Chapter 348: Still Have to Do It Personally (Bonus Chapter for Sect Master Xing Hai Zhu Tian)

Following Boss Fang's live broadcast, it was evident that more players began to direct their attention toward this novel and thoroughly intriguing game.

And now, with the expanding crowd inside the shop, the impact of Boss Fang broadcasting in person was naturally far beyond what it used to be.

Coupled with that breathtaking aerial battle of the Buzzard helicopter, quite a few players found themselves coveting these wondrous objects, even wishing to try their own hands at them.

Furthermore, Grand Theft Auto V possessed an online mode that many single-player games lacked, and it did not depend overly on levels like Legend or Diablo, nor was it as excessively fierce as Legend, nor as purely leisurely as farming crops; it quickly carved out a place for itself in the shop, with sales even surpassing the one-thousand mark and continuing to climb.

Of course, given the shop's current scale, breaking a thousand was hardly a marvel; for instance, Legend of Sword and Fairy, even when only sold at the Jiuhua City branch, had long since surpassed that threshold.

Meanwhile, sales for the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone were rising steadily, showing consistent growth even without Boss Fang's live broadcast, and soon exceeded three hundred activated quest copies; clearly, such an exotic motion picture suited the tastes of the cultivators, to the point where sales for the sequel, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, were also growing at a steady pace.

At this time, within Boss Fang's shop, apart from those players who fiercely grinded online games, the activities of many patrons upon logging into their computers had clearly grown more diverse.

As for new customers, those who had previously entered the shop due to winning various items at the auction, such as the Haoran Sect and the Yimu Daoist Palace, would occasionally bring their fellow disciples along, though not many, only two or three; thus, the Nanhua Sect stood out remarkably like a crane among chickens over the past few days.

Early in the morning, the moment Boss Fang opened the shop doors, he found some thirty-odd disciples of the Nanhua Sect, clad in white robes, standing like pillars outside.

Among them were no fewer than ten new faces!

"Why did you bring so many people all at once?!" Boss Fang's eyes were still bleary with sleep; it was not yet time to queue for computers, and he was truly unaccustomed to having such a crowd swarm the door so early, which instantly banished all his drowsiness.

Daoist Xichi also frowned slightly, saying to Mo Xian, "Didn't I tell you not to make a grand spectacle of it, and that inviting a few senior brothers and sisters you are close with on ordinary days would suffice?"

"Uh..." Mo Xian explained, "Master, there are over a dozen of us, and if each of us invites one close fellow disciple, doesn't it add up to this many...?"

"..." Daoist Xichi had not realized that, before anyone noticed, their base population had grown so large?

And on this very night, in the forbidden grounds of the Nanhua Sect's rear mountain.

"What is going on?!"

It would have been fine if only a few people were missing yesterday, but today, after exhausting all efforts to bewitch these elite disciples of the Nanhua Sect to this place, who could have guessed that half of them would suddenly be missing?!

"How strange... since when did the willpower of these disciples become so unyielding?"

"What happened?" The voice hidden deep within the darkness was clearly tinged with slight displeasure.

"A small complication arose," the white-haired woman said calmly. "I will handle it, please rest assured!"

But the next day...

Boss Fang opened the shop doors early in the morning to take a look.

In an instant, he was fully awake: "Why did you bring so many people again?!"

Outside the door, a crowd of fifty-odd people had gathered all at once, every single one of them a Nanhua Sect disciple!

One had to understand that this was Half City; in fact, at this hour, even local forces of Half City like the Yuanheng Pavilion and the Black Demons might not be up so early, let alone the Nanhua Sect which was far outside Half City.

Moreover, looking at their expressions, they had clearly been waiting outside for quite a while.

"How should I know..." Yue Yan said with sleepy eyes, having been woken before dawn by several fellow disciples who insisted on coming, nearly breaking the door down with their knocking, "What choice did I have?!"

"Boss! Get us on the computers!" Before Yue Yan could finish her explanation, the crowd of Nanhua Sect disciples had already surged impetuously into the shop, utterly unlike salted fish like Yue Yan and Mo Xian who leisurely ate instant noodles before logging on; they appeared brimming with vigor, as if injected with chicken blood.

"What is wrong with these people?" Boss Fang looked completely bewildered.

Thus, on this night, in the forbidden grounds of the Nanhua Sect's rear mountain.

"..." Staring at the sparse few Nanhua Sect disciples before her, the woman's eyes turned crimson, as though they were about to overflow with blood.

"Impossible...!" Her pale fingers clenched tightly, her sharp nails piercing her palms from the sheer force, causing drops of deep red blood to fall.

Today she had exerted far greater effort than usual, yet looking at the actual result before her...

"Didn't you say you could handle it?" The voice hidden in the depths of the darkness sounded rather disappointed, even faintly suppressing a raging fury.

"It shouldn't be possible..." the woman murmured, "I clearly magnified the desires in their hearts far more than usual; under such circumstances, how could they possibly resist?!"

"One final day!" The somber voice carried a trace of suppressed rage.

"I understand..." The woman's voice bore a touch of weariness, incomprehension, and boundless wrath.

Decisively, she declared, "Tomorrow... I shall personally make a move and bring these people here!"

Within the Nanhua Sect, a few rumors had begun to circulate by now.

For instance, it was said that a portion of the elite disciples within the sect had been taken by Elders Daoist Miaomiao and Daoist Xichi to a highly mysterious place for secluded cultivation, and the improvement of these returning disciples, even after just a single day, was remarkably evident!

It truly filled many disciples with intense envy.

Moreover, some even rumored that before being taken by the two elders to that mysterious place for secluded cultivation, many premonitions would occur, such as a voice asking whether one desired to become stronger, and things of that nature.

Of course, idle gossip could not be taken seriously, and even the two elders flatly denied that such a thing existed.

Yet someone was bound to believe it, and Li Luoxi was one of them; he clearly felt that this was by no means groundless talk, because tonight, he discovered something anomalous!

"It's coming..." According to rumors, when senior brothers and sisters were called to that wondrous place to increase their cultivation, many of them noticed anomalies on that very night; now that he had encountered this situation himself, could it be that his luck was finally turning around?!

He carefully minded the movements around him and asked tentatively, "Do you... desire power?"

"Why hasn't it asked yet? I'm dying of anxiety!" Li Luoxi was sweating with absolute impatience, crying out in his heart, "I desire power too... I want to become stronger too! Hurry up and come...!"

Suddenly, a blanket of darkness swept over his vision.

"It's here! It's here!" An intense rapture flooded Li Luoxi's heart.

Next moment...

"Go to hell!"

It felt as though a wooden mallet had struck his head, and immediately following that, he lost all consciousness.

"..."

After some time passed, someone seemed to knock on the door: "Senior Brother Li!"

"Senior Brother Li!"

"Why isn't he here? Forget it, looking for Senior Brother Liu is just the same..."

When he awoke, he found himself surrounded by forbidden stone monuments, and his heart skipped a beat; he had previously thought about being brought somewhere to increase his cultivation, but looking at it now, why did things seem a bit amiss?!

Around him, quite a few Nanhua Sect disciples lay strewn about in all directions, clearly showing he was not the only one.

He soon heard a woman's voice sneer, "I refuse to believe that even fewer people will come tonight!"

"You think they haven't decreased?!" Li Luoxi, in his dazed state, heard another voice that was sinister to the extreme.

Casting his gaze over, within the forbidden grounds, there had originally been about a hundred disciples yesterday, but today, it seemed only seventy-odd remained; adding those newly abducted today, the total was less than ninety, having actually decreased by a dozen or so.

"..."

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