I have to get lucky right away.

Chapter 225: Behind the outward disdain might lie blatant envy.
The moment the words "riding the sword" were uttered by the cultivation player, all the players who focused their attention on Feng Xue saw a "disdainful" expression that anyone could see through at a glance.

"What's going on? Are sword immortals a bottom-tier profession?"

The cultivator panicked upon seeing this expression, momentarily forgetting even his social anxiety, and hurriedly said:

"Um, senior, I also know a little about talismans and body cultivation..."

"Are the three talent systems talismans, sword control (object manipulation), and body tempering? I just don't know if the players in this world really have energy circuits, or just those data-driven bodies..." Feng Xue pondered inwardly, but outwardly raised an eyebrow:
"The art of talismans? What kind of talismans are you receiving? What level of cultivation have you reached in communicating with spirits and invoking deities? How much divine power can your body tempering techniques withstand?"

"Huh? Could you... say that again?"

The young cultivator looked completely bewildered, and Feng Xue, in a slightly slower tone, asked again, her face showing anticipation.

The young cultivator was now even more embarrassed. He secretly opened his talent tree and skill tree, looked at them one by one, and finally said, half guessing and half-deluding:
"I know the Spirit Fire Talisman, Healing Talisman, Lightning Strike Talisman, as well as the Nine Heavens Thunder Control Talisman and Samadhi True Fire Talisman, but I haven't mastered them yet..."

"..."

With Mo Ying's assistance, Feng Xue instantly changed her expression from anticipation to confusion to speechlessness, which lasted for a moment. However, she was surprised to find that the players did not generate any willpower fluctuations. In the end, she could only sigh deeply, and with a flick of her sleeve, she disappeared from the spot along with the table and chairs.

"Holy crap, you drove the NPC away!" The cultivator player who just arrived only caught a glimpse of Feng Xue disappearing for a moment before letting out an indescribable scream. The original player, a newbie, was also extremely aggrieved and speechless:
"Everyone who comes here just stays silent when asked, okay? The cultivation they talk about and our talent tree are completely different! Otherwise, tell me, what kind of talisman did you receive?"

While that makes a lot of sense, gamers tend to be stubborn. Since there's no second chance, if you don't seize the opportunity, it's because you're bad!

While watching the group of players making a ruckus, Feng Xue quietly changed his appearance. To be honest, his disguise skills have improved a lot. After analyzing Lena's innate abilities, although he still can't play any body type or gender as easily as she can, it's no longer difficult to change his appearance in a targeted way—it just requires some micromanagement.

Aren't there little bells and ink shavings here?

"How's it going? Still haven't found the port?" While scouting locations throughout the city, Feng Xue asked herself. Little Bell let out a human-like sigh, its energetic expression crumbling, and it said helplessly:

"No, we can't find any information portals at all, and no wish power has been received. If they really are players, it means that their technology is not on the same track as ours. If we have to continue trying, we can only let them worship me in real life to see if they can receive wish power, but the success rate is also worrying."

"This is troublesome. Without cyber-enlightenment, it's almost impossible to make consecrated items." Feng Xue asked the general store owner, whose intelligence was similar to that of a normal person, about the materials available there. She was quite distressed. Given the goods in the store, it was unlikely that these players, who didn't even generate any willpower, would consecrate items themselves. "So, spirit enchantment doesn't work?" Mo Ying, whether due to her introverted nature or the special nature of spirits, quickly recovered from the aftereffects of being thrown into the Heavenly Bag. Hearing her question, Feng Xue shook her head:
"It's possible, but I'm not sure how their system will identify what I make. If it's a skill with an appraisal function, then the whole plan will have to be scrapped and started over. Conversely, if they don't have an appraisal skill, or can't recognize the item I make, then it might be treated as junk. So I have to make an item with some intelligence as a preliminary step—"

"Firstly, it's to test their ability to discern; secondly, it's to lay the groundwork for guiding them into the plan later; and thirdly, it's to imitate what we did to the anti-Hercules front in the last world and see if we can find out the effects of their skills... Sigh, as expected, this kind of medieval + supernatural world is the least suitable for Little Bell to perform!"

"Um, if it's just guidance, wouldn't it be enough to just send in a lowly soldier?" Just as Feng Xue was at a loss, Liu Yunxi suddenly spoke up. Upon hearing this, Feng Xue seemed to have a flash of inspiration, but she couldn't quite grasp it. She immediately went to a secluded place and said:
"Elaborate."

"It's very simple. In the stories Grandma Fox Fairy used to tell, when Sun Wukong went to Lion Camel Ridge, he first asked Little Drill Wind about the situation. Since these players can't distinguish between the good guys and the bad guys, we can also arrange for the bad guys to leak the secrets. For example, we can arrange for a lowly soldier to loiter nearby, beg for mercy immediately after being attacked, and then reveal the secrets..."

"I never realized you were so smart," Mo Ying muttered in disbelief. Feng Xue also began to doubt her own intelligence. How could he not have thought of such a simple method?
"What are you talking about? I'm very smart, okay!" Although Liu Yunxi was protesting, she was secretly pleased. Although the humanistic spirit of this world had become obscure and difficult to understand, she still couldn't help but think about how much debt her suggestion could repay.

……

"Is this game company toxic? They designed this skinned-up character class for players, but the NPC descriptions are all from a legitimate Taoist system. Before, I could say that the game company didn't understand cultivation and was just trying to ride the wave, but now that they've released this NPC, it can only mean they deliberately designed it haphazardly!"

In the wilderness map, players who had used up their daily experience dungeon attempts were leveling up by killing monsters while chatting idly. It's hard for players to keep secrets, let alone things that many people are watching. What happened during the day was basically known to everyone who reads the forums by evening.

Currently, everyone is searching the entire game for that strange cultivation-type NPC, investigating information related to "ordination," and trying to find an interactive object in the game that can barely connect with it.

Unfortunately, this trash game uses a traditional Western fantasy map. Finding a church is easy, but finding a place to burn incense and worship gods? Sorry, there isn't one.

"I suspect this is just a setup. The next time we see him, it might be in the wilderness map fighting that dragon boss, getting severely injured and near death, and incidentally inflicting a severe injury status on the boss to weaken its stats or something. Otherwise, the difficulty of that five-player dungeon is just too outrageous!"

The cultivator in the team, who was gaining experience, was watching the elemental mage grind monsters while muttering to himself, hoping for a comment like "You know what?" from his teammate. But then the elemental mage suddenly said:

"There's one we didn't kill! Wait, how did it get away? Maybe it spawned an elite monster! Let's taunt it!"

(End of this chapter)