Chapter 3 – Obtaining the Quest

Lu Chaoge stood by the cliff, facing the cool breeze of the night, with a look of assuredness on his face.

After hearing the system beep, he skillfully opened his [Character Panel] to check his panel information.

“Just as I thought, it’s an NPC1 template.” Lu Chaoge said.

Now that he had crossed over into the Tianxuan Realm, wasn’t that the same as becoming an NPC (non-player character) in the game!

But the good thing was that he seemed to have all the functions that players had, but only some of them were open for the time being, and the rest was locked.

Lu Chaoge continued to browse through the panel and the information was as follows.

Name: Lu Chaoge

Race: Human

Level: Level 10 (Primordial Realm Completed)

Health Points: 510/510

Spiritual Power: 1295/1300 2

Root and Bone: 1 (Can be upgraded to a maximum of 10.)

Sword Dao Aptitude: 1 (Upgradable, capped at 10.)

Luck: 3.1415926 (Permanently fixed, not upgradeable.)

Charisma: 10 (Has reached the upper limit.)

Character Panel Comprehensive Summary:

[Amazingly handsome but lacking in talent.]

After browsing through his character panel, Lu Chaoge didn’t have much emotional ups and downs, in his opinion, panel information was just panel information, as the Chosen One, there must be certain hidden traits in him that were invisible on the panel.

And these hidden traits were undoubtedly the most crucial things.

Therefore, the various attributes on the panel did not affect his confidence.

That must be it! 3

“Not to mention…” Lu Chaoge swept a glance at his [Experience Points].

In the column of experience value, it was marked [Upgradeable].

Don’t look at the fact that his current character level wasn’t high, only level 10. However, over the years, with many functions still locked, he had silently accumulated a lot of experience points through some special ways.

With the accumulation over time, it was already a considerable amount.

It was only that he could not use the experience value to upgrade because the functions were not open earlier, which rendered all these experience points useless.

But this also gave him the bottom line.

It was like having a frozen amount of money on your bank card, although you don’t know when it will be unfrozen…

Finally, Lu Chaoge took a look at the thing he cared most about – [Resurrection Coins]!

The display then read – [Resurrection Coins: 5]

This meant that he had five chances to resurrect and could fake a corpse even if he died.

Looking at the [Resurrection Coins], the smile on Lu Chaoge’s face became more and more sinister and impetuous, and the colour of his tug grew stronger.

After closing off his character panel, Lu Chaoge looked at the time until in-game beta, which was still 30 days away.

“The speed of time flow is different between the Tianxuan Realm and Earth, 30 days on Earth is 300 days in Tianxuan.” Lu Chaoge thought.

This wasn’t really a particularly outrageous thing, even online games in the 21st century wouldn’t be set in a 1:1 ratio with the real world in terms of time.

And a lot of the time, people’s concept of time is actually sometimes so vague that it’s hard to perceive it yourself.

For example, when you’re in bed and you think you’re going to sleep for just a little while longer, the result is predictable.

But there are times when you seem to have had a long, long dream, but you’ve actually only been asleep for a short while.

A lot of the time, the game experience in the Tianxuan Realm does seem like a dream.

“In 300 days, there will be players descending.” Lu Chaoge was somewhat looking forward to this.

Ever since he found out that he had crossed over before the game’s internal beta one of the questions that Lu Chaoge thought about the most was whether he would still be able to encounter the players or not.

In his opinion, a Tianxuan Realm without players would be a lot less fun.

At the same time, as an NPC, in his opinion, weren’t the players the best tool people could use?

And in order to welcome the players as the current head of the Mo Sect, Lu Chaoge felt that he needed to make some preparations.

…

After being alone by the cliff for a while longer, Lu Chaoge went back inside his bamboo house.

Everyone in the Mo Sect lived in bamboo houses, just in a different class.

Of course, it was true that the Mo Sect was not rich either.

The Sword Sect was the largest sect in Qingzhou, and there were 300 sects under it, divided into the Upper, Middle, and Lower Hundred Sects.

The Mo Sect, however, was at the bottom of the lower hundred sects.

However, in Lu Chaoge’s view, this was only temporary.

Putting aside the fact that he was the Chosen One, when his sister developed, she would definitely be a powerhouse!

“It’s just that Little Li’s nature is too bad.” Lu Chaoge deeply disliked this.

Her being so steady was completely detrimental to making a name for the clan.

Actually, according to reason, with the overall strength of the Mo Sect, it was not worthy of becoming a subordinate sect of the Sword Sect, but the Mo Sect was glorious in the past, and when it was at its strongest, it was able to rank among the top of the [Middle Hundred Sects].

In those days, the Mo Sect had also done a lot of work for the Sword Sect, so even though it had fallen further and further into decline, it had still not been removed from the Sword Sect and enjoyed some of the resources that were given to the sects under the Sword Sect.

Of course, apart from historical reasons, there are two other major reasons.

One was because one of the Sword Sect’s now famous elder-level figures was so close to Lu Chaoge’s mother that she was like a sister.

Exactly what made these two women, who were worlds apart in cultivation, have an unbreakable friendship, Lu Chaoge was not sure.

All he knew was that… He had someone on top of him!

This female elder of the Sword Sect is the woman above Lu Chaoge’s head.

And the second reason is, within the Mo Sect, there is suspected to be another high-level person present.

The current Mo Sect, counting the newly initiated Xiao Qiu, has a total of ten people who are in the sect.

They are the Sect Leader, Lu Chaoge, the only Elder, Lu Dongli, and eight outer disciples.

Outside of this, there is another very special existence, somewhat belonging to the sect4. This type of person, generally known within the sect as a [Benefactor], is a bit like a guest in the house of a powerful nobleman.

Lu Chaoge is the 36th generation head of the Mo Sect, and this servant was picked up by the 31st generation head when he went on a trip.

Most of the time, the priest was in seclusion in the mountains and Lu Chaoge had never seen him before.

But it was rumoured that this man had once struck a blow a hundred years ago, and his cultivation was not bad.

“Ten members of the sect, plus one hanging around.” This was the current situation of the Mo Sect.

In fact, this donor, rather than hanging around, Lu Chaoge preferred to call him a lying corpse.

He walked out of his bamboo house, and after walking a short distance outside, he saw a small mound of earth with a wordless stone tablet stuck on it, a lonely grave.

Lu Chaoge squatted down, raised his own right hand and gently knocked on the stone tablet twice before speaking up and asking, “Senior, are you still there?”

Yes, this benefactor lies in seclusion within the tomb all year round.

The small seclude in the wild, the great seclude in the city, and the divine seclude in the tomb.

The good thing about this act is that if this benefactor really died, Lu Chaoge wouldn’t need to bury this person.

The downside was that Lu Chaoge had no idea whether the priest was dead or not.

Not long after tapping the stone tablet twice, the lonely grave responded with a wisp of smoke.

“You’re still there!”

“That’s fine then.” Lu Chaoge stood up and waved his hand before returning the way he came.

After ascertaining the members of his own sect, Lu Chaoge returned to the house, took a deep breath and opened his [Mission Interface].

After 21 years, the quest system was finally activated, and he finally had the ability to do quests to earn experience value.

Only since the game hadn’t even started its internal beta yet, let alone the public beta, the plot quests were still locked, but the sect quests were already open.

The so-called sect quests, the quest system will give different quests depending on your status within the sect.

At this moment, the sect quest column was flashing with a bright light, displaying [Pending Collection].

Lu Chaoge didn’t even think about it, and decisively chose to collect the mission.

“[Ding! Sect Identification in progress!]”

“[Ding! Identity has been confirmed, your identity is: the Mo Sect, Sect Leader.”]

“[Ding! You have successfully received the sect’s main quest: Expanding the Mo Sect!]”

“[Please click here for mission details!]”

 

My keyboard’s dying lol. Can’t use most of the keys on the right, and I have to push the D key really hard for it to work. It’s annoying to edit without the backspace key tbh, so maybe less updates for now? Well, I don’t have a schedule, so it probably wouldn’t be obvious if I upload less.

Also, tried some changes to several terms. I’ll see which ones I like and keep those. Expect edits.
Edit (06/08/2022): Changed some terms again, probably final for now.

Tianxuan World –> Heavenly Mystic Realm –> Tianxuan RealmLu Chao Ge –> Lu ChaogeSwordsmanship –> Sword Dao Aptitude

1 NPC means Non-Player Character

2 Note from Author: When Lu Dongli and Xiaoqiu went up the mountain just now, the wind stopped and Lu Chaoge used the Spiritual Wind Technique once, blowing up the corners of his clothes.

3 “脑补就完事了！” was the original text, not completely sure about it so I put it here.

4 Not sure about this one.