The Butterfly's Wings Had Already Begun to Flap

The Butterfly's Wings Had Already Begun to Flap

Three hours into the game, angry curses rang out from the reception room on the third floor of the Mittel Yunshuang Branch:

"Beast! You beast! Why didn't I just smear him on the wall back then?!"

After hearing Chao Bafang's account, Master Yao circulated his profound Dou Qi and slapped the table hard enough to crack it.

Of course, Master Yao was a useless cultivator and had no Dou Qi whatsoever.

So while the table cracked, the bones in Master Yao's hand cracked along with it.

Yet as a high-ranking member of the Yunshuang Branch, Master Yao still maintained his composure.

Of course, the furious flush on his face was unavoidable.

Master Yao himself was an old philanderer.

Who would have thought his son would surpass even him?

Master Yao had only gone out for a little fling while his wife was pregnant.

His own son, meanwhile, had raided his own house!

His own son had gotten together with a maidservant!

Yang Shan offered some timely advice:

"Ah, Master Yao, try to look on the bright side."

Yang Shan consoled him, "It's fine, Master Yao. Isn't your wife pregnant again?"

Though the main account had been ruined, at least he had gained experience.

Raising the alt would be easier, and it would have greater potential.

Master Yao truly deserved to be called an old veteran who had weathered countless storms. He quickly composed himself.

"It takes two to tango. It seems that concubine can't be kept."

After all, he was his biological son. What else could he do? Naturally, he chose forgiveness!

Still, Master Yao's son would probably have quite a bit of suffering ahead of him.

Master Yao was indeed an old hand who had spent years fighting his way through the world. He quickly sorted out his emotions.

"Little Friend Yang Shan, about this matter..."

Yang Shan immediately put on a shocked expression.

"No way, Master Yao. With your means, is it really so difficult to obtain a lightning-element blade Dou Technique with a fast activation speed?"

Master Yao had originally intended to ask Yang Shan to keep it secret.

He had not expected Yang Shan to be so tactful and simply skip over the matter! Ding! Master Yao's Favorability +5!

Master Yao stroked his beard and laughed.

"Good, good, good! Thanks to Little Friend Yang, and this Chao... what was your name again?"

Chao Bafang said awkwardly, "Chao Bafang!"

Master Yao said, "Right, Little Friend Bafang. I must thank you as well. This old man is not stingy. I see you are not wearing a storage ring, so I'll give you one. From now on, the Mittel Yunshuang Branch will always welcome you as a guest!"

Through Yang Shan's introduction, Chao Bafang, as the one who had provided Master Yao with an important clue, directly gained ten points of Master Yao's Favorability.

From then on, Chao Bafang, like Yang Shan, gained the qualification to accept quests from the Mittel Yunshuang Branch! Only then did Master Yao turn to Yang Shan and take a sapphire-blue Secret Manual from his storage ring.

"Little Friend Yang, according to the quest terms, this is the Dou Technique you require!"

"Thunder Cleaving Slash"

Grade: Yellow Tier Intermediate (Purple)

Cultivation Requirement: Possess a lightning-element cultivation method and have Dou Qi Intensity exceeding 5 points.

Standard Activation Time: 1 second.

Dou Qi Consumption: 15 points.

Dou Technique Damage: Character Attack + Dou Qi Intensity × 1.8 + 20 fixed damage.

Description: Those blessed with extraordinary talent were rare. When one's potential had been exhausted and one could advance no further in level, honing Dou Techniques became one of the most important ways to increase one's strength.

Thunder Cleaving Slash was the product of a lightning-element Great Fighter spending ten years refining his blade technique.

Attach Dou Qi to the weapon and deliver a direct yet powerful attack to the opponent in an instant!

Yang Shan's eyes lit up when he saw the description! What kind of vision did Yang Shan possess? In his previous life, he had been a Four Star Dou Huang!

He had even possessed Earth Tier Dou Techniques! A mere Yellow Tier Dou Technique should have been utterly insignificant.

Though it bore a Purple Word Seal, the power and Dou Qi consumption of "Thunder Cleaving Slash" could only be considered average.

The key lay in its "Standard Activation Time."

One had to know that a Dou Technique's activation time had an enormous impact in actual combat.

The faster the activation speed, the less likely one was to be disrupted by an opponent.

Based on that one-second activation time alone, "Thunder Cleaving Slash" was absolutely a minor treasure!

Master Yao did not keep the two of them any longer.

He had already hurried home, and he even seemed to have taken off his belt.

Yang Shan and Chao Bafang did not linger at the Yunshuang Branch either.

Along the way, Chao Bafang kept fiddling with the Elite Storage Ring in his hand.

At this stage, this thing was not for sale! Seeing Chao Bafang's pathetic excitement, Yang Shan could not help sinking into thought.

In his previous life, the one gold and three purple quests in Cloud Frost City had been accepted by four Players separately.

Because the gold quest was conspicuous enough, and the contents of all four quests were rather explosive.

Master Yao had even become a sensation on the forums for a time, turning into a joke Players discussed over meals.

Since the Mercenary Guild allowed one to accept at most two quests at once.

Theoretically, it had been impossible to gather all four quests together.

As for Chao Bafang, he had originally been living comfortably like a lord in the Novice Realm.

Yet less than an hour after the server opened, he received the Global Announcement triggered by Yang Shan.

"The elders all said I have the makings of a Great Emperor. Why should I be falling so far behind?"

So Chao Bafang had actively stepped onto the arena back then, shouting that he would defeat every member of his generation in the family.

Then, by refusing the recruitment offers from the two beautiful NPCs, Pang Yan and Chai Wenjing, he had saved a great deal of time and managed to reach the Mercenary Guild.

Only by gathering all four quests could Yang Shan forcibly farm quite a bit more Favorability from Master Yao.

He had even allowed Chao Bafang to gain the qualification to accept quests from the Yunshuang Branch.

Chao Bafang's situation had actually already served as a reminder to Yang Shan.

The various game guides in his memories might not have changed.

But the Global Announcement had come more than half an hour early. The butterfly's wings of this life had already begun to flap!

At the very least, Chao Bafang's early development was certainly different from his previous life! Changes in Players could still be considered understandable, but Nalan Yanran is an NPC. She shouldn't have changed yet. Then why did Nalan Yanran appear so early?

Just then, a day had already passed in the game.

Yang Shan decided to quickly find Nalan Yanran and collect his compensation. Perhaps he could pry some information out of her.

Half an hour later.

Inside a private courtyard at the Floating Cloud Inn.

Ge Ye, a deacon of the Misty Cloud Sect, was accompanying Nalan Yanran in sword practice.

As a minor character from the original story who had escorted Nalan Yanran to the Xiao Family to annul her engagement, Ge Ye was a Seven Star Great Fighter and cultivated a Low Xuan Tier method.

However, Nalan Yanran was personally taught by Yun Yun, the Dou Huang powerhouse and sect leader of the Misty Cloud Sect.

Even Ge Ye had to put considerable effort into handling Nalan Yanran.

After three hundred exchanges, Nalan Yanran finally fell into an absolute disadvantage.

As a Five Star Dou Practitioner, she had held on for so long against a Seven Star Great Fighter.

It had to be said that, setting Xiao Yan aside, Nalan Yanran truly counted as one of the most gifted daughters of heaven among the younger generation of the Jia Ma Empire.

Ge Ye praised her, "Miss, after your battle with the Fire Cloud Leopard, your Wind Piercing Thrust has improved again."

Yet Nalan Yanran could not be happy. "It's still not enough! Uncle Ge, I have to become stronger. Only by killing the Fire Cloud Leopard and completing the trial will I have the face to return and see Master! Over the next few days, I'll have to trouble you to practice with me some more."

Ge Ye sighed.

"Miss, there is no need to be so anxious. With your talent, that Fire Cloud Leopard will sooner or later die beneath your sword!"

Yang Shan, standing outside the courtyard wall, heard their entire conversation clearly!

The Fire Cloud Leopard is part of a trial... Hiss. So that's how it is. Now everything makes sense!