Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
When the Truth Seeker placed the last hat down, the entire table was covered with nineteen hats, all emanating a green glow, completely transford.
The pitch-black, decaying bark of the wooden hut began to peel, and the candles beside it snuffed out without any breeze, yet the hut was filled with a gentle, warm light.
It was the lingering ghosts.
The ghosts radiated a warm yellow light, and their floating, misty forms drew in around the light. They reached out to pick up the hats on the table, and as an ancient song began to play, they naturally passed the hats to the right.
The song was in a language Ren Suo couldn’t understand, sothing like an ancient, lost form of Chinese, or a sacred hymn sung by shamanistic perforrs.
Yet Ren Suo mysteriously comprehended its aning, as if the voice activated the language center in his brain, playing the aning directly into his mind like piano keys.
It was just like when he played "Devouring the Spirit of the World" and gave various language Skills to little animals. He finally experienced that sensation of ’I don’t speak human language, but you understand ’ for himself.
’Wind and snow, rain and dew, heavenly calamities, and earthly trials; to rise is due to fortune, to decline is fate.’
’Life is impermanent, stirring the mundane; blessings are due to fortune, disasters are fate.’
’Since ancient tis, partings have triumphed over reunions; with each glance back, regret intensifies. In life’s relentless trials, eight or nine out of ten bring remorse, wearing away at one’s resolve.’
’It is suffering; it is fate.’
’In this eternal night, how can one bear it alone?’
The Truth Seeker and The Mist Girl, too, were part of the hat-passing. As the ghosts passed the hats along, when their own hats ca to them, they put them on. When the Truth Seeker received her own hat, she tried to pass it to the ghost beside her, but the ghost did not move.
When the Truth Seeker and all the ghosts wore their hats, The Mist Girl expressed a sentint that seed like a sigh, her voice tinged with sorrow:
’You all have your hats on, but what about ? My hat is too heavy; I can’t wear it...’
The wooden hut crumbled, and the liberated ghosts all fled, dissolving away.
The space around the Truth Seeker began to distort and transform; the only thing unchanged was the Truth Seeker herself.
In the end, everything returned to darkness, save for the faint luminescence of the Truth Seeker’s hat.
The mont the Truth Seeker took off the hat, it quietly dissolved, turning into light that drove away the darkness.
Ren Suo then saw on the screen the Truth Seeker, clearly standing in a room with windows that appeared to be made of one-piece glass and immovable.
The room was empty, with caras in each of its four corners pointing at a platform in the center. Four incandescent lights, set behind glass panels in the ceiling, brightly illuminated the entire space.
In the middle of the room was a glass safe, inside which there was a black hat.
It was called a hat simply because it sowhat resembled one—in truth, the hat was entirely made of black mist, concave from bottom to top. If turned upside down, calling it a bowl wouldn’t be far off.
As the Truth Seeker approached, the black mist drifted upwards, passing straight through the solid glass safe to recondense on the outside, forming a pure black Witch’s Hat.
As the Truth Seeker reached to put on the hat, several people appeared outside the room, standing on the other side of the window, watching the Truth Seeker motionlessly. Due to the perspective and distance, Ren Suo couldn’t make out their expressions.
At that mont, a voice erupted from the television, shaking Ren Suo so much that his controller dropped to the floor: ’Put it down!’
Then the Truth Seeker put on the hat.
This really had nothing to do with Ren Suo...
"Truth Seeker donned the Hat of Regret."
"Truth Seeker is experiencing Wan Changqing’s regret."
"Truth Seeker is experiencing Ansei Doton’s regret."
"Truth Seeker is experiencing Teypal’s regret."
"Truth Seeker is experiencing..."
In an instant, the screen flooded with a stream of ssages. Ren Suo watched as this 55-inch 4K TV screen was packed full of information about the Truth Seeker’s experience, the entire screen becoming a sea of white text.
It was no longer within Ren Suo’s control.
Just when Ren Suo thought it would turn into a cutscene to be watched passively, a very clear line of text appeared in the center of the screen:
"Due to entanglent with 9,645,287 portions of Resentnt, it triggered the ga character ’Truth Seeker’s’ special effect: Heavenly Heart."
"Heavenly Heart: An unswervingly loyal seeker of the Dao and discerner of the Dao, who will enter the Heart Retreat phase. Although a physical body still maintains life, the mind will no longer be influenced by the body’s chemical substances, achieving complete self-forgetfulness."
"Truth Seeker endured 9,645,287 portions of Regret with Heavenly Heart."
"Resentnt could not affect the Truth Seeker."
"Truth Seeker utilized the purpose of heaven to neutralize 9,645,287 portions of Regret."
"The Truth Seeker successfully transford the Hat of Regret."
With this chain of events, Ren Suo had no chance to do anything but watch helplessly as the Truth Seeker completed the ga on her own.
When the Truth Seeker successfully transford the Hat of Regret, the series of ssages disappeared instantly. On the screen, the Truth Seeker took off the hat from her head to find it had beco a white, pointed hat, and a detailed description popped up:
"Rectified Pursuit Hat"
"Quality Rank: Four-star Item, Prerequisite: Must have a head, requires Spiritual Energy to operate."
"Effect: Wearing this hat will unravel all heart knots, calm all ripples, and permanently free one’s Concentration from all distractions, as well as temporarily boost Comprehension by 300%."
"Note: The Ancient Yellow River harbored a Wild God nad Dou, known for consuming sorrows and drinking down regrets, adept at dispelling disasters and resolving difficulties, often seen as a Rain Traveler with a Conical Hat. Later, after Cutting All Ties with Heaven and Earth, Dou broke faith. However, his believers did not cease, offering sorrows and regrets to his robes. As the heavens and earth are spiritual, the crown, filled with sorrows and regrets, followed its will, engaging in the erasure of such emotions. Yet, not being a god nor Dou, it lacked the power to dispel disasters and resolve difficulties. It only granted eternal sleep to the sorrowful and forgetfulness to those in suffering, storing within it sorrows, griefs, and regrets.
Furthermore, when a Cultivator donned this crown, their consciousness would fall into eternal slumber, their body becoming the Claws and Teeth of sorrow and regret, Manifesting Saintliness In Front of People, leading the masses into an eternal, grief-less slumber. The world is indeed a place filled with sorrow and resentnt, and life is bound to encounter suffering. The only solution is tarnishing oneself; that is true liberation.
Today, a Truth Seeker has dispelled millennia of resentnt. By attaching the will of Seeking the Path to its Spirit Core, channeling countless years of wishful power onto the right path, purging grudges, and sharpening Hope, the hat has ultimately beco a new generation of Spiritual Objects."
Such a great item! Can I take it with ? I want this reward!
Ren Suo’s eyes lit up at the sight. This was a great object transford by the Truth Seeker, definitely her spoils of war, right?
But in the next second, the hat slipped through the Truth Seeker’s hands and fell lightly to the ground.
At that mont, it seed as if soone had opened the room; many people rushed in, but Ren Suo couldn’t rember what they said.
All he saw was the Female Seeker beginning to dematerialize, radiating white light, and finally transforming into a ball of light that completely dissipated—
"Mission Complete"
"No mission rating available, unable to upload."
"’If You Are Strong, Climb Ten Thousand ters’ is now available for continued play."
Huh? Could it be that you can’t play this ga when there’s a bet involved?
Ren Suo wasn’t bored enough to play it again; indeed, he hadn’t paid attention to this detail before.
It’s fine if there are no rit Points rewards or mission ratings, but there should be a unique reward at least!
"According to your ga experience, you have earned an exclusive reward: Seeker of the Dao Correction Hat, which can be accessed in the Content Preservation Vault."
Then, the main interface popped out of the ga. The next second, the ga "Pass the Hat" also directly shattered and disappeared from the main interface, leaving Ren Suo staring in astonishnt.
This ga ended itself so quickly!
But the reward wasn’t the "Rectified Pursuit Hat"; it was the "Seeker of the Dao Correction Hat"... Why is the na reversed?
Excited, Ren Suo went to check the "Equipnt Interface," and his face imdiately fell.
In the "Props" section of the "Equipnt Interface," along with "Unlimited Fried Chicken Set" and "Goddess Jade Pendant," there was an additional "Seeker of the Dao Correction Hat."
The problem was that the description of this item was sowhat different from what Ren Suo understood!
"Seeker of the Dao Correction Hat"
"Quality Rank: Two-Star Item, Prerequisite: Must have a head, must have a physical hat."
"Effect: After the Player equips it, they receive a 10% Comprehension bonus, and get ’Enhanced Confession,’ ’Enhanced Apology,’ ’Enhanced Comforting,’ ’Enhanced Praise’... and other effects."
"Note: A hat ford from the mories of the Truth Seeker. After being tainted with the power of other hats, the original Ability of the hat slightly declined, but it also acquired other powerful mories."
What a rip-off! This is called "powerful" mories?
Isn’t this just the ability extracted from other red-light hats, and only slightly useful in the ga "Pass the Hat"?
Ren Suo’s life is without regrets; he doesn’t need these Skills to help him untangle heart knots!
And it even lowered the hat’s original ’ 20% Comprehension’ by half!
This ga was truly a waste of ti. What a loss!
Ren Suo cald down. However, this ga doesn’t need to be uploaded; it ends as soon as it’s cleared...
I feel like not only did I rush through the ga, but the ga itself was also in a hurry to be cleared.
The place where the hat’s True Form appeared is very modern. Where could it be...?
At that mont, a ssage popped up in the upper left corner of the main interface:
"You’ve received a ssage."
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