Chapter 29 (Live Broadcast)

[Have you all seen the news in the Xiadu Daily? The owner of Xianshan Farm is Li Chang'an. The evidence has been presented, but you still don't believe it?]

[...Speechless. It really is you, Li Chang'an!]

【I can't accept this! I can't accept this! I was still mocking him in my last Weibo post, how did he actually make a name for himself through farming! My beloved cabbage, I don't accept that you were grown by Li Chang'an!】

[If it's really that hard to accept, why don't you just assume the high quality of those vegetables is due to the sacred mountain? After all, it's the Xuanling Sacred Mountain; anything you plant there will grow into something good, right?]

[Yes, and what does it prove if the vegetables you grow are of good quality? If it were me, I would grow medicinal herbs to benefit humanity.]

[My God, what kind of heartless person would say something like ignoring the value of human labor? How would you feel if your boss said tomorrow that your good performance was due to the company's good reputation and the product's excellence, and had nothing to do with you?]

[Is growing medicinal herbs the only way to benefit humanity? I think Li Chang'an growing vegetables is already benefiting humanity. I don't understand why people are so hostile towards him.]

[Uh, everyone's arguing so seriously, am I the only one who thinks Li Chang'an looks really handsome in this photo? He exudes a divine aura. I used to be indifferent to him, but now I'm almost a fan.]

[Haha, we can criticize anything about our pretty faces, except our looks! New fans are welcome to join us!]

After being reminded like this, netizens focused on another point: Li Chang'an's photo.

The photo was taken in the early morning, so the light was a bit dim. Only the golden runes in the background shone brightly. In front of the light, Li Chang'an looked at the camera with gentle and tolerant eyes.

Reporter Zhou is not a professional photographer, and the composition of this photo is not perfect. It is only because of Li Chang'an's handsome face that this photo has become popular.

Li Chang'an's name is trending on social media again.

Because it was confirmed that he was the owner of Xianshan Farm, these trending topics remained on the hot search list for several days.

The executives at YueMei Entertainment, the company that signed with Li Chang'an, are getting anxious.

Li Chang'an's popularity is now almost on par with those of second-tier actors. How could his agent, Li Wei, have said that his popularity would "drop sooner or later"?

If we take advantage of this popularity to get Li Chang'an some business activities, frequently show his face in front of netizens, and get some supporting roles, then his rise to near-first-tier status and bringing more benefits to the company will be just around the corner.

Could it be that Li Wei deliberately sabotaged the company?

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"That's how it is." On the phone, agent Li Wei sounded exhausted.

"The company's senior management realized something was wrong, but the contract had already taken effect and couldn't be changed. They could only ask me to urge you to start the live stream."

I'll try to ride the wave of popularity, even if it's just a little bit.

Li Chang'an understood that Li Wei's call to urge him meant that the pressure from the company's senior management had reached a point where she could no longer bear it.

Li Wei has already helped him a lot to prevent him and Xuanling Immortal Mountain from being exploited by the company.

Li Chang'an nodded and said, "Okay, Sister Wei, I'll broadcast it tomorrow morning."

He's been so busy lately that he's barely thought about doing a live stream.

After hanging up the phone, Li Chang'an contacted Jian Ling and asked if he could start a live stream.

"Live stream?" Blade Spirit asked.

"Through the camera and the internet, I will show what I am doing to others, so it is possible that I will be able to film Xuanling Immortal Mountain."

Li Chang'an briefly explained the live stream, then took out his phone and opened another live stream for Blade & Soul to see.

“Like this person, he sings live in the distant Zhao state, and I can hear him here, and I can even see him sitting in his room.”

The sword spirit merely glanced at it before shifting its gaze: "Now you are the master of Xuanling Immortal Mountain. You can do whatever you want, just do it."

There is no need to ask him for permission or obtain his approval.

Li Chang'an was stunned for a moment, then scratched his head sheepishly.

He doesn't really identify with the identity of being the master of the immortal mountain.

The sword spirit added, "Whether there are secrets in Xuanling Immortal Mountain that cannot be known to others is entirely up to you."

“Okay, I understand,” Li Chang’an said.

The next morning, Li Chang'an transported the Chinese cabbage and cabbage out of Xuanling Immortal Mountain to deliver them, then tied his mobile phone to the black sword, preparing to start a live broadcast.

His live streaming account is also an artist account provided by the company, on the Yinfu platform. In the past, he would post some selfie videos and the like.

However, he only has tens of thousands of fans, which is not many.

However, when Li Chang'an opened the backend this time, he was somewhat surprised.

Tens of thousands of fans have grown to more than a million!

He doesn't have much commercial value, so the company is unlikely to help him buy followers.

These fans grew gradually after he inherited Xuanling Immortal Mountain.

There are so many?

Li Chang'an was stunned for a moment before clicking on the live stream.

It was just past six in the morning, the broadcast had just started, and there weren't many viewers yet.

Li Chang'an glanced at it casually and then began his day's work.

He took a sickle and a basket to the field to cut pig feed. At 6:30, he returned to the bamboo house courtyard with a large basket of pig feed on his back. He went to the warehouse next door, took out a few cabbages and bok choy, lit a fire in the largest stove, and added water to the pot on the stove.

Once the water temperature rose, he brought out a large cutting board and began chopping pig feed, Chinese cabbage, and bok choy.

Only then did he have time to glance at his phone screen.

The top right corner showed that there were over five thousand people online.

It's not even 7 a.m. yet.

"You guys are up so early," Li Chang'an greeted him somewhat awkwardly.

He doesn't stream often, so it's not natural enough.

Someone in the live chat asked: "What are you doing?"

Li Chang'an, his large cleaver still in hand, replied, "To cook pig feed."

【ah? ! 】

Is this Li Chang'an's account? Is it real? Is he really farming and raising pigs?

Wait a minute! These are cabbages we're fighting over, and you're going to feed them to pigs?!

A group of people in the live chat started screaming, unable to believe that such good Chinese cabbage and bok choy were just pig feed for Li Chang'an!

Li Chang'an had no time to look at the screen, focusing intently on chopping vegetables.

The pig feed was cooked at 7:30.

Li Chang'an scooped the pig feed into three large buckets, casually drew a cleansing talisman over the pot, and then used his spiritual power to carry the three buckets of pig feed to the pigpen.

The three pigs now weigh 200 pounds each, and they are plump and white. The pigsty is also very clean, without even any pig manure.

[It's so clean, is it fake?]

How long have you been raising it? It's grown so big already!

Li Chang'an was using his spiritual power to pour pig feed when he tilted his head to look at his phone screen.

This meant that his face was right up against the screen.

Wow! Where did this incredibly handsome guy come from? He's so good-looking, it gave me quite a shock!

Li Chang'an only saw the two most conspicuous questions at the front.

He said, "I raised them for more than three months. At first, I fed them premium feed, and later I used Chinese cabbage and cabbage, which made them grow faster."

Then, he adjusted the camera angle and drew a talisman in the air with his sword finger so that the camera could capture it: "This is a purification talisman, which can cleanse impurities."

As the final stroke of the Cleansing Talisman was completed, the golden runes flew towards the pigpen, and in an instant, the heads of the three pigs, which had gotten dirty from eating, became completely clean.

[So convenient! Are these charms mass-produced? I'd like to buy one.]

Li Chang'an thought for a moment and said, "I don't have talisman pens or talisman paper. If you want to mass-produce them, why don't you ask the Cultivation Alliance?"

As they were talking, the pig feed in the large bucket was all emptied. Li Chang'an then drew a cleansing talisman on the bucket and placed the now-clean bucket in the corner of the yard.

There are many tools in this corner, all neatly arranged.

Li Chang'an picked up a hoe and went to the field.

The effects of inferior soil were so good that they were not only seen on the vegetables, but also on the weeds.

Often, just one night later, the wind brings new grass seeds, and new weeds will grow in the ground, so you need to weed every day.

Li Chang'an stopped interacting with the live stream and focused on his work.

Now that he has reached the late stage of Foundation Establishment, he can easily use his spiritual power to wield several hoes to weed.

The glutinous rice that had been planted earlier had matured thanks to the inferior spiritual soil. Li Chang'an then used his spiritual power to manipulate the sickle, cutting off the ears of glutinous rice and neatly piling them aside.

Black Sword followed him, and the phone camera captured the soil below very clearly.

Why is this patch of soil black, while the soil around it is just ordinary yellow?

Li Chang'an had just finished stacking the glutinous rice ears and looked at his phone screen.

“That’s not black soil, it’s inferior spiritual soil.”

【Why are only those places in the same sacred mountain considered to have inferior spiritual soil?】

"It was originally just ordinary soil, but after I buried a demon core in it, part of it turned into inferior spiritual soil."

[A demon core?! You used the demon core you painstakingly obtained by slaying demons, the one that could increase your cultivation, to obtain inferior spiritual soil?]

The spiritual energy in inferior spiritual soil will inevitably dissipate anyway, and consolidating it will require an even greater effort. It offers no benefit to the naturally occurring spiritual plants of the Cangxuan Realm, so you...

I really don't know what to say to you.

The person who reacted so strongly was clearly a cultivator as well.

Li Chang'an quietly watched the comments he posted. After he finished speaking, Li Chang'an smiled faintly and said, "Isn't it tiring to weigh the maximum value of everything you get?"

"Moreover, everyone has their own choices. I think the inferior spiritual soil is very good and it helps me a lot with farming."

After Li Chang'an finished speaking, he glanced at the time and returned to the field.

After the glutinous rice ears are cut, a section of the rhizome will remain in the ground, which needs to be plowed back into the soil.

Next, he transported the cut glutinous rice ears to the yard and used his spiritual power to thresh them.

Then, hot water was boiled, and the removed glutinous rice grains were soaked in the hot water.

After soaking, the seed coat of glutinous rice can be easily rubbed off.

When working, Li Chang'an is very focused and quiet, as if his eyes are only on the white glutinous rice he is kneading, and he doesn't even glance at his phone screen.

As time went by, the number of people in the upper right corner of the live stream increased.

When his phone battery was low, Li Chang'an went back inside to get a power bank and then quietly continued working.

At 11 a.m., he went to gather pig feed and cook it to feed the pigs.

Only after feeding the pigs did I start cooking my own meal.

After finishing his meal, he moved the glutinous rice stalks that he had threshed that morning to the bamboo grove, where he dug a pit specifically for composting.

After dealing with the glutinous rice stalks, I went back to the field to water the plants, loosen the soil, and continue weeding.

In the morning, he used his spiritual power to wield a hoe to weed, but he could only remove some of the most visible weeds. The weeds that grew close to the vegetables and were hidden by them still required him to go into the field and carefully search for them before removing them.

The purple clover in the rice paddy is now in its second growth cycle, with several plants reaching the spirit grade.

Li Chang'an kept those few plants, and dug up the rest of the milkvetch, breaking them off and burying them in the ground as green manure.

It wasn't until after 3 p.m. that he wiped the sweat from his face and finally finished his day's farm work.

Seven acres of land, and with the help of spiritual power, finishing it so early is already considered very fast.

At this point, the number of viewers watching the live stream had even reached 100,000.

Farming and raising pigs in the sacred mountains isn't easy either. Li Chang'an clearly put in a lot of effort to grow those high-quality cabbages and bok choy.

That's why I say we shouldn't habitually ignore the value of human labor.

[In that last variety show about fireworks in all four seasons, our "pretty face" was actually working diligently, but the editing was so bad that it highlighted the parts where he was dragging the team down. If you look closely, you'll see him diligently working in the background, even in shots that didn't require variety show effects or teamwork.]

I've been watching the live stream all day, and I want to ask, is this the sacred mountain? It looks no different from my hometown.

Li Chang'an walked to the riverbank and scooped up water to wash his face.

The waters of the Ningjing River washed away my fatigue, leaving my face feeling much cooler.

Li Chang'an sat by the river and finally had time to watch the live stream.

The audience was discussing the immortal mountains, and some even noticed the sealing rune walls outside those immortal mountains in the distance.

However, the camera couldn't capture the sealed immortal mountain; in the live stream, the sealed area appeared as a vast expanse of white.

Li Chang'an looked back.

Unable to see the approximate appearance of the sealed immortal mountains, one can only see the bamboo forest, the land he cultivated, and the Ningjing River and its banks.

Li Chang'an thought for a moment and said, "This needs to be kept secret for now."

Since the ritual hasn't been performed yet, he doesn't know where the seal came from or what the immortal mountain will look like after it's broken, so he can't answer those questions for the audience.

Li Chang'an waved his hand: "Alright, the live stream is over. Let's talk again next time."

After saying that, he ended the live stream.

After the live stream ended, a message popped up in the background:

Your earnings from today's outdoor live stream gift revenue are being calculated.

A few minutes later, another message came:

Your earnings from today's outdoor live stream are: 17032.6 yuan.

Li Chang'an's eyes widened suddenly.

Seventeen thousand! If you can earn this much every day from live streaming, wouldn't you be able to make 500,000 in less than a month?!

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Author's Note: The live stream won't take up a large portion of the story [hugs]. It serves as an explanation of Li Chang'an's past and a connection to later plot developments. Li Chang'an won't be live streaming every day either [hugs].