In Good Spirits

The information that surfaced in Lu Xun's eyes about the Wedding Dress Sword was rather limited. Aside from the sword's name appearing in yellow, proving that it was a Yellow Weapon, everything else was question marks.

This meant his level was too low to inspect it.

In games, equipment was generally ranked by color—usually Green Weapons, Blue Weapons, Purple Weapons, Orange Weapons...

Who would have thought that green, originally the color of health, would eventually become so disliked that Green Weapons slowly evolved into Yellow Weapons?

Who didn't love yellow?

In "Heavenly Dust," the various equipment tiers were Mortal Iron, Magic Tools, Spirit Tools, Immortal Items, and Divine Items. Based on these five tiers, equipment names appeared in gray, yellow, blue, purple, and orange... What an utterly tacky setting.

Since this Wedding Dress Sword was a Yellow Weapon, it meant it was a Magic Tool.

In the early stages of the game, Magic Tools were absolutely considered treasures.

He had not cared much when playing games before, but now that a Yellow Weapon was right in front of Lu Xun, he rather wanted to look up and ask, "Miss, may I touch your treasure?"

He was a little envious~

Ji Li's lightness skill was quite good, and her strength was astonishing. Even while carrying Lu Xun, she was not slow, though she looked extremely anxious.

Lu Xun thought to himself, Are you really this impatient after taking a fancy to me as a Cauldron? You're just a little girl—don't you know how to be reserved? You're awfully hasty. Anyone who didn't know better would think you were being chased.

After running around aimlessly for a while, Ji Li successfully got lost in the woods.

From the way her little head kept turning left and right, Lu Xun could tell that she probably had no idea which way to go.

But he had transmigrated here, after all. Unlike in the game, he did not come with a map, so he could not tell directions either.

Ji Li held Lu Xun in her right arm and the Wedding Dress Sword in her left. She tossed the sword into the air, then caught it, rather like flipping a coin.

The sword tip pointed to the left.

Ji Li nodded slightly, then ran toward the right.

Lu Xun was a little dumbfounded after noticing that detail.

Now, being carried along like this, he did not find it all that bumpy.

In any case, this little girl would not keep running blindly through the Dense Forest forever. Sooner or later, she would have to enter the city. Lu Xun needed to enter the city too, so their destination was the same.

So wasn't it nice not to have to travel on his own?

He would just treat it like riding a mount.

Naturally, Ji Li had no idea that Lu Xun regarded her as a mount.

After relying on her inherited lightness skill to dart through the forest for a while longer, Ji Li soon ran out of mana.

With little True Qi left in her body, Ji Li found a concealed spot. She was somewhat exhausted now and had originally intended to toss Lu Xun aside, but upon lowering her head and seeing his face, she gently set him down instead.

After straightening his coarse clothes, Lu Xun once again carefully examined the female demon head before him.

Yes, strictly speaking, she should be called a female demon head.

Since ancient times, righteousness and evil had been irreconcilable. Anyone who cultivated an Evil Art was surely a female demon head.

But as a veteran player of "Heavenly Dust," Lu Xun could be said to know most of the game's plot inside out.

Several major plot shifts in the game—the so-called chaos under heaven—actually had little to do with these demon heads. Instead, most were caused by those supposedly Famous Righteous Sects.

Put simply, plenty of people who cultivated Demonic Arts were certainly evil, but not all of them were evil. Plenty of people who cultivated the righteous path were certainly good, but not all of them were good either.

However, from Lu Xun's standpoint, since she wanted to capture him as a Cauldron, she was definitely on the opposing side.

After all, people could die from that.

Ji Li looked around, then let out a sigh of relief. Thank goodness I shook them off again.

Although she could be considered a Martial Arts Prodigy, she was still young. Besides, two fists could not beat four hands; with so many opponents, there was nothing she could do.

Though the Wedding Dress Sword in her hand was merely a Magic Sword, a Yellow Weapon, and the cultivation technique in her arms was a Demonic Art, to those in the Martial World, these were all treasures.

After Ji Li turned around, she discovered that Lu Xun was observing her.

This man had suffered all this for no reason, yet his expression remained calm, without the slightest hint of panic in his eyes.

He was clearly an ordinary person without even a trace of True Qi, yet he showed no fear.

Put simply, he looked like someone who had seen the world.

Along the way, Ji Li had rehearsed countless lines in her mind, all of them threats and inducements. Yet seeing how he looked now, she unexpectedly did not know how to begin.

Instead, seeing her like this, along with the obvious childishness about her and the inexplicably increased Affection Points from earlier, Lu Xun felt completely at ease.

"My name is Lu Xun. May I ask how I should address you, Miss?" he asked first.

Ji Li had already made up a false name, but as an extreme Appearance Control, when she saw Lu Xun's deliberately gentle and refined smile, she blurted out, "Ji... Ji Li."

"Ji Li?" Lu Xun searched his memories. He had never heard of such a person in "Heavenly Dust," so she probably was not an important character.

Just as he was about to probe for more information, his stomach began to rumble again. "Grrr~"

With Ji Li's hearing, she naturally heard it all clearly. She couldn't help thinking, No matter how otherworldly handsome he is, isn't he still just an ordinary mortal in the end?

But the next moment—"Grrr," her stomach growled a few times as well.

Fine, she wasn't any better herself.

Martial artists were still worlds apart from those legendary immortals who could survive without food.

She rummaged through her robes and pulled out the last dry biscuit, wrapped in a strip of cloth.

After thinking it over, she broke the dry biscuit in half.

After glancing at Lu Xun, she handed him the larger half and said coldly, "Here!"

After saying that, she stuffed the dry biscuit into Lu Xun's hand, then turned and sat off to the side, eating her own half without looking at him.

As long as she didn't look directly at him, it only counted as sneaking a peek at most!

Lu Xun took the dry biscuit. It must have gone cold long ago inside, yet its surface still carried a trace of warmth.

And this thing had been pulled out from her robes...

Forget it, forget it. He was starving like this already—why think so much? Of all things in heaven and earth, eating came first!

Besides, as a normal man, Lu Xun had no reason to be disgusted by where this dry biscuit had come from, especially since it was wrapped in cloth.

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