Acai's Sky

Moonlight Strawberry: Restores 15% of the player's health and 10% of their stamina. Players' stamina and health deplete quickly, so Moonlight Strawberry can provide a certain degree of recovery in time, helping them continue their progress.

Just as Ah Cai put the Moonlight Strawberry into her pocket, the ground suddenly shook violently. Countless bright blue light spots emerged from the roots of the strawberry plants and condensed into a translucent human figure in the air.

The figure was surrounded by a galaxy of light, but his features were blurred as if shrouded in mist. His voice was as ethereal as the echo of a valley: "Little girl, you can't take the Moonlight Strawberries for free."

Jin Yuanbao swooped over to Ah Cai's head and grabbed her hair tightly with his two little claws. "Master! Are we going to fight?"

Bifang Brahma's wings were already ablaze with green flames, but Tuantuan was still curled up in his cloth bag, snoring softly, completely unaware of the impending crisis.

"What do you want, senior?" Ah Cai tightly grasped the ancestral wooden sword, but the sword suddenly made a slight buzzing sound.

Only then did she notice that the vines wrapped around the other person's fingertips were exactly the same as the patterns on the fire that the Tanghulu Hero taught her when he was making candy.

The mysterious man raised his hand and waved lightly, and the Moonlight Forest was instantly swallowed up by silver mist. The ground under Acai's feet turned into a chessboard, and black and white light spots floated in the air like chess pieces.

"Use the spiritual power of Moonlight Strawberry to play a game of 'Star Track Chess'. If you win, I'll let you go."

Before she could finish her words, a white piece shot towards Ah Cai. She dodged sideways, but a strand of her hair was cut off by the sword energy.

"This is too unsportsmanlike!" Ah Cai cursed and threw the glutinous rice ball.

The little guy somersaulted in the air, golden light radiating from his body, and wherever he passed, the black and white chess pieces automatically arranged into a defensive formation.

Ah Cai took the opportunity to throw the singing hawthorn into the air. The hawthorn turned into floating musical notes, resonating with the chess pieces in a strange rhythm.

The mysterious man chuckled and raised his hand to summon more chess pieces, and the chessboard suddenly became turbulent.

Xuantian in Ah Cai's arms suddenly stretched his head out, and an ancient hexagram appeared on his tortoise shell. "Master! Follow the order of Qian three consecutive, Kun six interrupted!"

Ah Cai controlled the chess pieces as instructed, but she didn't expect that the light spots would automatically form the shape of a candied haws string, reflecting colorful light under the moonlight.

"interesting."

The mysterious man was surrounded by a bright light, and a crystal tower rose in the center of the chessboard, with the last black piece floating on the top of the tower.

Ah Cai gritted her teeth and suddenly remembered the rhythm of controlling the heat when making candied haws. She injected her spiritual power into the chess pieces according to the rhythm of boiling the candy.

In an instant, all the light spots turned into a syrupy fluid, climbing up the crystal tower and wrapping the sunspots layer by layer.

With a crisp sound, the black spots exploded into a sky full of stars. The mysterious man laughed heartily and his figure gradually disappeared. "Take your Moonlight Strawberry with you! Remember to tell the Candied Haws Hero a message - he owes me the sugar painting, it's time to return it!"

Before Ah Cai could ask any further questions, the chessboard under her feet suddenly disappeared and she fell heavily on the grass.

The moonlight strawberries swayed gently in the bamboo basket, emitting a faint glow like fireflies. The task box popped up again:

[Hidden Mission Completed: Moonlight Chess Game]

mission rewards:

1. Star Track Chess (can summon chessboard battle)

2. Mysterious NPC Clue: Sugar Painting Immortal

3. Moonlight Strawberry*5 (can be used to make the special item "Moonlight Shield")

"Huh——" A Cai collapsed on the ground, letting Tuantuan rub against her face.

...

Jin Yuanbao held the glowing moonlight strawberry in his arms, his little paws tightly grasping the pink fruit. He took a bite and the juice that splashed out of the flesh condensed into tiny stars on its fur.

"Really delicious!"

Its round black eyes instantly shone like two obsidian stones, its cheeks puffed out like small balls of cotton wool, and even its speech was slurred. "Master, quickly use the [Summoning Order]! This dungeon is a treasure trove of delicious food. There must be more ingredients that will cause trouble!"

Feiyue squatted on the bluestone slab, her furry tail sweeping across the gravel on the ground, and her pink tongue slowly licked the tip of her nose. "There's a mysterious vendor in the west market of this town. I exchanged the silver coins I'd saved for three months for these treasures."

Before it finished speaking, it suddenly opened its food sac and brilliant light poured out - dancing mushrooms with colorful caps were jumping on the ground, tentacle-like sea grapes were telling adventure stories in a childlike voice, and the most exaggerated thing was the handful of bamboo rice, each grain of which beat out a crisp rhythm in the bamboo tube, as if playing a cheerful tune.

When Ah Cai squatted down, the hilt of the thousand-year-old peach wood sword she had just taken out hit the stone slab with a "dong".

She stared at the dancing mushroom, watching the golden powder splashed in the air by the little thing when it jumped, forming the word "Run". She couldn't help but reach out to grab it, but it dodged her nimbly.

"This isn't food, it's a spirit!" She exclaimed as she began to examine it, her pupils shrinking with excitement. "A 30% increase in movement speed? This is a cheating tool in cross-server PK!"

“There’s more!”

Feiyue used her claws to poke at the sea grapes, and the crystalline creature immediately switched to a hoarse old man's voice: "Last month on the full moon night, in the cellar of the City Lord's Mansion..."

Ah Cai's ears perked up instantly. You know, this kind of prop that can reveal hidden plots can be sold for five-digit gold coins on the black market.

And that handful of bamboo rice was even more exaggerated. She tried to stuff the rice grains into a bamboo flute discarded by a street vendor. The moment the clear music sounded, the stone lions on the street actually blinked, and a light golden shield appeared on their bodies.

"Why has the copy of this fragment been changed into this!" Ah Cai clenched the bamboo flute tightly, and her knuckles turned white from the force.

She remembered that in the main world's [market], the most precious item was the Ganoderma lucidum that added 10% experience. Where had she ever seen ingredients that could tell stories or play music?

At this moment, Jin Yuanbao suddenly jumped onto her shoulder and pointed his little paw towards the end of the street: "Master, look! There's light in the sugar threads at the stall selling sugar paintings!"

Following its claws, I saw amber syrup swirling with strange runes in the copper pot of a white-haired old man on the corner of the street.

When the old man waved the spoon and the sugar threads drew a fox shape in the air, the fur of Tuantuan in Ah Cai's arms suddenly stood up and he let out a sharp hiss.

Alarm bells rang in her heart, and her intuition told her that this was definitely not an ordinary sugar painting - perhaps it was inextricably linked to the "Sugar Painting Immortal" mentioned by the mysterious man before.

"Feiyue, guard these ingredients."

Ah Cai stuffed the bamboo basket into Tengu's hands, wrapped herself tightly in her tattered cloak, and pretended to be nonchalant as she approached the stall.

The old man's cloudy eyes suddenly turned to her, and the sugar spoon in his hand drew a half-moon on the stone slab. "My friend, have you heard of the legend of using food as a medium?"

Without waiting for her to answer, the old man turned his wrist, and the sugar thread wrapped around her wrist like a spirit snake, burning tiny runes on her skin. "Gather the nine kinds of 'spiritual food', and you can knock on the door of Tianji Pavilion..."

Before he finished speaking, the piercing sound of a gong suddenly rang out from the distance. Dozens of guards clad in black armor, holding torches, rushed over. The leader wore a token on his waist etched with the ferocious gluttonous pattern.

Ah Cai's pupils suddenly shrank as she recalled the notice she had caught a glimpse of when entering the city - the city lord was offering a reward for any "evil creature that moves abnormally".

Jin Yuanbao suddenly bit her earlobe and warned her sharply, "Master! They have a tracking spell on them!"

"spread!"

Ah Cai suddenly tore off the candy thread, and the wings of Bifang Brahma in her arms spread out, and the green fire instantly ignited the curtains of the surrounding stalls.

In the chaos, she caught a glimpse of a meaningful smile on the old man's lips, and the sugar spoon in his hand no longer drew a fox, but a string of burning candied haws.

When the first dancing mushroom was crushed by the guard and the bursting gold powder condensed into the word "escape" in the air, Ah Cai finally pressed the [Call Order].

The moment the dark blue light shot up into the sky...