Chapter 51: About My Reincarnation as a Slime

The moment he pressed the button, a dialogue box popped up in front of him.

"Please reach the following designated location, break through the world barrier, and cross the world passage."

"What is this?" Li Shengjiang was stunned by the appearance of these words.

The entire comment section erupted. Everyone had been wondering what the third option was about, and now, an unbelievable prompt had appeared.

"Break through the world barrier, world passage?"

"What's going on?! Is there another world?"

Inside the sandbox, a group of strangely shaped players chattered excitedly.

Li Shengjiang, with the help of the other players, quickly led his slime species to the designated location.

Upon arriving, a deep blue, sparkling stellar vortex appeared before them, resembling a portal.

"Wow! A portal?"

"Hidden plot? Could it be a new map?"

This was the pipe passage Xu Zhi had previously created underground. It was meant to connect the two realms, allowing players, as avatars of the God of Wisdom, to evolve a clumsy species and initiate the era of the Three Witches in the large sandbox. Previously, it had been invisible to everyone due to the Hive Mind Sub-brain's concealment. The dazzling light and shadow effects of this "world passage" were, of course, added later.

"A new map!"

"So, after breeding a species with potential, you can lead your population to a new world."

"Incredible! This sandbox game world actually has other maps!"

Under the envious gazes of the others, Li Shengjiang led his species into the swirling world tunnel, heading towards the new world.

It was pitch black. Li Shengjiang led his species through the long world tunnel. This was actually a long, white pipe, dozens of meters in length, buried underground by Xu Zhi. To the small ants in front of him, it naturally felt like a very long climb.

"It's so dark." His species moved with great difficulty, only able to bounce their round bodies by hitting the ground with the antenna-like tentacles on their slime heads, looking incredibly cute and clumsy.

After crawling for an unknown duration, a patch of light gradually appeared before him.

They continued forward into a lush, verdant forest of giant trees. The forest on both sides was tall and dense, with towering ancient trees rising like pillars reaching the sky, casting vast shadows. In the clear blue sky, birds flew in flocks.

WARNING: Please fully integrate into the identity of a native of this world. Any disclosure of content not from this world will result in termination.

"What beautiful scenery," Li Shengjiang exclaimed. Leading his slime species, he hopped through the forest, utterly astonished. "This is so different from our Paleolithic era, where everything was primitive and simple. This world is a complete, mature ecological system."

"Could it be that this is a real alternate world, and I've transmigrated here, bringing a species and a live streaming system with me?" He couldn't help but recall those web novels.

Xu Zhi sat on a chair by the courtyard gate, legs crossed, leisurely eating an apple. "The small pipe I buried underground, connecting the two sandboxes, has finally come in handy." Someone had arrived in the new world, incredibly excited, completely unaware that they had been orchestrated by a certain unscrupulous creator. Xu Zhi had deliberately left the mysterious third option reward, "Second Life," as he had long planned for players to lead their species into the large sandbox. He just hadn't expected it to happen so soon.

"Because it's a practical matter. Every time a new species is bred, I can't just pick them up and manually place them in the large sandbox, like I did with the Evil Eyes, can I?" His appearance as a giant, approaching the sandbox, would be too conspicuous! The Evil Eyes' entry was after a great extinction, when the population was sparse, so naturally, no one discovered him as a giant. As for the Funeral Fowls and Phoenixes, they could fly, so he could just drop them in without them dying from the fall; he didn't need to enter himself.

But what about now? Slimes, for instance, couldn't just be dropped in. It would be unrealistic for him, as a giant, to carry evolved slimes in his hand and place them in the large sandbox. This led Xu Zhi to an idea: let them lead their species into the large sandbox world themselves. It could also be considered an added benefit.

Furthermore, the lifespan of the strange creatures they evolved was generally only twenty to thirty years, equivalent to a few hours in reality. What's wrong with giving them a few hours of benefit? Their brief lives in the large sandbox world wouldn't cause significant ripples. If they did create waves, leading their species to rise and advance the progress of civilization, that would be even better. And after they died, the species they left behind would continue to reproduce generation after generation in the grand world.

"The time flow in the large sandbox is different; one day there is a hundred years here. But the Hive Mind Sub-brain says that the acceleration only applies to the brain cells and physical speed of the creature's body, causing no harm to the human soul inhabiting that body." This means they could experience twenty to thirty years in the sandbox world within just a few hours in reality.

Xu Zhi frowned slightly. "However, how can I make Li Shengjiang side with the righteous faction of traditional witches, instead of joining the evil witches?" This was a significant challenge.

As Xu Zhi was pondering, he suddenly looked at a scene in the large sandbox, a look of profound shock appearing on his face. He was utterly stunned by the current state of the slime species, revealing a strange, peculiar expression. "Perhaps I don't need to guide them anymore, because Li Shengjiang has already forged a blood feud with the evil witches!"

In the lush forest, towering trees were everywhere, and the ground was covered with strange, vibrant plants. Various butterfly-like creatures flitted about, making it a beautiful, dreamlike wonderland—a completely new alternate world. Li Shengjiang took a moment to compose himself, walked around to ensure safety, and then wanted to start streaming to show everyone the beautiful scenery.

A message appeared: "Due to the different time flows between the two realms, live streaming is impossible: one day in the sky is a hundred years on the ground."

"Different time flows? One day in the sky, a hundred years on the ground?"

"Does this mean the two sandboxes have different time flows, so if a hundred years pass in this game sandbox, only one day passes in the other sandbox outside?" Li Shengjiang immediately became excited. Had this black technology achieved virtual reality and life extension?

"This is impossible!!" Li Shengjiang trembled, his mind blank. He quickly exited the game, took off his VR headset, and was horrified to discover that while he had spent several hours of game time, in reality, he had only just entered the world tunnel less than ten seconds ago, and everyone was still enthusiastically discussing it.

Terrifying! It was just like the screen when he first entered! Li Shengjiang's hair stood on end. Daring not to delay, he quickly re-entered the game. How could he dare to delay for even a minute outside? If a few minutes passed outside, several days would pass inside. What if his species and his in-game body died after several days during those few real-world minutes?

"Awesome! This is so awesome! This is a second life! My slime species, by calculation, only has a lifespan of just over ten years – a biological engine with a lifespan of ten-plus years is reasonable enough. But here, I've lived out over ten years as this slime, and outside, only a few hours have passed. They're still excitedly discussing how I'm doing." He somewhat regretted why the lifespan of the species he evolved was so short! Why didn't he evolve a long-lived species!

"Still, a bonus of over a decade of life is incredibly exciting! I'm going to experience the life of a slime in another world!"

"This game is insane! Our previous small sandbox world was just a beginner's village, a place of species origin. You have to evolve a species to go out to all the worlds. I'm totally blown away!" Li Shengjiang was terribly excited, trembling all over. He was practically high!

He slowly led his population, exploring the forest, silently calculating in his mind: "This world must have civilized races. My slime race, in Western mythology, is the weakest of magical creatures. But under my leadership, we will surely become strong enough to stand at the peak of this world. Perhaps I can even find a way to extend life in this world." He was very confident and felt his species had this potential. Although his slimes wouldn't develop intelligence and were low-intellect creatures, it was enough that he could control them.

What were these slimes? They were biological engines. With his knowledge, having engines and core industrial technology, he could build countless machines. Could he not defeat these primitive natives? Impossible! "Just watch me build planes and cannons and wipe them out!"

Half a day passed. Under Li Shengjiang's leadership, they gradually emerged from the giant tree forest. Suddenly, from the forest ahead, human voices could be heard; it seemed to be a group of women.

"People!" Li Shengjiang became alert. He didn't know the situation in this alternate world, whether they were friends or foes. He wanted to hide, as he only had one life, but it was clearly too late. Those people obviously had terrifying perceptive abilities and immediately detected his presence.

Immediately after, a group of beautiful women, dressed in deep crimson rose-colored sorcery robes and holding wooden staves, slowly emerged. They saw the strange slime creatures and were instantly excited, but they spoke an alien language that Li Shengjiang couldn't understand at all.

"Our languages are different. I can only pretend to be a non-intelligent wild species and observe the situation," he thought. He controlled the "Slime King" to curl up among a group of bouncing, naive, colorful slimes.

"What kind of creature is this? I've never seen anything like it?" The witches of the Rose Church were also shocked and extremely surprised. "They're so cute! Such adorable little animals."

"How about we take this creature as our familiar?"

"Indeed, look at this tentacle; it's very similar to our traditional familiars, the Evil Eyes..."

Unlike traditional witches, every witch in the Rose Church, a faction of evil witches, adopted a familiar. And naturally, each witch's familiar was an Evil Eye. Evil Eyes helped them cultivate, which was their path to becoming stronger. After all, ordinary men couldn't withstand it; only Evil Eyes, with equally strong mental power, could endure the meditation method that involved intimate energy exchange to provide them with cultivation. Cultivating with Evil Eyes was a tradition that began in Circe's era; after all, if a man died every day, men would have gone extinct long ago.

"Oh, how I wish we had an immortal male warlock; our cultivation speed would definitely be faster. But male warlocks are too rare; they are a cultivation resource only powerful Level Five witches can possess."

"We little witches usually have to cultivate with Evil Eye familiars... and those men sacrificed by the Babylonian Kingdom are not something we can even touch. Perhaps now, this cute tentacled creature can replace those sticky, disgusting Evil Eyes, as it's much cuter and more adorable." The witches, holding their wooden staves, looked innocent and lovely, eagerly discussing among themselves with great enthusiasm.

Li Shengjiang, hidden among the slimes, was secretly delighted. "Hmm, they seem very friendly and really like my cute creature. I should be fine... right?"