Sacred Souls: Genesis

Chapter 192: Chapter 191: Fatty Tears Up (3rd update)

Jiang Qiao sat on his Fatty Chiu and followed the members of the Leaping Nucleus towards the Snow Plain map.

Both the Sun Elect and the Shadow Elect had decided to go with the players to the perilous Snow Plain map to vanquish the Snow Plain Master.

The other Elects had been successfully scared off by Mo Shigui’s threats, and Jiang Qiao was certain that they wouldn’t dare to barge into the Leaping Nucleus’s stronghold and try to snatch Sheral away.

The reason was that Mo Shigui had told those Elects that although the eight major guilds of the Holy Spirit competed against each other, they could unite all the Holy Spirits to repel a group of outsiders like them.

At the moment, Jiang Qiao was quite satisfied with how the players and the Crystal Hunters were handling their relationship.

What Jiang Qiao was really worried about was…

“It seems that the gods of this world have their own agendas.” Jiang Qiao said as he threw a carrot on a fishing rod to his Fatty Chiu, and in the next second, he successfully fished up a wild Hai Lan.

“I mean… can you not compete with your mount for food? Didn’t I give you the crispy duck takeout today?”

Jiang Qiao placed a golden carrot on the fishing rod again to appease his Fatty Chiu, which was close to going berserk.

The mounts in the Holy Spirit world didn’t have any affection or training system for now; they were merely pure models, but Jiang Qiao’s mount… How should it be put…

Perhaps because the creator was just beside it, it had absorbed some of Hai Lan’s aura of immortality?

“This isn’t a real-world carrot?” Hai Lan realized after finishing the carrot that it was food from the Holy Spirit World.

“What did you think?” Jiang Qiao patted the spot next to the Fatty Chiu, and set its autopilot for pathfinding.

Hai Lan now sat on the empty spot on the back of the Fatty Chiu. Although she was still in an invisible state, she had already released her ghost form… Sitting next to Jiang Qiao, her pale and delicate legs swung back and forth, and she seemed to be in a pretty good mood.

It took about fifteen minutes from the Leaping Nucleus’s stronghold to the Spiritual Vein Forest. Jiang Qiao could opt to teleport directly back to the initial base point, and then starting from there would be a bit closer.

But everyone felt it was too much hassle, so they didn’t… During this fifteen-minute journey, Jiang Qiao began to ponder the true intentions of the group of Crystal Hunters, and also… the specific plans for Fureya’s outing.

“As long as the gods of this world don’t plan to invade ours, it doesn’t concern us, right? If they want to wage war… it would be handy to cook them all in one pot,” Hai Lan said.

“Shouldn’t it be ‘sweep them all in one go’?” Jiang Qiao felt that Hai Lan had picked up some weird phrases lately, “But indeed, the problem is that some players might… not quite agree, yet they’re also easy to handle.”

Sheral was clearly fleeing from something when she escaped from the Crystal Hunter organization. What could a divine Elect, high and mighty, possibly fear?

Jiang Qiao couldn’t guess this point, but he was certain that the gods of this world hadn’t brought Jiang Qiao and the players over just for the simple task of eliminating crystal disease.

Whether these gods aimed for the cliched total domination of this world or some sort of purification… none of this could cause any conflict with Jiang Qiao and his players.

After all, once Jiang Qiao emptied the resources of Biland Island, he planned… to temporarily retreat.

Unless something unexpected happened, he would probably retreat. The resources of this island were indeed very rich. Currently, Jiang Qiao’s daily income of Creation Energy ranged between fifteen hundred and two thousand, all sourced from the mother crystals recycled from Biland Island. Moreover, the server’s player cap also increased steadily by one hundred twenty slots each day.

But the players had already grown attached to the island. It wasn’t so much an emotional attachment to the island itself, but to the stronghold built on the island and the NPCs there.

Jiang Qiao felt that if he simply teleported the players back to the main map of the Holy Spirit World after completing the conquest of Biland Island and abandoned a stronghold they had finally built… Players would curse him on forums and Weibo until the server shut down.

So, Jiang Qiao’s plan had undergone some slight changes… Was there a possibility of transferring the entire Biland Island into the inside world?

At this stage, it seemed unlikely to Jiang Qiao. After conquering Biland Island, the only compensation he could offer was to transfer the players’ stronghold to the inside world.

The inside world was still in a chaotic and fragile state. Jiang Qiao had already been investing significant amounts of Creation Energy to stabilize the inside world.

So transferring Biland Island directly into the inside world… Maybe if all the core crystals of Biland Island were consumed, it might be worth a try?

Jiang Qiao shook his head to dispel this risky thought from his mind. The safest choice was still to transfer the players’ stronghold to the inside world.

If Biland Island really can’t handle it, Jiang Qiao can swallow it into the body world of the Holy Spirit, making it part of the Holy Spirit’s body map. That would be the best way to handle it.

“At this stage, we need to kill the Snow Plain Master…” Jiang Qiao felt the Fat Chiu he was riding was already trembling.

The temperature around them plunged as they approached the Snow Plain map. Snow had started to fall from the sky, and the ground was accumulating a significant amount of snow. In the distance lay a map covered with ice and frost.

Jiang Qiao opened a temperature chart in the Holy Spirit that was rarely used. The needle in the temperature chart had completely moved to the blue, low-temperature area, right to the very bottom, which also displayed a temperature.

Minus fifty-four degrees Celsius!

This godforsaken place could rival the Earth’s Arctic night.

Fat Chiu, being a sentient mount, was trembling as it ran. Jiang Qiao glanced at the people around him, their cores throbbing.

As they stepped into the Snow Plain map, it was no surprise that they all entered a state of hypothermia.

As energy beings, Holy Spirits have a much higher tolerance to external invasions than ordinary people. According to the settings, Holy Spirits do not have body temperature. The hypothermia mentioned here refers to a DEBUFF. Once the temperature falls below zero and the clothing is too thin, this state is entered, and the blood begins to drain at a rate of one thousandth of a percent per second.

Mo Shigui immediately took out a Blazing Potion and drank it. This potion could increase resistance to frost attributes, which could also be stacked with equipment.

“How come each of you has a bottle of Blazing Potion, and Lazi, do you have any Blazing Potion left?” Blackpot Zuzhou searched in his own bag and found that he had run out of Blazing Potions.

“I have a lot here, but Blackpot, your ice resistance can’t be boosted by just Blazing Potion, right?” Lazi tossed a bunch of frost resistance potions to Blackpot Zuzhou.

This time, their target was the Snow Plain Master, so the operatives of the Throbbing Core naturally came fully armed. Lazi had spent the previous night concocting the highest quality frost resistance potions, but these had already proven sufficient against the extreme cold temperatures of the Snow Plain.

However, the Snow Plain Master they were about to face would definitely have some sort of extreme freezing attack.

“I saw in the group chat that there’s a wagon shop ahead?” Mo Shigui raised his hand to signal everyone to slow down their march.

“A wagon shop? The one from the initial base? Would Miss Cat appear in this godforsaken place?” Fluffy Bunny immediately looked around and indeed spotted a wagon shop in a crowd of players.

However, standing next to this shop on a stone was not the familiar Miss Three-Color Cat, but an orange cat instead.

“Who is that orange cat?” Jiang Qiao didn’t know that a new orange cat NPC had been added; it could only have been Hai Lan’s doing.

“Wasp Knight… She seems to have something to tell you in person, she’s been looking for you in private chat, you haven’t replied to her.”

“Isn’t today the day the second Divine War opens?” Jiang Qiao immediately opened his Heavenly Palace chat app, and sure enough, inside the instance leader group, Wasp Knight had tagged him nearly fifteen or sixteen times.

But Jiang Qiao had been busy dealing with conflicts between players and Crystal Hunters for the past few hours and simply had no time to check the messages in the instance leader group.

“It opens tonight at eight o’clock, Queen Mei has already gone back to the lord’s dormitory to get dressed.” Hai Lan said.

“Alright, alright, there’s just too much to handle alone.” Jiang Qiao looked at the time, it was Monday, 7:30 PM, half an hour before the second Divine War opens, and Wasp Knight had indulged in playing the role of Miss Cat for half an hour.

Jiang Qiao watching Wasp Knight talking with the players, felt she seemed to really enjoy it.

“No! You are not Miss Cat! Where have you hidden our Miss Three-Color Cat, you fraudulent fat orange cat?”

“Say that again?” Wasp Knight grabbed the collar of the player who objected to her portrayal of the NPC.

From a distance, Jiang Qiao gestured a ‘no’ sign to Wasp Knight, who only slowly let the player go after seeing it.

“If I am fat, then you Holy Spirits are just a bunch of rolling balls!” Wasp Knight said to those Holy Spirits.

So that was the key point, was it?

Jiang Qiao collected his frozen stiff Fat Chiu and walked towards the abruptly appearing wagon shop next to the Snow Plain.