Chapter 316: Love Curse
Translator: Noodletown Translations Editor: Noodletown Translations
Just like Plants vs Zombies, one's progression in the King of Fighters was also shared on their Friend Circle.
[TL Note: The Friend Circle is more like Facebook where people could share posts and stuff.]
The number of players who played the little games was still growing, but the majority of players went to Plants vs Zombies.
It was only because not many people could afford the King of Fighters.
By now, the task target was more than halfway, which was 152/200. It meant that it wouldn't be long before the arrival of Harry Potter I.
Compared with the original version of King of Fighters, which one could clear stage with only one token, this version was extremely difficult. Even Fang Qi couldn't clear stage with only one token.
The condition for unlocking the moves and skills in King of Fighters was that the players had to defeat enemies in story mode. After defeating one team of enemies, the players could learn the training methods for some of the skills of the characters that they used in the fight. If they wanted to learn the Desperation Moves, they had to defeat Orochi by clearing the stage with one token.
With 20 gold coins for one token, Fang Qi had spent a lot of his gold coins that he had gained through stealing other people's vegetables, but he still hadn't seen Orochi yet, let alone defeat it.
It was quite embarrassing.
Mr. Fang defeated all the other players of King of Fighters and was unrivaled in the whole internet café. He used he combos smoothly and could even play well with one hand.
However, on the second day, Mr. Fang didn't play the King of Fighters.
"It's time to watch Wind and Clouds and Jade Dynasty!" Now, everyone turned to the TV Series at this time of the week without Fang Qi's reminder.
"Come here! Anyone who wants to watch it together come here!" Since the appearance of Qzone, they could watch the TV Series together. Today, Mr. Fang's viewing group had some new members, including Mo Tianxing, Huangpu Tao, Liu Ningyun, and Mo Xian.
The Xichi Spiritual Master and other players who had just visited the shop yesterday were still watching the previous episodes, trying to catch up. It was clear that they didn't get to the newest episodes yet.
"Ugh? Sir, where's the girl who played the King of Fighters with you?" Song Qingfeng looked around, surprised that the regular visitor of Mr. Fang's Qzone wasn't in the group.
"He is actually hanging out with that demonic woman!" Mo Xian and her friends were gossiping.
"I hope he won't be charmed by that demonic woman!"
"Fortunately, she isn't here. I don't want to watch the TV Series with that demonic woman..."
Mr. Fang explained, "She's still watching the previous episodes and hasn't gotten this far yet."
"Hey! Kid Fang has made many new friends over there!" While looking at the new faces, Nalan Hongwu said while laughing, "Why don't you introduce us?"
"Huangpu Tao!"
"I'm Mo Tianxing of the Heaven-Defying Online Games Guild!"
"..."
Although the two regions always fought in the Legend of Mir 2, the people here today weren't like Black Demon. After Fang Qi introduced them, they got along well. People like Song Qingfeng, who were regular visitors of Fang Qi's Qzone, were quite familiar with the new people. "The woman in white is a super genius of the Morning Star Sea Realm. Despite her young age, she has reached the True Lake Realm..."
"So strong? Is she a more talented genius than Ms. Nalan?"
"..."
Meanwhile, Nalan Mingxue looked sulky, and her beautiful eyes shot out sparks. The atmosphere was intense.
"You're still young..." Sensing her mood, Mr. Fang comforted her quietly, "You're not even 17 yet; you still have time."
"Humph!"
People like Xue Daolv, Mo Tianxing, and the others got along better.
"Not bad! Not bad!" Huangpu Tao said, "We have different customs and inheritances; I believe your Daoist techniques and understanding must have some unique features.
"Thank you! Thank you!" They began to compliment each other professionally, "I heard that the Morning Star Sea Realm is a world full of cultivators; True Lake Realm cultivators are everywhere, and Divine Ocean Realm cultivators can be frequently seen. I'm sure your Daoist techniques and understanding are very profound as well!"
"Thank you!"
"When you guys have time, we can sit down to have tea and talk about Dao!"
At this moment, the scene around them changed, and Jade Dynasty began.
In the last episode, the Demon Cult had begun attacking Green Cloud Faction, which was why they were so eager to watch the new episodes.
In the back mountain of Green Cloud Faction, Lin Jingyu was on the verge of dying, and the old man whose job was to sweep the floor used the Seven Tribulation Dragon-Slaying Spell, which was a long-lost spell of the Green Cloud Faction. The mountain-like green light appeared, amazing all the people there.
"Wan? Wan what?!"
The viewers talked among themselves. "This sword control technique is horrifyingly powerful!"
"Wan..." Nalan Mingxue said thoughtfully, "Is he Senior Brother Wan, whom they had mentioned?"
After watching the dazzling re-emergence of Wan Jianyi, they watched the appearance of the ancient Immortal-Slaying Sword!
[A mysterious old man residing at the Founder Shrine. He used to be in a relationship with You Ji, but they could not be together as they were from opposing sects. Later, he becomes Lin Jingyu's teacher.]
The customers of Fang Qi's shop didn't know why this TV Series was named Jade Dynasty, but they finally understood why when they saw the appearance of the Immortal-Slaying Sword.
[TL Note: the name of the TV Series is Zhu Xian in Chinese, meaning immortal slayer. But it was translated into Jade Dynasty and other names.]
The entire Green Cloud Mountain was shaking.
On Heaven-Reaching Peak, the sky which had been clear for more than 1,000 years began to dim.
In the Fantasy Moon Cave Abode, a purple aura rose majestically!
Six beams of radiant mystic yellow, indigo, red, green, orange, and blue lights merged with the purple light, and the seven beams of light condensed on the radiant ancient Immortal-Slaying Sword in Daoxuan's hand.
The sky and the earth changed colors, and rumbles of thunder boomed.
"The Immortal-Slaying Sword Array?!" While looking at the endless seven beams of mystic light that were in seven different colors flashing in the sky and condensing into a huge horrifying sword energy, all the people in the audience were stunned!
The sword energies fell like the raindrops in a storm! Seeing many cultivators of the Demon Cult getting knocked into the ground by the sword energies without the ability to fight back, the rain of blood and flesh, and the hell-like scene, the cultivators in the audience were at a loss for words toward the power of this sword.
More shockingly, the huge seven-colored sword was still in the sky! The Immortal-Slaying Sword Array had just released a small trace of its power!
They were so excited that their faces told it all, and they held onto their breaths subconsciously.
"I'm surprised that Green Cloud Faction's guarding array is so powerful!" Liu Ningyun lamented, "If our Nanhua Faction had such a guarding array, we wouldn't have suffered such severe damage in the catastrophe at the hands of the devils and demons 1,000 years ago."
"Green Leaf Ancestral Master is an amazing genius!"
However, it wasn't the end of the climax of the episode yet. When they watched Daoxuan Spiritual Master demand Zhang Xiaofan to reveal the secret behind his fast increase in cultivation strength, their hearts jumped into their throats.
Then, bedlam broke loose when they learned that the villagers in Grass Temple Village had been slaughtered by Puzhi, who had saved both Zhang Xiaofan and Lin Jingyu!
"What's orthodox? What's justice?" When they heard the shout, no one knew how to answer the questions.
Then, the Immortal-Slaying Sword that was in the sky crashed toward Zhang Xiaofan, who was demonized and holding Swallowing Soul, the staff, in his hand.
Almost all the viewers lost the ability to think.
Seeing the huge, horrifying seven-colored sword crashing down, the viewers' minds had become dark and chaotic!
There was neither sounds or light between the sky and the earth!
They felt the endless desperation as if they were there.
At this moment, they heard the faint and crisp sounds of a bell.
"Gloomy souls in Hell and demons and gods in Heaven, I'll sacrifice my body to you and fall..." someone chanted incantations of the blood curse which many people looked at in disdain and almost no one thought would ever be cast.
Love Curse!
Then, they saw that gentle and beautiful girl being pushed into the sky by a gale, dashing toward the huge sword which was engulfed in flowing seven-colored light!
It was the only light in the dark abyss of endless despair!
Chapter 317: A Grey Week
Translator: Noodletown Translations Editor: Noodletown Translations
Dazed, all the people watched the violent gale transform into an endless vortex around the figure in the sky while she crashed onto the huge, horrifying seven-colored sword!
In the next moment, only a dazzling light was left between the sky and the earth! The restless spiritual light swept across the world, and the eye-piercing light made people unable to open their eyes.
A huge noise sounded as if the earth had been broken open, and the unstoppable Immortal-Slaying Sword was sent flying backward!
The Heaven-Reaching Peak shook violently, and it was cracked open in the middle as if it were the end of the world!
"She blocked it?!" All the people stared at the sky in a daze with disbelief in their eyes.
She indeed blocked it?!
The power of the Immortal-Slaying Sword Array was horrifying.
However, the power of the Love Curse was even more shocking! The viewers didn't know how to express their feelings.
At this moment, they began to understand why this extremely vicious and demonic curse was called the Love Curse.
In the world, perhaps only the people with deep love could cast this vicious blood curse even though it meant that they would stay in Hell forever!
Looking at the green, forlorn figure fall from the sky like a broken doll, the viewers felt like something clutched their hearts.
It hurt so much that it felt like someone stabbed a knife into their hearts and twisted it.
"How could this happen?! Waah..." Jiang Xiaoyue had been in a great mood after making a lot of money by playing the Legend of Mir 2, but she now wept in heartbreak, "Xiaofan finally got someone who loves him so much, how can it end this way!"
"Waa... Bi Yao, don't die..." Mo Xian and the other disciples of the Nanhua Faction were already crying their hearts out.
The young people of Lingyun Academy felt like their minds were blank as if something was lost.
"Master... Xiaofan and Bi Yao are so pitiable..." Fenghua and Yuexin wept and said unclearly while wiping their tears with their sleeves.
"Nothing in the world is constant, and it leaves so many regrets..." As the Palace Master, Xue Daolv understood Daoxuan's act, but he heaved a heavy sigh of helplessness as a viewer.
"..."
In this messy and chaotic world, people only thought of profits and gains, and no one would sacrifice themselves and stay in Hell forever in exchange for someone else's life.
For cultivators, they were too rational to do anything like destroying their cultivation strength which they had accumulated for hundreds of years.
No one in the audience could imagine themselves doing such a thing, which explained why they were so sure that no one would cast the Love Curse.
Since it was something that they could never do, this scene was even more shocking to them.
They lamented about Zhang Xiaofan's youthful ignorance, Bi Yao's deep love for him, and this excruciatingly painful scene.
Most of the high-level cultivators here in Fang Qi's Qzone had spent their best youthful years in endless cultivation and fighting, and these beautiful and sad feelings were something that they could never experience in their lives.
All the people watched sadly while Xiaofan roared in fury as if the whole world had collapsed!
After this episode, they fell silent for a long time.
Sometime later, Su Tianji glanced around coldly as if she were looking for a fitting saber. "Where's the shop owner?"
"Sir! Come out!" Dong Qingli, Shen Qingqing, and the others who were fans for the TV Series had murderous spirit in their eyes.
The most important question for them was— what was going to happen in the next episode?!
Can Bi Yao be resurrected? What will happen to Xiaofan!! Tell me!!!
Liu Ningyun had never felt so frustrated before.
As the Castellan of Black Dragon City, Huangpu Tao had never felt this frustrated before as well; he felt as if he had fallen into a huge bottomless hole, and he couldn't even find his way out!
More importantly, a group of new viewers including the Xichi Spiritual Master were racing toward this huge hole one after another!
"Sir, can't you release more episodes?!" Even people like Mo Tianxing couldn't remain calm, let alone the people who came with him, such as the old and chubby Yu Cangshan. He said anxiously, "I can't bear this suspense!"
"Kid Fang, come out!" Obviously, Mr. Fang had anticipated this situation and had gone out before the episode ended. Not able to find him, they looked around viciously with suppressed murderous intent. If Mr. Fang had hidden in the ground, they would have dug him out.
In fact, Mr. Fang had smartly exited from the virtual reality world. Putting down the virtual reality headset, he lounged on the computer chair and looked at the people who were searching for him on the scene. While sipping Coke, he thought, If you can, come through the cable and get me.
Suddenly, the atmosphere around him turned heavy as if a storm were brewing.
Puzzled, Mr. Fang looked around.
Liu Ningyun was standing behind him with cold, frosty eyes!
Huangpu Tao's expression was dark!
Red-eyed, Ruan Ning and the other girls looked at Fang Qi with gritted teeth.
"What are you going to do?!" Mr. Fang suddenly had a bad feeling, and he said in a solemn voice, "I warn you! If you hit me, you'll be treated as trouble makers!"
"I'm so angry!" Ruan Ning and the others felt like they were going to explode with fury.
At this moment, QQ beeped.
New Snow, [Tickle him, and you won't be taken as trouble makers. Tickle him for us too!]
It was a gift from the friends of Dajin!
Then...
"Hahahahaha... are you crazy... Hahahaha... I'll kick you out if you don't stop..."
...
In the end, Mr. Fang used his privilege as the owner and issued the punishment. Nalan Mingxue, the person who led the trouble makers, was prohibited from touching the computer for three days and buying snacks for one week!
All the other participants were also banned for one day!
Finally, he showed them his power as the shop owner, but he couldn't stop them from cussing at him as the scummy shop owner behind his back.
However, this little incident couldn't alleviate people's melancholy. Many of them felt lost and empty inside after watching these new episodes of Jade Dynasty.
It felt as if something important in their hearts had gone missing.
Meanwhile, the big guilds were preparing for the Battle for the Sand City accordingly. However, some people still felt melancholic; it couldn't be avoided.
In a long time, many people couldn't get rid of the sorrow from their hearts, and it was more obvious after the Xichi Spiritual Master and the others finished watching the newest episodes.
"Do humans really have such deep love?" In Qzone, Ning Bi asked while she controlled Chizuru Kagura to make moves; she had just finished watching the newest episode of Jade Dynasty.
"Maybe..." With a cigarette that he had bought from the store in Qzone dangling from his mouth, Fang Qi said while moving the joystick, "Who knows?"
Chapter 318: Mr. Fang Who Challenged Orochi
Translator: Noodletown Translations Editor: Noodletown Translations
"Sir... I'll take a bottle of Coke!" Sitting on the couch red-eyed in the morning, Ruan Ning had a melancholic expression on her face. The other girls with her looked almost the same.
They looked as hopeless as young girls who had just broken up with their boyfriends.
"My Bi Yao... What a fine girl! How can her life be so pathetic?" Sitting on the couch, she mumbled and then bit into the spicy sticks with vengeance.
"Sir, is that just a story or something that really happened?" Ruan Ning asked indignantly while she gobbled down the food and snacks.
"Of course, it's just a story," Mr. Fang said blithely while eating instant noodles. Different from the others, he had read the story more than ten years ago, and the plot in the TV Series couldn't cause such a big emotional stir in him.
"If it's just a story, who created it?" The girls gazed at Fang Qi solemnly as if they were considering if they should send a few boxes of knives to the author. "Why did the author give my Bi Yao such a fate?! It's despicable!"
This... hehehe... Mr. Fang thought, I also want to mail the author some knives if I can.
Since he couldn't do it before he traveled through space and time, it was certainly even more difficult to do it here.
Fortunately, Mr. Fang never gave people spoilers, so they didn't know that Bi Yao wouldn't be resurrected even at the end of the story. Otherwise, these girls would have lost their minds and hacked at Mr. Fang with sabers.
Meanwhile, in the Nanhua Faction, things had also changed.
"Master, do you think Xiaofan can resurrect Bi Yao?" A few disciples surrounded the Xichi Spiritual Master.
Usually, when they had the opportunity to talk to their masters, they would ask some questions about the difficulties that they had encountered during cultivation. But now, things were different.
"As for that..." Usually, if they asked questions irrelevant to cultivation, they would be reprimanded by the serious Xichi Spiritual Master. But now, she just sighed heavily and said, "Heaven helps good people; you guys don't have to worry about it."
"The orthodox and unorthodox factions and forces in the TV Series look the same to me," Mo Xian said with a snort.
Besides people at these two places, the others who had watched the latest episodes of Jade Dynasty were also talking about the development of the plot in other places all over the Morning Star Sea Realm.
However, another group of people in the internet café were trying to put away their melancholy; they were preparing for the battle and thus had no time to feel sad.
"What do you think? Should we combine our forces?"
"Do you think that we can beat the forces of Dajin if we are divided?"
The big forces of the Morning Star Sea Realm were making plans for the Battle of the Sand City next week. Any individual force was no match for the Royal Clan Guild, not even the alliance of the Yuanheng Pavilion and the Huang Family, who had entered the game the earliest, nor Black Demon and the Coiled Dragon Office.
They were now discussing if they should establish an alliance.
With the battle drawing near, the high-level members of Dajin's Royal Family were also busy making strategies to best take over the Sand City.
...
Liu Ningyun had been giving Fang Qi the cold shoulder; her pretty eyes looked so chilly, as if Mr. Fang owed her tens of millions of crystals and wasn't paying back.
However, since she didn't have the intention to befriend other people in Half City, she only got along with Ruan Ning and her friends.
It meant that she had to bear Mr. Fang and see his 'despicable face' everyday.
In short, if she wanted to stay in the internet café, she had to endure everything and deal with Mr. Fang, even though she had the urge to beat him senseless.
"Morning!" Fang Qi looked up and saw a figure in white, so he greeted her casually.
"Morning." Liu Ningyun poured hot water into a bowl of instant noodles and then sat on the couch close to Ruan Ning while she waited for the instant noodles to be ready.
Then, she saw a pretty figure sitting down beside her.
In fact, the pretty figure sat down beside Mr. Fang. But the couch was only that big, so the distance between her and Liu Ningyun got very close. "It's great that I can eat instant noodles again!"
Liu Ningyun suddenly got really nervous for some reason, and her hair had stood up on end.
It was a feeling that she had never experienced before. Just imagine the scenario where an angel and a demon were sitting together and eating instant noodles together peacefully; it was what the scene looked like.
"Little Sister, why are you staring at me?" Ning Bi said with a chuckle, "If you don't eat, your noodles will get cold."
"..."
"Little Shop Owner." She lounged on the couch lazily. "I came so early to patronize your shop. Can't I have an extra bowl of instant noodles?"
Fang Qi drank up the soup in the bowl and said, "Have you seen me eating a second bowl?"
Are you kidding me? Even I can't have a second bowl in a day!
"Stingy!" She wasn't angry though. After opening the lid of the bowl, she stirred the noodles with a pair of chopsticks. Each of her moves had a unique charm.
Meanwhile, Fang Qi got up to play games, leaving her his back to look at.
"..."
Since everyone else was listless due to the latest episodes of Jade Dynasty, Mr. Fang spent most of his time on playing the King of Fighters himself, trying to clear stage with one token.
The three characters he chose was Iori Yagami, Kyo Kusanagi, and Chizuru Kagura, the classic team of the three main characters. Although Kyo Kusanagi had obvious shortcomings in the King of Fighters '97, Fang Qi had to choose him to unlock the fist skills and unique moves in the store.
After getting familiar with the game, Fang Qi's skills in the King of Fighters had improved greatly. With his smooth moves and plays, Iori Yagami successfully defeated the three enemies in the first team in Story Mode on his own.
Soon, the second team came up.
"Is the shop owner playing the King of Fighters again?" Ruan Ning finally figured out what he was doing. "Should we go and watch him play?"
After all, Mr. Fang's smooth combos and nimble plays were enjoyable to watch.
Right now, they needed something to distract them from their melancholic thoughts.
"Is he challenging that so-called Orochi again?" Ning Bi looked interested. In fact, she had never seen Orochi before; she only heard from Mr. Fang words that it was an extremely powerful existence.
In the world of King of Fighters, Orochi had existed since the ancient times, and it had been guarding the Earth. It was a spirit without a physical body, and it was manifested through floating emotions and substances of nature. It was called Gaia's Will (Earth's Will) and was the chief of the Orochi Clan.
Orochi and its clan were not gods but one branch out of many 'Gaia's Will'. Despite all this, it still possessed horrifying and god-like power!
In the King of Fighters World, the fighters could battle with the horrifying existence such as 'Gaia's Will', which interested not only Ning Bi but Liu Ningyun as well.
That was why Liu Ningyun 'reluctantly' went to Mr. Fang's Qzone to watch him play, and she had to watch it with a certain demonic woman.
Chapter 319: The Battle with Orochi; Startled by the Interlude Animation
Translator: Noodletown Translations Editor: Noodletown Translations
"Sir! You are going to use Chizuru Kagura?" Song Qingfeng was surprised since Mr. Fang usually used Kyo Kusanagi and Iori Yagami, but rarely Chizuru Kagura.
At this moment, Fang Qi had just finished the first round, and Chizuru Kagura still had more than half of her HP. The situation looked good.
"Ugh? Chizuru Kagura?" Nanhua Heavenly Fairy Liu Ningyun was also puzzled. "Can he fight to the end with this character?"
Since Chizuru had no long-range moves and seemed to not have great combos, they had played her for a while before giving up.
"Oh! You're playing the King of Fighters?" Still eating instant noodles, Huangpu Tao pulled over a bench and sat behind Fang Qi to watch him play.
It was time for breakfast, and Mo Tianxing and the others also stood behind to watch the game while eating instant noodles.
"What's that?" Even the aloof Xichi Spiritual Master came over curiously and watched him play.
Soon, Fang Qi was surrounded by a group of people both in his Qzone and in the internet café.
At this moment, Fang Qi's opponent was Chin Genzai, the Drunken Fist Master. At the beginning, they fought cautiously since the characters in the second team were already quite powerful.
However, in the next instant, Fang Qi squatted and dodged his opponent's light kick in the air, and his opponent landed behind him and received two light punches from him.
This scene might be ordinary to others, but light suddenly appeared in Fang Qi's Chizuru Kagura's hands.
Desperation Move – Sui Chou no Mai!
On the screen, Chizuru turned into many blurry shadows, and she punched quickly. After her desperate move was over, she continued to attack with light punches in mid-air before launching light kicks and light punches while squatting.
Fang Qi's controls were smooth and swift. The character on the screen moved fast while punching and kicking; the moves were so fast that they became blurry shadows!
"F*ck! A combo of 27 moves?!" Seeing this scene, Song Qingfeng's eyes almost popped out.
"So dashing!" Lin Shao wished that he could do it too.
After the combo, Fang Qi's opponent turned from having a full bar of HP to a sliver that was as thin as a thumb on the screen.
Also, his opponent had been stunned!
"We can play her like this?!"
"When striking from behind, a combo of 27 moves is not unusual," Mr. Fang explained to them, "But it's hard to find an opportunity. With a good opportunity, I can even launch a combo of 28 moves."
"So awesome!"
"How come I couldn't do it when I played her?" Liu Ningyun was dazed.
Sometime later, the picture on the screen changed from the battle stage of the competition to a huge altar!
The atmosphere turned grim when they saw the purple light shooting into the sky; it was a scene that they had never seen before!
There was only one opponent. When Fang Qi lined up his characters in the order of play, others saw that his opponent team had only one black figure.
"What's happening?" Ruan Ning and the others were baffled.
The audience standing behind Fang Qi and eating noodles also had grim expressions on their faces since they could sense an extremely oppressive aura, even if they were two screens away.
When Chris of the Orochi Team revealed his snake eyes, lightning flashed while thunder rumbled on the screen. While the lightning flashes illuminated the area, the short white hair of that huge figure fluttered in the air, and a ring-shaped tattoo that looked like a radiant sun appeared on his chest.
As if it were disregarding the rules of the world, it hovered in the air.
Its body emitted a god-like aura!
"Orochi?!"
"Is this person Orochi?!"
The King of Fighters recreated by the System looked more real and thus gave people a stronger shock.
Behind Fang Qi, people exclaimed in surprise.
The moment they opened their mouths, Orochi's body shifted and vanished!
In the next moment, it appeared behind Fang Qi's Kyo Kusanagi!
"Translocation?!"
It was like teleportation without warning; it didn't need time to cast like the teleportation skill of wizards.
Then, Orochi shot out a black spherical energy projectile, hitting the center of Kyo Kusanagi's back. After that, it spread its arms above its head as if they were wings.
Many sparks flew down from the sky, and there was no place to dodge. The whole screen turned white.
Only after two moves, people saw that Fang Qi's Kyo Kusanagi had turned from full HP to a tiny amount.
The moment Kyo Kusanagi stood up, Orochi shot up a beam of radiant spiritual essence from the ground with his will.
Kyo Kusanagi was killed instantly!
"So powerful!" Song Qingfeng gaped at the sight and forgot to close his mouth.
From his appearance until now, he had killed his opponent with only three moves!
"I didn't play it well! I didn't play it well!" Fang Qi shook his hands and inhaled deeply. Obviously, he was dazed by this defeat.
Soon, Iori Yagami stepped up. This time, Fang Qi was more cautious. The moment his opponent disappeared, he made a prediction and rolled. When Orochi appeared behind him, he had dodged again and moved behind Orochi.
Light punch plus Kuzu Kaze, then strong punch plus the Shiki Aoi Hana three repeat. This combo dropped Orochi's HP by one-third!
"This prediction was awesome!"
"Very accurate!"
The people in the audience exclaimed.
The moment Orochi fell, Iori Yagami moved close to it swiftly. While the former stood up and raised his hand to release a black spherical energy projectile, Fang Qi moved up subconsciously and dodged this energy projectile at the perfect moment.
Fang Qi moved his hands calmly and used another combo in a flash.
Orochi could use combos as well, and it used them even more smoothly than Fang Qi.
The audience was at a loss for words while they watched the dazing combos, and they were surprised that this little game in Qzone could be so fascinating!
Fang Qi used the last character Chizuru Kagura to clear stage narrowly with the last bit of HP. Everyone thought that it was the end of the game, but the next scene...
Orochi couldn't be killed so easily. Now, it was the turn to battle the real Orochi who had been sealed by the three sacred treasures for many years!
The resurrected Orochi descended on land like a god. In the interlude animation, it was no longer restricted by the frame of the game, so it could better showcase its power.
With violent gales and flashes of lightning around it, Orochi hovered in the air like a god. It easily activated the Blood of Orochi in Iori Yagami's body and controlled Iori Yagami to charge toward Chizuru Kagura and Kyo Kusanagi.
Its horrifying strength swept across the whole world.
All the people watching the game were stunned and were at a loss for words!
Even through the screen, they could sense this great power. Since the players could buy and learn the stuff that they unlocked through playing games, it meant that this power was real!
At this moment, people saw that Iori Yagami was red-eyed with restlessness, and he was struggling violently. No one could control Iori Yagami, not even Orochi, who was a god-like existence. To everyone's surprise, Wild Iori used his last trace of sanity and attacked Orochi.
His powerful and sharp claws clutched Orochi's neck, and the horrifying purple flames shot up into the sky, piercing a hole in the dark clouds!
"Sir," Song Qingfeng said in a shaky voice, "Can we learn this one!!??"
He was so excited that he shook all over.
On the other side, red flames shot up, and the terrifying flames almost burned everything around them into ashes.
"This is the Ultimate Desperation Move 'Mu Shiki'?!" Song Qingfeng and the others cried out.
They might be able to learn this move.
In the thick fire beam, a figure engulfed in flames turned into a red light. It moved so fast that blurry shadows appeared behind it.
Strong punch!
The whole world was turned fiery red!
Chapter 320: The Second Movie Emerges
Translator: Noodletown Translations Editor: Noodletown Translations
"This is the Ultimate Desperation Move 'Totsuka-no-Tsurugi', the advanced version of 'Mu Shiki'." Having finally cleared the stage, Fang Qi was in a good mood. Therefore, he lit a cigarette and watched the ending animation with a relaxed expression, giving the audience an explanation.
[TL Note: We couldn't find any reference to the term in the game, so we used the best estimate and translated it as Totsuka-no-Tsurugi.]
"Ugh..." The cultivators who had been eating noodles looked baffled.
The King of Fighters' plot was not continuous, and the animations didn't come until the players met the Orochi Team. However, people could still guess the general plot of the King of Fighters.
But they all began to wonder, If warriors can be so powerful, why am I still training to become a cultivator?!
Fortunately, they had read a volume of the Heavenly Book in Jade Dynasty. Otherwise, they would have wanted to become warriors after watching this game.
Anyway, they were amazed by Orochi's powerful abilities, which made it look like both a warrior and a cultivator. The highly effective close-range combat techniques and the powerful AoE spells such as Desperation Move – Marukare (Orochi Divine Light) stunned them.
"Sir, can we learn Orochi's spiritual spells?" Wide-eyed, Huangpu Tao asked unclearly with a mouthful of instant noodles that he hadn't swallowed.
Even the ordinary spiritual pillar, reflective shield, and shockwave had horrifying power, let alone the desperation moves.
By now, the animation for clearing the stage had finished playing.
[A magnificent victory! Congratulations to you for sealing Orochi again, and you have won a golden trophy. Do you want to share it in the Friend Circle on QQ?]
Mr. Fang shared it casually.
Soon, all of Mr. Fang's friends received a message from Friend Circle, and an exquisite golden trophy appeared behind his avatar; it looked dashing and cool.
"F*ck! Awesome!"
"How did the shop owner get that?"
Su Tianji, who had been playing Plants vs Zombies, almost fainted. I've been playing Plants vs Zombies every day and haven't cleared the stage yet. How come this kid is so fast?! He even won a trophy?!
At this moment, in the store at Qzone, all the moves, including the desperation moves used by Kyo Kusanagi, Iori Yagami, and Chizuru Kagura in the King of Fighters '97 had been unlocked; they could now be bought.
Of course, Fang Qi still couldn't afford the training and practice methods for the desperation moves.
Even if he could afford them, it would take a long time for him to reach the level of the three main characters.
But still, people were envious of Fang Qi for having access to these moves.
These cultivators all craved Orochi's spiritual spells, but they were baffled at the same time. "Sir, can warriors be as strong as these people?!"
"You should ask the warriors of Dajin," Fang Qi said in earnest, "They are learning Sword 23 now."
Then, he explained to them what Sword 23 was.
These cultivators began to realize that warriors could be very powerful; the only problem was that they hadn't met any warrior who was that powerful yet!
...
Meanwhile, the spiritual artifact masters in the Wuwei Daoist Alliance of Dajin were still studying runewords and spiritual spells.
Obviously, they were successful in copying these things, but it was difficult to truly understand the theories of another knowledge system from the base.
Soon, they encountered a bottleneck since they could observe the items and their power but couldn't understand why that was the case. However, they were reluctant to give it up because this novel and special stuff could complement the current spiritual-artifact-making process. If they could add the new theories into their current knowledge system, the system in the end would become better and more complete.
"How was it?" Jun Yangzi felt frustrated.
"Not good." Li Haoran also looked sulky. "In Diablo, a lot of basic knowledge is lost. We can copy the methods, but it will be difficult to create new stuff..."
Meanwhile, many neighboring forces saw the silent withdrawal of the Yundian Upper Realm after it got defeated, and they began to swarm into Jiuhua City of Dajin to find the reason.
However, the situation changed almost overnight.
"I heard a plague named Internet Addiction appeared in Jiuhua City. Is it true?" On Jade Hill Mountain in the ocean, a green-robed old man asked with a cup of tea in his hand. He was gazing at a man wearing a white robe with golden patterns, the latter being Feng Xi.
"Elder Xu, do your disciples often sneak out of the faction and skip the morning lesson? Are there a lot of disciples missing from the elders' classes?" Feng Xi asked in all seriousness.
The green-robed elder with the surname of Xu looked grim. "Yes, we have a few of such disciples!"
"That's it!" Feng Xi said while nodding, "Their laziness, obsession with useless things, and even disrespect to seniors and elders are all symptoms of the Internet Addiction poison! If you're not careful, this disease will spread all over the faction. You must treat it with care!"
Elder Xu's face twitched. If all the disciples in the faction were like this, none of them could be entrusted with great responsibilities!
He asked immediately, "Is there any cure for them?"
"Don't worry." Feng Qi said with a trace of sympathy on his face. "Our Three Saint Gates have predicted this disaster in the cultivation world and found a solution to the problem. I'm here to deliver it."
"Then... Thank you! Messenger Feng" Elder Xu was elated. "The Three Saint Gates are living in seclusion, but you are still concerned about the safety of the cultivation world! It's a blessing for all of us! Messenger Feng, tell me your plan, and we'll do our best to work with you!"
"Good." Feng Xi nodded and said, "Since our Three Saint Gate don't have enough manpower, you can send the disciples who have been poisoned to our factions, and we'll cure them together."
"It is the great fortune of these unruly disciples!" Elder Xu was even more pleased. "However, this is the issue of our faction; we don't want to cause you trouble."
"This issue concerns the safety of the whole cultivation world," Feng Xi said, "Your faction isn't the only one that is involved."
"Okay!" Elder Xu finally agreed. "I'll have these disciples sent to your factions immediately to remove this poison... Thank you for your effort!"
In the Taixi Faction, Duyou Holiness was sitting on the bank of the lake in a white robe.
A black-robed old man chuckled while stroking his beard, "With this plan, we can easily combine major forces to work against them without getting ourselves involved. Your plan is excellent, Duyou Holiness."
"Hahahaha..." The white-robed old man said with a laugh, "The people who are involved with worldly affairs tend to lose their heads whenever they gain some power. They don't know that we can overturn them with one hand."
...
"&￥*%#..." In Qzone, Song Qingfeng mimicked Kyo's Kusanagi and copied the movement of 'Mu Shiki', thinking that he was dashing while doing it.
By now, many players had begun playing the King of Fighters after watching Mr. Fang. Even Nalan Mingxue visited Mr. Fang's Qzone and played Joe Higashi, using Hurricane Upper to send out small tornadoes, but her character was beaten senseless by Mr. Fang.
Then, he received a prompt from the System:
[The number of players who is playing games in Qzone has reached 200; Task "A fresh wind in the online games era" is completed.
Task Reward: Movie – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone; one day access to the Game Cultivation Room.]