Chapter 227 - The Group Trip to Mount Haruna
“Sir! Are you taking a long trip?!”
Sitting around the tea tables in the lounge, people like Song Qingfeng, Nalan Mingxue, Su Tianji, Lan Mo, and Ye Songtao were eating instant noodles and chatting.
When they heard this question asked by someone, they all looked at Fang Qi, who was walking toward them with a bowl of instant noodles in his hands.
“When will you go? Why do you want to take a long trip?” Xu Zixin looked at Fang Qi curiously. This girl in purple was among the first few players of the shop and was surprised that Fang Qi, the shop owner who stayed in the shop playing games almost every day, would suddenly take a long trip.
“Qi, where are you going?” Wang Tai was also surprised. He knew Fang Qi the longest and had never seen Fang Qi taking long trips. Jingshi was probably the farthest place that he had ever gone to.
“You’re doing fine in the shop. Why do you want to go out?” Nalan Hongwu was baffled.
Fang Qi shrugged and said, “To open a branch. With the business booming, it’s a good time to open a branch.”
“Open a branch?” Ji Yu was excited. “Will you open one in Jingshi?”
“It doesn’t take long for people to travel here from Jingshi,” Fang Qi said, “When you are proficient with the sword control technique, you will travel faster, and it’s not necessary for me to go there and open a branch.”
Ji Yu: “…”
“Sir, you are going on a long trip, but you still don’t want to visit our Cloud Ocean Faction!” Ye Xiaoye complained.
“Let’s see the shop owner off,” Xu Zixin suggested.
“Not necessary.” Fang Qi waved his hand. “I’ll go with the sword control technique.”
“Don’t underestimate us!” Xu Zixin said in displeasure, “I can now fly on a sword too!”
“Me too!” Song Qingfeng said.
“Me too.” Nalan Mingxue was as cool as usual.
“Same here!” Jiang Xiaoyue said smugly.
However, Fang Qi patted her on the head and said, “You stay here and watch after the shop!”
Ignoring the sulky Jiang Xiaoyue, Fang Qi looked at the others and asked, “Are you sure? Won’t you fall from the sky?”
“Impossible!” Xu Zixin rolled her eyes. After finishing her noodles, she walked outside and said, “Watch me!”
She cast a sword spell with her hands and chanted, and a sword soared up into the sky and then came down steadily to her feet.
“It’s nothing.” An Cheng strode out, used the sword spell, and stepped on his sword, flying above the buildings!
As the son of the Castellan, he knew that he would be knocked down by the flying-prohibition array formation of the city if he flew any higher.
Incensed, An Huwei walked out and scolded, “I’ll lock you up for breaking the law intentionally!”
Obviously, no one was allowed to fly inside Jiuhua City.
Fang Qi’s face stiffened when he found that most of them had mastered the sword flight technique and that they were showing off.
With a wave of his hand, Fang Qi opened the door and flew out while stepping on a sword.
“Come and catch up with me if you can!”
“F*ck! Don’t run if you dare!” Song Qingfeng was obviously still clumsy with this technique, and he almost crashed into the wall when he flew out of the shop on a sword!
He stopped the sword before the crash and then turned around to chase after Fang Qi.
“Ms. Nalan! Let’s go!” Lan Yan said excitedly, and they flew out of the door on swords almost at the same time.
Shortly, figures flashed out of the shop on swords. These people were fast, and they instantly flew behind Fang Qi.
In the shop, An Huwei’s expression was very dark.
“Forget it, Brother An! Let them have fun.” With a chuckle, Ouyang Zhen patted An Huwei’s shoulder and comforted him.
In the sky above the streets of Jiuhua, many beams of spiritual light quickly flew pass. The cultivators and warriors on the streets looked up at the swords that were flying across the sky!
“What are those?!”
“They are flying on swords?!”
“It seems to be… the sword control technique?!”
“Sir! Stop!” Song Qingfeng casted another sword spell and instantly sped up. Then, he screamed as he leaned backward and twirled in the sky, not able to stop the fall until he almost hit the ground.
“Slow down!” Lan Yan waved at him.
“Hahaha! Dumb!” Ye Xiaoye controlled her sword steadily while she flew forward.
“Young Master Song! Do you need help?” Lin Shao and Xu Luo flew at a measured pace since they had learned the lesson from Song Qingfeng and didn’t dare to fly too fast.
Meanwhile, Royal Princess Ji Yu, the disciples of Shengjing Academy, and Xiyi Academy stood outside of the shop and watched the dashes of sword light with envy since they could only control the swords but couldn’t fly yet.
At this moment, the sword beneath Fang Qi’s feet split into dozens of sword shadows that resembled the sword under his feet!
The dozens of swords flew back to the outside of the shop, and the big screens for livestreaming were turned on with a voice saying, “This is the only free sword-flying experience in the shop! Anyone who wants to experience it can get on board now!”
Wang Tai hurried out of the shop and stepped onto a sword.
Alarmed, Nalan Hongwu looked at the swords hovering in the air. “The sword shape looks like…”
People like An Huwei looked at each other and wondered, “Broadswords?”
The crystal swords were lofty and elegant while the broadswords were low-profiled and luxurious!
“Ugh…” Wang Tai scratched his head. “It looks like the broadsword that Qi asked me to add sockets on using the reward from one of my requests…”
“It has runes! Four sockets! The runewords seem to mean… Spirit?!”
“Plus two levels to all skills!” Su Tianji gritted her teeth with envy. “No wonder this kid’s sword control technique improved so much! I’ll catch up with this kid and borrow it for our Liuyun Daoist Palace to study!”
“I’ll go as well!” An Huwei flew out on a sword.
“Me too!” Nalan Hongwu flew out directly!
At this moment, the big screens were still broadcasting, “The express to Mount Haruna will be taking off in half a minute. Please get on board now!”
[TL Note: Mount Haruna is famous for Initial D. Haruna appears under the name Akina, and Akina pass, as referred to by the characters, is actually Jomo-Sanzan Panorama Highway according to Google Maps.]
“Where’s Mount Haruna?” The people who wanted to try flying on swords such as Ji Yu, the Second Prince, and the others all stepped onto the swords in bafflement.
“Ahh!” Then, they screamed as the swords traveled at high speed!
The guards and pedestrians at the city gate gaped at the sword shadows that were shooting out of the city and into the blue sky!
Some cultivators who were stepping off a spiritual boat at the Jiuhua Harbor looked up at the sky. “Can people fly like this?”
Some guards at the city gates exclaimed, “So many people are flying on swords… It’s spectacular!”
“How much money have you saved? When we have enough money, we’ll go and learn it too!”
Above the clouds, Fang Qi slowed down intentionally for others to catch up.
Standing on the front of the sword, the air currents fluttered his clothes and hair and blew them back.
Behind him, almost 100 swords drew long silver lines in the blue sky!
Although some were not proficient yet, they were not afraid of the height since they had flown many times in the Legend of the Sword and Fairy.
“Now, here comes the airflare!” The swords suddenly tilted and the people on the sword including Fang Qi were turned upside-down as they drew an arc in the sky!
“F*ck!”
“Ahh!”
“Ahhhhh!”