NOVEL NEXT Chapter 17 - 17 017, [What's so great about jumping off a cliff]
17 017, [What’s so great about jumping off a cliff]
Translator: Henyee Translations
Editor: Henyee Translations
Lu Xun’s words created a moment of silence, everyone was dumbstruck for a few seconds, no one said a word.
The elder’s disciple?
What’s this man thinking? He wants to become the elder’s disciple?
Already so good-looking, yet he’s aiming even higher!
Upon hearing this, Mao Nanbei initially found it absurd, but couldn’t help but take another look at Lu Xun. Was he… feeling a bit of admiration?
“No wonder I chose him as my mount, he has ambition, has a vision!” the little girl started bragging again.
The surrounding disciples were whispering, which she found somewhat annoying, resulting in a slight raise of her eyebrows.
If this were the outside world, she might have gotten angry: “Loud again? Keep it up and I’ll lop off your head!”
But after all, these here are her juniors, and she has an image to uphold, an elder’s image to maintain, although she always seems to fail…
Seeing Mao Nanbei’s raised eyebrow, Elder Qiu Shui probably guessed her discontent and said coldly: “Silence!”
The disciples obediently closed their mouths, but their eyes remained fixed on Lu Xun.
In fact, even Elder Qiu Shui was curious, such person hadn’t appeared in a long time.
The Elder does take on disciples, but he has never publicly announced that Mao Nanbei was his closed-door disciple.
Since she’s not a closed-door disciple, that means he’s willing to take on more disciples.
The Elder enjoys teaching, it’s no secret, it’s just that his standard for accepting disciples is somewhat whimsical.
He is a person who puts a premium on fate, and he is also eccentric. Each time he sets a different condition for accepting a disciple, and once he finds a disciple who meets the condition, he changes the condition.
Like the previous disciple acceptance condition was:
“I like cats, I want to take a cat demon as a disciple.”
Then he went down the mountain for a few years and when he came back, Mao Nanbei was already resting on his shoulder.
Just like that, a small cat demon inexplicably became one of the highest-ranking members of the Demon Sect.
Even the Sect Master had to respectfully call her junior master when he saw her.
The actions of the Elder have always been capricious, even somewhat rash.
No one knows what he’s thinking now, and no one knows what he’ll think next, anyway he has quite a few patterns.
He has his own standards, it’s not like if you’re a one-of-a-kind genius, with an extraordinary talent, a rare talent in a hundred years the elder will necessarily like you.
After all, he himself is one of the most legendary figures in the Heavenly Dust Continent, such geniuses, the elder in his long years, should have beaten quite a few.
As for the disciple acceptance standard that the Elder set new, it sounded a bit exaggerated when said out loud, or rather, a task that was almost impossible to complete.
So, when Lu Xun asked this question, Mao Nanbei instinctively froze for a moment.
After thinking about it, she looked at Lu Xun and said: “Do you really want to know?”
“Mm.” Lu Xun nodded.
In fact, he knew what the disciple acceptance standard was this time, the lucky guy from the previous year knew the standard after completing some hidden missions, was brought to the Demon Sect, and after successfully meeting the requirements, he was accepted by the elder as a disciple.
The entire process had a post on the forum, Lu Xun had read it completely and followed the crowd in the comments to reply: “Jealousy makes me hideous, jealousy isolates me.”
The reason he asked again was to make sure.
After all, “Heavenly Dust” hasn’t even started public testing yet, he’s essentially traveled back to three years ago, who knows if the standard is the same?
If the conditions are the same, then he will have to use one of his three lives.
Mao Nanbei sat on Murong Yan’s shoulder, looking at Lu Xun eye-to-eye.
A mountain breeze blew, lifting her hair strands.
Her cat ears moved slightly with the wind, after considering for a moment, she said: “The first condition, must be a mortal with no cultivation base.”
“You meet this first condition.”
Lu Xun let out a sigh of relief, the reason he hadn’t formally practiced the Qi Consumption Technique yet was because of this condition.
“Are there any other conditions?” He continued.
“The second condition, the person must be under 30 years old.” Mao Nanbei continued.
Although Lu Xun had traveled into a game character, at character creation, he chose an 18-year-old appearance, so he also met this condition.
But he didn’t know why there would be such a condition, to actually look at age.
Many people think that cultivating immortality is like martial arts training, it needs to be started from childhood, otherwise it’s hard to accomplish anything in this life, this notion is rather absurd.
Even in some Chinese folktales, there are many stories of elderly people attaining enlightment and ascending to immortality.
“Are there any other conditions?” Lu Xun continued to ask.
The little girl said gravely: “Yes.”
She walked to the edge of the cliff, looking down and said: “Jump down, hit the ground, and then not die.”
The surrounding disciples couldn’t help but gasp.
Ji Li was so nervous that she couldn’t help but grip Lu Xun’s sleeve tighter.
How could a mortal not die from falling off the Lead Peak?
The mountain peak was so high that it reached the clouds, even if a cultivator fell straight down, most of them would also be smashed into a pulp!
A “pia—” sound, and then a splash of blood.
It’s been said before, The shape of the Lead Peak is very peculiar, it’s particularly solitary, looking very straight, with no vegetation at all, and the peak is flattened, just like a sword sheath.
Situations like hanging on a tree after falling off a cliff clearly can’t happen, after all this mountain peak is bald.
Not only the top is bald, but the whole mountain is bald.
After the elder set this rule, he even maliciously had the Sect Master send someone to “decorate” the Lead Peak, cutting off the more protruding places on the mountain, making it look even more upright, falling onto any rock was impossible!
Yes, wherever it protrudes, it gets cut!
Too terrifying!
And the third condition was made very clear:
——Jump down, hit the ground, and not die.
You have to hit the ground!
It’s absolutely impossible, okay?
This is no longer a matter of luck, it’s simply impossible.
After the little girl finished speaking, she signaled for Murong Yan to get closer to Lu Xun. She sat on Murong Yan’s shoulder, leaned into Lu Xun’s ear, and whispered:
“Don’t seek death, obediently be my mount, even if you’re just a mount, your status will be the same as Qiu Shui’s.”
The corner of Elder Qiu Shui’s mouth twitched slightly, with her cultivation base, she could clearly hear everything!
Who knew that Lu Xun would ask: “That’s it?”
“What do you mean ‘that’s it’?” Mao Nanbei asked.
“The elder’s conditions for accepting disciples.”
“Yes, that’s all.”
Then, she saw Lu Xun nod at her, following which, he turned around and ran towards the edge of the cliff.
Everyone was startled, some even wanted to stop him, but they were pinned down by an invisible force, unable to move.
Everyone watched wide-eyed as the handsome man jumped off the cliff without hesitation!
——A shocking leap!
Before jumping, he even took a very cool running start.
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