Chapter 272: Friendly Jiuhua City Bros

"I heard today that several masters over from the Great Jin seem to be playing some game where you steal vegetables... and they're having the absolute time of their lives!"

"Where would they find the time for anything else?" someone exclaimed in surprise. "I saw them myself today, those guys are all at incredibly high levels! How could they possibly be playing something else?"

Another person countered, "Because it doesn't get in the way of playing Legend. You only need to take a quick glance during your downtime, it's incredibly convenient!"

"That convenient!?"

In the Half-City shop, a few players who had just finished gaming began to discuss it. Evidently, after this new gameplay spread through Jiuhua City, it had slowly made its way to Half-City as well.

"Stealing vegetables...?" Huang Shan and his companions had only just entered the shop when they overheard such chatter. "What on earth is that?"

"I think I saw people talking about it in the world channel yesterday," Daoist Tie Shi spoke up. "They mentioned something called Penguin Qzone. Why don't we go take a look ourselves?"

With various nearby forces rushing over upon hearing the news, coupled with the influx of casual players, the shop was frequently at full capacity, even though it boasted a thousand computers.

Fortunately, there was no need to wait in long lines. Though the group arrived a bit late today, they had already sent the younger generation of the Huang family to secure the machines ahead of time. Being notified to come over just as the slots were about to free up, they naturally didn't have to worry about missing out on seats.

The group quickly logged onto their machines, but today they didn't launch Legend first; instead, they opened "My Space".

"Select a starting point?" The group glanced at it. This was even simpler and easier to understand than Legend—harvesting crops, buying seeds, loosening soil, planting vegetables—the entire process couldn't possibly be any simpler.

Looking at the surrounding expanse of lush green fields and shaded trees, Huang Shan praised as he shoveled the dirt, "This truly is a blessed land!"

After harvesting the fully grown crops given as an initial gift, the group purchased seeds and planted them: "And that's it?"

They discovered: "It really seems to be it."

"But what use could these vegetables possibly have?" The group recalled that someone seemed to have mentioned they could be sold for money to buy items in the shop, or consumed directly to slightly increase one's cultivation.

Huang Shan hurriedly opened the shop and flipped through it casually, only to be struck with sudden astonishment: "The Millennium Ice Silkworm Breeding Handbook!? The long-lost method for breeding the Millennium Ice Silkworm!"

"Let me see!" Daoist Tie Shi also hurriedly opened it and casually flipped through a couple of pages, "The Tie Luo Flower Cultivation Handbook?! Hasn't this thing been on the brink of extinction for three thousand years because the cultivation techniques were lost?!"

"The Blood-Sucking Bug Breeding Handbook?!" Zha Gu took a few glances, utterly shocked in his heart, speaking in a clumsy accent, "With this volume of notes, this seat's poison arts can definitely go up another level! No, ten levels!"

"Hahahahaha!" The three of them finished planting their own radishes and laughed at each other. "If we have these things, the strength of our Huang family will surely take another step forward!"

Daoist Tie Shi gave a thumbs-up and said, "When Brother Huang first brought us to this shop, we still felt disdain in our hearts. Looking at it now, we are truly ashamed!"

Huang Shan stroked his beard: "Now my Platinum Spiritual Radishes have been planted, I only need to wait for them to mature! One radish can be exchanged for two seeds with some left over. If this keeps up, hahahahaha...!"

Just thinking about it brought a surge of delight.

"Beep beep!" Right at that moment, a prompt came from the Penguin Messenger.

"Hong Ying from Jiuhua City has requested to add you as a friend. Do you accept?"

"Lang Hua from Jiuhua City has requested to add you as a friend. Do you accept?"

"Xiao Ye Ya'er from Jiuhua City has requested to add you as a friend. Do you accept?"

"Jiuhua City..."

"..."

"Why are so many people suddenly adding me as a friend?!" Huang Shan was momentarily dazed, before thinking to himself, "Could it be that they see my Huang family is about to rise to greatness, so they're adding me in advance?"

"No... how could they know?" Huang Shan shook his head, dismissing the thought from his mind, but thereafter could think of no other explanation.

"Never mind, accept them first!"

Just after clicking through a succession of approvals, he turned his head to look, only to find Daoist Tie Shi and Zha Gu both wearing bizarre expressions.

"Enshrined Elders, what is the matter?"

Zha Gu: "Hahahahaha! Is it because they see this seat is about to rise to greatness that so many are adding me as a friend!"

Daoist Tie Shi froze for a moment: "Strange! It's the same for me!"

"What has made you gentlemen so happy?" At this moment, a man clad in black robes stood before them, with a grey-robed cultivator following beside him.

"It's Black Demon!?" Huang Shan was slightly startled. This Black Demon possessed not only strength, but an influence that could not be underestimated either!

His eyes darted around, and he immediately clasped his hands: "This is no secret. Since Brother Black Demon asks, there is no need for me to hide it."

He pointed at the computer screen: "Planting vegetables in 'My Space' yields countless benefits. The spiritual items grown can not only enhance cultivation, but the coins obtained from selling them can also buy items. There are many rare treasures in the mall that are hard to come by anywhere else!"

"Is that so?" The two glanced at the farm cottage and the fenced fields on the screen. "Then many thanks to you both for the information."

With that, they also logged onto machines to go farm.

After they finished planting.

"Qing Li Yue Se from Jiuhua City has requested to add you as a friend. Do you accept?"

"Young Master Song from Jiuhua City has requested to add you as a friend. Do you accept?"

"Jiuhua City..."

"Why are so many people adding this seat as a friend?" Black Demon was completely bewildered.

He accepted them as well and even sent messages back to each one.

"What are you guys doing?" After typing out this line, he felt that such text failed to express his style, so he quickly searched the emoji section. After a long search, he clicked a round face wearing sunglasses (Cool).

"This one will do."

He sent several messages but no one replied. Finally, one named Young Master Song seemed to answer: "Hello, old pal from the Morning Star Sea (Akita Inu looking cute and dumb)."

"Hahahahaha!" Looking at this cute and dumb expression, Black Demon burst into a fit of laughter, "This kid looks like a loyal fellow just from his emoji. Good! Very much to my liking!"

Though he had no idea what an "old pal" was supposed to mean.

"Boss!" Right then, the grey-robed cultivator beside him, Wang Jin, began to shout, "Quick, get on the game! The brothers over at Meng Chong have discovered a secret place where the zombies dropped quite a few new skills!"

"New skills?!" Hearing this, Black Demon hurriedly logged into the game, "What do they have?!"

One must know that he was still hunting monsters with a single Lightning Spell! He didn't have any other skills at all!

"A lot!" Wang Jin took a look, "Explosive Flame! Fire Wall! They're all good things! I had the subordinates keep a few books!"

"Let's go! Take me to see!"

On the other side, Huang Shan and his group.

"Brother Huang, someone in Earth City seems to be selling the Lightning Spell skill book!"

"There are skill books?!" One must know he was still hunting monsters with the Fireball Spell!

"How much for a book?" Huang Shan asked hurriedly.

"Fifty spiritual crystals, or fifty thousand gold!" Daoist Tie Shi watched for a while, "There's also the Soul Fire Charm!"

Go, go, go! Let's take a look!

The group had hung around the Skull Cave for a long time, so they had still managed to farm quite a bit of gold!

Some time later...

"Oh—! This Lightning Spell shocks so satisfyingly!"

"This Soul Fire Charm is awesome too!"

Meanwhile, in Huang Shan's vegetable patch...

A delicate and graceful figure stealthily made her way into the courtyard: "These damn guys, they looted all of this lady's equipment back then. Today, I'll start by stealing one of your big radishes!"

Ye Xiaoye angrily dug away with her shovel.

Soon, a fully ripened giant radish was unearthed, and after a quick glance around to ensure no one was watching, it was snatched up and carried off in a desperate dash!

Another moment slipped by.

"You stole half a bag of my chicken back then, so consider this radish a little appetizer for yours truly!" Bai Lang bellowed as he marched into the courtyard, shovel hoisted over his shoulder, and scooped up yet another one!

Before long, yet another dark silhouette came darting inside...

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