Free Web NovelAbove the grey firmament, the clouds and mist stirred by the sword energy had not yet dispersed.
In the restless, noisy wind, Qingji stood with one hand holding his sword behind his back and the other supporting his chin, pondering for a long time. He nodded towards Lu Yibei and said, "Very good, my grandson-in-law's talent possesses thirty percent of my style back then. I am very gratified."
"It's just a pity..."
As he spoke, his gaze gradually shifted downward, stopping at Lu Yibei's abdomen, revealing a thoughtful expression.
"You, please speak properly, don't keep looking at my stomach!" Lu Yibei said weakly.
"Uh... sorry." Qingji scratched the back of his head and said wistfully, "I just suddenly thought, you are so intelligent and have excellent bone structure. If my unfortunate great-grandson were still alive, the offspring you two would bear in the future would surely be even more outstanding. I got lost in thought for a moment."
"..."
Lu Yibei was silent for a moment, deciding to bite the bullet and carry the lie through. So she stood up, patted Qingji's shoulder, and said, "Nobody wants something like this to happen, right? How about I make you some noodles?"
"Forget it, I am just a residual image and can no longer taste human delicacies," Qingji shook his head and said, "Never mind, I will demonstrate the Taihe Gentleman Sword Illustration for you again."
After speaking, he stomped his foot on the ground, took a few steps in the air, carried a fierce sword energy, and broke through the air, merging with the wind and clouds on the horizon.
Lu Yibei gazed at the sky, her eyes deepening.
She naturally knew that Qingji's swordsmanship was profound. Even if she memorized it roughly, it would probably take a long time to fully execute it. If possible, having Qingji teach her hand-in-hand from the very basics until she completely learned it would naturally be the best.
However, she couldn't wait that long.
When she obtained the ancient sword and arrived near the Hua Yu Sunshine Resort Hotel, it was already past 4:40 AM. By the time Qingji started demonstrating the swordsmanship to her, more than an hour had passed.
If she delayed any longer, the sky would soon be bright. Standing in the open space near the Hua Yu Sunshine Resort Hotel, she would definitely be illuminated by the first ray of dawn and then revert to her original form while bathed in the morning sun.
At that time, the illusion before her would probably dissipate, right?
Therefore, to avoid any mishaps, I must memorize everything the Ancestor taught me in this short period.
Although sometimes my mind is not very sharp, I am quite confident in my learning ability. Otherwise, when I was a child, while causing trouble for the neighbors, I wouldn't have been able to finish my schoolwork in a very short time and use high-scoring test papers as a shield against beatings.
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Lu Yibei thought resolutely. Seeing Qingji finish a set of swordsmanship, she raised her head and shouted loudly, "Ancestor, please do it again!"
Qingji hovered in the sky, glanced at Lu Yibei from the corner of his eye, chuckled, and replied, "Heh, no problem!"
A long time passed.
"Again, again..."
"Okay!"
...
Lu Yibei stared intently at the figure shuttling through the clouds in the sky, her eyes capturing his every move through the mist. Her brain worked rapidly, like a video recorder, engraving those flowing movements into her mind.
Over and over again...
After the swordsmanship demonstration was complete, it was time for the Spell.
All Spells in the world, no matter how they change, return to their origin. They all use the power of language to resonate the fluctuation of one's own Spiritual Energy with the fluctuation of Spiritual Energy between heaven and earth, calling upon the Spiritual Energy between heaven and earth to create tiny miracles that imitate the vast miracles of nature.
Qingji's Spells seemed very simple, even the incantations were much shorter than the Spells Lu Yibei had deciphered from the Great Serpent God's memory and the basic Spells she had learned from the Night Watch.
However, these overly simplified incantations, which seemed to have transformed from detailed textual descriptions into mysterious codes, could produce effects almost identical to normal Spells.
Lu Yibei, "..."
This...
I really can't learn or remember this in a short time.
She tried very hard to remember, but those obscure and difficult-to-understand incantations seemed to be in a completely different dimension than her, passing through her head and flying lightly into the void, disappearing without a trace.
Seeing Qingji's figure in the sky becoming increasingly thin, Lu Yibei was filled with anxiety and couldn't help but Spell in a low voice.
"Damn it, if only there was something like a portable hard drive that could download them, I could understand them slowly later!"
As soon as her voice fell, the air behind her suddenly rippled in layers, as if time and space were distorted. A figure slowly walked out and sat beside her.
A petite body, pink and white long hair, exquisite face with red lips and white teeth, wrapped in a large yellow and black contrasting windbreaker. Today's mascot seemed to be in exceptionally good spirits.
"Yo, long time no see!" The mysterious girl patted Lu Yibei's shoulder and said.
Lu Yibei stared intently at Qingji's figure in the sky and pushed away the mysterious girl's hand, "Stop messing around, I'm annoyed!"
"I know! Didn't I take time out from my busy schedule to provide you with a solution because I saw you were in trouble?" the mysterious girl said.
"Busy schedule? What could you, an NPC, be busy with?" Lu Yibei retorted.
The mysterious girl moved her body, sat cross-legged opposite Lu Yibei, and pouted, "Do you believe me if I say I'm busy destroying the world?"
"You? If you can destroy the world, I can save it!" Lu Yibei said expressionlessly.
"That's a good ambition, but..." The mysterious girl's tone suddenly became serious, "Saving is much harder than destroying. Are you sure you want to do that?"
"..."
Lu Yibei was startled by the girl's sudden change. For a moment, she even forgot to continue learning from Qingji, staring blankly at her, not knowing what to say.
"Look how scared you are, I just said it casually!" Seeing this, the girl pouted. As she spoke, she looked up at the sky and continued, "Are those primitive Spells? They are indeed very difficult to learn. You have learned enough today, and your brain probably can't handle it anymore. Continuing to learn will be futile." freeweɓnovel.cѳm
"Then what should I do! Do you want the Lu family's lineage to be cut off?"
"Lineage?" The girl nodded thoughtfully and said seriously, "If you really care that much, just go and have a baby early!"
Lu Yibei looked down at her stomach, then looked at the girl, and said with a dark face, "I'm sorry, I can't give birth to a person."
"I didn't tell you to give birth, did I? Didn't I tell you to sleep with Jiang Li? Did you sleep with her or not?"
Lu Yibei, "..."
Where did this pervert come from?
Let me clarify, I'm really not familiar with her!
"Forget it, let's talk about business." Seeing Lu Yibei remain silent for a long time, the girl raised her hand and pointed at the constantly changing figure in the sky, "Although you can't learn anymore now, why don't you try letting your direct dependents learn?"
"If she learns it, doesn't that count as you learning it?"
"Ah this..." Lu Yibei was stunned and exclaimed, "Dependents can be used like this? Doesn't that make them tools?"
The girl rolled her eyes, "Otherwise?"
"Unless they are dependents from an unequal contract, under other circumstances, any dependents you form a contract with are usually well-fed and well-clothed, and you have to protect their safety and give them equipment, like raising a small account."
"If there's no benefit, why raise so many dependents? To see if they look good, if they have big butts and are good for bearing children? If they are good at that? Of course, it's for them to..."
Lu Yibei squinted at the girl beside her and said faintly, "You seem to know a lot? You've done a lot of those shameless things, haven't you?"
Lu Yibei originally had 60% confidence that this mysterious girl was something similar to her doppelganger.
But hearing the girl's words, which sounded like an old pervert, like she had eaten a Ju Meng raw, Lu Yibei suddenly wasn't so sure anymore.
How could I possibly harm someone else's Miss?
"Ahem!" The mysterious girl cleared her throat twice, looking a little awkward. She waved her small hand to change the subject, "That's not the point. The point is how you should operate to make your dependent bear the side effects of learning these vast amounts of knowledge for you."
"..." Lu Yibei supported her chin and pondered for two seconds, then said seriously, "This matter, doesn't require spending life force, right?"
"No! Don't I know you? For packages that require spending life force, we generally don't recommend them here, dear!" The girl waved her hand and said.
"That's great!" Lu Yibei's heart was filled with joy, "Then let's quickly talk about how to get Du Sixian to work for free?"
The girl's head throbbed when she heard this. She held her forehead and said, "Why is it still Du Sixian? Don't you have other dependents?"
Why do you think I'm painstakingly recommending dependents to you? Did you listen carefully and go find those people?"
Lu Yibei carefully recalled her recent actions and patiently explained, "No!"
"Then what were you busy doing?!"
"Staying alive?" Lu Yibei whispered.
The young girl's mouth twitched. She patted Lu Yibei's shoulder and praised, "As expected of me... uh, the woman I favor. Well done!"
"Let me tell you, familiars are very useful..."
"Useful in what way?" Lu Yibei interrupted.
"Useful in every sense of the word." The young girl smiled meaningfully. "However, this beginner's tutorial mainly focuses on content related to sharing Spiritual Energy."
"How do I use Du Sixian?" Lu Yibei asked. "Uh, in terms of Spiritual Energy..."
The young girl turned to look at the dilapidated and crumbling city, raising her hand to point in the general direction where Du Sixian often appeared.
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"It's very simple. You just need to determine her location, call her name loudly, and simultaneously transmit the content that flashed through your mind while learning through your thoughts..."
"Du Sixian! Du Sixian! Time to get up and pee!"
Before the young girl could finish speaking, Lu Yibei yelled at the top of her lungs in Du Sixian's direction.
"Du Sixian! Du Sixian! Your video has over a million views!"
"Du Sixian! Du Sixian! Your tenant isn't paying rent!"
...
Lu Yibei was usually annoyed by Du Sixian to the point of a headache. This time, she finally got the chance to fight back!
"..."
The young girl stood behind Lu Yibei with her arms crossed, tilting her head and watching her in silence.
Was that Du Sixian really her familiar?
Why do I feel like she can't wait to kill Du Sixian?
Hopefully, nothing goes wrong, just like back then...
A young girl with a sweet smile suddenly flashed in the young girl's mind. That smile, like a sunflower blooming in the bright sunshine, pricked her heart fiercely.
That young girl was the only familiar she hadn't recommended to Lu Yibei...
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Peony Street, Sixian Homestay.
Du Sixian's progress in Spell practice has been very slow recently.
Ever since she finished learning basic Spells and started trying to learn precise Spells, she felt her memory had declined, like a fish with only seven seconds, possibly due to the influence of the Meizi Henggong Fish Spirit Mark.
This even made her start to doubt whether An Qing was really comforting her.
Perhaps, she was not a "genius of the Waste Flow (waste material flow)" at all.
Recently, even that strange dream has rarely appeared. Even when it occasionally appears, she has not seen the figure suspected to be a god in the dream again.
"How about..." Du Sixian stared blankly at the ceiling, struggling for a long time, sighed, and muttered to herself, "Alas, I'm really useless. Besides collecting rent, I'm good for nothing!"
"Forget it, sleep! Calculating the days, it's time to collect rent tomorrow!"
Saying this indignantly, she hugged the pillow in her arms, turned over, and closed her eyes.
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"Rumble—Rumble—Rumble—!"
Amidst the deafening sound of a train passing over the tracks, Du Sixian suddenly woke up.
She opened her eyes and looked around in confusion.
This was a very old subway. The handrails and window sills were covered in rust. The interior of the carriage was empty, without a single person. The lights overhead flickered as if there was a loose connection.
After briefly looking around, Du Sixian quickly recognized that this subway was almost identical to the subway in Hua City, but for some reason, it looked as if it had been eroded by time.
The familiar dilapidated city outside the window was exceptionally quiet at this moment.
Only dust silently fell from the sky, dancing in the sunlight.
"Is it this strange dream again?"
Realizing that she had entered this strange dream again, Du Sixian felt a little more at ease. She leaned back in her chair and looked out the window, admiring the city that seemed to be on the verge of death.
After a long time, a faint, almost imperceptible hymn, like the subtle sound of knocking on a door that suddenly comes from the vast night, kept getting stronger.
As if it were fate.
Fate was gently knocking on the door.
In an instant, countless terrifying scenes flooded into Du Sixian's mind, and her eyes gradually lost focus.
Meteor showers, mountain floods, hurricanes raging, towering waves, tens of thousands of soldiers holding weapons and brutally fighting in the wilderness...
In the city outside the window, time seemed to be accelerating, flowing by rapidly.
In just an instant, it went from noon to evening. Between the clouds gathered in the sky, the rosy light of the setting sun appeared.
At the same time, the terrifying scenes in front of Du Sixian disappeared, and a fragmented sound was heard.
The long, dreamlike daze finally ended.
"Ah—!"
Du Sixian screamed and woke up from her bed. Sweat soaked the sheet beneath her. Her chest heaved, and she couldn't help but gasp for breath.
After she calmed down, she sat up and looked at her hands, lost in thought.
Like an illusion, she felt as if she had learned those precise Spells that were so difficult.
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Above the ruins of the Hua Yu Sunshine Resort Hotel, a cool autumn breeze lingered.
After a long time, the sun slowly rose.
The rising sun spread its light, pushing inch by inch, illuminating the scene of the crime from several months ago.
The major suspect, who had returned to the scene, sat up from a pile of black ashes and looked towards the direction where the sun was rising in the distance.
A figure carrying a long sword and wearing a black long gown appeared briefly in the sunlight, like a fleeting glimpse, and then quickly dissipated.
That young man, who had once roamed the Divine Land alone during the turbulent times, thus briefly appeared in Lu Yibei's life and quickly disap...
"Granddaughter-in-law! Do you know where my son Yu Bo's tomb is? I want to go see it."
Hearing the sound suddenly coming from the broken sword in her hand, Lu Yibei was startled.
Holy crap, why hasn't he disappeared yet?
Damn it, if Ancestor sees me like this, will he think I have some strange fetish and came to hook up with his grandson?
"Granddaughter-in-law?"
Lu Yibei, "..."
He seems unable to see how I look right now?
"Granddaughter-in-law, are you still there? Say something!"
Lu Yibei glanced at the broken sword in her hand, which was buzzing and continuously emitting low whispers. She silently pulled open the guitar bag, rummaged through it for a plastic sheet, wrapped the broken sword in three layers, and then slammed the lid of the guitar bag shut with a "bang."
"Woo... woo woo..."
Listening to the faint sounds in the guitar bag, which were almost inaudible, Lu Yibei nodded with satisfaction.
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Lu Yibei walked back to Hua City's urban area from the Hua Yu Sunshine Resort Hotel carrying her guitar bag.
It was a full 24 kilometers, more than a half marathon. No taxi or Didi driver was willing to pick her up.
She tried reporting the drivers for refusing to pick up passengers without reason, but it was useless.
For a ghostly place like the Hua Yu Sunshine Resort Hotel, throughout Hua City, the number of drivers willing to pick up passengers here, besides Uncle Zhang Shan, could be counted on one hand.
This almost cost her half her life, especially for someone who barely passed the 1000-meter run during her university entrance physical test.
It was already noon when she saw the first bus stop and convenience store by the roadside.
She bought a bottle of happy water, sat at the bus stop, and waited for the bus while feeling happy. Just then, her phone vibrated twice. The culprit who had made her as tired as an old dog sent a message.
Genius Mahjong Girl: "When are you coming back? 【Heart emoji】"
Wang Bu Liu Xing: "After dark. 【Dog sticking out tongue emoji】"
Genius Mahjong Girl: "That's fine, but you'd better come back as soon as possible."
Genius Mahjong Girl: "The property management of Happiness Community, I don't know how, has rented out all the vacant houses because someone passed away. The welcome party has been moved up to Friday night, everyone together."
Wang Bu Liu Xing: "Okay, I'll be as quick as possible."
Putting down her phone, Lu Yibei's gaze slightly narrowed.
It's time!
Now that I have the urban legend treasure for Happiness Community, my chances of winning are around 90%. I can try to act with a little caution, Lu Yibei thought.
