NCCnovel Chapter 1 The Queen Consort of Great Xia (1)
Chapter 1 The Queen Consort of Great Xia (1)
Gu Shijiu and Shi Qi looked at the ethereal young lady in front of them with some curiosity.
The young woman was originally sitting at a table hidden in the mist, with what appeared to be a computer in front of her, though it was hard to see clearly.
Seeing two people suddenly approaching, she quickly went to greet them: "Welcome to the Misty Immortal Realm."
The standard greeting posture.
Gu Shijiu was momentarily at a loss for words to address this person.
Shi Qi smiled and said, "Hello, may I ask your name?"
The young woman looked Gu Shijiu and Shi Qi up and down: "I am your guide, just call me Xin Xin."
"Huh, you're mortals from another dimension? That's strange, how did you get here?"
"We saw a hole, so we jumped over it," Gu Shijiu replied.
"Wow, you look like you're about to die." Only then did Xin Xin notice that the woman in front of her was barely alive and looked like she was about to pass away.
Shi Qi was a little unhappy: "Who are you saying is about to die?"
Xin Xin realized her slip of the tongue and quickly apologized, "I'm so sorry, I just can't keep my mouth shut. Which direction of cultivation are you planning to pursue?"
It's all because of that mouth of his that he's been ruined. His fellow disciples have all reached the intermediate level, while he's still just a beginner cultivator.
Shi Qi was somewhat shocked: "You can fix anything you want?"
"Of course not. You have to pass the first test first to see if you have the talent for this kind of cultivation."
Xin Xin handed the two of them a tablet: "You can refer to the existing sects to choose one."
Shi Qi's pupils contracted slightly. Xin Xin, who claimed to be the guide, was wearing a thin, form-fitting cheongsam, with nowhere to hide anything on her body.
Thinking of Gu Shijiu's illness, his heart pounded. Perhaps there really was a way here.
Gu Shijiu didn't think that far ahead and simply took the tablet and started flipping through it.
She flipped through the pages twice and then handed the tablet to Shi Qi: "There are a total of 10 pages, with 10 pages on each page."
How to choose? Shi Qi saw that the displayed sects were complicated and divided into six levels, with hundreds of categories in each level.
Each category has several subcategories, making the knowledge even more complex than what you need to learn in the college entrance examination.
With a quick glance, he saw a sect on the homepage called "A-Postpartum Care of Sows".
"What is this?" Shi Qi clicked on it, and the content inside was an introduction to the sect.
"Oh, this sect specializes in postpartum care for sows. However, it's a level six sect, and the sect leader is currently only at the intermediate level three. It's usually only cultivators with extremely poor talent who go there."
"What does the A at the very beginning mean?" Shi Qi asked again.
"Alas, many low-level sects try to rank themselves at the top by adding prefixes to their sect names."
However, such rule-breaking behavior was quickly prohibited, and few people managed to exploit the loopholes.
The law doesn't apply retroactively, so they weren't asked to change it.
Shi Qi found this explanation utterly absurd and was speechless for a moment.
Seeing that he and Gu Shijiu next to him both looked bewildered, Xin Xin suddenly realized: "Oh, you don't have divine sense, so you can't see all of this."
Because the Misty Immortal Realm is a first-class plane, and below it are numerous planes of varying sizes such as the Nine Provinces Continent and the Purple Chen Immortal Realm, the people she usually received were cultivators.
This is going to be a bit tricky.
But this didn't stump her: "What are you good at?"
“I went to junior high school, so I’d consider myself an educated person here. Do you think someone who studies science can become the founder of a school of thought?”
Gu Shijiu was very confident. She had also read fantasy novels, in which people didn't study.
Xin Xin looked disgusted: "The ancestor of the scientific cultivation sect in the neighboring state was a PhD in chemistry. Five thousand years ago, he had only been in this plane for less than two years when he was able to turn a person's water spiritual root into a hydrogen spiritual root and an oxygen spiritual root."
"You should be about to ascend to heaven by now, how are you going to clear the mountain?"
Shi Qi was surprised that such a sect actually existed: "Then we'll study Marxist philosophy, surely we haven't studied that before?"
"Who says there isn't? There's a sect founded by the director of a Marxist research institute on the opposite mountain. Now it has 30 million disciples, all of whom are experts."
Xin Xin flipped the tablet to page number 1 and pointed to the Marxist philosophy research school on the page.
Shi Qi gasped.
Xin Xin suggested, "What did you two do before? Why don't you go back to your old professions?"
“I’m an actress, and Ajiu is a singer…” Shi Qi hesitated.
Gu Shijiu interjected, "I'm an actor too."
Xin Xin was quite excited: "The actors are great! We love watching plays. Can I get their autographs?"
She tapped the tablet a few times, flipped to a blank page, and then conjured a pen out of thin air and handed it over.
Gu Shijiu and Shi Qi signed it for her.
"Can actors and singers also attain enlightenment?" Shi Qi was completely confused and had no idea what to do.
Xin Xin affirmed, "That's true. There are countless paths to enlightenment. As long as it's self-consistent, you can do anything."
"Is that actor strong in attack?" Shi Qi had read a lot of fantasy novels, and she needed to cultivate a powerful one, otherwise she would be bullied.
"You're so scary! Everyone cultivates immortality to evolve their life to a higher level, why are you fighting and killing?" Xin Xin jumped back ten meters in fright. "You're not a criminal with a criminal record, are you? You can't cultivate immortality like that."
Shi Qi scratched his head: "Hehe, isn't it said that the cultivation world often involves murder and robbery over resources..."
"Are you crazy? This entire plane is so vast, it's not enough for you to mess around with. How many resources can you possibly use?" Xin Xin pulled out a ruler. "Let me see your records. Hmm, you have accumulated a great deal of merit?"
Is this broken ruler going to get damaged? Is this a meritorious person who's about to kill someone with a single word?
"Then I'll act. Acting is good, hehehehe." Shi Qi was quite embarrassed. "Ajiu, what about you? Singing?"
Xin Xin timely reminded everyone: "Singing and acting are very different fields."
Upon hearing this, Gu Shijiu quickly replied, "I also want to choose acting."
Shi Qi advised her, "Ajiu, with your singing talent, you might be able to improve your skills faster by choosing singing."
How about we choose to sing together?
He dared not stray too far from Gu Shijiu, for he might never know when they would be separated forever.
Xin Xin scoffed: "No matter how talented she is, she can't compare to mermaids and most birds. She's better at acting. When it comes to acting, who can compare to humans?"
But Gu Shijiu's acting skills... Shi Qi frowned in thought.
Unexpectedly, Xin Xin had already sat back down at the table and started typing on the keyboard. Soon, two rectangular cards appeared out of thin air from the computer.
"Here are your ID cards." Xin Xin handed the cards to Gu Shijiu and Shi Qi. "Go and take your acting test first."
Before Shi Qi even had a chance, their cultivation paths had already been decided.
“We haven’t made a choice yet.” Gu Shijiu was not satisfied with the forced sale.
"Go that way." Xin Xin didn't want to talk to them anymore and quickly returned to her seat to watch her drama.
Gu Shijiu and Shi Qi looked at each other, and could only walk in the direction Xin Xin pointed out.
"Hey, wait a minute, give us a good review before you go." Xin Xin stopped the two of them, and pulled out a... cell phone from somewhere.
The interface displays the words "Very satisfied", "Very satisfied", "Satisfied", "Dissatisfied", and "Extremely dissatisfied".
"What is this?" Shi Qi stared in disbelief.
"Hehe, I specialize in customer service. Customer satisfaction is the source of my cultivation improvement, dear." Xin Xin gestured for him to select "very satisfied".
Gu Shijiu kept a straight face and pressed the "dissatisfied" icon with her finger. Shi Qi followed suit and also clicked "dissatisfied".
"Hey, what's wrong with you guys? What did I do wrong?!"
Xin Xin was so angry that her eyebrows shot up, and she pointed at the two of them, ready to yell at them.
Fearing she would be taken advantage of, Shi Qi quickly pulled Gu Shijiu into the space marked "Trial Grounds" above the entrance.
Xin Xin was so angry that her hands trembled. Suddenly, a voice appeared out of nowhere: "Xin Xin, guide number 0831, negative review +2."
Punishment: Continue to serve as a guide for 10 years, and reduce cultivation points by 50.
Note that your current cultivation level is Elementary Level 6 with 10 points. If you drop another 10 points, you will be at Elementary Level 7.
Please promptly improve your service attitude and ensure that new members entering this dimension feel the warmth of this new world.
"Why am I dissatisfied? I've done everything I was supposed to do!" Xin Xin stomped her foot. "As expected, customers are all unreasonable."
She sat sulking in her chair when a flash of red light appeared behind her on the training ground, containing the words "Princess Consort of Great Xia".