Transmigration with Cheat Codes Chapter 4.1: New Sect Headquarters

The cold wind outside made Meng Jintang sleep uneasily that night. She woke up just as the day was breaking, but even though she opened her eyes, her gaze was still confused—not from sleepiness, but because in this supposedly warm summer weather, she had been frozen to the point of confusion.

‘This body truly lives up to the assessment of being [Weak Physically and in Qi]' by the system.

Generally, people who had practiced internal energy were less prone to illness.

However, as soon as Meng Jintang opened her eyes, she felt a moment of confusion and her whole body became heavy and light-headed. She almost fell straight from the tree due to the dizziness.

Meng Jintang leaned against the tree trunk, closed her eyes and adjusted her breathing. Among all the items she carried, the Small Jade Pivot Pill could alleviate negative effects and had a natural healing effect on common illnesses.

However, the medicine was limited and she had not yet activated the system store function, so she dared not use it too much.

After careful consideration, she took out the Small Green Snake King's Gallbladder that she obtained yesterday, swallowed it, and then activated her internal energy to gradually catalyze the medicinal properties.

The Small Green Snake King is only at level five, but because it was a boss, the dropped snake gall was different from that of a normal Small Green Snake, and it was not poisonous. After swallowing it, it quickly turned into a lump of cool water and then scattered throughout her body.

Sitting cross-legged on the tree, Meng Jintang assumed a cultivation posture with her palms facing the sky. Her internal energy value kept decreasing and then rising again...

She did not know how long had passed until the coolness in her stomach completely disappeared. At that point, her basic internal skill had been upgraded to the highest level, and her maximum internal energy capacity had increased from 50 to 300.

Meng Jintang vaguely remembered that normally even if one fully trained their basic internal energy, the maximum limit of internal energy would only be around 200 to 250.

Moreover, her attributes of innate constitution and physical fitness were both very average, so the extra internal energy limit should have been the benefit brought by the Small Green Snake King’s Gallbladder.

The Small Green Snake’s Gallbladder was a rare medicinal material. Even if swallowed alive, it had a certain effect of dissolving negative status effects.

Meng Jintang felt that the heavy feeling on her body had already dissipated quite a bit. She slowly climbed down along the tree trunk.

She had originally thought that she had already achieved some level of internal strength and wanted to try the feeling of jumping down to the ground, but after some thought, she decided to prioritize caution.

Afterwards, Meng Jintang encountered some wild beasts sporadically on the road. The Small Green Snake appeared less frequently, but a new type of fifth-level flying beast called the Han Mountain Snake Eagle appeared more frequently.

It was not much less agile than the Small Green Snake, but had much higher defense. After a lot of effort, she finally managed to wear down the Snake Eagle to only a layer of skin, but then it took wing and flew into the sky in just a few flaps.

“...”

Even if players used the "Ti" move in “Basic Qinggong” to the extreme, they could not fly in the air like a bird.

Depressed, Meng Jintang watched the distant Han Mountain Snake Eagle, which was gradually disappearing from view, and suddenly remembered the old joke from the early days of the internet, "Are you silly? I can fly."

After her internal energy increased, Meng Jintang's speed also became faster. She continued to walk along the mountain road for most of the day.

The higher she went, the steeper the mountain became. In addition, the road had never been developed before, so it was almost impossible to make progress without martial arts training.

Meng Jintang sighed, deeply missing her life before transmigration. As a player, all she needed to do was click a mouse. Climbing mountains and such were left to the characters on the screen to worry about.

When she finally emerged from the woods, it was almost three in the afternoon.

Meng Jintang brushed off the weeds stuck to her clothes - she was still wearing the same whiteboard equipment with no additional attributes as when she crossed over, and because of the mountain climb, it was gradually becoming more non-mainstream in terms of its level of damage.

Behind the forest was a steep mountain wall. Meng Jintang estimated the distance between herself and the target location and resisted the urge to rest on the spot.

Gritting her teeth, she set off again - if she didn't want to end up like yesterday, hanging on some weird, high place and spending the night there, she had to speed up.

The steepness of the mountain path in front of her was close to ninety degrees. Meng Jintang grabbed onto the protruding rocks and slowly moved upwards. The cold wind blew through her sleeves, and looking down, she could see a dense mountain valley.

The sea of white clouds was rolling and changing in mid-air, vast and majestic, like smoke and waves on a calm lake. Amidst the three parts of beauty, there were still seven parts of danger.

Meng Jintang accidentally stepped on nothing and her body immediately fell down two or three feet. She quickly stretched out her left palm and used her internal energy to hold onto a nearby rock wall to barely stabilize her body.

Some small stones rolled past her, making a rapid rattling sound that grew distant until, after a long while, a few almost imperceptible sounds came from deep in the mountain ravine.

In a remote and desolate place in the mountains, next to a stone platform that had been long abandoned and untouched, five slender and pale fingers suddenly appeared from the edge.

After a moment, the fingers gripped the edge of the platform and with a strong push, a pale young girl in a cloth dress flipped up onto it.

At this place, there was an extremely wide platform, as if the peak had been cut in half from the middle. As Meng Jintang looked around, she couldn't see the end of it.

The surroundings were filled with lush flowers and plants, ancient trees towering high, secluded hills shrouded in clouds, and moss-covered steep cliffs. Aside from the lack of convenient transportation, it was clearly an excellent place for cultivation.

"Okay, this is it," said Meng Jintang.

[System: The mountain gate address has been successfully selected. You have gained 1000 experience points and received a [Mountain Gate Reconstruction Gift Pack] x1.]

"The mountains and waters here are beautiful and suitable for being the new entrance of the Hanshan Sect."]

Meng Jintang took out some of the items from her package to make room for the [Mountain Gate Reconstruction Gift Package]. In addition to some building materials, the newly acquired gift package contained two primary Lu Ban wooden puppets that could be used as servants, as well as a blueprint for the construction of the mountain gate.

*TLN: Lu Ban was a Chinese architect or master carpenter, structural engineer, and inventor, during the Zhou Dynasty.

After looking at the blueprint for a moment, Meng Jintang furrowed her brows slightly. The blueprint represented the construction suggestions given by the system, which players could choose not to follow.

However, given her own abilities, she obviously couldn't come up with better suggestions. As for the content on the blueprint, although it included the area where the stone platform was located, there was no detailed plan, and most of the buildings would be located behind the stone platform.

Looking into the distance, it seemed like there was a towering stone wall standing there.

If she understood correctly, there should be a paradise behind the stone wall.

As the saying went, "So close yet so far". Unexpectedly, even with her qinggong technique throughout the journey, it took Meng Jintang a full hour to reach the location of the stone wall.

Meng Jintang's internal energy was almost depleted, and her energy level had also dropped significantly. She leaned half of her body against the stone wall, her chest rising and falling uncontrollably.

Regardless of what surprises awaited her ahead, she needed to catch her breath first…

This stone wall was covered tightly with thick and strong vines. Under normal circumstances, people who came here would not notice anything unusual.

However, with the detailed guidance of the system and the pile of novels she had read before her transmigration, Meng Jintang had gained sufficient inspiration to solve the current situation.

Meng Jintang held a copper short sword in her left hand and a sickle in her right hand, chopping wherever she went, and finally discovered a dark cave entrance.

The threat level of this area was very low, as indicated by the friendly green color floating on the map. Without hesitation, she bent down and crawled in.

​​The game designers might be faithful readers of "The Peach Blossom Spring," as the cave on the stone wall perfectly replicated the experience of the Wu Ling Fisherman: "At first, it was very narrow, only allowing one person to pass through, but after a few dozen steps, it suddenly opened up." However, instead of a village hidden behind it, there was a vast and uninhabited valley.

*TLN: “The Peach Blossom Spring” was a fable written by Tao Yuanming in 421 CE about a chance discovery of an ethereal utopia where the people lead an ideal existence in harmony with nature, unaware of the outside world for centuries.