The sky overhead was oppressively dull. The banners emblazoned with the words "Seeking a Husband" fluttered noisily in the wind.
On the martial arts stage, Long Yan waited until the characters automatically entered the rest state, but no one dared to step onto the stage to challenge her.
How boring. She just wanted to win some equipment through this.
"Any real man should step up!"
"Why don't you go? You just know how to shout empty words."
"Right, you coward."
People in the crowd started arguing with each other. Long Yan glanced down indifferently. Vaguely, she saw a white figure approaching from afar.
As the figure got closer, it could be seen that it was a young man. He tied his black hair with a blue silk ribbon, and carried a qin on his back. He walked towards her, breaking through the noisy crowd.
"Don't make noise. Someone is going onto the stage!"
Someone shouted, and instantly, it became quiet.
The casual players who had surrounded the stage tightly stepped aside voluntarily, making a path straight through.
Long Yan's round finger finally rested on the sword scabbard. At this moment, her spiritual pet suddenly popped up an option asking if she wanted to check the player.
The special skill of the intelligent spiritual pet was to detect the opponent's strength and weaknesses in advance.
Lin Wan frowned in front of the computer and moved the mouse to click "Check".
Suddenly, the screen went dark, and a three - dimensional figure appeared in the spiritual pet space.
Player background introduction:
Name: Shang Shan Ruo Shui. A fully - leveled qin master.
Attack power: 480,000.
Agility: 480,000.
Immunity: 34,560.
Main skill: Qin Sound Shakes the Four Directions. Full damage, full passive explosive damage. No weaknesses for now.
Except for immunity, everything else was maxed out...
She wondered which crazy gamer had developed a little qin master to such an extent.
Lin Wan frowned slightly. She vaguely felt that her equipment was in danger.
[Do you want to check the ranking on the Jianghu List?]
When this option popped up in the spiritual pet space again, Lin Wan exited without thinking.
How many Shang Shan Ruo Shuis were there in the entire "Legend of Divine Martial Arts"? Wasn't he the number one in the Jianghu?
When the screen lit up again, the man was already standing in front of Long Yan. He untied the silk covering the qin, bowed slightly, and said, "I hope to have a match with the young lady."
After his real voice was processed by the game converter, the male voice coming from the computer's sound source was as gentle as the spring breeze caressing the catkins, with a hint of playfulness.
"Hey, if you win me, you have to be responsible for me."
In the game, Long Yan raised her chin slightly and her eyes lightly fell on him, with a hint of coercion.
No one knew that she didn't really want the man to be responsible for her. Instead, she wanted him to give up the competition.
"I know." Shang Shan Ruo Shui nodded, sat down cross - legged gracefully, and placed the guqin, which had been tempered with divine equipment, on his lap.
Lin Wan's face darkened in front of the computer. If she didn't accept the challenge at this point, it would be a bit unreasonable.
In a blink of an eye, her dexterous fingers tapped the keyboard. In the game, Long Yan drew out her sword from the scabbard, leaped from above and stabbed at Shang Shan Ruo Shui. When everyone thought the move was ordinary, the red figure instantly split into five clones and surrounded the qin master.
Shang Shan Ruo Shui didn't seem to want to fight back. He just gently stroked the strings but didn't play a sound.
The clones gathered, and Long Yan suddenly appeared behind Shang Shan. Amidst the flashing sword lights, the sword stabbed into his heart with a "puff" sound.
[System message: Shang Shan Ruo Shui's HP decreased by 5,000.]
With a total HP of 10,000, one sword had already taken away 5,000. Sure enough, a qin master was just a qin master. He couldn't withstand any damage.
"Damn it, is Shang Shan Ruo Shui going to die?"
"Is the great god asleep? Why doesn't he fight back! Attack her!"
In the first round, Long Yan won. But Lin Wan in front of the computer didn't relax at all. If it were really that easy, he wouldn't have far surpassed others and ranked first.
Lin Wan held the blood - dripping sword, switched to the first - person view, looked at him, and whispered in a voice that only the two of them could hear, "Why don't you get off the stage? Do you really want to marry me?"
"Yeah."
A lively and gentle voice sounded, showing a nonchalant attitude.
The man in front of her raised his hand and gently plucked the strings. The melodious sound of the qin rang out, and several strands of green light surrounded his body. The HP that had been knocked down just now instantly recovered.
He stroked the qin again. The ripples of the qin sound spread out like water waves. Although it seemed like gentle and gurgling water, it was actually using the string sound as a blade and sweeping towards Long Yan.
Long Yan spun around to dodge, but the waves of the qin sound kept sweeping over one after another.
Lin Wan frowned deeply in front of the computer. Her white teeth tightly bit her thin lips. The sound of her typing on the keyboard was "clacking" continuously. This seemingly simple dodge actually required her to make several consecutive attacks.
Gradually, Lin Wan's typing speed became slower and slower. Finally, her wrist felt sore. Unable to dodge in time, she was hit by the light blade and fell to the ground.
There was simply no room for resistance. The opponent's hand - speed was at least twice as fast as hers!
"The great god is serious. Long Yan Ji Xu is probably in danger."
"It's good if he wins. The top ten players are all men. This girl is just an eyesore."
"Hey, how can you talk like that? What's wrong with girls? You can't even beat a girl."
The expected consecutive skill attacks didn't come. After just scratching her a few times, the opponent stopped.
[System message: Long Yan Ji Xu's HP decreased by 3,560.]
"Do you surrender?"
A clear male voice with a hint of smile rang in her ears. Lin Wan gritted her teeth and stubbornly replied, "Never!"
"Do you really not want to be my wife?"
Bah. She just wanted to pick up some equipment. She never intended to get married in the game through dual cultivation, no matter if he was the number one player in the server.
Lin Wan shook her hands, stretched her muscles, held the mouse with one hand and the keyboard with the other, and gritted her teeth and said, "I really do!"
Before her voice faded, her dexterous hands quickly started to operate. Leap, turn invisible, go around the back, triple - slash plus plum blossom darts. It was all done in one go.
"Click, click, click... Clack, clack, clack..."
The rhythmic sound of typing on the keyboard echoed. While Shang Shan Ruo Shui was still using the converter to turn his voice into game dialogue, Long Yan's triple - slash all hit, but one of the plum blossom darts missed.
He only had a sliver of HP left!
Both of their breaths tightened. One was preparing to recover HP, and the other raised her hand to deliver another dart.
With a soft "bang", the passive skill exploded.
Shang Shan Ruo Shui was defeated.
Long Yan, who was holding the plum blossom dart and about to strike, coughed dryly and quickly put the dart back into her sleeve.
[System message: Shang Shan Ruo Shui is defeated. The divine - level equipment, the immortal - level pill, and the tempered guqin all belong to Long Yan Ji Xu. Shang Shan Ruo Shui will be sent back to the starting point and will return to the Qi - training stage.]
The legend among the qin masters in "Legend of Divine Martial Arts" had suddenly died.
"666666"
"Who am I? Where am I? What just happened?"
"This must be a lie..."
The world chat channel instantly exploded.
However, in front of the computer, Lin Wan, who had just received the equipment with one click, let out a sigh of relief. She didn't know that on the other end of the computer, Shang Shan Ruo Shui - Lu Zhihang, was so angry that he was in a daze.