Master of Kaidan-Chapter 423: This Illusion Is Somewhat Ominous

Entry: The Sound Attack System Tutor Who Plays on a Coffin Board

Tags: [Universal], [Craftsman], [Musician], [Expert], [Master], [Coffin Board]

Summary: In the cross-generational full-dive virtual reality game, there’s this magical NPC who resides at the entrance of the Newbie Village—the Daichai Tree Village. On the surface, he’s a lute maker using coffin boards to create instruments, while also serving as the village woodworker offering small trinkets to both residents and players.

Yet, according to meticulous gamers’ conjectures, he may be a hidden NPC with an extensive task chain, possessing formidable combat power. A wooden sword crafted casually from scraps can even rival divine weapons that carve iron as if it were mud.

According to the strategy guides of top players, as long as one possesses sufficient musical literacy, one can take him as a master and learn a variety of sound attack skills.

What’s most talked about, however, is that as long as you provide him with the corresponding crafting blueprint, he can create the related instrument and master it quickly—as long as it doesn’t require electricity.

Powers: [Follow the Map], [Teaching], [Seven-Orifice Exquisite]

Current World Rules: [Skill Tutor]

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"It turned out okay, but isn’t this entry a bit outrageous?" Standing on the streets of the "real world," Feng Xue felt the new entry crystallizing within her, as salt kept flashing back and forth between her hands.

The entry itself was rather unexceptional, being just a game NPC; to players, it was akin to seeing entries like "[Blue][Plastic Stool][Red]"—even more, it’s like a humorous take on a Kaidan, and all three powers were things Feng Xue inherently had.

[Follow the Map], a somewhat derogatory power, allowed her to create True Objects based on blueprints. No matter how outrageous the item, she could craft it if the blueprints were genuine. However, this power overlapped with Mystical Lord’s [Cleverly Crafted], which didn’t even need blueprints and could also optimize.

[Teaching] was an instructional ability, but now Feng Xue could regularly produce books with entries. If it weren’t for the fear of adding some strange rules to the world, making a secret manual by hand was not too difficult, and compared to teaching little by little, directly issuing skill books was clearly more convenient.

As for the talent [Seven-Orifice Exquisite], for humans, it would indeed be a top-tier gift as it granted an extreme capacity for learning. If you met the learning criteria, you could pick up new skills quickly.

But the problem was, Feng Xue was a damn Kaidan. If she wanted to master a craft, she didn’t even need to learn; as long as others believed she could do it, then she could. Although this power made learning easier, it hardly seemed necessary to nurture an entry for this sole reason.

The Kaidan wasn’t just about entries; the Companion Phantom Object it spawned was also rather absurd. Feng Xue had thought it might materialize a crafting tool or a main-hand weapon that could transform into any instrument. Instead, it materialized a coffin board—

Name: Phantom Object·Endless Coffin Board

Elements: [Infinite], [Material], [Tool], [Weapon], [Coffin Board]

Summary: The signature tool of the Sound Attack System Tutor who plays on a coffin board. Because of his role in instrument fabrication, this skill tutor has prepared a plethora of quality coffin boards. Depending on the instrument needed, he always has a corresponding type of wood available, from paulownia and poplar to purple sandalwood and camphor—even occasionally a piece of gloomy wood.

Note: Although mainly used for making instruments, hitting someone with it directly also hurts!

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Although speechless about this creation, considering it was an object that could endlessly produce high-quality wood, Feng Xue carefully stuffed it into her guitar case. Well, since it had a weapon attribute, even a coffin board could fit in. ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom

After getting her emotions in order, Feng Xue then started walking on the street. This "real world" wasn’t much different from Chen Xiyao’s "real world," mainly a difference in timelines by about six years, now being the year 2022. People on the streets were at least somewhat clinging to various types of smartphones, and the cars and electric bikes were largely similar to those in the real world.

However, it wasn’t right to assume both worlds were exactly the same, especially since Feng Xue couldn’t recognize a single celebrity on the billboards, nor was she familiar with the logos on those cars.

The language spoken by passersby, though comprehensible with the power of the [Translation Devil’s Tongue], was, in reality, a dialect similar to Yan Country’s in grammar but quite different in script and pronunciation.

"I don’t feel the power of the Kaidan at all!"

Feng Xue lightly tapped her head, feeling a sense of disappointment. She had thought that upon arriving at the real world, she would immediately sense traces of the game’s Kaidan. But now it seemed she had overthought it.

After pondering for a moment, she slightly adjusted the [Hermit] power to look more like a local in dress, then took out the Ambulance Demon’s phone to start accessing the local network.

"The news about Jianghu’s last non-deletion beta test is everywhere, but why is there no response from the Kaidan at all? I had thought it would be a special Kaidan that parasitized the internet!"

Feng Xue locked the phone screen and turned back to the place of her Descent—a university.

The current world rule of [Skill Tutor] was another reason Feng Xue disliked this entry. The conditions were quite stringent:

It required a person with the identity of a player in the game "Jianghu," who had the "desire to learn a certain skill," and at the same time, Feng Xue had to possess that skill before a Descent could occur.

Although from a common-sense perspective, the number of players should increase as the game developed, but in reality, how many years can a game last? Even if the game was backed by a Kaidan, as the game became less game-like and as that world was swept clean by the Fourth Catastrophe, would players still log in, just to see that ravaged world?

The Destructive Power of the Fourth Catastrophe was something Feng Xue never hesitated to speculate about with the utmost malice.

"But at least for now, it’s not a problem." Feng Xue glanced at the young players still attending class, patiently waiting for the bell to ring. Speaking of which, she wondered what the mechanism behind the gaming helmets of this world was. If it was a Phantom Object, then so be it. But if it was a True Object made with Power, she wondered if she could replicate it. Moreover, if the True Object were taken to Chen Xiyao’s side, would it become a Pseudo Artifact...

"Wait a minute!"

A stroke of inspiration suddenly flashed through Feng Xue’s mind, as if her brain were under laser sniper fire, producing a flood of inspiration. In that instant, the previously disdained [Follow the Map] power suddenly became endearing.

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