Murong Xiao swallowed hard, sprang up from the ground, his face beaming with a sincere and grateful expression of profound understanding.
"Senior sister! I understand!"
His voice was loud and clear, filled with the excitement of about to do something big: "I'm going right now!"
Shen Zhaozhao was holding a piece of cold star iron that had just been quenched and was still warm. Upon hearing this, she looked up with a blank expression: "No? What are you going to do? What do you know?"
Murong Xiao had already swept to the door of the weapon-refining room like a small whirlwind: "I'm going to catch a cat demon and teach it a backflip!"
Before he finished speaking, he had already disappeared through the doorway with a "whoosh," leaving the weapon-refining room in complete silence.
The spirit fire in Qin Zhenzhen's hand suddenly shot up a foot higher. She blinked blankly, "...What does he know?"
Shen Zhaozhao expressionlessly tossed the Cold Star Iron into the cooling pool with a "clang," splashing up a cloud of water mist.
"..."
Shen Zhaozhao: "He doesn't know anything."
The next day.
The streets of Liuyunchuan were noticeably noisier than when the pre-auction event ended yesterday.
Many cultivators who missed the day or who had heard about the "sky-high price package" saga flocked over, eager to experience the atmosphere before the opening of the Cloud Platform Immortal Market.
Before a cultivator who had just squeezed into the crowd on the main street could even stand still, a stiff talisman was suddenly shoved into his hand by an excited cultivator next to him with green eyes.
"Fellow Daoist! Fellow Daoist, take a look! Cast your precious vote!"
The cultivator who had been stuffed with the talisman looked bewildered and subconsciously looked down.
The talisman was exquisitely crafted, with several large, elegant characters printed at the top: "Yuntai Immortal Market: Lingbi Shine Brightly!" Come and choose your favorite "Six Jades of Yuntai" champion!
Below are six lifelike portraits, densely packed together. These are the cultivators who bid the highest and had the most flamboyant poses during yesterday's pre-auction warm-up, both male and female.
Among them, Gu Xuanchen's stiff and ashen face, which could not be concealed even in the commemorative portrait, was ranked first!
Below the portrait are a few brief introductory phrases, such as "A true hero who spends lavishly," "His spirit soars to the heavens and overwhelms all others," and "His unparalleled elegance astounds all who hear it"... The words are so flowery and exaggerated that they give you goosebumps.
At the very bottom is a small photo stamp, next to which is written: "Inject your spiritual power to cast your precious vote for your favorite 'Lingbi'! Only one vote per day!"
The monk who had been handed a leaflet stared wide-eyed. What was this thing?!
Before he could recover from the huge shock, the intense argument between the two groups of cultivators next to him exploded like boiling water, precisely filling his ears.
"Pah! Gu Xuanchen's effeminate face dares to call him 'peerless beauty'? That's laughable!"
"His pathetic state of burning that tattered bundle yesterday has been all over the place, okay? The leader? I think 'the chief of the wronged' is more like it! I'm taking my Fairy Su away, no thanks! She's all alone!"
A young cultivator, dressed in a bright green robe and clearly a fan of a female cultivator, pointed at Gu Xuanchen's portrait and spat as he spoke.
"Bullshit!"
A cultivator wearing the robes of the Tianyan Sect immediately bristled, his face turning bright red. "What do you know?! Our Senior Brother Gu is known for his composure and magnanimity! He doesn't even flinch at a thousand top-grade spirit stones, that's what a true hero is!"
"Who does your Su Qinghe think she is? She only held up a sign twice yesterday, and her bids were barely audible. How dare she show her face and embarrass herself like this? Get back to your Medicine King Valley and don't come near me!"
"What did you say?! How dare you insult the Fairy of Medicine King Valley?!"
The cultivator in the emerald green robe was furious, his eyes red with rage. He rolled up his sleeves, ready to confront him: "You're asking for death!"
"Come on! I'm not afraid of you!"
The scene instantly descended into chaos, with spittle and talismans flying everywhere, and curses mingling with spiritual energy.
Just as the two sides were about to roll up their sleeves and start fighting again, a woman's voice, tinged with a lazy coquettishness yet extremely penetrating, interrupted: "Oh my~ all this noise, where do you put our young master?"
The crowd looked in the direction of the sound and saw several elegantly dressed and gentle female cultivators gathered together. The leader was a rather mature-looking older sister who was holding a talisman and pointing her finger at Murong Xiao's slightly arrogant portrait.
"Look at our young master, he was so decisive and efficient at the opening auction yesterday!"
"Absolutely!"
Another female cultivator with a quiet demeanor spoke up, her eyes full of a motherly smile.
"He looks no more than sixteen or seventeen, right? He looks like a jade doll, and the key thing is that he's bold enough to challenge the chief disciple of the Tianyan Sect. Isn't that much better than some of those old fogies who put on airs and look like they're suffering from a grudge?"
The mature female fan's fighting spirit was off the charts, and she directly launched a sweeping attack, saying, "Some people are arrogant just because their sect is big. My baby is much more pleasing to the eye!"
"Baby?"
A disciple of the Tianyan Sect sneered, "Him? He's as fierce as a little wolfhound, how is he like a 'little puppy'?!"
"You're the one who's mean! Your whole family is mean!"
The "mommy fans" immediately exploded, "That's called youthful spirit, showing your edge! You know what 'cute and fierce' means?! If you don't appreciate it, shut up!"
The battle quickly escalated, with the "little prince's faction" of mothers and older sisters displaying astonishing fighting prowess, engaging in heated debates and making the scene even more chaotic and explosive.
In the shadows of an inconspicuous narrow alley.
Qin Zhenzhen stared in disbelief at the chaotic scene on the main street, which resembled a boiling pot of porridge. Cultivators from various factions argued heatedly, their faces flushed, and talismans flew everywhere as they supported their favorite "Lingbi".
She instinctively tightened her grip on Shen Zhaozhao's arm, feeling that her weapon-refining mind couldn't keep up with the pace at all, her voice filled with deep confusion: "Zhaozhao... what exactly are you planning to do with all this?"
Indeed, the chaotic and wildly popular scene before us is Shen Zhaozhao's masterpiece.
She wanted to take advantage of the cultivators' natural competitive spirit and desire to win, to tie together the six people who bid the highest and acted the most flamboyantly in yesterday's warm-up auction, and then fan the flames, making their fans fight to the death for the title of "champion," thus making the gimmick of the "Six Jades of Yuntai" go viral.
Qin Zhenzhen watched as a female cultivator from Medicine King Valley nearly threw a Bursting Pill at the face of a Tianyan Sect disciple in an attempt to defend her "Fairy Su," and her lips twitched violently: "They've certainly created a buzz, and it's certainly lively... but if we just watch them fight, our magic weapons won't sell, will they?"
Shen Zhaozhao let her senior sister hang on her arm like a koala. Her gaze swept over the older female fans and mothers in the crowd who were cheering for Murong Xiao and calling him "baby" and "young master" one after another. A sly glint flashed in her eyes.
"Creating a buzz is just the first step."
"The others... are just supporting characters. My main purpose in going to such lengths is to put our junior brother into the 'Six Jades of Yuntai'."
It's in there, it's generating buzz, it's the center of attention... only then can her next plan begin smoothly~
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