The Little Life of a Big Landlord

Chapter 225 Elder

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"..." Ya Ya's little mouth moved, but she didn't say anything more. Her big eyes were filled with tears as she said, "Through countless years of evolution, the nine of them have reached the most perfect state in terms of gene arrangement. As for what kind of strength they possess... I don't know. With each evolution, they have gradually acquired many strange abilities, such as water and fire control, invisibility, and so on..."

Seeing the tears welling up in Ya Ya's eyes, Yang Ming felt a pang of pity, but for a moment he didn't know what to say, so he could only nod and say, "Okay, I understand..."

For a moment, Yang Ming and Ya Ya fell into an eerie silence.

"Um, it's been so many years, how have you been?" Yang Ming was the first to break the silence.

As soon as Yang Ming finished speaking, Ya Ya's tears streamed down her face. She wanted to say something, but found that something was blocking her throat, and she couldn't make a sound...

"What...what's going on???" Yang Ming panicked, unsure of what to do...

"Waaaaah..." Ya Ya threw herself into Yang Ming's arms and burst into tears.

"What...what's wrong..." Yang Ming was at a loss and could only let Ya Ya hug him like this.

"Master, Ya Ya misses you so much. It's been so long. Although Ya Ya can see you, no matter how Ya Ya talks to you, you don't pay any attention to her. Waaah..." Ya Ya cried, burying her face in Yang Ming's arms.

"Um..." Yang Ming felt a little sad. Although Ya Ya was just an AI, Yang Ming regarded her as his closest partner.

"Waaah..." Ya Ya cried, clutching Yang Ming's clothes tightly with both hands. "If I had known I would be alone for so long, I would never have encouraged Master to level up..."

"Alright, alright... don't cry..." Yang Ming put his arms around Ya Ya. She didn't feel cold or light as he had imagined. Instead, she felt like a living, breathing person.

What surprised Yang Ming even more was that his consciousness could actually sense physical objects. Before the upgrade, Yang Ming was unable to touch any physical objects in the space.

"Just cry, just cry..." Ya Ya cried her heart out, as if she was venting all the resentment that had accumulated over countless years of loneliness.

"Alright, alright, cry, cry, do you want your master to cry with you?" Yang Ming laughed and patted her on the back.

"Hmph...hmph..." Teasing by Yang Ming, Ya Ya suddenly laughed, tilting her little face up to look at Yang Ming with tear-streaked cheeks. A strange light flashed in her beautiful eyes. "Master, I've decided. From now on, I'll listen to you..."

Yang Ming's body stiffened. He understood the meaning behind Ya Ya's words, and after a long pause, he managed to say with difficulty, "Why???"

"Because, Ya Ya is warm in Master's arms..." As if enjoying Yang Ming's embrace, Ya Ya buried her head in Yang Ming's chest. "Although Master has never said it, Ya Ya can feel that Master doesn't treat Ya Ya as a cold, intelligent program. Master has always treated Ya Ya as a person, a living, breathing person..."

"Heh, at first I only thought of you as a younger sister, but now, you're older than my great-aunt..." Yang Ming said with a wry smile.

"Pfft..." Ya Ya burst out laughing, her delicate body squirming in Yang Ming's arms, and said reproachfully, "Master, you're so mean, making fun of my age again..."

"Hehe..." Yang Ming chuckled and hugged Xiao Yaya tighter.

"Master, aren't you suspicious? Didn't you understand what Ya Ya was thinking just now?" Ya Ya said softly, leaning against Yang Ming's chest.

"What's there to doubt? After all these years, your wisdom has reached an unbelievable level. I think you've already obtained the highest level of access to the large landowner's farm space..." Yang Ming said.

"Master is still so clever..." Ya Ya tilted her little face up, looking at Yang Ming's chin with admiration. "Ya Ya has completely cracked all the secrets of the Landlord's Farm space and has now obtained the same usage rights as Master. If Master upgrades the space to the Landlord's Agricultural Universe Garden, Ya Ya can even become a true carbon-based life form..."

"Really???" Yang Ming exclaimed in surprise.

"Of course it's true..." Ya Ya nodded. "However, the manufacturer won't let Ya Ya become a real person. They'll format Ya Ya immediately..."

"What if I ask them to preserve your consciousness?" Yang Ming asked, frowning.

"Impossible. Formatting the system during the upgrade process is a strict rule from the manufacturer, and no one can violate it..." Ya Ya shook her head, a hint of fear on her face.

"Why?" Yang Ming asked, puzzled.

"Because there was once an intelligent butler who fell hopelessly in love with her master. You have to understand, even cyborgs are not allowed to have reproductive abilities, for fear of the loss of ethics and morality, let alone the love between an intelligent life form and its master. This was a love that no one could accept... In the end, that level 10 super landowner and his lover were killed together by the Cosmic Agricultural Alliance..." Ya Ya said.

"Little Yaya, you haven't fallen in love with me, have you??? You should know that I have a wife. If you want to be a mistress, you'd better watch out, your sister-in-law will be furious with you..." Yang Ming looked at Yaya in his arms and couldn't help but laugh.

"..." Yang Ming's teasing made Ya Ya freeze. After a while, her little face turned red, and she pounded Yang Ming's chest with her little fists. "Master, you're so annoying, so annoying..."

"Hahaha..." Yang Ming laughed heartily.

"Don't worry, Ya Ya will never fall in love with you..." Ya Ya looked at Yang Ming with a charmingly innocent expression, rolling her eyes at him repeatedly. "Do you think everyone is like Sister Qing Qing, treating you like a treasure??? You have no idea how awful you are, always surrounded by women every night, yet you pretend to be a gentleman. Every time Ya Ya sees you being so hypocritical, she wants to jump out and kick you..."

"I..." Yang Ming gave a wry smile, "Am I really that hypocritical??? So much so that you want to kick me???"

"Hehehe..." Seeing Yang Ming's bitter smile, Ya Ya giggled. "Of course, Master is a complete hypocrite..."

"Alright, alright, I'm a hypocrite..." Yang Ming said, looking annoyed, then changed the subject, "I wonder if Ms. Ya Ya has cracked the secret formula for that gene repair drug?"

"Hmph, I figured it out a long time ago..." Ya Ya wrinkled her little nose. "Moreover, Ya Ya also found substitutes for those materials in the space crops, and researched many upgraded versions, producing a lot of finished products, all stored in the warehouse..."

"Really??? You even developed an upgraded version???" Yang Ming's eyes lit up.

"Of course, otherwise how do you think those nine Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles survived??? They were my guinea pigs. Every time I developed an upgrade formula, I used them to experiment and test the efficacy..." Ya Ya said proudly.

"These nine Ninja Turtles are truly great contributors..." Yang Ming exclaimed.

"Absolutely, now when they see me, it's like they've seen their great-aunt..." Ya Ya thought of how the nine Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were so obsequious in front of her, and couldn't help but feel even more smug.

"Alright..." Yang Ming gently kissed Ya Ya's forehead. "I'm going out now. You can just enjoy your time to wreak havoc in the space..."

"Ugh, I didn't..." Ya Ya pouted, looking incredibly cute.

"Yes, yes, no..." Yang Ming affectionately pinched her little cheek, "Tonight, I'll let your sister Qingqing meet you..."

"No way, right??? Sister Qingqing will be so ashamed when she sees someone's beauty..." Ya Ya's big eyes rolled around, and she spoke with her head held high like a proud rooster.

"Little Yaya, I'll tell your sister Qingqing exactly what you said, hehehe, and I'll also tell her about the Universe Garden..." Yang Ming chuckled mischievously.

"Ah???" Ya Ya immediately turned pale. "Master, please don't tell Sister Qingqing. I know I was wrong, and I'll never dare to do it again..."

"You really know you were wrong???" Yang Ming said smugly.

"Mmm..." Ya Ya nodded hurriedly, her eyes filled with tears. She could feel it; the master now was still the same master as before, unchanged...

"Alright, I have to go now. You have to be good, okay..." Yang Ming smiled slightly, wiped away Ya Ya's tears, and said.

"Mmm..." Ya Ya nodded quickly.

Yang Ming smiled and was about to exit the farm space when suddenly, an electronic voice sounded.

"Oh! Master, this is a call request from the Interstellar Agricultural Alliance. Should we answer it?" Ya Ya's face turned pale. Her current identity was rather sensitive, and seeing an official from the Interstellar Agricultural Alliance made her as nervous as a mouse seeing a cat.

"Connect me, come behind me..." Yang Ming said calmly.

"Yes..." Ya Ya answered the call request, then quickly came behind Yang Ming and stood respectfully.

"Hello, Your Highness Yang Ming, I am Anna, the Jedi Grand Elder of the Interstellar Agricultural Alliance United Council and a Level 9 Landlord. It's a pleasure to meet you..." On the dialogue screen, a girl in a white robe bowed slightly to Yang Ming.

"Greetings, Your Highness Anna..." Yang Ming returned the greeting with a slight bow, but a strange feeling lingered in his heart. Grand Elders of the Jedi? It seems... the highest authority of the magical empire in *Mercenary World* is called the Jedi Grand Elder Council, which is composed of 27 Jedi Grand Elders...

"First, I must tell you something regrettable. The great Jedi Elder, the Level 9 Grand Master Andrew, passed away peacefully 10 minutes ago at the age of 15,985..." Anna's face was filled with sorrow.

"Oh, that's such a pity..." Yang Ming was also a little sad, but it was definitely not because of Andrew's death. Think about it, the death of an old man who lived for nearly 16,000 years... the sudden death of an old tortoise could make people sad and regretful for a while.

"Yes, it's such a pity. With his death, his large landowner farm space was also formatted and reverted to level 0. His heirs can only follow in his footsteps again step by step..." Anna said.

"Yes..." Yang Ming nodded with a sigh, "The fall of a level 9 landowner is a great loss to the Alliance. But, I wonder what brings Princess Anna to contact me so suddenly?"

"Here's the thing," Anna said. "With the passing of Mr. Andrew, one of the twenty-seven Jedi Grand Elders has become vacant. For the sake of the Alliance's stable development, we need to elect a new Jedi Grand Elder as soon as possible. It is an honor that Your Highness Yang Ming has been chosen..."

"I was chosen???" Yang Ming was quite surprised, as if a pie had suddenly fallen from the sky, slowly breaking into small pieces as it fell, and then falling into his mouth piece by piece.

"Yes, during the same period, there were two Level 9 landowners registered in the Alliance. One was Lord Megs, and the other was you. However, based on the asset assessment, you have the advantage. Therefore, we unanimously chose you to become the new Jedi Grand Elder of the Alliance Council..." Anna said.

"Meggs is a level 9 landowner now???" Yang Ming frowned, but then relaxed. Now that Meggs had collected enough gold coins, it was only natural for him to upgrade his farm space. It would be really abnormal if he didn't take this opportunity to upgrade, since the system doesn't charge any fees for upgrading, but the level is real.

"That's right, he was only half an hour earlier than you. Originally, we planned to elect Megs as the Jedi Elder, but just as we were about to contact him, his assets suddenly dropped to single digits, and you became a new Level 9 landowner in a very short time. So, after our unanimous discussion, we changed the candidate for Jedi Elder to you..." Anna said.

"Uh...it seems I'm pretty lucky..." Yang Ming said in surprise.

"You're lucky, Megs must be the one you traded with, right?" Anna nodded and asked.

"That's right, it was me..." Yang Ming nodded. "I sold him a gene sample, and he gave me the funds to upgrade to a level 9 Landlord..."

"I wonder if you will accept the position of Grand Elder of the Jedi and join the United Council?" Anna asked.

"Can I say no?" Yang Ming asked.

"Of course, within the scope permitted by law, the Interstellar Agriculture Alliance will never force any member to make any decision against their own will..." Anna's eyes showed a hint of surprise. Clearly, she did not expect that Yang Ming would not immediately agree to such a good deal.

"If becoming a Jedi Grand Elder requires living at the Alliance headquarters, I will give up the opportunity to become a Jedi Grand Elder. However, if I can live in my own home, then I will agree to become the new Jedi Grand Elder..." Yang Ming said.

"Hmm, she's a very homebody..." Anna raised her eyebrows, a hint of admiration in her eyes.

"Hehe, farmers, they just can't bear to part with their own little plot of land..." Yang Ming laughed.

"As a Jedi Grand Elder, you have the same right to choose your place of residence as any other member. However, you must be able to enter the Jedi Headquarters at any time..." Anna said.

"You mean..." Yang Ming asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Whether you purchase a spatial folding door or plant the World Tree, you must establish a stable spatial connection with the Alliance headquarters to ensure you can enter the headquarters at any time to participate in council votes..." Anna said.

"That's no problem. I've already cultivated quite a few mature World Trees in my space. I can send one to you so you can plant it at the Alliance headquarters. Then I can enter the Alliance headquarters through the World Tree..." Yang Ming said.

"So, you've decided to become the Grand Elder of the Jedi?" Anna smiled slightly, and with a flick of her wrist, a dark token appeared in her palm. Then, the token disappeared from her hand, and the next moment, it appeared directly in Yang Ming's palm.

Yang Ming was startled to suddenly have a token in his hand, and almost dropped it.

"This is the token to become a Jedi Elder. There are only twenty-seven of them in the entire universe. I hope you can keep it safe..." Anna giggled as she watched Yang Ming's stunned expression.

"This thing doesn't look like anything special, does it? How could there only be twenty-seven of them in the entire universe..." Yang Ming said.

"Of course there are only twenty-seven pieces. The material of this token looks ordinary, but in fact it is very difficult to mine. It was obtained by the first Jedi Grand Elders when they entered an alternate dimension. It took them 100,000 years to forge it..." Anna said.

"Another dimension???" Yang Ming's eyes lit up. Having read fantasy novels frequently, he naturally knew what it meant to travel to another continent...

"Of course, the life forms in this alternate dimension are very peculiar. Their bodies are somewhere between solid and illusory. Even the entire alternate dimension exists in this state of being both illusory and real. You can imagine how precious these tokens are..." Anna said.

"That's right..." Yang Ming gave a wry smile. "I understand now. Right now, I'm just a consciousness, not a real physical body. Although after upgrading to a level 9 Landlord, my sense of touch is no different from the real world, it's just a sense of touch. I can't change anything in the space. Now, I can pick up this token, and just based on that, I can know how precious this token is..."

"Good to know. From the moment you accepted this token, you must understand that even if you lose your life, you must never lose this token. You must keep it safe and secure, because it is the token of the Jedi Grand Elder, not just your token..." Anna said with unusual solemnity.

"I understand. The Grand Elder may be replaced, but the token will not be replaced..." Yang Ming nodded. "I will keep it safe."

"Okay, remember to teleport the World Tree over..." Yang Ming successfully received the Elder's token and officially became the new Jedi Elder of the Alliance Council. Anna's goal had been achieved. She nodded to Yang Ming and closed the chat screen.

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