Building a sect from scratch.

Chapter 180 The Conch Shell
Zhongzhou Jinli's words startled Fang Xianyu, who had been secretly observing the group.

However, she quickly realized that apart from the Ten Thousand Mountains, she had already searched the entire area for thousands of miles and found nothing suspicious. Unless the fox demon and snake demon had gone to cause trouble a thousand miles away, it was impossible for her not to have noticed anything amiss.

Indeed, Fang Xianyu was startled as soon as he received feedback from the players. He almost dropped everything and personally investigated the situation at the Gray Sand Eye.

As Lin Muning observed through her perception of plants, the Gray Sand Eye had become almost a ghost town!
This is incredibly strange! Such a serious problem went unnoticed before, not even Hu Zijun of Chiyuan Cave noticed anything amiss! It's as if the ghostly and yin energy of this place was being concealed by something!

Fortunately, the issue of the players' emotions being affected was actually that the puppets they were controlling were affected, not that the players' bodies on Earth were actually affected.

Since players control the puppets with their consciousness, they are not affected by interference targeting their consciousness. However, the effects on the puppets' bodies will still be reflected in their performance and behavior. For example, stimulating internal organs to make players angry and anxious are easy things to do.

This situation would not affect the players' physical condition on Earth, which relieved Fang Xianyu, who thought there was some bug in the cross-world network connection. He quickly added a debuff targeting the ghost energy to fool the players.

Even that meager compensation is a way of telling players: go to sleep, it's nothing serious, it's just that the debuff isn't showing up.

In short, it's not because she's stingy!
After a short while, and after a heated discussion, everyone agreed with Zhongzhou Jinli's idea and decided to try to communicate with the ghosts who couldn't even form a physical form!
"The problem is! How do we communicate?"

Zhongzhou Jinli, who knew a little about ghosts, said, "Actually, theoretically speaking, ghosts can cultivate to a certain level and then make sounds."

Lin Muning frowned and said, "But that has to be an old ghost, and those are called ghost cultivators, not ordinary ghosts!"

Jia Xiaoren, quick-witted, suddenly had an idea and hurriedly interjected, "If the mountain won't come to me, I can go to the mountain!"

"Explain in more detail?"

Jia Xiaoren said, "Since we can't chat with those ghosts with gray sand eyes, why don't we just find someone who can chat with them and interview them?"

"for example?"

"For example, a cultivator who can separate their nascent soul from their body, or a cultivator who can talk to ghosts!" Jia Xiaoren explained proudly, "For example, you can capture a reliable NPC from places like Guangcheng Sect or Chiyuan Cave, or you can ask Senior Sister for help! This game has such a high degree of freedom, there's no rule against asking for help, right?"

Zhen Junzi hesitated, "That's true, but will it work? Last time I got one-shotted by a monster in the wild, Senior Sister told me to figure it out myself and even took away several points of my favorability!"

Jia Xiaoren didn't hold back in exposing his friend's embarrassing past: "How can that be the same? That time, he was so bad at the game that he got killed by Chuangfei! It didn't even last ten seconds, how could Senior Sister help him?"

Bai Chenxue's eyes suddenly lit up, and she shouted in the group chat, "I know! I know! We can go to Shanhu for help!"

Lin Muning and Zhongzhou Jinli seemed unfamiliar with the name, and asked in confusion, "Coral?"

Shen Yunze excitedly chimed in, "Great idea! Coral seems to have exceptionally high cultivation! And they seem to have a special way of communicating without speaking! Maybe he has a solution!"

Bai Chenxue explained, "Coral is the Quanxian who came to our Taiyin Sect a while ago, he's a merman! He's been staying at the pond next to Chang'an City these past few days—you know the Quanxian clan's Xiling embassy, ​​right? It's said he's even planning to build an underwater palace!"

Lin Mu Ning suddenly realized, "Ah—so they're merfolk! I saw them when I was shopping at the market last time!" Zhongzhou Jinli asked curiously, "Can merfolk communicate with ghosts?"

Bai Chenxue thought for a moment and said, "It should be possible? I heard that as long as they are willing, they can communicate with almost all ethnic groups with a language system. As for ghosts... it should be possible too?"

Zhen Junzi was somewhat skeptical of the idea: "Would they be willing to help you?"

Bai Chenxue said confidently, "You don't know this, do you? Xiaoyun'er and I are on good terms with Shanhu! We were the first players in the entire server to get to know Shanhu! You guys just go about your business! We'll go find Shanhu to see what's going on and ask around. If there's a way, we'll rely on Shanhu. If Shanhu can't help, we'll have to think of other ways!"

Zhen Junzi said, "Why don't we ask our senior sister instead!"

Jia Xiaoren couldn't help but complain, "Our senior sister is so busy, she won't pay any attention to us!"

"Then let's find Elder Lu Ying and Senior Brother!"

“There’s always a crowd around their place, sometimes you can’t even squeeze in!”

"That's why I said we should find coral! Hehe, we have a secret treasure!" Bai Chenxue said, grabbing Shen Yun and running off: "Let's go! Let's find coral!"

The two quickly returned to Chang'an City. They first went to the "Quanxian Embassy" and found that no one seemed to be there. Then they teleported to Longshan Port and arrived at the seaside.

After several days of construction, Longshan Port looks... not much different.

Compared to Chang'an City, which was built jointly by players and natives, Longshan Port was constructed by the Longshan community at great expense, hiring craftsmen and renowned architects to build it according to blueprints, resulting in a very long construction period. At least a few days later, Longshan Port was still in ruins, without a single proper building, just foundations and various ropes stretched out.

Seeing this scene, Bai Chenxue pouted and said, "Anyone who didn't know better would think they were building some kind of rooftop garden! Such a grand spectacle!"

Shen Yun casually said, "After all, Boss Longshan has made a lot of money by signing a few players to stream, so it's understandable that he wants to do something big."

The two chatted for a few more minutes before approaching the beach.

Bai Chenxue took out a huge conch shell from her backpack, touched it with great affection, then took a deep breath and blew on the conch shell with all her might.

“Woo—woo—”

The distant and resonant sound of the conch shell echoed with the waves, attracting the attention of people near Longshan Port. Several native cultivators stopped what they were doing, as if waiting for something.

"Woo——"

Another long conch shell sounded, and before the sound had faded, a huge wave suddenly rose from the sea.

(End of this chapter)