Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 880: Chapter 836: The Father-Son Game_1 Chapter 880: Chapter 836: The Father-Son Game_1 The next morning, daybreak had just arrived.

In the dim bedroom, the alarm clock on the phone suddenly rang.

Turner struggled to open his eyes, groping to turn off the alarm clock, rubbing his eyes and hair, and pulling the [Eight Sides] headband onto his head.

The first thing to do in the morning: feed the spirit beasts.

This setting has helped numerous players improve their daily habits, but Turner wasn’t one of them.

Because he didn’t plan to get up, but was ready to go back to sleep after feeding his pets.

But as soon as he put on the headband and rubbed his eye boogers off, he was startled by what he saw in front of him —

In the dim room, a tiger and a snake were sitting on the blanket, staring straight at him, their tiger and snake eyes flickering with a faint cold light…

Turner instinctively dodged backwards.

“Thud!”

“Ah!” He let out a cry of pain, covering the spot where his head had struck the head of the bed, finally awakening fully.

At the same time, he also realized what had happened: his two spirit beasts, who had been lost in Paris, had finally come to him after crossing half the globe.

He turned on the bedside lamp and looked at the two little ones again — the little tiger [White Luster] and the little white snake [Qiutu] — both sitting obediently on the blanket, staring at him longingly.

There was nothing terrifying or sinister about them, their faces full of grievance.

“Um…

sorry?” Turner suddenly felt guilty.

*

In another corner of Xiajing City, Camille Victoria woke up early, hurriedly fed a few small animals, got dressed, and made a simple breakfast.

After eating one portion herself, she picked up another and was about to leave the house.

Her sister, who had just woken up and was about to wash up, grabbed her: “Where are you going so early?”

“…” Little Princess averted her eyes, “Working overtime.”

“Where are you going to work overtime?” Her sister looked unruffled, with a face that said, “keep making up stories.”

Camille couldn’t come up with an answer.

Her sister scolded, “Have some restraint, girl!”

Little Princess flatly refused, “No!”

“What kind of girl runs to a boy’s house every day!” Her sister thought it was not okay.

“Me.” Camille thought it was perfectly fine.

She picked up her box of food and scampered out the door.

Lincoln had said he would get up early to upgrade the game cabin, and she had to help.

Otherwise, trying to produce microchips and upgrade the game cabin at the same time would certainly be too much to handle.

“Sigh!” Sister Zhu Qinglu watched her receding figure, sighing deeply.

*

Xu Family Boxing Gym.

At breakfast, Xu Chun finally convinced Old Dad to try “Chang’an” and see the results of his efforts.

Xu Chun had two main reasons for persuading Old Dad:

One was to show Old Dad the results of his work in “Virtual Martial Arts”, proving that he had not wasted time.

At the same time, he reassured Old Dad: he had not crowned the modified saber technique with the name of [Xu Family Saber].

The orthodox Xu Family Saber still exists in reality, unaffected by anything.

The Virtual Martial Arts he developed himself was named [Spring Night Knife], written directly on the plaque of the Martial Arts Hall in Chang’an City.

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And “Xu Family Saber” as the origin of [Spring Night Knife], Xu Chun also kept it in the most inner part of the Martial Arts Hall.

After logging into the virtual world, Xu Chun grouped up with Old Dad and took him to his Martial Arts Hall.

As Xu Jiu Sheng stepped into the Martial Arts Hall and saw his two virtual sons, his expression remained indifferent.

Xu Chun didn’t see any surprise on Old Dad’s face, which disappointed him a bit.

That’s okay, the next thing was more important, and it was also the second reason Xu Chun invited Old Dad into the game —

“Dad, how about we have a match?”

This could be the only chance he’s had to get one over on Old Dad since he grew up!

Xu Chun had been looking forward to this for a long time!

But Old Dad shook his head to decline.

Xu Chun didn’t give up and used a forbidden move: “Let’s have one!

It’s New Year’s, we’re all here.”

Most people might have trouble resisting this tactic and reluctantly agree.

But Xu Jiu Sheng is an old hand, he isn’t swayed by this: “Stop it, we still have two days till New Year.”

Seeing that this trick didn’t work, Xu Chun switched tracks: “How about this, I promise I won’t mention it again if I win, but if I lose, I’ll do all the housework at home from now on till the New Year’s over!”

A look of hesitation crept onto Xu Jiu Sheng’s face.

Seeing that there was hope, Xu Chun immediately continued: “Plus, I’ll do a big clean-up in the Martial Arts Hall!

I’ll wipe all the floors, weapons, and protective gears one by one!”

“Okay, fine.” Xu Jiu Sheng agreed reluctantly.

Matthew excitedly clenched his fist, and eagerly took his old dad into the backyard of their boxing gym.

He reached into the weapon storage box and took out two fine level sabers.

“Dad, here’s your saber.”

Although his old dad also had a saber hanging from his waist, obviously it wouldn’t be a high-level one.

He definitely wouldn’t cheat his old dad in this respect.

His advantage lies in the significant enhancement of his physical prowess since he levelled up.

As for the passive amplification provided by the secret book of martial arts, he had already manually turned it off – there still had to be a basic fairness.

After all, if he was too much, he might be PKed in real life by his old dad, so it would be better not to take this risk.

But Xu Chun’s dad didn’t take the sabers, instead, he pulled away some distance, and drew the saber from his waist.

What stunned Matthew was that it wasn’t a apprentice-level weapon like he thought, but a long saber with delicate patterns.

Just by looking at the intricacy of the pattern, it must be at least a fine level weapon.

But it definitely wasn’t at master level because master level weapons usually have intricate designs on their sheaths, unlike the ordinary-looking sheath of this saber his old dad is using.

With this thought, Matthew felt a lot more settled.

He put away the two fine level long sabers, sneakily drew his master level weapon, assumed a posture and asked, “Ready to start?”

His dad nodded.

The next moment, both of them stepped forward simultaneously, waving their sabers towards each other!

The difference was that Matthew used a side swipe, while his dad…

Lifted both arms high and exerted a powerful downward chop!

Matthew cried out in his mind, what the hell kind of move is this?

There is such a move in Xu’s saber style?

He hurriedly changed his moves and lifted his saber to block.

“Clang!!!”

A crisp sound echoed.

Matthew felt a tremendous force transmitted through the saber; not only did the blade shake vigorously, even his arm too!

Before he could adjust his state, his dad had lifted both arms high and the point of collision on the blade was already faintly red.

Then another full-power downward chop was on its way!

“Clang!!!”

Once again Matthew successfully blocked it, but his balance was thrown off and he ended up on one knee, with no room left to adjust.

Before he could think anymore, old dad raised both arms high for the third time and yet again made a full-power smash!

By this time, his dad’s saber had turned incandescent along the whole blade.

The friction with air during the chopping motion was creating a barely noticeable amount of smoke.

Matthew had no choice, he could only brace himself, support the blade hand with his numb arm and withstand this downward chop.

“Crack!”

Matthew’s eyes widened as he watched his dad chop off his blade in one stroke, and then hit him on the neck!

“Shh~~~”

Flecks of blood burst out, but were immediately vaporized by the heat of the blade.

Matthew collapsed dead on the spot, unable to close his eyes in peace.

He had great martial arts skills, but none of them were useful as he was defeated by three mysterious chops in seconds!

After his resurrection, he ran to his dad and let the questions rain down:

“Dad, what happened?”

“Why are you so strong?

I couldn’t block at all!”

“What level is your saber?

Why does it glow?”

“Is there a two-handed downward chop move in the Xu’s saber style?”

He felt that he lost unjustly!

His dad Matthew didn’t say anything and just pasted three pieces of information for him to see:

[Player Level: 7]

[Dragon Scale Saber·Breaking Edge (Grandmaster Level)]

[Steel Breaking Slash·Beginner], [Cloud Breaking Slash·Intermediate], [Fierce Wind Splitting Moon·Intermediate]

——

“???” Matthew was stunned on the spot.

I’m only 6 levels and you’re already 7?

My highest level weapon is only master level, and you’re using a grandmaster level one?

I turned off martial arts skills for fairness, yet you not only turned them on, but also used an integrated system?

Are you seriously my dad?

And more importantly…

Is it you working at Cloud Dream, or me?

How come you’re so good at it?!!