Chapter 194: Boss, Did You Cut Corners! (Third Update)

"It’s updated!" Fang Qi pointed to the very top of the small blackboard. "Episodes seven and eight are updated today!"

"Boss! A bowl of instant noodles with a sausage, and a bottle of Coke!" Ye Xiaoye patted her small pouch, then pointed behind her. "My dad is paying!"

Ye Songtao: "..."

"Isn’t that Sect Master Ye...?" Lan Mo stared at the silhouette that had just entered the shop door. "Zhu Xian? What on earth is that?"

"That's not right!" Li Haoran's master, Jun Yangzi, the old man in the ink-blue robe with loose, flowing hair, said in confusion, "Shouldn't scientific artifact forging require playing Resident Evil or Counter-Strike?"

The two were just about to push the door open when a gentle breeze brushed against their faces, and several more figures appeared before the internet cafe door!

"The one who just went in seemed to be... An Huwei?" Lan Mo was dazed for a moment.

"It seemed like him," Jun Yangzi said. "The ones with An Huwei seemed to be Master Ouyang and Master Bu!?"

"Hmm...?" The two exchanged a glance and walked into the shop.

"It really is An Huwei!" Lan Mo finally saw the man clearly. He saw An Huwei pay at the counter, then run to the cabinet to grab a purple tub, standing to the side tearing open the seasoning packets.

On the other side, Ye Songtao held a tub identical to An Huwei's in his left hand, while his other hand carried a bottle of black beverage.

"???" The two stared at this scene in dumbfounded shock.

"Oh? Alliance Master Lan? Master Jun Yangzi?" Ye Songtao's eyes lit up. "Why are you two only arriving now?"

Lan Mo gave a cold snort: "I should be the one asking you all that, Sect Master Ye. Every single one of you isn't even going to the Cultivation Realm, running instead to this remote backcountry. What exactly are you trying to pull?"

"Ah, this..." Ye Songtao called out, "Xiaoye, brew two tubs of instant noodles for your Uncle Lan and Uncle Jun Yangzi, and remember to add sausage!"

"Oh!"

"Let's go, let's go! Time to watch the show!" Ye Songtao led the two to the counter to pay.

"Watch..."

"A show?!"

The two looked at each other, both seeing utter bewilderment written across each other's faces.

Soon, led by Ye Songtao, the two found a pair of seats.

"Hmm? Alliance Master Lan, Fellow Daoist Jun Yangzi? You are here too?" At some unknown point, Xue Daolv had also walked over with a flock of disciples.

"You all came too!?" Lan Mo said in surprise. "Why has everyone run over here? Also, what is this 'Zhu Xian' that Sect Master Ye just mentioned?"

"You'll know once you watch it!" Ye Songtao helped the two click open the Super Theater. Just at this moment, Ye Xiaoye brought over two tubs of instant noodles.

"My word! How can this thing smell so fragrant?"

The two put on the virtual reality headsets, holding their instant noodles: "Hiss—! This Qingyun Sect is quite grand and imposing!"

"Still, it's a bit lacking compared to our Wuwei Daoist Alliance!"

"Indeed, indeed!"

"Hiss—! This Patriarch Master...!?"

"Could he have become an immortal?!"

"He's even flying while standing on a sword?! So fast?! There's actually such a sect?!"

The two frantically devoured their instant noodles while staring intently at the television drama.

"This cultivation level! It has reached the absolute pinnacle!"

Bursts of astonished exclamations rose up, their eyes nearly bulging out of their sockets!

"..."

...

"I wonder what kind of consequence will occur under the interaction of the Blood-Sucking Bead and that black rod!" Su Tianji said as she opened Zhu Xian.

"Xiaofan won't die, will he?"

"Master, Master, look quickly!" Right at that moment, Yuexin, who had started watching first, cried out in alarm.

"What is it?!" Su Tianji hurriedly began to watch. Picking up from the previous episode, the Blood-Sucking Bead and the Soul-Absorbing Black Rod were undergoing an abnormal mutation, with Zhang Xiaofan bearing the brunt of it!

After devouring a massive amount of Zhang Xiaofan's essence and blood, the two objects, which had originally been fighting each other, actually began to gradually transition into a state of fusion!

"To think such a thing could happen?!"

"The two were originally malevolent artifacts that refused to yield to each other. Could it be because they have now both devoured Zhang Xiaofan's vital energy and blood, thereby possessing the same aura?! So they no longer fight each other?" Su Tianji watched this scene. "Fundamentally, that should be the case... though the details within are probably far more complex!"

"Who would have thought the crisis could be resolved like this?! It was truly a narrow escape from death!"

"This ought to be an extremely unique technique of artifact forging!" Xue Daolv said with a slight hint of excitement, "To think that by such a stroke of luck, leveraging the power of two great malevolent artifacts, it happened to coincide with the finer tricks of this forging technique!"

"By the looks of it, it's a treasure!"

"But aside from this one benefit, he's also faced with the fact that the senior sister he likes has fallen for someone else, and his brother's cultivation vastly surpasses his own. Things won't go well if this continues!"

"I'm so full from the instant noodles!" Su Tianji patted her stomach. "To prevent burping... let's have some Haagen-Dazs first..."

And at this time, Silent Hill 2, which was written on the small blackboard just below the update for episodes seven and eight of Zhu Xian, was still being activated by people one after another. Cultivation could be accumulated slowly, but elevating one's state of mind had always been rather difficult. To have a game that could improve this was naturally something highly sought after.

Meanwhile, Lan Mo and Jun Yangzi:

"This Taiji Mystic Pure Way is actually so exquisite?!"

"Should our sect's foundational techniques be changed... it seems it's not as formidable as theirs..."

"It's not that it's less formidable than theirs... Our sect's core guardian technique is the Blue Flame Heavenly Net; could its foundational part possibly be unformidable?!"

"Still... compared to our sect's technique, each has its own merits. However, this Taiji Mystic Pure Way technique is indeed worth learning from. Hmm, this seat feels that some of our sect's higher-level foundational techniques can still be further refined and improved!"

"Exactly, exactly!"

"Speaking of which... doesn't that mean the Sea of Clouds Sect and the Floating Cloud Daoist Palace have already set about making improvements long ago?!" Lan Mo slapped his thigh. "This won't do! If we let them steal a march on us, when the time comes, every member of the Sea of Clouds Sect and Floating Cloud Daoist Palace will be riding swords, while we are still carrying our disciples in dharma boats, eating their dust from behind. Where would our dignity go?!"

"Speaking of this Wang Kuan as well, as an envoy, he actually didn't report more about such matters!" Lan Mo said angrily.

"Uh... Senior Brother, I recall that on that day, you even berated him for speaking absolute nonsense and talking rubbish..."

Lan Mo's face twitched: "Did I?"

"Never mind that! Let's first study this whatever Taiji Mystic Pure Way!"

...

By this time, Su Tianji and the others had already finished watching the two episodes.

"Thankfully, we didn't see it cut off at a critical moment today!" An Huwei spoke up.

"Boss!" Su Tianji said dynamic dissatisfaction, "Can't you update a few more episodes?! It's finished in the blink of an eye!"

"Exactly!" Ye Xiaoye protested, "Today's two episodes felt so short! Did you skimp on the work and cut down the material!"

Fang Qi had also just finished watching at this moment: "Look at the time yourselves, fifty-five minutes per episode! Where is it lacking?"

"It's also possible that you speeded up the time clock." Nalan Mingxue said this without blushing or a racing heartbeat, making people feel as though she were speaking with a perfectly clear conscience.

Fang Qi's face twitched: "Can you all stop slandering me?!"

He glanced at his task: "There's another new television drama today, do you want to watch it or not?"

Having said that, he added another line onto the small blackboard.

Today's new arrivals: Wind and Cloud TV series, episodes one, two, three, and four.

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