After bidding farewell to everyone in Qin City, Li Yunxian arrived at the Wenwu Academy without any unexpected incidents.
The environment inside Tiantong was filled with lush, verdant trees, while Wenwu Academy had more of a garden-like setting, complete with pavilions, terraces, and towers, giving it a distinctly poetic atmosphere.
Li Yunxian walked through the Wenwu Academy, sensing the situation of the surrounding students.
Everyone was moving leisurely, chatting in pairs or small groups, mostly discussing philosophy or the Dao.
The area with the most people at Tiantong was the arena, but here in Wenwu, the crowds were sparse, seeming only to gather there when someone was about to step onto the stage.
Truly, each academy had its own unique atmosphere.
Li Yunxian was led all the way to a villa district.
But it wasn’t the Qingteng Villas of Wenwu Academy—this was the area reserved for professors.
“This is guest lodging. When professors from different academies come for exchanges, they’re arranged to stay here. Professor Li hasn’t arrived yet, so you can stay here for now; it’s better than the exchange students’ dormitory,” Qi Ke explained.
A small convenience, but Wenwu Academy was generous in this regard.
Feeling the abundant spiritual energy around her, Li Yunxian smiled brightly and expressed her gratitude.
Here, she didn’t even need a spirit-gathering array.
For Li Yunxian, there really was nothing to complain about.
After seeing Qi Ke off, Li Yunxian sat quietly in her room for a while, consolidating her cultivation at the Seventh Layer of Qi Refinement.
The small section of meridians and acupoints she had opened after the Sixth Layer was purely due to breaking through with pills.
Although she didn’t experience instability in her realm, the related meridians and acupoints still needed careful clearing.
Only when the meridians and acupoints cultivated and stored spiritual energy smoothly and warmly could one have the best foundation for immortality cultivation.
Once her body had fully recovered, Li Yunxian exited her cultivation state.
She glanced out the window at the calm and simple Wenwu Academy, feeling as if she had forgotten something.
After a brief moment of thought, she remembered she hadn’t logged into “All Things” for a long time.
Right now, she was well supplied; her teacher at home, knowing she was coming to Wenwu, hadn’t assigned her any homework.
Even the tasks involving capturing and practicing on strange beasts inside “All Things” to maintain her swordsmanship—ensuring the lifeblood of the hunters in reality contributed—were no longer necessary.
It seemed “All Things” no longer held much use for her.
Li Yunxian smiled and touched her bracelet.
But in life, if everything were only about what was useful or useless, it would be far too dull.
Her mind drifted to the chattering Sheng Yu, the lively faces in the trading market, and the excited expressions on everyone’s faces as she led them all the way to Jixin City.
Closing her eyes, Li Yunxian once again appeared inside “All Things.”
Still in Jixin City.
Last time she logged out, she’d learned her lesson and chosen a hidden spot.
After logging in, there was hardly anyone around.
However, Li Yunxian never expected to be offline for such a long time.
In retrospect, it seemed a bit unnecessary.
More than half a month had passed, and the clarification videos everyone promised her should have been sent out by now.
Besides, even without clarifications, after this long, the hype over the strange beast tide would surely have been replaced by newer hot topics.
Thinking this, Li Yunxian felt that not logging in all these days had actually been beneficial.
She glanced at the message notifications, which had already reached over 9999+.
She’d only been offline for half a month—Sheng Yu was terrifying.
Heh.
Li Yunxian had no desire to open and read through all those messages.
Reading them one by one was less appealing than simply teleporting back to Silver Sea City to meet Sheng Yu in person.
After all, the strange beast tide in Silver Sea City was surely long over.
If there was anything important, Sheng Yu would tell her right away.
Even if he were unhappy, it was better to deal with it face to face.
Li Yunxian closed the game panel and calmly stepped out from her hiding spot.
But after just two steps, her expression froze, and she quickly retreated back to the entrance of the street.
What had she just seen?!
Why was the video of their strange beast tide broadcast still playing on the advertisements outside the street shops?
They had actually gone to such lengths to clarify things?
Li Yunxian was shocked.
But that wasn’t even the most confusing part.
What confused her most was the voiceover of the video still drifting to her ears nonstop.
“At the time, I only had 1,000 game coins in my pocket, and in reality, I was barely scraping by. So, with a ‘give it a try’ attitude, I borrowed a piece of paper and wrote a Production and Sales Plan…”
“When people are desperate, they’ll do anything.”
“I was prepared to be ridiculed—none of you know how terrible my plan was.”
“I’ll read it to you now—Step one: borrow two Pengzhang Luosi screws from my neighbor’s second aunt…”
Li Yunxian heard the laughter of the crowd outside.
“Little Boss Li took one look and slammed my plan down on the table, looking utterly miserable.”
The laughter outside grew even louder.
And Li Yunxian took out a sunshade mask from her storage artifact, put it on, and calmly walked out.
She walked right under the advertising screen that looked like a stand-up comedy show.
She had actually met the person inside the screen before.
But she swore she never had such a miserable expression on her face back then!
This was slander!
However, Li Yunxian’s disbelief couldn’t be conveyed through the screen.
On the display, the man was still gesturing animatedly: “My heart was freezing cold then, and that Little Boss Li opened his mouth and said to me…”
“I have a mute guy ahead; his Production and Sales Plan was quite good. He said I could help the mute guy out.”
“I’ll learn the mute guy’s skills in planning, and the mute guy will learn to speak from me.”
Sitting to the side, the refined-looking guy’s brows were tightly knit in restraint: “I’m not mute!!”
The chatterbox slapped his thigh and pointed at the other man: “See, the mute guy has already learned to talk now!”
“So you see, that Little Boss Li is really a miracle worker!”
“The right medicine for the right illness is to choose the Mitatao’s Healing Pill authorized by Little Boss Li. Knife wounds, sword wounds, external injuries—all heal with just one pill, and it only costs 3 game coins…”
Li Yunxian silently watched this nonsense and then turned her gaze to the strange beast tide video she’d noticed earlier.
She then realized this was also an advertisement.
In the video, after a series of battle rotations, when the viewpoint returned slowly to the central resting area, the footage showed her handing over a pill in slow motion, giving the pill an extremely prominent close-up.
No need for many words—Li Yunxian lifted her head slightly and saw the name of the shop, instantly knowing what they sold.
Spirit-nourishing pills.
Just a quick scan showed that for every pill, magical treasure, or talisman she had used in the strange beast tide, there was definitely an advertisement video for it outside those shop doors.
Li Yunxian:
She felt that when she had them release the clarification videos, this was not how she intended them to be used!
Moreover, there were more videos in this street district besides these two types—other random, chaotic ads.
As Li Yunxian walked through, she felt like she hardly recognized her own face anymore.
She was wrong.
She shouldn’t have been so complacent, staying offline for a whole half month.
She should have known that while things were going smoothly for her in reality, there would definitely be a swarm of surprises waiting for her in the game!
With a stiff face, Li Yunxian’s steps, though slow in appearance, moved swiftly to Jixin City’s teleportation zone, where she promptly teleported back to Silver Sea City without delay.
Most of the authorizations she’d given out were for those guys in Silver Sea City!
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