Translator: Noodletown Translations Editor: Noodletown Translations

It was late in the night.

It was still snowing.

The snacks in the shop had run out, and they only had heated pots of wine to drink.

It was meant to be a sleepless night.

Even after midnight, many people didn’t show any intention of leaving.

Outside the shops, the snow fell silently. The early morning was the coldest time of the day, and people could see through the glass window that the thin layer of snow had turned into ice on the street.

However, inside the shop, they didn’t feel a trace of chill. When they drank the warm wine, they felt warmed from inside out even though the wine wasn’t that hot.

The party lasted until about 5 AM. Mr. Fang was surprised that these cultivators who excelled in battles and artifact-making were also talented musicians of instruments such as the guzheng, lute, flute, and harp. Mr. Fang felt ashamed that he could only hum some Chinese country songs.

Even Su Tianji couldn’t resist the temptation and played the A Music from Guangling.

TL Note: A Music from Guangling is a famous song for the guzheng.

The powerful and elegant guzheng music presented a vast and lofty presence to the audience.

Soon, the top three places of the other two big events came out.

‘Biyao’ got the most votes in the Cosplay Competition; the ‘Smirking Face Emoji’ got the second place for its high degree of difficulty; the third place went to ‘Kyo Kusanagi’ who didn’t win the champion for the King of Fighters Competition; ‘Lu Xueqi’ took fourth place with one less vote compared to Kyo Kusanagi.

Despite her laziness, Su Tianij’s A Music from Guangling that was reproduced by the System was widely acclaimed by the cultivators, winning the first place in the music festival with the most votes.

“Well, another second place.” ‘Biyao’ took the gift box with a bit of disappointment.

To Mr. Fang’s surprise, the third place went to Dong Qingli who played the Chinese harp.

In their long life of cultivation, this night was probably only a small interlude.

However, they might recall it in some moments of their long lives, and the memories would become even more precious as time passed by.

After the prizes were presented, the winners gathered together.

What were in their boxes? Many people wanted to know the answer to this question.

At Mr. Fang’s suggestion, all the winners would open their boxes on the live stream.

“Gongzi Xiao?!” Sitting on a couch, Mu Donglai asked mildly, “I heard that you got a prize too?”

“Yeah!” Proudly, he lifted a palm-sized gift box. “The 10th place of the Cosplay Competition!”

Although he gained many extra points for the difficulty, only the customers sitting in the lounge area could see him and vote for him. That was embarrassing.

The people who didn’t enter the top three, such as Xu Zixin, Nalan Hongwu, Wang Tai, and Black Demon, received one or several palm-sized small gift boxes.

Nalan Hongwu opened one. “A discount card?”

He opened another and saw a colorful air-puffed bag with the words Potato Chips on it.

“!!??”

He opened another and saw a piece of white stone with engravings of strange characters.

The stone seemed to contain some extremely strange power. Nalan Hongwu brightened and then laughed, “A rune?! Rune No. 13!”

“He got such a good item?!” The people stared at the big screen and were stunned.

“I got one gift box for being a lucky audience member. I’ll open it too!” An Huwei opened his gift box and exclaimed, “I got a bag of popcorn?! What’s this thing?!”

“Magic wand! I got a magic wand from Harry Potter!” This came from Mo Xian.

“Ahh!” They heard a happy exclamation from Yue Yan, “I got one! The sword for Emei disciples!”

Liu Ningyun (Chizuru Kagura) wasn’t in top three, but she got No.4 in the King of Fighters Competition. Including the good rankings that she got from other events, she had more than ten small boxes before her.

“Samurai Edge Handgun?!”

“A bottle of Sprite?!”

“Sniper rifle bullets?!”

“What are these things?!”

“…”

“I’ll open it now! Open!” Seeing that many people had opened their gift boxes, and some of them even got good items such as runes, Xiao Yulv couldn’t resist the temptation anymore.

While lifting the box, he murmured, “I must get a rare treasure!”

“Open!” He opened it and found a box of strange black strips inside.

On the box were written – Dove Chocolate

“!!??”

“What are these?! They look like food?”

He opened the box and ate a piece, and tears flowed down his face as he felt the silky and rich flavor. “So delicious!”

Beside him, ‘Iori Yagami’ said to ‘Kyo Kusanagi’, “Young Master Song, what did you get?”

“Forget it. Something called Dove Chocolate. Garbage…” ‘Kyo Kusanagi’ shook his head and said, “Why can’t I get a Rune No.13, just like Senior Nalan?!”

Beside them, Xiao Yulv took another bite and chewed with tears on his face.

…

Soon, the small gift boxes had all been opened, and only the big gift boxes of the top three places were left.

The first one opening the boxes was Biyao (Ning Bi) who got the most gift boxes.

She got the first place in the Cosplay Competition and the second places in both the King of Fighters Competition and the Music Festival.

“What will I get?” She gazed at the three big gift boxes that were neatly placed before her.

“Sir, can’t you give me a clue about the contents inside?” She stared at Mr. Fang intently.

“Open them. I have no idea.”

The boxes are not big, so they can’t be weapons. The best I can get is something small like Dante’s small guns! Humph! Soon, she opened the first gift box.

A silver-grey metal object appeared, and it was one size bigger than the gift box itself.

Tiny and complex patterns were engraved on the surface with a layer of faint dark-red demonic light oozing out.

“This is…!?”

At her exclamation, the people who stared at the big screen also started to breathe heavily!

“Artemis?!”

It was a system imitatation version of the Moon Goddess Gun – Artemis! (Mr. Fang’s godly weapon fragments could be turned into complete versions of the weapons)

“It’s Moon Goddess Gun – Artemis?!”

Bedlam broke out when the first gift box was opened.

Their breaths became fast and quick.

Although it wasn’t the big swords such as Rebellion or Yamato, the Moon Goddess Gun – Artemis was a very powerful weapon.

More importantly, it was a complete item created by magic technology!

After the cultivators slowly mastered the ordinary technology, these things were what they craved for!

“The things in the boxes are so amazing?!”

“Hurry! Let’s see what’s in the next box!”