Chapter 432: Metal Machines and Spiritual Artifacts
Translator: Noodletown Translations Editor: Noodletown Translations
Although the story of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 3 had little to do with the previous game of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 1, it was still popular among customers of the two shops.
The spiritual spells and ultimate techniques of the two main characters, Jing Tian and Xu Changqing, were different from those of Li Xiaoyao.
For example, Xu Changqing mainly cultivated rune spells instead of Sword Dao, and Jing Tian’s main focus was the sword techniques based on the demonic sword for battle instead of the sword control technique. In fact, Jing Tian only cultivated Shu Mountain Faction’s technique taught by Xu Changqing.
Jing Tian’s greatest strength was his astonis.h.i.+ng understanding of Sword Dao due to his ident.i.ty as the reincarnation of an immortal.
The players could feel this strength of his in the game.
When he played the game during the Tribulation at Penglai, Jing Tian’s strength was still average. Despite Mr. Fang’s own high-level swordsmans.h.i.+p, he felt a clumsiness while using the sword techniques. However, as the story went on, he soon obtained a lot of inspirations in swordsmans.h.i.+p from Jing Tian’s own understanding.
Different from the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 1, the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 3 had two main characters and two storylines, which enabled the players to play the game and view the world from two perspectives. They could obtain two different kinds of feelings while playing the game.
The Legend of the Sword and Fairy 3 focused on reincarnation. The story of the reincarnations of Xu Changqing and Zi Xuan was full of tangled love from three life-times; only when the players went into this world could they understand the deep feelings which had sustained through their reincarnations.
Meanwhile, Jing Tian’s storyline was divided into two parts; one featured the Miss of the Tang Family, who was both willful and cute, and the other featured Long Kui, Jing Tian’s sister in his previous life 1,000 years ago who had been asleep in the demonic sword for 1,000 years.
People felt the weight of this kind of love which had lasted more than 1,000 years.
It was enthralling for most of the players in the two old shops and more so for the new players such as Li Lanruo.
Since there were no customers visiting the shop, they forgot that they were employees while they played the game avidly.
The Legend of the Sword and Fairy Communication Group was always boisterous with messages.
Li Lanruo gradually joined the discussion and the topics varied from their favorite girl to who was the most handsome male in the Legend of the Sword and Fairy. QQ messages kept beeping all the time.
Apart from these topics, they also talked about the story of Jade Dynasty and the sword techniques and spiritual spells in the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 3.
At the lounge area near the entrance, Xiaoyue sat on a couch with a big white deer. The white deer held a cup of milk tea between its front hooves, enjoying the beverage.
“Yohahahaha… Milk… Milk tea is so good!” It yelled the words out inarticulately like a child.
“It is, isn’t it!” Jiang Xiaoyue said smugly, “I used to eat the delicacies in the shop every day!”
“Yohahahha… Yeah!” It let out a series of deer laughter.
At this moment, a handsome young master who was about 20 years old walked toward the shop followed by an aggressive-looking servant; this young man was wearing a black robe.
“Young Master…” The clerk from the Cloud-Bathing Shop, the shop next to Fang Qi’s, tried to stop them. “You can’t enter this shop! The shop owner offended Nangong…”
“Auch–!” he screamed.
“Get out!” The servant knocked him over with a kick and gestured to the young master before him, saying, “Do you know who he is? I don’t care about if its Nangong or Beigong, there’s not a shop in the city that my young master doesn’t dare to enter!”
Ignoring the upheaval behind him, the young master waved his folding fan and glanced around at the layout of the shop. “We got the right shop! The layout of the shop comes from the same person who designed that ground spiritual artifact.”
The servant bowed to him and said, “Young Master, the clerk said that the owner of this shop offended people from the Nangong Family…”
“It’s no big deal. Its not us who offended them.” The young master said indifferently, “The people of the Nangong Family are more arrogant than I am and are an eyesore for everyone! The shop owner is quite a figure. Let’s go in and have a look!”
“Yes! Yes!”
Upon entering, the servant yelled, “Sir…”
He swallowed back his words as he was startled. While pointing at the girl and the deer sitting in the lounge area, he stammered, “This… This…”
“Ugh?” The young master froze as well. “Isn’t she the little princess of the Jiang Family?”
He walked over immediately. “I’m surprised to see the little princess of the Jiang Family in this place! What an honor!”
“Xiaoyue, is he your friend?” Mr. Fang looked at the black-robed young man in bafflement.
“I’m Tang Yu!” The young master cupped his hands and said, “My Tang Family excels in making spiritual artifacts and machines. We saw someone traveling in the city in a ground spiritual boat at a speed greater than ordinary demon beasts, so we come here to… pay a visit.”
“…” Mr. Fang’s face twitched. “Do you excel in machines or spiritual artifacts?”
“…” The young master looked at Fang Qi as if he were a strange character. “Brother, don’t you know that my Tang Family always combines machine mechanisms and spiritual artifacts? You can’t separate them apart.”
“A few days ago, I saw your ground spiritual artifact run so fast without any spiritual essence fluctuation. I’m surprised that I can find someone in the same circle in the city.”
Mr. Fang was at a loss for words.
“I know I’m presumptuous, but…” The young master asked, “Can you let me have a look of your ground spiritual artifact?”
Mr. Fang thought for a moment and said, “Okay. But you can only observe it for a moment, and you can’t touch it!”
Then, he took out the supercar from his storage spiritual artifact.
Looking at the weirdly-shaped but perfect ‘ground spiritual artifact’, Tang Yuan clicked his tongue and exclaimed in appreciation, “Perfect! Indeed perfect! Everything connects with each other so well. This shape is designed to perfectly avoid the disturbance of winds when it runs… No spiritual essence! Not a trace of spiritual essence?! It’s completely made with machine mechanisms!”
He looked as if he wanted to stick his head inside the car.
Mr. Fang’s face twitched when he looked at this guy who obviously wished to drive away in his precious race car. He hadn’t imagined that the incident where he raced in his car would draw the attention of a maniac fan of race cars and mechanisms.
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Meanwhile, the partic.i.p.ants in the Taiw.a.n.g Inn had received a message: [The Heavenly Academy’s exam will begin soon; the partic.i.p.ants must arrive at the Heavenly Academy within three days!]