Master of Ten Thousand Foxes

Something feels off!

The feng shui data in this place has issues, something is very off!

"Guys, let’s take a break for now.

"Everyone, please stop talking and let me have a moment of silence."

He climbed out of the pit, looking around, examining the layout, observing the light, listening to the wind, listening to the water, trying to figure out what was different about this place.

But all he saw were newly constructed mid-rise buildings, metal fence walls, and bare flowerbeds and greenery.

The changes in feng shui really happen quickly!

But... besides that, nothing seemed unusual.

Suddenly, the voice of the Ancient Immortal Master echoed in his mind.

"Disciple, what’s going on? Encountered a problem?"

Cai Xiaozhen smiled while replying in his mind.

"No, what problem could there be?

"Just taking a short break, and soon we’ll insert the array stake."

The voice of the Ancient Immortal Master faded away.

Cai Xiaozhen wiped his sweat once more.

This place indeed had something special, but he didn’t want the Ancient Immortal to know!

He glanced at his assistants.

"Let’s try again, and get this array stake in as quickly as possible."

If it takes too long, the Ancient Immortal will inevitably grow suspicious!

He saw his assistant Xiaoli wink at him, signaling with his eyes... all these assistants were not immersed in the immortal realm, but they understood the subtle relationship between Cai Xiaozhen and the Ancient Immortal Master.

Cai Xiaozhen leaned closer to Xiaoli’s computer, seeing that Xiaoli had just sent a help message to Expert Bai Mo explaining the rapid changes in feng shui data.

Expert Bai Mo?

Can he really solve this problem?

He saw the chatbox, where Expert Bai Mo replied with an animated "ok" emoji.

Cai Xiaozhen pondered for a moment.

"None of us have had breakfast yet, have we? So why not have breakfast first?

"Old Xu, there are burgers in the car, go and bring them out, we’ll eat slowly!"

...

In the car.

Bai Mo held his laptop, typing quickly on the keyboard, click-clacking away.

As he typed, he instructed Fang Xiaoyu.

"Help me contact Professor Fang; tell him the array stake positioning program deployed on the supercomputer last time needs a bit of tweaking.

"This time, no need to test the changes. Have him directly push the hot update."

Fang Xiaoyu quickly nodded.

Wu Qingyun and the driver Old Zhang looked puzzled, glancing at Bai Mo.

Fox apprentice Black Sugar Bun was just starting on the fourth Imperial Castle, squatting on the master’s shoulder, eating while watching the master work. The master suddenly got busy again... but this burger’s patty tasted pretty good. It hesitated: should it grab a hot piece to stuff in the master’s mouth?

...

While eating the burger, Xiaoli, visibly excited, showed Cai Xiaozhen Bai Mo’s reply.

[Program update complete]

[Continue to input parameters as dictionary type]

[The changing feng shui data will automatically overwrite the previous parameter, triggering all necessary calculations automatically without needing a restart]

[After stopping parameter modifications, please input...]

All the assistants were full of excitement.

They didn’t care whether it worked well or not... anything produced by Expert Bai Mo must work well, and can’t not work!

They were amazed at how quickly Expert Bai Mo made these changes!

The burger in their hands wasn’t even finished, yet the updated program was already online, what kind of speed is this?

Cai Xiaozhen grinned widely.

"Why are you all staring blankly? Finish your breakfast first. There’s still a cup of Americano, who wants to drink?"

...

Swoosh...

Ten minutes later, the array stake was already buried.

Cai Xiaozhen and the others boarded the official vehicle, the convoy leaving Happiness Peninsula, heading to the next location.

Sitting in the front passenger seat of the official vehicle, Cai Xiaozhen just exhaled a sigh of relief, suddenly feeling dizzy.

When he awoke again, he had already been drawn into a dream.

This was a dark hall, where the frail, bald Ancient Immortal Master was fiddling with spherical fish tanks on the wall rack.

"I was just busy arranging the fish tanks and didn’t notice your situation.

"What’s going on? Can’t bury the array stake?"

Cai Xiaozhen smiled and replied.

"Master, no need to worry. The server just got stuck for a moment.

"I found someone to fix the server, and the array stake... is already buried."

The Ancient Immortal glanced at Cai Xiaozhen, nodding.

"Next time, bring me some books from your real world.

"I want ’Principles of Computing’, ’Big Data’, and a book on ’Automated Test Best Practices’."

Cai Xiaozhen twitched his mouth.

How does this Ancient Immortal know more than him?

Automated Test Best Practices?

The Ancient Immortal wants to study QA?

"How... do you know these book titles..."

The Ancient Immortal waved his hand.

"Why bother with so much.

"When I tell you to do something, just do it!"

Feeling impatient, he spoke while moving a fish tank from a nearby shelf, intending to change its location.

Cai Xiaozhen caught a glimpse, and there inside the fish tank lay an astonishing pink brain, with bundles of nerves extending out.

A brain inside the tank!

The cabinet on the wall had twelve rows, eighty columns, and nine hundred and sixty grids!

And in every single grid, there was a fish tank.

Cai Xiaozhen hadn’t seen these fish tanks before and wasn’t sure if they all contained brains.

His face turned pale, departing from this dream realm.

Besides him, the Ancient Immortal Master had many apprentices.

But he had never seen any of these fellow disciples!

The brains in the possession of the Ancient Immortal were definitely connected to those fellow disciples!

If only he could see them, remember their faces, then he could bring them to justice and take care of all of them!

...

Inside the carriage.

Bai Mo was holding his apprentice, helping wipe off the ketchup from his mouth.

"Look at this mess you’ve made!"

Black Sugar Bun rubbed its head against the master’s chest, squinting happily with a face full of bliss.

Foxes are very cunning!

When the master wasn’t around, it would lick the ketchup off its mouth by itself.

But with the master nearby, it wouldn’t lick it off, letting the master hold it and wipe it clean!

Bai Mo rubbed his apprentice’s chubby belly.

A smile hung on his face, though his heart was filled with doubt.

Just earlier, his Divine Sense swept like the wind throughout the Happiness Peninsula, even blowing underground to the parking garage, to the air raid shelter... but nothing was found. This place seemed quite ordinary?

...

In the brightly lit main hall.

Miao Shou Ancient Immortal sat by the bedside, reclining in a chair, viewing the deduction results displayed on the computer screen.

"Hey, it worked."

The large Fatty Yangpeng Lake also sat up.

"Master, what is this? Is it the Great Immortal Technique you deduced?"

Miao Shou Ancient Immortal shook his head.

"No, this is, um... a kind of Thief Skill."

Yangpeng Lake nodded in understanding.

Thief Skill, he was quite familiar with it.

He had learned the Thief Skill rather well himself.

The clothes he wore, his daily essentials, were all obtained through Thief Skill.

The bulbs, generators, computers, beds, and chairs in this main hall also came through his Thief Skill.

He advanced from a White Collar to Sequence Six, becoming the Master of Hundred Bones, with all resources spent through Thief Skill.

Even his rapid promotion, relying on the Prince Bloodline... actually did not belong to him, obtained through Thief Skill!

This is what an Immortal Thief is like.

"We’re pressed for time, we don’t have the leisure for you to slowly learn the Great Immortal Technique.

"The Thief Skill deduced by me with the computer is precisely to steal the Great Immortal Technique.

"I’ll teach it to you now, once you master it, go steal one."

Yangpeng Lake furrowed his brows, not responding to his master’s meaning for a long while.

"But... that... that thing, Great Immortal Technique... is it that easy to steal?

"You said it yourself, it’s knowledge and skills accumulated over years of Cultivation, can it be stolen so easily by me?

"Moreover... I... I am the first Sequence Six in the current world, whom should I go steal the Great Immortal Technique from?

"Li Chengjing?

"She doesn’t have it either!"

The Ancient Immortal smiled, patting his apprentice’s shoulder.

"Why panic?

"Stealing the Great Immortal Technique isn’t easy, of course.

"But, if the one being stolen willingly gives it to you, then it’s possible.

"You say there’s none in the real world to steal from, and you’re right.

"In the dream realm, there is plenty to steal!"

Yangpeng Lake became even more confused.

"What do you mean?

"In the dream realm, someone is willing to let me steal the Great Immortal Technique?

"Who...

"Uh..."

Yangpeng Lake looked at the smiling eyes of the Ancient Immortal Master.

"Ah... Master... this..."

Miao Shou Ancient Immortal chuckled.

"You rascal, clearly delighted, don’t pretend.

"Hurry, start learning this Thief Skill.

"I have a Great Immortal Technique called the Cloud-Grasping Hand.

"Once you learn the Thief Skill, come steal it from me!