Chapter 00105: Lin Daiyu Uproots a Weeping Willow
# Lin Daiyu Uproots a Weeping Willow
Chapter 105
Novel: AFK Game: Portal to Another World
Chapter 105: Lin Daiyu Uproots a Weeping Willow
Many people aren't incapable, they just lack confidence.
Yang Yiyi was a classic example.
Though her aptitude for martial arts was indeed abysmal, her physique spoke for itself.
Beating up a few skinny little monkeys would be no trouble at all.
She looked quite fierce, but in reality, she wasn't using any sort of Monkey Boxing.
It was purely just a few simple punches and kicks.
After all, she had trained in the fundamentals at a proper sect for ten years.
To the monkeys, her physical fitness was simply overwhelming.
Li Chengxi had been a little worried at first, which was why he had specifically dismantled his own mop to give Yang Yiyi a stick.
He hadn't expected her to be so bold.
In just a few moves, monkeys were lying all over the ground.
Having been beaten and feeling the pain, the group of macaques immediately scattered, scurrying away out of sight.
As they ran, they shrieked sharply, as if cursing.
In any case, a human couldn't understand what monkeys were saying.
Seeing the monkeys flee, Yang Yiyi happily placed her hands on her hips.
"You little monkeys! That's what you get for bullying me! Now you know how formidable this heroine is! Hahahaha!"
Her laughter was quite hearty, and also quite arrogant.
Li Chengxi's first impression of Yang Yiyi was that of a delicate, pretty girl.
And from her name, 'Yang Yiyi', which evoked images of weeping willows, he had pictured a soft maiden who wouldn't even dare to speak loudly.
But that wasn't the case at all.
Her appearance and name had nothing to do with her personality.
Yang Yiyi was actually a wild girl who had been suppressed for too long.
She seemed demure, but was in fact very wild.
But he had to admit, this contrast was rather cute.
She laughed with utter abandon, as if trying to laugh away all the grievances and frustrations she had bottled up recently.
"Brother Li, how did I do?"
"Great, great. You exceeded my expectations."
On the screen, a 'smug' emoji bubble popped up next to Yang Yiyi's character.
It wasn't an illusion; she was genuinely cute.
"With the monkeys out of the way, let's go check what's ahead. I can hear the sound of water."
Bypassing the scattered peaches, the game's camera followed Yang Yiyi as she moved to the left.
Before long, a large, clear water pool came into view.
Further in the distance, a small waterfall could be seen, with mountain spring water flowing down from it to form the pool on the ground.
"Ah! Brother Li, look, there are fish in the springwater!"
Li Chengxi zoomed in a little and could make out the shadows of fish in the springwater.
The presence of fish made Yang Yiyi ecstatic.
She used to catch fish in the river often as a child, but hadn't done so in the ten years since joining her sect.
Seeing them today, the urge to catch fish stirred restlessly in her heart.
She quickly took off her shoes and socks, rolled up her pant legs, and jumped into the springwater.
The icy springwater made her shiver, but the joy on her face didn't diminish in the slightest.
She bent down and reached her hands in to catch a fish.
The fish in this pool, perhaps because no one ever caught them, didn't even know to flee.
Soon, Yang Yiyi had caught a large crucian carp.
"Look at this fish, it's so plump. It's been a long time since I've seen such a fat fish."
Yang Yiyi's face was radiant with genuine happiness.
On his screen, Li Chengxi saw a smiley face emoji pop up next to the chibi character.
However, it had truly been too long since Yang Yiyi had waded in water to catch fish.
As she walked toward the bank holding the large carp, her foot slipped, and she tumbled into the water.
The pool wasn't deep, so there was no danger of drowning, but the big fish she had caught was gone.
Yang Yiyi wasn't annoyed, however.
Instead, she burst out laughing.
"Huh? What's this?"
As Yang Yiyi got up, she saw a sparkling, translucent object in the water pool.
She reached out and fished it out.
"Brother Li, look. This stone is like jade, it's so clear. Do you know what kind of stone this is?"
It looked like mutton-fat white jade, but the stone had patterns like red flames on it, which were indeed quite beautiful.
Li Chengxi knew nothing about stones.
He thought it was probably just a common ornamental pebble.
However, to show off in front of Yang Yiyi, Li Chengxi pressed the Alt key, wanting to see the stone's name before telling her.
Then he saw that the stone in Yang Yiyi's hand was labeled 'Sky-Upholding Stone'.
Wait a minute! Sky-Upholding Stone?
Li Chengxi quickly used the scroll wheel to zoom in and right-clicked to check the item's properties.
Name: Sky-Upholding Stone
Grade: None
Attribute: Material
Description: Originating from the Sky-Upholding Jade Pillar that supports the heavens and earth.
Incomparably hard and inscribed with divine patterns, it possesses the divine might to part the heavens and earth and has infinite wondrous uses.
"Brother Li?"
Seeing Li Chengxi remain silent, Yang Yiyi found it a bit strange.
"It's nothing. The stone you found is called the Sky-Upholding Stone. It's a very good thing."
The description sounded incredibly impressive, but compared to the descriptions of magical items he had seen before, it also seemed somewhat vague and mysterious.
"Oh, it's a good thing?"
Yang Yiyi couldn't see it at all; she just thought it was pretty.
"Since it's a good thing, then I'll give it to you, Brother Li."
As she spoke, Yang Yiyi brought the Sky-Upholding Stone close to the jade tablet.
At that moment, she felt a suction force from her fingertips.
The Sky-Upholding Stone was instantly sucked into the jade tablet and vanished in a flash.
Meanwhile, Li Chengxi saw the 'Sumeru Realm' icon on the right side of his screen suddenly open on its own.
In the window that popped up, the Sky-Upholding Stone that had just been in Yang Yiyi's hand now appeared.
The icon for this Sky-Upholding Stone was greyed out.
It couldn't be clicked or moved, as if it were embedded in the item slot.
Just as Li Chengxi was wondering what this thing was for, he suddenly noticed that the True Qi Value bar on the side seemed to have grown much longer.
It wasn't that the spent Spiritual Power Value had been restored, but that the total amount had increased.
Just as he noticed the increase in True Qi, Li Chengxi saw Yang Yiyi's character panel suddenly pop open on its own.
Next to her basic information like her name, the words for the five basic attributes—'Physique', 'Movement Technique', 'Meridians', 'Comprehension', and 'Fortune'—were all glowing, as if guiding the player to click on them.
Li Chengxi immediately realized this was for allocating points!
See, the one with trash aptitude is the real protagonist.
She can add points.
"Brother Li, why did you go quiet again? Was that stone just now taken away?"
"Yes... That stone is very important to me. It's called the Sky-Upholding Stone. Remember to collect them if you see any more. I can use them to add points for you."
"Add points?"
A question mark bubble appeared above Yang Yiyi's character.
She didn't understand what that meant.
Li Chengxi slapped his forehead.
Right, how could she possibly understand what 'adding points' meant?
"To put it simply, it's a complete body transformation. Aren't you troubled by your poor aptitude? The Sky-Upholding Stone can help you undergo a complete transformation."
"Really!?"
Yang Yiyi was indeed very self-conscious about her aptitude; otherwise, her master wouldn't have taught her nothing for ten years.
"Then hurry up and transform me, Brother Li."
Do you think we're doing laundry? What do you mean 'hurry up and transform'?
But speaking of which, he did need to consider how to allocate the points.
The five basic attributes corresponded to five abilities.
He could distribute the points among all of them, or focus on just one.
First off, distributing them evenly was out of the question.
In any Wuxia-style cultivation game, a character with balanced starting stats was bound to be trash.
A lack of specialty often led to restarting the game.
So, should he put points into Comprehension?
This attribute, aside from Meridians, seemed to be the most important in Wuxia games.
High comprehension allowed one to learn good martial techniques.
Perhaps with high comprehension, the time it took for Li Chengxi to impart martial arts to Yang Yiyi would also be shortened.
But after a moment's thought, Li Chengxi decided not to put points into Comprehension, and instead poured them all into 'Physique'.
In any cultivation-type Wuxia game, the early and mid-stages were the most difficult.
Resources were limited, and when first playing a game, the player had no idea how to make their character grow quickly.
At this stage, one shouldn't be thinking about learning some peerless martial art in the future.
It was better to max out the most basic attack, defense, and health points first.
Being able to one-shot a small monster in the early game was more important than struggling to reach the late game to learn a peerless technique.
After all, only those who survived could make it to the late game.
So, Li Chengxi put all the points into Physique.
He could see the bar representing Physique on the attribute panel shoot up, becoming nearly ten times higher than the other attributes.
As the points were being added, Yang Yiyi's character on the screen was enveloped in a ball of light.
After a moment, the light dissipated.
She clenched her fists and said:
"I feel like I've gotten stronger."
With that, she walked over to a nearby peach tree and threw a punch at its trunk.
With a crisp crack, the peach tree, as thick as a bowl, was snapped in two.
"Brother Li! I really have gotten stronger! Look!"
She grabbed the trunk of the broken peach tree and, with a heave, pulled with all her might.
The peach tree was forcefully uprooted by her, and it didn't even seem to take too much effort.
"Uh... getting stronger is a good thing."
"Hehe."
Li Chengxi hadn't expected that putting all the points into Physique would result in such a massive boost.
Watching Yang Yiyi uproot the peach tree, he was suddenly struck by a certain aesthetic beauty, like that of Lin Daiyu uprooting a weeping willow...
(End of this chapter)