Chapter 376: Advance!

The Falling Blossom Divine Sword Palm was one of the Five Supreme Techniques and was created by the legendary figure, Huang Yaoshi[1], also known as the Eastern Heretic. The verse, "Peach Blossom Shadows Fall and Divine Sword Flies, The Jade Flute Guides the Tides of the Emerald Sea," referred to his two greatest martial arts: Falling Blossom Divine Sword Palm and Emerald Sea Tide Song.

The Falling Blossom Divine Sword Palm was derived from sword techniques and embodied the essence of both palm and sword arts. It was the perfect martial art for someone like Su Qianni to cultivate.

"Rise. I will teach you the Falling Blossom Divine Sword Palm," Li Xiaofei said with a nod.

Su Qianni was overjoyed. When she checked the time, there was still about an hour left before the stream ended.

"However, there's always a proper order to things," Li Xiaofei mused and said, "I’ll first teach your Second Senior Brother the Five Tigers Door-Cutting Blade."

He then turned to the fans in the live stream and announced, "For the next few days, the focus of the streams will still be on the Great Strength Vajra Fist. This technique is the most accessible, requires minimal cultivation prerequisites, and can be mastered quickly. As for the Five Tigers Door-Cutting Blade and the Falling Blossom Divine Sword Palm, I’ll be teaching them to my two disciples. If anyone is interested, you can visit their live streams to learn from them."

When they heard this, both Zhou Yidao and Su Qianni's eyes lit up. As individuals who treated live streaming as their career, they fully understood the weight of Li Xiaofei's words. This meant that in the future, they could hold public teaching sessions in their own streams.

This was guaranteed to bring in more traffic. The Patriarch was being incredibly generous by teaching martial arts and even sharing his audience.

How could such a generous person exist in this world?

What was his true background? Could he be a disciple from one of the legendary Saint Families?

In the next hour, Li Xiaofei taught Zhou Yidao the Five Tigers Door-Cutting Blade and Su Qianni the Falling Blossom Divine Sword Palm. Since it was a one-on-one lesson, the pace of instruction was much faster.

Zhou Yidao already had a foundation in the Five Tigers Door-Cutting Blade, so he quickly grasped the basics of the technique. Due to time constraints, Su Qianni only managed to learn the first four moves of the Falling Blossom Divine Sword Palm.

"That’s all for today," Li Xiaofei said, checking the time. "When you go back, take the time to reflect on what you've learned. If there's anything you don't understand, feel free to ask me during tomorrow's stream."

With that, he swiftly ended the live stream. Everyone who wanted to ask more questions didn’t even have the chance to stop him.

Farewell to the Patriarch!

Farewell to the Patriarch!

The live chat exploded with messages, filling the screen in an endless stream of text.

Zhang Zhihong, Li Xiaofei's stream assistant, glanced at the data. The live stream had 150,000 viewers, with a popularity rating exceeding 3,000,000. The number of subscribed followers had risen to 149,000.

This meant that almost every viewer who joined the stream ended up subscribing. These numbers left Zhang Zhihong utterly astonished once again.

Meanwhile, in the virtual office at Longya Group's headquarters, Liao Qixing and the members of Team 18, who had been closely monitoring the stream's performance, erupted in cheers. They stood up, clapping and congratulating each other for the massive success of the broadcast.

The third live stream was just as explosive as the previous ones. Every metric was growing at an absurd, almost incomprehensible rate.

"Boss, did you see that? He really does have more hardcore true legacy martial arts techniques."

"Falling Blossom Divine Sword Palm! What a beautiful name!"

"Who exactly is this Grandmaster of Heaven?"

"If he’s mastered so many true legacies of ancient martial arts, he must belong to one of the top-tier Saint families. It’s already an incredible stroke of luck for an ordinary person to have one true legacy."

The team members were buzzing with discussion as their curiosity grew.

Liao Qixing spread his hands and said, "No need to guess. Grandmaster of Heaven's identity is a mystery. His confidentiality level is extremely high. Our director even pulled some strings within the company and still couldn’t get access to his information."

Yang Hui was shocked and said, "Then he must be from one of the top Saint families for sure."

Deputy team leader Zhou Hailong nodded thoughtfully and added, "Exactly. Only the elite martial families would possess so many true legacies."

But as he finished speaking, he exchanged a glance with Yang Hui. The bickering duo had found common ground once again! Their colleagues burst into laughter.

Zhou Hailong almost reflexively added, "But even if he’s a son of a top-tier family, continuing to teach these techniques for free like this probably won’t last long. After all, true legacy martial arts are the foundation of these families, and doing this is a huge waste of their inheritance."

Yang Hui was quick to disagree as she retorted, "Maybe it’s the will of his entire family! With Great Xia in turmoil, constantly losing in the resource wars and the Council’s Holy Wars, some conscientious Saint families might be trying to bring about change..."

"Ha! Saint families with a conscience?"

"There’s no absolute in this world."

And so, the two of them began arguing once more.

Liao Qixing and the rest of the team exchanged amused glances and smiled. Everything was back to normal; the bickering duo was at it again.

***

Crap!

Martial Arts You Ba cursed in the group chat.

That kid’s live stream is way too popular. I posted hundreds of comments to get him to come pay respects, but they were all drowned out by other people’s messages.

A streamer named Great Dragon Spear posted a suggestion.

You could apply to join the stream

Tens of thousands of people are trying to join his stream. I can’t even get in.

Seriously? A new streamer is that popular? Tens of thousands of people trying to join?

Are you joking? Or did he hire a bunch of plants to boost his numbers?

Tens of thousands of fake viewers?

The discussion in the streamer group exploded. Even those who weren’t paying much attention were now intrigued because Martial Arts You Ba's claims sounded so exaggerated.

Normally, a few thousand people applying to join a live stream with over 500,000 viewers would already indicate an incredibly high level of engagement.

Tens of thousands trying to join? That’s the kind of number you’d expect from a super-streamer with millions of followers! Only a handful of streamers had ever reached that level of popularity across the Longya Live Streaming platform. Most streamers in the group believed Martial Arts You Ba was exaggerating to cover up the fact that he hadn’t completed the task Brother Dao assigned him.

Has Zhou Yidao started his stream yet?

At that moment, Brother Dao joined the chat.

Martial Arts You Ba quickly replied

Yes, right after Grandmaster of Heaven ended his stream, Zhou Yidao started his own.

He added a few inflammatory words

Brother Dao, this kid is getting cocky. He thinks he's secured some big backer and doesn’t care about you anymore.

It's now 11:10 PM. In twenty minutes, the Dao Union Army will invade Zhou Yidao's live stream.

Spread the word. I want his stream destroyed. I want him off the Longya Live Stream platform for good.

A chill ran through the group. It was happening. A real battle, where no punches would be pulled, was about to unfold.

After months of silence, the Dao Union Army was finally about to stir up another storm of chaos. Tonight promised to be full of drama.

Immediately, all the streamers in the group began spreading the word to their fan bases. Meanwhile, Zhou Yidao was still in his livestream, excitedly teaching blade techniques. He was completely unaware of the storm brewing.

His live stream had over 40,000 viewers, with a popularity score nearing 1,000,000. These were the best stats he had ever seen since he started streaming. The activity level in the chat was also phenomenal.

Comments were flying by like there was no limit to how many people could send messages. Well, technically, ordinary comments were free. Zhou Yidao recognized many of the usernames in the chat. These were viewers who had migrated over from his master, Grandmaster of Heaven's stream.

Following his master's advice, Zhou Yidao decided to suppress his selfish desires and greed. He offered free instruction on the Five Tigers Door-Cutting Blade technique during his stream. This was a golden opportunity to win over diehard fans. And sure enough, as he poured his heart into teaching, more and more viewers flooded his stream. More and more. And more...

Gradually, Zhou Yidao began to sense that something was off. The increase in viewership was becoming far too exaggerated.

In the blink of an eye, his stream had reached 200,000 viewers, surpassing even the number in his master's stream. A creeping sense of unease washed over Zhou Yidao.

Something isn’t right.

1. Huang Yaoshi is a fictional character in the wuxia novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes and its sequel, The Return of the Condor Heroes, by Jin Yong. ☜