Chapter 167

Everyone in the crew who were watching on the side actually started to applaud Xu Shulou.

Xu Shulou glanced awkwardly at the drunk man she had pinned to the ground: "Now that the atmosphere is at this point, should I show everyone a combo?"

The drunk man struggled violently: "Call the police, I want to call the police!"

Upon hearing this, Xu Shulou's men moved slightly and quickly reconnected his dislocated arm. The drunk was caught off guard and howled once again.

Xu Shulou patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't bother. Based on my years of experience, I can't even detect a minor injury."

The staff member looked sideways: "How many years of experience?"

"Of course it's my experience as a martial arts instructor," Xu Shulou's eyes wandered, "What are you thinking about?"

“……”I’ll believe you for now.

After all this, the drunkard was completely sober. He returned to the stall, apologized to the lady boss, compensated for the broken dishes, and left. During this time, he refused to look up and look at Xu Shulou, as if he was strictly following a certain principle of encountering wild animals in the wild - don't look at them, because once you make eye contact, the beast is likely to suddenly attack and hurt you.

After some time, "The Journey to Immortality" was officially launched and broadcast simultaneously on TV stations and video websites.

That night, the entire crew sat nervously in front of the TV. Xu Shulou sat in the crowd with a bucket of popcorn in her left hand and a bowl of ice cream in her right hand, waiting for the show to start. The director sat on her left and grabbed her popcorn and took a big bite out of it. The opening song hadn't even finished playing yet, but the popcorn bucket was already empty.

Xu Shulou was silent for a moment. Sheng Wuyou noticed it and smiled as he stuffed a bag of potato chips into her hand. Others also contributed snacks they brought with them, including chocolate, milk tea, cookies, puffs, and so on.

The director gave her a sour look and said, "I, as a director, don't even get this kind of treatment."

Unfortunately, even his bitter sigh was drowned out by the crowd's exclamations: "Here she comes, Sister Xu is here!"

“……”The director immediately focused.

The first episode of the series begins with a scene at the trial meeting, where Xu Shulou steps off the phoenix carriage, with her black hair swaying in the breeze, and stands still to look around. When filming this scene, she was wearing a brocade dress, and the sun was shining brightly on Xu Shulou, making her look like a shroud of mist, and she really didn't look like a person from this world. A silhouette at the beginning, a glance, easily pulls the viewer into that era.

Bai Roushuang excitedly shook her senior sister's shoulders. Xu Shulou saw himself in the camera for the first time and held his face in his hands to admire himself narcissistically.

"Director Lu is great," someone gave the director a thumbs up, "Wow, look at this picture, it's so beautiful."

"Of course," the director said proudly, "I even filmed music videos when I was young."

Xu Shulou on TV bowed to everyone at the trial meeting and said, "Xu Shulou from Wuchen Island, nice to meet you all."

Everyone greeted her one by one. Xu Shulou's sight met Bai Roushuang through the crowd. The latter smiled politely, pure and shy, a little bashful. Xu Shulou smiled back at her, and it was as warm as a spring breeze melting snow.

This was the first time the two sisters met.

Then, Bai Roushuang vaguely hinted to Lu Beichen whether her senior sister would dislike her.

Bai Roushuang used to feel ashamed about this matter, but now she can only smile softly: "Back then."

Xu Shulou also laughed: "Yes, back then."

The two of them seemed to be playing a riddle. Naturally, the others did not understand their two incoherent sighs. They were just a little surprised at the plot. They knew about the script change, but the scenes were not in order during the live shooting. They occasionally watched from the sidelines, but they were not sure of the complete plot. Seeing it now, they always felt that it was a bit subtle. Someone couldn't help asking, "Will we be scolded for changing Bai Roushuang into this?"

Seeing that others were panicking, the director calmed down at this time: "Don't worry, I know what to do."

After hearing what he said, the others temporarily stopped objecting and focused on watching the drama.

Then came the climax of the first episode - the fight between Xu Shulou and Bai Roushuang. The spring was in full swing, peach blossoms were in full bloom, and as the sword energy swayed, petals fell on their skirts and temples. Everyone present knew little about martial arts and could not see the tricks, but they felt that the fluttering of the clothes was dazzling, and the effect of the filming was really amazing.

After one episode was aired, the director received a message from another familiar director asking him to introduce the costume designer of "Ta Xian Tu". The director replied proudly, "The actors brought their own costumes." Then he sat upright with his phone and began to search for online reviews, constantly refreshing social software. The leading actors were all newcomers and had no appeal, so naturally not many viewers were willing to wait for the premiere. The director finally found a positive review and read it aloud to everyone. Even a comment "not as bad as imagined" was read repeatedly by him.

Before Xu Shulou went to rest, he smiled and patted his shoulder: "It's too late, let's watch it tomorrow."

The next day, this fight scene in the drama really attracted people's attention. A blogger edited this part separately and titled it "I haven't seen such a thrilling fight scene in a long time."

Many people said that it was interesting and they would go and see it when they had time.

The crew also struck while the iron was hot and released a clip of the fight scene. There was no editing, and the fight scene was done in one go. Xu Shulou and Bai Roushuang's movements were extremely swift, and the fan and sword touched each other in the air. During the filming, the other crew members were worried. Although the weapons used on the scene were all plastic props, they fought so seriously that everyone was afraid that one of them would lose control and really hurt the other. However, this worry was obviously unnecessary. After the director called "cut", the expressions of the two relaxed instantly. Xu Shulou moved her wrist slightly, and the crew's not-so-easy-to-use plastic fan obediently returned to her waist. Bai Roushuang also smiled at her senior sister and held the sword horizontally, retracting and releasing it freely.

As the director expected, this fight scene and the clip quickly sparked a wave of exclamations online, saying "it was actually a real fight." Then, some people were attracted and clicked on the first episode of "The Immortal Journey" out of curiosity.

They soon discovered that compared to the harem literature of the original novel, the plot had changed a lot, and the original male protagonist Lu Beichen was more like a cameo character in the first episode. Everyone was inevitably a little confused, but they also watched it with great interest.

The audience who originally just wanted to watch Lu Beichen and Bai Roushuang have a relaxed love life clicked in to find that there was almost no love plot. However, they were still attracted by the plot and finished watching the entire episode unknowingly. When the progress bar reached the end, they realized that the episode was over.

Another week later, the second episode was released. This episode was almost Xu Shulou's solo show, telling the story of how she single-handedly fought the flood, saved the people of Tianshui Town, and then tracked down the mastermind behind the scenes and seized the soul-calling flag.

The hit rate of this episode on video websites even exceeded that of the first episode. However, after it was broadcast, the official account of the crew received many private messages from viewers. Some people were dissatisfied with this magical change, but more people said that since it had been changed, it might as well be changed thoroughly. If the subsequent plot was to be filmed according to the original work, and Xu Shulou had to enter Lu Beichen's harem in the end, they would send knives to the crew.

Everyone in the crew didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but they were all surprised and delighted to see that this drama starring all newcomers was poised to become a big hit.

Everyone quickly returned to the intense filming, and the third, fourth, and fifth episodes were aired on schedule, with word of mouth gradually growing. Bai Roushuang and Xu Shulou, a pair of sisters who fought to the death in the original novel but ended up in the same place, had completely different developments in the series.

However, once anything becomes popular, different voices will definitely appear.

That day, Bai Roushuang was looking through her phone and couldn't help laughing. Xu Shulou came over and asked, "What are you looking at?"

Bai Roushuang handed over the phone, and Xu Shulou took a look: "New fans build a building for Xiaobai - She is as beautiful as a white flower blooming in the early morning, but she is more resilient than a white flower." What is this?

"Oh, not this one, scroll down."

"This scene of Xu Shulou looking around after getting off the phoenix carriage, his eyes are filled with the youthful vigor and ambition, mixed with the peace that comes from having experienced the vicissitudes of life. This contradictory feeling makes me fall for it." Xu Shulou said shyly, "Junior sister, did you specifically let me see this?"

"...Not this one either, but I like this title." Bai Roushuang swiped the screen of her phone a few times, "Look at this."

Xu Shulou took a closer look and said, "The two main actors of "The Immortal Journey" Bai Roushuang and Xu Shulou are not on good terms with each other privately, and their relationship is actually closer to the original novel." What a mess.

She clicked on it to take a closer look and found out that someone pretending to be an insider had revealed that the two actors were privately at odds with each other. The reason was that Bai Roushuang, as the heroine of the original novel, was extremely dissatisfied with the fact that the crew gave many important roles to Xu Shulou.

Xu Shulou nodded: "Well, it's quite funny."

"It's as ridiculous as it was back then. People in the cultivation world always said that you, my senior sister, were overbearing, arrogant, and unscrupulous," Bai Roushuang rested her head on Xu Shulou's shoulder, "My senior sister is so gentle."

"Well..." Xu Shulou felt a little guilty, "It's still a little different, mine...actually has some basis, but you are just spreading rumors this time."

“…”

Compared to the love story, some people are probably more interested in negative rumors by nature, and soon someone spread the news everywhere with certainty. However, the crew responded quickly and released a screenshot on the official account. It was the cast and crew list of the ending song of the TV series "Taking the Immortal Journey", and the words "Screenwriter - Bai Roushuang" were clearly written on it.

The person who was shouting happily seemed to be strangled by the neck, and the voice stopped abruptly. Most viewers don't pay attention to the cast list when watching a play, but since Bai Roushuang herself is the screenwriter, the rumor that she was dissatisfied because her role was taken away suddenly seemed too outrageous.

Then, the director forwarded the screenshot with the caption "Thanks to Bai Roushuang's persistence, we have the current script."

Now the person who spread the rumor was completely speechless. Bai Roushuang bent over with laughter while holding her phone.

Sheng Wuyou also began to try out makeup. After discussing with the director and Bai Roushuang, it was finally decided that she would play two roles. One was the goddess Wutong who seemed innocent and naive but was actually a murderer, and the other was Sheng Wuyou who came from a scholarly family and was abducted by Qi Wutong to be a maid.

These two characters don't have many scenes, so there is no schedule conflict. Bai Roushuang discussed it with the makeup artist and drew eyebrows and eyes for Sheng Wuyou according to their appearance in memory. The final effect is amazing, and combined with Sheng Wuyou's performance, they really look like two completely different women.

"It's very challenging," Xu Shulou commented, "It's much more difficult than the two of us playing ourselves."

Bai Roushuang shrugged: "We two will leave after filming. Wuyou has always wanted to make a living from this, so more opportunities are always a good thing."

"You are very careful."

"Of course," Bai Roushuang became proud after being praised by her senior sister, "I have been the head of the sect for so many years after all!"

After Song Ping learned about it, he also thanked his junior sister. The next day, when Xu Shulou was about to tell his junior brothers and sisters something, the producer rushed in and said, "I just received a call. A variety show invited us to record a show. It's in the local area, but the schedule is quite tight. It will be tomorrow morning."

Xu Shulou was embarrassed: "I have something to do. I just asked the director for leave. I may not be able to make it tomorrow."

"I have to go talk to the director about the show," the producer said hurriedly, "Please think about it again. This is a very rare opportunity for newcomers."

He left in a hurry. Song Ping hesitated to speak: "I thought..."

Xu Shulou asked curiously: "What?"

"I thought that you would take this opportunity to make the existence of cultivators known to the public, so that they can understand the footprints that cultivators have left throughout the long river of history."

Xu Shulou shook his head: "Every era has its inevitability, and I have no intention of changing it."

Song Ping smiled and said, "I understand."

After a few words of conversation, the producer hurried out of the director's lounge and grabbed Xu Shulou: "Are you sure you don't want to go? This is not the time to be modest."

"I'm not being modest. I really have something to do."

"You're already popular now, so it's a good idea to make an appearance on a variety show while the iron is hot," the producer said, worried for her. "What could be more important than your career and future?"

Xu Shulou took a deep breath and said, "You may not believe this, but there is a chance that an asteroid will collide with the Earth. The probability is not high, but the God Realm sent me to deal with it. This is also their assessment of me."

The producer opened his mouth wide and looked at Song Ping, hoping that he could stop such outrageous excuses. However, Song Ping, who always remained calm in the face of adversity, even raised his voice: "Why don't you go? Do you need help?"

"No need," Xu Shulou waved his hand, "I'm leaving first, you guys..."

"Eat well and be a good person, right?" Song Ping has learned to answer quickly, "I understand."

“…”