Chapter 67: Successful on the first try?!

Gu Qin Feng slowly walked out of his dormitory with a sheepish grin, It was one of the two storey buildings offered to players.

Each one housed up to ten people, this was where they could cultivated or have their nights sleep.

Presently, he was the only one within here and he quickly began to cultivate with the new cultivation method he received, before spending his experience points.

With an arrogant smile spread across his face, he flicked his sleeves while glancing around before coming to a halt.

"Ptui... shameless". He cleared his throat while glancing around suspiciously.

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[Name: Gu Qin Feng

Cultivation: Qi gathering realm (5th level)

Cultivation method: Serene Star Dharma Lv 2(Green)

Martial arts: Twelve layered devil liberating melody Lv 2 (Blue)

Health points: 1600

Qi: 800

Experience: (0/6000)

Evaluation : Martial intuition

Traits: Musical Focus

Personality: Thick skinned]

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'I'm probably the highest level player right now... But I still need to reach the 9th level of the Qi gathering realm quickly.

I wonder how the family are doing, no I can't slow down now, let's find something to do.

I'm sure I won't be able to get any quests from the Patriarch until I complete this...'

"Leader! Leader!" While Qin Feng was thinking, He heard Gao Gao calling out to him.

"What's wrong?"

"Have you not seen the hot topics on the forum?"

After hearing such words, Qin Feng was surprised, because he had been keeping track of the influx of posts on the forums about two hours ago but there wasn't anything special.

But now, he came across a thread created by a player called Yin Wu.

A Beta tester who has been posting on the forum since the beginning of the games launching, She spoke about her younger brother, who seems to have died in game after being knocked down by some bandits in the wild.

She gave a run down on the whole experience, she even mentioned how he was experiencing weakness and was examined by a doctor.

When the report came out, there was nothing wrong with him physically and there were no flags. So she was using the forum as a medium to make a complaint to 'Iconic' and get some answers.

By the time, Qin Feng was done reading the thread, his expression was solemn. This wasn't a thing during Beta testing and the fact that there were a lot of people supporting the thread, he didn't know what to say.

"Have you heard from Lu Da?" He asked the miniature Giant and the latter scratched his head while saying, "Yes, he's experiencing the same weakness but he's fine nonetheless".

"Did you experience this after the brawl?" Qin Feng asked once again.

"No, it's something about being fatally injured..."

With a thoughtful expression, Qin Feng scratched his neck in irritation while mumbling, "so that didn't count as real death? Or ... what am I missing?, Well let's just wait for Lu Da to come back online"

Gao Gao didn't think too much about the issue but replied with an "Ok?".

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In the hazy dusk of twilight, Gu Lin Ju left the Gu Manor for a long walk as she was yet to really know the city.

Afraid of not getting her father's permission, she asked her uncle, Gu Ji Wan, to follow her out once again.

Gu Ji Wan readily agreed, after all he felt grateful to Gu Lin Fang and would gladly protect his greatest treasure.

After walking for thirty minutes, Gu Lin Ju arrived at a wooden bridge, below it was a crystal clear lake that led to somewhere in the city.

Apparently, it was because of this very lake, that they built this city. On both sides of the lake, a miniature peach blossom forest could be seen as several fishermen sailed their boats to the shores.

The evenings in the Northern Desert has always been colder, this was something she knew since young but for some reason it felt gentler than before.

The trees reminded her of her new courtyard, then she thought of their old home which was worse than their present situation and couldn't help feeling awe for her father.

Then she began to wonder how he felt with his wife, her mother, now gone...

Leaning against a smooth wooden rails on the bridge, she was lost in thought.

After a while, she sighed softly, before lowering her head. She felt like she had wasted away a great deal of energy.

Soon she looked at her plum blossom umbrella with a smile before turning towards where she felt her uncle was standing silently, " Thank You, Uncle".

Gu Ji Wan looked at the girl, and said with a doting expression and said, " silly girl, why are you thanking me".

Although his eyes were closed, she felt like he was looking at her, that made her curious

"Uncle, How do you see with your eyes closed?"

Upon hearing her question, Gu Ji Wan's expression froze!.

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Within {Iron Crow City's} territory, two figures appeared under the illumination of the setting Sun, they shot forward like two lights before quickly coming to a stop!.

They looked towards the city gates with wry smiles and shock.

The first figure on the right slowly became less illusionary, If Gu Lin Fang was here, he would recognize the stiff looking man garbed in bloody tattered robes, the other figure also revealed a beautiful young woman, unfortunately, her yellow attire was anything but beautiful.

Both of them were incomparably solemn and remained silent for a long time.

Obviously, those figures were Lin Huang and Xin Xing, after escaping Hou Dualan, they continued on their way to {Iron Crow City}. But who knew they would run into some members of the righteous Sects.

"Unyielding star sect!! We won't share the same sky!!" Xin Xing screamed in a shrill manner before glaring at her robe that seemed be on its last leg.

"At least you were able to kill Shui Linglong, the deputy sect leader", Lin huang comforted, feeling somewhat guilty about all that has happened during this trip.

Lin Huang carefully observed the surroundings, earlier today they had run into a Corpse puppet, identical to the one they had initially been tracking.

So he began to feel impatient with all that has been happening and couldn't wait to enter the city to solve his problem.

"Let's change before entering the city"

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Meanwhile, Gu Lin Fang was getting ready to refine 3 Puppets tonight, especially with the Xu patriarch's body.

He released about 5 corpses from his spatial ring and laid them in front of him. Among them, were the silver ranked assassin twins, who tried to kill him before, And the remaining two were corpses of the Xu family warriors.

Chanting an incantation, he pulled out the Nascent soul in his possession and with a cold light flashing in his blood red eyes, three strands of his blood mist qi crashed into the space between the eyebrows of the baby sized Nascent soul.

He wanted to plant his own soul brand in it's mind, just as it was suggested in the corpse refining technique.

The baby sized soul snapped open it's tightly closed eyes, emitting an abnormal black light as it cried silently.

Gu Lin Fang's body began to quiver, thick veins began to squirm on his face as he continued chanting.

After a while, the Nascent soul hung in the air without support, his blood mist Qi rotated around it as it's light green color began changing into red.

Beads of sweats dripped from his forehead as the consumption of his internal Qi was very fierce.

Suddenly, Gu Lin Fang poked himself with a claw and five drops of blood shot towards the space between the eyebrows of the baby. These drops of blood was quickly absorbed like a sponge and the sound of a beating heart could be heard in the surrounding.

It was only after this, that Gu Lin Fang sighed in relief.

He laughed loudly as a sense of accomplishment washed over him.

[Ding!]

[Calculating mind Lv 2]

"What?!!" Shocked by the notification, he read the notification again.

After seeing the confirmation, He couldn't help muttering to himself, "Traits and Personality can level up?".