Chapter 4: Ancestral Witch Houtu! The Trouble of Rewards Being Too Good!

Several thousand meters away from Lu Yun, there was a massive Stone Peak, towering and precipitous.

A woman stood at the summit of the Stone Peak; she wore dark-colored robes, her face was like jade, and a mysterious power faintly permeated between her brows.

She had a pair of bright eyes that seemed to contain an endless Cosmos, making one feel an infinite majesty and profundity in her gaze. Her long hair draped over her shoulders, the ends falling in waves, adding a touch of softness to her majesty.

This woman was none other than one of the twelve famous Ancestral Witch of this Primordial World—Houtu! At this moment, she was watching Lu Yun with great interest.

She had just passed by nearby and happened to see a streak of light descend from the sky. She had originally thought it was some Spiritual Treasure manifesting, but she never expected it to be a Human Race individual with strange clothing, which piqued her interest for a moment.

Just now, when that group of Demon beasts was discussing how to divide and eat Lu Yun, Houtu had even thought about intervening to save him.

After all, the Human Race was created by Nuwa, and although she and Nuwa now belonged to the opposing Witch and Demon sides, their past friendship had not vanished.

Previously, she had also provided much care to the Human Race near the Houtu Ancestral Court.

Yet, what she found unexpected was that this strangely dressed Human Race individual actually understood a method of cultivation, and had even completed a breakthrough just a moment ago.

Although a promotion from Refining Essence into Qi to Refining Qi into Spirit was, in her view, extremely insignificant, the significance behind this breakthrough made Houtu inevitably pay more attention.

Because, as far as she knew, since the birth of the Human Race ten thousand years ago, there had been no cultivation method to this day.

Aside from the first batch of Human Race individuals personally molded by Nuwa who possessed some strength, other Postnatal Realm Human Race individuals were born weak and could only rely on forcibly consuming the flesh and blood of some Demon beasts, hard-resisting the impact of spiritual energy, and fighting for their lives to have a slim chance of increasing their strength.

Yet the Human Race individual before her was clearly circulating some kind of cultivation method! "Could it be that Sister Nuwa recently created a cultivation technique suitable for the Human Race and imparted it to them?" Houtu could not help but harbor such a conjecture.

She decided to continue observing to see what this Human Race individual would do next.

As a result, she suddenly discovered that Lu Yun stopped absorbing spiritual energy and ceased his cultivation, instead opening his eyes to look around.

Houtu's heart stirred: Could it be that this Human Race individual intends to find an opportunity to escape while those Demon beasts are infighting?

In fact, if he could, Lu Yun would not want to stop cultivating.

However, he could not cultivate even if he wanted to now, because his Breathing Technique had already been cultivated to perfection; continuing to practice this technique would not allow him to increase his strength.

Helpless, Lu Yun could only stop for the time being and think of other ways.

The only methods Lu Yun could think of right now, besides the Chat Group, were the system.

The Points Mall of the Transmigrator Chat Group did have many items, but he currently had zero points and could not afford anything at all.

Lu Yun could only look toward his own system.

He suddenly saw that among the suggestions he had heard earlier, there was one to find valuable items nearby and upload them!

The mission reward was even a Fine Treasure Chest! But where was he supposed to find valuable items?

Lu Yun cautiously opened his eyes, his gaze scanning the surroundings.

What met his eyes, besides quite a bit of weeds, were only some stones of varying sizes.

Seeing these things, Lu Yun could not help but have his heart stir: "I wonder if these stones count as valuable items?"

Lu Yun decided to give it a try! Because he felt that the spiritual energy in this world was so abundant that he could cultivate the Breathing Technique to perfection with just a little practice, so he thought it must be a very high-level world.

Perhaps stones from such a high-level world might be some kind of precious thing for other worlds?

Thus, he quietly grabbed a fist-sized stone beside him, opened the Chat Group, and clicked upload directly.

The next moment, a system notification sound came:

"Ding! The host has followed the advice and obtained one Fine Treasure Chest!"

Lu Yun felt joy in his heart; it worked! At the same time, he noticed an information prompt pop up in the Chat Group:

"You have uploaded a Water Spirit Stone, please set the selling price! Suggested price: 300-500 points!"

Lu Yun could not help but become excited.

Sure enough, just as he had guessed, the world he was in was of a high level; even an ordinary stone had no small value! Without a second thought, he set the price of the item directly at 500 points!

Immediately, a prompt came from the Chat Group: "Group member Lu Yun has uploaded a new item—Water Spirit Stone! Price: 500 points!"

The newcomers in the group all began to discuss it one after another.

Chen Hai: "Someone found a valuable item to upload so quickly?"

Fang Wenjie: "We are all newcomers, why is your luck so good, Lu Yun?"

Lin Yan: "Didn't they say there is a Heavenly Condemnation Halo? I don't even dare to go out, and you're already taking off? @Lu Yun"

Compared to the clamor of the newcomers, many veterans almost immediately opened the Points Mall and quickly browsed the relevant information about the item to confirm if it was useful to them.

Lu Yun did not pay attention to the messages in the group.

One must know, he could still encounter danger at any moment; those Demon beasts wanted to chase him down and eat him, which would take almost no effort at all! Therefore, he hurriedly opened the Fine Treasure Chest he had just obtained, as well as the Ordinary Treasure Chest he had obtained earlier.

"Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining: Spell · Earth Escape Technique!"

"Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining: a pair of Premium Running Shoes!"

Lu Yun looked at the two rewards he had opened and felt complicated.

Clearly, his system rewards really could open up anything!

Fortunately, whether it was the spell or the running shoes, they were useful to him right now.

Before transmigrating, he had been sleeping, so his feet were naturally bare; he wouldn't be able to run even if he wanted to in a moment, so it was much more convenient now that he had shoes!

Of course, compared to the running shoes, the other spell was undoubtedly of higher value.

Lu Yun immediately extracted the other reward, the Earth Escape Technique.

Instantly, the content of the spell was rapidly reflected into his mind, allowing him to memorize it quickly.

Lu Yun had originally been full of anticipation that if he learned this spell, he would have more means to save his life.

But when he saw the content of the spell, he was somewhat dumbfounded.

"This spell actually requires reaching at least the Refining Spirit into Void realm to be able to cast it!"

According to the discussion of those Demon beasts he had just heard, Lu Yun knew that his current cultivation, according to the divisions of this world, should belong to the Refining Qi into Spirit stage.

And the so-called Refining Spirit into Void was precisely the realm after Refining Qi into Spirit!

In other words, if he does not continue to improve his cultivation, he will not be able to cast the Earth Escape Technique even if he has learned it!

"This..."

Lu Yun wanted to cry but had no tears; for the first time, he felt that having the grade of a reward be too high was actually not a good thing.

Coincidentally, just at this moment, he heard the Chat Group pop up with a new notification.

Upon looking, it turned out that someone had bought the Water Spirit Stone he had just uploaded! (End of this chapter)