Farming in a Survival Game with a Wood Spirit Root

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As a mediocre cultivator with a Wood Spirit Root, the only job of Jian Tingyu, a lowly odd-job disciple, was tending the immortal herbs on the sect’s back mountain.

The Three Realms had been ravaged by war for years. Caught in the crossfire through no fault of his own, the little errand boy died, only to wake up inside a post-apocalyptic survival game called The Great Fog.

[Players receive a small cabin hidden in the thick fog from the start. The fog outside randomly generates maps, including deserts, forests, and glaciers, along with apocalyptic challenges. Natural disasters, zombies, and strange beasts will all attack the cabin.]

Every other player was terrified. Jian Tingyu’s eyes, however, lit up.

Did this mean that, unlike in the immortal realm, where he was too poor and weak to find any plants to cultivate with, he could explore different maps for plants and seeds here? And that he could farm in a little cabin of his very own, safe from being bombarded by demonic cultivators?

This place was practically paradise!

What? Natural disasters? Could they really be worse than people causing trouble?

Were immortal zombies scary? Not compared to the immortal-realm pests who could live for a thousand years without dying!

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Every morning, a new world appeared outside the cabin window. All the players were despairing over the impossibly random and dangerous maps, but Jian Tingyu’s Wood Spirit Root let him follow the spirit veins to avoid danger and find plants.

Everyone else: Damn it, the map changed again!

Jian Tingyu: Great, another delivery of supplies!

While everyone else was running around the maps, opening chests and fighting, Jian Tingyu was… gathering plants, planting crops, and stockpiling supplies.

The maps were random, the treasure chests were random, and everything in the world was constantly changing.

Only his little cabin was eternal.

So while players across the server struggled to survive the apocalypse, Jian Tingyu’s home was wrapped in sturdy, spirit-nourished mutant vines that shielded it from snowstorms. Mutant peas with little snouts fired peas like bullets to fend off strange beasts, while chili peppers breathed fire to burn zombies to death…

Jian Tingyu, meanwhile, curled up in his warm bed beneath a giant mutant-cabbage quilt, basking in the heat given off by mutant sunflowers as he meditated in peaceful isolation.

Gazing at the thick fog outside his window, Jian Tingyu thought, This is so wonderful, it feels like a dying odd-job disciple’s fantasy about the immortal sect.

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Lu Qiao’s friends couldn’t understand it. He was at the top of the server’s combat rankings, so why was he willing to work for free for some frail-looking player who did nothing but curl up in a little cabin?

Lu Qiao: His food is delicious.

Friend: It’s really worth being someone’s dog?

It wasn’t until his friend found out that the seemingly ordinary rice balls Lu Qiao was eating were sold by Jian Tingyu, the top-ranked player on the server’s survival leaderboard, that they realized they were priceless S-rank goods that could boost combat power and heal injuries.

Friend: …Brother Jian, are you looking for a dog? Woof, woof, woof!

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After staying up all night to finish a milk tea shop management game, Lin Tian woke up in another world with the game’s System.

[The System has selected your business zone: a lava volcano! Your business goal: serve at least 100 satisfied customers! Failure to meet your goal will result in the death penalty!]

Looking at the lava flowing in the distance, Lin Tian said, “…Why did you choose this place for my shop?”

[Our analysis shows that people in this world love milk tea!]

Later, Lin Tian realized that they really did love it.

The continent was surrounded by volcanoes, with sweltering weather and scarce water. The people who lived here were all powerful ability users from adventurer guilds. They couldn’t get their hands on even ordinary water, let alone milk tea!

And so began Lin Tian’s milk tea business: sell drinks to earn points, then trade them for water in the System’s shop!

The shop’s basic drink was concentrated lemonade, with one cup providing as much water as a whole bottle and enough hydration for a day!

It caused an uproar when he put it on sale, and everyone fought to get a cup.

Customer: “Boss, can you make more?”

Lin Tian: “…I’d like to, but I haven’t unlocked the unlimited-cups buff!”

The shop’s signature drink was magma-fruit slush, which could cool you down in no time.

After drinking it, people no longer feared the heat of the volcano and could even explore its depths for resources with ease.

Customer: “Boss, can I get a hundred cups?”

Behind the customer stood a fully armed adventuring party, all gazing eagerly at Lin Tian.

And so the milk tea shop grew bigger and bigger, with more and more on the menu: ice cream, bread, desserts…

The little stall at the foot of the volcano became a hot-spring milk tea shop, then a scenic restaurant, then a teahouse in the sky…

In the end, as the milk tea shop grew more and more popular, merchants came flocking from far and wide. An adventurer guild, an inn, a blacksmith, and a merchants’ association sprang up nearby…

The once-deserted foot of the volcano gradually transformed into a thriving, livable town.

Lin Tian: “???”

Something didn’t seem right!

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Everyone thought that the outsider, who couldn’t fight and had no special abilities, would soon die at the foot of a volcano in such a harsh environment.

Until he… opened a milk tea shop. The drinks he sold had amazing effects and tasted great, too.

They had never tasted anything so unusual. Who knew sweetness could be so addictive?

Before long, every powerful person on the continent had reached the same conclusion: protect the milk tea shop and its handsome owner who knew how to make milk tea!

After all…

Today, the second cup of lemonade is half price!

Theme: You reap what you sow. Even when you find yourself in dire straits, never stop planting seeds