Ch79 - If you look again, I’ll dig your eyes ou (1/2)

Su Xuanyan was like a boss in human form, and with his help, collecting materials for Xue Ling’s sword went quite smoothly. Presumably because his heart felt at ease around the man, Xue Ling did not try to hide anything from him, skipping the prerequisite quest chains and going directly to the final destination. They would kill off the boss, get the materials Xue Ling wanted, and leave.

The man felt a bit helpless, but also rather joyful. Xue Ling clearly knew that what he was doing was not normal, but had no intention of hiding it from him, and everything he did in front of him seemed so normal, so natural, that Su Xuanyan felt extraordinarily pleased. So, he casually tore away the data from certain places completely, ensuring that the main computer was so busy that it had no time to worry about what its precious disciple was doing.

Once he had collected enough materials, it was time to start crafting his sword. Xue Ling had originally planned to craft it in the sect, but the sect had just accepted quite a lot of newcomers that were also trying to forge their own swords. It would be bad if he caused a scene and exposed his sword’s peculiarities, so Xue Ling debated for a while and agreed to Su Xuanyan’s suggestion to craft his sword in a secret place he had found.

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Su Xuanyan was even more mysterious than Xue Ling, and knew a lot about the game. He was especially knowledgeable about the game’s secrets, but Xue Ling did not look deeply into his identity. The two of them maintained a strange sense of harmony as they teamed up to kill monsters and occasionally flirted with each other, but they did not speak clearly about anything. Xue Ling found his interest piqued by this kind of situation, and was particularly happy spending time with the man like this.

The higher one’s level of sword cultivation was, the higher their chances of success when crafting their sword. Right now, the new players would not bond with their swords even if they could make them, and only use it for regular practice and as a handy weapon. But Xue Ling was different. Although this was his first time making a sword, he planned to make an artifact level sword that would grow with him and become his life bonded sword.

Su Xuanyan did exactly what he said he would. Not only did he really find Xue Ling a concealed place where he could craft his sword, but he also acted as his dao guardian outside. Xue Ling brought out all the materials that they had collected over the past few days and began to craft according to the process the system had looked up for him. He casually cheated, and maxed out his forging ability, which made the entire process extremely smooth. Only, in the moment when the sword was finished, Xue Ling sensed that the sword was trying to break away from his will.

This was an artifact level sword with a sword spirit. The sword spirit inside the sword panicked; it was not yet awake, but it obviously did not want to be used by the low-levelled Xue Ling. Xue Ling was too lazy to ** with a sword spirit and directly erased it. He had the system enter the sword instead, becoming an existence similar to a sword spirit.

The artifact was completed in a grand way, but the man suppressed all the visual effects into a restricted space, and nobody noticed anything at all.

It was only when Xue Ling came out carrying his sword that he discovered that there had been no strange occurrences outside. Despite that, he was very clear that the lightning tribulation had come and gone, as ten strikes of lightning had struck directly onto his sword. After absorbing the power of the lightning, the sword had become even more translucent, and held an iciness within that could be felt even in the surroundings. As its owner, Xue Ling was not affected, but Su Xuanyan could feel a chill from the sword.

He nodded and praised, “Not bad.”

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Xue Ling curved his lips in a rare smile, somewhat proud and arrogant as he raised his head slightly. “Of course. You should consider who made the sword.”

Su Xuanyan reached out a hand and pinched his face as he smiled rather indulgently. “Let’s go, then. It’s not suitable for you to stay here too long. It won’t be good if someone finds out.”

Xue Ling looked around curiously. When they had arrived, he had seen a green forest, but now as he left the mountain cave, the scene before his eyes began to change. The greenery began to decrease slowly, as if it could no longer be sustained and was slowly disintegrating.

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“Where is this?”

“The Devil World.” Su Xuanyan put his finger on his lips and whispered, “This is the Venerable Devil’s place. I quietly snuck you in, but if he finds out, it’s over.”

“Are you one of the Venerable Devil’s subordinates?”

“No.” Su Xuanyan always made people feel very gentle and affectionate when he smiled. Presumably because when he was sincere towards a person, he would place that person first in all things, so the feeling of being taken care of by him was very wonderful. At least, Xue Ling particularly enjoyed it.

They left the Devil World, following the road that Su Xuanyan indicated. Xue Ling listened as Su Xuanyan said, “I only drilled a small hole to bring you in. There is nobody else in the Devil World other than the Venerable Devil, so any visual effects that occurred would not be seen by anyone. I only dared to bring you here because there’s no storyline related to the Venerable Devil yet, so he’s probably still sleeping. I also can’t stay here for long.” Before he could confirm Xue Ling’s attitude towards the Sealed Devil, Su Xuanyan did not want to take the risk of letting him know anything. He liked this feeling of ‘killing mobs’ with him. Everything around them was clearly virtual, just as fake as it had always been, but as long as this person was in the midst of it, everything that happened seemed as real as flesh and blood to him.

From the time when he discovered that this was only a game world, and that everything about him had been created, this world had completely collapsed in front of him. He lacked interest in everything, and even those so-called ‘players’ had been unable to arouse the smallest amount of excitement.

He wasn’t interested in this world, and had even less feelings towards the ‘world’ that was outside. He was listlessly wasting his time in the endless passage of time, but this person’s appearance made all his waiting meaningful.

Even if he did not look at him and ignored him, as long as he was standing there, even if it was far away, it was already reason enough for him to let this game world continue to exist.

But how would he let this person not look at him, ignore him, and not have him in his eyes?

Turning his head back to watch Xue Ling as he looked around everywhere, Su Xuanyan hid his expression, and locked away all the darkness and desire that existed in his gaze.

There was no hurry. They could talk about it after he got rid of that damned main computer.

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After leaving the Devil World, Xue Ling noticed a recruitment post on the world channel.

[ Thousand Miles Without Pause: Zi Period instance, two spaces left, looking for two high levelled DPS. ]

As long as players were willing to pay, the recruitment post could be pinned to the most prominent part of the world channel. This recruitment post had not been put up for long, but it seemed that there were still empty spots, which was why it had not been replaced.

It made sense. The players on the rankings who had time all had their own regular teams, and it would be difficult to find players that were both skilled and high levelled to feel out a new instance. After all, it was a game, and everyone had their own cliques. Although the guild system had not opened yet, there were not many independent players.

Xue Ling actually belonged to the independent player group. He clicked on the recruitment post and sent a join request to Thousand Miles Without Pause.

How could Su Xuanyan not see what he was doing? The man did not say much and only automatically switched modes before submitting his own join request.

The two of them had not even taken two steps before their requests were approved. Thousand Miles Without Pause opened a transmission array, and a notification for teleportation appeared before Xue Ling. He really deserved to be the top ranked player; his efficiency was really amazing. Xue Ling raised his eyebrows, and accepted.