Chapter 10
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Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Tonight was the night of the Zhongyuan festival, so it was obviously going to be out of the ordinary.
According to the configuration of ‘Heavenly Earth’, after people died, their dark side would turn into a wisp of Ghostly Qi, with the coagulation of several Ghostly Qis, it would then become a ghost.
Simply put, Tom, Dick, Harry died and their dark side became a wisp of qi. Tom’s, Dick’s, and Harry’s wisps of qii fused together, thus strengthening and becoming a ghost.
Malicious ghosts were a specially different type of amalgamation and also had a chaotic form, they were considered as a new life born by chance.
After considering that normal people are already weak when they’re alive, so how could it be possible for a person to become a malicious spirit after death? Thus, the theory of several ghostly qis mixed together was more probable.
And because precisely so, they were all somewhat simple-minded—no brains and no spiritual wisdom—but were extremely evil.
Inside the forest, the Mountain Ghost that Lu Xun had killed previously was a type amongst them.
The Dark Simpletons were extremely eager to kill. After all, they were the very compositions of negative energy. Thus, inside the game, players always killed ghosts at first sight.
According to the game’s backstory, ‘good ghosts’ didn’t exist in the entire world. There was no need to think about getting to meet a frail and good-looking female ghost like Nie Xiaoqian1, this severed the beautiful dream of becoming an undead knight like Ning Caichen2 for many players.
Speaking of which, there was no sense of guilt in killing malicious ghosts, it was even equivalent to enforcing justice on behalf of the heavens, it brought a different sense of pleasure for players, they themselves would feel as if they were heroes… this was in addition to the amount of experience given, which was also an awful lot.
‘Heavenly Earth’ was similar to many other games in that events would be held during festivals, and this Zhongyuan Festival’s event that’s happening today was usually a ‘contest to kill malicious ghosts’ and many bonus rewards could be obtained.
Lu Xun also participated several times before and felt that it was quite interesting, however, his ranking had always remained beyond the hundreds. A lone player like him couldn’t possibly go against the many guilds and workshops working together.
The scene happening before his very eyes was truly a little stunning.
On the limestone road amidst the heavy downpour, hundreds of ghosts converged together as if ghosts and demons were dancing in riotous revelry!
Today was precisely the party of malicious ghosts!
However, it was also quite odd. Even if today was the Zhongyuan Festival, where did so many ghosts abruptly emerge from in this insignificant Wei County?
Did all the ghosts within a hundred li1 radius gather here together to party?
‘What the heck, malicious ghosts also do autumn outings?’
At this moment, Lu Xun’s eyes were fixed on the scene before him. This was freaking1 equivalent to over a hundred moving experience packs!
What felt out of place here was that amongst the malicious ghosts, a little girl laughed happily and continued to jump about, looking especially excited.
She looked to be only around eight to nine years old and had hair tied up Nezha style.1 She was a vividly cute lolita.
4The lolita wore red clothing from head to toe and a small bell was fastened on each of her wrists. The bells were flickering with a faint golden light.
She kept avoiding the repeated attacks of the malicious ghosts as if she was only messing around and dancing.
The rain was pouring so heavily at this moment, this caused whoever to run out to look like a drowned rat, however, what was weird was that the rain just wouldn’t drip on her.
“Hahahaha… Guh!” The lolita laughed halfway and suddenly burped, it was extremely unbefitting of her image. It seemed that she was a little bit stuffed and couldn’t help it before stroking her small belly button.
She already sensed that two people came to the entrance door of Come Fortune inn, so she turned to look.
After seeing Lu Xun’s appearance, she was slightly distracted. She had originally just wanted to do a quick casual glance, however, she couldn’t help but cast another look again.
Due to the distraction this caused, this time when a malicious ghost struck, it managed to hit the ribbon tied to her hair. The ribbon was cut off and the Nezha style hair that she had on her head was scattered in half.
Lu Xun and Ji Li, who were both still looking at the scene were both dumbfounded for a moment.
They saw that a pair of ears were indistinctly revealed within the hair. It seemed a little like… cat ears?
So… this meant that the Nezha hairstyle was actually a cover-up. She was using her hair to wrap around her two cat ears.
1However, she also clearly had two human ears—didn’t that make it that she had four ears?!
After a careful recollection of the anime that he’d seen in the past, he remembered that all the catgirls either had hair covering both sides of their head, this was either so that their human ears couldn’t be seen clearly, or they simply just had a flat surface in place for their human ears.
If the hair wasn’t covering that area, then it would have felt very out of place…
‘Mo… monster?’ Ji Li thought as her right hand that was holding the Wedding Dress instinctively tightened its grip slightly.
Lu Xun, who was still by her side, still looked calm and collected. He was mainly astonished by the catgirl lolita’s strength.
There were attacks from all sides by nearly a hundred malicious ghosts, even if he turned level thirty, he would still find it hard to dodge all of it.
Although their eyes were their Achilles’ heel, there were too many ghosts gathered, they all couldn’t possibly be stabbed.
However, the catgirl lolita seemed to be at ease and especially relaxed when she faced these malicious ghosts.
Precisely speaking, she might have been simply finding pleasure. These malicious ghosts could have been all gathered by her using a special method.
Lu Xun turned to look at Mu Rongyan who sat by the gate, she was watching the show and didn’t show any sign of intervening. It was as if she was very confident in the catgirl lolita’s strength.
There was about an eighty percent chance that they were acquainted.
However, it wasn’t until the lolita’s headband snapped that Mu Rongyan’s expression changed slightly, Mu Rongyan said quietly, “Oh no!”
Amongst the group of malicious ghosts, the catgirl lolita’s eyebrows were raised slightly.
She appeared to be quite angry now.
The little bells on her left and right hand rang, ‘Ding ling ling…’
With a flash of a golden light, the little bells abruptly turned into two small knives.
Golden light was circulating on the small knives like swimming dragons.
Lu Xun wanted to examine the information on the two small knives, however, as a result ‘???’ popped up in front of his eyes, not even the names of the catgirl lolita’s weapons were displayed.
Thinking about it, it was extremely obvious that the tier of the small knives were a bit high and Lu Xun’s level was too low to even see the details for it, this was the reason that no information could be obtained for the time being.
The catgirl lolita looked around at the surrounding malicious ghosts and said in a babyish voice, “This old lady will cut your heads off in one strike!”
1Her voice was a little loud, after these words were uttered out, she brandished her two small knives forward.
‘Shua…’ Several dozen meters of Knife Qi had assumed a circular sector and quickly slashed at the surroundings!
Wherever it passed through, every single malicious ghost was beheaded before finally exploding!
Even though their fatal area was the eyes, with their heads having exploded, how could their eyes be fine?
In just a brief moment, the several hundred malicious ghosts simply vanished into thin air.
The limestone road seemed to have a restriction cast upon it, this was since the battle that occured didn’t influence the surroundings.
‘F*ck, at least leave me one!’ Lu Xun stared blankly as a large amount of experience points disappeared in just a second in front of him.
How could he not understand now?
…This was an expert.
Other than having two extra cat ears on her head, she looked especially harmless, but her strength was formidably fierce!
‘Should be at least level forty,’ Lu Xun thought.
She was definitely much stronger than Mu Rongyan!
At this moment, the catgirl lolita threw the dual knives in her hands into the sky, after doing so, they immediately changed back into small little bells. With a ‘sou’ sound, they were fastened onto her wrists again.
One of her headbands had already snapped anyway, so she might as well tear off the other headband. Her Nezha hairstyle immediately scattered down, revealing two black cat-like ears.
The two cat ears moved in the wind, as if exercising its muscles and bones.
The catgirl lolita turned and walked towards the Come Fortune inn. After a casual glance at Ji Li, she no longer looked at her, and instead, switched from just a casual glance to a full-on stare at Lu Xun without end.
She was too short and needed to look up at Lu Xun, however, since she didn’t like looking up at others, her entire body started to float.
After a long period of silence, she finally spoke out with her babyish loud voice, it was full of vigor:
“Mortal! This lord still lacks a beautiful mount, are you willing?”
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Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Tonight was the night of the Zhongyuan festival, so it was obviously going to be out of the ordinary.
According to the configuration of ‘Heavenly Earth’, after people died, their dark side would turn into a wisp of Ghostly Qi, with the coagulation of several Ghostly Qis, it would then become a ghost.
Simply put, Tom, Dick, Harry died and their dark side became a wisp of qi. Tom’s, Dick’s, and Harry’s wisps of qii fused together, thus strengthening and becoming a ghost.
Malicious ghosts were a specially different type of amalgamation and also had a chaotic form, they were considered as a new life born by chance.
After considering that normal people are already weak when they’re alive, so how could it be possible for a person to become a malicious spirit after death? Thus, the theory of several ghostly qis mixed together was more probable.
And because precisely so, they were all somewhat simple-minded—no brains and no spiritual wisdom—but were extremely evil.
Inside the forest, the Mountain Ghost that Lu Xun had killed previously was a type amongst them.
The Dark Simpletons were extremely eager to kill. After all, they were the very compositions of negative energy. Thus, inside the game, players always killed ghosts at first sight.
According to the game’s backstory, ‘good ghosts’ didn’t exist in the entire world. There was no need to think about getting to meet a frail and good-looking female ghost like Nie Xiaoqian1, this severed the beautiful dream of becoming an undead knight like Ning Caichen2 for many players.
Speaking of which, there was no sense of guilt in killing malicious ghosts, it was even equivalent to enforcing justice on behalf of the heavens, it brought a different sense of pleasure for players, they themselves would feel as if they were heroes… this was in addition to the amount of experience given, which was also an awful lot.
‘Heavenly Earth’ was similar to many other games in that events would be held during festivals, and this Zhongyuan Festival’s event that’s happening today was usually a ‘contest to kill malicious ghosts’ and many bonus rewards could be obtained.
Lu Xun also participated several times before and felt that it was quite interesting, however, his ranking had always remained beyond the hundreds. A lone player like him couldn’t possibly go against the many guilds and workshops working together.
The scene happening before his very eyes was truly a little stunning.
On the limestone road amidst the heavy downpour, hundreds of ghosts converged together as if ghosts and demons were dancing in riotous revelry!
Today was precisely the party of malicious ghosts!
However, it was also quite odd. Even if today was the Zhongyuan Festival, where did so many ghosts abruptly emerge from in this insignificant Wei County?
Did all the ghosts within a hundred li1 radius gather here together to party?
‘What the heck, malicious ghosts also do autumn outings?’
At this moment, Lu Xun’s eyes were fixed on the scene before him. This was freaking1 equivalent to over a hundred moving experience packs!
What felt out of place here was that amongst the malicious ghosts, a little girl laughed happily and continued to jump about, looking especially excited.
She looked to be only around eight to nine years old and had hair tied up Nezha style.1 She was a vividly cute lolita.
4The lolita wore red clothing from head to toe and a small bell was fastened on each of her wrists. The bells were flickering with a faint golden light.
She kept avoiding the repeated attacks of the malicious ghosts as if she was only messing around and dancing.
The rain was pouring so heavily at this moment, this caused whoever to run out to look like a drowned rat, however, what was weird was that the rain just wouldn’t drip on her.
“Hahahaha… Guh!” The lolita laughed halfway and suddenly burped, it was extremely unbefitting of her image. It seemed that she was a little bit stuffed and couldn’t help it before stroking her small belly button.
She already sensed that two people came to the entrance door of Come Fortune inn, so she turned to look.
After seeing Lu Xun’s appearance, she was slightly distracted. She had originally just wanted to do a quick casual glance, however, she couldn’t help but cast another look again.
Due to the distraction this caused, this time when a malicious ghost struck, it managed to hit the ribbon tied to her hair. The ribbon was cut off and the Nezha style hair that she had on her head was scattered in half.
Lu Xun and Ji Li, who were both still looking at the scene were both dumbfounded for a moment.
They saw that a pair of ears were indistinctly revealed within the hair. It seemed a little like… cat ears?
So… this meant that the Nezha hairstyle was actually a cover-up. She was using her hair to wrap around her two cat ears.
1However, she also clearly had two human ears—didn’t that make it that she had four ears?!
After a careful recollection of the anime that he’d seen in the past, he remembered that all the catgirls either had hair covering both sides of their head, this was either so that their human ears couldn’t be seen clearly, or they simply just had a flat surface in place for their human ears.
If the hair wasn’t covering that area, then it would have felt very out of place…
‘Mo… monster?’ Ji Li thought as her right hand that was holding the Wedding Dress instinctively tightened its grip slightly.
Lu Xun, who was still by her side, still looked calm and collected. He was mainly astonished by the catgirl lolita’s strength.
There were attacks from all sides by nearly a hundred malicious ghosts, even if he turned level thirty, he would still find it hard to dodge all of it.
Although their eyes were their Achilles’ heel, there were too many ghosts gathered, they all couldn’t possibly be stabbed.
However, the catgirl lolita seemed to be at ease and especially relaxed when she faced these malicious ghosts.
Precisely speaking, she might have been simply finding pleasure. These malicious ghosts could have been all gathered by her using a special method.
Lu Xun turned to look at Mu Rongyan who sat by the gate, she was watching the show and didn’t show any sign of intervening. It was as if she was very confident in the catgirl lolita’s strength.
There was about an eighty percent chance that they were acquainted.
However, it wasn’t until the lolita’s headband snapped that Mu Rongyan’s expression changed slightly, Mu Rongyan said quietly, “Oh no!”
Amongst the group of malicious ghosts, the catgirl lolita’s eyebrows were raised slightly.
She appeared to be quite angry now.
The little bells on her left and right hand rang, ‘Ding ling ling…’
With a flash of a golden light, the little bells abruptly turned into two small knives.
Golden light was circulating on the small knives like swimming dragons.
Lu Xun wanted to examine the information on the two small knives, however, as a result ‘???’ popped up in front of his eyes, not even the names of the catgirl lolita’s weapons were displayed.
Thinking about it, it was extremely obvious that the tier of the small knives were a bit high and Lu Xun’s level was too low to even see the details for it, this was the reason that no information could be obtained for the time being.
The catgirl lolita looked around at the surrounding malicious ghosts and said in a babyish voice, “This old lady will cut your heads off in one strike!”
1Her voice was a little loud, after these words were uttered out, she brandished her two small knives forward.
‘Shua…’ Several dozen meters of Knife Qi had assumed a circular sector and quickly slashed at the surroundings!
Wherever it passed through, every single malicious ghost was beheaded before finally exploding!
Even though their fatal area was the eyes, with their heads having exploded, how could their eyes be fine?
In just a brief moment, the several hundred malicious ghosts simply vanished into thin air.
The limestone road seemed to have a restriction cast upon it, this was since the battle that occured didn’t influence the surroundings.
‘F*ck, at least leave me one!’ Lu Xun stared blankly as a large amount of experience points disappeared in just a second in front of him.
How could he not understand now?
…This was an expert.
Other than having two extra cat ears on her head, she looked especially harmless, but her strength was formidably fierce!
‘Should be at least level forty,’ Lu Xun thought.
She was definitely much stronger than Mu Rongyan!
At this moment, the catgirl lolita threw the dual knives in her hands into the sky, after doing so, they immediately changed back into small little bells. With a ‘sou’ sound, they were fastened onto her wrists again.
One of her headbands had already snapped anyway, so she might as well tear off the other headband. Her Nezha hairstyle immediately scattered down, revealing two black cat-like ears.
The two cat ears moved in the wind, as if exercising its muscles and bones.
The catgirl lolita turned and walked towards the Come Fortune inn. After a casual glance at Ji Li, she no longer looked at her, and instead, switched from just a casual glance to a full-on stare at Lu Xun without end.
She was too short and needed to look up at Lu Xun, however, since she didn’t like looking up at others, her entire body started to float.
After a long period of silence, she finally spoke out with her babyish loud voice, it was full of vigor:
“Mortal! This lord still lacks a beautiful mount, are you willing?”
2…
17Translator:Henyee TranslationsEditor:Henyee TranslationsTonight was the night of the Zhongyuan festival, so it was obviously going to be out of the ordinary.According to the configuration of Heavenly Earth', after people died, their dark side would turn into a wisp of Ghostly Qi, with the coagulation of several Ghostly Qis, it would then become a ghost.Simply put, Tom, Dick, Harry died and their dark side became a wisp of qi. Tom's, Dick's, and Harry's wisps of qii fused together, thus strengthening and becoming a ghost.Malicious ghosts were a specially different type of amalgamation and also had a chaotic form, they were considered as a new life born by chance.After considering that normal people are already weak when they're alive, so how could it be possible for a person to become a malicious spirit after death? Thus, the theory of several ghostly qis mixed together was more probable.And because precisely so, they were all somewhat simple-mindedno brains and no spiritual wisdombut were extremely evil.Inside the forest, the Mountain Ghost that Lu Xun had killed previously was a type amongst them.The Dark Simpletons were extremely eager to kill. After all, they were the very compositions of negative energy. Thus, inside the game, players always killed ghosts at first sight.According to the game's backstory, good ghosts' didn't exist in the entire world. There was no need to think about getting to meet a frail and good-looking female ghost like NieXiaoqian1, this severed the beautiful dream of becoming an undead knight like NingCaichen2for many players.Speaking of which, there was no sense of guilt in killing malicious ghosts, it was even equivalent to enforcing justice on behalf of the heavens, it brought a different sense of pleasure for players, they themselves would feel as if they were heroes this was in addition to the amount of experience given, which was also an awful lot.Heavenly Earth' was similar to many other games in that events would be held during festivals, and this Zhongyuan Festival's event that's happening today was usually a contest to kill malicious ghosts' and many bonus rewards could be obtained.Lu Xun also participated several times before and felt that it was quite interesting, however, his ranking had always remained beyond the hundreds. A lone player like him couldn't possibly go against the many guilds and workshops working together.The scene happening before his very eyes was truly a little stunning.On the limestone road amidst the heavy downpour, hundreds of ghosts converged together as if ghosts and demons were dancing in riotous revelry!Today was precisely the party of malicious ghosts!However, it was also quite odd. Even if today was the Zhongyuan Festival, where did so many ghosts abruptly emerge from in this insignificant Wei County?Did all the ghosts within a hundredli1radius gather here together to party?What the heck, malicious ghosts also do autumn outings?'At this moment, Lu Xun's eyes were fixed on the scene before him. This wasfreaking1equivalent to over a hundred moving experience packs!What felt out of place here was that amongst the malicious ghosts, a little girl laughed happily and continued to jump about, looking especially excited.She looked to be only around eight to nine years old and had hair tied up Nezhastyle.1She was a vividly cute lolita.4The lolita wore red clothing from head to toe and a small bell was fastened on each of her wrists. The bells were flickering with a faint golden light.She kept avoiding the repeated attacks of the malicious ghosts as if she was only messing around and dancing.The rain was pouring so heavily at this moment, this caused whoever to run out to look like a drowned rat, however, what was weird was that the rain just wouldn't drip on her.Hahahaha Guh! The lolita laughed halfway and suddenly burped, it was extremely unbefitting of her image. It seemed that she was a little bit stuffed and couldn't help it before stroking her small belly button.She already sensed that two people came to the entrance door of Come Fortune inn, so she turned to look.After seeing Lu Xun's appearance, she was slightly distracted. She had originally just wanted to do a quick casual glance, however, she couldn't help but cast another look again.Due to the distraction this caused, this time when a malicious ghost struck, it managed to hit the ribbon tied to her hair. The ribbon was cut off and the Nezha style hair that she had on her head was scattered in half.Lu Xun and Ji Li, who were both still looking at the scene were both dumbfounded for a moment.They saw that a pair of ears were indistinctly revealed within the hair. It seemed a little like cat ears?So this meant that the Nezha hairstyle was actually a cover-up. She was using her hair to wrap around her two cat ears.1However, she also clearly had two human earsdidn't that make it that she had four ears?!After a careful recollection of the anime that he'd seen in the past, he remembered that all the catgirls either had hair covering both sides of their head, this was either so that their human ears couldn't be seen clearly, or they simply just had a flat surface in place for their human ears.If the hair wasn't covering that area, then it would have felt very out of placeMo monster?' Ji Li thought as her right hand that was holding the Wedding Dress instinctively tightened its grip slightly.Lu Xun, who was still by her side, still looked calm and collected. He was mainly astonished by the catgirl lolita's strength.There were attacks from all sides by nearly a hundred malicious ghosts, even if he turned level thirty, he would still find it hard to dodge all of it.Although their eyes were their Achilles' heel, there were too many ghosts gathered, they all couldn't possibly be stabbed.However, the catgirl lolita seemed to be at ease and especially relaxed when she faced these malicious ghosts.Precisely speaking, she might have been simply finding pleasure. These malicious ghosts could have been all gathered by her using a special method.Lu Xun turned to look at Mu Rongyan who sat by the gate, she was watching the show and didn't show any sign of intervening. It was as if she was very confident in the catgirl lolita's strength.There was about an eighty percent chance that they were acquainted.However, it wasn't until the lolita's headband snapped that Mu Rongyan's expression changed slightly, Mu Rongyan said quietly, Oh no!Amongst the group of malicious ghosts, the catgirl lolita's eyebrows were raised slightly.She appeared to be quite angry now.The little bells on her left and right hand rang, Ding ling ling'With a flash of a golden light, the little bells abruptly turned into two small knives.Golden light was circulating on the small knives like swimming dragons.Lu Xun wanted to examine the information on the two small knives, however, as a result ???' popped up in front of his eyes, not even the names of the catgirl lolita's weapons were displayed.Thinking about it, it was extremely obvious that the tier of the small knives were a bit high and Lu Xun's level was too low to even see the details for it, this was the reason that no information could be obtained for the time being.The catgirl lolita looked around at the surrounding malicious ghosts and said in a babyish voice, This old lady will cut your heads off in one strike!1Her voice was a little loud, after these words were uttered out, she brandished her two small knives forward.Shua' Several dozen meters of Knife Qi had assumed a circular sector and quickly slashed at the surroundings!Wherever it passed through, every single malicious ghost was beheaded before finally exploding!Even though their fatal area was the eyes, with their heads having exploded, how could their eyes be fine?In just a brief moment, the several hundred malicious ghosts simply vanished into thin air.The limestone road seemed to have a restriction cast upon it, this was since the battle that occured didn't influence the surroundings.F*ck, at least leave me one!' Lu Xun stared blankly as a large amount of experience points disappeared in just a second in front of him.How could he not understand now?This was an expert.Other than having two extra cat ears on her head, she looked especially harmless, but her strength was formidably fierce!Should be at least level forty,' Lu Xun thought.She was definitely much stronger than Mu Rongyan!At this moment, the catgirl lolita threw the dual knives in her hands into the sky, after doing so, they immediately changed back into small little bells. With a sou' sound, they were fastened onto her wrists again.One of her headbands had already snapped anyway, so she might as well tear off the other headband. Her Nezha hairstyle immediately scattered down, revealing two black cat-like ears.The two cat ears moved in the wind, as if exercising its muscles and bones.The catgirl lolita turned and walked towards the Come Fortune inn. After a casual glance at Ji Li, she no longer looked at her, and instead, switched from just a casual glance to a full-on stare at Lu Xun without end.She was too short and needed to look up at Lu Xun, however, since she didn't like looking up at others, her entire body started to float.After a long period of silence, she finally spoke out with her babyish loud voice, it was full of vigor:Mortal! This lord still lacks a beautiful mount, are you willing?2
