Translator: Henyee Translations
Editor: Henyee Translations
Lu Xun looked at Second Senior Sister’s wooden hairpin. His train of thought started to diverge at this moment, the more he thought about it, the more askew his thoughts were.
He thought that after Second Senior Sister coiled up her hair, she relied on this wooden hairpin to keep it in place, then wouldn’t that mean… If Second Senior Sister put her own sword to use, would her black hair drape over her shoulders and dance along with the wind?
The more he thought about it, the more vivid the image in his mind was.
Lu Xun and Cat Southnorth didn’t stay too long in the bamboo forest, after they bid farewell to Second Senior Sister, they returned to the Small Study.
The desires of their mouth and tongue had been satisfied. Cat Southnorth, who had just eaten her fill, was in a really good mood, she vivaciously bounced up and down as she walked.
Her innate tendencies as a cat still existed, she always loved to scuttle around.
Apart from not letting Lu Xun brush her fur, she really made him feel that he was keeping a catgirl as a pet.
When they passed by the date trees, she plucked a few more dates, wiped them with the hem of Lu Xun’s clothes, and then started eating them.
Her expression was always one of enjoyment whenever she ate something, she seemed to be easily satisfied.
On an ordinary day, she was as lazy as a pile of mud, but she was rather diligent whenever she ate.
It directly verified that certain saying—whatever she does would always fail, except for eating, she would always be first.
Shortly after they returned to the Small Study, the Demon Sect’s Sect Master Shen Yan came.
He recently came to the Rear Mountain, it was mainly to make insinuations—exactly how much Sea of Qi did Little Uncle-Master see when he broke through to the second layer of the Qi Devouring Formula?
He had a gambling party with the various peak masters, everyone placed down quite hefty bets, he was thinking about scooping up a decent sum from this.
However, as the master of the sect, he couldn’t behave idly, although he certainly wasn’t that busy… therefore, every time he came to the Rear Mountain, he had to find a relatively reasonable reason.
For example, the reason this time was: the outer sect elders were about to organize the outer sect disciples on a training camp, I came to ask if Little Uncle-Master would be interested in participating.
The training camp of the outer sect disciples consisted mainly of two kinds. One kind was a training camp inside the sect. For example, everyone competed in a contest, it would result in breaking through restrictions and things of the sort. The other kind was to go down the mountain for a training camp.
In simpler terms, it was actually a little similar to periodic exams in schools.
Being an outer sect disciple in a sect was actually not too different from studying at school.
The disciples who performed exceptionally would also be able to receive some rewards, for example, Spirit Pills, or enchanted armaments.
It was reasonable to say that, although Lu Xun was still in the early cultivation stages of the ‘Qi Devouring Formula’, he was even weaker than many outer sect disciples, however, his status was still indisputable. He shouldn’t participate and wasn’t suited to participate in this event.
For him to perform well during the process of the training camp, it would prove to be quite difficult, after all, he had only cultivated for a short period of time.
If he were to perform poorly, it would also be a little embarrassing. After all, he was still Sir’s disciple, he was the Little Great Uncle-Master of the Demon Sect.
This was merely just a reason to come to the Rear Mountain, a way to initiate a simple chat with Lu Xun. Shen Yan never intended on letting Lu Xun go to the training camp.
If the training camp’s particulars weren’t quite special, he would have even felt embarrassed to use this shoddy excuse to come here.
Lu Xun listened to Shen Yan talk about the training camp. At first, he repeatedly nodded mechanically, he pretended as if he had been listening to him seriously. However, as he was nodding, he was suddenly startled.
‘A mission was actually triggered.’ Lu Xun was excited all of a sudden.
Upon thinking about it carefully, for the outer sect disciples, this was merely a training camp, but in the game’s settings, this was clearly a mission!
After examining the details of the mission, Lu Xun was a little muddleheaded.
The mission’s details were actually quite simple, it was to take a writing brush and write and draw with it. The only special part about it was… this writing brush once belonged to Sir.
Apart from this, the mission didn’t have anything special, on the contrary, it felt a little idiotic.
This would be led by the outer sect elders followed by the crowd of disciples who would stand in a line, they would alternate turns to take the writing brush for a go… just thinking about it felt a bit idiotic.
There was definitely going to be a good number of outer sect disciples participating in this training camp, the one who would be standing in the last place would probably have to wait for a long time…
Since it was a training camp, the process would definitely not be so relaxed, there was probably a hidden principle attached here.
Although the mission didn’t outright state it, the abundant experience value of one thousand points as a reward was definitely not that easy to obtain.
The mission only required him to pick up the writing brush, and continue drawing with it for five minutes or above, that was it.
Obviously, this writing brush definitely had problems.
Interestingly, the mission had a degree of completion rate. After persevering for 5 minutes, it would be considered a completion of twenty percent, only after persevering for twenty-five minutes would it be considered a completion of one hundred percent.
In other words, at a bare minimum of a completion of twenty percent, it would grant one thousand points of experience value. If he completed one hundred percent, then there would be five thousand points of experience value!
For Lu Xun, these five thousand experience points were too enticing! This was equivalent to two hundred and fifty days of cultivating diligently!
Because of his desire for the experience points, in addition to the curiosity of Sir’s writing brush, Lu Xun said, “Sect Master, I want to participate in the training camp.”
This rather somewhat surprised the Stewed Egg.
He simply found an excuse to make conversation, however, Lu Xun unexpectedly found it interesting.
Since Little Uncle-Master was interested, then what else could he do?
He had to arrange it!
As for the following process of worming out the amount of Sea of Qi he saw, Lu Xun already had resistance to this, no matter how much Shen Yan insinuated his words, Lu Xun would expertly avoid the topic.
This was because he didn’t see a single bit of Sea of Qi, it was too embarrassing. Probably from the founding of the Demon Sect until now, he was the first one to experience something like this.
However, if he was forced to lie through his teeth, then he could shoot his mouth off at how great of a river he saw as the Sea of Qi… he could certainly do something like this.
But… he was afraid that he would be digging a pit for himself, this was why he simply chose to stay silent.
Talk less, con others more, this was the path to sustainability.
Once Shen Yan saw that Lu Xun’s lips were sewn, he knew that the gambling party this time was invalid. Upon thinking about the five hundred Spirit Stones he paid, he felt a wave of grief.
On the other corner, Lu Xun was in a rather good mood. His current experience value was currently ‘150/100’, because it only increased twenty points everyday by meditation, It was quite boring. However, now that he had a mission to do, things couldn’t have been better.
Besides, he hadn’t seen Ji Li for a long time, now that it just so happened that he was on this trip to do an outer sect mission, he would be able to see her.
Even though at that time he said that he would visit her, in reality, he hadn’t even gone to see her a single time.
Heh, men.
‘It’s about time to go to the outer sect to relax.’ Lu Xun thought.
Since there were only him and his two Senior Sisters in the Rear Mountain, he was the Little Junior Brother and the one with the worst cultivation there, he had no status whatsoever amongst Sir’s disciples.
He couldn’t even sleep well late at night, he still had to ‘enjoy’ Second Senior Sister’s lashings of love—being stabbed by that sword intent over and over again—his bedsheets would be wet dozens of times each night, he was living exhaustingly for a course of a month.
However, things would be different once he left the Rear Mountain, ordinary disciples would have to call him Little Great Uncle-Master upon seeing him. He could even visit Ji Li in passing, so as to avoid the impression that he didn’t honor his words.
Not to mention, bullying Ji Li was a delightful thing for both the body and mind.
On the matter of bullying, it was best to pick the pushovers1, Ji Li was one who was especially soft and easy to squeeze, she felt especially good on the hands.
With this thought in mind, Lu Xun’s handsome face revealed a cordial smile.
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