Am I the old man who's always by my apprentices' side?

Chapter 237 This cheat code is really good!

A golden light enveloped the backpack interface and then flashed by quickly.

Then, the entire interface...

Nothing changes.

Zhang Chengdao carefully examined himself, including his newly acquired Nascent Soul cultivation level, which remained unchanged.

So?

Was the upgrade just for nothing?

Undeterred, Zhang Chengdao carefully examined all the panels related to the cheat system. Finally, at the very bottom of his field of vision, after a row of options such as "Build" and "Craft", he discovered a new option: "Create Your Own".

Upon opening it, it was indeed a brand new interface, which contained all the categories including "construction" and "crafting". After each category, there was a button for "entering self-creation mode for input". Zhang Chengdao guessed that if he clicked this button and then researched and developed various buildings, pills, magic weapons, etc., he could record them in the system and then directly replicate them in the future.

With that in mind, Zhang Chengdao decided to give it a try.

So he first opened the "Enter Self-Creation Mode" option next to "Making Food," and then casually took a few fresh eggs from his backpack.

[Eggs] were one of the ingredients he got from the member's red envelope. They were quite worthless, even less valuable than [beast meat]. However, they were not as easy to obtain as [beast meat], so he didn't accumulate many.

Of course, these eggs are actually the eggs laid by the chicks in the mall after they have grown up. For example, the chicken coop and a bunch of chicks that he gave to the old lady in Shiwo Village have now grown into a large-scale product and are even one of the most commonly used ingredients by the cooks on Baishi Mountain. They send people to Shiwo Village to buy a batch almost every two days.

It's also thanks to seeing how the old woman made a fortune raising chickens for the Baishi Immortal Sect that the entire Shiwo Village has now become a "breeding base." Under Zhang Chengdao's deliberate guidance, all kinds of chickens, pigs, cattle, and sheep are being raised. Some farmers have even tried raising fish. Unfortunately, since the fish produced by Tianchi Lake on Baishi Mountain are enough to eat, the fish farmers can only make them into salted dried fish and sell them to the palace.

No matter what, this was all "celestial food." Upon hearing this, the local magistrate hurriedly reported it, and from then on, Shiwo Village was elevated to a new status, becoming the imperial "village supplying spiritual ingredients." The magistrate ordered that everything left over from the White Stone Immortal Sect that hadn't been purchased be supplied to the palace, with the most abundant and common item being eggs.

Zhang Chengdao took the eggs and set out a stone stove. This stove was taken from the courtyard where Murong Ruyan used to live after the unified renovation of the White Stone Immortal Sect. It had been idle since the construction of advanced buildings for food preparation, such as the Food Courtyard, was completed. This time, Zhang Chengdao was too lazy to make a trip to the Food Courtyard, so he took it out for temporary use.

He lit a fire, poured in some spiritual water, and then dropped the eggs in. After about ten minutes, estimating that the eggs should be cooked, Zhang Chengdao took them out.

Using the countertop of the stone stove, Zhang Chengdao cracked open an egg and, finding it was indeed cooked, then carefully selected "End Self-Creative Mode Input".

Then, a notification popped up and gradually faded away: You have successfully developed [Boiled Eggs], and the recipe has been entered into the cookbook.

Upon seeing this line of text, Zhang Chengdao immediately opened the "Making Food" interface. Sure enough, there was a new green-quality recipe in the menu, which was [Boiled Eggs], and the only ingredient was eggs!
After seeing the ingredient list, Zhang Chengdao couldn't help but secretly complain again.

This code is indeed illogical. It clearly uses water, but it seems that "water" is not considered an "ingredient" in the evaluation criteria of this cheat system. Therefore, none of the recipes require water—even a bowl of porridge can be made with just rice, which is quite absurd.

However, the recipe for [Boiled Eggs], like other recipes, also has a hint: you need to have a [Stone Stove] to make it.

Zhang Chengdao guessed that this was probably because he used a stone stove to make the boiled eggs. If they had been made in another cooking building, they would probably have been recorded as the building that needed to be entered into the system.

Regardless, it's unclear whether the upgraded cheat system grants him the "permission" to break through to realms above the Nascent Soul stage, but the ability to record and replicate his own research is still quite interesting.

Moreover, judging from the various options and prompts on this interface, it seems that in addition to food, buildings, elixirs, magic weapons, ornaments, etc., any function that originally existed in the game can be created and then entered!

Everything else is fine, but when it comes to alchemy and weapon crafting, wouldn't this be a devastating weapon?

Once you succeed, you can keep succeeding. There is no possibility of failure, so there will be no waste of spiritual materials. If alchemists and artifact cultivators knew this, they would be so envious they would cry!
That's practically cheating!

But it's a "system upgrade" after all, so it can't just be this one new feature, right?

With that thought in mind, Zhang Chengdao began to carefully examine the other interfaces once more.

Sure enough, it was in the backpack, and he also found that there were several extra compartments at the top of the backpack's compartments.

In the original game, there were actually sub-categories below the backpack slots, specifically used to distinguish different categories, such as "materials," "food," and "equipment."

However, after transmigrating, although this cheat system was indeed very similar to the mini-game called "Peach Blossom Spring 3", there were still some differences. For example, the backpack slots never had the columns that the original game had, which made it very troublesome for Zhang Chengdao to find things, as he had to flip through each slot one by one.

Unfortunately, after this "system upgrade," the new categories in the inventory are not the original game's categories, but rather categories such as "Cultivation Techniques," "Spells," and "Supernatural Powers."

Upon selecting it, the backpack interface was indeed switched to the corresponding tabs, but the items inside looked very familiar...

Aren't these the various "jade slips" that he painstakingly copied a while ago?!
Zhang Chengdao was greatly surprised.

In order to classify and organize the pile of "comprehensive books" in the library, Zhang Chengdao went through each book one by one, separating out the cultivation methods, techniques, and supernatural abilities. After learning them, he would then inscribe them onto the polished [spiritual jade], which became the so-called "jade slips".

The advantage of doing this is that it makes it more intuitive for disciples to choose various cultivation methods, techniques, and supernatural powers, and it also makes it more convenient for them to practice.

Because the "jade slip" can achieve an effect similar to "enlightenment," although it is impossible for a person to learn and master it immediately, it can still "transmit" the key points and the entire set of training content recorded in the "jade slip" into the mind of the person using the "jade slip."

But how come the "jade slip" that I painstakingly carved is appearing in my inventory interface?!

And it's a newly "upgraded" feature? Zhang Chengdao subconsciously wanted to "take" one out to check the situation, but found that he couldn't "take" it out at all!

It was only then that he realized that although these jade slips were in his "backpack," they were not physical objects, but rather a kind of "archive."

When Zhang Chengdao selects any of the jade slips, a prompt will simultaneously appear in his field of vision:
"Would you like to consume [Spirit Jade] to create a [Wind Control Technique]?"

No no no no!

Zhang Chengdao controlled his mind to repeatedly tap the negative option in the small text prompt.

Why is he making so many of these replicas?!
Although he had accumulated quite a few [Spirit Jade] over the past six months, [Spirit Jade] is still a relatively valuable spiritual material, so how could he just waste it like that!
Even the clan leader's family doesn't have any surplus grain!
Just as he was thinking this, a red-billed blue magpie flew over, chirping, and circled above Zhang Chengdao's head.

After Zhang Chengdao tossed the stone stove and boiled eggs back into his backpack, he reached out his hand, and the red-beaked blue magpie immediately landed obediently on Zhang Chengdao's arm, spitting out a small note.

Since Zhang Chengdao summarized the technique of making birds that could be used to deliver messages from the "Paper Puppet Technique" and renamed it "Paper Puppet Technique: Messenger Chapter", the difficulty of its practice has dropped significantly. Many disciples in the sect have become enthusiastic about it, and it has even formed a strange trend to choose their favorite bird and make it into a paper puppet messenger as a special "symbol" representing themselves.

Murong Ruyan, for example, specially selected a red-billed blue magpie. However, the tail of the red-billed blue magpie she made was much longer than that of a real red-billed blue magpie, and the feathers were also more colorful. She even dyed her red-billed blue magpie paper puppet. It was much prettier than Zhang Chengdao's rough and simple fat little dumpling.

Besides, Ye Shuyun preferred to use pigeons because he felt it would be more acceptable to ordinary people who weren't cultivators. Tang Xiaoyu used crested eagles, supposedly because she had kept a pair of crested eagles when she was in Shu, hence her choice of bird.

As for Huang Wu...

Huang Wu didn't know this technique. He was so engrossed in carpentry that he had already decided to become a weapon crafter. He had no interest in puppetry at all. Even though Tang Xiaoyu had repeatedly mentioned to him that it would be convenient for everyone to communicate with each other and suggested that he learn it, he still didn't want to learn. He was the most stubborn of all.

Therefore, as soon as Zhang Chengdao saw the red-billed blue magpie, he immediately knew that it was a message from Murong Ruyan.

He unfolded the note and read it. He found that it was nothing major. It said that Heshilie Tudi and his men had finally cleared out the Guanzhong region. Now, the nobles of the Li and Wang families had accumulated too many, and it was too troublesome to keep them around. That's why they sent a letter to ask Zhang Chengdao's opinion on whether to kill or spare them.

Aristocratic families...

Zhang Chengdao pondered.

Although he longed to be like Huang Chao, the White Stone Immortal Sect had just taken control of the people in Qin and Jin, and could not go on a killing spree.

Moreover, some people don't deserve to die, yet they are "bound" to others who should be killed. Killing only one of them would be against the rules of the novel.

Either kill them all, or find another way to deal with them. Killing one and letting one go is just deliberately waiting for them to come for revenge! He would never do something so stupid!

or……

Are they all going to be brought here to mine?

Zhang Chengdao glanced at the number of spirit stones in his backpack and suddenly had this idea.

Although the mining commissions issued by the sect to its disciples are currently sufficient to keep the sect's spirit stone currency system running smoothly, it is hard to guarantee that it will run into a shortage if the number of disciples increases in the future, especially since this thing can be used for consumption!

If we build more mines and let these "prisoners" serve their sentences by mining, wouldn't that be a win-win situation?

If they were exiled to some remote, desolate place, these restless fellows would probably not be content. They might even pull some kind of "White Stone is dead" or "don the yellow robe" trick like the founding emperor of Southern Chu. Even though I'm not afraid of this group that relies on outdated martial arts, dealing with them all the time would still be a bit of a hassle.

So if we keep them right under our noses, we won't have to worry about them causing any trouble!

The more Zhang Chengdao thought about it, the more feasible it seemed. So he simply opened his mouth to the red-beaked blue magpie and said, "All those who rebelled in Guanzhong and caused chaos among the innocent people shall be brought back to Baishi Mountain to await their fate."

The red-billed blue magpie, as if understanding human nature, nodded, chirped twice, and then flapped its wings and flew away.

There are differences between paper puppets. Many disciples with low cultivation levels who did not learn how to make paper puppet messengers well can only make paper puppet birds that can carry letters at most. They are nothing like the paper puppet birds made by Murong Ruyan, which can deliver oral messages and transmit the content of the speech like a tape recorder.

Even the ugly, bristly Northern Long-tailed Tit made by Zhang Chengdao is more powerful. It only requires a spiritual mark to be placed on its body to transmit what you want to say, without the need for "recording". However, that requires a higher level of cultivation. In fact, it would be very difficult for a Foundation Establishment disciple to make such a paper puppet bird.

The red-billed blue magpie was not very fast, but although Heshilie suddenly wiped out the entire Guanzhong region, he still stopped in Xiangwu City. This was not only because the place was originally the core of the Guanzhong region, but also because it was the first place to be recovered and had the best infrastructure.

Xiangwu City is the second "passenger transport station" to be opened for use, after Chang'an City.

However, because Xiangwu City is too far from Baishi Mountain, there is no direct route to Baishi Mountain.

To return to Baishi Mountain, you must first teleport to Chang'an City, and then from there to Baishi Mountain via the teleportation station.

However, although the teleportation station in Chang'an City was temporarily opened for use, it was not actually fully constructed. Various waiting rooms and ticket offices were still under construction. Only extremely urgent matters and official business of the Celestial Court would be approved for use. For this reason, Zhang Chengdao specially appointed Pei Hanlin, the only one who had achieved Qi Induction, as the temporary stationmaster of the Chang'an City teleportation station. Everyone who wanted to use the Chang'an City teleportation station had to be recorded and used by him.

Murong Ruyan didn't want to make a fuss, and the matter concerning these prisoners wasn't urgent, so she didn't go back and forth through the teleportation array to report, but instead sent a messenger to deliver the message.

(End of this chapter)