Now that he had killed this unlucky villager, however, Jiang Xuan could start building an Iron Golem.
With “Iron Bro” around, Jiang Xuan could sleep easy.
He conveniently looted the carrots and potatoes from the nearby farmland, replanting the seeds right after.
The entire process was seamless and satisfying to watch.
Clearly, Jiang Xuan was no stranger to harvesting other people’s crops.
Only after finishing his chores did Jiang Xuan turn back to look at Keqing and Ganyu.
The two of them were still staring at him in a daze.
Jiang Xuan waved and chuckled.
“Ah, you’re here! Come on, follow me. Let’s go build a house!”
Keqing and Ganyu exchanged a glance before standing back-to-back.
One held a bow while the other wielded her sword, warily guarding against the remaining villagers.
“Jiang Xuan… even if you had a grudge, you shouldn’t have been so reckless!”
Ganyu actually didn’t blame Jiang Xuan for his casual attitude toward killing… people.
She was simply worried, adding, “You killed someone on their own territory. What if the others gang up on you? Besides, we still need to talk to the village chief about buying land.”
“Doesn’t this mean we’ve made an enemy of them?”
Seeing Ganyu’s vexed expression, Jiang Xuan found it rather amusing.
He pointed at the blocky figures around them, whose expressions hadn’t changed at all.
“These guys… you don’t have to treat them as human. Their intelligence is incredibly low; they don’t really count as sapient life. It’s just one of the quirks of this world.”
“Didn’t I tell you? This is a wild, untamed world.”
“As for buying land…”
Jiang Xuan smiled, giving a grand wave of his hand as he pointed toward the ground.
“Look as far as the eye can see. Whichever spot catches your eye, just build a house right there. This is *my* world!”
Keqing and Ganyu exchanged another look, asking cautiously, “So… there really won’t be any issues?”
Seeing Keqing’s hesitation, Jiang Xuan shook his head with a chuckle.
He casually drew his wooden sword and rested it against the neck of a nearby villager.
The villager didn’t even flinch, seemingly entirely lost in his own world.
The other villagers were also just going about their own business.
Looking closer, Ganyu and Keqing realized these villagers seemed to have no conscious awareness, merely wandering aimlessly around the village.
At this point, they finally understood that this world truly belonged entirely to Jiang Xuan.
For some reason, Keqing let out a sigh of relief.
“Jiang Xuan, could you allocate a plot of land to me? I want to test out some ideas for building a city, like in the Guili Plains.”
Jiang Xuan sheathed his wooden sword and turned, gesturing for Keqing and Ganyu to follow him.
“You can practice wherever you like. Just keep in mind that this world is also very dangerous. Don’t wander too far from me early on.”
“I doubt you’ll be able to unleash much of your strength here.”
“Let’s go. Let’s take a look at our future home.”
Though the village was small, a few of the houses were actually quite decent.
Take the house of the villager Jiang Xuan had just slain, for example—back in Teyvat, it would easily pass as a village chief’s mansion.
After all, it was a two-story building and the only one in the village with a bookshelf.
It would come in handy later for crafting an Enchanting Table.
Of course, as a seasoned block-person, his first instinct upon claiming the house was naturally to dig a manual mineshaft into the floor.
He wanted to dig a mine, build a secret basement to store his treasures, and then construct an elevated sky platform.
On that platform, he could build a Cobblestone Generator, a Mob Grinder, an automated miner…
He would also need to round up the villagers to set up an automated iron farm assembly line…
Thinking about it, Jiang Xuan realized he still had a mountain of things to do.
But the most pressing task…
Was to claim a bed first!
He led Keqing and Ganyu deeper into the village.
The two girls gradually began to understand the sheer strangeness of this world that Jiang Xuan had mentioned.
Aside from the beautiful scenery…
The villagers were blocks, the houses were blocks, the trees were blocks…
Even the pigs, cows, and chickens were made of blocks!
What was even more absurd was that killing the animals here instantly dropped high-quality meat.
Furthermore, when Keqing weighed it in her hands, she found the portions to be incredibly generous—it actually felt a bit heavy.
This was yet another major discovery.
At the very least, Liyue’s meat supply could be secured once and for all.
The village wasn’t large.
Leaving aside the five minutes wasted on killing chickens, it took only two minutes to walk from one end to the other, arriving at what used to be a villager’s house but was now Jiang Xuan’s home.
This was the only house in the village that wasn’t a perfect cube.
At least it had a pitched roof.
It was made entirely of wood, looking highly flammable at first glance.
Jiang Xuan had also warned them never to light a fire inside.
Within three minutes, the house would burn to absolute nothingness.
Pushing open the wooden door, Jiang Xuan led Keqing and Ganyu inside.
The first things that caught their eyes were a large table and four chairs.
Well…
Blocky ones, of course.
There were quite a few torches mounted on the walls.
Strangely, despite radiating bright light and waves of heat, they didn’t set the wooden walls on fire.
In fact, their burning didn’t seem to consume the torches’ lifespan at all.
Even when Ganyu coated one with Cryo energy and knocked it off the wall, the moment she picked it up, it flared back to life!
“A torch that never burns out, never sets other objects on fire, and doesn’t consume materials?”
Keqing’s expression grew solemn.
“Such a thing actually exists? This is of paramount importance! We must find a way to manufacture this!”
A torch that never consumed wood and never went out…
The possibilities of what could be achieved with such a tool were endless.
Jiang Xuan smiled.
This was just a basic torch.
Once they got their hands on a Redstone Torch, wouldn’t they be utterly blown away?
Not to mention when they eventually opened all sorts of crazy mods down the line.
Things like Torcherino or Magnum Torches…
Back in Teyvat, those would be absolute violations of the natural order.
To put it simply, they were technologies that defied Newtonian physics.
“Jiang Xuan, there’s a Crafting Table here too!”
Keqing curiously patted the Crafting Table beside her.
Next to it stood an anvil.
This was precisely why Jiang Xuan had chosen this house.
It was rich!
Incredibly rich.
While the entire village couldn’t yield even four iron ingots, this wealthy residence actually had an anvil.
Even for Jiang Xuan, who now possessed the Steve Physique, the presence of an anvil saved him an immense amount of time.
Once he mined some iron, he could also craft tools and a full set of iron armor.