Chapter 119: Student Maid, Gear Cleaning
Chapter 119: Student Maid, Gear Cleaning
For three full days, Ye Rong fought in the game for over twenty hours each day.
After a short, deep sleep, he went right back to fighting, almost forgetting to eat and rest, draining all his energy.
When both Diligence Jade Talismans’ effects ended, Ye Rong reached level 36 with 27% experience.
Because he had the Neither-Thought-Nor-Non-Thought Sword Scabbard, he was very close to being able to equip the Cast Snow Sword.
“I can’t take it anymore. If this goes on, my body won’t hold up.”
Ye Rong had pretty good physical fitness.
After practicing Five Elements Fist for several years, his physique was strong enough to qualify as a special forces soldier.
Yet even he couldn’t withstand such intense leveling.
Although the Light Brain game allowed something like light sleep, that was under normal conditions.
Ye Rong’s monster-slaying was extremely fast-paced and efficient.
An ordinary person would have collapsed from it long ago.
Of course, this was also because he hadn’t been such a hardcore gamer before; his brain wasn’t used to it yet.
He returned to the Qingcheng Sect, didn’t even bother cleaning out his Universe Pouch, and logged off to rest in bed directly.
“Knock, knock, knock!”
Ye Rong groggily opened his eyes, grabbed the watch by his bed, and glanced at it.
He had already slept for over ten hours.
It felt like he had just lain down moments ago, and he still had no strength in his body.
“Who is it?”
“It’s me, Brother Ye.”
Ye Rong rubbed his temples hard to clear his mind and stop looking so sleepy.
“Coming.”
“Brother Ye, you haven’t had breakfast yet, right? I brought you a bowl of eel congee.”
At the door stood a youthful, pretty, and incredibly energetic girl holding a steaming bowl of eel and millet congee.
Ye Rong felt a bit of a headache.
Ever since he saved Su Tingyun that one time, this pretty high school sophomore had become very warm toward him.
She often brought small snacks or midnight snacks to his door.
Girls her age were at that stage of having vague, budding feelings for the opposite sex.
Ye Rong had appeared suddenly, like a hero in a romance novel, and saved her.
Su Tingyun instantly developed admiration for this brave and handsome big brother.
Ye Rong wasn’t trying to act noble or pretend he didn’t like girls.
It was just that Su Tingyun’s young, delicate body had a strong appeal to him, which made him consciously keep his distance to avoid making a big mistake.
“She’s only sixteen, such tender youth. No matter how twisted my thoughts get, I’m not that far gone yet.”
After placing the eel congee on the table, Su Tingyun started cleaning his room on her own while Ye Rong waited to eat.
She put uneaten food scraps into a large plastic bag, gathered the dirty laundry from the bedside table into a laundry bag, and sorted everything neatly.
“Ting Zi, you don’t have to trouble yourself. I’ll clean up later myself. I haven’t had time these past couple of days; I’ll do it all together later…”
Ye Rong came out of the bathroom after washing up and saw Su Tingyun busying herself.
He quickly spoke up.
He stood there rubbing his nose; it really felt like he’d hired an innocent maid to do the housekeeping, full of a strange allure.
Especially now, as she bent over slightly to tidy the messy quilt, her slim waist and hip curves were clearly outlined through her form-fitting school uniform, creating two perfect, tantalizing arcs.
“No, no, this is too much to handle!”
Fresh out of bed, Ye Rong felt a certain part of his body starting to stir, so he quickly looked away.
“Ah!”
“What’s wrong?”
Su Tingyun suddenly screamed.
Ye Rong rushed over and saw she was holding a pair of underwear—the ones he’d changed out of last night.
So awkward, extremely awkward! A dead silence fell.
Su Tingyun’s face turned as red as if dyed, almost seeming to drip blood, and she lowered her head, not knowing whether to drop the “hot potato” in her hand or not.
“Ahem, I’ll handle it, I’ll do it myself!”
Ye Rong quickly stepped forward, wanting to snatch his underwear back from Su Tingyun’s hand.
This was just too embarrassing and awkward.
“No need, Brother Ye. Go drink your congee; I’ll take care of it.”
Su Tingyun stuffed the underwear into the laundry bag.
Although her face was still flushed, her voice had steadied quite a bit.
Ye Rong obediently went to drink his eel millet congee.
The fragrant, well-stewed eel congee tasted bland in his mouth.
Until Su Tingyun left, neither of them said another word.
……
After practicing a round of Five Elements Fist along the way, Ye Rong felt refreshed and logged into the game again.
His spirit recovered very quickly, with no negative effects left at all.
Over the past few days, the various strange equipment and materials he’d collected were piled up everywhere, even though he’d already cleared them out once before.
Ye Rong spent a long time picking and sorting, keeping only the useful items and tossing the rest to the Crimson Red Ape.
As for those low-tier refining materials, selling them directly wouldn’t earn much silver, but keeping them took up too much space.
Mainly, he still lacked his own Immortal Manor within the Sect where he could store things freely.
According to Senior Brother Chen Taizhen, his status and position were sufficient, but his cultivation hadn’t reached the required level yet.
In other words, his Level was still too low; he wasn’t qualified yet.
Those refining materials like fish bones were mostly second or third rank, at best fourth rank.
To be honest, their value wasn’t great.
Apart from being useful for low-level Sword Refiners or Treasure Refiners to level up their Life Professions early on, they didn’t seem to have much other use.
But Ye Rong thought about it; among the people he knew, not one had a Life Profession, let alone a Sword Refiner or Treasure Refiner.
He could only sell them all; keeping them took up too much storage space.
This was one disadvantage of not being in a Faction; otherwise, members could exchange these refining materials that were useless to them but needed by players with such Life Professions.
That was just a small part; other things like exchanging equipment, helping each other with quests, or even fighting and killing people would all be much more convenient.
No matter how rare Life Professions were, with the number of Qingcheng Disciples, by this stage Ye Rong believed there must be a few players who had taken up Life Professions, though he just didn’t know them personally.
“Getting a Flying Sword is good, but it seems my Appraisal chances are starting to run short again.”
When Ye Rong was a Formal Disciple, he could Appraise three pieces of equipment every seven days.
After becoming an Inner Hall Disciple, this benefit increased to five Appraisals every seven days.
Now, because he was Chief of Tianshu Hall, it changed to seven Appraisals every seven days.
This was one of the biggest advantages Sect disciples had over Rogue Cultivator players, and it shouldn’t be underestimated.
After the System Update, all equipment dropped by monsters required Appraisal to learn their specific attributes.
This greatly increased players’ expenses, and it was unavoidable.
In the Main City, having an Appraiser appraise a Third-Rank Flying Sword cost about ten taels of silver each time.
The higher the equipment rank, the more expensive the fee.
Ye Rong had the benefit of seven free equipment Appraisals each week.
Given the rank of equipment he currently needed to Appraise, this was equivalent to saving several hundred taels of silver.
If he had to go to the Main City for Appraisal, it would absolutely bankrupt him.
“I need to choose carefully. There’s no need to Appraise trash Flying Swords.”
Ye Rong had the most Second-Rank Flying Swords in his Universe Pouch—about twenty of them.
Even if Appraised, they’d be meaningless.
Nowadays, even Third-Rank Flying Swords were almost standard for Formal Disciples of Qingcheng.
Thankfully, there were plenty of newbie players later on, so Third-Rank Flying Swords could still be sold.
However, he only had four Third-Rank Flying Swords in hand, and only one Fourth-Rank Flying Sword—the Sinking Water Sword.
He hadn’t found any other Magic Treasures or clothing equipment worth keeping; they could only be discarded directly into the Hidden Sword Pool for cleanup.
Facing Ye Rong’s request, Senior Brother Chen Taizhen simply touched each Flying Sword lightly.
A bright, wise light rose from the sword blades, indicating they were Appraised.
Ye Rong watched this skill with great envy, drooling over it—if he learned Appraisal skill, not only could he Appraise his own equipment, he wouldn’t need to level up, hunt for treasure, or do quests anymore.
He could just open an Appraisal shop; business would definitely boom every day, earning money until his hands cramped.
Unfortunately, no matter how many times he pleaded, Senior Brother Chen Taizhen remained silent, neither mentioning teaching him the Appraisal skill nor saying where he could learn it.
“Let me see what attributes this strangely shaped Red Carp Sword has.”
Ye Rong picked up the pale red Red Carp Sword.
This was the first Flying Sword he had obtained, so he remembered it clearly.
Red Carp Sword, Third-Rank Divine Weapon, Attack 75-90, Flight Speed 100-125, Attack Speed 80-98, Sword Flight Speed in water +120, Required Level 20.
He checked several more, looking over all the Third-Rank Flying Swords in this batch.
He found that many had attributes boosting Sword Flight Speed in water.
No wonder, since they dropped from Aquatic Demonic Creatures; the additional attributes were closely related.
As for the Fourth-Rank Sinking Water Sword, after being Appraised, it flowed like a pool of clear water just sitting on the table.
When held in hand, it turned back into a slender sword, very peculiar.
Sinking Water Sword, Fourth-Rank Immortal Weapon, Attack 150-180, Flight Speed 150-160, Attack Speed 140-158.
It would merge into water upon contact, becoming invisible and shadowless, excellent for hiding.
Comes with the spell Eight Trigrams Dragon-Binding Array, Required Level 32.
Eight Trigrams Dragon-Binding Array: Activates the power of the Eight Trigrams, turning an area within a hundred zhang into a forbidden zone.
As long as they are within this range, Players, monsters, and NPCs under level 50 cannot escape. Duration: half an hour.