Chapter 488: Researchers Inside the Store

Originally, although the shop's popularity was still growing, it was indeed a far cry from being bustling, for very few people would ever blazon it abroad.

By this time, the games in the shop were already worlds apart from the early days when they could only teach a few martial arts and such.

Of course, the strength and horizon of the customers in Lingzhou were also vastly different from those in the Deserted Sea Realm; some were proficient in natural laws, while others could forge artifacts of terrifying might, to say nothing of the numerous ancient relics that had once surfaced, things that indeed far surpassed the present cultivators, so much so that if a portion of them were truly thoroughly researched by these cultivators, they would not lack the power to destroy heaven and earth.

Thus at first, even if many clans had heard bits and pieces, they only remained in a wait-and-see state.

After all... you claim the things in the shop are incredible? Are our own family treasures not incredible?

Quite a few of them were left behind by ancient immortals.

We haven't even thoroughly researched our own, so why keep staring at others?

But things were different now; they had decided to visit in a group to take a look.

Furthermore, this shop owner possessed powerful strength, so making a courtesy call was also a good idea.

Owner Fang glanced at the divine weapon fragments on the system panel, with only the last one remaining, while the synchronization time through the weapon "Beowulf" was already gone.

At the same time, the system's energy had sustained no small loss.

"This wave wasn't a loss." Seeing the customers in the shop multiplying, Owner Fang forced himself to believe he hadn't lost out on this wave.

Those arriving today were the people of the Tang, Xun, and Wang families.

As the shop door opened, the three men in the lead all appeared to be in their fifties or sixties with graying hair and beards, and the people following behind them were divided into three groups, containing men and women, young and old.

The Tang family members were uniformly dressed in black robes, the Wang family members uniformly in cyan-white, and the Xun family members uniformly in purple with gold trim.

Uniform and orderly, with extraordinary bearing, they were well-organized, truly fitting the demeanor of great clans.

"A pleasure to meet you!"

"Long admired your name!"

Tang Yu and the others handed over several cups of instant noodles.

"Whew..."

"Slurp, slurp."

"..."

...

"Master Xun, this is indeed a fine place." A black-robed elder sat on the sofa, watching the customers coming and going, a cup of instant noodles cradled in his hands, "This... instant noodles, as they said, truly has remarkable effects!"

"Actually, our young Yu mentioned it to this elder long ago, but this elder only thought the boy was being mischievous and playing a joke on me again." He buried his head to eat the noodles furiously, "Mmh, eat, everyone eat!"

The head of the Xun family, Xun Tai, was a middle-aged man dressed in magnificent purple robes; at this moment, while holding his instant noodles, he was peeking toward the display cabinet: "Are those the divine swords from the Sword Tomb?"

He still remembered that these were specially sent to the shop by their great clans after they leveled the Wentian Sword Palace.

"What are you staring at? This grand daddy is an ancient divine sword!" one of the swords uttered a voice.

Holding their noodle cups, the men exchanged glances: "Uh..."

...

Having finally finished their instant noodles, the men walked with their hands behind their backs, leading the disciples and elders of the various clans along the corridor, watching as they walked.

They saw that on some screens were little figures holding weapons, and one holding a large axe, locked in a life-and-death struggle with a white wild boar taller than a human.

Some held a dark purple longsword in hand, dancing it with the monster so fiercely that it whipped up a howling wind.

They even saw a large white deer...

Many people blinked their eyes, wondering if their vision was playing tricks on them.

Finally, they stopped behind a hoary-haired old man.

"Is that the Old Academy Master?" They saw a simple box on his screen, with a penguin constantly bouncing in the bottom right corner.

"What is he doing?" Several family heads asked in surprise.

Fighting and such was still easy to understand, but what use was this kind of thing? Just a box with a few words.

"This is chatting on Penguin!"

They saw several names actively speaking inside Gu Tingyun's screen.

Gu Tingyun: "Uh... this Venerable One, is that matter you mentioned, about using the laws one knows to construct them around the body to form a special region, truly achievable?"

Miss Sprite: "(Pouts) What Venerable One? Isn't it just a funny ball? However, achieving this kind of thing is still rather difficult, though not impossible."

ID The Deity Is Unrivaled Under Heaven, a fellow sporting a funny ball avatar: "Who? Who are you calling a funny ball? You beverage bottle!"

Then he added: "Of course it's difficult for a clumsy girl like you, but for this Deity, it takes no effort at all!"

"Look, there's a cow flying in the sky!"

"..."

Inside the chat box, they went back and forth, chatting with great relish, while the several family heads watching from behind looked at each other in blank dismay.

Constructing laws around the body? What are they trying to do?

What benefit is there in doing this?

The men were utterly bewildered, so they quickly turned to look elsewhere.

They saw several Haotian Academy elders next to Gu Tingyun also using this kind of thing to chat.

It was some Advanced Artifact Masters Exchange Group.

Li Haoran: "Good news, momentous good news, our Daoist Alliance has made a major discovery in Gauss system research."

Daoist Baoping: "What major discovery? We've been at a bottleneck for ages."

Tang Yu: "Tell me about it. This young master has dismantled the guns in the game almost completely to make a replica, but it just doesn't feel right, and I have absolutely no idea where the problem lies. The owner also looks unfathomable; when I ask him, he doesn't answer either."

Li Haoran: "(Laughs), do you still remember that scientist or whatever we rescued in Grand Theft Auto V? The one with a bunch of titles like weapon expert."

Daoist Baoping: "(Going crazy) We don't have that game here! How did it go? Did he give you the blueprints?"

Li Haoran: "(Laughs) That he didn't, that fellow wouldn't say the key point even if killed, only mentioning that Gauss cannons had long been replaced by railguns, but I still managed to fish out some information and made a little toy."

Li Haoran sent a short video showing a four-coil Gauss gun; lightning flashed in his hand as it fed into a certain device, and then he pressed the trigger.

Snap!

A teacup ahead was blasted into smithereens.

(Search Baidu for handmade Gauss weapons for tutorials)

"What's so good about this thing?" Several family heads looked on with disdain.

"Master, we are about to run out of computers." Someone nearby reminded them.

"..."

"Have you decided yet? Which one to play?" In an instant, they went to get on the computers.

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"Owner, what do you think if we organize a grand netizen gathering?" Jiang Xiaoyue grew a bit excited upon mentioning this, clearly having plotted it in the group for a long time.

"A grand netizen gathering?" Owner Fang stroked his chin, "It seems like a possibility, but... don't tell me you, girl, want the cultivators and martial artists of the Deserted Sea Realm to come over here en masse? That won't be easy to manage, will it?"

"Didn't you say, my girl, that your ability to come over depended entirely on some innate divine talent, and that you couldn't bring anyone with you?"

"What? You mean to cross the Heaven's Ban?" Just then, the several divine swords hanging from the bamboo pole spoke up, seemingly possessing some hidden knowledge of the matter.

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