I Can’t Be a Sword God

Level 71...

Li Chu murmured, and swung the long sword down.

A lantern with a ghostly will-o'-the-wisp flickering about ten feet in front of him went out instantly, and then fell to the ground in two halves. It turned out that it was cut off by his random sword!

It was already midnight at this time, but there was a young Taoist priest in a robe of water and fire wandering in the wilderness, the scene was quite strange.

From a distance, he is tall and handsome, and if he gets closer, he can see his clear eyebrows and facial features clearly. Gu Pan's eyes are shining brightly, and he has a good appearance that is not stained with common dust.

As he strolled in the courtyard, from time to time, a ghost lantern would be drawn out of the darkness, trying to bully him. It's a pity that, between the ups and downs of Jianmang, no lantern can surpass the thunder pool half a step.

Every time a lantern is extinguished, some white light spots that cannot be seen by ordinary people will rise from the remnant body of the lantern and merge into the body of the Taoist priest.

Ai—— Li Chu sighed softly, and said to himself: Sure enough, as my level gets higher and higher, the experience provided by the lantern monster is getting less and less. At first, a lantern monster can be upgraded to a level. It actually took two full months this time. If this continues, I don’t know when the next upgrade will be.”

However, he changed the subject, and continued, Although this upgrade is slow, it is better than...safety!

His eyes looked towards a certain distant direction, as if he had penetrated into the endless darkness, and saw those vicious existences who chose to devour people.

This world is really too dangerous. Monsters, demon bosses, ghosts, monsters... Evil creatures are flooding the whole world. It can be said that there is a crisis every step of the way! If you want to find monsters with high experience, you must take greater risks. Although not I know how strong I am now, but I must not be strong. To be on the safe side, I'd better stay at Shilipo for a while longer.

Men, you have to be able to endure loneliness and temptation...to be able to kill the Lantern Monster!

While he was talking to himself, he had killed another five or six lantern monsters casually. His skillful movements and precise positioning had reached the state of perfection.

...

It has been almost a year since Li Chu came to this world.

A year ago, he was still a graduate who just finished the college entrance examination, because he made a fatal mistake and only got the second place in the whole province.

On a boring afternoon, he clicked on an ancient Xianxia game. I never thought that it opened a door of evil.

When he woke up, he found that he had come to a strange world.

There is a ten-mile slope outside Yuhang Town, and there is a Deyun temple on the ten-mile slope. He became a little Taoist priest in the Deyun temple.

Of course, it doesn't matter who he is.

The important thing is that in this world, gods, daoism, demons and ghosts...these settings in the game have all become real existences! And Li Chu, who originally manipulated the virtual character, has also become a flesh and blood body that will hurt and die!

His mentality suddenly collapsed.

Anyone can kill the world through the screen, but when a real person comes to this kind of world, there is only one thought in his mind - to live with a smile.

The west side of Shilipo is adjacent to a mass burial mound, with dry tombs in the wilderness, coupled with abundant aura, it is inevitable that there will be some ghosts and monsters, and the lantern monster is the most common one.

The power of the lantern monster is quite weak, and its essence is that some lonely ghosts with weak spirituality are attached to the phosphorous fire, showing the appearance of a lantern. Once passers-by approach, the soul will be impacted.

A ghost of this level, as long as it is a man with a little more yang energy, will be able to disperse it. Even if it succeeds in being hit by it, it's just a minor illness and nothing serious will happen.

So for so many years, there are no practitioners to rectify it - because everyone is too lazy to do it. And the people around Yuhang Town also knew not to pass through Shilipo at night, so no one was harmed.

Until Li Chu appeared.

When he discovered that he could gain experience by killing monsters to improve his strength, the lantern monsters in Shilipo ushered in an unprecedented catastrophe...

Who makes them the weakest ghosts in a hundred miles, and they can be continuously generated, which is simply an excellent upgrade option.

It was half dark.

Li Chu withdrew his sword, turned around and walked back.

He understands the principle of not being able to catch all the fish, so he will not kill them all. Every time he finishes brushing the lantern monsters, he has to give them three or four days to recuperate.

In the past few days, he would go to the woods to the east to hunt ghost bees, the wasteland to the south to find the wine urn monsters, and the foot of the mountain to the north to brush black fur balls.

If there is anything in common among these various little ghosts, it is that they are weak...

In this dangerous world, the weak and helpless Li Chu relied on these weaker ghosts to strengthen himself little by little.

...

Riding on the moonlight, the mountain wind blowing his robes, the little Taoist priest with a sword on his back strode forward all the way, and soon saw an old Taoist temple.

The mottled traces of the years can be clearly seen on the outer wall of the Taoist temple, and half of the wall is covered with creepers. The gold paint on the plaque on the top has peeled off, leaving only three empty marks of Deyun Temple.

Li Chu opened the door and entered. The spacious front yard was paved with blue bricks. In the center was a big bronze tripod with three thick sticks of thousand-year-old incense stuck in it. Stepping across the front yard is the main hall of Sanqing.

The golden body of Sanqing was enshrined on the altar in the hall. Li Chu casually nodded towards the altar as a greeting, and then walked straight through.

As the soul of a modern person, even in a world of strange powers and chaotic gods, he can't pay much respect to these gods.

Li Chu's thinking is very simple, if I can really realize my wish by believing in you, then I will definitely believe in you. If you can't, then I'm sorry, everyone will go their own way.

On the first day he came here, he made a wish to go home. Obviously, it didn't come true...

The backyard is much smaller and messier, with loess ground, an old locust tree with luxuriant branches and leaves in the corner, and a stone-covered well under the locust tree, with stone tables and benches beside the well. Even in the midsummer, the surrounding of this well is icy cold, sitting next to it seems to be facing the open refrigerator door, so the master and apprentice often enjoy the cool air and chat here.

There are three small rooms in the courtyard, one belongs to Yu Qi'an, one belongs to Li Chu, and the other is the kitchen—it can also be regarded as Li Chu's.

Li Chu tiptoed into the small courtyard and quietly returned to his bedroom, for fear of disturbing the master.

His master, Yu Qi'an, the master of Deyun Temple, is a true Taoist—at least according to him.

Daoist Yu claimed that he had done a lot of killing in his early years as a hero, fighting demons and defending Taoism, so he came to this small Taoist temple to live in seclusion and vowed not to kill again.

When he is happy, he often tells Li Chu some stories about his youth. Such as chaoge beating the devil with a cup of wine, riding the waves in the East China Sea to kill the dragon, Kunlun opening the gate of heaven under the moon... There are too many mysterious and mysterious scenes to enumerate, which are breathtaking!

So much so that the highest expectation of Li Chu's efforts to fight monsters and upgrade every day is to become a master like a master.

After a simple wash, he ended his tiring and fulfilling day, undressed and went to bed, ready to fall asleep. In an era without mobile phones or the Internet, his sleep was much more stable.

Thinking of his weak self and taking another step closer to his powerful master, Li Chu couldn't help showing a satisfied smile on his face...