Chapter 141: Queue for Four or Five Hours First

As the martial arts instructor, Mu Hongzhu did not oversee the premier Class A in its entirety, and thus she had not accompanied them on their journey to the imperial capital.

For this national examination, Qin Bing had taken a vast number of elite disciples and a portion of the instructors, yet it was naturally impossible for the Lingyun Academy to simply cease operations during these days.

The vast majority were ordinary disciples, who remained behind at the Lingyun Academy, continuing their cultivation just as before, a process that felt as though it would never pause, stretching on without end.

The Lingyun Academy would not change merely because this cohort of elite disciples had temporarily departed; it was like a piece of precision machinery, operating in a methodical and orderly fashion.

Mu Hongzhu continued to teach martial arts exactly as she always had, but in her spare moments, sitting upon the low wall outside the martial arts arena, her thoughts would drift to those matters that left her somewhat dazed and at a loss.

She had originally believed that something so strictly banned by the academy could absolutely be nothing good, and that the academy's actions were entirely for the sake of these disciples' futures; though the punishment was a bit too severe, it was understandable.

Yet she now discovered that it was completely not the case at all!

"Instructor Mu!" Yu Liang was likewise a martial arts instructor, and it was nearly time for him to teach martial arts at the Xuan Character Courtyard; seeing Mu Hongzhu still here, Yu Liang could not help but find it somewhat strange.

"What are you doing here?" Because they were both martial arts instructors, the two of them were actually quite well-acquainted.

"Instructor Yu, have you ever considered that the disciples going to that small shop strictly forbidden by the academy might not necessarily be because they are neglecting their duties for idle play?" Mu Hongzhu seemed to still be deep in thought.

"Is it not said that many of them were also deceived and deluded?"

"Quite a few of them are elites from great families, are they truly so easily deluded?" Mu Hongzhu said, her brow furrowing.

It was not that these instructors lacked brains, but rather that there was no need for them to contemplate such things; yet when Mu Hongzhu brought it up, Yu Liang also fell slightly into deep thought.

"My apologies..." Mu Hongzhu seemed to realize she had spoken indiscreetly, and glancing at the time, asked, "I trust I haven't affected Instructor Yu's lesson?"

"No matter, no matter!" Yu Liang cast a glance at the martial arts arena, "It hasn't started yet."

Watching Mu Hongzhu depart, Yu Liang was somewhat bewildered: "...Why bring that up all of a sudden? Strange..."

...

"What exactly have we been working so hard to suppress this small shop for?" Looking at the establishment around him, which was not only fully occupied but packed to the brim, Chen Feng suddenly felt a wave of mental exhaustion.

However, he now found that he no longer had the leisure to care about those matters; gripping the firearm in his hand, he tested it repeatedly.

"Son, the weapon you said you wanted to buy is this kind of thing?" Chen Feng asked.

"No, these weapons haven't been inscribed with arrays yet; once the arrays are carved onto them, that's when they become truly formidable!"

"Inscribing arrays..." Chen Feng was startled in his heart, checking the firearm in his hand over and over again once more, only to discover that these things actually possessed not the slightest hint of spiritual energy!

It had nothing to do with spiritual energy! Yet it could possess such power?!

Controlling the majority of the Chen family assets, he was absolutely no fool! The value of this weapon... if arrays could truly be attached to it, then it possessed a value completely equivalent to innovating a whole new school of artifact forging!

Moreover, the practicality of this weapon was simply too widespread! Even ordinary people could use it!

"You say that the Blue Flame Pavilion can manufacture this kind of weapon?" Chen Feng asked, his voice trembling slightly.

"They can only replicate a portion of the simpler ones," the young master of the Chen family said, "But after inscribing the arrays, the power is already quite considerable; currently, the artifact forgers of the Cloud Ocean Sect and the Floating Cloud Daoist Palace are also researching this weapon."

"They... they are all researching it?" Chen Feng perceived that his son's words seemed to drop a bombshell piece of news!

"If that is the case, even if our Chen family falls behind others, we absolutely cannot fall behind by too much!" He fished out his communication jade and sent out several messages in quick succession!

"Old man, what are you doing? Come play a few rounds with us first!"

"I want to invite your Uncle Yang, Uncle Yu, and several artifact forging elders from the clan to come play this Counter-Strike!"

"Hurry up! Join our room! It's about to start! Palace Master Xue and Sect Master Ye are still waiting!"

"Oh..." Chen Feng hastily joined his son's room; because a new player had entered, the preparation time was extended slightly, and when he entered the game, it was still within the waiting period.

Before his eyes appeared a landscape of golden structures, still the desert map.

"Buy guns, buy guns!" The young master of the Chen family was already blending into the role of commander, "Follow me! RUSH B!"

The moment the game began, several figures could be seen rushing wildly forward!

"Flashbang, flashbang!"

"Holy crap, who threw that?! It blinded me!"

"I was blinded too!"

"Hurry, throw smoke grenades! Cover!"

Eight smoke grenades were thrown about in utter chaos, causing a frantic scramble.

By the time they recovered from the flashbangs, no one could tell who belonged to which side; in short, bodies were already strewn all over the ground, and those who weren't dead could only see a hazy expanse of smoke all around them!

"Who am I? Where am I?! Who is shooting me?"

"...Hahaha! There's only one left on the opposing side!"

The young master of the Chen family held a light machine gun and sprayed wildly, not seeing a single soul at all.

"Behind you!"

"We won this round! We won this round!"

Following behind them, the old spectator Xiao Yulv felt his face twitch violently: "Damn it, even this works?!"

Covering his eyes, he hurriedly walked away: "I'd better go watch someone else..."

It was an eyesore...

...

At this moment, Xiao Yulv suddenly saw two young women of elegant age walking in from outside the door; the one on the left wore a pale green dress, her beautiful hair like clouds and her brows like willow leaves, and even though she wore a veil, one could still discern the woman's peerless beauty from that faint, shimmering silhouette.

Beside her was a woman clad in tight-fitting black attire, lagging half a step behind her, her face covered in a black veil, her gaze sharp and piercing.

"Why are the people coming recently all so mysterious?" First it was someone wearing a bamboo hat, and now came two wearing veils, "Is it not that the disciples of Lingyun Academy long dared not come anymore?"

Fang Qi was currently sitting at the counter devouring Häagen-Dazs as if no one else were around, while Jiang Xiaoyue beside him was glaring at him with a look that seemed ready to eat him alive.

"Who is the owner here?" Zhang Wanyu scanned the surroundings and spoke aloud.

"He is..." Xiao Yulv was dazed for a moment before smoothly pointing at Fang Qi at the counter.

"Hmm?" Fang Qi, who was buried in eating his Häagen-Dazs, lifted his head and glanced over, "New customers? The rules are all written on the small blackboard, see for yourselves."

"..." Zhang Wanyu's face instantly turned dark; by comparison, when a new customer encountered their own Qingfeng Mingyue, at least a waiter would come up to introduce a few words, yet this shop was grand indeed, telling them directly to look for themselves!?

Not to mention the remote location, with this kind of attitude, how could such a shop possibly have business? It probably wouldn't even require suppression before collapsing on its own.

To think she had actually been worried before? Simply ridiculous!

Just as she was thinking this, she heard Fang Qi add another sentence: "By the way, there are no seats available now; if you want to use a computer, go line up first. The time you arrived is a bit unfortunate, I estimate you'll have to wait... four or five hours."

"!!??"