After Yanjiu turned Sandwalker, Lu Yao came up with an idea.
The Apostles could be asked to screen out a group of Yao Transcendents who met the requirements and give them the opportunity to turn into Cloud Transforming Monks or Sand Walkers.
On one hand, it could introduce a new population to this broken world, who would further transform the Cloud Temple; on the other hand, it would also give the Transcendents a further growth path.
However, this matter required the building of a stable long-term mechanism, including the pre-selection conditions and selection methods that had yet to be clarified, so it couldn’t be rushed.
After turning into a Sand Walker, Salt Long’s [History] cleared out, with two more abilities, [Sand] and [Rule Walker].
Especially the latter, this ability to sneak around with the help of rules was the core of the Sand Walker.
After the Martial Cultivator, Salt Long once again became an experimenter of new paths.
Lu Yao asked the Knowing Monk to take him, first adapting to the Cloud Temple environment and familiarising himself with mastering the use of his new abilities.
Then he went to the toilet.
When he came back, Yanjiu was gone.
Lu Yao opened the Golden Wilderness backstage and looked up the relevant words.
The result was a [Ascension] result, and there was no such person in the subsequent search.
Lu Yao man swooned.
Under normal circumstances, this was certainly a good thing.
Ascension wasn’t easy for Sandwalkers, and in the past, many Sandwalkers from the Cloud Temple had failed to ascend, and in the end, in despair, they fused with the Knowing Monk.
But for Lu Yao’s plan, this was a bad thing.
He had just selected a driver to explore the road, but the driver burnt a tyre on the ramp and started off, and directly drove out of contact.
The people at the back haven’t even got on the bus yet.
Lu Yao Avray regretted the loss of Yanjiu.
He learnt a lesson the hard way.
In the future, it must be emphasised to every transmigrator: don’t soar, don’t soar!
Soaring wasn’t as good as it sounded.
[Banquet Bird] World, the Shadoo Tower made of Sandwalker’s corpse hadn’t even collapsed yet, and the living example of failure was there.
It was a path that had no idea where it was going, and it was hard to say where it was returning to.
Lu Yao thought back.
Whether it was the Era Renewal or the Ascension Accident, in the end, it was still his own lack of understanding and use of the world’s rules.
The pain points had to be solved at the root in order to avoid the same problems from occurring subsequently.
Lu Yao formally decided to use the Cloud Temple as a new experimental area.
The rules of this world were simple and there were no longer any living creatures, so there was no fear of destroying the ecology.
And since it was rotten thoroughly enough that even the Era Renewal had stopped, there was much less interference.
In addition, the Cloud Temple was large enough, whether it was to transform the terrain and environment or to further simulate and deduce the species, it was all very generous.
If compared to the normal world, apart from the two wonders, the other things here were worthless.
But for all kinds of experiments, this place was perfect.
Just do it.
Lu Yao clicked on the Golden Wilderness, chose New in the rules, and made up a [Lightning] entry.
Lu Yao had a special feeling for lightning.
His own growth along the way could not be separated from the power of lightning.
He opened the search engine and first checked the knowledge related to lightning, then crackled and typed under the phrase, setting a simple rule for lightning.
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[Lightning]: the phenomenon of electrical discharges between clouds, between clouds and the ground, or between parts of the cloud body.
Damage: 40
Speed: 15
[Lightning Frequency].
Lightning has a 1/6 chance of striking the ground.
[Lightning Structure]
Mostly linear in shape and constantly changing.
……
After completing the basic definition, Lu Yao clicked Finish.
It showed that 145,000 Flames of Faith were needed.
Lu Yao looked at it with a flesh pain.
The cost of this Divine Research was too high.
He pondered and tinkered for a while longer and figured out a little trick.
If it was a rule that was applied to the entire world, then it would require a very large amount of Flame of Faith to support it. The more detailed and precise the descriptions and related definitions could be, and the more they were locked within a certain small area, the cost outlay could be drastically reduced.
Lu Yao had created a small artificial lake with earthquakes, hurricanes and rainfall not far from Benyuntai. Although it wouldn’t take long for the place to dry up, it would be fine if it could be used for a short period of time.
Delineate the rule unfolding location as an artificial lake.
Lu Yao clicked to complete [Lightning].
This time, the Faith Expenditure only needed to have 1200.
He observed the lake with some anticipation.
There were different forms of Cloud Transforming Monks walking on the lake, and lightning did appear, but since there were too many clouds here, the lightning flashed almost all the time, practically endlessly.
In less than ten minutes, the entire [Lightning] phrase showed [Failed].
Failed to write rules for the first time.
Lu Yao tried again.
After a dozen failures, Lu Yao finally wrote a localised [Lightning] that could be steadily maintained for a longer period of time.
To make the rule of Lightning stable and long lasting, the key was to make it form a linkage with the pillar rule force, and when placed in the Cloud Temple World, it was [Cloud] and [Sand].
It was like drawing a circuit diagram to merge into their established framework, which made it easier to get started.
So making lightning rules in the Cloud Central Temple could not be copied directly from the backstage description of the Yao world, it had to fit the actual situation of the Cloud Central Temple.
Using clouds and sand as the triggering mechanism, their power base was used to derive the lightning effect.
The definition of lightning was now very different.
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[Lightning]: a discharge phenomenon between clouds and sand.
……
The following can be linked into the words [Cloud] and [Sand] to form a linkage into a simple organic whole.
Grasping this basic law, Lu Yao’s next attempts became more purposeful.
He successively experimented with the addition of [Overcast Rain], [Low Temperature] and [Humidity], which were rules based on the cross-talk of [Cloud], [Sand] and [Lightning], but the presentation effect was not as stable as that of lightning, which sometimes worked and sometimes didn’t.
Post-optimisation was also problematic.
But at last, it had come from the stage of nothing, to the stage of something.
What Lu Yao had to do next was to experiment on how to further make these sometimes-functional, rough and problematic rules more stable and useful to the evolutionary development of the entire world.
After working on this experiment, Lu Yao began his favourite part.
Casting the species.
Cloud Temple was a world with no living creatures, so dropping creatures over would mostly be a dead end. Then it was important to pick a leathery, tossable experimental body.
Lu Yao put on rubber gloves and found a very suitable target in his home.
C*ckroaches.
In the past, he felt that there were a bit too many c*ckroaches in the old house, but now he felt that there were too few instead.
As the c*ckroach was downgraded and put into the simulator, he named it and placed it next to the artificial lake in the Cloud Temple World.
The c*ckroaches got their own panel.
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[Sand C*ckroach LV1
Life value: 3/3
Mana: 1/1
Damage: 1
Defence: 1
Speed: 6
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This species possessed the [Endurance] trait after Transcendentalisation.
A single Sand C*ckroach was thrown into the desert world by Lu Yao.
They were initially dying constantly, the living eating the bodies of the dead in order to continue living, and even then, they were still desperately reproducing instinctively.
Lu Yao noticed that after five or six generations, one Sand C*ckroach had mutated.
Its speed became 2, and its defence became 0. Perhaps it was to reduce the unnecessary consumption of everything.
The offspring of this one sand c*ckroach became more able to endure hunger, and their bodies further became tiny and shrivelled, looking like pieces of small black shells.
After generations of evolution, the sand c*ckroaches further adapted to the desert environment.
They possessed the [Iron Stomach] ability, and were able to feed on sand and gravel.
However, due to their tiny size and the fact that they hardly moved at all, they were like thin, narrow pieces of stone. Sand c*ckroaches consume very little, and can live with just a little bit of sand.
Said to be alive, they are actually somewhere between life and death, retaining just a little bit of the simple characteristics of living things.
But they had adapted to their environment after all.
This was of great significance to Lu Yao.
He originally wanted to observe the process of species evolution and extinction, so he chose c*ckroaches, a group with a hard life. Unexpectedly, they were able to survive in such a broken world with deformed rules.
Of course, the premise was that they became transcendent creatures after being dropped.
Although the sand c*ckroaches could be said to be worthless, they were the life base of this world. Their successful survival proved that there might actually be a day for Cloud Temple to regain its life.
Lu Yao decided to give it another push.
He opened the Golden Wilderness, clicked on the [Tree of Creation], and selected a [Sand C*ckroach] as the species base.
He then pulled down the props bar and his eyes rested on the [Baleen Whale Moustache], but this prop came with the ability to breathe underwater, so it might not be too suitable for the desert environment.
Finally, Lu Yao chose the [Wild Horn], a prop that could call the surrounding creatures to come closer.
He had fused the Sand C*ckroach and the Fire Prop into one, creating a new species.
It had harder and thicker sheathed wings, like a layer of threaded outer armour, and was greyish-brown in colour, like a shellfish. The tentacles became able to shrink into the shell, somehow more like a flattened version of a hard-shelled snail.
Lu Yao renamed it [Shell C*ckroach].
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[Shell C*ckroach LV1
Life Value: 3/3
Mana: 1/1
Damage: 1
Defence: 3
Speed: 2
[Endurance]
[Iron Stomach]
[Swarming]
……
This bug class completely gave up their flight and mobility abilities, and they relied on endurance and eating gravel to survive.
What intrigued Lu Yao the most was the way they moved.
Shell c*ckroaches would piece together each other’s threaded shells and move slowly through the sand in a large group, looking quite imposing.
This way of moving in groups made them better able to cope with the harsh climate of the Cloud Temple.
When the wind and sand come, their tightly connected shells form a kind of chain effect, and the interior is divided into upper and lower layers, just like a giant Lego shell.
Lu Yao was looking forward to seeing what they would look like in the future.
As he watched the c*ckroaches line up around him, a reminder popped up in the simulator.
[The elves of the south have offered an offering.]
A long-lost offering!
Lu Yao clicked on the words and the screen immediately jumped to the southern new continent of the Yao world.
A shrine had been constructed outside the Elf Lake at some point, and this shrine was completely woven from vines and wood, which was very much in line with the aesthetic habits of the elves.
There was an additional light blue tree branch in the shrine’s offering bar.
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[Calamity Branch]: +1/hour to Faith.
A magical branch birthed from the corpse of a Calamity, it needs to be grown in water and has a certain chance of breeding a water elemental Calamity.
……
Lu Yao’s mind suddenly lit up.
How could I have forgotten about this.
The Cloud Temple lacked water, so they could capture the Water Calamity Beasts from the Yao Clan’s world over there! Over there, they could toss and turn as they pleased, and the dead world happened to need their kind of tossing and turning!
They would no longer be creating disasters, but life!
