Chapter 272: Foreshadowing
Lu Xun looked up at the crow that had landed on a thin bamboo branch and saw that it was still stupid, just like Psyduck in "Pokémon".
The eyeballs of crows are very black, and the eyeballs of ravens are a very deep black.
It's hard to tell much emotion from eyes like that, and coupled with its dull expression, it looks even sillier.
“The Wu Ji Mountain’s martial arts have flaws. Although the speed of practice is extremely fast in the early stages, everyone will become expressionless. I, Xiao Ya Ya, come from Wu Ji Mountain, but I also have an expressionless face. I look like an idiot all the time.” Lu Xun said in his heart.
But it was impossible for the crow to have practiced any martial arts, so Lu Xun attributed this to the fact that it might really be a fool.
The gentleman wanted to continue telling the story about Wu Ji Mountain, but he noticed that the crow had flown back. He looked up at it, smiled, and continued telling the story.
"The third leader of Wuji Mountain is named Li Huanhuan. She is the adopted daughter of the second-generation leader and a girl who loves to laugh."
Mao Nanbei was eating the oranges that Lu Xun had peeled, and he interrupted his master and asked, "Sir, how do you know that she is a girl who loves to laugh?"
Older kids are like this, they love listening to stories, but they have to pretend to be little adults who don’t like to listen, so they always question the authenticity of the stories.
The gentleman smiled, but he was not angry. He peeled the orange with his orchid fingers raised, and said, "Of course someone told me."
Lu Xun raised his right hand, stuffed half an orange into Mao Nanbei's mouth, and said, "Don't interrupt!"
“Ugh——!” Mao Nanbei, who was sitting on his shoulder, had his mouth stuffed full and was so angry that he grabbed Lu Xun’s hair.
The gentleman lowered his head, looking at the half-peeled orange in his hand, his eyes seemed unfocused, and began to continue talking.
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It is obvious that the gentleman is a competent storyteller.
No wonder Mao Nanbei said that when the gentleman went down the mountain to have fun, if he was really bored, he would go to the restaurant to be a storyteller.
He told a very simple story in vivid detail, which was a love story.
Of course, like most love stories, the story ends in tragedy.
The general content of the story is: a woman from the martial arts world meets a cultivator by chance, and the two fall in love with each other, but they never get together.
Later, due to some strange circumstances, the two were separated.
And this woman from the martial arts world is Li Huanhuan.
Since Li Huanhuan did not have the qualifications to practice cultivation, this practitioner traveled all over the country looking for rare treasures that could improve her physique.
When he returned with his harvest, Wu Ji Shan had been wiped out due to grudges in the martial arts world, and Li Huan Huan had also passed away.
He built a mountain gate on the original site, retained the name of Wu Ji Mountain, and called himself the fourth leader of Wu Ji Mountain.
The rise of Wuji Mountain also began at this time.
In this story, Xian Sheng repeatedly emphasized that the practitioner always wore a black cloak to cover his face.
Even Li Huanhuan didn't know what he looked like before she died.
Lu Xun was a person who had been baptized by Internet information, so he was not overly moved.
Mao Nanbei and Lin Chan felt very sad after listening to it. Even the usually cold and aloof Second Sister seemed to have some mood swings.
"Why is this happening! Why doesn't he show his true face?" Mao Nanbei felt sad and angry at the same time.
"What if it's because you can't see people?" the gentleman asked.
"You can't live your whole life with your whole body covered, right?" Mao Nanbei pouted , indicating that he still couldn't accept it.
"But what if he is not human?" The gentleman peeled the orange, put a slice in his mouth, and said while chewing.
Mao Nanbei heard this, his cat ears moved slightly, he stood on the table, puffed out his firm chest, and said:
"If it's not a human, then could it be a monster? And what's wrong with being a monster? What's so shameful about monsters?"
I'm Mao Nanbei, a cute ghost who is famous throughout the Demon Sect!
Even though she's a monster, she's still loved by everyone, right?
The gentleman stretched out his right hand and pressed down twice in mid-air, signaling her to sit down quickly and not stand on the table so rudely. He then said:
"What if... he is a very strange demon?"
Mao Nanbei jumped back onto his chair and said, "How strange can a monster be? Could it be that it's not an animal that has transformed, but a flower, plant, or tree that has transformed into a monster?"
In Mao Nanbei's opinion, since they can all transform in the end, there is actually not much difference.
The gentleman shook his head and said nothing.
Lu Xun said at the right time: "Sir, so the flaws in Wujishan's skills are also due to this reason?"
Since the fourth generation ancestor of Wu Ji Mountain is a demon cultivator, the skills he taught will naturally have some side effects when practiced by humans.
Just like Lu Xun himself, after embarking on the path of refining the sword with his body, the side effect was that he became a [Swordless Man].
If he could still hold a long sword now, it would undoubtedly be the icing on the cake. It can be called...
——A sword upon a sword?
The gentleman put down the orange peel in his hand and said, "Are you referring to the disciples of Wuji Mountain, those expressionless faces?"
"Yes." Lu Xun said.
The gentleman nodded, as if he remembered something, and said, "It can be considered as related."
Unexpectedly, this is another excellent foreshadowing.
At this moment, Lu Xun suddenly remembered the ghost king in [Ghost-Seeing Sorrow], who was imprisoned by chains and covered in a cloak.
Is there any connection between the two?
“It shouldn’t be possible. Who would lock the body of their ancestor in the trial ground?” Lu Xun thought to himself.
Now he was actually a little curious about what kind of monster the fourth generation ancestor of Wu Ji Mountain was transformed from?
The gentleman seemed to see everyone's confusion and sighed:
"Actually, only creatures like Xiao Nanbei, who are transformed from living things, can be called monsters. Even flowers, plants, and trees have their own lives."
“But if it is a piece of stone with its own intelligence, it would be the same as the sword spirit in the sword and the knife spirit in the knife.”
"This is the law of this world."
Lu Xun heard this and nodded.
This is the setting in "Tianchen", so there is no need to think about the existence of "stone monsters" or "broom spirits".
A broom with intelligence can only be called a magic weapon at most, no one would call it a demon.
His scabbard is quite spiritual, but it is just a magic weapon.
Although he regards it as a [Scabbard Girl], others do not.
And it is always impossible for it to change shape.
Even something as powerful as [Sword Qi is Near] cannot transform into a human form.
If you think about it carefully, Lu Xun is going against the grain. He is obviously a human, but practicing in the direction of swordsmanship. This seems to break the setting a bit!
“Have I violated the laws of heaven and earth that you mentioned, sir?” Lu Xun thought to himself.
But if you think about it more carefully, strictly speaking, he himself is not a product of this world...
“Sir, do you mean that the fourth-generation leader of Wuji Mountain cannot even be called a demon?” Lu Xun asked.
The gentleman nodded and said:
"He's a puppet, a puppet with a smiling face."
At this time, Lu Xun couldn't help but think of how his teacher described the third-generation leader.
Her name is Li Huanhuan, a girl who loves to laugh.
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