My Text-Based Cultivation Game

The newly added option to skip time in days or months is quite useful.

After all, if you skip every year, the span is too long. But if you skip by month or day, you can break down the time better and do more things.

In particular, the outer disciples of Xuantian Sect have to complete three sect missions every month. If I skip a year, wouldn't the sect's quota only be able to be completed for one month each year?

Wouldn't that mean they'd be kicked out of Xuantianmen in two years?

Perhaps due to his three spiritual roots, Yunyang found that even in the game, his cultivation speed was not fast. He felt that even with the help of spirit stones and this spiritual pill, it would take him three or four months to reach the second level of the Qi Refining stage.

Without the aid of spirit stones and spirit pills, my cultivation will be even slower.

Although he could choose to stay in his cultivation state and skip the time, Yunyang glanced at his lifespan attribute.

Lifespan: 74 year

I'm not particularly talented, so I'll try to save as much time as possible.

How do I get spirit stones?

After careful consideration, the only way to obtain spirit stones right now is by doing sect missions.

Doing tasks...

Yunyang suddenly realized, "Isn't this just going to work?"

Tsk, you have to go to work even while cultivating immortality in a game? What a trash game!

Even if he's my cheat code, it doesn't stop me from calling him trash!

To accept sect missions, you need to go to the mission hall in the outer peak main city.

[You have entered the mission hall. Your status as a first-level outer disciple at the first stage of Qi Refining has been detected. A list of available missions has been compiled for you.]

[Task 1: Manage the Five-Day Herb Garden.]

[Task 2: Serve as an alchemy apprentice in the pharmacy for five days.]

[Task 3: ...]

【…】

There are quite a few tasks, but the amount of spirit stones that can be obtained is not much, with the highest reward being no more than five spirit stones.

Moreover, it takes a long time; a single task can take two or three days.

After so long, I've only gotten this many spirit stones. Should I even continue cultivating?

But with no other options, Yunyang decided to take on a task to manage the medicinal herb garden and give it a try.

The herb garden is on another mountain peak. It's a good thing that the herb garden sends a spirit boat to pick people up, otherwise I would have to lose two spirit stones to do a task. Wouldn't that really be like taking out a loan to work?

[Currently traveling by spirit boat to Spirit Medicine Peak...]

You have arrived at Spirit Medicine Peak.

You discovered that the spiritual energy concentration on Spirit Medicine Peak was much higher than on the outer peak where you were. You intended to use this opportunity to cultivate, but as soon as you entered the peak, you were pulled away by the Xuan Tian Sect disciples stationed there to guard the herb garden.

[The work of tending the herb garden will soon begin. Please water and fertilize the herbs and drive away any spirit insects as needed.]

[Begin the herb garden monitoring work. Please take good care of this herb garden located at the corner of Lingyao Peak within the next half hour.]

The screen changed, and Yunyang found himself in the herb garden.

But this medicinal herb garden...

Q...Q Farm?

Damn it, you're some text-based cultivation game, some random little game, aren't you?

"You'll have to play farm games for half an hour, right?" Yunyang pulled out his tablet, ready to watch videos while playing this retro game.

"Hey, Yang, I don't have class this afternoon, wanna come play some games?" At this moment, roommate Zhao Jiang turned on his computer and called out to Yunyang.

Lying on the bed, Yunyang waved his hand, "I'm not playing, I'm going to play QQ Farm."

"Huh?" Zhao Jiang was taken aback. "What the heck? QQ Farm?"

"Hey, what's wrong? You guys haven't played this before?"

"No way, you're such a hardcore gamer who's obsessed with esports, why are you playing these retro games?"

"Um... isn't this about reminiscing about childhood memories?"

What the hell do you mean by that? Are you saying you're cultivating immortality?

Unexpectedly, Yunyang's words immediately opened up a floodgate of conversation. Zhao Jiang thought for a moment and then said, "Now that you mention it, I also want to play that 399 mini-game! Hey! Anyone want to play a two-player mini-game?"

"Come on, count me in." Xue Zijie poked his head out of the bed. "I'm thinking of playing too."

"Damn, are you guys a little crazy? Why are you suddenly reminiscing about your childhood?"

"Come on, come on, we don't have classes this afternoon anyway."

That's how it is among boys; sometimes they inexplicably start to go astray, and then, without realizing it, they inexplicably reach a consensus.

Magic.

After chatting with his roommate for a bit, Yunyang looked back at his phone. Watching over the medicinal herb field wasn't too troublesome; he checked it about every ten minutes to water and fertilize it, and then caught some spirit insects.

However, Yunyang was puzzled as to why he would put the spirit insects in his backpack when catching them.

You have obtained 5 Spirit Insects.

Looking at the plump spirit insects in his backpack, Yunyang suddenly had a bold idea.

Are these insects edible?

You suddenly wonder, are these insects edible?

Would you like to try the taste of a worm?

Is this game mind reader? I barely even had this thought, and you're already popping up this random event?

Yunyang complained.

However, since it's just the character in the game eating it, not me, I might as well give it a try.

Very well, now it is my turn, Bell Yang Grylls, to sample the flavor of the spiritual insects of the cultivation world for everyone.

Give it a try!

Immediately, the character on the screen raises a bonfire next to the herb garden, and the game character strings together the collected spirit insects and roasts them on the bonfire.

After grilling the spirit insects, you tasted them and found they were delicious, with a chicken-like flavor and a satisfying crunch.

[Qi Attribute +2]

Huh? Yunyang was taken aback. Eating spirit insects had this benefit?

Who said this is a pest? This is a miracle cure!

No, we need to get more of these spirit insects.

To be honest, all I was in charge of was a small medicinal garden at the foot of Lingyao Peak.

In other words, there are many other medicinal herb gardens on this Spirit Herb Peak.

Those medicinal herb gardens must also have many magical insects!

Damn it! Today, I, Yun, am going to be a helpful person, cook, oops, I mean, I'm going to be a master at exorcising evil spirits!

Fellow disciples, let go of those spirit insects! Let me handle this!

You've discovered that spirit insects contain a large amount of spiritual energy, and you've decided to collect them in large numbers.

Should we visit other herb gardens to collect spirit insects?

【Yes! 】

[While you were collecting spirit insects, it seemed someone was watching you...]

……

"Senior brother, if the information given to us by the senior sister at the mission hall reception is correct, the only one among this year's disciples who entered the Xuantian Sect to ascend the Heavenly Ladder and become a first-class outer disciple right after entering the sect is currently on this Spirit Medicine Peak."

Outside Lingyao Peak, on the sea of ​​clouds, a spirit boat was sailing, and on this spirit boat stood three handsome men dressed in the robes of outer disciples of the Xuantian Sect.

However, since they've all cultivated immortality and are constantly immersed in spiritual energy, their appearance is bound to be quite good.

The man on the left respectfully said to the man in the middle, "However, Senior Brother Zhao, although he has ascended the Heavenly Ladder, he only has three spiritual roots and his cultivation talent is not strong. I don't think it's necessary for Senior Brother Murong from the inner sect to specifically ask you to recruit him, is it?"

"What do you know?" the man in the middle scolded. "Anyone who can climb the Heavenly Ladder with a mortal body must be an extraordinary genius. They will all become true disciples. Although he has three spiritual roots, the fact that he can climb the Heavenly Ladder means that he must have other extraordinary abilities that we don't know about."

Besides, are you going to question Senior Brother Murong's decision?

"No, no, I was just curious."

"Then don't be curious. You and I are just small fry under Senior Brother Murong. This time, it's rare for Senior Brother to entrust us with such an important task. If we do this well, it will be easier for Senior Brother Murong to remember our names and enter the inner sect in the future."

"Senior brother is right," the man on the left quickly bowed slightly to the man in the middle.

"Alright, Junior Brother Gong, are we almost there?"

The man on the right produced a compass, the Bagua diagram on it spinning. Then he nodded, "We're almost there. The 366th herb garden in Dinghao is just ahead."

"That was fast. Let's go and meet this legendary figure who ascended the Heavenly Ladder with only three spiritual roots."