Building a sect from scratch.

Chapter 172 Digging a Well

This task not only offers generous rewards, but it's also open to anyone, with no level restrictions, so almost all players accepted it. Even the famous streamer and popular player Wang Ergou generously provided information, saying that he first heard about this in Taiping Town.

Therefore, Zhen Junzi and his group decided to use a special method—open the door and put in the golden vegetables!
Jin Cai is a golden bamboo rat that has been raised to be intelligent. Not only that, it also has some supernatural abilities. It is extremely sensitive to all kinds of scents and often pulls out all kinds of spiritual herbs and plants from somewhere and gives them to Bai Chenxue, which makes other players quite envious.

The reason Jin Cai was asked to do the work was because the well was contaminated with a kind of "odor".

"Aura" is different from smell. Smell is just taste. In the words of Blue Star, it is the constant movement of various molecules in the air, which allows people to smell it.

"Aura" is related to spiritual energy.

The spiritual energy in the Guixu Realm is ever-changing, and different spiritual beings release different "auras." The innate spiritual roots within a cultivator's body are also related to this.

The term "five spiritual roots" is merely a rough classification based on the five elements. It does not mean that there are only these five elements in the world; otherwise, there would be no such thing as mutated lightning spiritual roots or ice spiritual roots.

The "aura" emitted by a spiritual object is like a unique "code" edited by the five elements of spiritual energy. Cultivators who are extremely sensitive to spiritual energy may be able to perceive and remember some of it, but most of the time, people can only roughly identify the five elements of the object.

Golden vegetables possess this extremely special ability because they are extremely sensitive to spiritual energy.

According to Zhen Junzi and the others' plan, they would first go to Taiping Town to find some wells that had not yet been purified by magic, then let Jin Cai touch them to absorb the memories, and then conduct a thorough search to see where the problem was.

This method sounds clumsy, but it's absolutely effective.

However, the first step proved difficult for everyone.

There are no more unpurified wells in Taiping Town!

Thanks to the positive atmosphere of the Taiyin Sect, cultivators in the Taiyin Sect and Guangcheng Sect area gradually began to take ordinary mortals seriously. It is said that Guangcheng Sect even planned to change the frequency of opening its gates to recruit disciples to once a year. They also sent more people to guard the Guangcheng Immortal Residence in each town. This resulted in an unprecedented abundance of cultivators in the towns, and the matter of purifying the water well in Taiping Town was quickly completed. A certain Guangcheng Sect disciple surnamed Du, who specifically put this matter on the agenda, even received verbal praise from Elder Hu.

This was originally a good thing, but it's a bit of a hassle for players who need to complete the quests.

After learning that there were indeed no unpurified wells, Zhen Junzi and the others discussed it and decided to "dig" a "well" specifically for that purpose.

Of course, this well is only for helping players complete tasks and does not need to provide water. Therefore, the location, water output, and well design are almost all irrelevant. All that is needed is for it to produce water with that unpurified scent.

"Digging a small pond won't do any good, and not all wells are polluted. Some alleys in the northeast are fine!"

After everyone had gathered outside Taiping Town, Jia Xiaoren, who had already inquired about the situation, took out several cups of milk tea from his backpack and distributed them around. Except for Bian Yuanzhi, who received a regular milk tea made with spiritual spring water, everyone else received milk tea made with more expensive spiritual ingredients. Even Shen Yun, who had just arrived, was given a cup of honey lemon tea.

"Thank you... Uh, what should I call you?"

“I’ll return the ‘you’ title, but don’t shorten my lifespan! If you really can’t, you can call me like my disciple,” Jia Xiaoren said, sipping his milk tea and winking at Shen Yun from an angle where Bai Chenxue couldn’t see. “Just call me Master, and I’ll take you into my fold later!”

Shen Yun coughed awkwardly. Luckily, this was a game character he was controlling, so at least he didn't blush. However, he didn't refuse Jia Xiaoren's ill-intentioned suggestion: "Ahem, okay... alright, Master..."

Bai Chenxue, who was just drinking her milk tea with her head down, only heard the conversation between the two. She didn't think much of it at all, and was even a little excited: "Hey? I have a junior brother now!?"

"Ahem... Um, hello senior sister... I mean, what should we do next?"

Zhen Junzi, standing to the side, said sourly, "What's the use of having many disciples! None of them are as well-behaved and sensible as my disciple!"

Bian Yuanzhi suddenly spoiled the mood by saying, "But Master, didn't you say that Master Jia is also my master?" Upon hearing this, Zhen Junzi retorted angrily, "You little rascal! You've been won over with just a cup of milk tea, haven't you?"

Jia Xiaoren chuckled and said, "Hehehe, this is what it means to be an incompetent master! You have to pay attention to your apprentice's needs! Care about your apprentice's inner world! What child doesn't like to eat and drink, right?"

Zhen Junzi gritted his teeth: "Trying to steal my partner, huh? Where are your morals? Where are your bottom lines? Where is your wallet? You just wait, I'll raid your entire warehouse!"

Bian Yuanzhi had long since become less reserved thanks to the players, and he joked along, "Master, don't worry! I know the saying 'A teacher for a day is a father for life'! I'll steal some of Master Jia's spirit stones to give you as a token of my respect!"

"My good disciple!"

Zhen Junzi immediately praised him with a smug look, and then smiled at Jia Xiaoren with a triumphant and provocative expression.

Bai Chenxue rolled her eyes: "Aren't you two childish? Stop fooling around! Tell me the next plan!"

Jia Xiaoren hurriedly suggested seriously, "Let's go south. The area around that house that Brother Gou mentioned is definitely polluted. We can dig in the nearby woods! There are quite a few uncultivated woods there!"

"let's go!"

The suggestion was accepted by everyone, and they all flew towards the team marker on the map.

However, before they even entered the woods, they heard a noisy commotion coming from within.

"Hey, you can't dig like that! Are you even capable of this?!"

"You can do it!"

"Hey! You were the one who said you wanted to dig a well first to check it out!"

"Then tell me, what should we do if we don't dig?"

"The neighbors next door are digging too! We can just tag along and see what happens!"

"At the rate they're digging, they'll be digging until next year!"

"Hurry up, you've only dug a small hole!"

"It's all because you didn't come to help! Besides, I'm almost done! I'll just blast it up in a bit, much faster than the neighbors!"

"I don't want to dig! Besides, I'm already trying my best to loosen the soil for you! If you ask me, you'd be better off going to town to do some research!"

"Investigate my ass! Even the big shots of the Guangcheng Sect couldn't figure it out, how could you possibly do it?"

"Have you gone mad from playing video games? This is a game! Games are supposed to have players solve problems!"

"We need mud!"

"I don't care how big you can grow!"

(End of this chapter)