Chapter 780: I Am Freaked Out!
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
There was complete silence all around. All the cultivators and Sect Leaders of the Scarlet Yang Sect were shocked, and, in the next minute, they all burst into laughter, as if they had heard something extremely funny.
"My goodness! You are still so proud of yourself when you clearly know you are going to be killed!"
"Have you lost your mind?! How dare you order the cultivators of the Gong Family to kneel in front you?!"
"You think we are the ones who should pay for our wrong deeds. I wonder how that will come out!"
"How absurd this is! How dare you, a very young cultivator, speak to us like this?!"
…
No one ever realized that up in the sky, there was also complete silence. The ten cultivators of the Void Training Stage from the Gong Family were all freaked out and could not believe what they had just heard.
Xu Que, from the Exploding Heavens Faction? Screw me! Why on earth is he here?! These morons, they ask us to come here to kill Xu Que?! Screw the Scarlet Yang Sect!
In the blink of an eye, the ten cultivators dashed to the ground from the sky.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
…
They all knelt down in front of Xu Que, with their heads knocking on the ground. Everyone of the Scarlet Yang Sect ,as well as Situ Haitang, were stunned.
"My friend, Xu Que, I am sorry. We can explain this situation!" The ten cultivators said all together. They were already deeply frightened and never thought Xu Que would come all the way to the Five Elements Mountain. They thought they were mad to take the request of helping the Scarlet Yang Sect to kill Xu Que.
At the same time, everyone of the Scarlet Yang Sect had completely lost their minds. They never thought Xu Que could make the powerful cultivators of the Gong Family kneel down with only a few words.
"This is impossible!"
"How can this be?!" The Sect Leaders were shocked and murmured.
In particular, Situ Haitang was the one who was most shocked. She never thought Xu Que could scare the powerful cultivators of the Gong Family with only a few words.
My god! They are the cultivators of the Void Training Stage and one of the most influential families overseas.
"Listening to your explanations? You just said I underestimate you, Gong Family, hadn't you?" Xu Que said coldly and with a poker face.
Seeing this, the cultivators of the Gong Family were stunned, since they had never seen Xu Que in such a mood. Last year when Xu Que looted the Gong Family, he was still smiling, but now, Xu Que's face was very serious, which meant that he was really pissed off.
"Xu Que, you have misunderstood us!"
"We really did not know you were here!"
"You are such a respectable man! So we have to give you a proper explanation!" The cultivators of the Gong Family said hurriedly, while raising their heads and looking at Xu Que.
The cultivators of the Scarlet Yang Sect were all speechless when they saw this.
What…what on earth is going on?
This young man, called Xu Que, also belongs to a influential family?
Even the Gong Family is afraid of him?
"How dare you!" Right at this moment, Buttface walked up and stared at the Gong Family with his big eyes. All of a sudden, the ten cultivators of the Gong Family all took a deep breath.
My goodness! He is also here!
How on earth did we bump into these two?! We are done this time!
How dare you come here to bully us in broad daylight?! Do you have any respect for the law or the rules?!" Buttface said, pretending he was very angry.
Hearing this, the ten cultivators of the Gong Family felt very miserable.
We bully you?! You are the one who is bullying us now!
They contradicted Xu Que secretly and, at the same time, nodded. "You are right! You are quite right! Brother dog, please forgive us!"
��Crap!" Buttface was furious. "Open your eyes and look at me carefully! I am a wolf, a wolf!"
"Sorry, sorry, sorry, you are a wolf, not a dog!"
"Call me the Mighty King!" Buttface said.
"The Mighty King!" The ten cultivators of the Gong Family repeated.
"Call him the Social King!" Xu Que said coldly.
The ten cultivators of the Gong Family repeated it again.
Hearing this, Xu Que was very satisfied.
Since Xu Que was powerful enough to kill a cultivator of the Form Synthesis Stage with only a punch, none of them cared if they looked pathetic or not, they only hoped that Xu Que could let them go this time.
Seeing this, the Scarlet Yang Sect, as well as Situ Haitang, were greatly surprised.
The Gong Family is even afraid of a dog?! Can it be possible that they are not the real Gong Family?!
"Stop this nonsense! You must give me a proper explanation and show me the sincerity that you are really feeling sorry. Otherwise, I will go and loot the Gong Family again," Xu Que said coldly and walked forward to the City Governor's mansion, together with Situ Haitang.
The cultivators of the Gong Family were finally relieved and took a deep breath. "We will show our sincerity, don't you worry about that."
Then, they all stood up and looked at the Sect Leaders and cultivators of the Scarlet Yang Faction coldly. Seeing this, the Sect Leaders and cultivators of the Scarlet Yang Faction all backed off and said, with their voices trembling, "What…what are you doing?!"
"We are just taking the orders from the head of our faction!"
"He is right! This has nothing to do with us!"
"Besides, our head's sister has married into your family, so we two families are bonded, you can't kill us!"
…
"Bonded?!"
The cultivators of the Gong Family sneered. "We Gong Family can't even protect ourselves now, do you think we really care about the bond between us?!"
"It's all your fault, why on earth did you offend Xu Que in the first place?!"
"You know what, no one in the East Continent dares to offend him now, and the cultivators across the Four Great Continents cannot defeat him even if they work together."
"There is no need to waste our time!"
All of a sudden, the ten cultivators of the Gong Family dashed forward. Tonight was bound to be a night soaked with blood, but in the Cultivation World, a night like this was just as ordinary as a sand on the beach.
…
By the time Xu Que and Situ Haitang got back to the mansion, Situ Haitang was still in a daze. After all, everything that happened just now was crazy.
"Xu Que, this…" She turned around to look at Xu Que and asked.
Xu Que put his finger on her soft lips and smiled gently. "Just kiss me!"
Situ Haitang was surprised, and her face blushed suddenly.
Seeing this, Xu Que smiled and was happy that he had managed to win another girl.
Right at this moment, a voice broke out. "Kiss him! Kiss him! Have sex with him and have babies!" Buttface shouted with great excitement.
Hearing this, Situ Haitang's face turned as red as an apple, and she hurriedly ran into the City Governor's mansion.
Xu Que then took out a sharp knife and hit Buttface.
"Ouch!"
Later that night, every living creature in the city could hear Buttface's screaming. Xu Que was running after Buttface all night, trying to kill him. But since Buttface's skin was too hard, Xu Que could not hurt him with a knife. Still, he made Buttface suffer a lot.
It was almost dawn when Xu Que suddenly stopped when he heard the sound of the notification of the System.
Ding! "Congratulations to the host. The Debt Collector Beats Debtors has been activated!"
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Chapter 781: He Is From The Exploding Heavens Faction?
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
What?
Xu Que was a bit surprised.
The next moment, he suddenly recalled that he had never tried to activate the Debt Collector Beats Debtors back in the illusion world. Although he had only disappeared for a few days in the real world, in the illusion world, he had spent a total of a few decades. If it were not for the notification of the System, he would have almost forgotten the Debt Collector Beats Debtors.
By the way, it takes me a few decades to activate the Debt Collector Beats Debtors?!
"Screw you! You have to give me a good reason for this delay! You told me it only takes a decade to activate it, and now a few decades have passed!" Xu Que summoned the System and questioned it.
The System answered coldly, "The host is in a different place from the Debt Collector Beats Debtors, so it would take some time to send it and for you to activate it! There could be a bit of glitches in this process, but it is all within the normal range."
"You call this being normal?! You call a few decades being normal?!" Xu Que glared.
"The System reserves all the rights for final explanation!"
"Screw you!"
…
At last, Xu Que logged out of the System, feeling a bit cross. Still, he was also quite happy, since in the illusion world, although a few decades have passed, in the real world, just under 15 days have passed.
"According to the System, I would receive the Debt Collector Beats Debtors in less than ten days. Then I would be able to make connections with people on Earth." Xu Que got very excited and did not bother to teach Buttface a lesson. He turned around and went back to the mansion happily.
On the same day, the ten cultivators of the Gong Family came to the city and told Xu Que that the Scarlet Yang Faction had been wiped out. They had to take the head of the Scarlet Yang Faction, Shang Ling, back and wait for the orders from the head of the Gong Family before they executed Shang Ling. Xu Que was fine with this news and waved his hands, asking them to leave. Before they left, Xu Que warned them that they should never ever come to the Five Elements Mountain again.
The cultivators of the Gong Family nodded and left in a cowardly fashion!
"Xu Que!" Situ Haitang came later that afternoon. She stood in front of Xu Que, looking very smart. "Is everyone from the Exploding Heavens Faction as proud as you?" She frowned.
"What?!" Xu Que was a bit surprised and shook his head. "How do you come up with this? We are all very modest. As modest as the saints back in the ancient times!"
Hearing this, Situ Haitang rolled her eyes. "You must be joking, you are not a modest man at all!"
"Of course I am! Never mind, what is going on? Someone comes, claiming to kill me?" Xu Que smiled.
Situ Haitang was a bit impatient. "Just now, a soldier came to tell me that a cultivator from the Fire Nation wants to live in the City Governor's mansion. He also said that he is a member of the Exploding Heavens Faction. It seems that my mansion has become a branch of your faction!"
"What? A cultivator from the Fire Nation claims himself to be a member of the Exploding Heavens Faction?" Xu Que was surprised, his eyes wide open.
What's going on? I have no idea who this person might be. By the way, he is really arrogant to want to have a room here in the mansion.
"Why are you so surprised? In the past few years, more and more people are getting to know about the existence of the Exploding Heavens Faction, in particular in the Fire Nation. Even people in small cities like Snow City know about the Exploding Heavens Faction."
Xu Que was shocked.
Something must be wrong, all these years, it is me who has been impersonating all the other members of the Exploding Heavens Faction. This cultivator must obviously be a fake one!
"The cultivator of the Exploding Heavens Faction is here!" A soldier shouted.
"So, this is the City Governor's mansion? How shabby it is. A noble man like me can never possibly live in such a place!" The cultivator walked inside proudly. He looked around in disgust and gave orders to the soldier. "Do what I have told you on the way here. Don't mess it up, you know what will happen to you when you piss off a member of the Exploding Heavens Faction!"
"This…"
The soldier looked like he was in a very difficult situation, then he began to look at Xu Que and Situ Haitang who were standing in the hall.
"What?! You are not willing to do what I have told you?!" The cultivator scolded the soldier and turned around. When he turned around, he saw Xu Que and Situ Haitang.
"How dare you!" Situ Haitang was very cross. Xu Que gave a funny look and was sure that this cultivator was not a member of the Exploding Heavens Faction, but a total liar. The cultivator looked at Situ Haitang and sneered. "If I am right, you must be the City Governor of Snow City. I have heard a lot about you from Xu Que. I come to bring you some words from him, but I never thought even a little soldier here could be so arrogant. I just asked a small favor from him and he still refused. You call this being hospitable?!"
Hearing this, Situ Haitang was in a daze and looked at Xu Que with big surprise. So did the soldier. Xu Que almost burst into laughter, but he still managed to suppress his feelings. "I see, you are one of the elites of the Exploding Heavens Faction! I have met Xu Que once, I wonder how is everything going with him?!"
"He is fine. I have been drinking with him the past few days, and he told me that he saved the entire Snow City and said that anyone of the Exploding Heavens Faction would receive a warm welcome here and that only the most distinguished guests would receive him when he comes here. Now, I am very disappointed," the cultivator said with a gloomy face.
Hearing this, both Situ Haitang and the soldier realized that he was a liar.
"I see. Would you mind telling me why you are upset and what have you asked the soldier to do for you?"
Hearing this, the soldier answered, "When he got into the city, he happened to see the lady of the Lin Family. He thinks she is quite a gorgeous woman, so he asked me to bring her into his room tonight."
"Wow. I never knew cultivators from the Exploding Heavens Faction would do such a thing!" Xu Que sneered.
Hearing this, the cultivator was infuriated. "How dare you! Who do you think you are? You have no right to tell me what is right and what is not right!"
Xu Que raised his hand and gently touched his hair and smiled. "What a coincidence! My name is Xu Que, and people also call me 'prince charming'!"
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Chapter 782: Here I Am!
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Hearing this, the cultivator was completely stunned. Then his body began to shiver uncontrollably, and he said, "You…you…you are Xu Que?"
"Yes. I am Xu Que! By the way, can you tell me when did I ever have a drink with you before?!" Xu Que smiled.
A ball of frightening power erupted from him and spread in all directions.
Bang!
The cultivator collapsed onto the ground and his face became as white as a sheet.
Xu Que stopped smiling and sneered. "How dare you! How dare you go around and lie to others using the name of the Exploding Heavens Faction!"
"I…I…I never knew you were here! I…" The cultivator was too afraid to say a full sentence. He had been hearing about Xu Que for a long time, and he knew what a cruel man he was.
I should at least have known what Xu Que looked like before I went around trying to fool others…. My goodness, why on earth have I come and acted tough here?!
"So, if I had not been here today, you would have forced a young woman to be your mistress using the name of the Exploding Heavens Faction?! How dare you do such a horrible thing!"
Xu Que said, furious. This time, he was really pissed off. Although he had also looted people's houses before, he still had his own bottom line, which was that he would never force a woman to become his mistress. In his view, this was tantamount to raping a woman.
On Earth, the criminal who was put into prison for raping women would be despised and bullied by other criminals, even a murderer would punish them.
In Xu Que's view, women should be cherished and, in some cases, men could flirt with women. Anyone who forced a woman to do something she did not want to do should be severely punished.
This man must have done such a thing many times before he came here. Since the first thing he did as soon as he stepped into this city was to ask the soldier to bring a woman to his room. Worse still, he did all this using the name of the Exploding Heavens Faction!
"I am so sorry! Please forgive me, I will never do such a thing ever again!" The man knelt in front of Xu Que and freaked out.
"Nonsense! I hate your kind the most!" Xu Que cursed and hit him.
Bang!
The cultivator was blown away by the energy of Xu Que's hit and hit the wall. He fell onto the ground and began to cough blood.
Xu Que then said, "Hang him on the city wall and flick his manhood 10,000 times. Remember, don't let him die before this is done!"
The soldier hurriedly answered, "Yes!" Then he dragged the cultivator out of the hall rather excitedly.
"This sort of thing happens a lot, and there is no need to be so angry about this," Situ Haitang said gently.
Xu Que calmed himself down and shook his head. "I am just terribly upset by what he has done!"
"Then I think you would be angry all day long!" Situ Haitang said with a serious face.
"What do you mean?!" Xu Que asked.
Situ Haitang forced out a smile. "As far as I am concerned, this sort of thing happens quite a lot in the Fire Nation and no one can do anything about it, really. Because people are all afraid of the Exploding Heavens Faction, so no one dares to put them under the law!"
Obviously, Situ Haitang was implying that it was Xu Que's fault for making the Exploding Heavens Faction such an intimidating faction. This had given the cowards the opportunity to do bad things using the name of the Exploding Heavens Faction.
"Fire Nation! Good! I happen to have some errands back there. It seems that it is time for me to teach a lesson to those thugs!" Xu Que said with a very cold look.
…
The next day, Xu Que headed to the Fire Nation, together with Buttface. He wanted Situ Haitang to go with him, but she refused, which made him a bit upset. When he was about to walk into the Teleportation Device, Situ Haitang hurriedly ran up to him and gave him a piece of letter.
"Open it when you are in the Fire Nation." Then she hurriedly left, with her face as red as an apple.
"Open it, don't listen to her. Let me see what she has written." Buttface was very curious.
Bang!
Xu Que slapped Buttface and quickly put the letter into the System's parcel.
Since the Teleportation Device had been activated, if he did not do so, the letter would be shredded into pieces.
…
Seven days later, the two arrived at the Fire Nation.
Compared with the Four Great Continents, the Five Elements Mountain was not big at all. So the Teleportation Devices here were not that efficient and it took a longer time to cover a short distance. As soon as Xu Que stepped onto the soil of the Fire Nation, he sharpened his eyes.
"Buttface, I now command you as my vice chief. Arrest people who do bad things using the name of the Exploding Heavens Faction," Xu Que said in a deep voice.
Buttface glared at Xu Que. "No! Unless you allow me to be the vice president of the Exploding Heavens Faction!"
"Great! This is exactly what I want! I will not make you the vice president of the Exploding Heavens Faction and I don't want you to interfere with the business this time!" Xu Que said.
"Screw you! How shameless you are! Count on me, I will help you arrest the bad apples."
"Never mind!" Xu Que smiled.
Then he summoned the System and took out the letter Situ Haitang had given him.
As soon as he saw the beautifully written words, he was stunned. "Come back once you finish this business! My parents want to meet you!"
See me? Her parents want to see me?! My goodness! What should I do? Xu Que took a deep breath.
"What are you reading? Let me have a look." Buttface came close to Xu Que.
Bang!
Xu Que slapped Buttface again.
"It's none of your business! Get out of here and arrest the bad apples!"
"Screw you!" Buttface was very angry and scolded, "Wait here! I will report this to your old girlfriend here!" Then he hurriedly ran away, much quicker than Xu Que probably. It seemed that Buttface had grown much more powerful than he was in the past. Maybe this had a lot to do with the blood of his ancestor that he got at the Mysterious Land in the South Continent.
Xu Que was running in the opposite direction. "Buttface, you are running in the wrong direction! You are running to the border of the Gold Nation!"
"Don't you remember that your old girlfriend is the Dowager Countess of the Gold Nation?" Buttface answered.
Speaking of the Dowager Countess of the Gold Nation, she asked me to give her some elixir a few years ago.… Should I give it to her or not? Of course not, if she wants it, she should come and fetch it herself!
Then he wrote something on a piece of a traditional Chinese Talisman and flicked it into the air. In the blink of an eye, the Talisman changed into a ray of golden light and flew to the Gold Nation.
"Ha, ha!"
A figure ran past Xu Que. Buttface turned around to look at Xu Que, while running very quickly.
"What a fool you are! I was just kidding with you before. I am going to the Fire Nation! I am very marvelous, aren't I?"
Bang!
Buttface ran into a mountain and the mountain was crushed all of a sudden.
"What a joke!" Xu Que laughed and headed to the Fire Nation.
Madame Ya, I am coming! Su Ling'er and Su Xiaoqi, I am coming, and in less than two days, my sim card will be delivered.
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Chapter 783: The City Manager Of The Exploding Heavens Faction
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
The sun was shining brightly in the Fire Nation, and, as usual, it was very warm. Xu Que and Buttface were behaving themselves and did not attract any attention at all. Xu Que had changed his appearance with a mask and was in a white robe, looking exactly like a gentle scholar.
Xu Que walked into the city first and left Buttface behind, in case someone spotted Buttface. However, his outfit still attracted many people's attention. A gentle and handsome scholar like Xu Que was rather rare here in the Fire Nation.
In the past, Li Bai, a scholar of the Exploding Heavens Faction, came here. But since then, no one had ever seen such a gentle scholar. The reason why Xu Que could attract so many people's attention was that, under the surface of his gentle-looking demeanor, there was a bit of a frolicker about him.
It was well known that women fell for bad boys. With many young women watching, Xu Que casually walked into a inn.
"Welcome! What can I do for you?" A male servant welcomed him.
"I want to kill people!" Xu Que said, while smiling. He quickly took out a pen-like object that was a foot in length. It was a Stainless Steel Judgment Pen; its head was sharp and thin, while its handle was thick and round. Xu Que then hit a wooden desk next to him with the Stainless Steel Judgment Pen.
Bang!
In the blink of an eye, the wooden desk exploded and turned into a pile of ashes. Seeing this everyone in the inn was shocked. There was complete silence. The male servant was in a daze and stood still like a scarecrow, while staring at Xu Que.
Bang!
The manager of the inn hit heavily on a desk and yelled, "How dare you! How dare you make a scene in the Exploding Heavens Faction Inn?! Are you insane?!"
Hearing this, Xu Que sneered. The reason he had walked into this inn was because he saw the name of the inn. Judging by the name of the inn, the owner might be one of Xu Que's acquaintances, for example, Madame Ya or Su Ling'er. But the price of the dishes here were all too high, which was why Xu Que realized this inn was not run by one of his acquaintances.
He found that even an extremely ordinary dish was sold with the price of 300 Spiritual Stones. Most strikingly, Xu Que's name was right next to the picture of the dish.
Obviously, the owner must also be a liar who does bad things using the name of the Exploding Heavens Faction.
"I will teach you, a bunch of liars, a good lesson today!" Xu Que said, while brandishing his Stainless Steel Judgment Pen around.
Bang!
In the blink of an eye, all the chairs and desks fell into pieces and changed into ashes that flew away with the wind. Everyone in the inn was stunned.
"What is going on?!"
"He must be mad, otherwise, he would never dare to offend the Exploding Heavens Faction!"
"Interesting! All these years, no one ever dared to speak against the Exploding Heavens Faction, but this young man…"
"This young man is really powerful!"
"With only one shot, he managed to crush all the chairs and desks into ashes without hurting anyone around."
People fell into heated discussions, and even people outside the inn began to gather around the inn.
"You piece of crap, I swear I will kill you!" The manager was so furious that his fat body began to tremble.
He shouted loudly, "Arrest him! Arrest this jerk! Show him the consequences of making a scene in the region controlled by the Exploding Heavens Faction!"
Bang!
A few cultivators of the Infant Transformation Stage quickly appeared.
At the same time, people from the stores that also contained 'Exploding Heavens Faction' on their shop signs came to help the manager.
"I never thought there were so many of you! Just as the saying goes, birds of a feather flock together!" Xu Que strode forward, while despising them and waving his Stainless Steel Judgment Pen.
All of a sudden, countless silver threads burst out from the tip of the Stainless Steel Judgment Pen and penetrated the hands and feet of the manager.
The manager was dragged backward.…
"Ouch!" The manager screamed with immense pain.
"Stop!" Those who came to help the manager shouted all together and dashed to Xu Que when they saw the manager suffering.
Xu Que stared at them coldly and waved his fist at them, without even looking at them.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The next moment, a few of them were directly blown away by the power wave and hit at a transparent wall. In the blink of eye, they all died.
There was complete silence.
People present were so shocked that their faces all turned as white as sheets.
This young man is…is…
With only one shot, he killed almost ten cultivators of the Infant Transformation Stage?
He must be at the Infant Transformation Stage, otherwise, he cannot be able to do so!
How can a young man like him be this terribly powerful?!
"Ah!" The manager who was floating in the air and restricted by the power of the Stainless Steel Judgment Pen screamed with terror.
He looked at Xu Que in great shock and asked, "Who are you?!"
At the same time, everyone was watching Xu Que. People present were all very curious about him and wondered why he would do such a thing to the Exploding Heavens Faction.
Xu Que smiled, showing off his bright white teeth. "I am Zhong Kui, the legendary city manager of the Exploding Heavens Faction!"
What?
Zhong Kui, the legendary city manager of the Exploding Heavens Faction?!
What is going on?! He is also a member of the Exploding Heavens Faction? Why on earth did he do such a thing to the manager then?!
"You…you…you…" The manager got more frightened and could not even properly enunciate a word. He was really scared this time, since he knew that he did not really belong to the Exploding Heavens Faction at all. Now the real member of the Exploding Heavens Faction appeared right in front of him.
"I have met many stupid liars before, but it is the first time for me to see stupid liars making trouble in broad daylight. Do you really think I would allow you to do bad things using the name of the Exploding Heavens Faction?" Xu Que said coldly.
Hearing this, everyone present was stunned.
The Exploding Heavens Faction Inn is a fake one?!
"I have nothing to do with this! Zhong Kui, I am innocent. I am just taking orders from His Royal Highness." The manager accidently let out who the person was who was behind all these lies.
His Royal Highness? So what? He is just nothing compared with the Exploding Heavens Faction!
"So you mean you trick others by the order of His Royal Highness? Never mind, my obligation is to maintain the rule. It is fine for you to use the name of the Exploding Heavens Faction, but doing bad things with the name of the Exploding Heavens Faction shall never be forgiven!"
Xu Que then took out a thick object, which was a iron chain made with a silver hook. In the blink of an eye, the hook penetrated the manager's chest and the manager died on the spot. Xu Que then dragged the dead manager out of the inn, with a smile on his face and everyone watching him in surprise.
He looked like a cold-blooded feudal official who was about to wipe all the bad from across the Imperial City.…
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Chapter 784: The Real Advocates
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
"It's terrible! It's terrible!"
"What shocking news!"
"It's been exposed that those so-called Exploding Heavens Faction Inns in the Fire Country for the past few years are all fake!"
"The real sovereign of the Exploding Heavens Faction is here trying to maintain the order of the Imperial City! His name is Zhong Kui, and he calls himself our city inspector!"
"He's terrifying! As soon as he appeared, he instantly killed several Original Infant Stage fighters!"
"To finish it off, he has slain the shopkeeper of the fake Exploding Heavens Faction Inns with a chain! He's now dragging the corpses down the street!"
…
Suddenly, the whole Fire Nation's Imperial City fell into chaos. Xu Que was dragging a chain with a corpse slowly down the street. Behind him, countless people followed at a distance. They were dying to see the action, but dared not go too near.
When the Imperial guards arrived, they were too afraid to ask a single question. Instead, they immediately turned around and rushed to the palace to report the news. Several shops operating in the Imperial City with signs identifying them as of the Exploding Heavens Faction were horrified at the news. They hurriedly closed their stores, as the blood drained from their faces.
However, that did not stop Xu Que.
He had just reached a weapons store called the Exploding Heavens Faction Weaponry. While the shop gates were closed, with his powerful soul strength he had sensed peoples' presence within the shop. With a flick of his chain, he smashed the store gates with a huge bang! The people inside were so frightened that they fell paralyzed on the ground.
"You…what are you doing? We work for the Lord! You…" The shopkeeper tried to speak, but he before he could finish, Xu Que had already thrown the iron chain at him.
Whip!
The hook pierced his chest and the shopkeeper collapsed with a muffled sound. With a pull backward, Xu Que dragged him out of the shop, spilling blood all over the floor.
"Order is to be maintained! Garbage should stay in the garbage dump!" said an expressionless Xu Que. He waved his hand and a huge barrel appeared, into which he threw in the bodies of the two shopkeepers. Then, he continued to move toward the next store.
Several beaters and servants in the shop were scared out of their wits, but finally sighed in relief when he left. Xu Que had let them off, killing only the shopkeepers. After all, most of these servants and beaters were deceived, thinking that they were working for the Exploding Heavens Faction. Thus, Xu Que had no reason to blame them. However, the people in charge were in the know. These people must be punished, none of them could be forgiven!
Operation Counter Counterfeit, it a war until everyone's afraid of it!
Bang!
Next, Xu Que went directly to a building named Exploding Heavens Faction Bookstore. He instantly smashed the door. To his surprise, there were several scholars sitting around writing manuscripts. Xu Que took a casual glance and was instantly furious. These people were fabricating the history of the Exploding Heavens Faction, shaping it into an unsightly and warped fiction. Some were even writing of them as a repulsive force that did only evil!
"Useless bums!" Xu Que bellowed and threw the chain at the scholars!
Boom!
The entire bookstore collapsed within seconds. Xu Que tore out several bloody bodies from the ruins and tossed them into the garbage can.
"Whoever shames the Exploding Heavens Faction will be hunted down and killed, no matter how far away they may be!" Xu Que growled as he marched onward. On this day, he had cleaned out every single fraudulent shop in the Imperial City swindling in the name of the Exploding Heavens Faction. What he did threw the Imperial City into chaos, and many people were too frightened to go out.
"It's so scary!"
"That Zhong Kui from the Exploding Heavens Faction is a real death reaper!"
"Have you heard the news? Not just Zhong Kui, but even Xu Que's dog has reappeared!"
"Really?"
"True as toast! Someone saw that the dog rushed into a sham Exploding Heavens Faction restaurant, robbed all their food, then spit so much saliva on the shopkeeper that he drowned!"
'Holy cow! Can that even be done?"
Slam!
"That's what it did!"
…
Night may have fallen, but Xu Que's operation Counter Counterfeit was far from over. He had just met up with Buttface. Now that they had cleaned out all the shops on the surface, it was time to track down the cultivators who, under the name of the Exploding Heavens Faction, had scammed and swindled all the citizens!
Buttface had collected many reports from the market. All of which were the names and information of cultivators who had claimed to be part of the Exploding Heavens Faction.
"Lad, according to a warm-hearted, undisclosed member of the public, Lu Ben Wei, as well as my own organizing skills, these people can be roughly divided into four or five groups of forces. They are all distributed in the outskirts of the city, each occupying a territory!" Buttface said excitedly with a map in hand. He was always the happiest when an operation put him in the limelight.
"Come, we'll continue with the cleanup!" Xu Que took over the map from Buttface's hands. After checking the distribution of forces, he quickly headed toward the outskirts of the city.
The night soon turned pitch-black. Xu Que and Buttface came to a territory outside the city. Back when he had left, it was simply a barren hill. Now, it was filled with gleaming lights and many manors. All of the buildings were luxuriously decorated. It was apparent that all these took a lot of manpower and resources!
"Crap, young lad, this isn't fair! Why are these imposters of the Exploding Heavens Faction living more comfortably than us?" Buttface barked indignantly.
"Then we will destroy it!" Xu Que sneered, as he flung his chain!
Boom!
Immediately, the main door of a manor collapsed. Then, after some rustling, many figures emerged from the manors.
"How dare you barge into the First Branch of the Exploding Heavens Faction!" came a robust roar.
Xu Que sneered coldly, his gaze fixed at the mansion in front of him. From his soul strength telepathy, he sensed that in the mansion's basement, there were a lot of frail mortals and cultivators. The most harrowing fact was that all who were held captive were women! Xu Que didn't need more information to guess what they were doing.
"The world may change, but chaos and debris continue to flow! You people are a bunch of damn garbage!" he said with a cold voice as he flung the chain. The long iron chain shone coldly in the faint moonlight. A wisp of Bone Freezing Fire climbed the chain, sweeping straight ahead!
Boom!
Dozens of cultivators who rushed ahead froze into ice the instant they were hit by the freezing fire. With a sweep of the cable, they all burst into icy smithereens.
"What?" Those who came from behind stood in disbelief, their faces horrified.
"You…who are you?" Some people shrieked as they stared at Xu Que.
Xu Que smiled, devoid of all emotion, "Zhong Kui of the Exploding Heavens Faction!"
As his voice fell off, an even bigger cold fire consumed the whole manor.
"Damn! Fantastic,my boy, now that's refreshing! You have crushed the court!" Buttface shouted excitedly.
Xu Que was too lazy to reply to this idiot. He quickly entered the manor and freed all the women in the basement. To his relief, they had not been humiliated by the counterfeiters as he had thought. They were brought here as blood sacrifices to help those scums practice demonic arts!
Xu Que explained to them that the manor people were just imposters of the Exploding Heavens Faction. He then supplied them with a lot of medicine before leaving for the second territory. However, Xu Que couldn't believe his eyes when he reached there. The second territory was simple and rundown. Many houses that the cultivators lived in were temporarily constructed, surrounded by flags that had a variety of slogans on them.
"The Exploding Heavens Faction is invincible!"
"The Exploding Heavens Faction is mighty!"
"The Exploding Heavens Faction are all Sovereigns!"
"Join the Exploding Heavens Faction and reach the peak of life!"
"The Exploding Heavens Faction appears; all they leave is a thread and a single needle!"
"The Exploding Heavens Faction goes to war, not a blade of grass would grow!"
"The Exploding Heavens Faction commoner is so handsome!"
The myriad of colorful slogans was inserted all over the mountains. Together they looked just like rows of bullet comments on videos, leaving Xu Que in a daze. Strangely enough, in this small territory, there were many wounded cultivators lying all around. The rest who were unhurt were all busy helping them heal.
"Well, what's with this situation? Are there other people cracking down on these imposters too?" Buttface was shocked.
Xu Que's expression turned serious, then he shook his head slightly, "No, from these slogans, I can confirm that they are the real advocates of the Exploding Heavens Faction. They are the real talents of our faction!"
"What? How did the talents of the Exploding Heavens Faction fall into this sort of living conditions?" Buttface was taken aback.
Pa!
Xu Que gave Buttface a slap on the head and glared, "You don't know anything! Isn't it obvious that they've been played? The real supporters of the Exploding Heavens Faction are a group of naive, kind, and simple children. They suck at conspiracies, that's why they are now like this!"
"Gosh, how do you know they are all real supporters?" Buttface asked, displeased.
"By intuition! Ask them, if you don't believe me!" Xu Que laughed as he entered that territory.
Chapter 785: Level Up, Act-Tough Saint!
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
"Who's that?"
The cultivators perked up at Xue Que and Buttface's arrival. Everyone stood up at once. Some even grabbed their weapons and pointed them at Xu Que angrily and nervously.
Xu Que smiled. "I am Zhong Kui from the Exploding Heavens Faction. I have come after receiving orders. I am tasked to clean up the imposters of the Exploding Heavens Faction!"
The Exploding Heavens Faction!
The cultivators were stunned by his words.
Then someone yelled, "You guys again! You swindle us and cheat us in the name of the Exploding Heavens Faction. Now, what are you doing? You're framing us! Do you intend to kill us all?"
Bang!
With a loud thud, a few big garbage bags fell out of the System parcel onto the floor. More than a dozen bodies rolled out of the bags. The cultivators were dumbstruck once they saw the corpses. Then, the crowd stirred.
"That…that's the butler of the fake Exploding Heavens Faction Inn!"
"My god, it IS him!"
"Crap, he's the one who killed my wife and child!"
"And that was the librarian of the fake Exploding Heavens Faction Library! He used to do whatever he wanted to do in the Imperial City. He only toned it down after Madam Ya was alerted!"
"My god! Everyone who bullied the weak and did evil under the name of the Exploding Heavens Faction, they're all here!
Everybody turned toward Xu Que at once, their eyes passionate and agitated.
"You…you are you a sovereign of the Exploding Heavens Faction?"
Xu Que smiled and nodded. "That's right! The rest of us will arrive at the Imperial City soon!"
Buttface stepped out and said pridefully, "Behold the Vice Faction Leader of the Exploding Heavens Faction, all of you…!"
Slap!
Xu Que covered Buttface's mouth before he could finish. However, everyone could hardly contain their excitement; they were quickly filled with euphoria.
"It's the real Exploding Heavens Faction!"
"I remember this dog. It's Xu Que's pet!"
"They are finally showing up!"
"Five years, it's been five whole years!"
Many almost cried in agitation.
Xu Que was bewildered by their reaction. "Fellow cultivators, aren't you guys overreacting? From what I understood, you guys are also guilty of posing as followers of the Exploding Heavens Faction!"
"No! We have never posed as the followers of the Exploding Heavens Faction!" The crowd was suddenly stern. "We have always believed that the Exploding Heavens Faction is the symbol of justice! Although every member is arrogant, lewd, and despicable, they still belonged to the side of justice. That's why we have always tried to persuade the people that those rapists and oppressors were imposters of the Exploding Heavens Faction. However, we were caught off-guard by violent resistance. Therefore, we decided to band together to fend off all our enemies!"
"What are you saying? Every man of the Exploding Heavens Faction is innocent, kind, and pure-hearted. When have we ever been arrogant, lewd, or despicable? Outsiders simply misunderstand us. However, you guys have done well to defend the justice of the Exploding Heavens Faction. All of you have made great sacrifices to uphold our justice!"
The cultivators quickly stopped him. "Please don't say that, fellow cultivator Zhong Kui! It's just that we can't stand those scums who cause trouble while posing as the Exploding Heavens Faction!"
"Very good. As the Exploding Heavens Faction's harbinger of justice, I announce that from now on, you guys are now great men of the Exploding Heavens Faction! Tell me, who are the ones who hurt you? I, Zhong Kui, will seek redress on your behalf!"
Everyone could hardly believe their ears.
"So we are now part of the Exploding Heavens Faction, just like that?"
"Ha, ha, we're finally part of the Exploding Heavens Faction!"
"Five years! We have waited for five whole years, to think that my dream would come true!"
"The sacrifices we made over these five years have been worth it!"
"Yeah! I broke out of jail from the Metal Nation to realize my dream to join the Exploding Heavens Faction!"
"Ha! How can you compare? I have lost my wife and son, for the sake of upholding the justice of the Exploding Heavens Faction!"
"Hmph, the things you guys just said were insignificant! Joining the Exploding Heavens Faction has been my dream since I was a young kid!"
Many of them started to talk louder and louder, over each other, listing the hardships and grueling times they had suffered all this while. The more they boasted, the more shameless they became.
The reason for this behavior was merely due to that one sentence by Xu Que, which helped them find a place to belong – the Exploding Heavens Faction!
"Gentlemen, since you are now a part of the Exploding Heavens Faction, these slogans…" Xu Que murmured as he pointed at the slogans littered all over the mountains.
The gang of cultivators immediately assured him, "Fellow cultivator Zhong Kui, don't worry! We will plant these slogans all over the whole world!"
"Yes, that's right! We will plant them everywhere we go. Soon, the whole world will know our name!"
"That will be our new dream!"
"Li Bai from the Exploding Heavens Faction once said that a man is no different from a salted fish if he has no dreams! That's why this dream shall be my new ambition from now on!"
The cultivators chattered excitedly, their tone determined and staunch. Their words moved Xu Que. These are all talents, talents! He must absorb them into the faction!
He nodded right away. "Indeed, indeed! With your potential, you quickly understood my intentions and could even expand on the idea. All of you are surely talents who were born to be in the Exploding Heavens Faction! From today onward, you guys shall be the marketing department of the Exploding Heavens Faction!
"Remember, when you're planting the slogans, do it deftly and in a suave post! You must demonstrate how arrogant, lewd, or despicable…pooh no, our naivete, kind-heartedness, and lively cuteness!"
"Yes!" The group answered at once.
Xu Que generously pulled out a pile of medicinal pills and forcefully healed the wounded, helping the injured cultivators to recover quickly. Then, the whole gang followed him and Buttface as they charged onward to other territories.
The third territory on the map was similar to the first. It was made up of different manors and looked pretty well-off. However, this territory had beefier security. Before Xu Que and his men could approach, the guards had already discovered them.
"Freeze! Who are you, how dare you barge into the branch of the Exploding Heavens Faction!" With a yell, a dozen guards spilled out from all directions. They ignored Xu Que and fixed their gazes on the group behind him. They sneered once they saw who they were.
"It's the good-for-nothings-with-a-death-wish again!"
"Looks like yesterday's lesson wasn't harsh enough? I see that you've come for round two!"
"To dare offend us, the Exploding Heavens Faction. Your only plight is to die!" The guards laughed coldly. As the manor was brightly lit, many people came out to see the commotion. A tightly packed group of people soon surrounded Xu Que and his followers.
"Yo, you've got quite the group!" Xu Que snorted plainly.
However, the cultivators behind him began to hesitate. After all, there were simply too many people in this territory. Furthermore, they are in an excellent position to summon backups swiftly and efficiently. It would be a fierce battle!
���Fellow cultivator Zhong Kui, why don't we retreat for the time being? There will be no escape for them once the other sovereigns of the faction arrive!" Someone whispered a suggestion to Xu Que.
Xu Que frowned instantly and turned to that person. "That's not the right mindset! As a member of the Exploding Heavens Faction, it would be best if you did not fear any trouble. If people knew that you were frightened by this small group of people, you'd be a laughingstock!"
Everyone's mouths twitched at his words.
A small group of people?
Crap, bro, we have a total strength of less than 100, while our opponents count in the thousands! How is that 'a small group of people'?
…
The good thing is that no one ran away after he finished his speech. As cultivators who had fought with these imposters many times up until now, they were definitely not cowards! The people outside the manor, however, looked on leisurely with cruel smiles on their faces.
Xu Que turned around, relaxed and nonchalant. He looked at the cultivators and said, "Remember, the motto of the Exploding Heavens Faction is…Be unfazed by life and death; If they say no, beat them up till they say yes!"
As his words fell on the crowd, he whipped out the steel chain in his hands!
Boom!
A gush of powerful cold fire ignited the whole chain and swept it forward! This time, Xu Que did not suppress his strength. He executed this move with the full prowess of a Void Training Stage cultivator!
Boom!
In an instant, the bleak white fire on the steel chain descended like the giant moon. It engulfed the few thousand of cultivators outside the manor. A split-second was all it took. Before they could react, the few thousand cultivators were frozen into human ice pillars. Then, the steel chain crashed down with unimaginable power, shattering all of the human ice pillars into smithereens, drifting into the wind!
It was only one move!
It was only one split-second!
Out of the few thousand outside the manor, not a soul had survived Xu Que's attack.
The group of cultivators behind Xu Que stood rooted to the ground, eyes stunned and mouths agape.
At the same time, Xu Que had already collected his steel chain and said calmly, "The next territory."
Tsss!
The crowd finally broke out of their daze and inhaled sharply, their hearts fearful. They had expected nothing less from the Exploding Heavens Faction sovereign! This prowess, this composure! He is matchless!
"Fellow cultivator Zhong Kui, the next territory has…." Suddenly, someone spoke up, sounding like he had recalled something.
However, Xu Que cut him off before he could finish.
"Remember two points. When we, the Exploding Heavens Faction, fight, we would never need to know how many we are up against or what cultivation stages they are at. The only things we need to know are the time and the place!"
The whole area fell utterly silent for a moment.
Everyone was shaken by what he had said. They could not move an inch and stared silly at the back of Xu Que, who seemed to glow mysteriously with that steel chain under the moonlight.
…
At the same time, the System notification had already sounded in Xu Que's head.
Ding! "Congratulations to the Host Xu Que for successfully acting tough! You have been rewarded with 2,400 Acting Tough Points!"
Ding! "Congratulations to the Host Xu Que for successfully acting tough! You have been rewarded with 3,200 Acting Tough Points!"
Ding! "Congratulations to the Host Xu Que for successfully acting a Cold-hearted tough! You have received a special reward of 5,000 Acting Tough Points!"
Ding! "Congratulations to the Host Xu Que for obtaining a new achievement 'Acted a Cold-hearted Tough!', you have officially leveled up to 'Act-Tough Saint'. All items in the System store will be available at a 20% discount!"
Ding! "Host Xu Que, please note that you have a new parcel ready to be received!"
Chapter 786: The SIM Card Is Here!
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Mail?
Xu Que was startled by the system prompt. Then, joy shone in his eyes! He immediately called up the System. There was a massive package on the interface, which read:
Sender: Ye Qiu
Recipient: Xu Que
"My SIM card! Is it finally here?"
A smile graced Xu Que's lips as he moved the parcel into the System's Deposit Storage with his mind. Subsequently, he led the team forward as he continued his anti-counterfeiting campaign. The only difference was that this time Xu Que quickened the pace of his crackdown.
Outside the city, in the fourth territory, Xu Que stated, "Fellow cultivator Zhong Kui, this territory is one of the most rampant abusers! They have robbed many villages and even sold their children!"
Boom!
Without further words, Xu Que lifted his wrists and flung the chain. The territory was instantly destroyed!
…
In the fifth territory, once again Xu Que stated, "Fellow cultivator Zhong Kui, the cultivators here are also abominable! They dubbed themselves the Heavenly Fuck Faction, while doing shady stuff. They even claimed that Xu Que was the one who told them to call themselves the Heavenly Fuck Faction!"
"What! Copycats? Destroy them!"
Xu Que glared and threw the chains again. The whole manor was destroyed on the spot.
…
That night, Xu Que destroyed many forces that were imposters of the Exploding Heavens Faction. When they returned to the Imperial City the next day at dawn, the whole city was turned upside down by his actions and shocked speechless.
"Damn!"
"Zhong Kui alone has wiped out so many forces in just a single day and night?"
"He's terrifying!"
"Exactly! The Exploding Heavens Faction is a force to be reckoned with!"
"Hey, who in their right mind would offend the Exploding Heavens Faction? Only fools would be so suicidal, running around pretending to be the Exploding Heavens Faction!"
"Yeah! The Exploding Heavens Faction is so prestigious that every one of them is a sovereign. They are not people who lowlives can impersonate!"
"Now that the real Exploding Heavens Faction has come out and cleaned up those fake gangsters, we can finally have some peace in the Imperial City!"
"Yes! Thanks to the real Exploding Heavens Faction!"
Many people applauded them heartily. In less than half a day, however, the situation changed again.
"Plant them, plant them all!"
"Plant them HARD!"
Leading dozens of cultivators to the many barren hills outside the city, Xu Que commanded them to plant all kinds of slogans all across the mountains.
"The Exploding Heavens Faction is invincible!"
The Exploding Heavens Faction is mighty!"
"Zhong Kui of the Exploding Heavens Faction was here!��
"Joker of the Exploding Heavens Faction was here!"
"If the Exploding Heavens Faction goes to war, not a blade of grass will grow!"
"When the Exploding Heavens Faction appears; all they leave behind is a thread and a single needle!"
…
Countless slogans flutter in the wind on the mountains like bullet comments on a video. They are quite a sight to behold. They seemed to spread toward the Imperial City slowly.
All of a sudden, the people in the Imperial City are dumbfounded.
"What the heck?"
"This…what kind of atrocity is this?"
"I feel faint! To think that after the fake Exploding Heavens Faction had finally gone away, the real Exploding Heavens Faction stayed, and they are just as frustrating!"
"Fool! The fake Exploding Heavens Factions were murderous, but the real Exploding Heavens Faction is just annoying!"
"You're right. After all, they are just a lustful and mischievous faction, completely different from all those whores outside!"
…
Eventually, the guards in the Imperial City turned a blind eye to their ways. Xu Que's promotion department of the Exploding Heavens Faction had inserted slogans everywhere. Meanwhile, Xu Que and Buttface had returned to the Imperial City. Just when they had entered an inn to settle down, a palace guard came to see them. It turned out that Madam Ya wanted to see him.
Xu Que smiled. Madam Ya had most likely wanted to hear some news about Xu Que. He waved his hand and replied to the guard, "Return and inform Madam Ya that Xu Que will be there tonight!"
"Yes sir!" The guard responded quickly and left.
Xu Que then entered the chamber with Buttface. Buttface immediately occupied the bed and posed seductively, saying, "Yours truly is tired! Little Que, get me some food!"
Slam!
Xu Que threw the hook at him, and it made a muffled sound as it hit Buttface. One hit was all it took to deform the hook utterly. Buttface blanked out for a moment, then immediately rolled on the bed, wailing painfully, "I'm hurt! I'm very much injured and am dying!
"Cut the act and get out of here! Alternatively, I'll make you watch me eat tonight as you go dinner-less!" Xu Que glared at Buttface.
He had long known that Buttface's physical body was invincible. Nothing could hurt him, but he pretended to be injured and wail every single time. Isn't he just asking for a beating then?
"What, we're eating good stuff tonight? What are we eating? What are we eating?" Buttface's eyes lit up upon hearing that there was food, his face was full of excitement.
"Meat stew! Braised meat too!" Xu Que responded coolly.
"Wow, that's good. I like it. By the way, what kind of meat is it?"
"Dog meat!"
"Screw you!"
…
After a few exchanges with Buttface, Xu Que successfully drove him off the bed. Then he lay down on it and quickly called up the System interface.
In the Deposit Storage, the package that was delivered is lying quietly.
"System, open the parcel!" Xu Que's heartbeat quickened.
Swish!
Several beams of light flashed across the interface of the Deposit Storage.
Ding! "A new item 'mobile SIM card' is found."
Ding! "A new item '200 Mutant Counterfeit Cigarettes' is found!"
Damn!
Fake cigarettes? Moreover, they are mutant?
Xu Que's eyes opened wide with surprise, and he sat up from the bed. He then read the detailed introduction of the two items:
[Mobile SIM Card]
Mobile SIM card from Earth, a necessary smart card for your GSM digital cell phone!
[Mutant Counterfeit Cigarettes]
Fake cigarettes from Earth; had become mutant after being polluted by unknown sources on their journey.
Effect: "Mutant Counterfeit Cigarettes Grant You Endless Power!" When the host smokes cigarettes when acting tough, he will be rewarded with double Acting Tough Points.
Side effects: Smoking is harmful to your health.
…
"Crap!"
Xu Que cursed under his breath after reading the introduction. Don't tell him that these cigarettes were just ordinary counterfeit cigarettes that had mutated on their travels from Earth.
"Damn, this Ye Qiu must be a fool. Not only did he buy fake cigarettes, but he also bought 200 of them. With his IQ, it will be difficult for him to inherit my name of the Act Tough King!" Xu Que shook his head in disappointment.
However, he was kind of glad. This fake mutant cigarette was almost too good to be true! With the double reward, the day that he could return to Earth would not be far off! However, the only thing that excited him right now was the SIM card.
"System, quick! Retrieve my cell phone and the SIM card. Oh yeah, and please retrieve the Signal Boosters too!" Xu Que called the System and took everything out. He then picked up the SIM card and inserted it into the cell phone. Finally, he set up the four Signal Boosters.
Beep beep…
With the crisp sound of the phone booting up, the screen lit up. It was a familiar feeling that Xu Que had not experienced for a long time.
Buttface, who was next to him, heard the noise and came over immediately. Eyes wide with curiosity, he asked, "What's this, boy? Can you eat it? It's so small that it doesn't look very filling?"
"It's called a cell phone!" Xu Que was in such a good mood that he skipped the usual scolding. He looked at his phone pleasantly as he waited for it to turn on.
Buttface's eyes were bright and excited: "Cell phone?"
Xu Que laughed, his eyes falling on the screen of his cell phone. At this moment, the phone had successfully and completely booted up!
…
Chapter 787: Download Is Completed Successfully!
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
The familiar screen, interface, and apps were back!
Xu Que's heart was trembling. He had thought he wouldn't have the chance to go back to Earth and use anything related to Earth. He thought he would have to spend his whole life in this vast World of cultivators.
However, the powerful System had established a bridge between this world and Earth for him.
This is not easy!
This is really not easy!
Xu Que's heart was full of all kinds of feelings. But when he saw the signal intensity of the cell phone, he almost smashed it because he was so angry.
There is no signal!
How could this be?
Holy crap!
This is so annoying!
I got this SIM card by fighting through all kinds of hardships and difficulties, but there is no signal!
"Damn! System, you'd better give me an explanation why these Signal Boosters are not functioning!" Xu Que shouted at the System immediately.
The System replied calmly, Ding! "The System suggests that the Host change the position of the Signal Boosters. Please choose a higher place in an open area or add more Signal Boosters!"
More Signal Boosters?
This is impossible!
The Signal Booster was a prop of the System, which was not for sale like the Red Rope of Marriage, and could only be obtained by opening the gift bags. But now Xu Que didn't have any more gift bags. So, it was impossible for him to get more Signal Boosters!
"OK, let me change the position!" Xu Que regained some hope. He thought about it for a while by rolling his eyes, then he jumped out of the window with four Signal Boosters in his hands and dashed toward the rooftop of the hotel directly.
"Holy crap! Little brat, what are you going to do? Wait for me!" Buttface also jumped out, following Xu Que after seeing his actions.
Xu Que placed the Signal Boosters on the rooftop of the hotel. These Signal Boosters were like antennas, which could be adjusted easily. At the same time, he fixed his eyes on the screen of the cell phone. However, there was still no signal for the phone.
It was just like a basin of cold water pouring down on his head.
"Little brat, what are these?" Buttface walked up and stepped on one of the Signal Boosters.
"My God! Buttface, don't…" Xu Que shouted immediately.
Ding!
Before he had finished his sentence, a warning tone came from the cell phone. Xu Que was surprised and couldn't believe what he had heard. "Is…this the warning tone of short messages?" He turned to the cell phone's screen again. As expected, several short messages from the service provider popped up in the phone to indicate his number had been put into service successfully.
Then, he found the No Signal message had disappeared. Now the signal was struggling between one bar and two bars. Although the signal was still quite bad, he had managed to receive signals from Earth!
"Ah-hah-hah-hah, I made it! I made it at last! Feifei! Right, let me call her now!" Xu Que was so excited and couldn't wait to call his younger sister. However, when he opened his contact list, he found he didn't have phone numbers for anyone. He even had forgotten his younger sister's phone number!
"Oh, no! This is really terrible!" Xu Que was despondent immediately.
"What's going on?" Buttface walked up to him curiously. Then, he tried to comfort Xu Que. "It's OK, little brat, you will figure it out!"
Xu Que was annoyed and about to punish Buttface. However, when Buttface came over, his cell phone lost its signal instantly.
"What?"
Xu Que was surprised. Then he said, pointing at Buttface, "Buttface, don't come over, step back!"
"What?" Buttface was confused.
"Cut the crap, just go back to the place where you stood just now."
"Why? I am not your servant…. Ouch! OK, OK, I will step back immediately!"
"OK, now remove your foot from that item and come over.… OK, now you go back and step on it again! Damn! As expected, Buttface, you have a Signal Booster in your body, right?"
"What? Signal Booster? I don't know what you are talking about!" Buttface shook his head in puzzlement.
Xu Que said nothing but put Buttface back in his original position.
"Buttface, don't move. I am going to download something!" Xu Que said as he activated the 4G network of the cell phone to download applications from the Internet.
Since I can't contact my friends through my phone, I could contact them through the powerful Internet!
Xu Que remembered that he had registered his WeChat account with his QQ number before he was killed in the car accident. A lot of his classmates and teachers were added to his WeChat, including his younger sister – Xu Feifei! Therefore, he planned to download WeChat to contact them.
However, the download speed was really pathetic under such a miserable signal intensity. After a long time, the webpage had not opened and was still buffering. But Xu Que had sufficient patience for this! He stood on the rooftop quietly waiting for the opening of the webpage.
Buttface became impatient. When he tried to run away, he found he couldn't move.
"Holy crap! Little brat, what did you do to me? Let me go!" Buttface shouted immediately.
"Don't move. Just stay there to act as the Signal Booster!" Xu Que replied, without raising his head!
Buttface was shocked. Then he cried, "Little brat, let me go! You are a pervert! What are you going to do?"
Xu Que ignored his scream and focused his attention on his cell phone. At last, their hard work paid off. The webpage was opened. Xu Que started to download WeChat immediately. The download was very slow. After a long time, the progress bar had just reached 0.1%.
"This won't do! I have to spend such a long time downloading WeChat. I can't allow this!" Xu Que rolled his eyes. The next moment, an idea occurred to him. He activated the System interface immediately. After a short while searching, he managed to find How to Make a Simple Signal Booster among a lot of books.
"Hah-hah-hah, this is the help from the Heavens!" Xu Que laughed loudly. Then, he started to make a simple Signal Booster with many cans according to the book. Four hours later, he managed to cut 20 cans and placed all of them on Buttface's head. He ignored Buttface's screams. When he saw the cell phone's screen, a faint smile appeared on his face!
Download progress:
1.2%…
2.2%…
2.8%…
3.1%…
…
When evening fell, a warning tone came from the cell phone!
Ding!
Xu Que let out a sigh of relief and couldn't suppress the wild joy in his heart.
Finally, the download is completed successfully!
Chapter 788: I will Surprise You by Updating My WeChat Moments!
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
That night
The sky above the brilliantly lighted Imperial City was full of stars. People were hurrying back and forth in the city. Cries of traders could be heard from afar.
Xu Que stood on the rooftop of the hotel in wild joy. His eyes were fixed on the fluorescent cellphone screen.
He had used his QQ account for over 10 years, so he could remember his QQ number clearly. He logged on his WeChat account with his QQ account successfully. Then, a dialog box popped up to tell him that he could use the WeChat after binding his cellphone number to the WeChat account.
"I didn't expect I have to do this in this world!"
Xu Que exclaimed in his heart but still finished the binding operation. Then, he logged on his long-lost WeChat account successfully.
Ding!
Ding!
Ding!
A lot of message tone came in, which meant many people left messages to him.
Xu Que was surprised a bit for these messages were sent to him after his car accident.
It was a pity that his life in that world was ended before he had time to read those messages.
He would never have imagined he could log on his WeChat account again.
He flipped the screen slowly with his finger to check the head portraits, names and those old messages. Tears welled up in his eyes.
It's been a long time, my younger sister!
Long time no see, my friends!
Most messages were left by Xu Feifei. Xu Que clicked the dialog box to read the messages from the first one.
"Brother, where are you? Why didn't you answer my call?"
"Brother, I'm OK. Please call me back when you read this message. Don't trust anyone else!"
"Brother, don't scare me. Please contact me, OK?"
"Please take care!"
…
Xu Feifei sent the next message after 2 months.
"Brother, please be assured that I will revenge for you!"
"I would never let them go!"
"I am going to make that woman pay for this!"
…
"Sorry, brother, I failed. I wronged that woman who saved my life just now!"
"But I won't give up! I will make them pay dearly sooner or later!"
"Brother, it's time for me to go. When I come back, I will make them pay!"
From here, there was no more messages from Xu Feifei.
Xu Que was depressed by this message, which was sent in the 3rd year after his car accident.
But now his cellphone couldn't tell him the current time of the Earth. The cellphone didn't update its time because of the network slowdown or relocation failure.
Xu Que was quite nervous and worried something bad might have happened to his younger sister.
Click-click!
Then, he started to send message to Xu Feifei by tapping the screen rapidly, "Feifei, I am still alive! Don't revenge for me. I will go back to you. Just wait for me!"
However, this message was always in the status of "sending".
Xu Que knew it was cause by the poor network connection, so he started to check messages sent by other people.
Most of those messages were sent by his high school classmates or roommates in university.
But he didn't find any message from his beautiful ex-girlfriend!
"When I go back, I will punish all those who used to set me up, including you!" Xu Que's squinted eyes were full of killing intent.
Buttface, who was standing beside Xu Que, was terrified, "Holy shit! Little brat, what are you going to do? You look so ferocious now. Are you going to kill me? Please don't do that, brother Que, I was wrong! Just don't kill me! I am an Ancient Mythical Beast, you can't kill me!"
"OK, OK, I won't kill you! Stop your scream!" Xu Que replied embarrassedly.
"Really?" Buttface was stunned. Then, he let out a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "I know that! How dare you kill a mighty Ancient Beast like me! It will only be a joke…Ouch! Damn! You attacked me sneakily again!"
Xu Que rolled his eyes and didn't want to waste his time on Buttface.
At this time, he got a "Failed to send�� for the message to Xu Feifei in the cellphone.
It was caused by the poor network connection. Xu Que had to press the "Resend".
When the sun rose in the morning, Xu Que jumped up on the rooftop suddenly and shouted, "Yes! Nice!"
He had resent that message for the whole night. And it was sent successfully at last!
Xu Que was so excited that his eyes were lit up and smile appeared in his face!
"It is the time to let everyone know I am back!"
He lowered his head to prepare a message, which he would send it to all members in his WeChat contact list.
When he was about to press the button, he stopped.
"It seems…it is inappropriate to send this to all of them. After all, I am a dead person for them. If I send this message to them, some of them might be frightened to death!" he touched his jaw as he considered this.
Soon, an idea occurred to him as he fixed his eyes on the "WeChat Moments".
"Yes!"
Smile appeared on Xu Que's face immediately. Then, he purchased a human-skinned mask from the System and designed it according to his appearance on the Earth. After that, he put the mask on his face directly!
"Buttface, let's take a picture together!"
He switched on the cellphone's front camera fluently as he stood beside Buttface. Then, he raised the cellphone at an angle of 45 degree.
"What? What are you doing? Take a what?" Buttface was confused.
However, when he saw his face in the screen of the cellphone which was held in Xu Que's hand, he was shocked immediately.
Snap!
Almost at the same time, Xu Que pressed the shutter.
The classic group photo of "Xu Que and A Dog" was taken in this way.
In the photo, Xu Que was wearing an ancient long gown. His long hair was bound in a knot. Shiny smile appeared in his handsome face.
Beside him, there was a Husky-like dog who was greatly shocked!
Behind them, an Imperial City in the morning light could be seen.
A man and a dog coexisted harmoniously in the photo!
"Holy shit! Little brat, you are awesome! This is definitely a miraculous artifact! Come on, give it to me and I want to bite it!" Buttface was so surprised and his eyes were full of excitement.
If he were not confined by Xu Que, he would have rushed towards Xu Que crazily at this moment.
Xu Que ignored Buttface directly. He opened his WeChat Moments and chose the picture he had just taken. Then, he added some words to it, "At the very beginning, there are only 1 person and 1 dog. You have to rob all your gears in this game!"
"Heh-heh, let me surprise all of you by updating my WeChat Moments!" Xu Que smiled as he pressed the "Send" button expectantly.
After that, he sat down on the rooftop and started his waiting.
Network traffic for sharing a picture in WeChat Moments was definitely more, but now Xu Que had abundant time and patience!
He tried to see the surprised reaction of his friends after receiving his update. He was also looking forward to the reply of Xu Feifei!
Come on!
Xu Que shouted in his heart eagerly.
…
Chapter 789: We Have Seen A Ghost!
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
One day passed. Xu Que still sat on the rooftop of the hotel, his eyes fixed on the cell phone's screen. He hadn't gotten any reply from Xu Feifei and his update of the WeChat Moments was still sending! Soon, evening fell again!
Xu Que tried to send messages to other friends during this period. But all his efforts were in vain. "This crappy connection speed is sheer torture!" Xu Que was becoming impatient. His patience could only last for one day and one night!
"Fine! Buttface, I have an important task for you. You should continue to stay here to act as the Signal Booster. I will be back soon!" Xu Que said as he put the cell phone beside Buttface and was about to leave. After all, he should have gone to meet Madam Ya last night. Now, one whole day had passed. If he didn't go to see her, Madam Ya would worry about him. Therefore, he should at least show up to let people in the Imperial Palace know that he was ok so they could feel relieved.
Seeing that Xu Que was preparing to leave, Buttface shouted angrily, "Screw you, little brat, don't go! Let me go, or I will crush your stupid cell phone underfoot later!"
"What? Right! Thanks for reminding me!"
Xu Que stopped abruptly and used several magic arts with a smile.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Along with a dazzling light display, the restriction magic art on Buttface's body was strengthened dozens of times!
"Damn!" Buttface's eyes widened in embarrassment.
At the same time, Xu Que took out a Spiritual Level Spell and set it up on the rooftop to prevent anyone from approaching.
After finishing all of this, Xu Que left confidently. He cancelled his disguise and dashed toward the Imperial Palace, leaving Buttface howling on the rooftop alone.
"Crap!"
"Crap! Crap! Crap!"
Howl! "Little brat, don't go!"
"Let me go!"
"You are a beast!"
Woof! Howl! Growl!
…
However, it was quite coincidental that his update of the WeChat Moments was sent successfully just as he turned around and was about to leave. It was more coincidental that it was a special day on Earth.
For numerous people, it was just an ordinary day. But for Xu Que's friends, that day was Xu Que's death anniversary! After his death in a car accident, his friends planned to make arrangements for his funeral by pooling money together, but their plan was refused by his younger sister. She managed to scrape together a large sum of money and organized a decent funeral for him. His tomb was located in the graveyard.
Now, this day was his death anniversary again. Only three young people in suits appeared in front of Xu Que's tomb.
"Six years passed in a blink of an eye!"
"Right! It's been three years since our graduation from college!"
"Alas! This is his sixth death anniversary. I didn't expect that only the three of us would come for his memorial."
"It's OK. Now that all of us have to work, it is quite normal for us to be busy!"
"Li Ruolin is really ruthless! She used to be his girlfriend, and she has never come here!"
"Humph! If she hadn't broken up with him, he wouldn't have been killed in the accident!"
When one of them said this, all of them went silent! Apparently, these young men were Xu Que's roommates in college: Zeng Darong, Su Xiaoliang, and Wang Jin!
"Do you really think it was an accident? I don't believe it!" Su Xiaoliang shook his head and said seriously.
Wang Jin sighed, "So what? Could you find any evidence? Six years have passed. We should let it go!"
"What about Feifei? In order to avenge her elder brother, she dropped out of the university and went abroad alone. Till now, we haven't heard from her at all!"
"The world is so big! It is extremely difficult to find her!"
"I just hope she's safe; otherwise,think how guilty we'll feel in front of him in the future!"
After saying all that, the three of them went silent again.
Ding!
A warning tone came from Su Xiaoliang's cell phone at this time.
"Alas, I guess it's something related to company business again!" he sighed languidly as he took out his cell phone and clicked on the icon of WeChat. However, it was a message sent by his girlfriend, who asked him to hit the like button for her WeChat Moments update, so that she could get some rewards.
Su Xiaoliang couldn't help but smile embarrassedly. He shook his head and clicked his WeChat Moments.
The next moment, Su Xiaoliang was stunned on the spot. Then, his expression changed and his pupils contracted dramatically.
"How…could this be? Look…look at…" He was so nervous that he even started to stumble over words as he shouted at his friends in great shock.
Zeng Darong and Wang Jin were shocked by his reaction. Then, they said embarrassedly, "It seems you've seen a ghost! What did you see?"
He turned and passed his phone, and they fixed their eyes on Su Xiaoliang's cell phone. The next moment, the two of them were also stunned!
"Holy crap! Why…why do this man and Xu Que look so alike? No, this one is more handsome! I guess he used the retouch function!"
"Why did this guy have a group photo with a Husky by wearing the ancient costume? Is he an actor of a costume drama? This is so weird that he looks really like Xu Que!" The two of them were quite surprised by the picture shown on the cell phone's screen.
Su Xiaoliang couldn't help but shout loudly, "Are you stupid? Look who sent this WeChat Moments update!"
The next moment, Zeng Darong and Wang Jin's expressions were frozen instantly.
"Holy crap! This is Xu Que's WeChat account!"
"My God! We have seen a ghost!"
…
At the same time, in the void which was extremely far away from Earth, in the Fire Nation's Imperial Palace in the Five Elements Mountain of the World of Cultivators, Xu Que had cancelled the disguise effect. Now he was dashing toward the Imperial Palace quietly in the night. He had reached the Void Training Stage. Nobody could sense his movement when he entered the Imperial Palace. Also,he had set up the spells in the palace.Therefore, it was quite easy for him to enter the palace, almost as if he entered his own house.
On the rooftop of the palace, Xu Que released his Soul Strength. After a short while, he sensed several familiar auras. He could sense Madam Ya, Su Ling'er, Su Xiao Qi, and Su Yunlan, the Sect Leader of the Great Change Sect who had also moved into the Imperial Palace of the Fire Nation!
Gasp! "I'm afraid one bed is not big enough for the five of us!" Xu Que murmured in a low voice as a shameless image appeared in his mind. Then, he jumped down and walked toward the bedchamber of Madam Ya, which was closest to him. At this time, Madam Ya was lying gracefully on her side in her bed, reading a book. However, after a short while, she put down the book as if she had lost interest in it. Then, she fixed her eyes on the starry sky outside the window.
A moment later, she sighed in a low voice, "I've been missing you day and night, but you are always not here! I've read your poems for several years! Xu Que, when will you come back to me.…"
Thump! Thump!
At this time, some footsteps could be heard outside the door. After that, an Imperial Guard shouted from outside, resting one knee on the floor, "Madam, Yang Qianyun of the Exploding Heavens Faction begs for an audience!"
"Oh? It's Lord Yang? Just ask him to come in!" Madam Ya put on her clothes and robe and stepped toward the door of her bedchamber. After a short while, the Imperial Guard came in with a young man. The young man was quite nervous and kept looking around vigilantly.
Madam Ya asked immediately, "Lord Yang, have you got any news about Xu Que?"
The young man replied hurriedly, "Madam Ya, bad news! I've got a message from our Exploding Heavens Faction just now. Xu Que was ambushed on his way here and nobody knows whether he is dead or alive! He asked someone to send a message, which said he wants to see you!"
"What?" Madam Ya turned pale after hearing that. Her mind went blank immediately.
The young man said anxiously, "Madam Ya, time is pressing. Please come with me immediately to save Xu Que; otherwise, he might be endangered!"
"OK, let's go.…" Madam Ya was very anxious and about to agree. Before she finished her words, she felt something was wrong. Almost at the same time, a sneer came from outside the bedchamber.
"Heh! I heard someone said I was ambushed and nobody knows whether I am dead or alive! Come on, tell me why nobody knows whether I am dead or alive!"
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