Chapter 332

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Protagonist:

Shen Yao

System Space—

"Host, you have so much merit; why don't we swap?" The system's eyes glowed red, and its cloud-like body seemed to condense a bit more.

"No swap, these are treasures," Shen Yao wasn't that stupid; they could block heavenly punishment and bribe certain World Consciousnesses.

Shaking her head to refuse the system's proposal, Shen Yao pondered for a moment and then began to fuss over her own treasure space.

The system's rewards were as usual several one-cubic-meter spaces and many pills related to childbirth.

Shen Yao stuffed them all in without even looking, while she focused on checking the World Consciousness's rewards.

Tsk tsk tsk

Struck it rich, struck it rich, really struck it rich.

As expected, catching up with a planet's autonomous evolution was strong; merit was poured out as if it didn't cost money. Shen Yao felt she hadn't done that much, but the rewards were still so generous they made her dizzy.

The system was very envious of this; it had also received merit from the World Consciousness, but it sometimes suffered from greed leading to loss—other people's food always smelled the best.

Fortunately, the cloud shape had no facial features, otherwise the system's mouth corners would have been dripping saliva.

Feeling refreshed, Shen Yao went through her space from beginning to end, then summoned the system, "What is the world of the next mission like?"

Earning a lot was also heart-tiring; if possible, Shen Yao still preferred lying flat and living off others.

Just like her life in the last few decades, completely relying on her three children for insurance, with great teeth, eating with great relish.

"The next world is an Ancient World, Host can rest assured, there's nothing chaotic" The system's cloud-like body floated over just as it was about to finish speaking, but then a burst of garbled code appeared, and Shen Yao abruptly disappeared from the System Space, taking the system with it, vanishing without a trace.

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The moment she regained consciousness, Shen Yao silently cursed, "Terrible," this mission wasn't quite right.

She seemed to hear the system's garbled code sounds, then she lost consciousness, and when she woke up again, she was in a completely new and strange place.

Shen Yao:...

Was the system attacked by a virus? Why were the last few missions so strange? She was truly afraid that one day the system would frame her to death.

Feeling resentful in her heart, Shen Yao called out to the system while opening her eyes to survey her surroundings.

At a glance, besides trees there were still trees, dense and endless.

Looking up, she couldn't see the sun or the moon; it turned out the trees were too tall, and the lush branches and leaves covered all the gaps.

Shen Yao:...

Shen Yao belatedly wondered what was wrong with her head; her reactions were slow, somewhat like an incomplete soul fusion. This shouldn't be the case.

Just as Shen Yao was thinking it over, the system in her mind responded weakly.

"Host, haven't you noticed the problem?" The system really wanted to speak, but due to restrictions, its voice was always intermittent.

"Nonsense, of course I noticed; where is my body? Why do I have no body or limbs?"

Her vision was also strange; she could only see a small area in front of her and above her head.

The system put it tactfully: "Host has not cultivated a human form, so of course there is no body."

Shen Yao:... Good grief, she wasn't human this time? What species was it?

One couldn't even call it a species; she didn't even count as a creature. After the system's popularization, Shen Yao finally figured out what was going on.

But precisely because she understood, Shen Yao was even more speechless. What kind of world was this?

It could both cultivate immortals and have a bit of Lovecraftian strangeness? Oh, there were also fantasy hot-blooded elements.

After holding it in for a while, Shen Yao asked, "Is this world still fusing? Too many elements," the content that couldn't be finished in one book was only written in a few dozen chapters. As expected, she was just an unimportant Passerby A.

"Host, there was an accident; this mission was one that bumped into us on its own," the system hurriedly defended itself. It had originally been going to an Ancient Palace Intrigue World (involving just a little bit of national ruin and family destruction), which the Host could handle easily with her skills.

Who would have thought there were missions that actively rushed over? It didn't stabilize itself in time and brought the Host across.

But since they had already crossed over, all it could do was assist the Host in adapting here and complete the corresponding missions.

Feeling somewhat guilty and short of breath, the system spoke very carefully, afraid of accidentally arousing the Host's anger, in which case it would be forced to offer up treasures to resolve it.

However, the system couldn't hide; it was obviously its own fault, so Shen Yao naturally had the confidence to demand treasures as compensation.

The most obvious thing was to first let her, a wood spirit born from a mountain range who had obtained an opportunity, transform into a human form.

That's right; Shen Yao was currently only a wood spirit with spiritual wisdom.

She belonged neither to strangeness nor to demon beasts, and could not even be considered a spirit monster.

If one really wanted to categorize her, one could barely call her a Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure? But which wood spirit would produce spiritual wisdom? The spirits of the Five Elements were dead things used for alchemy and artifact refinement; even if they existed for thousands or tens of thousands of years, it was the same.

Shen Yao felt more and more vexed the more she thought about it, and didn't even want to look at the common knowledge information about this world that the system transmitted to her.

"Hurry up, don't hesitate; no matter what method you use, I must have a human body," otherwise how could she complete the mission? Could they let her self-reproduce?

The system procrastinated and took out two alchemy pills, delivering them to Shen Yao's mouth.

Uh, Shen Yao didn't know where a wood spirit's mouth was located; anyway, she swallowed them.

After taking them for just a moment, the pills' effects showed immediately; a warm current appeared, and Shen Yao fainted again.

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Shen Yao woke up with a black face; the system really couldn't even give a proper warning.

Fortunately, the place where she currently was was still safe; looking around, there were nothing but trees as far as the eye could see.

Wearing a green gauze robe, Shen Yao touched her wrist and face, then hurriedly stood up and put on her clothes properly.

Her hair this time was very long, reaching directly to the back of her knees, and it felt smooth and delicate to the touch.

Mmm, the more she touched it, the more she liked it; Shen Yao endured and endured, but still took out a jade-green long hairpin from her space, tied her hair into a hair bun, and inserted the long hairpin diagonally to secure it.

Shaking her head to make sure her hair wouldn't come undone, Shen Yao found a pair of shoes and socks that matched her clothes, then looked up, picked a direction, and intended to leave this place.

During this time she also tried to contact the system, but found there was no response at all, so she could only temporarily ponder her current situation.

How to put it? Not too good.

Because this world fused too many things: the Human Race, Demon Race, strange creatures, eerie anomalies, and even the Ancient Race.

With so many species living in one space, how could it be good?

For example, although the Human Race had no civil war, because there were many countries on this land, plus foreign races and such bringing calamity to the human world, it was in utter chaos.

Eerie anomalies were everywhere, went everywhere, feared nothing, and crucially could not be killed.

Strange creatures mostly hid in mountain forests and great marshes, formed from flowers, grass, trees, and wood taking shape.

The Demon Race was a race not inferior to the Human Race, occupying half the area of this land, and was the Human Race's greatest rival.

As for the Ancient Race, legendary species, no one knew where they hid, and currently there were no traces.

Shen Yao now had a human body and a wood spirit heart, with flesh and blood, unafraid of detection, but she was indeed not human.

So, 'What to do?'

In other words, where should she go? Another question: how to leave the crisis-ridden mountain forests safely.

The more Shen Yao thought, the more her head ached; finally she could only rummage through her space for usable tools.

Unfortunately, this world did not run on Spiritual Energy, so she could not absorb it to cultivate; Shen Yao had secret manuals but could not execute them.

Sigh

Not knowing how many times she had sighed, Shen Yao took out the few Spirit Stones and Formation Disks she had, and set up a simple Concealment Array around herself.

She had come too hurriedly; the items prepared in her space were mostly ordinary things, and for her current situation, they were of no use at all.

Rubbing her belly, feeling a bit hungry, Shen Yao continued to rummage through her space and successfully found a usable Foundation Establishment Pill.

As for other food, they contained too many impurities; Shen Yao was a wood spirit incarnation and did not need them at all.

'System, system, system...'

Chanting 'system' with a blank expression, in a deep mountain and old forest without any light, she looked terrifying no matter how you saw it.

The system appeared again, even more illusory than before, and its speech was even more incoherent.

Shen Yao didn't waste words; she directly told it to produce a map to leave this place.

What a joke; the things the system had previously stuffed in were mostly various introductions to this world. Shen Yao now didn't even know her own location, and if she let herself stay in this forest, she might not meet a single person in her lifetime.

The system directly projected a map, densely packed with small dots of various colors.

Red was Shen Yao's location, green represented safety, and gray and black were Danger Zones that could not be entered.

Shen Yao had a black line on her face, because the map before her was all gray and black, with only two or three tiny green dots of safety; how was she supposed to do this?

Seeing this, the system added many yellow markers in a scattered way.

'Yellow represents the Human Race and Demon Race. This is a Secret Realm temporarily opened; you are currently at the Secret Realm Center,' so the surroundings were so dangerous.

'Host, system energy is insufficient; temporarily hibernating. You must be careful on your own.' Before the system could say it would return as soon as possible, communication between one person and one system was suddenly cut off, and the system vanished without a trace.

Shen Yao:...

Shen Yao rubbed her face, memorized the map, then silently took out the glass mirror from her space and, by the light of the Night Pearl, carefully examined her pretty face.

Hmm, it seemed she still had to bet on luck. This was a Secret Realm; she couldn't leave by walking, so she could only pin her hopes on those yellow dots.

The Human Race and Demon Race?

She was no longer human; she could accept that psychologically, but finding an animal as a companion was still a bit difficult.

Why not observe and pick an easy-to-talk-to one to first get out, then discuss her future arrangements?

She currently had nothing (the space didn't count), no cultivation realm, and wasn't even human.

What kind of hellish start was this? Even lying flat, no one would let her scam them.

Rubbing her somewhat cold arm, Shen Yao took out a blanket from her space to cover herself for warmth, thinking she wouldn't think about such difficult things for now; she'd sleep first to restore her energy, then ponder what to do next.

After sleeping, when she opened her eyes again, the temperature around her had risen.

Although she still couldn't tell if it was bright above her head, judging by the light and darkness of this space, the sky should be bright.

Standing up to put things away, and simply washing up using her space, Shen Yao found some talisman paper and activated a Fuyu Fu, sticking it on her body.

Comparing the markers on the map, Shen Yao intended to walk in the direction away from the Secret Realm Center. She didn't intend to fight for anything, nor did she want to touch certain existences with heaven-defying Fortune; she'd just find one that was roughly the same, everything for the sake of getting out.

Left, right, then forward ten meters or so after the third tree behind... Regarding the map's detail, Shen Yao walked very carefully.

When hungry in between, she ate Foundation Establishment Pills; when thirsty, she drank water from her space; when her mouth felt tasteless, she could eat some fruit. The few days Shen Yao spent going out were fairly pleasant.

During this time, Shen Yao found another way, taking out some martial arts secret manuals to cultivate, and surprisingly discovered she was quite good at some lightness techniques.

Just like that, with the help of lightness techniques, Shen Yao sped up her journey, getting farther and farther from the Secret Realm Center.

Of course, her speed still couldn't compare to those Human Race and Demon Race who had entered the gate.

In this world, if the Human Race wanted to cultivate, there were only two directions: Qi and Blood Warriors and Dao Practitioners. Both were divided by ranks, with the first rank being the weakest and the ninth rank the strongest.

The Demon Race was divided into ordinary Demon Beasts, Monster Soldiers, Monster Attendants, Monster Generals, Monster Kings, Monster Emperors, Demon Gods, Demon Saints, and Demon Immortals.

The Human Race and Demon Race had different names, but their cultivation ranks corresponded to each other, with no difference.

As for eerie anomalies and some herbs with special effects, they were ranked by Heaven, Earth, Xuan, Huang, and each stage was divided into Lower, Middle, Upper, and Extreme Fourth Rank.

In short, because this world had too many elements, the corresponding divisions were quite chaotic, but for Shen Yao, a good-for-nothing, it made no difference; anyway, she couldn't beat anyone.

Shen Yao, very aware of being trash, avoided other people or beasts on the road, and would pick some good Spiritual Herbs at hand as reserve funds.

Since she was going to live outside, she definitely had to spend money. Now she was penniless and had to save up on her own.

So she had to try to cling to a golden thigh, lest her days be too bitter, which she couldn't endure.

Shen Yao, who had enjoyed pleasure for many years, knew her own stinky character well. She might have endured it before, but now she didn't want to indulge it at all, unless it could be exchanged for greater benefits.

But following the story direction of this kind of world, it was probably a male-oriented novel style: either decisive killing with no heroine, or a Dragon-Arrogant Huang Hou style.

Shen Yao rubbed her chin; she wasn't too fond of either, so she might as well give up.

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It was a new day, and Shen Yao saw a fruit tree of jade-green all over, bearing several pink fruits, though they were only the size of normal chicken eggs.

Seeing no danger around her and no fierce beasts guarding nearby, Shen Yao directly used the space's cheating function to pick several fruits, hold them in her arms, and leave.

Danger struck the moment she finished picking the fruit; a transparent silk thread appeared, flying straight at Shen Yao's brow and colliding with the talisman on her body.

With a bang, the talisman emitted a dazzling golden light, and a light curtain appeared before Shen Yao.

Cracks existed on the light curtain; though feeble, they could not be ignored.

This was a sign that the talisman was shattering, and it also showed that the talisman could not hold out for long.

Shen Yao:... Terrible!

Indeed, picking fruit had been too comfortable, causing her to forget that she was inside the Secret Realm's perimeter, where every step was dangerous.

Mobilizing her meager internal energy, Shen Yao ran straight ahead, holding an unused talisman in her hand, waiting only to apply another once the one on her body broke.

At the critical moment, a pair of fair wrists suddenly reached out from beside her, encircling Shen Yao's waist and pulling her into an embrace, while the freed hand waved a folding fan lightly, blasting away the incoming transparent spider silk.

Seeing this, Shen Yao put away the talisman paper in her hand and felt fortunate that she had been saved.