Interstellar Travel: Becoming a Dress-Up Game Designer

Chapter 291

The ornament is absolutely beautiful, with wisps of red water rising from the bottom, interspersed with golden light. It's depicted as if it has just spread its wings and is about to take flight, with its claws straining powerfully, the muscles, direction of force, and even the fur on the claws clearly visible. The large head is that of a phoenix, its wings poised to open, creating a dynamic effect—it's absolutely gorgeous!

The color of the wood is also very interesting, or rather, the carver is very skilled. The most intense fiery red flows on the wingtips, head feathers, and soles of the feet, with the soles of the feet being slightly darker. The wing parts have the most lustrous color, and the head feathers are the reddest.

The phoenix's eyes are sharp and piercing, gazing at the sky as if looking towards a place it will fly to. The base is carved from bloodstone into a phoenix tree, the bloodstone itself being of exceptional quality, its leaves orange-red with a hint of green, its feet a fiery red, as if infected by the phoenix's flames. This makes the entire phoenix appear even more lifelike and spirited. The craftsman's skill is superb; it truly seems poised to soar into the heavens. Both the details of the carving and the overall imposing presence are remarkable. Given that it's a phoenix, a treasure coveted by countless collectors, it has made many envious to the point of tears.

"Why didn't I think of asking the master craftsman to carve a phoenix for me? I'm so sad, sob sob sob."

"Me too. Although the master craftsman's carving is also super beautiful, it's a phoenix! Waaaa, it's a phoenix!"

......

Countless players below were crying and regretting their actions when the one who was stirring up trouble appeared.

"Haha, I was right, hahaha. Look, so many treasures, I've carved them all into phoenixes! (Image)"

The picture shows several boxes of fruit pits. There are sunflower seeds, moonflower seeds, milk jade bodhi seeds, olives, walnuts, peach pits, apricot pits, and many other varieties.

The earliest nut carvings mainly used peach pits, because peaches were considered amulets in ancient times, and wearing a carved peach pit was believed to ward off evil. Later, the types of pits used gradually increased, and eventually bamboo, wood, ivory, jade, and other stones were incorporated, gradually forming a large-scale micro-carving industry.

However, all of these belong to the category of carving, which has been developing in China for thousands of years, starting from ancient times. The first ancestor who found peach pits probably just wore them on his body as simple ornaments, but later, with the advent of stone knives, bone knives, iron knives, alloy knives, and so on, the carving techniques gradually improved, evolving from simple polishing to carving flowers, dragons, and phoenixes.

The player had collected fruit pits, which were stored in small boxes containing forty to fifty small pits and a dozen or so large pits. Each one was of excellent quality, and carving materials such as wood and bamboo roots could even be vaguely seen nearby.

The collection is quite extensive.

The wealthy players were incredibly excited upon seeing this and immediately started bidding below:

"How much do you want? I'll buy them all."

"Tsk tsk, buying everything? Trying to hog it all? Be careful, or we'll target you like we targeted Mancang Antiques."

"Exactly, it should be divided equally, boss, remember to limit each person to one."

"One for everyone, highest bidder wins."

......

Just as everyone was arguing, the owner of the thick earthen nut carving finally released the video of the carving. It was an exceptionally large piece of submerged wood, with golden threads inside that shimmered like golden light. Most amazingly, besides the golden light, most of it was a jade-like black that seemed to overflow with water, along with a blood-red hue, interspersed with many shades of gold, black, and light gray.

The colors are absolutely gorgeous!

The master sculptor meticulously designed the piece, with the rich gold and gray at the top carved into a downward-sloping statue of the Earth Goddess. Her divine countenance is solemn and dignified, radiating a jewel-like glow; every detail is meticulously crafted, carefully considering the colors, textures, and material properties. The central, rich black section is carved into a captivating depiction of the Earth transforming into the Six Paths of Rebirth, below which lie the Six Paths themselves.

The six realms are depicted as flowing clouds, with the ten Yama palaces of the underworld faintly visible within. Each palace is predominantly red, a stark contrast to the statue of the Earth Goddess, which emphasizes gold and gray. The entire sculpture is exceptionally beautiful, massive, and magnificent—a truly breathtaking treasure that one would want to possess at first glance.

"I recently read some ancient literary works and couldn't understand those people who became villains and killed people for something. Now I understand, sob sob sob."

"I already understand. Many players have shown us that. There are still many robbers in various areas. They only steal those few seconds to take possession of something, but in the game, it's possible to actually take possession of something."

"Yes, nowadays a lot of people are selling opportunities to touch rare items. One or two taels of silver for a touch, ten taels of silver for a minute, and one tael of gold for ten minutes. How much does that cost in a day?"

"This world has gone mad, sob sob sob. Has anyone compiled a treasure collection area? I'm going to go and collect treasures right now!"

"Silver or gold, none of that matters. What matters is that one minute of possession!"

For some reason, the players turned what should have been a proper market fair into a scene resembling an ancient brothel street, with all sorts of people hawking their wares and offering to touch things.

Lin Shuying, who rarely comes up to take a look after an event, was stunned by the scene before her.

After learning the reason, I was both amused and exasperated. "Players, they truly are chaotic beings. You never know how they'll turn the game into something."

However, it stayed on topic and the event was a great success. The Underworld detected relatively few vulnerabilities, and the system ran smoothly, which is something to be happy about.

Among the various themed dungeons—Underworld, Heavenly Court, Cultivation, Chinese Martial Arts World, and Immortal World—Lin Shuying devoted the most effort to the Underworld dungeon because it contains a wealth of condensed Chinese spirit. Even the contributions of tech experts to the Underworld dungeon were immense; the details and much of the Underworld's cultural content were conceived and developed by them.

Although Lin Shuying knew some things, it was impossible for her to be so thorough with that knowledge alone.

Then there's the Chinese martial arts world, because it's the closest to real China, where the NPCs live the most down-to-earth lives. It reflects Lin Shuying's yearning for the ancient chivalrous world, and how ordinary people's lives are full of vitality.

Although many unscrupulous players joined the group, she diligently guided them towards the path of chivalry. Thinking of this, she laughed even more heartily, a touch of color returning to her somewhat weak and pale face.

Whether it's due to the more severe damage to the soul caused by the misalignment of time and space or some other reason, Lin Shuying in the holographic world appears even paler than in reality.

Looking at the scene of ghost soldiers and heavenly soldiers grabbing people everywhere, she laughed and said, "It seems that we need to give unruly players more room to run wild and restrain them, otherwise it's too chaotic."

Qingfengyi is a dress-up game, and that has remained unchanged from beginning to end. This can be seen from the fact that each event features a large number of new clothes, and the sales events mainly focus on hairpins and clothing.