Chapter 226: The Legend of Mir 2, and the Grand Cultivators Playing with Magic Properties
Translator: Noodletown Translations Editor: Noodletown Translations
In Jun Yangzi's personal artifact-making room in the headquarters of the Wuwei Daoist Alliance, the core artifact masters from the Liuyun Daoist Palace, the Cloud Ocean Faction, and other factions in the Wuwei Daoist Alliance gathered together with serious expressions!
After all, this project concerned the future of the entire Wuwei Daoist Alliance and even Dajin's future! In the center of the room, there was a huge copper-colored eight trigrams array disk, and a pale blue circular mirror stood in the center as a pale blue spiritual light enveloped it.
"Everyone, please look!" Jun Yangzi said proudly.
"This is the Tianluo Heart Mirror of our Blue Flame Faction. This mirror is magical since it can reveal the origins of any illusions or clones, and it can help us artifact masters analyze the materials used and their ratios in the composition of artifacts."
"The more spiritual essence that is injected into it, the greater power it will release!" Jun Yangzi continued.
"Everyone, please follow my instruction and take the positions according to the eight trigrams."
"Haoran, let's do the sniper bullet first." Jun Yangzi said.
Li Haoran who stood next to him nodded and handed him a bullet which was bigger than the ordinary ones.
Jun Yangzi took out an engraving knife and injected spiritual essence into it. Instantly, spiritual light flowed on the short knife, and the head of the bullet fell to the floor with one cut.
He waved his left hand, and a three-footed bronze cauldron landed in the center of the array, and the bright blue light shined on the belly of the cauldron.
Then, Jun Yangzi poured the bullet powder into the cauldron.
"Please inject spiritual essence in order! Kan! Zhen..."
[TL Note: Kan and Zhen are the names of two out of the eight trigrams.]
"Now, we continue with the staff."
...
Only about ten days were left before the time limit for the internet-building task would be up.
"Xiaoyue..."
Fang Qi's shop closed at 12 midnight as usual. While looking at the people who were leaving the shop, Fang Qi said, "I might need to take a long trip."
"A long trip?" Jiang Xiaoyue furrowed her slim and cute eyebrows. "Wasn't your trip to Jingshi a long one?"
Fang Qi replied, "Jingshi isn't that far away. This time, my destination will be more distant than that; much more distant."
"How long will it take you? When will you return?"
"I don't know, but I guess it won't be too long." Fang Qi turned and patted her on the head, asking, "Can you manage the shop while I'm away?"
"Humph!" Jiang Xiaoyue turned her head away. "You told me I didn't have to manage the shop; I only need to do the laundry, cook, and be a cashier!"
"No. When I'm gone, you must know how to play games!"
"Ahh!" Jiang Xiaoyue exclaimed and said immediately, "I can manage the shop!"
Fang Qi nodded. "After I'm gone, you can pick two games to play. During the day, especially the morning, you can play a little. You can play a bit more during the evening when there are fewer customers."
"I got it!" Jiang Xiaoyue said excitedly, "Boss, don't worry! I'll manage the shop well for you! I'll toss out anyone who makes trouble here!"
"The trouble makers?" Fang Qi glanced at the shop and said, "That senior will handle that, so you don't have to worry about it. You can just yell when anyone makes trouble here."
Fang Qi glanced at the System Interface and continued, "Anyone who makes trouble in or outside of the shop will be punished with lightning!"
"Besides." Fang Qi looked at the cabinet and said, "Your pay will be one snack each week except the spicy sticks or 15 crystals each month."
"I can play games and eat snacks as well?!" Jiang Xiaoyue widened her eyes and looked at this black-hearted boss in disbelief.
Fang Qi shrugged. Although the business of the shop was simple, it wasn't easy to find an employee who can behave well for this long and be trustworthy. Therefore, increasing the employee benefit was only a small price to pay.
Anyway, I have enough money, he thought as he glanced at the big piles of the crystals in the storage spiritual artifact.
At this moment, the System beeped again.
[Since the host is beginning to execute the plan and complete the task of building an internet, the attaching tasks are activated.]
[Attaching Task 1: Decent Shop
Task Requirement: The new shop must not be located in remote places; they must be established in cities with higher than average population density. Also, the shop must be clean, tidy, and big enough to contain at least 100 computers.
Task Reward: Online Game – The Legend of Mir 2 virtual reality remake (This game will be the only game in the new shop, and other games will come online after three months)
Task Description: The internet era needs blood-boiling excitement]
[TL Note: The Legend of Mir 2 is a sprite-based isometric 3-D massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Korean-based WeMade Entertainment. There are currently two versions available: Korean Mir and Chinese Mir. Whilst being moderately successful in Europe, it has been incredibly well received in Asia and was the most popular MMORPG in China in 2002 and 2003, with over 250,000 simultaneous users being reported.]
[Attaching Task 2: Listening to the Sound of Prosperity of Another Part of the World
Task Requirement: Adjust the cross-regional teleportation distance to more than half of the limit
Task Reward: QQ special remake version
Additional description: The internet connects the world.]
Fang Qi even saw the logo of that penguin on the screen.
[TL Note: Tencent QQ, also known as QQ, is an instant messaging software service developed by the Chinese tech giant Tencent. Similar to whatsapp and facebook, but it had been around since the 2000s.]
The Legend of Mir 2!? QQ?! Fang Qi's face spasmed. Are you serious?
[Attaching Task 3: The Last Cheer
Task Requirement: Go out and have fun with your friends for one day since you might not see them for a while in the real world.
Task Reward: QQ: Qzone special remake version
Tash Description: You saw it right]
[TL Note; Qzone is like My Space, but it was one of the features of QQ.]
Fang Qi thought, Can you give this task a less sad name? It's not like I'm not coming back!
...
"Many things look the same but are different deeper down..." Jun Yangzi frowned. "However, the attributes such as increased dexterity and strength should be correct."
While stroking his beard, Jun Yangzi looked at an ordinary stick before them and said, "It seems that the basic stuff isn't very difficult."
Jun Yangzi condensed a trace of solid spiritual essence between his fingers and drew something in the air. The pale blue spiritual essence flowed in the air and turned into an extremely weird pattern which looked like the rune symbols on the rune notes but also being quite different.
"Go!" He yelled, and the row of organized symbol-looking runes entered the wooden stick and branded the stick with a line of dark blue words.
Holding the stick in his hand, Jun Yangzi said, "Look, these are the simplest suffix of strength in the weapons with magic properties. From what I know, this artifact-making technique is divided into two parts. The first part is the engravings with basic attributes with prefixes, and the second part is what we just did, giving this item a suffix property."
Although the attributes were invisible, Jun Yangzi and Li Haoran showed their deep knowledge of them. "I can tell you that the strength attribute is between 6 to 9, and the suffix is Bull which I derived from the suffix on the Razortine."
"In other words, we can name this magic item Stick of Bull"
"To give magic properties to artifacts, the beginners must concentrate their mind and try all kinds of materials before they can achieve success," Jun Yangzi said, "But with our spiritual essence, we only need to control the condensed spiritual essence and keep it steady on the artifacts!"
"Does it mean that we succeeded?!"
"Hahahaha!"
"We finally got some success!" Cheers and laughter burst out in the artifact-making room.
Chapter 227: The Group Trip to Mount Haruna
Translator: Noodletown Translations Editor: Noodletown Translations
"Sir! Are you taking a long trip?!"
Sitting around the tea tables in the lounge, people like Song Qingfeng, Nalan Mingxue, Su Tianji, Lan Mo, and Ye Songtao were eating instant noodles and chatting.
When they heard this question asked by someone, they all looked at Fang Qi, who was walking toward them with a bowl of instant noodles in his hands.
"When will you go? Why do you want to take a long trip?" Xu Zixin looked at Fang Qi curiously. This girl in purple was among the first few players of the shop and was surprised that Fang Qi, the shop owner who stayed in the shop playing games almost every day, would suddenly take a long trip.
"Qi, where are you going?" Wang Tai was also surprised. He knew Fang Qi the longest and had never seen Fang Qi taking long trips. Jingshi was probably the farthest place that he had ever gone to.
"You're doing fine in the shop. Why do you want to go out?" Nalan Hongwu was baffled.
Fang Qi shrugged and said, "To open a branch. With the business booming, it's a good time to open a branch."
"Open a branch?" Ji Yu was excited. "Will you open one in Jingshi?"
"It doesn't take long for people to travel here from Jingshi," Fang Qi said, "When you are proficient with the sword control technique, you will travel faster, and it's not necessary for me to go there and open a branch."
Ji Yu: "..."
"Sir, you are going on a long trip, but you still don't want to visit our Cloud Ocean Faction!" Ye Xiaoye complained.
"Let's see the shop owner off," Xu Zixin suggested.
"Not necessary." Fang Qi waved his hand. "I'll go with the sword control technique."
"Don't underestimate us!" Xu Zixin said in displeasure, "I can now fly on a sword too!"
"Me too!" Song Qingfeng said.
"Me too." Nalan Mingxue was as cool as usual.
"Same here!" Jiang Xiaoyue said smugly.
However, Fang Qi patted her on the head and said, "You stay here and watch after the shop!"
Ignoring the sulky Jiang Xiaoyue, Fang Qi looked at the others and asked, "Are you sure? Won't you fall from the sky?"
"Impossible!" Xu Zixin rolled her eyes. After finishing her noodles, she walked outside and said, "Watch me!"
She cast a sword spell with her hands and chanted, and a sword soared up into the sky and then came down steadily to her feet.
"It's nothing." An Cheng strode out, used the sword spell, and stepped on his sword, flying above the buildings!
As the son of the Castellan, he knew that he would be knocked down by the flying-prohibition array formation of the city if he flew any higher.
Incensed, An Huwei walked out and scolded, "I'll lock you up for breaking the law intentionally!"
Obviously, no one was allowed to fly inside Jiuhua City.
Fang Qi's face stiffened when he found that most of them had mastered the sword flight technique and that they were showing off.
With a wave of his hand, Fang Qi opened the door and flew out while stepping on a sword.
"Come and catch up with me if you can!"
"F*ck! Don't run if you dare!" Song Qingfeng was obviously still clumsy with this technique, and he almost crashed into the wall when he flew out of the shop on a sword!
He stopped the sword before the crash and then turned around to chase after Fang Qi.
"Ms. Nalan! Let's go!" Lan Yan said excitedly, and they flew out of the door on swords almost at the same time.
Shortly, figures flashed out of the shop on swords. These people were fast, and they instantly flew behind Fang Qi.
In the shop, An Huwei's expression was very dark.
"Forget it, Brother An! Let them have fun." With a chuckle, Ouyang Zhen patted An Huwei's shoulder and comforted him.
In the sky above the streets of Jiuhua, many beams of spiritual light quickly flew pass. The cultivators and warriors on the streets looked up at the swords that were flying across the sky!
"What are those?!"
"They are flying on swords?!"
"It seems to be... the sword control technique?!"
"Sir! Stop!" Song Qingfeng casted another sword spell and instantly sped up. Then, he screamed as he leaned backward and twirled in the sky, not able to stop the fall until he almost hit the ground.
"Slow down!" Lan Yan waved at him.
"Hahaha! Dumb!" Ye Xiaoye controlled her sword steadily while she flew forward.
"Young Master Song! Do you need help?" Lin Shao and Xu Luo flew at a measured pace since they had learned the lesson from Song Qingfeng and didn't dare to fly too fast.
Meanwhile, Royal Princess Ji Yu, the disciples of Shengjing Academy, and Xiyi Academy stood outside of the shop and watched the dashes of sword light with envy since they could only control the swords but couldn't fly yet.
At this moment, the sword beneath Fang Qi's feet split into dozens of sword shadows that resembled the sword under his feet!
The dozens of swords flew back to the outside of the shop, and the big screens for livestreaming were turned on with a voice saying, "This is the only free sword-flying experience in the shop! Anyone who wants to experience it can get on board now!"
Wang Tai hurried out of the shop and stepped onto a sword.
Alarmed, Nalan Hongwu looked at the swords hovering in the air. "The sword shape looks like..."
People like An Huwei looked at each other and wondered, "Broadswords?"
The crystal swords were lofty and elegant while the broadswords were low-profiled and luxurious!
"Ugh..." Wang Tai scratched his head. "It looks like the broadsword that Qi asked me to add sockets on using the reward from one of my requests..."
"It has runes! Four sockets! The runewords seem to mean... Spirit?!"
"Plus two levels to all skills!" Su Tianji gritted her teeth with envy. "No wonder this kid's sword control technique improved so much! I'll catch up with this kid and borrow it for our Liuyun Daoist Palace to study!"
"I'll go as well!" An Huwei flew out on a sword.
"Me too!" Nalan Hongwu flew out directly!
At this moment, the big screens were still broadcasting, "The express to Mount Haruna will be taking off in half a minute. Please get on board now!"
[TL Note: Mount Haruna is famous for Initial D. Haruna appears under the name Akina, and Akina pass, as referred to by the characters, is actually Jomo-Sanzan Panorama Highway according to Google Maps.]
"Where's Mount Haruna?" The people who wanted to try flying on swords such as Ji Yu, the Second Prince, and the others all stepped onto the swords in bafflement.
"Ahh!" Then, they screamed as the swords traveled at high speed!
The guards and pedestrians at the city gate gaped at the sword shadows that were shooting out of the city and into the blue sky!
Some cultivators who were stepping off a spiritual boat at the Jiuhua Harbor looked up at the sky. "Can people fly like this?"
Some guards at the city gates exclaimed, "So many people are flying on swords... It's spectacular!"
"How much money have you saved? When we have enough money, we'll go and learn it too!"
Above the clouds, Fang Qi slowed down intentionally for others to catch up.
Standing on the front of the sword, the air currents fluttered his clothes and hair and blew them back.
Behind him, almost 100 swords drew long silver lines in the blue sky!
Although some were not proficient yet, they were not afraid of the height since they had flown many times in the Legend of the Sword and Fairy.
"Now, here comes the airflare!" The swords suddenly tilted and the people on the sword including Fang Qi were turned upside-down as they drew an arc in the sky!
"F*ck!"
"Ahh!"
"Ahhhhh!"
Chapter 228: Mr. Fang might take a robbers' boat
Translator: Noodletown Translations Editor: Noodletown Translations
"Seagulls groan before the tempest, – groan, and race above the sea, and on its bottom they are ready to hide their fear of the storm."
"Like a blue flame, flocks of clouds blaze up above the sea's abyss. The sea catches bolts of lightning drowning them beneath its waters. Just like serpents made of fire, they weave in the water, fading, the reflections of this lightning."
[TL Note: This is from The Song of the Stormy Petrel, and it is a short piece of revolutionary literature written by the Russian writer Maxim Gorky in 1901.]
These words could be used to describe the sight before them.
"The lousy weather. Today isn't a good day for travel..." A short young man with wind-blown, messy hair stood on the edge of a middle-sized spiritual boat and looked out of the boat with squinted eyes.
Everyone could see the melancholy on his face.
"It was clear yesterday, and now we have such a lousy day!" A bluish-grey-robed young man who was taller and more muscular than most people stood beside the short young man, appearing to be quite ordinary.
"Erm?" The short young man asked curiously, "Mr. Fang, yesterday's weather was the same as today, no?"
"Anyway, the boat's owner is nice. The tickets are cheap for such a spiritual boat..." The young man murmured to himself.
This Mr. Fang was the only person that he knew on the spiritual boat since they were both ordinary guys from small and remote places who were going to a big city where cultivators lived.
Of course, the ordinary people who could travel on a spiritual boat must have some cultivation strength. Take this short young man, Zou Mo, for example. He was found to have the talent to become a cultivator in a test, and his uncle who had some savings sent him on this spiritual boat to study in the distant Morning Star Sea Realm, where cultivators gathered.
"Yeah..." Fang Qi looked at the dark sky and answered casually. Of course, yesterday's weather had been different.
Yesterday, he had been dashing in the sky and competing with his friends to see who was better at flying, and he was teleported to this damn place after he said farewell to his friends.
"By the way, it's said that the number of cultivators in the so-called Morning Star Sea Realm is as many as ants. Is it really so prosperous?" After yesterday's happy outing, Fang Qi was randomly teleported to a small country with few cultivators and warriors.
If he opened a shop there, only people who were close to the level of rulers of the country could afford to play in his shop if he didn't lower the price. Therefore, he asked around and got on board a docking spiritual boat, leaving the small country.
This boat was cheap and convenient, and he would be a moron not to take it.
"Hush!" Hearing Fang Qi's words, Zou Mo looked scared. After looking around and seeing that no one was nearby, he said in a fearful voice, "We would be killed if the powerful cultivators heard what you said!"
"By the way." Indifferent, Fang Qi pointed forward and asked, "Isn't the city that we are going to in the east? Aren't we going in the wrong direction?"
"Are we?!" Zou Mo looked forward and scratched his head, saying helplessly, "Mr. Fang, you don't know the way..."
"You're right." Fang Qi walked toward the cabin. "I'll go and rest."
"Pooh!" At this moment, a big guy wearing a short coat walked out from the cabin, and he glared at Fang Qi with his eyes that had knife scars on them when he saw Fang Qi's glance. "What are you looking at! I'll dig out your eyes if you do it again!"
Fang Qi frowned and thought, This guy is in the room next to me?
...
In the artifact-making room of Wuwei Daoist Alliance.
"Look at this thing." With the white wolf helmet in his hand, Jun Yangzi was explaining the result of their research. "I wonder what you think of when you see this thing with a charged skill. What I think of is something that most of you have heard about— Jade Rune Notes."
"The ordinary rune notes that have rune symbols on them can only cast one spiritual spell, and they would burn and disappear automatically," Jun Yangzi said, "However, jade rune notes can store multiple spiritual spells. Can the techniques used for making jade rune notes be used on items?"
He pointed at the wolf helmet in his hand and said, "This is what we must learn from the technique contained in this thing; it is more advanced. After we gain a total understanding of it, our rune symbols might be able to be placed on the weapons and robes instead of being contained in materials such as jade and leather. They will be easier to use and carry around!"
"The only thing that's hard to engrave now is the properties that increase skill levels," Jun Yangzi said, "For example, the wolf helmet has a suffix of 'nature' to add a level to elemental skills, but we Wuwei Daoist Alliance doesn't have the necessary materials for making this engraving."
"I'm confident that I can copy it if we find the substitute materials, but it will take us a long time to expand on this technique and turn the spiritual spells of all major factions into affixes and magic properties!"
"Brother Jun Yangzi!" Duan Buyi from the Liuyun Daoist Palace said, "It's enough for now! In my opinion, we must first solve the issue of incompatibility between magic affixes and our spiritual artifacts. If we solve this problem, we can add magic properties with suffixes on each of our spiritual artifacts even if we can't put the prefixes now! This is the top priority for now!"
...
According to the local tales and legends, whenever the night came to the Morning Star Sea Realm, and the ocean wind brought veil-like mists over, the chaotic and orderless Mist City, which had survived the ancient war, would appear.
Many things that couldn't exist in the outside world hid there.
Lying on the bed, Fang Qi played with the communication jade in boredom, and he found that in this place, the communication jade had no signal.
"Where is this place anyway? Just where did the System teleport me to?" Bored, Fang Qi looked out of the translucent window at the darkening sky.
He watched the scattered stars that were slowly appearing in the distant sky, and a trace of veil-like night fog floated outside of the window.
"The mist came up?" Fang Qi stood up from the bed.
"This boat isn't going to Black Dragon City! I want to get off the boat!" Fang Qi heard a yell from the next room and then violent colliding noises.
"What's that?" Fang Qi put on his boots and got off his bed. Before he walked out, he saw a streak of blood flowing in from beneath the door.
He opened the door and saw that the big guy who was wearing a short coat was being dragged out. A cultivator who had a death-like pale face glanced at Fang Qi. "If you don't want to be like him, I advise you to return to your room."
The atmosphere was weird and strange.
Fang Qi was at a loss for words.
"What do you want?" Seeing that Fang Qi didn't move, the cultivator turned to look at him.
Fang Qi asked, "No, I just want to ask one question. What is the destination of this spiritual boat."
"Half City," one cultivator answered impatiently.
"What city?" Not interested in the name, Fang Qi asked, "Are there many people in the city? Is the living standard there high or low?"
The white-faced cultivator was stunned by his question.
Chapter 229: I'm Not Trying to Target Anyone
Translator: Noodletown Translations Editor: Noodletown Translations
"Mr. Fang! The fog is rising! That's strange!" Zou Mo walked into the cabin and saw Fang Qi and the corpse that the white-faced cultivator was dragging.
He shivered slightly!
"He's... dead?!"
The white-faced cultivator carefully observed them and left with the body.
"Mr. Fa... Fang..." Shaking, Zou Mo walked up and looked at the blood on the floor. "What... What happened?!"
"I don't know," Fang Qi said, "I heard someone in the room next to mine yell 'this boat isn't going to Black Dragon City! I want to get off!' When I opened the door, I saw the sight that you just saw."
"What?!" Zou Mo looked at Fang Qi in confusion.
Fang Qi chuckled, "Just kidding. Do you know a place called Half City?"
"Half City?" Zou Mo looked at Fang Qi in bafflement, and he shivered subconsciously in alarm. "Why are you asking about that place?"
Understanding suddenly dawned on him. "Do... Do you mean the destination of this spiritual boat is Half City?!"
"Mr. Fang... We..." Hearing the name of this place, he stuttered and said, "We must run..."
"Someone else shared your thought." Fang Qi pointed at the direction of the blood trail and replied, "His body is cold now."
Zou Mo: "..."
Fang Qi asked, "Tell me about this Half City."
"Half City..." Zou Mo tried to describe it with his limited vocabulary. "In fact, I don't know much about it. I only heard that it's a mysterious and terrifying place where many evil cultivators and bandits hide. It is the cradle of evil and crimes!"
"It's said that they could even auction kings, emperors, and aristocrats there causally, and the monsters feeding on blood walk freely in that place."
"It sounds like a tale used to scare the kids who don't want to sleep..." Fang Qi rubbed his chin with a dark expression. "But it sounds like there are many rich people there. It must be richer than Black Dragon City that is said to have many cultivators, right?"
Zou Mo didn't know how to respond.
"Then, we'll go to Half City."
Sweating all over, Zou Mo said, "It's said that the city is full of evil monsters! No wonder that guy killed people like killing a chicken... He comes from that place!"
"The cultivators always kill each other." Fang Qi waved his hands.
Zou Mo's legs turned to jelly and he asked, "Mr. Fang, aren't you afraid?"
"Afraid?" Fang Qi looked at this young man who was one head shorter than him and said, "I'm only afraid that they are poor."
"Okay. Let's return to the rooms and have a good sleep. Tomorrow, we'll reach the new city with high spirits." Fang Qi stretched. This city sounded to be rich, very rich! That lifted his mood that had been low since he began this long journey.
"Ugh..."
...
Where is Boss now? He isn't doing a livestream today. In the shop, Jiang Xiaoyue ate a bowl of instant noodles and thought, He must have gone out to have fun!
Xiao Yulv walked into the shop and looked around. "Where's the shop owner? There's no livestream today? Isn't he going to finish playing Diablo?"
"Boss is out on a long trip." Jiang Xiaoyue glanced at him. "Don't you know that?"
"A long trip?! When will he return?!" Xiao Yulv raised his voice. His favorite activity each day was watching the shop owner play games since no one could play as well as him with so few mistakes! Out of all the players here, Fang Qi's gameplay was the most fun to watch.
"I don't know." Jiang Xiaoyue rolled her eyes. "You seem more eager for his return than me!"
"Ugh..." Xiao Yulv froze, and then he cleared his throat and said with an earnest expression, "I'm not eager for his return! I wish that he would never come back!"
Jiang Xiaoyue finished her noodles and patted her belly. "It's so delicious!"
Then, she looked around and found that the peak hours had passed since all the people had finished eating instant noodles and were now playing. She immediately walked from the counter and skipped to a seat before opening the Legend of the Sword and Fairy!
"Hey! How come you can play games?!" Xiao Yulv was baffled.
Then, he said in excitement, "Well! I know everything about the plot in this game and the hidden treasures! You can't imagine what I know! I'll tell you how to finish the game and get the ending in which Yueru lives!"
Xiao Yulv walked over eagerly.
...
"Get off board! Get off!"
"I'm dead! I'm dead!" Hearing the shouts, Zou Mo shivered in his room. "I shouldn't have taken this spiritual boat because of the cheap fare... I'm dead!"
Knock! Knock! Knock!
"I say, Little Mo, are you going or not?"
"Go?" Zou Mo shrunk into a ball and shivered with extreme fear in his room. "Where are we going?! Will they kill us?"
"How would I know? The boat docked. Are you going? If you aren't going, I'll just go." Fang Qi opened the door and looked at Zou Mo who was hiding in the corner.
"Docked?" Zou Mo stood up slowly with gritted teeth. "The worse case is that I will die. F*ck it!"
Almost all cities prohibited spiritual boats from flying across them, and this spiritual boat docked outside of the city gate as usual.
However, when Fang Qi saw some huge spiritual boats floating in the sky above the city, he knew that this city didn't prohibit flying. This city was huge, but close to half of the city was in ruins; it was quite a strange sight.
The other half was filled with high buildings with various styles. The tall ones had dozens to 100 floors while the short ones had one to two stories like the residential houses in Jiuhua City.
However, even the low residential houses were not crude; almost all of them emitted faint spiritual essence fluctuations, and the walls were as white as new.
At first glance, even Fang Qi hadn't seen such a weird city before.
The people walking on the streets were cultivators in all kinds of attires, and there were almost no warriors among them.
There were altogether a little over ten people getting off the boat, and they walked after the white-faced cultivator and the spiritual boat's owner, a thin cultivator with a mouse-whisker-like mustache.
Fang Qi followed them into the city and twisted and turned while walking down about eight streets.
He looked around and found that the streets were clean and orderly.
Of course, if he didn't see several cultivators robbing someone in a dark alley, his impression wouldn't have changed.
"Sell the talented ones as medicine boys and use the talentless ones to make elixirs."
"We can make a big profit this time... The guy wearing the greyish-blue robe seems to have some cultivation strength, and the short one has some talent..."
Fang Qi's face turned dark while he listened to them talk about him as if he were pounds of pork. I can't take it anymore...
With this thought, Fang Qi walked up to them and said, "Guys."
All of them looked at Fang Qi who suddenly walked up to them.
"I appreciate that you took me here, but I have to say this. I'm not trying to target anyone; all of you are trash," Fang Qi said politely.
All of them looked at Fang Qi in astonishment.
They froze for a while and then laughed loudly.
They looked at him as if he were a moron who had no life experience outside of his home.
Chapter 230: I'm Still New, and I'll Get Better at This
Translator: Noodletown Translations Editor: Noodletown Translations
"Hey! Kid, do you understand the situation?" A big cultivator behind the white-faced cultivator walked up and picked Zou Mo up by his head with one hand.
Then, he threw Zou Mo forward like a bag of garbage, and the latter crashed into a wall forcefully. The violent collision made him spit out a mouthful of blood!
The big cultivator walked up with a vicious smile. "Kid, don't think that just because you are powerful in your small country means you can act like a hero in front of us! I can tell you that Master Warriors, Grandmaster Warriors, and even Ancestral Warriors are nothing to me!"
"What did you just say?" The big cultivator picked his ear and asked, "Can you repeat it?"
"Hehehehe! Okay! Okay! Don't scare him out of his wits!" The thin cultivator with the mouse-whisker-like mustache snickered strangely. If Fang Qi had snickered like this when he was on Earth, he would have been beaten several times a day. "Give him a hard lesson so that he knows the rules of this place. But don't hurt him, or we won't be able to get a good price for him!"
The big cultivators said with dampened enthusiasm, "Got it!"
At this moment, they saw Fang Qi's presence beginning to grow from Master Warrior Realm to Grandmaster Warrior Realm and didn't stop until he reached the Ancestral Warrior Realm!
"An Ancestral Warrior?! Such a young Ancestral Warrior?!" All of them had light in their eyes.
Then, they laughed hysterically!
"We will be rich this time! This kid will sell for a big price!" The thin cultivator with the mouse-whisker-like mustache exclaimed with widened eyes, "Such a young Ancestral Warrior must be a genius rarely seen in the past 1,000 years! His bones will sell for a sky-high price!"
The big cultivator's eyes lit up as well, and he said with a wicked smile, "I've told you that Ancestral Warriors are nothing to me. Still, you dare to show your true cultivation strength; I don't know if you are bold or just stupid!"
"However, I'll need some time to deal with an Ancestral Warrior." Then, his voice turned deep and gloomy, his body expanded, and his skin turned coarse. Tiny scales grew from his skin, and fangs grew out of his mouth!
He looked like a huge monster!
It was said that some cultivators with poor talent used the evil method of swallowing monsters' flesh and blood to increase their cultivation strength. It was an effective method but with great side effects.
For example, when they unleashed their full strength, they couldn't maintain their human form; instead, their bodies would deform and turn into that of a half human and half monster!
"Do you think that you can get away from us, little Ancestral Warrior?"
"Sorry, I don't have time to waste on you." Many sword energies suddenly appeared behind Fang Qi.
The sword energies almost covered half of the sky!
All the people gaped at this horrifying sight, and the huge group of sword energies blocking the sunlight was like dark clouds in their minds!
Instantly, their mind turned blank!
"People here might have some misunderstanding about warriors," Fang Qi said, "But in my place, the warriors can beat cultivators who are one realm higher!"
"Innumerable Sword Scroll! Go!"
Countless silver sharp blades crashed down like a storm!
The big cultivator who had claimed that Ancestral Warriors were nothing and had turned into his half-human-half-monster form turned to run with horror!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
In the blink of an eye, hundreds of sword energies slashed his flesh and opened many wounds on his body.
Pinned down on the ground by the sword energies, the big cultivator still tried to get up, but the hundreds of sword energies turned the ground into a forest of swords in the next moment.
Instantly, the two leading cultivators retreated dozens of steps while they looked at the sword forest with horror. That big cultivator couldn't be more dead.
"Do you have any last words?" It seemed like the number of sword energies hovering behind Fang Qi didn't decrease!
"Arrogant!" The white-faced cultivators said, "Do you think that you are our match just because you could kill this wastrel?"
He picked up a leather bag from his belt and cut one of his fingertips with his fingernail before dripping a drop of essence blood onto the bag. The bag opened, and countless human faces jumped out!
The gloomy sky turned darker as if something were dragging it into the Hell!
Soon, the wicked human faces seemed to disappear!
The white-faced cultivators sneered and said, "These hell spirits were formed by countless resentful ghosts, and they are invisible and formless, which means that they can't be injured by weapons. I'll see how you, a warrior, can deal with them!"
At this moment, a violent surge of white lightning flashed around Fang Qi!
Then, shrill screams sounded!
Holy Shock!
The invisible lightning energy around Fang Qi attacked anything that was trying to get close to him!
In this instant, all the invisible spirits showed their forms!
This area was turned into a lightning hell!
"From where I'm from, we warriors kill ghosts and spirits in groups." Fang Qi said, "Compared with the Gloams in the Worldstone Keep, these things are really lame since they are afraid of lightning..."
The white-faced cultivator: "..."
The thin cultivator with the mouse-whisker-like mustache: "..."
These two Spiritual Spring Realm cultivators began to feel uneasy.
"This kid is weird!"
The white-faced cultivator turned gloomy, and he said, "Let's go and give up this deal!"
At this moment, the clouds of sword energies in the sky turned into a huge river of swords as they crashed toward them!
Instantly, they cut their tongue tips with their teeth and spat out essence blood, and their hands moved so fast that it looked like they were having a stroke as they cast several spells and escaped at top speed!
The guys beside them who were slower were pierced by the sword energies instantly!
"Faster!"
At the guidance of the sword spell, the countless sword energies condensed into two, but these two sword energies brightened suddenly with greater power!
The swords sped up and chased after the two cultivators, flying as fast as them.
In Half City, the pedestrians saw two bloody figures fleeing at top speed while two sword energies enveloped in white lightning followed them like shadows. In fact, these two sword energies were a bit faster compared to those two figures.
The two fleeing figures shot into a big shop named Red Forest (Hong Lin) Pharmacy!
They looked around the shop and heaved a sigh of relief. "The big boss is here; we're safe!"
"Puff!"
The two sword energies fell from the sky and pierced their heads, splashing their blood all over the shop!
The customers in the shop stared at the sight dumbfoundedly!
"It's said that people must be merciless while traveling outside. I wonder if this root-removing method meets this standard." Fang Qi rubbed his stiff face. "Forget it. I'm still new, and I'll get better and meet the standard eventually."
Then, he walked toward the unconscious Zou Mo.