My Text-Based Cultivation Game

After accepting the mission, Yunyang left Xuantianmen according to the mission instructions and came to the city where Xuantianmen had conducted its assessment.

This city is roughly considered a stop of the Xuantianmen in the Great Qian Kingdom.

The relationship between the Great Qian Kingdom and the Xuan Tian Sect is not that the latter is subordinate to the former; rather, the former is actually a vassal state of the latter.

In fact, the scale of Xuantianmen is enough to tell you that with its thousands of peaks, churning seas of clouds, isolated from the world, magnificent and vast, covering an area of ​​unknown size, it is clear that the Great Qian Kingdom cannot contain it.

One can only reach the Great Qian Kingdom through a teleportation array within the sect.

It's a good thing that you don't have to pay for the teleportation array when you leave the sect by accepting a mission; otherwise, it would cost twenty low-grade spirit stones to use the teleportation array once.

No wonder no one's taking this quest; it's a total scam.

In the mortal realm, spirit stones are not used; silver is the only hard currency. There are shops in the city that specialize in exchanging spirit stones for silver. Following the mission's instructions, Yunyang exchanged one spirit stone for ten thousand taels of silver.

Well, this time we've completely lost out.

However, the conversion rate is quite high. Ten thousand taels of silver is enough for an ordinary person to live a carefree life in a mortal dynasty until death.

The annual expenses of an average family, including all clothing, food, housing, and transportation, would only amount to about twenty taels of silver.

However, this exchange channel is only one-way; you can only exchange spirit stones for silver, but you cannot exchange silver for spirit stones.

This game is quite realistic in these small details.

You spent sixty taels of silver to buy a carriage and ten taels of silver to hire a driver who knew the way to travel to the Hidden Sword Manor in Dingzhou.

You encountered a small band of mountain bandits, defeated them, and received 300 copper coins.

You felt the money was too little, so you simply tossed it to a beggar you encountered while passing through the city.

The little beggar stumbled as he caught up with the slowly moving carriage; the little beggar wanted to follow you.

Huh? There's an unexpected event here?

Moreover, this little beggar was even glowing.

What does this mean?

Does it mean I should click on this little beggar?

Yunyang tried clicking it, and a character interface popped up on the screen.

[The abandoned little beggar]

[The little beggar girl, abandoned at the age of three, ate garbage and grew up on the streets; she seemed to possess a special aura.]

Will you take this little beggar as your maid?

[Note: Please make your choice within ten seconds. Your coachman has already begun to drive the little beggar away.]

【10, 9, 8...】

A peculiar aura?

Yunyang raised an eyebrow slightly.

This sentence was highlighted in red in the game!

In other words, this NPC may have a special function.

There may be special side stories about her.

Then we'll have no choice but to accept this little NPC.

Your coachman strongly advised against accepting the little beggar, believing he was unworthy of a high-ranking cultivator.

"What do you mean by 'good enough' or 'not good enough'?" Yunyang curled his lip. "What feudal thinking? I'm just a gamer, what do I care about all this and that?"

This is a key figure who can unlock special side quests or play a special role!

We must accept it!

But you insisted on taking her in and arranged for a hired coachman to take her to the post station in the city to clean her up.

The nameless beggar's favorability towards you +300.

Um?and many more!

What is that?

Favorability +300?

Wasn't the threshold for favorability supposed to be 100?

And this favorability rating increases by 300 at once?

Hey you!

Su Muxue!

Yes! I'm talking about you!

I gave you so many good things, did it increase your favorability by a hundred?

You're a real dog, Su Muxue!

If it weren't for your exquisite modeling skills and the fact that we're childhood friends, I would have done it long ago!

……

After thinking it over, Yunyang decided not to banish Su Muxue to the cold palace. After all, she was an NPC who had been with him all along.

It's definitely not because Su Muxue's character model is excellent; she always has a different outfit every time we see her.

Hmph! How could mere beauty possibly seduce me?

Soon, the hired coachman led the clean-up little beggar out of the post station.

After being washed clean, the little beggar was surprisingly quiet and cute, although he was very thin and weak due to malnutrition caused by long-term hunger, and his skin had a sickly white color.

Yunyang had previously mentioned that the game's character models were surprisingly detailed and realistic.

It can be described as a miniature version of the real world.

Please give the little beggar a name:

Is it another name-giving activity?

Yunyang rolled over in the bird's nest and thought for a moment.

How about we call him Li Gou Dan?

【…】

Just kidding. After all, the other person is a girl, so her name can't be chosen so casually.

Since this little girl is going to be his maid, why don't she take his surname?

Clouds, clouds...

Yun Mengyao.

For some reason, this name suddenly popped into Yunyang's mind.

Surprisingly, it sounds pretty good.

That's the name we'll use!

You take this little beggar as your maid and name her Yun Mengyao.

Yun Mengyao's favorability towards you +300

You suddenly realize that the whole world seems to have become much smoother, and everything you do seems to go smoothly.

Doing good deeds definitely makes people feel good.

Huh? How does this trash game know what I'm thinking?

I was just thinking that doing good deeds really does make people feel good.

To be fair, Yunyang really wanted to drag Su Muxue over and show her how much favorability he'd gained. He thought, "Su Muxue, can't you learn from this?"

I'm too lazy to complain, I really am too lazy to complain.

……

I'm so hungry, so hungry.

Why hasn't the swill been emptied out from the back door of the restaurant yet?

Weak and slumped in the corner, the little beggar watched the crowds coming and going, but couldn't even utter a sound of begging.

The older sister who would share half of the food she begged with was taken away by a family and she was never seen again.

I hope she's doing well.

only……

Why didn't anyone take me away?

what……

I'm so hungry.

I have no strength.

I'm so sleepy.

Perhaps, I will end up like that old man who always sunbathes here, falling asleep and never seeing the light of day again.

It's good that I've fallen asleep; at least in my dreams, I might be able to eat my fill.

"Clang~"

What was that sound?

The crisp sound startled the little beggar from his sleep.

When he opened his eyes, he found a large handful of copper coins in the broken bowl in front of him.

The little beggar quickly looked up and saw a horse-drawn carriage slowly passing in front of him.

A slender, delicate arm was reaching out from the carriage window; it was undoubtedly the copper coin that the person inside the carriage had thrown at him.

She strained to look into the carriage and saw that the most handsome man she had ever seen in her life was sitting inside.

Not to mention those young masters, even the young ladies from noble families are not as handsome as the man in the carriage.

"Hey! How did my money end up in this beggar's bowl?"

A voice drew the little beggar's attention back to him.

He found a burly man with his chest exposed standing in front of him, his eyes gleaming as he stared at the money in his small, broken bowl.

"What are you saying?" At that moment, another person crowded around, squeezing in, "Bullshit! I dropped it!"

"Don't take it! It's mine!"

"Bullshit! I saw it myself!"

"I'm closest to this money! It's mine!"

The little beggar felt annoyed by the people robbing him.

Moreover, these people won't leave themselves a single penny.

The little beggar struggled to his feet, holding onto the wall.

As she watched the carriage gradually disappear into the distance, for some reason, she suddenly felt an urge to follow it.

His previously weak body seemed to regain its strength at that moment.

I want to go with him!