Chapter 169: Sir! Wake up! Someone’s Smashing Your Windows!
Translator: Noodletown Translations Editor: Noodletown Translations
Instantly, Premier Zhang’s eyes lit up, and his whole body shook. “Can this spiritual artifact help me cultivate?”
“It even has this function?!” He had thought that the games in this shop would just help people increase their cultivation speed, just like the Martial Arts Tower of Lingyun Academy and similar facilities.
However, he found that this spiritual artifact named the computer was even more powerful than he had imagined; it could even help an ordinary person like him, who had no talent, obtain warrior qi in only two days?!
This kind of spiritual artifacts was much better than the places such as the Lingyun Martial Arts Tower which only could only increase one’s cultivation strength. With this spiritual artifact, everyone in Dajin could cultivate.
Due to the lack of talent, a lot of people became civil officials and merchants. After gaining warrior qi in their bodies, these people might still be weaker than those highly talented warriors and cultivators, but at least they would gain a healthier body and the ability to defend themselves. In addition, they might live as long as the cultivators and warriors!
In this way, the civil officials would have more time and energy to contribute their abilities and realize their dreams without fearing that they have to back down due to old age before they could put their plans into action.
Many thoughts passed Premier Zhang’s mind, and he wondered which master had created these spiritual artifacts and what this master’s purpose was for placing the shop in this place.
However, he knew that Dajin would gain great benefits with this shop in its territory.
As for confiscating this shop…
Everyone was greedy, and Ji Wu might have had this plan in mind when he sent Premier Zhang to the Jiangnan Region. However, when Premier Zhang saw that most of the aristocrats gathered in the shop, he knew taking the shop by force wasn’t a good idea.
Firstly, they had to consider the great power of this big group of customers. Secondly, the whole Jiangnan Region might have been forged into a union of common interest due to this small shop, and it was hard to make a move against them.
There had been no reports about anyone making trouble in this shop for a long while, but Premier Zhang had heard about how all the Shadow Guards were thrown out of this shop in one instant.
After careful consideration, he finally sent messages to Emperor Ji Wu in Jingshi.
At this moment, Ji Wu was practicing saber techniques in the garden before the Royal Palace. He put away the long saber and murmured, “Premier Zhang?”
His communication jade was connected to all the influential officials, but they only used it to report major issues.
“Temporarily, it’s harmless to the country?”
“The wondrous spiritual artifacts can help talentless ordinary people cultivate?”
Except for the speculations and concerns about the people behind the shop, these messages contained nothing but good news.
“Indeed?!” Ji Wu’s eyes turned sharp. “If that’s the case, it’s my fortune to have this shop…”
“However…”
However, he wouldn’t be convinced if he didn’t test it himself!
He wondered if some great master was really behind this shop and if this master’s strength was as great as the rumors said.
“Another possibility is that the young man had acquired some great treasures! Although it is a bit far-fetched, we must make some necessary tests!”
The most powerful people in Dajin’s history had passed away, but they had left some big forces to guard Dajin. The Star-Observing Tower and this magnificent Royal Palace were two of them, but only a few people knew that a shadow force had been established at the inception of the country to enforce the laws.
Whenever someone tried to work against the law, this shadow force would make a move. In fact, they had destroyed many royal family members, aristocrats, and major officials.
“Is the shop really so powerful that it can gain a standing in this world or is it just a scam?” Ji Wu tightened his fists and said in a cold voice, “Grey, go and investigate it for me.”
A breeze swept up some dust into the sky, seeming like someone had just left the garden.
…
It was midnight and darkness engulfed the land.
Fang Qi’s small shop finally closed for the night.
The moment that Fang Qi shut the door and windows, turned off lights, and went upstairs, a black figure suddenly appeared in the center of the street before Fang Qi’s shop’s door like a black ghost.
“This is the small shop that His Majesty is concerned about?” The black figure murmured in a deep and husky voice, which contained a chilliness that was indifferent to everything in the world.
In the blink of an eye, this figure vanished from the street like a gust of wind!
In this hot summer night, the usually loud insect chirps and frog croaks suddenly stopped, and the air nearby became cold and silent.
The nearby residents were in a death-like sleep without even any sounds of snoring.
Through the second-floor window and the open curtains, Fang Qi could be seen sleeping soundly without taking off his clothes.
“He’s sleeping like a log; he’s just an ant without any worldly experiences…” A black figure appeared outside Fang Qi’s window, but Fang Qi was oblivious to this.
If someone looked toward Fang Qi’s window from the outside, they would see a figure standing in the air!
It seemed like an invisible platform supported him!
Standing in the air wasn’t something that an ordinary person could achieve!
In the entire Dajin Country, very few people had reached such a realm!
“I’ll start from this ant then,” this figure murmured and then waved his right hand.
The window should have opened at his wave!
He froze since the window before him showed no signs of opening!
“Ugh?” The person frowned slightly in the darkness and waved his left hand!
The window showed no response.
“Ugh?” Surprised, he waved again and again!
Then, he knocked on the window with his fists!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
He kicked!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
He smacked the window with the handle of his sword!
Crack! Crack! Crack!
This figure smashed on the window of Fang Qi’s room from the outside!
The fragile-looking glass showed no sign of breaking, and it even absorbed the sounds. Almost no noise could be heard in Fang Qi’s room!