While Lu Mingyuan and Jing Zhi were flirting, a group of young men and women were busying themselves in an orderly fashion inside an old-fashioned hall, also in Changfeng City.
Their way of working, however, was rather unusual.
Each of them sat beside a desk piled high with sheets of white paper. They did nothing with their hands; they simply sat there.
Every so often, someone would close their eyes and ponder for a moment. The instant they opened them, their fingertips would twitch, and a neat line of writing would appear on the paper by itself.
The content read: "There are beasts A, with six heads and four feet; beasts B, with four heads and two feet; beasts C, with five heads and three feet..."
Before long, the paper was full.
At that point, servants would come forward, gather up all the filled sheets, and deliver them to the desk of a young master in blue robes at the center of the hall.
There, they awaited the next step.
At one moment, the young master in blue robes suddenly smiled. His action left Xiaohuan, the maid standing beside him, completely baffled. One thing was certain, though: his mind was no longer on the questions before him.
As it turned out, this young master in blue robes was Wan Dong—the first person to copy the Chicken-Rabbit Cage Divine Ability, Wan Dongliu.
Wan Dong had been in a foul mood these past few days.
He had finally managed to seize an opportunity and made a fortune from it. But only a few days later, the other party had upgraded the divine ability, raising its technical sophistication.
Still, it wasn't a complete loss. Thanks to his timing, he had at least gotten in near the front, so he could still make a