Chapter 26 – Sword grasp

“Spirits are totally different from yao,” Dugu Zhuo defined. “If a yao hasn’t eaten some kind of highly effective elixir that enables them to embody themselves early, they’ll all take the type of a younger man or girl. Spirit cultivators, nevertheless, take the types of three-year-old youngsters. That’s why you hear tales of ginseng infants and the like.”

Everybody: “…”

“You realize so many myths,” Aotian mentioned.

“This didn’t exist within the PC model,” Ye Zhou mentioned. “Does the sport firm suppose they’ll abuse their gamers nevertheless they need as a result of it’s a VR sport?”

Qingyue and Black Cat shared a glance and each smiled wickedly on the similar time. “Since we aren’t doing something, let’s take a look at the joy!”

All of them had sufficient expertise to achieve stage 20, in order that they weren’t in a rush to advance. All they needed to do with their remaining time was wander round exploring the sport whereas ready for the upkeep, in order that they undoubtedly had nothing higher to do.

Black Cat was all the time as much as watch chaos unfold, so he charged off for Tanye Temple forward of everybody else.

The bailiff had mentioned earlier that Widow Yang’s son can be underneath the care of Tanye Temple, whereas the lingzhi had been taken to heal the kid, so the primary leaderboard participant was in all probability at Tanye Temple proper now.

For the time being, there was already an impenetrable crowd of individuals earlier than the Tanye Temple doorways which nobody might drive their method by means of, giving individuals flashbacks to coach stations throughout the New Years rush.

In the course of the day, you have been forbidden from hopping the partitions of Tanye Temple too, with a martial monk standing guard and able to kill any participant who dared attempt with one strike of his workers.

“How are you aware you’ll get killed?” Qingyue requested Black Cat.

“As a result of it’s occurred as soon as earlier than…” Black Cat coated his face with one paw, feeling embarrassed.

“Issues is perhaps totally different now,” Dugu Zhuo mentioned.

“Mrow?”

“You are actually a disciple of the Tanye Temple,” Dugu Zhuo mentioned.

Black Cat’s eyes brightened, and risking the wrath of the Punishing Vajra as soon as once more, he bent his physique and leapt to the highest of the wall in a swish arc. The second his ft landed on the wall, a martial monk who had beforehand been surrounded by gamers got here forth driving the wind, Buddha’s mild enveloping his workers. “Ho! Miscreant, take this humble monk’s— shidi[1]?”

Black Cat had already been ready to flee, however he noticed the younger monk with “Ho!” popped up over his head smile at him gently as a spring breeze, toss apart his workers, and bend over to choose him up. He smoothed down Black Cat’s spiked-up fur and mentioned amiably, “There’s no want for our shidi to leap the partitions when he needs to return to Tanye Temple. Simply present the monk on the door your rosary and somebody will allow you to in from the facet door.”

Many of the gamers lining up outdoors Tanye Temple have been there to see the extent 20 lingzhi, since he was the primary embodied participant and everybody wished to know what would occur. The road was extraordinarily lengthy, although, and the individuals within the again couldn’t squeeze by means of.

Upon seeing a black cat who was clearly a yao get introduced inside by a warrior monk, the gamers began to shout, “There’s an exploit!”, and loudly protest.

“There’s one thing I’ve been questioning about for some time,” Qingyue mentioned. “Each time these monks hit individuals, a phrase pops up over their heads. How is it learn?”

“Ho!” mentioned Aotian.

“So the monks of Tanye Temple have been overtly saying soiled phrases all this time, and nobody cares?[2]” Qingyue mentioned.

“If regular gamers get just a little too shut to one another, they’ll activate the censorship software program, but the Tanye Temple monks can overtly choose up gamers and stroke their backs, and so they gained’t be restricted?” Ye Zhou mentioned.

A number of individuals exclaimed, “This sport has a double normal between NPCs and gamers!”

Qingyue noticed that the warrior monk had vanished with Black Cat in his arms and despatched him a personal message. “You’ve bought in, however what are we imagined to do now?”

They shortly acquired a reply from Black Cat within the social gathering chat. “Mrow~ I’ll open the facet door for you guys.”

A big temple comparable to Tanye Temple couldn’t solely have one set of doorways. There was a essential door for worshippers, a again entrance for employed staff, and a facet gate for vital company. With the cat on their facet, everybody made it to the within of Tanye Temple with no hassle.

Even the gamers who had managed to squeeze by means of the principle doorways hadn’t managed to see Pang Du Du. In spite of everything, Tanye Temple was for providing incense, not sightseeing.

Wanting happy with himself, Black Cat mentioned, “I already requested Chan’er-shixiong[3], and he mentioned the lingzhi is presently throwing a tantrum contained in the temple.”

“Chan’er[4]?” Ye Zhou mentioned. “Shixiong?”

“I recall the monk who took the lingzhi to carry out remedy was known as Chanyi[5]?” Aotian mentioned. “I had thought it was ‘yi’ as in ‘intention’, however it was really the primary. Are all of the NPCs of Tanye Temple named this thoughtlessly?”

“With the best way you’re bragging about your shixiong, it sounds such as you’re asking to get your ass kicked,” Qingyue mentioned.

Joking round, the social gathering arrived at a facet constructing within the again courtyard, the place the monks reportedly held their morning prayers. The realm was a bit smaller than the principle temple corridor, and the door was dealing with east.

Proper upon getting into, they may see a plump three-year-old youngster draped in a monk’s gown and carrying a pink bib, rolling round on the ground. “I don’t care! How can I let individuals see me like this? How can I struggle monsters? Tanye Temple must take care of me!”

Chanyi put his palms collectively and mentioned to Pang Du Du, “Amitabha, benefactor, this temple can not obtain feminine company. Please go away as quickly as attainable.”

Everybody sputtered in laughter. Not solely had the lingzhi reworked right into a three-year-old, however it was additionally just a little woman. It was lucky that the Tanye Temple monks had lent her a gown, in any other case it could be fairly improper.

“Are you a feminine participant?” Qingyue crouched down in entrance of the lingzhi, poking her cheeks.

“No!” the lingzhi mentioned in indignation. “I made this account utilizing my sister’s ID, and picked a genderless spirit character as a result of I believed I’d have the ability to select the gender once I grew to become embodied. I didn’t know you’ll be assigned a gender in response to your account!”

“Hahahaha, cough, cough, cough!” Aotian laughed himself right into a coughing match.

Black Cat solely calmly stroked his whiskers, however inwardly he was glad he had used a younger male’s identification to make his account.

Pang Du Du grumbled, “I wouldn’t thoughts enjoying a feminine character. It could possibly be enjoyable to be a reasonably younger maiden. However am I a reasonably younger maiden proper now? I can’t even stroll correctly like this, and I’m anticipated to struggle and achieve expertise? What’s going to I do to realize expertise?”

Dugu Zhuo was the one one who wasn’t laughing. He mentioned calmly, “Spirit cultivators can use wooden and earth meld to maneuver extraordinarily shortly. A cultivator on the similar stage would by no means have the ability to catch one.”

“Hm? Is that so?” Pang Du Du regarded enviously at Dugu Zhuo’s lengthy legs beneath his gown. “Let me attempt it out.”

He (in response to his unique gender, he must be known as a he) did just a few squats on the spot, however nothing occurred. He glared at Dugu Zhuo.

“There’s a warding array contained in the Tanye Temple, so that you won’t be able to make use of motion methods with out Mahayana-level energy,” Dugu Zhuo mentioned.

Underneath Chanyi’s grateful gaze, Dugu Zhuo picked up the lingzhi child and introduced him out into the Karmic Forest, whereas the remainder of the social gathering got here alongside to see the motion.

The Karmic Forest was now not as peaceable because it had been that first day. Many gamers had discovered this map, and now there have been extra gamers in right here than monsters. A bunch have been leaping round within the timber, ready for the monsters to respawn.

“Strive it now.” Dugu Zhuo tossed the lingzhi onto the bottom.

The second he touched the bottom, the lingzhi child vanished. The subsequent second, he poked out his head from a bamboo stalk ten meters away.

“Woah! That is enjoyable!” the lingzhi exclaimed. “The earth close to me appears type of like a hologram. I don’t really feel any strain in any respect, and may see all of you even by means of deep earth.”

“Spirits additionally appear to be quite a lot of enjoyable,” Aotian mentioned excitedly. “How’s the velocity?”

The lingzhi child dove into the bamboo once more, however everybody might nonetheless hear his voice. “Ridiculously quick. I checked my stats simply now, and my agility’s now 100. Jeez, my regular agility is simply 50!”

“You couldn’t do that earlier than changing into embodied?” Ye Zhou requested.

“Nope. I might solely wriggle little by little within the filth.” The lingzhi child appeared once more at Ye Zhou’s ft, and likewise mischievously poked his leg.

“I had thought that spirits might solely be healers, however taking a look at this, they could possibly be nice assassins!” Black Cat mentioned, sitting on the bottom.

“That’s proper.” The lingzhi child reappeared subsequent to Black Cat and gave his tail a pull.

“Meow! Don’t get too cocky!” Black Cat mentioned, his fur sticking up.

“You’ll be able to’t get me! You’ll be able to’t get me!” The lingzhi child immediately moved 5 meters away and caught out his tongue at Black Cat.

“He’s type of asking to get beat up,” Ye Zhou muttered.

Dugu Zhuo’s ears twitched barely, and he fashioned a hand seal. Numerous earth blades emerged from the filth, forming a cage and elevating the lingzhi child up. He was caught firmly contained in the cage, and can be injured by sword aura if he touched the bars.

Dugu Zhuo manipulated the cage to return to him and grabbed the lingzhi child by the nape. The earth swords turned again to comfortable filth and fell away.

He handed the lingzhi to Ye Zhou. “You’ll be able to beat him.”

Ye Zhou’s face reddened for some cause and he averted Dugu Zhuo’s eyes. “Nevermind. He’s too little, it feels type of like youngster abuse. It’d look unhealthy.”

“True,” Dugu Zhuo mentioned. He positioned the lingzhi child earlier than Black Cat. “You’ll be able to scratch him.”

It wouldn’t look good for a grown particular person to hit a baby, however the cat and the three-year-old regarded lovable collectively.

“No, no, no!” the lingzhi begged upon seeing Black Cat unsheathe his sharp claws. “Dashen, you’re too badass. You knew all the things about my approach instantly and also you used such a powerful transfer. I’ll be your little bro— little sis, so let this disobedient little brat off the hook for as soon as, alright?”

“That’s proper,” Ye Zhou mentioned. “You’ve used that approach quite a lot of occasions by now. The place’d you study it?”

Dugu Zhuo had used the 5 Phases Swordplay 3 times on gamers, and the system had additionally prompted him 3 times to submit it. Dugu Zhuo didn’t wish to all the time be on server bulletins, although, and as an alternative wished to maintain a low profile and shield Ye Zhou. He had been ignoring the system all this time and by no means submitted the 5 Phases Swordplay.

“Do you wish to study it?” he requested.

“In fact! It’s such an superior sword approach, and the particular results look so good.” Ye Zhou caught out two of his fingers and made a motion like he was directing a storm of swords. “It’s simply too cool!”

Dugu Zhuo expressionlessly tossed the lingzhi child to Aotian, ordering, “Don’t let him contact any filth or vegetation.”

He took out the clean jade that the system had despatched him and recorded the 5 Phases Swordplay inside it. The individuals right here who have been acquainted knew that he was about to create a brand new approach once more and instantly held their breaths, ready.

The system wanted to validate each new approach. If a strong approach like this could possibly be copied and taught to them, they’d be extraordinarily fortunate.

The 5 Phases Swordplay was much more difficult than the Misdirection Array, and the system took longer to approve it this time too. They needed to wait a full hour.

By then, Aotian and the group have been crouching down and idly doodling circles on the bottom, and the lingzhi child was additionally trying up at Dugu Zhuo, ready for a miracle to look.

They waited till 6:30, which was previous Ye Zhou’s designated time to sign off. The nurse was about to return give him his IV any second now, and Ye Zhou was nervously pacing round Dugu Zhuo, when the system announcement lastly got here.

[Notice: Dugu Zhuo has created the <Five Phases Swordplay>, which has passed verification by the system. He has gained the title “Sword Master”.]

[Notice: The <Five Phases Swordplay> has been classified as a high-level sword art, which can only be learned by sword cultivators.]

[Notice: Dugu Zhuo has earned the titles “Array Expert” and “Sword Master”. Upon obtaining a title for footwork, he will be able to create his own sect and take in players or NPCs as disciples.]

The string of bulletins spooked all of the gamers within the sport, and in a second everybody was asking the identical query: “Simply who is that this Dugu Zhuo?”

1. youthful martial brother. you’ll be able to seek advice from this useful resource 

2. ahahah i couldn’t resist the joke

initially what the monks mentioned was 淦 gan. that is generally used to censor the phrase 干 which it’s pronounced the identical as.

干 means do or, colloquially, fuck 

3. older marital brother 

4. 禅 zen 二 two 

5. 禅 zen 一 one