Because the mute old man’s movements were too slow, he spent over ten seconds again just to pat Lu Xun on the shoulders a few times.
Lu Xun examined the buff he received, it was called: ‘Blessing’, and it lasted for three hours.
The basic information displayed: ‘Luck +1’
Lu Xun, “!!!”
Even though he had played so long on his main account in the previous life, this was the first time he encountered a situation where a buff added luck!
Luck was the only special attribute in ‘Heavenly Earth’ that couldn’t be upgraded—everyone had the same amount of luck, ‘1’.
Of course, players all reached a common understanding: on the surface, despite everyone having the luck of ‘1’, in reality, those who were rich were still rich, and those who were poor were still poor.
The damned game wrote the two words ‘Luck 1’, but it was actually just a layer of pixelation, the true attribute laid hidden beneath.
After receiving the buff’s effects, Lu Xun felt increasingly more certain that the old man before him was definitely more impressive than he had imagined.
To be able to increase someone’s luck, exactly how special of a person was he?
‘This old man… could he possibly be the legendary… Jinli[1]?’ Lu Xun thought.
The situation where a Jinli developed a spirit and then manifested, this seemed quite possible.
With this thought in mind, his brain’s circuitry went haywire again, ‘It’s a pity that the lolita isn’t a lucky cat[2].’
After casting a layer of blessing on Lu Xun, the old man smiled at him.
Lu Xun especially took a glance at Shen Yan, his expression was as usual. It was unknown whether he didn’t see through the deeper meaning behind the mute old man’s actions, or he did see through it but chose not to reveal anything.
If it was the former, then that would be a little terrifying.
Shen Yan was an elite of the eighth-tier, how powerful would one have to be to cast a mystic spell in front of him and not let him notice at all?
Lu Xun knew that he received a huge advantage, and so, he paid obeisance to the mute old man once again.
The old man smiled in response once more, his smile was really cordial. He was truly like an old butler who watched his young master grow up.
However… even the movement of his smile was especially slow, the speed at which the corner of his lips rose was much slower than that of other people.
After a long while, the mute old man leisurely raised the cane in his hands and then pounded the ground lightly.
A semitransparent ripple undulated on the ground. When it touched the Harbor Mountain, a mild white light flashed across.
Lu Xun stared blankly as a curtain of light appeared before his eyes, and then it was pulled apart to two sides like window curtains.
As it turns out, the cane was actually the key to the entrance of the Harbor Mountain!
But… previously when he was playing the game, why didn’t he see players in the Demon Sect talk on the forums about the mute old man?
Perhaps, when the players ascended the Harbor Mountain, the old man was always inside the log cabin and never came out to greet them.
After Lu Xun took a deep breath, while under the gaze of the mute old man and Shen yan, he walked into the curtain of light—he was officially climbing the mountain right now!
Once Lu Xun walked into the curtain of light, the old man tapped the ground lightly with the cane again, the curtain of light merged together once more.
He nodded at Shen Yan, turned around, and walked into the cabin at an extremely slow speed.
Shen Yan didn’t stay long at the foot of the mountain. He went straight back to the main peak of the Demon Sect, where the other peak masters were waiting for him.
These bunch of shameless old people gathered again to watch the spectacle, all of them were silently paying close attention to Lu Xun.
Yue Heshan started to set things up again, and after a forced rambling, he opened up, “Let’s commence the betting! Shall we guess what grade of an enchanted treasure Little Uncle-Master will obtain in the end?”
Since the charitable gambling king was dispersing his wealth again, how could Shen Yan and the other peak masters reject his good intentions?
And so, a new round of gambling started amongst the high-level gambling addicts in the Demon Sect.
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On the other side, Lu Xun walked quite slowly on his official climb of the mountain.
It wasn’t that he lingered on the surrounding scenery, but that he truly couldn’t walk fast.
This mountain was quite special. It seemed to place a restriction on people’s movements. The fastest speed that could be maintained was the speech at which normal people went on a stroll.
With this being the case, he actually started to look all around him.
There was a layer of thick and misty fog on the mountain. This blocked people from seeing exactly what was in the distance.
However, if he turned around, he could clearly see everything in the path he had taken.
In other words, the only thing unknown was what was up ahead.
Quite interestingly, when Lu Xun played ‘Heavenly Earth’ in the past, he climbed the Sword Mound but he had never climbed the Harbor Mountain.
This was his first time coming to the Harbor Mountain, it felt quite fresh to him.
There were actually posts related to the Harbor Mountain on the forums, it allowed him to understand the basic rules and situation of climbing the mountain.
The Harbor mountain is both a treasury and a graveyard.
However, the graveyard was on the other side of the mountain. The road he was currently taking now was one that led to the enchanted treasures.
All the enchanted treasures were arranged in the order of their grade—the higher one went, the higher the grade of the enchanted treasures.
At the mountain top was the world-famous sword left by Eldest Senior Brother—’Sword Qi Near’!
This arrangement was completely based on the grade of the enchanted treasures itself, it had nothing to do with its original owner’s strength or status.
Once the mountaineer would ascend the mountain, if a certain enchanted treasure took a fancy to them, then the enchanted treasure would give a response.
At this point, it would be time for the mountaineer to make a decision.
If he chose this enchanted treasure, then everything else that followed would have nothing to do with him. This was because he would receive the enchanted treasure and then be teleported back to the foot of the mountain.
If he chose to continue to ascend the mountain, then, the enchanted treasure that tossed him an olive branch would also have nothing to do with him anymore—there was no chance to turn back and reselect!
In other words, even though there might be something better waiting for you up ahead, but it was also possible that if you missed the enchanted treasure at the moment, you’d end up with nothing!
This rule was a little twisted, but it excited and stimulated people!
Because this was more like a grand gamble!
Once the arrow left the bow, there was no getting it back!
In his previous life, Lu Xun had seen the countless Demon Sect players’ posts on the forum. At first, there were some pretty good enchanted treasures that responded to them. But they were greedy and wanted something better, and so, they continued to climb the mountain to test their luck. In the end, the high-grade enchanted treasures didn’t pay them any attention at all!
“A gambling addict’s attitude is unacceptable!” They wrote down these words while they cried.
Their only benefit was that… they walked to the top of the mountain empty-handed and were able to take a glance at the impressively famous ‘Sword Qi Near’, all before being teleported back to the foot of the mountain.
“96, 97, 98.” Lu Xun counted as he climbed the mountain. When he counted to 98, he stopped in his tracks.
This was because of what was written in the posts. After one ascended the mountain to the 99th step, this was where things officially began!
In other words, with one more step forward, he would arrive at the area of a portion of low-grade enchanted treasures!
A single more step and he would enter the area where they gathered all the low-grade enchanted armaments (Yellow).
After stopping for a few seconds, Lu Xun smiled and then walked forward.
Once he took that step forward, the dense fog in surroundings immediately dissipated. He saw quite a lot of irregularly distributed low-grade enchanted armaments.
There were all types of enchanted armaments here, he even saw a flying guillotine…
The instant he set foot on this area, the other enchanted armaments didn’t have any response, but all the enchanted swords on the scene started to tremble fiercely!
On the main peak, Shen Yan and the peak masters couldn’t sit still all of a sudden. Shen Yan said loudly in his screeching chicken-like voice:
“Natural Sword Constitution! He has a Natural Sword Constitution!”
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[1] Fish that symbolizes all things related to good luck
[2] A common Japanese figurine which is believed to bring luck