interesting and surprising, because the Taiyin Sect places great emphasis on education, whether for cultivators or ordinary mortals. There are 'primary schools' for young children, 'middle schools' for teenagers, and even for adults from outside, there are corresponding 'night schools' or 'universities.' Even for cultivators who have lived for hundreds of years and are knowledgeable, there are 'research institutes' that allow them to further study their cultivation and their respective Daoist methods."

"If we compare the entire human race to a spiritual herb, only by enlightening the people can we maximize the value of this herb. If we only care about cultivators and divide the human race into three, six, and nine classes, how is that any different from picking a celestial-grade spiritual herb and only using a single leaf?"

Jiao Xueling was deeply moved by these words and was about to say something when her junior brother, Lü Wenyuan, ruined the atmosphere by shouting, "But in your Chang'an City, there aren't just human cultivators, are there? I see quite a few demons too! If you treat demons the same as everyone else, what about the Nine Nether Demons? Many Nine Nether Demons are much smarter than demons! Oh dear! Your Taiyin Sect wouldn't be thinking of locking up Nine Nether Demons in some kind of demon primary school or demon middle school, hoping to make cultivators and Nine Nether Demons live in harmony, would you?"

"Oh? It seems that this young Fellow Daoist Lü has misunderstood what I said?"

As Baili Shuang spoke, she took out a very familiar golden rope from her sleeve.

"What are you doing! This, this is broad daylight! In broad daylight! You, I, you, don't come any closer!"

In an instant, Lü Wenyuan was so frightened that his legs were shaking. He watched helplessly as Baili Shuang walked towards him with the golden rope in her hand. He only managed to shout "Senior Sister, save me!" before his eyes rolled back and he fainted from fright.

(End of this chapter)