Translator: Henyee Translations
Editor: Henyee Translations
The downpour outside continued, the raining clamorously reverberated the ground.
Many people liked to listen to the sound of rain, especially to the sound of rain outside of old homes.
The raindrops falling on leaves, on tiles, and on limestone floors… it had its own rhythm and appeal.
Ji Li dropped her meaty hands that had been pulling on the hem of Lu Xun’s clothes. After seeing that Lu Xun didn’t ruin the negotiations with Cat Southnorth, she sighed with relief.
Lu Xun turned his head to smile at her before quickly retreating half a step and suddenly pushed her forward… remarkably failing to do so.
This was because Ji Li already had immense strength within her, the current Lu Xun obviously couldn’t push her forward.
However, it was fine, he had already retreated half a step, the next phase would be marketing her to the experts in front of him.
Although Ji Li, the tool, wasn’t really of any use to him anymore, Lu Xun still felt that any meeting was fate, so why not take the opportunity to help her too?
The young lady was already pitiful enough as is.
Lu Xun continued to wear a cordial smile on his face as he started to talk about Ji Li’s past history and experiences.
His eloquence wasn’t all that bad. After all, he was a solo player that didn’t join any gaming guilds or workshops, whenever he sold equipment or his alts, he relied on his own mouth and wits to wrangle with the buyers, this was how his eloquence was formed and developed.
He continued adding details without showing his true motives, on the other hand, Ji Li, the main character of the story, had even started to think ‘so I was that tragic’, and nearly cried out with a ‘wa…’.
Mu Rongyan was a do-gooder by nature, upon hearing Lu Xun’s words, the gaze with which she used to look at Ji Li changed.
She originally thought that by simply casting a smokescreen spell, it would have made things easier for Ji Li in the future, but she never would have imagined that this sword had already brought her family to ruin.
The catgirl lolita was still sitting on her shoulder with a face that seemed to say that she didn’t care at all, however, her right hand was rubbing on the little bell on her left hand.
After Lu Xun was about to finish speaking, he simply pressed Ji Li’s head downward, clearly wanting to make her bow and then let out the request to become a disciple of the sect; however, he couldn’t even manage to make her head move even by a bit in the end.
Fortunately, the Ji Li who was usually muddle-headed didn’t drop the ball at the key moment and quickly bowed, after doing so, she spoke of her request:
“This Celestial Master casted a smokescreen spell for my Wedding Dress sword, and this Celestial Master exterminated malicious ghosts to execute the heaven’s wishes. It may be assumed that you’re definitely from an Orthodox Celestial Sect, Th- This Ji Li… Ji Li earnestly requests to become a disciple of your Celestial Sect!”
Originally, when everyone was listening to Ji Li’s words, they would nod frequently to her flattering and kind words, however, when she said the three words ‘Orthodox Celestial Sect’, Mu Rongyan and Cat Southnorth couldn’t help but look at each other.
The expression on Mu Rongyan’s face was somewhat of astonishment, meanwhile Cat Southnorth, the lolita’s, didn’t even try to hold back from bursting out into laughter.
“Hahahahaha! Little girl! You want this old lady to laugh to death, right?”
She patted Mu Rongyan’s head gently to signal her to squat down so that she could look Ji Li eye to eye.
Mu Rongyan did what was requested obediently. After doing so, the catgirl lolita reached out her right hand and lifted Ji Li’s head, looking at Ji Li’s slightly reddened eyes while saying each of her next few words with emphasis:
“This old lady comes from the Demon Sect!”
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The atmosphere on the spot became a bit awkward.
Yes, since Lu Xun already knew of Mu Rongyan’s true identity, he naturally knew that she was a disciple from the Demon Sect.
There were countless sects in the lands of Heavenly Earth. Amongst them, the Orthodox Dao was headed by the four great sects, these were respectively: ‘One Sword Mountain’, ‘Ten Thousand Swords Mountain’, ‘Azure Heaven Sect’, and ‘Gauze Heaven Sect’.
The names of these four great sects didn’t have any problems alone, however, when paired with each other, it would seem somewhat comical no matter how one looked at it.
Just from a glance, one would assume that the former two didn’t seem to get along, and that the latter two seemed more like a bromance.
Surprisingly, in reality, it was the truth.
A simple explanation to this was that ‘One Sword Mountain’ and ‘Ten Thousand Swords Mountain’ were actually only originally a single sect—it was called ‘Sword Mountain’.
However, as time went on, one school within the sect believed that ‘one sword destroys all spells’ was the essence of the way of the sword, and therefore cultivated one sword technique to perfection for their entire life, this made them seem especially bizarre.
The other school on the other hand, believed that ‘ten thousand swords would return to one’ was the true essence, and so, they would learn a bunch of sword techniques, and rely on the ten thousand sword techniques that they practiced to comprehend the way of the sword.
And then, both schools incomprehensibly separated quickly!
There seemed to have been some secret regarding the matter. In fact, anyone would’ve felt that there was definitely a hidden secret to this, but sadly, Lu Xun didn’t know the specifics to it either.
It was said that the sword cultivators of the two schools got along quite well, ‘harmonious’ even, they would give ‘pointers’ to the other party at every turn, due to the fact that they were originally the same sect, they especially loved to call each other ‘junior brother’ or ‘junior sister’. Anyways, they felt the need to definitely get one over the other.
They were apt to hastily say, “Junior brother/junior sister, please allow me to give pointers on your cultivation!”
And then… They’d fight till their lights went out.
After every few years, the two sides would have a public martial arts assembly and call various great sects to watch.
Both sides would say behind their breaths, “Today, either I beat your face in public, or your face will be beaten by me!”
Lu Xun couldn’t help but sometimes think, ‘Were the brains of the game designers broken?’
However, reality proved otherwise, this was since the players who joined either of the two schools were actually playing especially happily, they would come to blows at the drop of a hat, and then bad-mouth while comparing swords with each other, there were only two words to describe what they felt—absolutely blissful.
The more that it was configured this way, the more the players felt a sense of belonging and immersiveness with the sect!
In the entire ‘Heavenly Earth’ game, one would really say that the players who took their sect’s honor most seriously would be those from the ‘One Sword Mountain’ and ‘Ten Thousand Swords Mountain’.
As for the ‘Azure Heaven Sect’ and the ‘Gauze Heaven Sect’… their Great Grandmasters truly loved to mess around with the word ‘Heaven’ when naming stuff. In reality, the two sects really had no relationship in essence.
However, with the passing of time, they eventually viewed each other as ‘brother sects’. This was somewhat similar to the ‘brother classes’1 we had in school.
As for the so-called heretical Dao, they were headed by three great Demonic Sects.
They were respectively called, ‘Spring and Autumn Forest’, ‘Unbridled Mountain’, and…’Demon Sect’.
Yes, the last one was simply called ‘Demon Sect’, it was as if they were announcing to the entire world…. “That’s right! This sect here is of the Heretical Dao!”
Mu Rongyan and Cat Southnorth both came from the Demon Sect.
The sect that Lu Xun wanted to join was also the Demon Sect.
Only by going there could he carry out the ‘perfect start’ plan.
As for the difference between the Orthodox Dao and the Heretical Dao… do you really think that players would care?
Players didn’t care at all! After all, they were just playing a game!
However, the aboriginals of Heavenly Earth on the other hand, they took this matter quite seriously.
For example, Ji Li at this moment was staring in disbelief.
“Th… The… De… Demon Sect?” Ji Li’s large eyes almost shivered slightly like the way anime characters do.
The Cultivation Technique that she carried in her bosom was also considered as a Demonic Cultivation Technique, hell, she even once wanted to make Lu Xun her own Furnace Tripod, however, if she really had a clear choice to choose from, she would have definitely hoped to be in a famous Orthodox Sect.
She really didn’t think that the good-hearted fat older sister and the little girl in front of her who upheld justice for the heavens were actually people from the Demon Sect!
She indistinctly sensed that something was off, but… since her brains were traded for breasts, she couldn’t quite place it.
Thus, seeing as she overloaded what was left of her brain, Ji Li couldn’t help but turn to look at Lu Xun.
Lu Xun silently smiled at her and then nodded.
He knew just how special the Demon Sect was, he didn’t feel that he would be bringing her on a pirate ship. On the contrary, he had always felt that the Demon Sect was a good place to go.
For a person with late-stage appearance complex, the smile that was given to her just now was equivalent to a ray of light.
Ji Li seemed to receive some sort of motivation.
She also understood that she didn’t have the qualifications to be picky on what she can choose. She needed to cultivate quickly and then avenge her parents!
She had even wanted to learn a Demonic Cultivation Technique for quite a while now, it was the most vile of its kind too.
With these thoughts in mind, she bowed once more to show her determination.
The catgirl lolita looked at her and said, “Hmph! Don’t cry in the future, and don’t regret it!”
However, despite her words, her cat ears seemed to have moved a few times as if it was satisfied.
It was as if… as if she felt a sliver of happiness regarding that despite Ji Li clearly knowing that they were from the Demon Sect, she still chose to join resolutely.
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