Chapter 228: The Upcoming 'Legend' and Cultivation Big Shots Playing Enchantment (3/3)

At this moment, within the headquarters of the Wuwei Daoist Alliance.

Inside the expansive artifact-refining chamber reserved exclusively for Jun Yangzi, the core factions of artifact masters from the entire alliance—including the Floating Cloud Daoist Palace and the Sea of Clouds Sect—were gathered, their expressions solemn and profound.

For this concerned the future destiny of the entire Wuwei Daoist Alliance, and perhaps even the Great Jin Kingdom itself.

At the center of the chamber lay a massive, bronze-tinted Eight Trigrams array disc, from the core of which emanated a faint, pale blue spiritual luminescence, cradling a circular mirror as clear and smooth as tranquil water.

"Behold, everyone!" Jun Yangzi spoke, a touch of pride in his voice. "This is our Blue Flame Sect's Sky Net Heart Mirror. The marvel of this mirror lies not only in its ability to reflect the true essence of any illusion, but also in how it assists us, as artifact masters, in analyzing the raw materials and components of various spiritual treasures."

"The stronger the spiritual energy used to drive this artifact, the greater its power shall be!" Jun Yangzi continued. "Everyone, please take your positions according to the various trigram alignments as I instruct."

"Haoran, fetch the sniper rifle ammunition first."

Standing beside him, Li Haoran nodded and handed Jun Yangzi a bullet that was significantly larger than the others.

Jun Yangzi drew a runic carving knife, channeling his spiritual energy until the blade shimmered with flowing light, and with a gentle shave, a section of the warhead fell away.

With a wave of his left left hand, a bronze three-legged cauldron landed squarely in the center of the array formation, its legs extended as the beam of clear blue light shone directly upon the middle of its belly.

Immediately afterward, Jun Yangzi poured the ammunition powder into the cauldron.

"Everyone, infuse your spiritual energy in sequence! The Gen position! The Zhen position! ..."

"...Next is the staff."

...

Only a little over ten days remained until the deadline for the task of constructing the internet.

"Xiaoyue..." Fang Qi's shop always closed at exactly twelve o'clock, and as he watched the crowd dispersing outside, he spoke up, "Your boss might have to go on a long journey."

"A long journey?" Jiang Xiaoyue knitted her slender, lovely, curved brows. "The trip to the Imperial Capital last time was already pretty far...?"

Fang Qi replied, "It might be much, much farther than last time."

"How long will you be gone? When are you coming back?"

"I don't know either, but it shouldn't be too long." Fang Qi turned around and patted her little head, saying, "Can you look after the shop well?"

"Hmph!" Jiang Xiaoyue turned her head away. "Didn't you say at the beginning that you didn't need this princess to watch the shop, and that doing the laundry, cooking, and handling the cash register was enough?"

"No, after this boss leaves, you also need to know how to play the games!"

"Ah—!" Jiang Xiaoyue cried out in surprise on the spot, immediately declaring, "I can look after the shop perfectly!"

Fang Qi nodded. "Then how about this: after I leave, you can pick two games you like to play. During the day, especially in the morning, play fewer games, but at night when there are fewer people, you can play a bit more."

"Understood—!" Jiang Xiaoyue said with immense excitement. "Boss, you can travel with peace of mind! This princess will definitely take good care of this little shop for you! If anyone causes trouble, I'll throw them all out!"

"Causes trouble...?" Fang Qi glanced at the storefront. "That senior will be staying here to oversee things, so you don't need to worry too much. If anyone causes trouble, just call out."

Fang Qi glanced at the system panel. "Now, whether inside or outside the shop, anyone who causes trouble will be struck directly by lightning punishment!"

"Furthermore..." Fang Qi looked at the display cabinet and said, "Your salary will be one snack per week, or fifteen crystals per month, excluding spicy sticks."

"Not only can I play games often, but I can also eat snacks?!" Jiang Xiaoyue widened her eyes, looking at this black-hearted boss with a face full of disbelief. Had he changed his nature today?!

Fang Qi shrugged. In his view, although the shop's affairs were simple, finding an employee who could remain so disciplined for such a long time and allow him to travel far with peace of mind was truly not easy, so a slight increase in benefits was nothing.

In any case, right now...

He peeked at the massive pile of crystals inside his storage artifact. "...I have plenty of money, more than enough."

Just then, the system prompt rang out once more.

Given that the host has begun implementing a new round of planning and intends to commence the internet task, the series of additional tasks has been unlocked.

Additional Task One: A Proper Storefront

Task Requirement: The shop location must not be too remote; it must be established in a city with a high population density, and the storefront must be clean, tidy, and spacious enough to accommodate more than one hundred computers.

Additional Reward: The virtual reality remastered edition of the online game *The Legend* (This game will be the sole game available in the new shop; other games will hit the shelves three months later).

Additional Description: The era of the internet requires hot blood.

Additional Task Two: Listening to the Bustling Sounds of Another Part of the World

Task Requirement: Adjust the regional upper limit in the cross-regional teleportation to above the midpoint.

Additional Reward: Penguin Communication Special Remastered Edition (Fang Qi noticed a penguin icon next to it...)

Additional Description: The internet will connect the entire world.

"Legend...?! Penguin?!" Fang Qi's face twitched uncontrollably. "Are you serious?"

Additional Task Three: The Final Cheer

Task Requirement: Go out and have fun with your friends for a day; you might not see them in reality for quite some time.

Additional Reward: Penguin Communication Add-on: My Space Special Remastered Edition

Additional Description: You are not misreading this.

Fang Qi: "...Can you not pick such a sentimental name? I'm not like I'm never coming back!"

...

"Many things seem somewhat specious when put together..." Jun Yangzi frowned. "But the enchantments like agility and strength should pose no problem."

Jun Yangzi and the others stroked their beards, looking at a common wooden stick before them. "It seems these basic things are not entirely difficult either."

Jun Yangzi condensed an extremely dense spark of spiritual energy at his fingertips, sketching and drawing in mid-air. The pale blue spiritual energy flowed through the void, transforming into one bizarre character after another, resembling talismans, yet bearing a significant difference in writing style.

"Go!" Jun Yangzi shouted softly, and this neat row of symbol-like characters struck into the wooden stick, leaving a dark blue imprint upon it.

Grasping the wooden stick in his hand, Jun Yangzi said, "Look, everyone, this is the simplest strength affix among enchanted weapons. As far as I know, this method of runic artifact creation is divided into two parts: the first is the engraving of base attributes, which usually adds prefix attributes, and what we are attaching now is the suffix attribute."

Although the attributes were invisible, Jun Yangzi and Li Haoran had clearly studied this path deeply. "I can tell you all that the strength attribute added here should be between 10 and 15, and the affix is named 'Giant'. It was written by this old man based on the suffix runes found on the Razor Fork."

"In other words, this piece of magical equipment can be named the Giant's Wooden Club."

"Usually, for beginners, such an enchantment would require a diligent rendering with all kinds of materials to succeed," Jun Yangzi remarked. "But given the strength of our spiritual energy, we only need to control the condensed energy well and stabilize it within the implement!"

"Does that mean it succeeded?!"

"Hahahahaha!"

"Success at last!" Within the entire artifact-refining chamber, wave after wave of cheers and laughter instantly erupted.