Translator: Henyee Translations
Editor: Henyee Translations
“I’m done eating!” In the bamboo forest, Cat Southnorth rubbed her plump belly and placed down the chopsticks in her hands.
Precisely speaking, she wasn’t ‘done’ eating, but had just finished eating.
He and Cat Southnorth weren’t the only ones finished eating, even the bowl and dishes that floated down from the rock were also empty.
It could be seen that no matter whether it was Second Senior Sister or Fourth Senior Sister, they clearly used their actions to complement their Little Junior Brother’s cooking skills.
‘Ge…!’ Cat Southnorth was the first one to burp.
She hurriedly covered her mouth with her small hands, a flustered expression appeared all over her face. She even went as far as pretending to be innocent, it was as if she was saying, “You guys heard it wrong, this old lady didn’t burp!”
And then, she burped again.
Even though the sound leaked from the seams of her fingers, it was still bright and clear.
Clearly, no matter how high one’s cultivation was, the natural reactions of the human body still couldn’t be repressed just like that.
Thus, the cold and indifferent Daoist-like nun on the rock actually also burped after having difficulty in resisting for a period of time.
Although the sound was very light, Lu Xun and Cat Southnorth had both undoubtedly heard it.
This apparently annoyed her a little, which is why she waved her hands and started to shoo them away.
Lu Xun and Cat Southnorth ran off in a hurry. However, before leaving the bamboo forest, he couldn’t help but look at Second Senior Sister’s back again.
‘Second Senior Sister really is slim.’ He thought.
The wide Daoist robe that enveloped her body had increasingly magnified her slimness.
He even felt that she looked a little too thin.
A strange idea started to emerge inside Lu Xun’s mind:
“…should I try to make her a little fatter?”
This would be very interesting.
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Whether Lu Xun could actually succeed in making Second Senior Sister fatter, it was something that he didn’t have the answer to for the time being. Everyone’s constitution was different and there was an even greater difference if you looked at the constitutions of most cultivators.
However, he would definitely make three meals per day from now on. This was also because his current cultivation wouldn’t allow him to abstain from food, not to mention, he could be considered as half a glutton in the previous life, this meant that he was unable and unwilling to give up the desires of the mouth and tongue.
Precisely speaking, his tongue was picky!
And, as an outstanding cook himself, he added the mission of feeding Second Senior Sister and making her fatter to his plans, this was a sort of pleasure in the boring days.
With that said, regarding Lu Xun’s advancement to the first layer of Qi Devouring Formula, both Cat Southnorth and Second Senior Sister could tell with a single glance, but neither of them were the least bit surprised.
Perhaps, as they saw it, since Lu Xun was now a member of the Small Study, then no matter how special he was, this was something to be expected as a matter of course.
Nevermind the fact that he advanced to the first layer of Qi Devouring Formula overnight, even if he did advance several layers, everyone wouldn’t find it strange.
However, compared to these matters, they cared more about Lu Xun’s unwavering determination during cultivation, and this was what moved them more.
After returning to the Small Study, Cat Southnorth laid down lazily at the entrance, sunbathing once again.
The small cat who had just eaten her fill started to slump down again.
Lu Xun sat by her side and asked her, “Fourth Senior Sister, when will Sir come back?”
Lu Xun was quite concerned about this particular point.
“How would I know?” Cat Southnorth said this in an ‘as a matter of fact’ tone.
“Isn’t there a rough date you should know?” Lu Xun was speechless.
“Naturally, no. It’s because sometimes he’ll be out for a few days, others, it could be several months, even a few years is possible.” Cat Southnorth dismissively waved her hand as she said this.
Lu Xun was bewildered and continued to ask, “Then, what is the reason that Sir went down the mountain?”
As one of the entire ‘Heavenly Earth’s’ most mysterious men, Lu Xun was filled with curiosity about him.
“To play of course!” Cat Southnorth instantly responded without even thinking about it.
Lu Xun, “…”
‘You sure there isn’t any grand reason he went down?’
‘Or is this answer because of her childish temperament? She could’ve thought that going down the mountain meant playing.’
‘Yes, that must be it.’
‘A refined venerable such as Sir couldn’t possibly go down the mountain just to have fun.’
Since asking her questions for a while didn’t yield any important results, Lu Xun returned to his room.
He didn’t plan on continuing to cultivate and had instead studied his own panel’s information.
Currently, his experience bar displayed ‘586/500’, it was still enough for him to level up once more.
However, he didn’t intend to do so for the time being.
In the past, he was simply playing a game, that was why he leveled up immediately when it was the proper time. Now that he was breathing and living in this world, he should at least learn to adapt for a while.
In a way, he just wanted to study his current body and cultivation strength, it felt quite interesting.
Only after he studied it thoroughly, would he then continue to level up.
The panel’s information was quite plain for the time being, nothing much could be seen regarding the details. He was now more mindful of the countdown on the bottom right corner.
In his impressions, ‘Heavenly Earth’ had started to widely advertise before the start of the servers, this was why the gaming forums were open to the public before the Open Beta was released.
As for which exact day the game’s forums had opened, Lu Xun had already forgotten this point. Why would he specifically remember the date of something like this?
However, the countdown at the bottom right corner reminded him that the game’s forums were about to open to the public. This meant that the countdown he saw was the time until the opening of the forums.
‘Strange, so very strange. There’s still three years until the players arrive, why are the forums opening so early?’
“Could it be… is it possible that the time flow of the two worlds isn’t the same?’
He had no way to look into these problems for the time being. He could only just wait quietly for now, nonetheless, there was a matter in which he was quite curious on—could he see the information on the forums?
It was quite reasonable to say that the panel’s information and the other functions had all successfully become the benefits of his transmigration. Apart from his character’s identity changing into an NPC, his other capabilities were no different from the players.
Then, going by this logic, he should also be able to see the forums.
If players truly descended in the Heavenly Earth’s calendar year 4000, then the forums would be of extremely great help to Lu Xun.
After the countdown was over, just as expected, he saw a pop-up message appear in front of him:
‘Game forums have been opened.’
Once he tapped on it, he found that it was completely empty inside.
After two to three seconds of waiting, he refreshed the forums. A hideous mess of posts came surging like a tide!
The majority of them were meaningless posts that he was too lazy to carefully read.
However, when Lu Xun attempted to post something, he discovered that he couldn’t do so in the end.
“Damn it, what should I do now!” Lu Xun was very anxious.
Players loved to flame NPCs, hence, it was highly probable that he would also be fiercely flamed in the future.
Then… wouldn’t this mean that he couldn’t pretend to be a passerby and sarcastically flame back!?
“F*ck, this actually deprived me of the right to fight to the death against the keyboard warriors!”
Due to being pissed off, Lu Xun immediately closed the forums and no longer looked at it.
He was now like someone who had been muted by the damned administrator in a QQ group, the more he looked at the forum, the more he’d suffer.
At this moment, he instead pondered about his following development route.
Players were definitely going to be used in the future. If the players weren’t going to be used, then why did he become an NPC?
In the players’ eyes, the NPCs in this world were a bunch of tools to be used.
However, the same thing was applicable to Lu Xun’s eyes, how were the players not tools as well?
Perhaps, in order to gain a footing in this world, the players would be his greatest assistance!
“Then, before ‘Heavenly Earth’s’ official Open Beta becomes available, shouldn’t I also make a name for myself?”
If he were just a mere little transparent NPC, then the players would obviously treat him as such.
With this thought, he set his focus on the ‘prestige value mission’ again. It seems like this mission needed to be completed faster. He could accumulate his own prestige and obtain a considerable amount of experience value—two birds with one stone.
He was a person who did things with a plan and order, plus, he also had a lot of ideas. The sneaky bas*tards in the game were mostly these kinds of people, they all had a dirty heart like him.
He soon came up with a rough arrangement. Tomorrow, there was a grand ceremony held especially for him, it also just happened to be the opportune time to test it out.
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