I, the Guide to the Omniverse, Usher in Blue Star's Great Ascension! - chapter 24

Chapter 24

If counted by Blue Star time, yesterday I was still just an ordinary person.

Who would have thought that today I’d become a ‘New Human’ with my Spiritual Root awakened.

Sheng Ai never dreamed that such a good fortune would fall upon her.

The Bead Bracelet on her wrist had already turned into a tattoo-that was the medium for communication between the System and herself.

This bracelet was left to her by her mother. Could it be that her mom really got an incredible bargain at that street stall back then?

Sheng Ai shook her head, gathering up her scattered thoughts. At that moment, Pei Qiu called.

“None of them believe me!”

Pei Qiu’s tone was indignant: “I told the family group that I went to the world of Journey to the West and met the Toad Spirit. I even sent them a video. My third uncle said that after I got dumped by that jerk last time, I was so traumatized that my mom should take me to the psychiatric hospital for an evaluation.”

“…” Sheng Ai was a bit speechless. “Of course no one would believe you if you said it like that. No matter how real that video looks, who would dare believe you actually went to the Otherworld?”

“Sigh, I’m not even living in the same world as them anymore.” Pei Qiu sounded as if she’d seen through all the vicissitudes of life. “I’m no longer the person I used to be.”

Sheng Ai: “…”

Well, if you insist on putting it that way, it’s not wrong.

Pei Qiu suddenly asked, “By the way, aren’t you helping the Toad Spirit clan open an online shop? Did you get all the paperwork done?”

“Damn!” Sheng Ai slapped her forehead. “I was busy with other things just now, too excited and totally forgot.”

Her mind was full of thoughts about awakening her Spiritual Root, and for a moment she forgot she still had a Side Quest to open an online shop for the Toad Spirits.

The System hadn’t even reminded her.

System: [I’m helping you handle the paperwork and process.]

Sheng Ai was moved. “You really are reliable!”

Pei Qiu said, “It’s understandable, no worries. I probably won’t be able to sleep tonight from excitement either. If my cousin wasn’t coming, I would’ve said I’d sleep over at your place tonight.”

Sheng Ai was a bit curious. “Your cousin?”

“Yeah, my cousin from the countryside.” Pei Qiu’s tone was complicated. “She seems to have had some kind of conflict with her family and ran away from home. My mom asked her to stay with me for a while. Anyway, I live alone.”

“Oh, that’s fine. Having someone to keep you company means you don’t have to worry too much.”

After all, Pei Qiu lived alone in her apartment complex.

“I have to go pick her up at the High-Speed Rail Station tonight. But remember, you must notify me when the next journey starts.”

Pei Qiu kept reminding Sheng Ai, and Sheng Ai replied, “Got it, got it. Go take care of your cousin, I need to handle the online shop paperwork.”

Pei Qiu: “Go ahead, let me know when it’s open. I’ll place an order-the durians from Xiaomi Mountain are really delicious.”

With that taste and size, if you sold them in Hu City, they’d be considered a luxury variety-at least a hundred per jin!

“Alright.”

After hanging up, Sheng Ai got busy with the online shop.

Fortunately, the System didn’t need to go through any extra procedures at all and told her the registration was already complete.

The shop was already open; all Sheng Ai needed to do was confirm the connection with Xiaomi Mountain.

Sheng Ai opened her phone and saw that her shop backend was already registered on the Time shot platform. She was a bit curious: “You don’t need anyone to review any of your processes? Won’t people here notice?”

System: [The procedures I use are legal and compliant in their records. As for whether they’ll ever figure out when the paperwork slipped in, I have no idea. I can’t forcibly alter human memory.]
Sheng Ai: “…”

Isn’t this just exploiting a bug? The System says everything it does follows legal procedures.

But the people in charge of those procedures definitely have no memory of it. Whether anyone discovers a problem is a matter for later.

Sheng Ai simply decided not to worry about these things.

The rules for listing products on the Time shot online store were simple. When she returned, Sheng Ai had already taken photos of the Stinky Fruit.

She had also stuffed a few Stinky Fruits into her System’s space backpack.

She took them out, snapped some photos, and uploaded them.

She set the price at 35 per jin, shipping not included.

Because the System said that cross-realm energy was too distant, so for now, time-space delivery wouldn’t include free shipping.

But looking at it, no matter where on Blue Star you bought Stinky Fruit, the shipping was always one yuan per jin.

She thought that was reasonable enough.

There was a backend process to confirm the shipping channel connection. Once confirmed, as soon as a customer placed an order, Xiaomi Mountain would automatically ship the Stinky Fruit.

After setting up the online store, Sheng Ai immediately sent the store address to the WeChat group that Tang Yuanhang had created for the tourists before returning.

[Chief Guide]: (Time shot store address) The Xiaomi Mountain online store is open. If you want to eat Stinky Fruit, just buy it directly.

[Tian Youyue]: Great, great, I’ll buy dozens of jin to send to my family group.

[Pei Qiu]: I’ll buy some too!

[Zhou Zhihui]: Now that everyone can buy Stinky Fruit, no one can say I made up the story, right?

[Pei Qiu]: @Zhou Zhihui, did you tell your friends about going to Xiaomi Mountain?

[Zeng Xu]: Hahaha, of course! We posted on our Moments as soon as we got back, but no one believed us. Several friends asked if we were doing some kind of social experiment.

[Qiu Jun]: Sigh, as the ten uniquely lucky ones, we’re still lonely for now. No one believes what we say.

[Yang Zhiyu]: I posted photos and got reported. They said the Toad Spirit was photoshopped and looked too scary =-=

[Zhou Zhihui]: How dare they! How can they say our friend looks scary!

[Zeng Xu]: @Tang Yuanhang, Brother Hang, when will you post the video?

[Tang Yuanhang]: There’s too much footage, I’m still editing. At the earliest, it’ll be out tomorrow. I’ll @ all of you then.

Everyone replied that was fine.

He Zhou and Aunt He were probably busy with other things and didn’t speak in the group.

As night fell, for others it was just an afternoon.

But for Sheng Ai and the others, they had truly spent three days in the Otherworld.

To be honest, they hadn’t rested well over there, since they were all living in caves.

But Sheng Ai, probably because she had awakened her Spiritual Root, was still full of energy.

And she kept feeling that compared to usual, there was a mysterious substance in the air.

She seemed able to absorb it, but didn’t know how.

She tentatively asked the System, “Is this Spiritual Energy?”

System: [Yes. But Blue Star is already an era of complete Spiritual Energy extinction. The concentration is too thin. If you stay on Blue Star long-term, even with a Spiritual Root, you’ll only live a few decades longer than others at most.]

Sheng Ai complained, “That’s still pretty miraculous.”

But she sensed something else in the System’s words: “So you’re saying, if I want to cultivate, I have to go to a dedicated world for it? How can I go there long-term?”

System: [The second mission hasn’t started yet, so let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Woman, your name is Greed.]

Sheng Ai: “…”

What a greasy System.