Building a sect from scratch.

Digging is out of the question. This isn't Minecraft, where you can just hammer a few blocks of dirt and dig a hole. In reality, digging a hole in a loose, humid place like a garden takes a lot of effort, let alone the soil in this game that hasn't been loosened for who knows how many years. Even if the players are highly skilled and have high stats, it's still not something that can be done in a short time. After all, it's people playing the game, not the other way around.

Therefore, everyone chose the simpler but more expensive method: using teleportation arrays.

The sect merchants have been selling portable teleportation arrays for a long time. I heard that they were patented by a genius array master NPC. They are a bit pricey, but very convenient. They come in a box, and you can just take them out, lay them out on the spot, and use them.

The downside is its extremely high mana consumption. For example, the distance from Chang'an City to Taiyin Palace requires enough mana even for the lowest-level players, but this portable teleportation array would be completely insufficient. Secondly, it suffers from significant resource depletion. Once the spiritual materials in the array are completely depleted, the teleportation array becomes unusable, conservatively estimated to only be usable for a few thousand uses.

Despite its many drawbacks, its advantages are also extremely significant: convenience.

It can be set up anytime, anywhere, and can be perfectly connected to all the teleportation arrays of the Taiyin Sect, saving time and effort. It is simply an essential tool for pioneering teams!
However, because these things are quite expensive, even the currently incredibly wealthy Haoqi Changcun Society only has them regularly, with only the society leader, a few fixed team captains, and society management personnel having them. And coincidentally, Nietzsche just happened to be pulled in.

"Let it be wasted, we're rolling in money anyway!"

The sea turtle, feeling a pang of heartache, urged Nietzsche on.

"They cost fifty yuan each! If we can't recoup our losses, we'll lose a hundred million!"

The soup dumpling clutched its chest, its expression pained, clearly also heartbroken over the fifty-yuan portable teleportation array.

The teleportation array was connected to the teleportation array set up by Wu Ke outside. The distance was very short, so the mana consumption was also very low. In just a few minutes, everyone gathered together again and began to discuss how to find that strange vine spirit.

Having escaped that terrifying environment, Huang Zhucao was no longer afraid. She muttered to herself, "It's strange. The headless people in that room were all dead, but the ones we encountered at the beginning were all moving, living headless people!"

"broken!"

Upon hearing what the Emperor Bamboo Grass said, the Sea Turtle Qi Pure suddenly became so anxious that he spun around in place, startling everyone.

The soup dumpling vendor asked kindly, "What's wrong?"

He exclaimed in anguish, "Wow! We forgot to loot all that jewelry and gold and silver! It's worth a lot of money!"

Nietzsche looked over with an "I knew it" expression, quite speechless.

Unexpectedly, Guantangbao also stomped his foot and said, "Yeah, yeah! It's definitely enough to cover the cost of the teleportation array! No, no! I have to go back and pick it up!"

The king bamboo grass posed a profound question: "Do you dare go back by yourself?"

"No... I wouldn't dare..." Guan Tangbao's voice suddenly became softer, lacking confidence, but then she looked at Wu Ke expectantly: "Old Wu, come with me! Your appearance is even more eye-catching than those zombies, I feel safer with you!"

"Old Wu is a top-tier player! He treats money like dirt..."

Before the word "earth" from Huang Zhucao's mouth could even land, Wu Ke stepped into the teleportation array with a blank expression. The next second, the bright teammate icon on the map appeared in the place where everyone had just been trapped.

"Look, who would turn down money!"

The sea turtle Qi Chun proudly raised its head, then teleported back through the teleportation array.

Guantangbao followed closely behind. Nietzsche was about to say something when he saw the health bars of these three players on the team list begin to drop rapidly. At the same time, Guantangbao's familiar scream came through the team mic: "Help! Help ...

Confused, Nietzsche quickly relayed the message. As soon as his vision cleared, he saw three people in the small room, desperately trying to avoid the whipping vines.

The vines seemed hesitant in this place, their movements fluctuating in intensity, and Nietzsche quickly realized they were avoiding the corpses.

Nietzsche made a quick decision: "Let's use the corpses as shields! I think this BOSS is intentionally avoiding those corpses!"

Wu Ke was quite obedient; he casually grabbed two headless corpses and placed them on either side of him to block his way.

This move had an immediate effect; the vines managed to avoid Wu Ke and instead continued to attack other players.

The sea turtle, imitating the creature, endured the nausea and disgust and carried a finely dressed male corpse. The corpse's belt was even inlaid with gold and jade, clearly very valuable.

The soup dumpling couldn't overcome its fear, so it huddled behind Wu Ke, which actually helped.

Nietzsche gritted his teeth and picked up a beautifully dressed female corpse.

Now, as if venting its anger, the vine lashed out at the top of the wall several times, sending dirt and gravel flying everywhere.

The soup dumpling got its mouth splattered with dust and was furious: "Pah! Pah! Pah! What the hell is this thing anyway! It seems to have a temper!?"

Sea Turtle Qi Pure said helplessly, "We can't identify it, and Senior Sister also says she doesn't recognize it. There's nothing we can do!"

Nietzsche then reflected, "The main problem was that it was too fast. If it hadn't been so fast, we could at least have gotten a little bit of it to identify!"

"Let me try!"

Upon hearing Nietzsche's analysis, Wu Ke immediately threw away the headless corpse in his hand, pulled out a small knife from somewhere, and started slashing at it while yelling strangely.

"Holy crap, Old Wu's gone crazy again!"

The soup dumpling was suddenly sold out like that, and it immediately felt a slap on the back. Startled, it jumped and hopped to Nietzsche's side, sticking close to him.

Despite their seemingly sentient vines and their furious lashing, they were actually quite foolish. Although Wu Ke had thrown away the headless corpse, he continued to brandish his dagger, but couldn't stop the vines from lashing at his heart. Wu Ke and several vines actually put up a fierce fight, a real demonstration of free-style combat. In just over ten seconds, Wu Ke had actually managed to cut down quite a few vines.

Strangely, what flowed from the cut vines was not grass juice or chlorophyll-colored liquid, but a terrifying red. There was even a foul stench with a metallic smell, somewhat like a mixture of blood and pus, which made everyone's eyes water.

The sea turtle Qi Pure immediately exclaimed, "I can't take it anymore! I'm running away first. Anyway, the stuff is here. I'll come back and take off my clothes later after I've prepared! This smell is really intoxicating!"

The soup dumpling rolled its eyes: "Can't you turn off your sense of smell?"

Sea Turtle Qi Pure kept wiping away tears as he said, "It's off! It's no use! I can't smell it anymore, but I still can't stop crying! My God, what kind of biological weapon is this! I'm outta here!" (End of Chapter)