Chapter 546: Mr. Fang's Competition Will Be Cancelled?
Translator: Noodletown Translations Editor: Noodletown Translations
In the huge palace, the man who wore the set of fancy silver armor and had two strange golden patterns between his brows inhaled the fragrance of the nectar in his cup with an intoxicated expression. "Since this trip is so boring, why don't we create some entertainment? It will be fun to watch these backward, ignorant barbarians struggle in despair, right?"
"Should we inform the other lords?" The white-robed man with the humble expression asked.
The silver-armored man swirled the wine cup in his hand with enjoyment and didn't reply.
The man with the humble expression seemed to understand something, and he bowed and backed out with his head lowered.
...
Meanwhile, in the cottage where the influential people had been talking about the broadcast of the E-Sports Competition.
Vice Academy Master Xiao looked at Gu Tingyu with a pale face as he asked, "What... should we do now?!"
"Don't panic!" The middle-aged woman of the Qingqiu Family said in a cold voice, "We can always find a way to deal with problems!"
"You guys haven't been to the Sky Relic and don't know their power!" Vice Academy Master Xiao said in conviction, "We are mortals; how can we face them?!"
Although he had learned a small ice spell in the shop, but...
The four grandmasters and the other masters in the game are indeed powerful, but they can't come out of the game!
The stuff in StarCraft is also powerful. It would be great if I can have a carrier! I wouldn't be feeling this way!
But who has such things in the real world?!
Vice Academy Master Xiao was desperate and frustrated. After all, the stuff in the shop only existed in the games and the virtual reality worlds, but their enemies had arrived at their door!
However, Gu Tingyun felt differently compared to Vice Academy Master Xiao after the incident with the Nangong Family. Although their current enemies were much more powerful than Nangong Family, he still had a sliver of hope.
Besides, the enemies told them that the battle wouldn't come until three months later.
"Don't panic." Having experienced many crises, Gu Tingyu said, "We must keep it a secret and don't cause panic among the cultivators. We... still have time to prepare for it."
...
In reality, it was impossible to keep this a secret from the ordinary cultivators. It was a heavy blow to many civilian warriors and independent cultivators who had registered for the first worldwide E-Sports competition.
– In the Jiuhua City Shop –
"Old Liang." A warrior wearing a black warrior suit asked Liang Shi in a low voice, "Did you hear that the Spiritual State is facing an unprecedented disaster which might even spread to our Deserted Sea Realm? In the short term..."
He asked cautiously, "Will the No.1 World-Wide Martial Dao Conference be affected by this crisis?"
"Do you think that this Martial Dao Conference will be cancelled due to the issue in the Spiritual State?"
For the civilian warriors, regardless of how hard they worked in the real world, they were no match for the geniuses from the big families due to their lack of resources, poor backgrounds, and weak talents.
But now, in Dungeon Fighter Online and StarCraft, everyone was on the same starting line, and no one had outside aid.
As long as they worked hard, they wouldn't lag behind so much that they couldn't see the top players.
In the games, they seemed to have relived their lives on the battlefields in StarCraft and on the Arad Continent.
A young man who was in his thirties and was wearing a simple gray warrior robe nodded at them while walking past them.
Then, he entered the dojo again. On the screen, there was a male fighter with good equipment, and his ranking the Dojo Division System was an eye-catching [Supreme – 9]
"Old Fu went to the dojo again?" Liang Shi asked in a low voice.
"Yeah. Recently, he has been spending about eights hours a day in the dojo. I guess he fights at least 100 matches a day..." The warrior wearing the black warrior suit said, "You know Old Fu's strength. During the individual competition of Diablo..."
Fu Jianghe was the Paladin player who had battled his way up in the individual competition of Diablo but backed out of the competition in the last round.
The warrior wearing the black warrior suit said, "I'm afraid that he doesn't know about the crisis in the Spiritual State yet... If the competition is cancelled due to the crisis, his efforts will be all wasted..."
"I heard that the cultivators in the Spiritual State are preparing for war and have no time for the competition..." another cultivator said.
For most of the civilian warriors and independent cultivators, the tangible rewards of the competition were not important. They valued this rare opportunity where they could get on the same stage and have fair battles with the lofty geniuses of the big families who they could only look up to in normal situations.
[Well, I just want to go to the arena and take a look...]
[After all, I've never gone out of this city 😀] In the Half City shop, a bright-looking young man who looked to be less than 20 years old replied. His character in the game was a lazy-looking gunner with a twig dangling between his lips.
After replying with a message on QQ, he immediately plunged into the matches in the dojo.
Gunners were survivors in a chaotic and lawless area in Empyrean. In that place, they could encounter enemies any moment and must draw out their guns as fast as they could to kill the enemies.
To survive when they didn't have guns, they had strengthened their hand-to-hand combat skills and thus created a combat style which combined the use of weapons and combat skills. These special gunners were called rangers.
In the game, this young man used both combat skills and his various weapons with proficiency, and he killed a blade master who was about to use an awakening skill with a kick.
After opening his game interface, he saw that he had more than 3,000 matches on the record.
When he walked out of the dojo, he saw the icon of QQ lighting up on his interface.
"What's going on?" He opened QQ, and anger, loss, and other complicated emotions appeared on his face. "The shop in the Spiritual State is almost empty... the F1 World Championship might be cancelled as a result?"
...
Many players in the shops had been busy preparing for the competition, and no one had expected that things would take such a turn.
In the Yuanyang City Shop, there weren't as many players as before; it even looked a little empty while the players dwindled.
Between obtaining strength and preserving their lives, most people chose the latter, even though the second option wasn't so reliable either.
Maybe I can leave here and find a place that the others won't find. After a while, this might pass.
Many small cultivators harbored such thoughts.
Facing such a huge crisis, everyone in the cultivation world at the Spiritual State became anxious. It seemed like Mr. Fang's No.1 World-Wide Martial Dao Conference might end before it even began.
Chapter 547: My Loss, Your Gain
Translator: Noodletown Translations Editor: Noodletown Translations
In the huge godly palace, the silver-armored man was still sipping wine lazily. He looked like an elegant aristocrat who was calm and relaxed.
He was listening to the reports from his subordinates. "What are the natives doing now? Are they... running around aimlessly like panicking ants?"
The white-robed man bowed to him and said respectfully, "My Lord, as you predicted, these people are all fearful, and some of them are getting ready to run to remote places. Their so-called big cities are in shambles. The big families and forces are thinking hard to find ways to survive and continue their futile struggles."
A series of wild laughter erupted in the room.
...
"Boss..."
"Boss!" Loli Jiang Xiaoyue had just come back from school and was about to pull Mr. Fang to play Dungeon Fighter Online with her. However, she was surprised to see he was sound asleep with his head on the desk.
"Boo—ss–!" She was furious. Everyone is talking about the imminent catastrophe that is about to overtake Spiritual State, and there are fewer and fewer customers in the shop. However, the damn shop owner is so care-free that he fell asleep?!
"Ah...?" Mr. Fang opened his eyes groggily. On his screen were rows of videos of livestreams, but him falling asleep made him look like a lazy good-for-nothing.
"Ah! What are you yelling about...?" Mr. Fang glanced at the screen and immediately sat up. "I almost forgot my main work."
"Boss... Why are you collecting these livestreams recently?" Tilting her head, Jiang Xiaoyue was confused as she stared at the strange things on the screen that Fang Qi was working on.
"You don't understand," Mr. Fang said, "This is called promotional cinematic trailers! It's a must-have for all E-Sports competitions!"
"But..." Seeing Jiang Xiaoyue and the people behind her such as Li Lanruo and Yue Bai looking toward his screen, he immediately turned it off and said, "You're not supposed to see it now."
"So mysterious!" With a snort, Jiang Xiaoyue said in disapproval, "Look around you! There are only a few players in the shop!
"If this continues, you'll have to close the shop!" Jiang Xiaoyue snorted again and sat down beside him in a huff. Then, she entered the game, ignoring Mr. Fang.
"We have fewer customers?" Mr. Fang looked around. Sure enough, people usually had to wait in line to get a computer, but the shop wasn't full at the moment even though it was the peak time of the day.
Many people's profile pictures flashed on his QQ.
Su Tianji asked, [😠 Sir! Is the F1 World Championships still going to happen or not?!]
Liang Shi asked, [Sir, I heard that the people of the Spiritual State are under great pressure; is it true? Does it mean that the No.1 World-Wide Martial Dao Conference will be canceled?]
[The cultivation world of the Spiritual State is on the verge of destruction; why would they go to the internet café at this hour...?] Some people sent some disheartening and negative comments in the group.
Lately, Gu Tingyun and the other high-level people in the cultivation world of the Spiritual State were busy making plans and hadn't shown up for a few days. Since their voices were missing, and they didn't make any clear statements, more uncertainty appeared in the cultivation world.
If not for the efforts of the elders of the ancient families who tried to suppress the rumors, the whole cultivation world would have fallen into chaos.
The disciples of the big families didn't venture out of their homes, some timid independent cultivators had begun packing up, ready to flee.
"Canceled?!" Nonplussed, Mr. Fang replied, [The No.1 World-Wide Martial Dao Conference will be held as planned!]
"What?!"
"You'll hold the competition in such a situation?"
"Is the shop owner crazy...?" Xu Zhu was an authentic independent cultivator in the Spiritual State. Almost all independent cultivators didn't have a fixed living place and would go wherever it was beneficial for them and avoided trouble, which was the law of survival that was engraved in their bones.
Any independent cultivator who had survived on this land was an experienced person, and when and how to find a safer place was a part of their survival skills that people like him memorized in their heads.
At this moment, he was packing in Fulai Inn in Yuanyang City, planning to leave the city today.
Regardless of how the war might end, he would only become a victim if he stayed.
As for games and that small shop, if it could survive the war, he could come back and visit it after the war.
After packing, he glanced around at his empty room and then looked at the communication jade in his hand.
This new communication jade had cost him a small fortune and he had downloaded the shop's mobile QQ APP on it.
[Ding! You have a new message.] A strange message suddenly popped up on QQ.
He clicked it open subconsciously.
"Welcome F1 World Championship! Rewards for returning heroes?"
"Receive gifts by logging in?"
His eyes almost popped out of his eye sockets when he saw the gifts. "Life tokens? Black Diamond Membership?!"
"One free defensive equipment mini pot for the corresponding level each day?!" [TL Note: same thing as loot boxes.]
"+10 equipment reinforcement coupons?! For no more than 5 crystals?!"
"My goodness!" He put his hands on his face and yelled, "Crazy! The shop owner will lose so much money!"
"+10 reinforcement coupons! One such coupon can trade for a top-level spiritual artifact! We can buy it for only 5 crystals in the game now?!"
"No! I've got to go online and see..." Xu Zhu thought, but then he hesitated. "Isn't it too dangerous for me to stay still here..."
"I..." He felt like his brain had turned blank. When he thought that he could buy +10 reinforcement coupons, he decided to take the risk. "I can leave right after getting the reinforcement coupon!"
With gritted teeth, he hurried to the shop and logged into the game.
Sure enough, he saw a new option on the game interface for claiming gifts.
He immediately claimed the gifts.
[You obtain Black Diamond Membership for one day.]
"Hahahaha! I can indeed get a free Black Diamond Membership!" Xu Zhu laughed and glanced around as if he were afraid that someone would take it from him.
He was about to get offline and leave when he saw something. On the inference, it stated that the players could get more gifts the longer they stayed in the game.
"I can have 3 free defensive equipment mini pots after ten minutes?!" He hesitated. "Then, I'll play for ten more minutes..."
"Oh... I'll see how to buy the +10 reinforcement coupons..."
"Mysterious gift bag...? Do I need to buy this...?" With a frown, he read the description of this mysterious gift bag. It seemed like there were 14 potential rewards in the bag, and the players could buy one each day with different items in them. Even with the worst luck, he could certainly buy a +10 reinforcement coupon in 14 days.
"14 days... It will only cost dozens of crystals!" He didn't believe that the shop would be so generous that players could buy a +10 reinforcement coupon with a few crystals. After reading this message, he found that it was more believable!
Dozens of crystals were a price that he could accept.
Should I... play for a few more days ...?! He decided that he would leave after he got the reinforcement coupon!
...
– Meanwhile, in the godly palace –
"Lord Vanguard General, you seem to be in a good mood!" A lazy voice came from outside the palace.
An exotic beauty walked in. She wore a set of black body-fitting leather armor and had long, curly golden hair. She also had two golden patterns between her brows.
She walked like a lazy cat, elegant and silent. If she hadn't spoken, no one would have noticed that she had walked in.
"Hahahaha!" A series of laughter came from the room. "I find it interesting to watch the ants struggle before death; I wonder if they know that all their efforts are futile."
"Isn't it more interesting to watch them struggle in vain and try to hold on?" the woman smirked and said.
"Then..." The man waved his hand, and the image of a huge city appeared before them. "Let's watch how these ants struggle!"
The scene before them changed into a prosperous ancient city.
It was Yuanyang City.
They saw large groups of cultivators and warriors.
"Let's go! Hurry to the shop! We can get gifts after logging in! We can get a Black Diamond Membership and +10 reinforcement coupons!"
"We're rich! The shop owner is actually giving out free reinforcement coupons! Let's go and get them!"
"Hahahaha! Hurry! Don't let the others get ahead of us!" In the crowd, two figures hidden in black robes whispered to each other.
The people in the palace watched the scene in a daze, and they were at a loss for words.
They were stupefied.
Chapter 548: All Masters with Foresight in the World Gather Here
Translator: Noodletown Translations Editor: Noodletown Translations
Crack! The sounds of a wine cup bring shattered came from the grand hall; the silver-armored man turned livid.
The happy scene vanished before his eyes!
We are clearly invaders, and we have come here and gave them the ultimatum. Our ancestors have established dominance many years ago already. How come these people...
Have these people totally forgotten the lesson from the ancient times!
The people on the screen celebrated so cheerfully as if they had won a five million crystal lottery! They didn't look desperate at all.
"Please calm down, My Lord!" The white-robed man tried to calm him down. "These natives don't know our great power. They..."
He thought for a long while to organize his words and continued, "They are only a group of mortals and... um... these ants don't know your greatness or the feats of the lords..."
He stammered and stuttered, making others feel like he couldn't BS anymore.
Finally, he choked out the words with a reddened face, "When the Heaven-Hiding Palace lands, we will show these ants our ultimate strength! I'm sure that these ants will be so scared that they will beg for mercy!"
The seductive woman squinted her eyes and said with a charming but cold smile, "I saw them and found that these ants are indeed ignorant. In my opinion, we must be patient and shock them when the time comes, letting them know how ignorant they are."
The white-robed man nodded respectfully and said, "Ms. Jessica is right. As the ants usually say, ants float on the vast ocean. I'm sure that they will have a direct experience of this saying by then."
"Good! This plan sounds good! Let's do it." The silver-armored man made the decision. "That so-called Origins Internet Club is a stupid and ignorant mortal shop; how dare it mess with my plans!"
"When the time comes, Lord Vanguard General, you can show your godly power in front of that shop in person; it's just a tiny shop after all..."
"Hahahaha...!" A series of laughter resonated in the grand hall.
"Why are you guys so happy?" Some people, male and female, walked in.
Soon, more laughter came from the grand hall. "When the time comes, they will witness the great power of our clan. These lowly creatures will know how ignorant they have been!"
They were very cheerful.
With his spirits lifted, the silver-armored man poured himself another cup of wine and sipped it with enjoyment.
...
– Meanwhile, in Mr. Fang's internet club –
The empty Yuanyang City Shop gradually became bustling with crowds again.
The cultivators of other cities noticed the change as well.
They had heard the rumor that the cultivation world would be struck with a catastrophe, and many people had fled from the cities. But now, it seemed that people were swarming into Yuanyang City as if their lives depended on it.
The unusual behavior of these cultivators grabbed the attention of the independent cultivators and ordinary warriors who were planning to flee. It was as eye-catching as a flame in the night.
"Do they know something that we don't?!"
– Independent Immortal Pavilion in Yuanyang City –
The Independent Immortal Pavilion had been nearly empty lately, but now it was bustling with independent cultivators from all places.
The people of big families and factions in other cities all gathered here.
"Waiter! Get me a pound of spirit turtle meat and a pot of 1,000-year-old Huadiao Wine." A dark-skinned, ordinary-looking young man who was wearing a green robe walked into the shop.
At this moment, all the tables were taken. He cupped his hands at three independent cultivators and pointed at the vacant seat at their square table before asking, "Can I sit with you guys?"
Seeing the question in their eyes, he immediately introduced himself, "I'm Han Yue from the small Yan Country in the south."
"Han Yue?" an independent cultivator laughed and said, "Young Man, you are named after the famous independent immortal from 2,000 years ago? Do you know how to use the Green Light Godly Blade Sword Technique?"
"With this name, aren't you afraid of being beaten when you're out?" that man said as he shook his head, "Suit yourself."
The green-robed young man's face twitched.
The independent cultivators talked among themselves. One of them said in a low voice, "Did you know that the cultivators all came to Yuanyang City for a treasure?"
"What treasure?! They would risk their lives for a treasure?!"
"You can't put it that way. It's said that the catastrophe of the Spiritual State won't come until three months later, but obtaining this treasure only takes about 10 days. People can leave after getting this treasure!"
"Then, do you know... what this treasure really is?!"
"One treasure? How come I heard that there are many treasures?!"
"Many treasures?! I heard that there is only one +10 reinforcement coupon!"
"No! I heard that there are Black Diamond Membership, life tokens, and mini pots!"
The young man named Han Yue listened to their conversation in a daze. "I've travelled around the world for years. How come... I've never heard of such a treasure before!?"
At this moment, a seven-colored auspicious cloud floated to the sky outside Yuanyang City.
Celestial light and mist existed above the colorful cloud, and there was also a white-clothed woman. Her snow-white skin, jade-like bones, wind-like belt, and waterfall-like, fluttering hair made her look like a true immortal.
She was accompanied by a green-clothed girl who looked extremely cute with jade-like features and a flower basket in her hand.
"Master, why are you coming to the mortal world after staying on Seven Saint Mountain for so many years?"
"The center star has dimmed, and I'm afraid that a catastrophe will strike the cultivation world of the Spiritual State." The white-clothed woman shook her head and sighed slightly, "I've calculated this tribulation in my life, and it's not right for me to escape from it; that isn't the mentality that we cultivators should have. If I'm right with my calculations, the tribulation should happen here. If I can do something to help the situation on the Spiritual Sate, my 1,000-years of cultivation wouldn't have gone to waste."
"I'll take you to visit some grandmasters in this place." While she spoke, she landed from the high sky.
...
"Who is she...?"
"She looks like a fairy descending into the mortal world from Heaven..."
"Daoist friends." The woman greeted the people around them and asked, "I saw that you are all hurrying toward the city; I wonder if there are some grandmasters living in the city. Can you tell us so that my disciple and I can visit them too?"
"Grandmasters...?" The people looked at each other in bafflement.
"Yes! There's one!"
"Mr. Fang of Origins Internet Club is a grandmaster; it's said that his cultivation strength is even greater than that of Gu Tingyu, the academy master of the Heavenly Academy!"
Chapter 549: Sir, A Fairy Is Looking for You
Translator: Noodletown Translations Editor: Noodletown Translations
Mr. Fang's T-Cat Virtual Item Trading Net was created during the time of the Legend of Mir 2, and it was for people to trade virtual items with it.
[TL Note: T-Cat is actually Tmall in real life. Tmall is a Chinese-language website for business-to-consumer online retail, spun off from Taobao, operated in China by the Alibaba Group.]
After the teleportation array was built, some people began to try to trade real objects.
The Wuwei Daoist Alliance was one of them.
The Wuwei Daoist Alliance was the force that had spent the longest time on the development of all kinds of magic spells and products of modern technology.
By now, they had developed product including magic instillation items, guns, new communication jades, and crystal cars.
However, even though these new spiritual artifacts were top-quality, most cultivators were not familiar with this trading method and thus few people bought them.
...
"Finished finally..." Mr. Fang stretched as he looked at his screen
The opening cinematics of this competition was almost done. In fact, he had done the editing and the framework, and he left the rest to the System. After all, everything that the system produced was top-quality, and Fang Qi didn't need to worry about the final result.
Ignoring Jiang Xiaoyue's protests, Fang Qi went upstairs to sleep.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!" At this moment, someone knocked, and then Li Xin'er's voice came from outside, "Sir, a fairy named Qing Yun from the Color Cloud Cave of Seven Saint Mountain is here, and she is looking for you."
"What fairy? Color Cloud Cave? I've never heard of it before..." While yawning, Mr. Fang said, "I'm busy! I don't want to meet fairies!"
Then, he laid down on his bed and fell asleep instantly.
"Boss... Bo..." Li Xin'er was frustrated. She could see the female visitor's celestial presence, which showed that she wasn't an ordinary woman. However, her boss slept during the day and refused to see the visitor with the excuse of being busy.
Doesn't he just play games everyday?
While shaking her head, Li Xin'er went downstairs. At the entrance of the shop, the fairy-like woman who had snow-white skin and was wearing white clothes was still waiting there with a humble and polite expression on her face.
Li Xin'er had to apologize to her, "My boss... um... is busy and can't see you now."
She looked embarrassed.
"It's okay," the woman said mildly, "Everyone said that your boss is a grandmaster; I guess he must be very busy dealing with the upcoming catastrophe of the Spiritual State."
"Um..." Li Xin'er was even more embarrassed since she knew that her boss was just sleeping upstairs. She said, "If you two have time, you can get online and have tea here in the shop."
"Hehe! Two more pretty girls came!" Before Li Xin'er could finish, a godly sword hanging on the bamboo stick already spoke.
"Little Girl, if you can't see the shop owner, you can talk to us; it is the same thing. Our sword techniques are only slightly less powerful than the shop owner's."
"Right! We are two grandmasters, too! No, we're grand swords!"
The other sword said, "Do you see the other swords beside us? When our elder brothers wake up, they might be even more powerful than the grandmaster shop owner who you want to see."
"Master! These two swords can even talk! Amazing!" The green-clothed young girl stared at the swords with widen eyes.
Li Xin'er's pretty face darkened. "Don't listen to their nonsense. If Boss is here, they don't dare to utter a word."
"He could conquer so many godly swords!" The white-clothed woman exclaimed, "He's indeed a grandmaster. From the looks of it, his sword techniques must have reached the peak level."
"Just slightly more powerful than my Immortal-Hacking Sword Array! If my big brother comes out, it's hard to say who's stronger."
"This shop owner is so strong?!" The green-clothed girl exclaimed in astonishment, "Immortal-Hacking Sword Array! Can it really hack down immortals?"
"Of course... eh? How come it's dark?! Who sneak-attacked me?! Let me out!"
Suddenly, two black bags were put over the two godly swords before the openings were tied.
Li Wuya turned back and said to the dumbfounded visitors, "Boss told us to do this if the two swords begin babbling..."
"Um... Xin'er, take them to the computers and show them how to get online."
Immediately, Li Xin'er led the way and showed the dumbfounded visitors to the computers.
"Master... how come I feel like something is not right in this shop..." The green-clothed girl whispered.
To kill time, they followed Li Xin'er's instructions and clicked randomly on the desktop.
"But... that sister told us that the spiritual artifacts in the shop are connected with various regions of several continents. I wonder if it's true!"
"M... Master?"
At this moment, the green-clothed girl saw her master clicking on a strange icon which looked like a cat's head.
"This is our shop's T-Cat Virtual Item Trading Net," Li Xin'er explained while standing behind them. "Besides virtual items, there are many new spiritual artifacts mimicked from the spiritual artifacts in our shop."
Soon, Fairy Qing Yun saw a white spiritual artifact that looking like a jade tablet with the logo of a 'rotten apple' with one bite taken off.
"What's this?" Fairy Qing Yun asked curiously.
"This is the new communication jade, and it's the newest version – iPhone 6."
"Such a strange name..." The green-clothed girl frowned on the side.
"Our boss named it," Li Xin'er explained.
After all, Fang Qi was a stockholder.
"This communication jade can transmit not only messages but images? I can also use it to chat with people through...um... QQ?!" Fairy Qing Yun clicked on the buy button, and the 800 crystals that she had deposited in her membership card almost ran out.
"What's this...?" Soon, she saw a spiritual artifact that looked like a fancy car.
She watched the video beside the car and understood that it was used to move people around in the city.
"Yu'er! Go and deposit 5,000 crystals in my card. Having not entered the world for a long time, I'm surprised that they have created such an exquisite tool for transportation..."
Then, she looked at the next item, which was a pair of black-framed sunglasses.
[Added to the shopping cart.]
"Pistol?"
[Added to the shopping cart.]
"LV storage bag with magic instillation?"
[Added to the shopping cart.]
"Magic lipstick...?"
[Added to the shopping cart.]
"City-style aristocratic fur coat?"
[Added to the shopping cart.]
...
"Yawn!" While yawning, Mr. Fang finally woke up from his nap and walked downstairs. "Little Xin'er, who is here to see me? Is she still here?"
"Yes. She's sitting on a couch in the lounge area!"
"Really?" Mr. Fang looked over and saw a girl wearing a pair of big sunglasses and playing with her cell phone. She was surrounded by big and small bags, and she had a LV bag on her shoulder.
The smart phone in her hand had an eye-catching logo of a 'rotten apple'.
A Maserati was parked outside the door.
Mr. Fang was at a loss for words.
Didn't they say that she is a fairy?!
Chapter 550: The Fairy Can Sing
Translator: Noodletown Translations Editor: Noodletown Translations
Fang Qi's shop was now bustling with crowds, which was a totally different scene from before where the shop was almost empty.
The players included disciples from big families and independent cultivators and warriors from different places.
While talking about the treasures such as +10 reinforcement coupons and Black Diamond Membership, they joined the event called [The Return of 8 Million Adventurers in Dungeon Fighter Online.]
Meanwhile, Mr. Fang was looking at the 'fairy' before him in bafflement.
Except for her clothes which showed that she came from this world, everything else shouted that she was a fashionable city girl.
Then, Mr. Fang saw a green-clothed girl who was about 15 years old sitting with her. This girl was slurping a bowl of instant noodles and wearing a pair of big sunglasses.
Right. She was eating instant noodles while wearing big sunglasses.
She looked up, revealing that her lips had become bright red because the soup was too spicy for her. She stared at the ordinary-looking young man who was walking toward her.
Mr. Fang scratched his head.
After all, the presence of a great beauty was quite daunting. As a professional gamer who was focused on gaming before he traveled through space and time, Mr. Fang wasn't good at talking to beautiful girls. Since he was at a loss for what to do, he turned his eyes to the little girl and said genially, "Little sister, is she your mom?"
The people around them suddenly quieted down.
"..."
"She's my master!" The little girl said with her mouth full of noodles. Then, she snorted and said, "At merely the King Warrior Realm, you can stop thinking of speaking to her."
Mr. Fang's face darkened; he was looked down upon by a little girl.
How come little girls nowadays are so sharp-tongued?
Unwilling to be looked down at, Fang Qi sat down beside her and asked, "Little Girl, are you here waiting for someone?"
"Right," The green-clothed girl said smugly, "My master and I are waiting for a very powerful senior who is said to have defeated even Gu Tingyun, the Old Academy Master of the Heavenly Academy!"
After all, the incident where Mr. Fang crushed Academy Master Gu in StarCraft had spread to every corner.
"Um..." Mr. Fang's face twitched. "He's so powerful?"
"Yeah!" The little girl said in exaggeration, "This senior master is the owner of this shop! It's said that he can defeat demons with one hand, kill the mechanical bull with eyes closed, is ranked Supreme-1 in the dojo, and is invincible at commanding Terran marines!"
"But..." The green-clothed little girl said, "I don't know what a mechanical bull is. Anyway, I heard that he is super powerful and can fight ten King Warriors like you."
"!!??" Mr. Fang froze, and he thought, "When did I become so powerful?!"
"Tell me more. Is this shop owner good at anything else?" he asked immediately.
"There're a lot of his feats! I heard many things about this master!" Zhuge Yu thought for a moment and said, "Well... But they are things hard to remember. Let me think..."
"Can he manage the world with his pen and conquer the world with his powerful strength?"
"Something like that!"
"Does he have jade-like features? And is he more handsome than Pan An?"
[Pan An was a prominent Chinese fu poet in the Western Jin dynasty. He was well known for his good looks from a young age. "Pan An" has become the Chinese byword for handsome men.]
"This... I don't remember this one... isn't he an old man?"
"Impossible!" Mr. Fang said, "We can put this on the list!"
"Right!" The little girl patted her forehead. "We can put this on the list!"
"Can you remember more..."
"Scummy Owner! Do you want to play on this map or not?!"
"Oh! In one second!" Mr. Fang answered without thinking.
"Pu!!" The little girl who was eating the instant noodles dropped her fork, and it landed on the ground.
The great beauty who had been playing with her smartphone looked immediately toward him. "..."
"Scummy shop owner. He is trying to fool this little girl mercilessly!" people whispered among themselves.
"Despicable."
"Sir, where's your dignity?!"
...
"Grandmasters are all unique in their way of doing things..." Fairy Qing Yun smiled in embarrassment and tried to smooth things over.
Hearing the others' explanations, the little girl finally saw through this scummy shop owner.
In her heart, the shop owner had come down from a grandmaster to a scummy shop owner who could only bully old people (Gu Tingyun) and little girls.
"Hump!" The little girl turned her head and ignored Fang Qi, furious that he had tricked her to say so many good things about him.
On the side, Fairy Qing Yun told him her intention of the visit.
"You mean... you want to do your share in the imminent catastrophe of the Spiritual State's cultivation world?"
"Yes." Fairy Qing Yun sat up straight and said solemnly, "Although I've stayed in my mountain for a long time, I'm a cultivator of the Spiritual State and know that we are intimately interdependent. If the cultivation world vanished from the Spiritual State, I and other cultivators in the Seven Saint Mountains would lose our home too."
"Oh..." Mr. Fang was now having a headache. "But you can't do anything by coming to me..."
He looked embarrassed. "I'm only the owner of an internet café and can only play games. After all, one person can't save the entire cultivation world..."
It would only work if Mr. Fang could kill all his enemies in one way; that was all that he could do. If there were too many enemies, he couldn't manage them all...
"Owner of the internet café...?" Fairy Qing Yun and her disciple, Zhuge Yu, looked at him in a daze.
Isn't he a super powerful grandmaster?!
"Yeah..." Mr. Fang pointed at the posters on the wall and said, "My job is keeping the shop, playing games, and hosting competitions when necessary."
There were two posters on the wall. On one poster, the slayers, mages, gunners, and other classes in Dungeon Fighter Online gestured in invitation with the words 'F1 World Championship, Recruiting the Strongest Fighters.'
The other poster portrayed a battle scene among Terrans, Zerg, and Protoss. The words were 'Fighting for the Title of the Strongest War Commander. Glory Is Waiting to You!'
"!!??" Fairy Qing Yun was dumbfounded, and she thought, You are looking for a commander and also recruiting the strongest fighters! You said that you can't help and don't want to get involved? Who would believe that?
"Sir, didn't you say that you are only organizing two competitions?!" Fairy Qing Yun's cold gaze landed on Fang Qi, and she had a strange smile on her face. After looking at the two posters, she seemed to have understood something.
Although the shop owner didn't say much, his heart is tied to the cultivation world. He is using this method to unite the heroes and brave individuals of the Spiritual State!
And these awards... I don't know what they are, but I guess they are precious treasures since these brave figures of the Spiritual State are eager to win them!
"Mr. Fang, I admire your heroic act! I'm on the same level as you." Fairy Qing Yun bowed her head slightly to him, saying, "I wonder...if you can let me participate in this E-Sports competition?"
"I know it's probably too late for me to participate, but if you have any use of me in the competition, I'm happy to help."
"Um..." Mr. Fang thought it was not polite to decline her offer. After a moment of consideration, he asked, "Can you sing?"
"Ugh...? I can." She froze for a moment before answering.
"Do you want to sing during the opening ceremony?"
With opening cinematics and official songs, this competition would look very grand.
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