Translator: Henyee Translations
Editor: Henyee Translations
The middle-aged poor and pedantic scholar in a white robe walked on the limestone roads, his steps were very small, he didn’t walk fast right now, and often stopped and moved again.
When he saw a florist by the roadside, he would smell their flowers, whenever he saw fresh food, he would also buy and taste it, even when there were people playing chess, he would watch—and then, because he didn’t stay silent while watching, he would be shooed off out of dislike.
The suntanned man simply followed him and didn’t dare disturb Sir’s aesthetic mood.
Cat Southnorth actually wasn’t wrong with her words. Sir did go down the mountain just to have fun.
The reason why he wasn’t willing to return to the mountain was also very simple—he hadn’t had enough fun.
As for having accepted a new disciple… compared to this scenic tour right now, it was merely a small matter.
“Sir,” The suntanned man hurried to his side, softly speaking.
“What’s the matter?” Sir asked.
“This disciple of yours doesn’t understand. Why did you set such rules for accepting a disciple at that time?”
The rules that the suntanned man spoke of naturally referred to jumping off the cliff and surviving.
“It was merely due to a sensation I felt while standing on Greeting Peak that day, I just spoke without thinking.” Sir waved his hand dismissively, he behaved quite casually.
The suntanned man knew in his heart that the more Sir acted like this, the more likely that he was talking nonsense.
He had already followed Sir for quite a while now, he had long understood Sir’s temperament. To set these conditions that seemed impossible to complete, Sir definitely had his profound intentions, but he just wouldn’t tell him what they were.
However, there was something the suntanned man couldn’t understand, how exactly could this Little Junior Brother of his jump off the cliff and not die?
This piqued his curiosity all of a sudden.
Cat Southnorth once told Lu Xun that their Third Senior Brother loved to cook, however, the food he made tasted extremely terrible.
In reality, she didn’t fully explain the details. The reason why the food their Third Senior Brother made tasted terrible, was mainly that he loved to innovate and always tinkered with new dishes.
The Third Senior Brother of the Small Study loved to explore new things, he was the best at meticulously studying.
Even though he looked like a farmer and appeared very rough, inside his brain, there was an endless desire for knowledge and a hideous mess of new ideas.
Thus, this was the reason why the suntanned man was suddenly filled with curiosity about Lu Xun.
He even thought to capture his Little Junior Brother to conduct proper research when he returned to the mountain.
With this thought in mind, his face revealed a simple and honest smile.
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At this moment, at the Demon Sect’s Rear Mountain.
Lu Xun had a nightmare.
He was roused from a dream, cold sweat was all over his body.
“Hu!”
The night breeze brushed past, the fireflies outside flew willfully, it was quite harmonious and tranquil.
“Am I too stressed out recently?” Lu Xun rubbed his temples as he said this.
But after thinking about it carefully… there was no way he could be stressed!
He ate well, slept well, and a bunch of people would call him a great ancestor upon seeing him. He went by his days extremely comfortably.
Apart from the turtle-speed increase in experience value, there wasn’t much to worry about. Only that Cat Southnorth was a little difficult to deal with, he had to constantly satisfy her appetite.
After Lu Xun adjusted his state of mind, he steadied his thoughts and tried to continue sleeping.
In the end, the nightmare started again.
“What the *uck is this dream? It actually has a first-half and a second-half!” Lu Xun was roused again, he hoarsely gasped.
Precisely speaking, this dream was an infinite loop.
Once he closed his eyes, a blurry shadow would hunt him down until he was killed, and then, he would wake up from the dream.
Because the shadow was quite blurry, Lu Xun couldn’t clearly see it.
He didn’t really think much of this situation. After all, it was merely a dream, and once people woke up, it was quite normal for people not to remember the exact details of the dream.
He didn’t even remember the precise description of how he died. He only remembered that a shadow was hunting him down, and then he died because of the shadow.
Many people would have perhaps experienced such occurrences, they would be clearly aware that they had dreamed, but they would only be able to remember vague details of the beginning and the end of the dream.
After taking two deep breaths, Lu Xun frowned. He felt that something was wrong here.
“This dream’s mine! I am my own overlord!”
“I won’t allow this, I have to charge back!”
After being killed consecutively for two times, it had unexpectedly excited Lu Xun’s baffling desire to win!
Once he closed his eyes, the shadow appeared again as he expected.
He fervently thought that inside his dreams, he was the creator who would be omnipotent, however, he fled in a posthaste manner once again.
“F*ck!”
Lu Xun bolted up and sat straight on the bed. He wasn’t an idiot, how could he not know that there was something fishy!?
He examined his own character attributes, the character status displayed:
…’Plagued by Sword Intent!’
“Sword intent!?” Lu Xun was somewhat surprised.
“What killed me in my dreams was a sword intent?”
This was a high-end trick that normal sword cultivators didn’t possess.
Since this was Rear Mountain’s Small Study, then apart from Lu Xun, there was only Cat Southnorth and Second Senior Sister on the mountain.
He remembered that Cat Southnorth used daggers, this was something Lu Xun had seen on that rainy night.
The two small bells on her wrists could transform into two daggers. At that time, her dagger’s qi flew vertically and horizontally while immediately killing over hundreds of ghosts!
‘So, this sword intent… it should be Second Senior Sister’s handiwork, right?’
‘Did Second Senior Sister use swords, why didn’t I see any sword in the bamboo forest?’
‘Most importantly, why did Second Senior Sister do this? Could it be special training?’
With these thoughts running through his mind, the game’s system actually triggered a mission.
‘Triggered mission, Gu Xiaoman’s sword intent special training, Accept or Not?’
Lu Xun didn’t even think and just tapped on accept.
Upon examining the mission’s details, the content written didn’t actually require him to prevail over Second Senior Sister’s sword intent, if this were the case, then it would be absolutely unrealistic. The mission had instead, required him to persevere for 30 days under the circumstances of being plagued by the sword intent!
This specific sword intent was in fact, only an extremely small part of Second Senior Sister’s monstrous sword intent.
This was great! For as long as a month, he wouldn’t even be able to sleep with a peace of mind.
“I won’t suddenly die, right?” Lu Xun smiled bitterly.
However, he was extremely reluctant to decline this mission, it was because the mission’s reward was really too enticing.
…’Sword Dao Aptitude + 1!’
This was a special attribute that could be discovered, but not sought. It was difficult for Lu Xun to reject this, despite the fact that… he didn’t even have a sword right now.
Actually, even if he didn’t choose the road of a sword cultivator in the future, a little bit more special attributes wouldn’t be harmful to him.
‘Heavenly Earth’ abided by the principle of ‘know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated’. Even if he didn’t learn swords in the future, with just this additional point of sword Dao aptitude, he would be able to indistinctly counter sword cultivators in the future.
Almost like his main account in the previous life, he passed a hidden mission by chance and received ‘Spear Dao Aptitude + 1’. Although the road he took wasn’t cultivating spears, he could often burst out roughly ten percent more damage whenever he encountered an NPC or player who used spears!
As for what weapon his main account cultivated?
He cultivated clubs, a large rod.
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