Master of Kaidan-Chapter 419: Subtle Influence

"No reason at all? Could it be that I misunderstood?" Feng Xue sat in front of a grass shed, leisurely scraping at a coffin board, but inside, she was muttering to herself. The second beta test of the server had been up for half a month, yet the players’ enemies were always the small animals in the mountains. Some players, in effort to earn money, even went directly to the county town to wash dishes at restaurants. It was said that some even applied to be chefs, hoping to shock this martial world with a little taste of delicious food from the real world.

At first glance, it didn’t seem like a big deal, but it was a far cry from what Feng Xue had expected. Given her understanding of the pace of online games, as players entered the game, there should have been some humanoid monsters or hostile forces beginning to make trouble, whether they were bandits, hoodlums, or roving thieves; there ought to be a channel for players to fight monsters and level up.

Even if it appeared that this game didn’t have levels, there had to be equipment and money. Otherwise, with the current state of affairs, scraping by with money earned from rabbit hunting and grass gathering, it would take half a month’s time just to learn a basic skill from a martial arts school. When the initial excitement wore off, wouldn’t everyone end up as casual players?

She knew that this world was a true world, but since it involved Kaidan, then the Kaidan should at least conform to the game’s characteristics and powers. With such a slow pace, Feng Xue didn’t know when she would have an opportunity to pull off something big!

"Ah—" Emitting a sigh, Feng Xue glanced up at Yun Yao beside her. This girl, with the power of modern technology, had finally managed to learn the piece "Winter Solstice," and so Feng Xue could only reluctantly accept her with a displeased face.

At this moment, she was practicing the Crane Stance—a single-leg pile skill stance developed by Feng Xue, referencing the standing posture of cranes and other birds as well as various pile skills. It trained the lower body, balance, and spirit, and it was also convenient for playing seated instruments like the erhu, guzheng, and guqin, which could be played at any time. Previously, those three rock-genre streamers practiced this.

However, the game system’s assistance to players seemed to be about the same as the labels granted by Infinite City. For more in-depth learning, one had to practice on their own. Seeing Yun Yao shaking all over while standing, Feng Xue unmercifully marched over with the coffin board and placed it on her bent leg.

"Ah!" Yun Yao, already aching all over from standing, suddenly had a heavy weight pressed on her and lost balance, falling to the ground. Before she could even speak up, Feng Xue sighed again.

"You’re really weak, aren’t you? With your current level, I think you should give up on martial arts. I know a few brothels—I could introduce you to a job as a musician. At the very least, you wouldn’t have to worry about clothes and food. Don’t worry, they’re all official courtesans—nobody would allow you to solicit anyway."

"Who wants to go to a brothel!" Yun Yao, who had been about to complain, exploded upon hearing Feng Xue’s words. Gritting her teeth, she stood up again with difficulty, saying angrily:

"You suddenly put such a big board on me; of course, I couldn’t react!"

"Big? This board is the standard size of a guqin, and because it’s hollowed out, it’s even lighter than usual. You think this is heavy? The guzheng is even heavier!"

Seeing that the girl really couldn’t take provocation, Feng Xue grinned. Although she was a bit confused about the game’s progression, it seemed alright to first create a unique label for this world.

Like ’demon teacher’ or something—it sounded interesting.

Watching Feng Xue’s pleased expression, Yun Yao nearly ground her teeth to dust. Yet giving up felt like admitting defeat, so she persisted, while complaining:

"Isn’t there a secret manual or something?"

"A pile skill doesn’t need a secret manual. I’ve already taught you the important points. If there’s something you don’t know, why not just ask?"

"I..." Upon hearing Feng Xue’s words, Yun Yao was about to argue about learning through the system without a secret manual, but then she remembered that NPCs couldn’t understand that. She swiftly changed tack:

"It doesn’t have to be about pile skills. I’m bored standing like this and want something to read to distract myself... Ah! Why did you hit me?"

"I’ve told you over and over that standing in the Crane Stance is for adjusting the balance of spirit and body," Feng Xue said, frustrated. "If you’re distracted, what balance can you maintain? Saying something like this proves you haven’t listened to a single word I’ve taught. Don’t you think you deserve to be punished? If you’re afraid of getting hit, then don’t eat this meal!"

After saying that, Feng Xue went back to his seat. He of course knew that giving out a Secret Manual would help players learn faster, but doing so would make him no different from any other NPC. It was this uniqueness that created a sense of being "special," which would prompt more speculation among the players. ƒгeewebnovёl_com

"I just won’t learn then!" Yun Yao gritted her teeth as she watched Feng Xue begin to hum a tune, more determined than ever to master the skill. However, at the same time, she had a new idea—

"If he doesn’t have a Secret Manual, why can’t I write one myself? It’s already been proven during Identification that anything from the Martial World can be identified. So why wouldn’t a Secret Manual written by me count as a Secret Manual?"

Following this line of thought, Yun Yao became even more creatively active, and Feng Xue soon noticed that she was coming to him with questions more frequently over the next few days.

From questions so stupid a child would know them to some quite profound thoughts, she even sketched a few drawings for his guidance. This made Feng Xue curious about what had made her put aside the arrogance typical of players.

Unbeknownst to Feng Xue, the booklet containing information on the Crane Stance that Yun Yao was writing was getting thicker and thicker.

However, when Yun Yao thought she was ready and tried using the system’s Identification function on her handwritten Secret Manual, she embarrassingly realized that she seemed to no longer need the Secret Manual...

"Ahhh, I mean, it’s great that I’ve learned, but it’s so annoying!!!"

After logging off, the more she thought about it, the angrier Yun Yao became, stamping her feet "bang, bang, bang" until her left leg tingled with numbness and she stopped. She reopened her computer, uploaded the song she recorded that morning, and expertly began to transcribe it.

"Tring, tring, tring—"

The ringtone of her phone suddenly went off. Yun Yao instinctively kicked her right foot out, planning to spin her chair around and grab her phone from the bed. But this kick, unanticipated as it was, resulted in a smack as she fell to the floor, looking around bewildered, only to realize her chair had been off to the side all along.

"Was I just...not sitting on the chair?"

Yun Yao felt her mind go foggy, even suspecting that an invisible person might have entered the house. But with the relentless ring of her phone, she finally put aside her chaotic thoughts and picked up the phone.

"Hello, who is this?"

"Hello, this is Doggy Game Store, you have been selected to..."

"Beep!"

She hung up the spam call immediately and nonchalantly tossed the phone onto the bed. Looking down, she suddenly realized what had happened before—it seemed that she had unknowingly become accustomed to resting in a kind of one-legged, imaginary stool posture...

"So what’s all this about!"

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