Train Survival: You're really trying to survive!

Survival coins were spent like water, and Su Li felt very distressed.

But after the training was over, Su Li felt it was totally worth it!

After seven days of training in the training grounds, Ivan has successfully become a Guardian and has learned the Guardian's basic abilities.

Mana Shield. An ability that consumes one's own mana to create a shield for another.

In this way, Ivan would become a considerable fighting force.

During those seven hours, Su Li was not idle; he began to look through the book on magic power.

In this worldview, there exists a special power that can be utilized by all things. This power has many names, some call it spiritual power, some call it mana, but in the Train game, it is collectively referred to as magical energy.

Cultivation, on the other hand, involves absorbing demonic energy into the body to strengthen one's own actions.

Zuli studied to be a warrior, specializing in using magic to enhance her body; Sophia's archer enhanced her perception and agility; and Ivan's guardian enhanced his defensive capabilities.

Depending on subsequent development, Magic Energy will eventually become a very unique entity.

Some of the established and fixed training methods are what we call professions.

Following a fixed career path offers stable growth, but miracles are rare. All stats are calculable. Therefore, the guide says, for stability, go for the stat-based build; for a risky approach, go for the cultivation build.

The cultivation-based approach isn't a dead end. With each level up, the system's enhancements will improve the cultivation-based player's comprehension and innate constitution. Therefore, they won't fall too far behind the stat-based approach.

It was evening when Ivan emerged from the training grounds and completed his initial training.

"That concludes our enhancement session," Su Li concluded. "Next, we'll head to the temple."

Zurich hadn't forgotten that the temple had statues of gods. Offering sacrifices to the statues might bring divine blessings.

The guide says that divine blessings are very useful. Although there are many taboos, if used properly, they can greatly strengthen one's own forces.

Last time, Su Li was afraid that if she prayed to the gods indiscriminately, she might make some irreversible choice. So she didn't go to pray.

When he plays games, he sometimes encounters situations where he makes careless choices that prevent him from getting the rewards he wants later. After learning this the hard way a few times, he started saving his game before making any choices. However, worshipping gods is a very serious matter and doesn't allow saving.

To play it safe, he chose to forgo one of the rewards offered by the gods.

The supplies sold at the transit station are commensurate with the difficulty of the challenge world. The last challenge was a level 0 world, and many things were locked. This time, the world's level is higher, unlocking some items. Among them is knowledge about the gods.

When Zurich returned this time, he specifically bought a book about the gods, "The Gods," to understand the relationships and taboos among the various deities.

"It feels like I've entered a particularly corrupt workplace. To find the boss, you have to remember the boss's likes and dislikes and enemies," Su Li complained.

In this world where there is a true God, there are rules to follow when worshipping gods, and each god has their own preferences and taboos.

For example, if you worship the god of casting and the god of machinery, you cannot worship the other.

The god of forging believed that forging was the act of imbuing objects with soul and will, and that striking iron was imbuing them with the spirit of craftsmanship. Therefore, he particularly disliked the god of machinery who was skilled in assembly lines.

Assembly line? A soulless thing! — So said the god of casting.

The God of Machinery didn't mind; he accepted both meticulous handcrafting and mass production. However, the God of Casting's one-sided hatred and constant nagging eventually annoyed him, leading to a fight between them. From then on, he refused to accept anyone who had ever worshipped the God of Casting.

Also, the Storm God dislikes the Goddess of Beauty because she put a hat on him.

Because of her questionable lifestyle, the goddess of beauty is disliked by gods who protect families, fidelity, and young maidens. While believers are not forbidden from making offerings to her, the blessings they receive are rather ineffective.

Aside from taboos stemming from personal preferences, "The Gods" also explores some rather counterintuitive relationships between deities.

For example, the Goddess of Life liked the God of Plague very much because she felt that the vitality of plague was praiseworthy. Tiny lives, in order to survive, defeated powerful lives, which is the embodiment of the tenacity and indomitable spirit of life.

God of Plague, I understand you!

As for those who die from plague? Sorry, in the eyes of the god of life, that's merely the natural cycle of life. Where there is birth, there is death. Death from plague and predation are both normal processes of life.

There are many such taboos, and the relationships between the gods cannot be guessed just by looking at their names.

Su Li thought to herself, "This isn't some collection of gods, it's a compilation of divine gossip! To be honest, it's pretty good for passing the time."

Complaining aside, we still have to get the job done.

Su Li and the other two spent a long time choosing, and finally each of them chose a god they liked to worship.

One is the Kitchen Goddess. This benevolent goddess is the guardian deity of the family. Offering sacrifices to her makes it easier to obtain secret food, provides warnings of danger, and protects one's health. Those who make sacrifices to her are required not to do anything that could cause the family to break apart.

Her favorite offerings are delicious food and handmade items filled with love. She has almost no enemies; rather, she is like a mother to all the gods, a darling among the divine.

The second is the Earth Mother Goddess. She reigns solely over the realm of the earth. She has no demands on her followers, as long as they don't cause large-scale environmental pollution. Offering to her easily brings blessings in minerals, agriculture, and animal husbandry. Her preferred offerings are soil, mineral crafts, animal cubs, and those who have been subjugated and are destroying the ecosystem.

Thirdly, there is the God of Exploration. This being, who controls the realm of exploration, demands of his followers that they continuously explore new worlds, that is, constantly venture into new fragments of the world. Once you stop exploring, the God of Exploration will no longer favor you.

Your exploration is something he appreciates, so he doesn't have high demands for offerings; anything from the world you explore will suffice. However, what he truly loves are the items created by his followers for survival and exploration.

The bonuses provided by the God of Pioneers are amazing. His list of blessings is very long, but to name a few simple ones, he can help you sense treasure chests and improve your luck and loot during exploration.

Zurich chose to worship the god of pioneers, Ivan chose to worship the goddess of the earth, and Sophia chose the goddess of the hearth.

To be honest, Su Li didn't expect Sophia to choose the god of the hearth. He thought Sophia would choose a god like the god of machinery or the god of archery to worship.

However, Ivan didn't find it strange. "Because my sister values ​​her family very much. It's not surprising that she would choose the Kitchen God to protect her family."

Su Li nodded, "Okay, I didn't know enough about it."

After making their selection, Zuli and his companions searched for a statue of the deity in the temple to make offerings.

The first one we found was the Earth Mother Goddess, whose position in the temple was very prominent.

Ivan nervously took out the core of the Storm Crystal Serpent and slowly placed it on the altar of the Earth Mother Goddess. Then he knelt down and awaited the goddess's response.

Sophia was a little uneasy, and she asked in a low voice, "Is it okay to offer this?"

“It should be fine.” Su Li said in a low voice, “Didn’t that Storm Crystal Feather Serpent make a mess of that plain? Besides, we don’t have any suitable offerings on us, so we can only use this.”

"Can't we buy porcelain? Clay crafts should be quite valuable, right?" Sofia asked.

"Do the gods lack porcelain? Remember, what the gods want is sincerity. What sincerity is there in buying it? If you really want to offer porcelain, you need to make it yourself by hand," Su Li hurriedly advised. To the gods, ten thousand tons of gold and a pound of clay are no different. What they truly value is the added humanistic and emotional worth.

As they were talking, light shone from the altar, and then a golden crystal slowly fell down.

"Huh? No blessing, but an item?" Su Li's mouth dropped open. The blessing of an item meant the Earth Mother was satisfied. "What's the reason for this?"

Su Li was unaware that the world they visited last time, Howling Valley, was destroyed by those Crystal Feathered Serpents.

That world was originally a world without magic. Some crystal-feathered serpents accidentally arrived there, and they continued to multiply and cause numerous climate disasters. This world without magic had no ability to regulate itself, and eventually, the global climate changed drastically, leading to the extinction of the ecosystem.

As the culprits and ecological disasters, the crystal cores of these Crystal Feathered Serpents perfectly met the Earth God's requirements for offerings. In addition, this offering was considered top-notch among the offerings presented by this group of people from Blue Star, so the merciful Earth Mother Goddess rewarded them slightly.

Ivan held the crystal in both hands, bowed to the statue, and then respectfully took it back.

"What is it?" Su Li asked hurriedly.

"Brother Su, see for yourself. It's good stuff!" Ivan said with a smile.

Su Li quickly examined the crystal.

【Sunlight Crystal (dissipates after 4 short-term world explorations): Continuously releases light, providing sunlight to surrounding crops 24 hours a day. Normal plant growth rate +50%, extraordinary plant growth rate +20%】

"Great stuff! Now we can grow things underground!"

"I'm so excited," Su Li said. They planned to return to Howling Valley to mine there. Therefore, their biggest worry was the crops they had planted earlier. There wasn't enough sunlight down there, and they had all wilted. Su Li felt like their survival points were a complete waste.

Unexpectedly, things took an unexpected turn for the better.