One day, Luo Yuanyuan was leisurely playing with floral arrangements inside her immortal cave while the System constantly offered its opinions right in front of her. The girl and the System were chatting away quite animatedly.
Suddenly, a crisp "crack" echoed through the air. Looking closely, Luo Yuanyuan saw that one of the jade talismans controlling the arrays inside her immortal cave had inexplicably shattered into pieces.
She couldn't help but put down the flowers in her hands and walked over to the table where the jade talisman lay. Frowning, she stared at the cracked pieces.
Pondering to herself, she thought: "This special jade talisman was custom-made for me by Liu Hui, that grandmaster artifact refiner, and cannot be destroyed by human strength. It seems something major has happened..."
"Great Host, the jade talisman broke..." the System said, sounding somewhat regretful.
The System was quite self-aware; it knew her Great Host was no ordinary person, frequently pulling out treasures it had never seen before. Yet the portable space it had originally given the host had been completely empty...
Still, it was sensible enough not to ask questions, nor did it dare report these anomalies to the Lord God, choosing instead to quietly guard the host's secrets.
Luo Yuanyuan opened the barrier of her immortal cave and walked out. Suddenly, she heard a scream coming from high above.
She looked up, and good grief—a man was falling straight from the sky, covered in blood, and the screams were coming from him.
"Ah... ah... ah... get out of the way... save me..." Luo Yuanyuan smoothly and swiftly dodged aside, turning around without a moment's hesitation to walk back into the immortal cave.
Then came a loud "thud" from outside, accompanied by the man's agonizing wails.
Daring not to linger for even a second, Luo Yuanyuan hurried back inside her immortal cave and activated the defensive array. Feeling that still wasn't safe, she pulled out several more sets of arrays and layered them over the original one.
Only then did she feel secure. She patted her hands together, sat down, and poured herself a cup of Enlightenment Tea to calm her nerves.
The System's light screen popped up, and it asked cautiously, "Great Host, was that man who fell from the sky just now very dangerous?"
After finishing her calming tea, Luo Yuanyuan slowly began to explain: "Duh, if he wasn't dangerous, would I have run? I've set up so many array barriers in this valley, and no one has ever broken through them. Yet today, this man managed to break through and fall right in... that means his strength is above mine! You tell me if that's dangerous or not!"
"Then... then... are we just going to leave the man outside alone, Host?" the System asked.
"Why bother with him? Why go looking for trouble by meddling in other people's business? I haven't even solved the troubles of my own!" Luo Yuanyuan replied, feeling somewhat speechless.
"Hmph! When have you ever cared about your own troubles? Day in and day out, it's either eating, sleeping, or playing..." The System mentally grumbled behind Luo Yuanyuan's back, practically rolling its eyes in exasperation.
And so, Luo Yuanyuan hid inside her immortal cave for several days without stepping outside, nor did she hear any commotion coming from the entrance.
Just like that, both human and System tacitly seemed to forget about the man who had fallen right outside their door.
One day, Luo Yuanyuan was fully dressed and wearing a back basket refined from heavenly thunder bamboo. She opened the barrier of her immortal cave, ready to head out!
You see, previously when she had nothing to do and was scouting the valley, she had accidentally discovered a Dragon Scale Fruit Tree growing in a secluded spot near the cave entrance, with nine Dragon Scale Fruits hanging from its branches.
To help the Dragon Scale Fruits ripen as quickly as possible, she would occasionally pour some diluted Spirit Spring onto the roots of the tree, and judging by the time, they should be ripe by now.
Dragon Scale Fruits could only be consumed the exact moment they ripened, or caught in a special vessel. They could not be allowed to touch the ground and get dirt on them, otherwise they would lose their original properties and turn into ordinary spirit fruits.
As for the Dragon Scale Fruit: it was an immortal fruit capable of bringing the dead back to life and regenerating flesh on bones. Whether consumed by immortals, demons, Buddhas, ghosts, or mortals, it possessed the exact same efficacy, along with heaven-defying properties that thoroughly cleansed one's marrow and allowed one to ascend to the heavens in broad daylight.
Thinking of this made Luo Yuanyuan furious. When she had failed her heavenly tribulation back then and her physical body had been charred to a crisp, it wasn't as if there had been no way out.
All she needed to do was crush Dragon Scale Fruits into juice in time and coat her charred body with it, and within the span of half a cup of tea, her vitality would have been restored.
She actually grew this very Dragon Scale Fruit Tree in her portable space, and she had already collected quite a few ripe Dragon Scale Fruits.
Yet on that day, Luo Yuanyuan had been all alone in the immortal cave with no one to guard her, and with her soul separated from her body, a freak wind blowing from goodness knows where had seized the opportunity to destroy her physical body...
However, when Luo Yuanyuan walked over to the spot where she cultivated the Dragon Scale Fruit Tree, she was dumbfounded. The Dragon Scale Fruit Tree, which previously had been laden with nine Dragon Scale Fruits, was now completely bare.
Originally, to prevent birds and beasts from stealing the fruit, she had deliberately enclosed the Dragon Scale Fruit Tree with multiple layers of defensive arrays.
Dammit! But now, who could tell her where the Dragon Scale Fruits were? Where were the Dragon Scale Fruits she had painstakingly watered with the Spirit Spring?
Luo Yuanyuan felt like she was about to die of anger, radiating the signal of "I am extremely angry" from head to toe!
Her lively and exquisite face had turned dark with fury, and her chest heaved up and down in rage! She searched everywhere to see who on earth was shameless enough to steal her Dragon Scale Fruits!
Furthermore, the array barriers she had set up were completely intact, with no traces of forced external destruction—it looked as though they had been opened using the proper method.
Luo Yuanyuan was truly furious. She directly dismantled the array and retrieved the Dragon Scale Fruit Tree, transplanting it back into her portable space.
Had she known it would come to this, she wouldn't have left the Dragon Scale Fruit Tree behind here in the first place. Now she didn't even know who had benefited from it!