A few days passed in a flash.
Every day, Yu Xian ate, slept, played games, and watched livestreams, shooting the breeze and shooting his mouth off.
Under Niu Kaitian's unsparing promotion, Little Nora's livestream room gained tens of millions more viewers. That said, Little Nora's stream had already drawn massive crowds—when adding up viewers from across the myriad heavens and realms, there were nearly several trillion.
This truly was no exaggeration. After all, a single planet held roughly ten billion sapient lives, and a single world could easily contain thousands of such planets.
Meanwhile, the number of worlds within the Tree Universe was boundless, increasing each day and decreasing each day; the worlds that could stably exist and had developed to a certain degree were simply too numerous to count.
Niubao's Grandpa: "Doesn't Duckie need to cultivate? Why is it that every day I come in, I see Duckie eating? Doesn't she need to rest?"
Mo Shengqi: "I remember the Freeloader saying Duckie is some kind of bird whose cultivation is eating. The more she eats, the stronger she gets. Eating is cultivation, rest, growth, and enjoyment all at once. In short, just eating is the way to go."
Huang Facai's Dog: "I've watched Duckie eat for more than ten years now. Nothing wrong with that."
Does Ah Meow Eat Fish?: "I've watched for over ten years too, know problem."
Duckie's Dog: "You made a typo."
Does Ah Duck Eat Fish?: "Can't 'know' mean 'no' in my world?"
Duckie's Dog: "Heavenly Eye Live has an automatic script translation feature. What we see is text each of us recognizes. Even if 'know' meant 'no' in your world, it should have translated to 'no' on my end, not 'know.' So you made a typo!"
Next, the two debated in the chat for half the day, neither willing to back down.
Niu Kaitian truly had his eyes opened. People could shoot the breeze over such a fart of an issue for half a day—their lifespans were simply too long.
You Xinghun: "Friends of the Death Calamity Sea, tomorrow my daughter You Qing will be hosting her very first livestream on Heavenly Eye Live. If you are interested, please feel free to tune in—especially @Shining Youth, please be sure to come. Pretty please, pretty please, pretty please."
The three "pleases" at the end were emojis—an animated GIF of a black dragon bowing on its knees.
This fellow had only registered on Heavenly Eye Live after being invited by Niu Kaitian. Furthermore, over the past few days, Niu Kaitian and You Xinghun had joined forces to seize a controlling stake in Heavenly Eye Live, pinning Little Nora's stream right to the platform's front page with zero intention of ever taking it down.
In truth, the streamers currently broadcasting came in all shapes and forms. Those seeking fame and fortune were actually at the lowest tier. A step above was seeking faith, another step up was harvesting emotions, and higher still was duping sentient beings.
Those absorbing faith were generally divine-path streamers whose goal was to absorb the faith of viewers to pave a path toward godhood for themselves. Compared to running around the world tricking people, livestreaming was clearly faster, more convenient, and far safer.
As for harvesting emotions, there were many varieties—such as negative emotions and positive emotions—which were further subdivided into rage, jealousy, envy, or joy, happiness, and delight.
Little Nora belonged to this category. What she wanted was joy among the positive emotions, so her audience was relatively vast.
As for the final tier—duping sentient beings—to put it simply, it meant refining falsehood into reality. For instance, if a lie was told often enough that many people believed it to be true, one could use specific means to turn the falsehood into reality.
In fact, many livestreaming companies were founded by big shots of this caliber.
However, with Niu Kaitian and You Xinghun joining hands, so long as no Hegemon Rank was involved, there would be no problem.
Truth be told, Niu Kaitian and You Xinghun both belonged to the type of people who had no interest in livestreaming. After all, streaming brought them no benefits and provided zero positive help to their cultivation.
Yet ever since learning that Yu Xian and Little Nora were both on the platform, they had jumped in as well.
Right now, in order to push his daughter onto Yu Xian, You Xinghun was even preparing to have his youngest daughter debut as a streamer on Heavenly Eye Live—showing just how deeply invested he was in this matter.
Niubao's Grandpa: "Benefactor, why not go take a look when the time comes?"
Shining Sister: "Take a look at what? Can I go watch too?"
Niubao's Grandpa: "My apologies, I spoke out of turn."
Mo Shengqi: "Hahahaha, the legal wife has arrived! Time to catch the mistress!"
Shining Youth: "Old Mo, don't talk nonsense! What legal wife? What mistress? I'll sue you for slander!"
Mo Shengqi: "The Freeloader is scared! Guilty conscience!"
Duckie's Dog: "Freeloader, leniency for confession, severity for resistance. You'd better come clean and confess!"
Shining Sister: "Nora is coming out of seclusion tomorrow. Salty Fish, you're doomed."
Shining Youth: "The innocent remain innocent. Besides, Nora knows I'm not that kind of person. What do I have to fear?"
Duckie's Dog: "The Freeloader has it rough. Good thing I can have three wives and four concubines, no fear of my wife getting jealous."
Huang Facai's Dog: "Tch, I already have thousands of wives. Did I brag? Did I boast?"
Duckie's Dog: "I won't stoop to a dog's level. Where are the humans? Come on, let's compare!"
Mo Shengqi: "If you want to compare, go compare with the Yellow Emperor. The man had three thousand wives."
Shining Youth: "The Yellow Emperor? Where?"
Mo Shengqi: "Not too sure, but there really is a Yellow Emperor in the Death Calamity Sea. Rumor has it he ascended after bedding three thousand women."
You Xinghun: "The fellow you're talking about died several centuries ago. Didn't know what was good for him—having over three thousand wives and still coming to propose marriage to my family. In a fit of rage, I slaughtered him."
Seeing this, many people sucked in a sharp breath of cold air, and the topic changed abruptly.
Huang Facai's Dog: "Onto something serious—have you guys heard? The seawater at the center of the Death Calamity Sea has changed color."
Ever since the Death Calamity Sea was born, its waters had always been golden, never once changing color to this day. Quite a few people present knew this.
Niubao's Grandpa: "Changed color? What color did it turn?"
Huang Facai's Dog: "Seems to have turned red. It used to look like a pool of piss, but now it looks like a mass of blood. Kind of wicked."
The others immediately broke into discussion. Some even felt someone ought to investigate the cause thoroughly, lest some great crisis emerge while everyone remained blissfully oblivious.
Watching their discussion, Yu Xian rubbed his chin. Could it be that because he visited the Death Calamity Sea, something went wrong with it?
Over the years, after watching so many movies and dramas, the protagonists in them basically brought disaster wherever they went.
What if he was a protagonist too?
Yu Xian looked all around, searching for a hidden camera, and then flashed a wickedly charming smirk.
He felt that if he truly were the protagonist in some drama, that wickedly charming smirk of his just now would definitely bring countless girls following the show to their knees before his pajama pants.
"What are you doing?"
Niman happened to walk into the pavilion just then. Seeing Yu Xian smiling inexplicably at empty air, she asked with curiosity.
"..."
Yu Xian's smile froze, his face instantly burning bright red.
Chapter 398