"What’s the matter, you look like you have a lot on your mind?"
In the early morning, seeing Yun Yao, who usually logged on before her morning performance, Feng Xue asked with a hint of concern.
Hearing Feng Xue’s voice, Yun Yao frowned and said uneasily,
"Um, I heard sitting with one leg over the other frequently is bad for the pelvis, the Crane Stance is even more extre. Will it make my legs look ugly?"
"Is that what you’re worried about?" Feng Xue looked bewildered at Yun Yao until she made Yun Yao avoid her gaze, then she sighed and said,
"Why do you think most Experts from reputable sects in Martial Arts have such upright figures and extraordinary temperants?"
"I’ve never t any Martial Arts Experts!" Yun Yao thought to herself, but she guessed,
"Because the ugly ones are too embarrassed to go out... Ouch! Why did you hit again?"
"Because you deserved it!" Feng Xue rolled her eyes, at a loss for words with her disciple who popped jokes from ti to ti, she still explained,
"Why do you think in the Martial Arts world the external experts are always considered less than the internal ones?"
"Internal ones can fight better? Live longer? Surely it’s not because they look more attractive?"
Though piecing it with the context, Yun Yao thought she ant it’s about looking appealing, but looking pleasing as part of a Martial Arts hierarchy? Martial Arts is about the Strong commanding respect, isn’t it?
"External Experts can fight well too, but their external training thods impact their body, often causing decline as they age. Even transitioning from external to internal can’t avoid this. Internal Experts initially progress slowly, but continual cultivation of Inner Qi regenerates the body, contributing to a healthy, youthful appearance, and with Sound Attack, besides musical rhythm, there is Inner Strength. If you diligently practice, you’ll only grow more beautiful, there’s no way you’ll beco less attractive."
"Really?" At the ntion of becoming more beautiful with training, Yun Yao perked up imdiately, but then worries erged, reality doesn’t have Inner Strength. If she becos more attractive in the ga, what about real life? It surely can’t be possible to cultivate Inner Strength in reality too, can it?
Despite such thoughts, Yun Yao wasn’t entirely sure, because when she got back to reality and subconsciously took the stance, she could feel a warm current subtly emanating from her abdon.
"Could it be just psychological? Phantom limb pain or sothing?" Yun Yao was very unsure, but she couldn’t help harboring her delusions.
Having Heart of Bright Mirror next to her, Feng Xue of course knew what Yun Yao was thinking, but he made no attempt to elucidate, only calmly stated:
"It is genuine, as long as it’s not so deviant extre Inner Strength, all have rejuvenating effects, the degree just varies. You’ve made so progress in Pile Skill, you should have developed the Qi Sense. Next, I’ll teach you thods to guide the Qi Sense and the paths for Qi Circulation..."
"duangdaugndaung—"
Just when Yun Yao was looking forward to Feng Xue’s teachings, a harsh tallic clashing noise ca from the direction of the village ancestral hall, followed imdiately by soone’s desperate shout:
"The Wokou have landed! The Wokou have landed!"
"Wokou?!" Feng Xue paused, suddenly enlightened, but also secretly thought the plot seed slow.
After all, reckoning with full count, the second beta has been half a month, who delays the main storyline in a ga a whole half month after launch, be it PC or mobile, they’d be criticized.
But reflecting on it, placed in this ga it didn’t seem so exaggerated since ordinary players just gathering enough fees to attend Martial Arts training took over ten days. If Wokou were to land right after the Descent, players probably wouldn’t even encounter monsters before the Martial Artists in town had dealt with them.
"Just not sure how the plot is supposed to be driven, whether Kaidan predicted the timing or through so provocative acts guided it, or maybe... these Wokou are simply data-driven?"
Feng Xuexin was sowhat perplexed but did not move. Instead, she waved her hand towards Yun Yao and said,
"Go and see what has happened."
"???" Yun Yao really wanted to tell her to go check it out herself, but considering that the subsequent Inner Strength was still in the other’s hands, she had no choice but to honestly run towards the direction of the ancestral hall.
Watching Yun Yao leave, Feng Xuexin leisurely picked up a guzheng and placed it on her knees, quietly beginning to play.
The sound of the guzheng was gentle and balmy, yet subtly interlaced with notes of aggression, giving the peaceful lody an undertone of veiled threat. At first listen, it seed as tranquil as the warm sun of an autumn day, quite ordinary. But upon careful listening, one could sense a chill spreading out, making one’s hair stand on end.
"What is this piece called?"
Yun Yao, who had returned to the cottage exterior at so point, only spoke after Feng Xuexin had finished playing, while behind her, a group of silly gars were also staring wide-eyed, seemingly waiting for a quest.
Feng Xuexin had grown accustod to such situations. Over the past half month, nearly every day hordes of players would co to him, mostly just for a wooden sword or such.
Feeling the [quest npc] label forming on him, he did not comply with the players’ expectations by offering a quest. Instead, he simply stated the title of the piece in a flat tone—
"Bai Lu."
"Another solar term, eh? The cold changing from defensive to offensive, day-night temperature differences starting to increase?" Since Feng Xuexin’s previous pieces were all about the twenty-four solar terms, Yun Yao had naturally looked up a lot of information. Connecting this to what the village chief said earlier, she imdiately understood the implication of the piece, but what surprised her was, Feng Xuexin then asked,
"Is the village gathering people for so issue?"
"Eh? Didn’t you already know?" Yun Yao was surprised. If he didn’t know, why would he play Bai Lu so fittingly?
"Just say it if I ask you to!" Feng Xuexin rolled his eyes, and Yun Yao instinctively protected her head, then ekly said,
"The village chief said that recently, Wokou have landed from the east, and the Martial Arts experts from the county have gone to et the enemy. However, so bandits still slipped through. Moreover, with those experts gone, previously timid bandits and outcasts from the Sects are also likely to cause trouble, so he asked everyone to be vigilant."
As Yun Yao recounted the village chief’s words, she didn’t really think so, or rather, none of the players thought so.
For ordinary people, the Wokou invasion was a danger, sothing that could result in death. But for players, weren’t the Wokou just mobs in the Ga?
Even if they hadn’t encountered Wokou in this ga yet, being people who lived in the information age and had been influenced by countless movies, TV dramas, and web novels, even if the big monsters in this ga didn’t provide experience, there were still loot drops!
What are Wokou most famous for?
Wokou Blades!
That’s the stuff that makes bootlegs kill off the official items!
Feng Xuexin, of course, knew exactly what the players were thinking, but he didn’t believe that players at this stage could defeat those samurai worthy of wielding Wokou Blades. However, seeing those eager players, he chuckled inwardly, though outwardly he acted as if he couldn’t see them at all, simply beckoning Yun Yao,
"Given these circumstances, we’ll probably have quite a few bandits around lately. You’ve always complained about learning Basic Skills; this ti, I’ll teach you a Killing Song."
As soon as the words fell, Yun Yao felt countless murderous glances directed at her, but she was not scared at all. Instead, she felt exhilarated, very much so!
"After half a month of hardship, I’ve finally snagged it!"
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