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Published at 4th of October 2023 05:37:10 AM


Chapter 5

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Lu Xun’s comforting words obviously had no effect at all. Instead, once Ji Li heard that it was a ghost, she panicked even more.

Although she was an only daughter born in Jianghu, she still heard quite a bit of rumors regarding all sorts of stuff. When she was young, she especially liked to go to teahouses to listen to folk storytellers talk about all sorts of interesting things, it seemed that she had quite a special attraction for these types of mysterious things.

However, now that she had actually met one, she suddenly didn’t know what to do.

A ghost! It was a real ghost!

In all retrospect, Ji Li knew that she wasn’t a coward, however, she also knew that she couldn’t defeat the group of people hunting her with her strength alone. The silhouette that suddenly appeared had easily killed them all!

Unfortunately, she couldn’t hold back Lu Xun anymore, this was because the silhouette seemed to have felt something and started to drift over towards them.

Its speed was getting faster and faster and its expression was getting more and more sinister relative to its speed, it started from,╭(°A°`)╮and was now, (; ́༎ຶД༎ຶ`). 9

Wouldn’t you say that was uncannily terrifying?

Its empty eyes had large amounts of black mist flowing down, as if it was crying pitch-black tears.

Ji Li clenched her teeth and drew the Wedding Dress sword from her hand, she moved sideways to stand in front of Lu Xun.

She was a descendant of orthodox martial artists. Her parents taught her how to be a proper heroine, protecting the weak was the most fundamental code ingrained in her bones. Of course, another reason was because Lu Xun looked handsome, protecting beautiful things was also human nature. 1

The distance between the silhouette and the two of them were getting closer and closer. Seeing that the distance was about right, Lu Xun suddenly said aloud, “Hold your breath!”

Ji Li, who was already tensed up, heard Lu Xun suddenly speak so loudly. This had outright scared her. She felt even more wronged all of a sudden.

However, she still held her breath obediently, because having listened to Lu Xun earlier, the silhouette directly drifted past the both of them and nothing happened at all, this saved their lives.

The instant that Lu Xun and Ji Li held their breath, the silhouette abruptly stopped.

It already looked bewildered at the beginning, and now it looked even more bewildered than before.

The Dark Simpleton was like this. If you didn’t breathe, then you would be fine even if you danced in front of it.

Once the right method was found, this thing was especially easy to kill!

Lu Xun held his breath and quickly approached the creature, he then raised both of his hands and extended two slender fingers, he suddenly poked at its empty eyes.

That was where its essence was.

Once you hit the mark properly, it would suffer an injury.

If you poked deep enough, it might even die from a single hit!

‘Shua…!’ He almost missed.

The black mist surrounding the silhouette started to disperse, appearing a little sinister.

Along with Lu Xun’s movements, its figure began to distort.

The degree of distortion was extremely huge, even a yoga master wouldn’t be able to twist like that.

“That actually didn’t kill it?” Lu Xun was taken aback, he pulled out his fingers and poked the creature again.

This time, it was finally settled as the results were instantly apparent.

The black mist quickly diffused and then exploded into the surroundings, it looked like a bunch of black fireworks that went off.

The black mist that just exploded was slowly dissipating, at last, it was finally dead.

‘Ding! Killed Mountain Ghost, received 666 experience points!’ 7

Lu Xun felt exalted. His previous suspicion had finally been washed away. Just like in the game, once you kill monsters, you could level up!

The Dark Simpleton that the players jokingly referred to was actually called a ‘Mountain Ghost’ in ‘Heavenly Earth’, however, just by looking at the experience value it gave, it was such an encouraging value. What else would the creature be if not a large moving experience pack gifted to lucky low-level players? 1

Now, he looked at his character panel again, the experience value box already turned into ‘666/100’, this marked that he could ‘level up’.

Although this was what was written, Lu Xun didn’t immediately proceed to use his experience points, why?

The reason was simple—he didn’t know any cultivation techniques at the moment.

As mentioned previously, ‘Heavenly Earth’ gave players the feeling that it wasn’t just a game, but more like it was a true, existing world.

The game gave the players the feel that they were actually cultivating here, leveling up was nothing more than improving one’s own cultivation technique.

To give a simple example, if Lu Xun had a ‘Qi Refinement formula’ and he leveled it up to level one, then it would turn into ‘Qi Refinement first layer’. At level nine, it would become the ninth layer.

Thus, Lu Xun really cared about his own start. While leveling up was all the same, the cultivation technique one would learn would appear to be extremely important!

Although the effects weren’t visible during the early stages, it would be quite apparent at the middle and late stages.

If he were to level up right away without a cultivation technique, then it would truly be a waste.

After taking care of the Dark Simpleton, Lu Xun patted his hands and placed his fingers next to his nose, he was checking if it stunk. “Mhm, thankfully there’s no stench.”

Ji Li stared at the man she kidnapped blankly now that he had taken care of the Mountain Ghost, she felt utterly complicated.

She even began to doubt her previous assumption—was this man really a normal person or not?

However, when she kidnapped him, it seemed that he had no intention of resisting…

Anyhow, when he exterminated the Mountain Ghost so easily just now, he really looked a bit dashing…

Lu Xun had no intention of explaining anything, however, he surprisingly discovered that Ji Li’s favorability seemed to have risen several points.

‘This young lady’s favorability is way too easy to gain, right?’ Lu Xun was a bit bewildered.

Those who didn’t know anything might assume that ‘Heavenly Earth’ was a game that wasn’t particularly censored.

Lu Xun stood still, and after pondering for a while, he started to head east.

Ji Li caught up with quick steps. The Mountain Ghost’s appearance had still left her trepid, she couldn’t help but ask him, “Where… where are you going?”

“To pick up equipment,” Lu Xun responded with a smile.

Ji Li didn’t understand at first, but upon looking closely at where Lu Xun was headed, she now knew that he was obviously going to loot the corpses.

The group of people who hunted her were all dead, apparently, their bodies were still all intact.

After a quick count, a total of seven people laid still, there were six males and one female.

They all had hideous expressions on their faces. It would seem that they suffered greatly in the process of dying.

Their complexions were extremely pale, their skin and muscles were a little withered.

Ji Li shivered instinctively. If Lu Xun weren’t here today, then she might have also become one of them.

As for why Lu Xun looked on apathetically as they died… it was because he had somehow managed to sweep a glance at them a moment ago, he discovered that amongst the seven people that now laid dead here, the majority of them were ‘red names’, this meant that they were all extremely wicked people.

As for the corpses, Lu Xun had no intention of abstaining from this precious moment and quickly swept his eyes towards the front, information on several items appeared. 1

‘Silvers Totaling 97 Tael1’ 1

‘A Mediocre Long Sword’

‘A Robe Imitating Rainbow Workshop’

‘A Short Spear With Low Durability’ 2



Lu Xun couldn’t help but think, ‘Tsk, tsk, never mind about the spear being short, its durability is also low.’ 1

The equipment here were all of the lowest grade of the Ordinary Metal, their only merit was that they were quite sharp.

Finally, he stored away all the silvers on the bodies, then he took an easy-to-carry dagger, and the most expensive looking longsword with him.

The other things that were strewn about here could be brought to the city and sold for some quick cash, however, it was somewhat inconvenient for him.

The heavy hammer and metal rod that were used by martial arts practitioners were already tens of catties1 heavy, so how could he, a level 0 alt, possibly endure the long and arduous journey while carrying them?

Picking one of them up and maybe swinging it twice was possible, however, he wouldn’t be able to carry it all the way to the city.

Therefore, he turned and glanced at Ji Li while saying, “Do as you please.”

Ji Li picked up the heavy hammer and metal rod contentedly, as expected—she was truly strong!

Although the veil covered half her face, her eyes that were exposed on the outside had already curved into a smile, her face was already brimming with these words, ‘Getting rich, getting rich!’

She had no thoughts regarding the silvers that Lu Xun took. After all, she would have been dead without him, the silvers were obviously his to take.

However, since Lu Xun didn’t want these weapons, she definitely eagerly accepted it without question!

She was once a daughter of an affluent family, now that she was in such dire straits, she was a little pitiful.

What actually surprised Lu Xun was that inside a man’s parcel, there was a mystic scroll, it was a finger technique called ‘Eagle Finger’.

Lu Xun picked it up and flipped through it, a notice suddenly popped up in front of him “Learn or Not?”

Cultivation techniques couldn’t be chosen blindly, however, many skills could be learned without any problems. There was no upper limit to these, so, without hesitation, Lu Xun chose “Learn”.

‘You have now learned Eagle Finger (Elementary)’

He extended his fingers and moved them a few times in the air at high speeds, it truly looked legitimate.

“Oh my! My fingers are quite impressive!” Lu Xun played with his new skill enthusiastically. 1

All of this was observed by Ji Li’s eyes, the young woman couldn’t help but gape slightly with her small mouth.

“This man only looked at the mystic scroll two to three times and he’s already getting the hang of it?!”

Could this possibly be the rumored ‘hard to come by in a hundred years martial arts prodigy’ that father and mother had spoken of?

‘Favorability +1… +1… +1…!’

Lu Xun: “???”





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