[Sword Intent Entanglement]

Wearing a white shirt, the middle-aged, impoverished scholar walked on the bluestone path, his steps small and unhurried, always stopping and starting.

He would smell the flowers sold by the roadside, taste any new food he came across, and even watch people play chess, only to be chased away for not keeping silent as a spectator.

The dark-skinned man followed him, not daring to disturb the Teacher's refined interests.

Mao Nanbei was not wrong; the Teacher had come down the mountain to have fun.

The reason he was unwilling to return was simple: he hadn't had enough fun yet.

As for accepting a new disciple… compared to traveling and enjoying the scenery, it was just a small matter.

"Teacher," the dark-skinned man said softly, catching up to him.

"What is it?" the Teacher asked.

"This disciple doesn't understand, why did you set such rules for accepting disciples?"

The rules the dark-skinned man was referring to were, of course, about jumping off the cliff.

"It was just a spontaneous thought I had while standing on Reception Peak that day," the Teacher said, waving his hand dismissively.

The dark-skinned man knew in his heart that the more the Teacher acted like this, the more likely he was making things up.

He had been following the Teacher for many years and knew his personality well. It seemed that the Teacher had a deeper meaning in setting such seemingly impossible conditions; he just didn't want to say it.

But the dark-skinned man couldn't figure out how Little Martial Brother managed to jump off the cliff and survive.

This piqued his curiosity.

Mao Nanbei had told Lu Xun that Third Senior Brother loved to cook, but his cooking was extremely terrible.

Actually, she hadn't told the whole story. The reason Third Senior Brother's cooking was so bad was that he loved to innovate and constantly tinker with new dishes.

The Third Senior Brother of the Small Study loved to explore new things and was best at research.

He looked like a peasant, and was also very rugged, but he had an endless thirst for knowledge and all sorts of strange new ideas in his head.

Therefore, the dark-skinned man was immediately filled with interest in Lu Xun.

He even thought about catching Little Martial Brother and studying him carefully after returning to the mountain.

At this thought, a simple and honest smile appeared on his face.

At this moment, the Demon Sect Back Mountain.

Lu Xun had a nightmare.

He woke up from the dream, his whole body covered in cold sweat.

"Hah!"

The night breeze blew, and fireflies flew freely outside the house, harmonious and peaceful.

"Is it because I've been under too much pressure lately?" Lu Xun rubbed his temples.

But on closer thought… he didn't seem to have much pressure lately!

He ate well, slept well, and a bunch of people called him ancestor when they met him. He was living a very comfortable life.

Apart from the slow growth of experience points, there weren't many annoying things. It was just that Mao Nanbei was a bit difficult to deal with, and he had to satisfy her cravings every day.

After adjusting his emotions, Lu Xun stabilized his mind and tried to continue sleeping.

As a result, the nightmare started again.

"What the hell? Does making a dream have upper and lower parts?" Lu Xun woke up again, panting.

To be precise, this dream was like a death loop.

As soon as he closed his eyes, a blurry shadow was chasing him until he was killed, and then the dream would end.

The shadow was very blurry, and Lu Xun couldn't see it clearly.

He didn't think too much about it, after all, it was just a dream. Once a person wakes up, it's normal not to remember the details.

He didn't even remember how he died, only that a shadow was chasing him, and then he was gone.

Many people may have had this experience: they clearly realize they're dreaming, but they only remember the beginning and the end.

After taking a couple of deep breaths, Lu Xun frowned, sensing something was wrong.

"This is my dream, I'm the master!"

"No, I'm going to fight back!"

Being killed twice in a row actually ignited Lu Xun's inexplicable desire to win!

He closed his eyes, and sure enough, the dark shadow appeared again.

He thought that in his dream, he would be the creator, omnipotent, but he was once again defeated and utterly routed.

"Damn it!"

Lu Xun sat up from his bed. He wasn't stupid; how could he not realize that something was fishy!

He checked his character attributes, and his character status showed:

——[Sword Intent Entanglement]!

"Sword Intent!?" Lu Xun was a little surprised.

"Was it Sword Intent that killed me in the dream just now?"

This was a high-end thing that ordinary Sword Cultivators didn't possess.

This was the Back Mountain Study, and besides Lu Xun, there were only Mao Nanbei and Second Senior Sister on the mountain.

Mao Nanbei used knives; Lu Xun had seen it that rainy night.

The two small bells on her wrist could transform into two short blades. Back then, the blade energy was rampant, instantly killing hundreds of ghosts!

"So, this Sword Intent... could it be Second Senior Sister's doing?"

Did Second Senior Sister use a sword? Why hadn't he seen her sword in the Bamboo Forest?

Most importantly, why would Second Senior Sister do this? Could it be special training?

At this thought, the game system actually triggered a task.

[Triggered Task: Gu Xiaoman's Sword Intent Training, accept?]

Lu Xun accepted without thinking.

After checking the task details, the task content wasn't to defeat Second Senior Sister's Sword Intent, because that was simply unrealistic. Instead, it was to endure for 30 days while under the effects of Sword Intent Entanglement!

And this Sword Intent was actually just a tiny part of Second Senior Sister's overwhelming Sword Intent.

Now that was great. For a whole month, he wouldn't even be able to sleep soundly.

"Am I going to die from overwork?" Lu Xun said with a wry smile.

However, he couldn't bear to reject this task, because the task reward was simply too tempting.

——[Sword Dao Aptitude +1]!

A special attribute that was hard to come by, Lu Xun found it difficult to refuse, even though... he didn't even have a sword right now.

In fact, even if he didn't choose the path of a Sword Cultivator in the future, there would be no harm in having more special attribute points.

Tian Chen followed the principle of "know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated." Even if he didn't learn swordsmanship in the future, having this bit of Sword Dao Aptitude would allow him to subtly restrain Sword Cultivators when he encountered them.

Just like his main account in his previous life, he had coincidentally obtained [Spear Dao Aptitude +1] through a hidden task. Although he didn't follow the path of spear mastery, he would often deal about 10% more damage when encountering NPCs or players who used spears!

As for what his main account practiced?

He practiced the staff, the big stick.