Chapter 30 – Sword flight

Ye Zhou thought there may’ve been static electrical energy on Dugu Zhuo’s fingers, as a result of after being touched by him, Ye Zhou’s brow felt tingly. Ye Zhou averted responding to Dugu Zhuo, as an alternative asking stubbornly, “Aren’t the Pure Girl Sect and Boundless Temple unrestricted by race? Mythics aren’t even allowed to hitch these two?”

The introductory NPC replied, “They’re unrestricted to the 5 races accessible to the general public, excluding the mythic race.”

That’s proper, when gamers made their account, they might solely select between the 5 races of human, spirit, ghost, demon, and yao, and the sport’s official web site had additionally acknowledged that mythics had been particular and it was based mostly on luck whether or not a participant may turn out to be one.

“What precisely are mythics?” Ye Zhou requested.

Dugu Zhuo answered, “It refers to any of the unique races who’ve turn out to be related to divine energy. As a result of divine energy resides inside us, we’re unable to make use of the strategies of different sects.”

Ye Zhou rapidly modified their dialog to a non-public message. “Divine energy? The place’d that come from?”

Dugu Zhuo additionally replied with a voice transmission. “Some folks occur upon the inheritance of a god, or by accident merge with the relics of a divine beast of primordial occasions, whereas some merge with divine artifacts. You and I are the latter. The attributes of divine energy correspond to the 5 phases, so since we’ve turn out to be one with divine weapons, we’re categorized as metal-attribute mythics.”

Ye Zhou, his ideas tangled into a multitude, shot off a collection of questions. “Divine artifact? When did I merge with a divine artifact? When did you? Which one?”

Dugu Zhuo, desirous about how the Xuansu Twin Swords had been weapons of creation and tied to the sport’s plot, wasn’t certain whether or not or to not inform Ye Zhou about them.

He was a bug, and solely acknowledged as a participant as a result of acknowledgement of 70% or extra of the playerbase. He wasn’t sure of if the playerbase knew the reality, whether or not it will have an effect on his identification.

Most significantly, he didn’t need Ye Zhou to recollect his previous life. It was higher for all of the issues of their pasts to fade to smoke, and solely be remembered by him alone.

For some issues, it was greatest Ye Zhou by no means knew.

Thus, Dugu Zhuo responded, “I don’t want to deceive you, however I additionally can not say.”

“What? Oh.” Ye Zhou bowed his head, trying a bit dejected.

He hadn’t recognized Dugu Zhuo for very lengthy and it wasn’t his place to probe into the opposite’s secrets and techniques, however…

Ye Zhou surreptitiously took a look at Dugu Zhuo. He had really thought that Dugu Zhuo was secretly pursuing him, however now, that appeared to not be the case.

“You turned a mythic on account of me pouring a divine artifact’s energy into your physique, with a view to suppress the sword qi,” Dugu Zhuo stated.

Ye Zhou remembered the knife-like pains that had stabbed by way of his guts after he’d used the Coronary heart Linking Method, and stated with a shudder, “So you probably did that to save lots of me. Why was it so painful, then? Since you merged with a divine artifact?”

“Basically,” Dugu Zhuo stated.

Ye Zhou had mobility points, and the atmosphere in his house wanted to be saved as sterile as doable, because the wind and dirt from outdoors may make him critically in poor health. From a younger age, he had gotten used to not having the ability to go outdoors, not being curious, and never asking too many questions. Although he nonetheless had many doubts, since he noticed that Dugu Zhuo didn’t need to reply, he determined to not pry.

“Then how are we going to begin our personal sect? What had been the necessities the system stated final time, once more?”

“I want to achieve a title for footwork,” Dugu Zhuo stated.

“How? How have you ever been creating your individual methods up thus far, anyway?” Ye Zhou requested.

“I used to be in a position to create the Misdirection Array after trapping and killing Black Cat with it, and the 5 Phases Swordplay after killing the veiled workforce with it. The requirement for creating a way is affecting a participant with it.”

“However how are you supposed to harm somebody with footwork? From my understanding, footwork needs to be one thing like an evasive approach, proper?” Ye Zhou requested.

Dugu Zhuo checked out him and immediately smiled. “Would you wish to attempt it out? Some footwork?”

“How? Are you going to make use of me for creating a way?”

“After all not. Let’s go.”

Dugu Zhuo promptly introduced Ye Zhou to outdoors Jiuchuan Metropolis. He defined, “Jiuchuan Metropolis is a gathering place of people which holds innumerable mortal lives, so with a view to defend them from demons or ghosts, the foremost cultivation sects will usually arrange arrays inside main cities. Inside Jiuchuan Metropolis, even a Mahayana cultivator could be unable to fly. Basis Institution and beneath cultivators may brawl inside the metropolis, however the larger one’s realm, the extra one’s energy might be restricted.”

“Aren’t these settings all new?” Ye Zhou requested. “How are you aware them?”

Dugu Zhuo smiled barely and didn’t reply. He drew the “Refined Metal Sword” which the sport had gifted him, put an arm round Ye Zhou’s waist, and stated quietly, “Maintain on to me.”

Ye Zhou didn’t know what Dugu Zhuo was planning, and being immediately held made him need to again away. Nevertheless, trying into these incomparably mild eyes, Ye Zhou ended up obeying and placing his palms round Dugu Zhuo’s waist.

When Ye Zhou was holding him securely, Dugu Zhuo launched him out of courtesy and shaped a number of hand seals, softly calling out, “Rise!”

That degree 20 metal sword actually did rise into the air and start flying. Holding onto Ye Zhou, Dugu Zhuo leapt onto the sword’s physique.

With a graceful, the sword charged towards the clouds, flying within the course of Penglai City.

“God!” The wind whistled in Ye Zhou’s ears, inflicting him to shut his eyes in shock. He was initially a bit awkward holding on to Dugu Zhuo, however now he clung to his waist, burying his face in his again.

Dugu Zhuo’s waist seemed slim, but it surely was agency and stuffed with power, and Ye Zhou felt very safe clinging to him.

“There’s no have to concern,” Dugu Zhuo stated, his voice mild and heat. “With non secular power defending you, you gained’t fall.”

Solely then did Ye Zhou open his eyes and thoroughly look downward. He noticed Dugu Zhuo was standing upon the sword as if it had been flat floor. His toes had been wider than the blade, however he by no means misplaced his stability.

Ye Zhou additionally stood on the blade. He was immediately so scared his legs shook, however realized that his toes had been planted very firmly, and it didn’t in any respect really feel like he was standing on simply the floor of a slim sword.

Although he knew that this was solely a sport and nothing would occur to him, when he noticed the mountains and forests develop smaller and smaller by way of the gaps within the clouds, Ye Zhou nonetheless felt dizzy, his legs going weak and an empty feeling in his chest, as if he was drifting away.

These had been signs of acrophobia. Ye Zhou had by no means been someplace excessive earlier than, so he’d by no means recognized he had a concern of heights.

Dugu Zhuo positioned a hand round Ye Zhou’s wrist and felt his pulse was unsteady. Seeing that Ye Zhou actually was terrified, he circled and positioned each his palms on Ye Zhou’s temples, rubbing them calmly.

Dugu Zhuo nonetheless remembered that when he had traveled to Star Draping Peak with Ye Zhou for the primary time, he had felt the identical means. The previous couple of occasions he had flown, he was unconscious, so this was the primary time he had been alert. They flew extraordinarily excessive as properly, and he was terrified out of his thoughts.

Again then, he had actually disliked Ye Zhou and even hated that aloof man slightly. He wasn’t keen to cling to Ye Zhou’s garments, so stood on the sword along with his face pale and his mouth tightly shut, not uttering a sound.

On the time, Dugu Zhuo had thought that he would absolutely die, that even when Ye Zhou didn’t push him, he would lose his stability and fall, his physique getting smashed to items on that mountain peak.

Proper when Dugu Zhuo thought his coronary heart would burst by way of his chest, Ye Zhou raised a hand and Dugu Zhuo discovered himself enveloped by an expanse of white. He may not really feel the fierce winds raised by their pace and not see the surroundings beneath his toes. It additionally felt as if he was being embraced, and he immediately was not afraid.

When he was in a position to see once more, he discovered that they had been already at Star Draping Peak, his toes planted on blessedly stable floor.

Solely later did he understand that again then, it was Ye Zhou’s white gown which was draped over him, a famend magic merchandise within the cultivation world which may block the complete power of a Mahayana cultivator.

“Don’t be afraid,” Dugu Zhuo stated softly. “I’m proper right here.”

He didn’t have a magic gown, so this was one of the best he may do to assist Ye Zhou alleviate his concern.

On the similar time, Dugu Zhuo commanded the sword to descend and decelerate. Feeling Dugu Zhuo attempting to reassure him, in addition to listening to the noise by his ears die down, Ye Zhou progressively opened his eyes and located they had been now standing three meters within the air, whereas beneath their toes had been a few bandits who had gathered round however had been powerless to do something to them.

“Y—you may cease rubbing my head,” Ye Zhou stated. “I’m alright. I by no means realized earlier than how a lot of a coward I used to be.”

Dugu Zhuo lowered his palms. “I began off too quick, and didn’t offer you time to organize.”

“No, no, no, I… I nonetheless actually like flying.” As he thought again to what had simply occurred, Ye Zhou’s concern progressively pale, and his eyes began to brighten.

Dugu Zhuo watched him serenely.

Ye Zhou shifted his weight on the sword, transferring certainly one of his toes out and stepping on the air close to the blade. He discovered that it was additionally stable.

“Why is it like that?” he requested.

“That is sword flight,” Dugu Zhuo responded. “One infuses their very own non secular essence right into a magic artifact, creating an invisible barrier of non secular power across the sword’s physique, and thus permitting themselves to fly freely by way of the air. Nevertheless, the non secular power barrier will lower the pace of flight, so at larger ranges, there are even sooner strategies which may cross huge distances in a flash. I’m not sure whether or not this qualifies as footwork, but when it doesn’t, there are additionally varied quick motion methods.”

“Can… can we take one other flight?” Ye Zhou requested. “Speed up extra slowly this time, little by little.”

“Okay.” Dugu Zhuo lifted a finger, and the sword slowly started to fly, however not too excessive, and on the pace of an extraordinary particular person working.

Seeing that Ye Zhou didn’t look uncomfortable, Dugu Zhuo progressively elevated the pace, in addition to making a barrier round Ye Zhou along with his non secular essence with a view to muffle the sound of the wind.

Ye Zhou slowly grew accustomed to it, and sometimes, urged Dugu Zhuo to go sooner. After flying freely within the skies for a short time, they arrived at Penglai City.

“It took us that lengthy to make the journey strolling, however the return journey solely took… ten minutes?” Ye Zhou stated, trying on the time. “What’s the quickest we are able to go?”

“If a cultivator reaches Mahayana and turns into one with heaven and earth, they’ll journey 1000’s of li within the blink of a watch,” Dugu Zhuo stated.

“No marvel there wasn’t a transport array between these two maps. They need gamers to discover ways to fly on their very own!” Ye Zhou stated excitedly.

This was fully completely different from the sluggish flight on mounts within the PC sport, and allowed gamers to personally expertise the sensations of flying. Courageous folks may expertise it with their full senses, whereas somebody much less courageous may lower their sensory enter, and nonetheless get pleasure from watching the surroundings.

“That is so enjoyable!” Ye Zhou was exuberant for a short time, till he lastly remembered that they had been going to create a footwork approach. “Has the system prompted you to submit a way?”

“No,” Dugu Zhuo stated.

“What? Are we really going to should kill a participant, then?” Ye Zhou stated. “If there was no cause for it, I’d really feel dangerous.”

“I’ll have a look across the Everlasting Evening District,” Dugu Zhuo stated. “You wait on the town for me.”

“Wait…” Ye Zhou felt a bit anxious. In the course of the day, if a participant who gave the impression to be a human walked into the Everlasting Evening District, wouldn’t they get mobbed by the ghosts and demons?

Dugu Zhuo stated nothing. He introduced Ye Zhou to a restaurant, and after saying “watch for me,” left.

If Ye Zhou didn’t need him to proactively assault gamers, then he may as properly get gamers to assault him.

Strolling as much as the black boulder, Dugu Zhuo pushed again his sleeve and politely knocked on it 3 times.

Although the Everlasting Evening District was the spawn level of demons and ghosts, human gamers weren’t really restricted from entry, a direct contradiction to the Everlasting Evening Realm within the Netherworld that Grandmaster Tanji had spoken of, which forbade people entry. Within the sport, any participant may go sightseeing inside. Simply so long as you weren’t afraid of loss of life, you possibly can expertise for your self what a procession of 100 ghosts seemed like.

The doorway to the Everlasting Evening District opened, and Dugu Zhuo calmly walked in. The second he entered, he noticed a lump of mosaic sitting close to his toes.

Dugu Zhuo frowned barely. “What is that this?”

The mosaic was red-colored. A younger ghost maiden in white robes drifted up, pushed apart her hair, and stated to Dugu Zhuo, “That man made himself too terrifying, so it didn’t move system approval and he received mosaic’d.”

“Right here we’re within the Everlasting Evening District, the place you may expertise your self an invasion of ghosts and demons, however they gained’t permit pink blood, they gained’t permit our bodies which are broken too badly, they gained’t permit you to take off your skullcap, they gained’t permit you to prolong lengthy tongues and scare folks. There’s no life within the Everlasting Evening District like this!” The mosaic had a crisp male voice.

“Cease speaking. If you happen to go on, I’m going to delete this account and create a human character!” the white-robed maiden stated, masking her ears and looking out frightened.

The ghosts had even managed to scare themselves. Dugu Zhuo discovered these two gamers intriguing and held no enmity in direction of them, so determined to depart them alone. He glanced over the opposite gamers, looking for one who could be more likely to get right into a battle.