Chapter 1 System Activation

  The sky has seen a glimmer of light, the early birds are already chirping away, a quiet morning heralds the arrival of another new day.

  Ling Jing slowly opened her eyes, lifted the quilt off her body, and gazed out the window at the birds that had vanished without a trace. She sighed and muttered to herself, "Oh, you guys are literally my alarm clock, I couldn't even sleep in."

  Sleepiness still lingered on his face, but he quickly finished dressing and washing up, then sat down in front of the computer and logged into the game "Martial Arts Myth".

  Last night, I spent the whole evening hanging out in the advanced map of Shadow Valley, and I don't know if there were any gains or not. Ling Jing skillfully controlled his character to a secluded place, then opened his backpack.

  But just one night of hanging up, the harvest is indeed not small, more than a dozen high-level blue suits are scattered in the backpack, and there is actually a purple robe in the third backpack. Seeing this thing, he couldn't help but laugh: "Ha, good luck, actually dropped a piece of purple equipment, at least it's worth 2,000 soft sister coins."

  His game character had a total of five backpacks, which were now almost all filled with various equipment, medicines, and materials. At this time, he opened the last backpack, and his eyes suddenly widened in surprise.

  A sheet of sheepskin paper shining with orange light quietly lay in the grid in the middle of this backpack, so dazzling, so eye-catching.

  "My god, is this... an orange treasure map?"

  Ling Jing's face was full of shock, the drop rate of orange equipment in "Wuxia Myth" is said to be only 0.03%, this ridiculous drop rate directly led to the fact that even though the game has been open for nearly two years, there are basically only one or two pieces of orange equipment on each server.

  But he never thought that one day good fortune would knock on his door, this was the legendary Orange Treasure Map, and it seemed like countless Soft Sister Coins were waving at him.

  Ling Jing's hand trembled slightly out of control, and then he lightly double-clicked on the treasure map.

  "Crack!" "Crack!"

  The treasure map suddenly burst out with a dazzling golden light, almost instantly filling the entire computer screen, but the golden light continued to overflow outward, and in an instant, the entire bedroom was filled with golden light.

  At the same time, Ling Jing was dazzled by a fierce golden light that almost couldn't open his eyes, and he had to raise his arm to block his eyes. However, soon after, he felt as if he had been electrocuted, suddenly trembling violently, and then lost consciousness.

  ......

  "Older brother! Older brother!"

  A large hand waved back and forth in front of him, Ling Jing felt a little dizzy, only feeling that the shadow of his hand was layered like a phantom, making his eyes blurred.

  He subconsciously reached out and grabbed her palm, then muttered: "Hmm. Stop swaying, I'm dizzy."

  When Ling Jing spoke up, the voices around him finally let out a sigh of relief.

  "Hey! I told you that Eighth Brother was fine, he must have drunk too much with Eldest Brother yesterday and now it's taking effect. See, isn't he uncomfortable?"

  "Lu Houer, you'd better not gloat here. Don't you know who was instigating 8th brother and Eldest Martial Brother to drink together at the wine tower yesterday? You still have the nerve to say that?"

  At this time, another gloating voice joked: "Hehe! Old Six, you said if Master and Mistress knew that you were instigating Little Eight to drink again, how many sticks would you get beaten with."

  "Haha......"

  Several voices burst out laughing together.

  The young man known as "Lu Hou Er" suddenly looked bitter and said, "Several senior brothers, you can't do this, Master and Mistress treat Xiao Ba like a treasure, you can't betray me."

  A young man holding an abacus suddenly patted Lu Houxiao's shoulder and said with a serious face: "Old Six, don't worry, we're good brothers who value loyalty, how could we possibly report to Master and Mistress?"

  Lu Houzi grasped the young man's arm with a moved expression: "Fifth Brother, I knew you were the most loyal."

  But the young man suddenly smiled and changed his tone: "However, we would tell only our junior sister at most."

  As soon as the three words "little sister" were mentioned, several people suddenly burst out laughing and looked at Lu Hou'er with pitiful faces, as if saying "just you wait, you'll be in for it".

  Lu Houer's face flashed with a hint of fear as he mentioned "Little Shifu", then became furious and said: "Gao Genming, you inhuman being, if you dare to tell Little Shifu about this matter, Lu Dahou will never let you off."

  However, a few people did not buy his account and just looked at him with a sly smile.

  Ling Jing had actually come back to his senses when the few people just started talking, but after hearing their conversation content, he sank in his heart and suddenly fell into silence again.

  "At this moment, in his heart, it's not an exaggeration to describe it as a shocking wave: 'Lu Da You, Lu Hou Er, Gao Gen Ming? Am I freaking out? And I've crossed over into the world of The Smiling, Proud Wanderer?'"

  He is a die-hard fan of Jin Yong, and has watched almost all the film and television adaptations of his works. How could he not be familiar with the characters in The Smiling, Proud Wanderer?

  Lu Dahu, also known as "Lu Hou'er", was the sixth among the true disciples of Yue Buqun. Gao Genming, another figure among the true disciples, ranked fifth.

  As for the other two voices, Ling Jing didn't need to guess that they were definitely Liang Fa and Shi Dazi, the third and fourth disciples of Yue Buqun. The second disciple, Lao De Nuo, was an old man, so his voice couldn't be so clear. The eldest disciple, Lin Hu Duan, seemed not to be with them at this time, judging from their conversation.

  Although shocked in his heart, he slowly accepted the memories of this body and quickly calmed down.

  But there was one thing he couldn't understand, this crossing had crossed, but he didn't remember that there was a character named Ling Jing in the Laughing in the Wind novel.

  Ling Jing rubbed his forehead, his eyebrows slightly furrowed: "This body is also called Ling Jing, and it's even the eighth true disciple of Yue Buqun." However, he thought repeatedly, whether in the original work or in the TV series, Yue Buqun's true disciples only had seven people, the youngest being Yue Lingshan. As for the eighth one, it was only after Lin Pingzhi joined the Huashan School that he appeared.

  But it was obvious that he couldn't be Lin Pingzhi, the memories of this body told him that he was Xiao Ba who grew up in Huashan since childhood, and his name was also Ling Jing.

  "Ding!"

  Just then, a mechanical crisp sound suddenly rang out in his heart, Ling Jing was shocked and raised his head, but found that several others were unaware, still talking to themselves.

  He hastily collected his thoughts and lowered his head.

  This is too weird, in the world of The Smiling, Proud Wanderer, how can there be such a modern mechanical sound?

  However, before he could react, the mechanical voice suddenly sounded in his mind again: "Talent Martial Arts System activated! Confirming host Ling Jing!"

  "System startup progress 1%, 2%, 3%......100%"

  "System activation complete, martial arts talent tree activated!"

  Immediately afterwards, a intricate innate tree diagram appeared in his mind.

  Ling Jing looked at the innate tree in his mind, this thing is similar to the talent tree of the game "Wuxia Myth", but how did it also come with him when he crossed over? And what is this Innate Wuxia System...

  He was a bit disheveled, and he had seen many people cross over, but he really hadn't seen anyone bring a game system with them when they crossed over.

  However, at this time, the system spoke again: "The system task will be released in five minutes. Please familiarize yourself with the talent tree within five minutes. The countdown begins."

  After hearing the system's voice, Ling Jing immediately cursed in his heart. He didn't expect that this system could actually issue tasks, and this talent tree was so vast and complex. He casually glanced at it and saw hundreds of thousands of icons, and he had to familiarize himself with them within five minutes. Was this a joke?

  But this system was too strange, he didn't dare to be careless, and hurriedly calmed himself down, then cast his gaze onto the enormous talent tree.