*Zzzzzzztt**
Just when Winlu thought that everything had succeeded with the cherry seed in his hand, some black and purple heavenly lightning started to zap around the area. The 14 Variable Heavenly Cherry seed he had just made was warping unstably. Winlu felt his neck hairs stand on end and he unhesitantly threw the cherry seed as far as he could.
*BOOM*
A shockwave rippled out shaking the caverns and destroying a large section of a cavern wall. Winlu ducked to the ground and covered his head. The debris from the wall scattered like shotgun shells in every direction. Luckily, none of the small rocks managed to harm him in any way and flew over his body.
"Damn crazy as hell world!!" Winlu screamed at the top of his lungs.
He made a BIG mental note that his DDK (0.2) was not good for practical testing at all! Or at least he should not have started by trying to use every variable in the development kit to make something. Perhaps their order of interaction caused this to happen. Winlu stood back up and walked over to the cave wall his cherry bomb just blasted apart. There seemed to be a faint glimmering gemstone shining from under the rocks.
"Well... about damn time I found something that looks like reasonable and tradable currency," Winlu mumbled to himself.
He tried to pry the gemstone from the wall, it was a small sapphire gem about the size of a sparrow's egg. It was irregularly shaped, but inside it, looked as if there was a swirling galaxy rotating. He slid the saphire into the pocket of his sweats for safe keeping. He tapped it inside his pocket twice with his finger for assurance it was safe.
'Now back to... oh right.. ' Winlu started thinking about his DDK version but then he realized a strange but crucial question had formed in his mind. Did he have to eat something to airdrop it to his downloads folder?
"No please, don't let it be like this. Please, be merciful, I have a weak stomach..." Winlu's mood soured as he knew he needed to test this before he could know for sure. He picked up a small piece of cave rock shrapnel from the blast. He stared at it and narrowed his eyes. If his eyes could shoot lasers, he would have burrowed a hole in the rock for how hard and intense he was glaring at it.
"I will eat this rock" Winlu announced to nobody in particular.
He slowly moved the tiny rock onto his tongue and gulped it like a pill. It slid down his throat until it landed in his stomach and he heard the notification on his desktop. He really hated the sound of it right now.
<< New file has been airdropped in the downloads folder >>
Winlu just stared blankly for a short while as he tried to process what was happening. After a minute passed, he robotically sat down again and sprawled himself out on the cave floor. He was really depressed now. He just wanted to give up already.
'Screw this transmigration. Whoever sent me here, I hope you have a face for radio and a voice for silent tv.' Winlu cursed over and over in his heart.
He would have to eat whatever he wanted to airdrop into his downloads folder. He wished he could just walk around touching things with his hands. Isn't that a normal method? Why does he have to eat things? Do rocks need to be eaten? YES, APPARENTLY. They do need to be eaten.
Winlu had to take another 20 minutes to recover from this new revelation, but eventually, he shrugged it off again with a sigh and slowly stood back up. He checked inside the downloads folder for the new file and it was: Heavenly Cave Rock. He unzipped it and saw the next DDK (0.3), which added a Heavenly Cave Rock token to the menus. Of course, he installed that into his IDE software so he could write more code as well.
He then took a short walk over to the beautiful area filled with lotus flowers at the center of the cave. The bright black lotus in the center was giving off bright sunlight and the white lotuses around it were absolutely beautiful. He began plucking the white lotuses one by one and storing them until he had stored about 10 in his pockets. Who knew if these were some heavenly treasure he could use at some point?
He also didn't forget to stuff one of the white lotus flowers into his mouth and swallow it so he could collect a new airdropped file. The file was named: White Heavenly Lotus. It also brought another version of the DDK (0.4), improving it by adding a White Heavenly Lotus token to the menus. He could now install his programs onto White Heavenly Lotus flowers.
'Should I eat the sapphire?' Winlu thought hesitantly.
On one hand, he could wait and see if the stone sold for a lot. Perhaps he could even retire peacefully, but on the other hand, he might die if some Immortal cultivate passed wind next to him. That begged the question, could even their farts summon the winds and rain? How scary?! He finally decided he would definitely try and eat this thing.
He found some water at a large clear spring in the back of the cave. It definitely didn't look ordinary, but Winlu didn't really give it much thought. He shoved the sapphire into his mouth and forced it down his throat. It scratched the inner walls of his throat a bit and he felt like he might choke to death if there wasn't any water nearby. Thankfully, he shoveled water into his mouth and downed the gemstone until it reached his stomach.
<< New file has been airdropped in the downloads folder >>
<< New application has been airdropped in the downloads folder >>
"*Cough* Cough*... Huh?!" Winlu saw two notifications.
Perhaps one was from the spring water he drank and the other was for the gemstone? Also, he began to question if any of these things had any effect on people. Weren't the cultivation world spirit spring waters and spirit fruits supposed to like transform his body or something? Maybe he had read too many novels. NO! He had barely touched them, but even he knew about this trope.
He discarded his messy thoughts and refocused back on what the other notification was about. A new application? He navigated through his downloads folder and saw there was an application installation file: [Unnamed Realm]. He read through the accompanying text file for an explanation, but it didn't say much. It just mentioned that this file was an application-type file and was already prebuilt and executable.
"Erm... this name and that sapphire looked like a galaxy inside. Was it not a coincidental pattern of nature or did I just swallow a small universe?" Winlu smacked his head with a face palm.
'It's fine. Everything is fine.' He chanted to himself and discarded those guilty thoughts.
'Why would there be a universe inside a sapphire gemstone? That would just be ridiculous right?' Winlu shook his head and even started laughing to himself a bit. He glanced back at the spring of Spirit Water and looked at the center of the active bubbling area. There was a small glimmering pearl that was constantly pouring out endless water. The water was crystal clear and looked even purer than the rest of the lake. His eyes gleamed.
'What if I eat that, would it be an application or a file?' Winlu thought.
He set his clothing to the side and dove into the spring. It was warm and comfortable. He swam over to the pearl and threw it into his mouth without a second thought. As expected, it didn't make him spew out water by filling up his stomach. After it entered his stomach it disappeared and he heard a notification.
<< New application has been airdropped in the downloads folder >>
"Another one?! Great!" Winlu shouted.
He swam back to his clothes and shook off as much water as he could before walking naked back under the warm light of the black lotus at the center of the cave. He looked over the application name: [Pearl Music Sheet]. It had a symbol of a pearl on the desktop icon.
Winlu dried himself off and put his comfortable clothes back on. He dusted off his hands before looking at the final thing he was curious about: the black lotus. He plucked it from the ground and stuffed it into his mouth. The warm sunlight it emitted instantly caused the cave to turn into near darkness. It was lit only by the few white lotuses that still remained.
<< New application has been airdropped in the downloads folder >>
'I knew it!' he smirked to himself. Of course, this centerpiece would be an application. He glanced at the name of the application that was dropped in the downloads folder: [Physique Mesh Editor]
Suddenly, the cavern walls started to shake madly as if there was a 6.5 earthquake. The cave trees were being crushed and so were the other cave plant life here. Winlu felt this was too much a coincidence. Did he take the forbidden treasure and now the temple will collapse? Maybe he could put it bac- oh he ate it.
Winlu started to panic. It was dark, there was a massive earthquake, and he was underground!
"I hope this does something to get me out of this! And if not... well screw this anyway. I never wanted to be here." Winlu said.
He went to his virtual desktop and selected the [Unnamed Realm] application just as the cave completely collapse. His body disappeared into a small blue sapphire that took his place and it shot straight through the cave and out into the surrounding area. As it turned out, it blasted right out into space itself and shot through this galaxy beyond lightspeed.
...
Moments after the sapphire left the cave.
"What the hell is going on? This Dao Birth Cave wasn't supposed to produce its last Heavenly Realm for another 12 million years." An ethereal and heavenly-looking immortal old man grumbled as he entered the collapsed cave. He looked human, except that his face had patches of grey fur and fanged teeth. He had a longer snout like a dog and his jaw was large and overbearing.
"Where are the Realm Treasures?! The Saintly Music Pearl? The Physique Lotus? Theives! How dare they steal from me?! Yang Lu, I don't doubt you aren't involved in this?!!!!" The old man immortal cursed and obliterated the Dao Birth Cave remains completely with a mysterious and powerful technique before disappearing.
...
In the Virtue Titan Sword Sect, in the Great Muniwe Realmworld.
The old man immortal reappeared inside the room and immediately called in a mature-looking woman who was of the same race as the man.
"Li Jing, what does your divination say? Was it thieves? Was it the Yang clan?" The old man asked impatiently.
Li Jing frowned with her eyes closed tightly while she deduced divination with her technique. She only opened them after another 30 seconds passed.
"Aberrant Realm!!" She exclaimed.
"Aberrant Realm?" The old man repeated back. It seemed there was a tiny bit of disappointment in his voice. But he soon recovered because he finally processed what she said. An Aberrant Realm was unnatural and often produced some of the greatest Realm Treasures if it was refined. It was incredibly rare to happen since trying to force one to appear would usually cause big consequences. Aberrant Realmworlds were devoid of their Realm god consciousness. They had no Heavenly Will and it was incredibly hard for them to develop by pure chance and select their Birth Race to represent their Realmworld in the cosmos.
In other words, it was a BIG juicy piece of meat that was one of the rarest and easiest to obtain treasures. The Great Cosmos was always at war between Realmworlds and every tiny once of strength was needed to keep peace or advance on other Realmworlds. But Realm Treasures were the highest quality cultivation treasures because they grew as they were used. They had no upper limit and would amplify the strength of Realmworlds who had them by 2-3 times.
The two immortals got busy mobilizing other members of their sect to gather possible appearance locations of this new Aberrant Realmworld.