Building a sect from scratch.

Chapter 157 Assaulting a Police Officer

Coral continued to recount the customs and traditions of the Quanxian tribe's royal city:
"Because Quanxian Royal City has no water, the entire city is covered by a barrier, just like the environment on land. However, there are no sun, moon, or stars, and no flowers, grass, or trees grow there. But mushrooms do grow. So the most distinctive delicacy of our Quanxian tribe is salmon and mushroom soup. And the most authentic version uses the meat of the icy sea black whale to fry the oil first, and then uses that oil to stew the soup. It's extremely delicious!"

One player habitually questioned, "Even if there's no water on the seabed, the soil is all salt, right? How can mushrooms grow there? What kind of mushrooms are so resilient?!"

"If there hadn't been any water, they probably would have fertilized the soil by now!"

Some gluttonous girls only thought about food: "Wow! I really want to try it! I've never eaten whale before! Is the icy sea black whale delicious? How do you eat it?"

"Wait, didn't they say salmon and mushroom soup?"

"Hey! Everyone's had mushroom soup, but how many people have eaten whale meat?"

"I've eaten it, I've eaten it in places where people are doing well. It was terrible, both fishy and fatty, and they even ate it raw! It was disgusting!"

"But isn't hunting and eating whales prohibited internationally?"

"Really? I didn't know! Don't blame me! I just saw they were selling it so I tried it! I didn't know!"

"Hey! It's just a normal life! Since it's them, it's normal for them to do all sorts of despicable things!"

Of course, many players are more concerned about the fact that the capital city of the Quanxian people, a race of merfolk who live in the sea, has no water!

"Isn't Quanxian Royal City underwater?!"

"The capital city where the merfolk live has no seawater!?"

"Wait a minute, my CPU is burning..."

"Then how do you walk? Do you all grow two legs like this?"

"Then why not just evolve into having two legs?"

"You're talking nonsense! Use your brain! Two legs can't swim as well as a fish's tail in the sea!"

"I'm not a fish, how would I know! Besides, didn't they say there's no water in the royal city!"

"That's just the royal city, not all merfolk live there! This older brother is right here!"

"Stop arguing, you two. Can't you just waddle around like a fish? Like a snake?"

"Or insects?"

"Good heavens! 'The pupa-like being,' is it?"

"What the hell is this 'pupae'? That's hilarious! Even Fatty Chen would applaud you if he saw this!"

"Wow, you two, stop talking! I can already picture it! It's hilarious!"

Coral had become quite accepting and accustomed to ignoring the strange and sometimes offensive remarks from the players over the past hour. He patiently explained to the player who had asked the question in a relatively polite manner at the beginning: "Since our birth, our Quanxian clan has been able to sense spirits naturally... much like how ordinary human cultivators draw qi into their bodies. Therefore, the Quanxian clan is also born with the ability to fly."

"Wow! So you mean you all fly around the royal city with fish tails trailing behind you?"

Coral found this hard to tolerate, but he still said good-naturedly, "It does seem so... However, why is it called a fish tail? It should be called a shark tail..."

Zhao Qing, very perceptive, noticed Coral's displeasure and quickly tried to smooth things over, interjecting, "I'm sorry, we don't have the Spring Immortal Clan on Blue Star, so we've never seen them before. We've only ever seen fish tails like this, so we're used to calling them fish tails!" Coral immediately understood: "I see..."

Bai Chenxue, however, was quite clueless and pressed on, "Coral, since you can fly by dragging a fish's tail, why did you have to conjure up legs to come over?"

Shen Yun added bitterly, "And it even had thick leg hair!"

Coral said awkwardly, "I thought this was a better way to adapt to local customs..."

One player shouted, "No, no, no! Our Taiyin Sect is super inclusive! We accept all forms of intelligent races... uh, except cockroaches!"

"Except for mosquitoes!"

"Not even flies!"

"Even an insect is unacceptable! Although we shouldn't discriminate against intelligent life forms in theory, I really can't accept an insect form!"

"You're talking nonsense! I think you're having a great time licking the butterfly lady at the community service center!"

"That's not the same!"

"They're all bugs, yet you're showing favoritism! Bah! You hypocrite!"

Although Zhao Qing was sent on official business to "lobby," she was essentially a "player" rather than a professional diplomat. So, despite knowing that this situation might be inappropriate, she still secretly did some calculations and half-jokingly encouraged the conversation, saying, "I'm ashamed to say, it's mainly because everyone hasn't seen what the Quanxian tribe's tail looks like, so they're quite curious..."

Even the mountain cat police officer, who was squatting to the side slacking off, chimed in, "That's right! The disciples of the Taiyin Sect have a strange fondness for seeing the original forms of cultivators from different races and backgrounds!"

No sooner had Officer Mountain Cat finished speaking than a small voice rang out from the side: "Oh! Officer Mimi! Can I touch your paws? Just for a moment! Just a little bit!"

"No! That's assaulting a police officer!"

Officer Mountain Cat, as was his custom, refused! He then pulled out his magic weapon from his waist, deducting one point of the player's favorability.

The player immediately wailed, "Waaaaah, I was wrong! Sheriff Mimi, please don't lower my affection level!"

Then, the raccoon officer licked his paws with a reserved air and said, "Look, like this, it's really strange!"

One player patted his chest and said, "We promise we'll just look! We won't do anything!"

“If you want to fight, you can kill them! That’s self-defense, it’s not illegal!” Officer Mountain Cat said, before Coral, whose pupils had dilated in shock, could ask any further questions, he added, “Anyway, most of the disciples of the Taiyin Sect are immortal! But be careful not to accidentally hurt cultivators who are not disciples of the Taiyin Sect. Those humans are quite fragile; if they are killed, they will die!”

One player muttered, "That sounds so weird..."

Coral, bewildered, pressed on, "The disciples of the Taiyin Sect don't die? Why is that?"

Officer Mountain Cat said, "Because they all use puppets to cultivate, their real bodies are in the Blue Star Realm and can't come here. So even if the puppets are destroyed, they can be repaired and used again!"

"Use... a puppet... to cultivate?" Coral was even more confused: "But if you cultivate with a puppet, won't all the cultivation you gain be gathered in the puppet? It's impossible for someone who isn't at the Nascent Soul stage to gather it in their main body!"

"They were never meant to cultivate!"

The mountain cat police officer's long whiskers trembled gently in the breeze. He held his paws in front of him, sitting with a very dignified posture. His voice was extremely calm: "It's pitiful. His lifespan is only a few hundred years. No matter how much he struggles, he will never become an immortal, let alone attain enlightenment. His lifespan will always be only a hundred years or so."

(End of this chapter)