Chapter 340 - Chapter 340: 340, [Learning Swordsmanship]

Chapter 340: 340, [Learning Swordsmanship]

“Lu Xun of the Demon Sect”, the four words hung at the top, catching all players’ attention.

“Purple Palace is badass! Our Demon Sect is awesome!” The Demon Sect players began to cheer.

“World Protagonist evidence is ironclad!”

“Hold on, aren’t you comparing with the others on the leaderboard? The contribution points of the Purple Palace are ridiculously high!”

“Yeah, that’s what, how many multiples of the second place? Let me do the math, wait for me for half an hour.”

In fact, there were quite a few people on the leaderboard, both NPCs and players.

After all, as long as the Foreign Race is killed, contribution points can be earned. The first batch of the Foreign Race has probably been on the Heavenly Dust Continent for a while, and there are likely quite a few of them. Logically, it’s impossible for there to be no friction with the natives, so it’s normal for a few NPCs to have killed members of the foreign race.

As for players killing the Foreign Race, that’s even more reasonable. After all, the Foreign Race members are all marked red, and players treat them like wild monsters, cutting them down on sight without any banter.

And after the killing, they might not even know what they’ve killed…

But because players have low cultivation bases, they can only kill the most insignificant members of the Foreign Race, and their contribution points are minuscule.

Currently, the player with the most contribution points has only 21…

That’s even less than a fraction of Lu Xun’s points.

The NPCs’ scores are relatively higher.

Like Tianhe Shangren of the Tianque Gate, who killed sixty-plus level Liu Ying.

He just happens to occupy the second position on the leaderboard.

Technically, Tianhe Shangren shouldn’t be able to make it on the leaderboard.

He’s way too many levels above the players.

When he was last in retreat, he was already at the peak of the sixth realm and broke through to the seventh realm after coming out of retreat.

But because he left retreat forcibly, his cultivation base was completely wasted. He preserved the last few years of his life with the help of Lu Xun’s green pearl and could never cultivate again, becoming an old man at level 0. Thus, he somehow made it onto the leaderboard…

His contribution points are also only 600 points.

400 points came from Liu Ying and 200 points came from the giant eagle beast controlled by Liu Ying.

But look at Lu Xun, that’s a whopping 13187 points!

Isn’t that excessive?

In fact, looking at this leaderboard, Lu Xun doesn’t find it surprising.

“Low-level Foreign Races aren’t worth much. I killed so many outside Lotus Village and only totaled 87 points. This player having 21 points is already pretty good,” Lu Xun thought.

“And the valuable Foreign Races have high levels. Players can’t kill them even in groups. Charging in to cut them down is just feeding them.”

“The NPCs that can kill these kinds of Foreign Races are definitely much higher level than players and aren’t within the leaderboard rules.”

“The most reliable example is Senior Yanli.”

“Senior Yanli must have killed a lot of Foreign Races, seeing as the teacher always sent him out to deal with them. The foreign woman I saw alone had a high level.”

“But Senior Yanli’s level is too high to be counted.”

“That’s right, Gongshu Pan should also have quite a few contribution points. After all, he was mainly responsible for destroying the altar in the Lost Forest. I only grazed 500 points of contribution, and he should have several thousand. After all, altars are the most valuable, each usually starts at five thousand.”

“But he’s over level 80. When players level up to 60, he still won’t be able to make it on the leaderboard… It’s a pity I didn’t see the names Zhuge Lai Fu and Gongshu Pan on the leaderboard in my previous life, haha!”

“My high contribution points are mainly because I destroyed several altars. If you rely on killing Foreign Races to collect contribution points, it’s not easy to gather them, and it’s arduous,” Lu Xun thought to himself.

However, while these contribution points appear reasonable to him, to the players, it’s a totally different story!

After all, this leaderboard just started, and players are in the exploratory stage, only half understanding how to get contribution points. They don’t get it at all.

All they feel is a huge visual impact from these numbers; they appear awesome!

“I’m flabbergasted! Over ten thousand contribution points, what the hell did Purple Palace do to the Foreign Race!?” A silly player commented on the forum.

“Poor Foreign Race, they must have suffered a ruthless attack from the World Protagonist!”

“It’s too cruel, have the Foreign Race been abused? Purple Palace didn’t secretly perform any huge surprises, did they?”

“The guess above is probably correct, the possibility is extremely high. These insane contribution points surely aren’t just from killing the Foreign Race, there must have been something crucial for the whole Heavenly Dust Continent! Worthy of being the World Protagonist!”

“Purple Palace is truly handsome and low-key, pity about the lack of strength!”

“You guys talk a lot, I only have one thing to say: Purple Palace is awesome!”

“Purple Palace is awesome +1!”

“Purple Palace is awesome +1!”

Then, the echo mode began…

Seeing the comments on the forum, Lu Xun smiled faintly.

In his past life, he dreamt of ranking high on the Faction Contribution Points Leaderboard, not just out of vanity while playing the game, but more so to increase his exposure and thus get more tasks and earn more money.

Who would have thought that after crossing over, he not only made it to the leaderboard but also in a dust-leading manner?

But what he’s anticipating more now is something else.

He’s waiting for the game version to update!

Now that the Contribution Points Leaderboard has appeared, the Contribution Points Mall should be coming too, right?

Yes, contribution points have many other wonderful uses. They can be exchanged for many special items in the mall!

The Contribution Points leader board recorded historical total data. Even if the points were consumed, the figures on the board would not decrease.

Thus, he can spend without concern.

Now, Lu Xun holds a high position. Backed by his mentor and the entire Demon Sect and with his third senior brother, a super wealthy player, available to exploit, he should have lacked nothing, in theory.

Yet in reality, there were so many useful special items in the Contribution Points Mall that held a great appeal to him!

Finally, after a few minutes, a prompt message popped up before his eyes.

“Ding! The Contribution Points Mall has been automatically triggered!”

“Mall opening…”

“Current progress: 1.7%”

Seeing these prompts, Lu Xun was elated.

Although such minor updates do not require all players to be logged out, they are exceptionally time-consuming.

He’d probably need to wait for quite a while.

After eating half an orange that Ji Li had peeled for him, Lu Xun rose to take his leave.

After all, this was the Outer Sect of the Demon Sect, teeming with people. It was inappropriate for him and Ji Li to be alone together for too long… Ji Li would become a target for envy!

Harsh but true. Those who wanted something to happen with Lu Xun could form a line all the way from the Eastern Region to West State.

“I’m going back to the back mountain first. You focus on preparing for the advancement assessment,” he told Ji Li.

“Okay!” Ji Li nodded, and then asked, “Lu Xun, will you come to my assessment?”

“I probably will,” Lu Xun smiled and said. “So, do your best and remember not to embarrass yourself.”

“Humph! As if I would!” Ji Li was quite confident about this.

But knowing that Lu Xun would be there in person, the little brown-noser would definitely go all out.

“I’m leaving,” Lu Xun said, took out the paper crane, and started flying toward the back mountain.

Ji Li stayed there, propping her cheek with one hand and watched him leave.

After arriving in the back mountain, Lu Xun first caught a fat fish from the creek. Then, he leisurely headed toward the Small Study.

Outside the Small Study, Mao Nanbei was sprawled on her personal vine chair, sunbathing.

Mao Nanbei’s eyes were half-closed, seemingly enjoying herself quite a bit. She would occasionally lick her cat paws or slowly swing her tail tip.

Now Lu Xun understood why Mao Nanbei, despite being more than a hundred years old, still liked to nibble her paws so much.

However, it’s quite normal for cats to lick their paws. On the other hand, if she also did this after transforming… geez, that would be something to see!

Seeing Lu Xun return, Mao Nanbei immediately jumped down from the vine chair and leapt onto Lu Xun’s shoulder.

Lu Xun was holding a fat fish in his left hand. He raised his right hand to stroke Mao Nanbei’s head.

Mao Nanbei looked around. Both the mentor and the third senior brother were inside, and Little Chan had gone to the kitchen to chop chili peppers. There was nobody else outside the Small Study.

So, she only symbolically dodged once and did not bother to struggle further.

Her only hint of vanity was that no matter how comfortably Lu Xun stroked her, she absolutely would not make a sound, not at all!

Suddenly comfortable, she barely managed to hold a “meow” in her throat.

When Lu Xun had gotten his fill and stopped petting the cat, she felt somewhat lost.

Lu Xun’s cat-petting skills were getting better and better.

“Let’s go, Fourth Sister. I’ll roast you this fish tonight,” Lu Xun lifted the fat fish with his other hand and said.

This immediately triggered Mao Nanbei’s appetite.

She raised her cat paw, pointing towards the kitchen, meowed as if giving an order: “Charge!”

Lu Xun roughly understood what she wanted and smiled, saying, “Okay!”

Then, he briskly walked toward the kitchen.

Lin Chan, who was chopping chili peppers in the kitchen, saw Lu Xun and quickly took the fish, helping him scale it.

After the sun went down, everyone gathered in the bamboo forest for dinner.

After dinner, the mentor glanced at Lin Chan and then at Lu Xun. He said, “Starting from tomorrow, Little Five, Little Chan, you two should go learn swordplay from Little Gui.”

“Ah? Learn swordplay from Elder Gui?” Lu Xun immediately grew interested.

Keep in mind, even Senior Yanli had learned swordplay from Elder Gui.

The mentor nodded and tilted his head up at a 45-degree angle to gaze at the night sky. He said, “Little Gui is a bit ordinary, doesn’t have much to show off. He’s lived these many years, and his only strengths are his high resistance and his decent swordplay skills. You two should learn well and increase your self-defense capabilities.”

Lu Xun twitched his lips in his heart and thought, “Elder Gui’s swordplay managed to defeat Ping Shanhai!”

Nevertheless, he knew well that the mentor wasn’t disparaging Elder Gui. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have told them to learn and train earnestly.

In the mentor’s eyes, even though Elder Gui was quite old by now, he was still that young boy who followed him around, carrying an old book basket, barely able to walk swiftly.

(First release for today. I’m asking for monthly passes, so I can at least accumulate ten thousand votes today…)