Chapter 626
"Really no one said anything?"
"Really not!"
"Is that why you want to go out? To play?"
"Yeah!"
Zheng Fa noticed the determined look on his little sister's face and nodded slightly.
Zheng Shan's expression brightened.
"No way."
"Brother!"
"I'm not being unfair to you," Zheng Fa said, his tone a bit cold. "Have you thought about it? If something happens to you, if someone captures you, what will I do?"
"What if someone uses you to threaten the Jiu Shan Sect? What will those disciples do?"
"At your age, is all you think about going out to play?"
Looking at Zheng Fa, Zheng Shan's little face froze.
She pouted, unable to say a word.
Zheng Fa shook his head inwardly.
Of course, he wanted to protect Zheng Shan, but with Haori Mountain lurking nearby, if something happened to her, it would be a huge mess.
Not just him, but Uncle Pang and the others wouldn’t agree to let Zheng Shan leave the Jiu Shan realm.
His little sister probably had no other choice but to come to him for help.
Seeing her pitiful expression, Zheng Fa didn’t feel like comforting her.
The siblings remained silent until dinner.
...
"What’s going on with you two?"
At the dinner table, Zheng Mu looked at the awkward Zheng Shan and the silent Zheng Fa, putting down her chopsticks and asking.
Zheng Shan didn’t say anything, just buried her head in her food.
Seeing this, Zheng Fa, noticing his mother’s concern, finally spoke up about what had just happened.
To his surprise, Zheng Mu sighed after hearing it:
"This matter, Shan'er has told me about... She’s not just looking to play."
Zheng Fa was taken aback, glancing at Zheng Shan. "Then what is it for?"
"You’ve been quite busy lately."
"A bit."
"Shan'er hasn’t seen you and misses you a little. She also wants to help you... She didn’t think too much about it."
Zheng Mu looked at her daughter, speaking softly.
"…"
Zheng Fa paused with his chopsticks, turning his head to look at his little sister.
Zheng Shan slowly chewed her food, not saying a word.
"For the past six months, as soon as she got back from school, she’s been practicing harder than before, thinking that after she builds her foundation, she can help you more."
"This child hasn’t grown up yet... She secretly told me," Zheng Mu chuckled softly, "that she could help the Jiu Shan Sect with tasks, so you could come back when you have time."
She really hasn’t grown up.
Zheng Fa looked at Zheng Shan, who still had her head down, and his heart softened.
...
After dinner, Zheng Fa walked into Zheng Shan's room.
Zheng Shan was sitting cross-legged on her bed, seemingly unaware that Zheng Fa had entered.
"What’s wrong? Still mad?"
"Not mad!"
"You can’t go to the Bai Xian Alliance."
"Brother, you’re being mean to me!"
"…"
Where did she learn that?
Zheng Fa tapped her little head.
Zheng Shan covered her head, her expression growing even more mournful.
"I brought you a gift."
"A gift? Is it something delicious?"
Zheng Shan's eyes immediately lit up.
"Not really." Zheng Fa took out a storage bag and handed it to Zheng Shan, speaking mysteriously, "It’s better than food."
Zheng Shan excitedly took the storage bag, eager to open it.
A pile of books, as high as a mountain, tumbled onto her bed.
Zheng Shan shrank to the foot of the bed, her gaze sweeping over the half-bed's worth of textbooks, her lips trembling slightly.
"This is... a gift?"
At that moment, she truly wasn’t angry anymore.
Not only was she not angry, but her face also lost all signs of it.
Or rather, she felt a bit like dying.
"I grabbed the wrong one."
"Grabbed the wrong one?"
Zheng Shan looked up in confusion, seeing the smile on Zheng Fa's face, and realized he was doing it on purpose.
"Brother!"
She leaped off the bed, lunging at Zheng Fa with her hands outstretched.
Zheng Fa pressed his left hand against her forehead, waving something in his right hand, and laughed:
"This is the gift."
Zheng Shan swung her arms at the air for a while, then finally turned to look at what Zheng Fa was holding.
"Is that a Tongjian? I already have a Tongjian."
"This one is different from the one you had before. I just made it, and yours was the first."
Zheng Fa said with a smile.
Zheng Shan's eyes brightened, but she still huffed at Zheng Fa before taking the Tongjian and looking at it closely.
The copper surface of the Tongjian shimmered with changing patterns, slowly lighting up.
"Eh?"
Zheng Shan looked at the images on the Tongjian, surprised. "Why are there so many new things?"
There were six small icons in the image.
"Brother, what are these?"
"Click on one."
Zheng Shan tapped the first icon, and the image changed again, revealing an interface.
In the interface, Zheng Fa's avatar appeared in the upper left corner.
"Is this you, Brother?"
"Yeah." Zheng Fa gently patted his little sister's head and said softly, "From now on, if you miss me, you can use this to find me... You can send me messages and even talk to me directly."
"Really?"
Zheng Shan's face lit up with joy.
"Not just that, click on this."
Following Zheng Fa's指示, Zheng Shan tapped again, and the image changed once more, revealing Zheng Fa's smiling face.
Zheng Shan held the Tongjian in her hands, tilting her head to look at Zheng Fa.
"Whenever you want to see me, whether it’s you or Mother, you can see me. I’ll be the same outside the Jiu Shan realm." Zheng Fa smiled and said, "Do you like this gift?"
"I love it!"
(End of this chapter)
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Chapter 449: Academic System, Boundless Wealth
"So, you created a transformation technique to appease Zhang Zhenren, and a new Tongjian to appease your sister?"
In a side hall of University Island, near the Jiu Zhang Calculation Array, Madam Xuanhua stared at the Tongjian in her hand and asked Zheng Fa.
Her tone was strange, even tinged with frustration.
It wasn’t just Madam Xuanhua in the hall.
All cultivators above the Nascent Soul stage in the Jiu Shan realm were present.
Uncle Pang and Uncle Huang stood beside Sister Zhang, whispering to each other.
Elder Xiong from the Qingmu Sect and Sect Leader Song were also holding Tongjians, curiously exploring them.
Xie Qingxue and Xiao Yuying stood together, with Old Han beside them, looking at Zheng Fa with puzzled expressions.
In one corner of the hall, Jiao Wuji and Blood River Ancestor stood quietly, appearing somewhat out of place.
Zheng Fa first asked Uncle Pang, "Have all the disciples returned?"
Uncle Pang's expression was serious. "Yes, Han Qi and the others were the last to arrive, just yesterday."
Zheng Fa nodded lightly, noticing Madam Xuanhua still holding the Tongjian and looking at him, he smiled and said, "It’s not entirely like that; it’s just a coincidence. I had many ideas for this Tongjian before, but it was delayed because the Zao Hua Yu Tie wasn’t complete."
He used the Zao Hua Yu Tie as his life treasure, not to create a gossip forum.
It was just that he hadn’t had enough cultivation before, and without usable algorithms, trying to create a server was beyond his capabilities.
Madam Xuanhua, upon hearing this, fixed her gaze on his forehead, her expression somewhat peculiar:
Zheng Fa felt a chill on his forehead.
This top crafting master of the Jiu Shan realm seemed like she wanted to crack open his skull.
Seeing Madam Xuanhua like this, Uncle Pang naturally understood that this Tongjian was no ordinary item, his face filled with curiosity. "What’s different about this new Tongjian? Is its power significant?"
Now, in the entire Jiu Shan realm, besides Zheng Fa, only Madam Xuanhua, the creator of the Tongjian, understood its full capabilities.
Even Sister Zhang looked at Zheng Fa with curiosity in her eyes.
"It has no offensive capabilities," Madam Xuanhua first shook her head, then smiled, "but this Tongjian will likely become the most widely circulated artifact in the entire Xuanwei realm."
She paused and added, "I dare say that in the future, all Xuanwei cultivators can do without any magical artifacts, but they cannot do without a Tongjian."
This assertion was too definitive, even hard to believe.
Even Xie Qingxue showed a look of surprise. She lightly tapped the Tongjian and saw the six icons on the interface, which were simple and almost childlike, like stick figures.
Xie Qingxue softly asked, "Is it because of these six icons?"
Madam Xuanhua didn’t answer but looked at Zheng Fa. Zheng Fa’s mind stirred, and the Zao Hua Yu Tie flew out from his dantian, projecting a ten-foot-high light screen above everyone’s heads.
On the screen were the six icons Xie Qingxue had mentioned.
"These six... I call them applications."
"Applications?"
Zheng Fa looked at the six applications on the light screen, his eyes filled with nostalgia:
When he first learned about the existence of smartphones, the shock he felt was more than tenfold compared to what Madam Xuanhua was experiencing now; he felt it was a divine creation.
What Madam Xuanhua described as the future was already a reality in modern times.
"These six applications can be considered the six new functions of the Tongjian." Zheng Fa first clicked on one of the applications in the upper right corner and explained, "This is the Jiu Shan Forum; there’s no change."
Everyone present was familiar with the forum, and seeing the familiar interface, they didn’t find it novel. Uncle Pang asked eagerly:
"What about the other five?"
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