27: Chapter 27: Battle Through the Heavens Premieres and Becomes a God

"'battle through the heavens' is getting an anime? Is that true?"

"A web novel adapted into an animation? Can domestic technology handle it? Just the fight special effects alone will be a huge headache!"

"I can't speak for other companies, but Tianxing Technology can't possibly be bad, right? Their technology is top-tier!"

An announcement on the official website of A Certain Point instantly exploded across the entire internet. Whether it was the web novel circle or the animation circle, everyone was discussing this matter.

'battle through the heavens' has been incredibly popular these past few years. It has hundreds of thousands of official readers, and the pirated copies have multiplied tenfold. Coupled with the reputation of Tianxing Technology, the attention directly flooded the comment sections.

Meanwhile, in the offices of Penguin Novel Network, Wu Wenhui was confidently assuring Cheng Wu:

"President Cheng, rest assured, this move by Tianxing Technology is just a bluff. They think they can keep authors by making an anime? Wishful thinking!"

He was full of confidence:

"No one understands the web novel circle better than I do! At most, in a year, our Penguin Novel Network will absolutely crush A Certain Point! What else can Tianxing Technology do besides throwing money around? Creation cannot be bought with money!"

Cheng Wu wore a smile, verbally agreeing:

"I naturally trust President Wu's ability."

But in his heart, he didn't take web novels seriously at all. All he wanted were the IPs held by these authors; that was the core of Penguin's Grand Culture and Entertainment Strategy.

If these people could achieve results, they would be given some benefits; if they couldn't, there were plenty of ways to deal with them.

Just as the entire internet was in an uproar over the 'battle through the heavens' anime, a system prompt suddenly sounded in Chen Mo's mind:

"Ding, this month's lottery chances have refreshed. Do you wish to draw?"

"Draw!"

"Ding, congratulations to the host for drawing the Grandmaster-level Medical Skill!"

Looking at the Grandmaster-level skill added to the system panel, Chen Mo's lips curved upward. He had been hoping for a medical skill for a long time; now, the matter of researching life-extension medicine could finally be put on the agenda.

A few days passed in the blink of an eye. Nalan Ruoshui pulled several all-nighters to clear all the bugs in the first half of the 'battle through the heavens' anime. There weren't many flaws; the artificial intelligence Chen Mo programmed was truly excellent, accurately restoring even the minute details from the web novel.

On the evening of August 15th at 8 PM, on Tianxing Live, Ling Jing's streaming room was already packed with people.

In this past month, Ling Jing had completely made it. Her followers exceeded 200,000, and her concurrent online viewers consistently surpassed ten thousand. Last month, her salary was over forty thousand, stronger than many mid-tier streamers, though still slightly less than Nalan Ruoshui, who earned sixteen hundred yuan for drawing a single picture.

At this moment, Ling Jing was wailing at the screen. Her streaming content had long since changed from singing and chatting to playing 'League of Heroes.' It wasn't that she wanted to play; it was that the game was too popular. Half of Tianxing Live's major streamers were broadcasting it.

She was a complete gaming novice, playing so poorly her skills were like kicking dirt, and she died in countless bizarre ways. Yet, the audience loved watching it, and the bullet comments were full of teasing.

"Streamer died again! So bad at kicking dirt!"

"Others gain fans through skill, you gain them by feeding the enemy; you're truly one of a kind!"

"Please go idle, stop torturing the jungle monsters!"

Ling Jing glanced at the time, her eyes instantly lighting up. Regardless of how the bullet comments scrolled, she directly closed the game, clicked the 'battle through the heavens' anime link on the Tianxing Live homepage, and said cheerfully:

"Oh yeah, just in time, it's about to start broadcasting!"

The bullet comments instantly exploded:

"Streamer isn't playing games anymore? Watching anime?"

"It can't be a mission arranged by Tianxing, right? Advertising 'battle through the heavens' here?"

"A domestic web novel adaptation? Watchable? I bet it won't last one episode!"

"Only the first few episodes are free; they'll definitely charge later. Who's going to be the sucker!"

When Ling Jing saw these comments, she immediately became displeased. Frowning, she retorted:

"What do you all know! This 'battle through the heavens' has explosive special effects; I saw it with my own eyes!"

What she said wasn't an exaggeration. A few days ago, she snuck into Nalan Ruoshui's room, peeked for less than a minute, and the visuals directly stunned her. She was caught and kicked out by Nalan Ruoshui, but she had been thinking about it for days.

This anime was her best friend's hard work; she absolutely could not let anyone slander it.

"Streamer must be an accomplice, right? The anime hasn't even aired, how could you have seen it?"

"Exactly, bragging without even thinking!"

Ling Jing stiffened her neck, looking proud:

"My best friend is the sole artist for this 'battle through the heavens'! All the characters and scenes inside were drawn by her alone, and she’s super beautiful! I watched it at her place!"

As soon as she said this, the streaming room's bullet comments instantly scrolled across the screen:

"Holy crap? The streamer's best friend is that awesome?"

"The only artist? That's a huge undertaking!"

"We demand the artist lady show her face! Let us see if she's a great beauty!"

"If she doesn't show her face, it's fake!"

Just as the bullet comments were arguing about seeing the artist, Ling Jing clicked on the first episode of the 'battle through the heavens' anime. The moment the picture appeared, the streaming room instantly fell silent for a second, then exploded!

On the screen, the Dou Qi Continent's clouds surged, the mountains were majestic, and the light and shadow effects were so realistic they were dazzling, showing no trace of a domestic animation. The bullet comments scrolled frantically:

"Damn! This is an animation? I thought it was a live-action movie!"

"These special effects are amazing! Are they not inferior to Hollywood blockbusters?"

"Is Tianxing Technology using its ultimate hidden technology here?"

"Xiao Yan is out! This design is exactly how I pictured him! It's perfect!"

As the plot progressed, the audience discovered that the anime's story was word-for-word identical to the original novel, even the tone of Xiao Yan's line, 'Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river, do not bully a young man in poverty,' was perfectly embedded.

"Tianxing Technology is too conscientious! It completely restores the original work!"

"With this quality, forget paying money, I'll watch it no matter how much it costs!"

"Those who said they wouldn't pay before, come out and take a few steps?"

"Willing to pay +10086! This wave must be supported!"

Tianxing Animation was also generous, releasing eight episodes in the premiere. Every episode's special effects were on par with the first one. The fight scenes flowed like running water, and the collision effects of Dou Qi were explosively exciting. The audience watched to their heart's content, flooding the comments with shouts of 'Not enough to watch.'

'battle through the heavens' anime was a massive hit, an overwhelming success!

In less than half an hour after the premiere, it instantly surged onto the Weibo Hot Search list. By the next morning, five of the top ten spots on the Weibo Hot Search were about the 'battle through the heavens' anime, with the top three completely dominated by it. Moreover, these were all pushed up voluntarily by netizens; Tianxing Live hadn't spent a single cent on promotion.

Wu Dongju looked at the hot search rankings, unable to close her mouth from smiling, feeling incredibly satisfied.

A while ago, she had mentioned to Chen Mo about investing in Weibo, and Chen Mo hadn't objected. However, when she approached Weibo to negotiate, she demanded management rights right away and was directly rejected.

Now, look at this! The Tianxing Live she managed, without needing Weibo's management rights, was still dominating the hot searches. That slap in the face felt so good!

The entire internet was praising the special effects of the 'battle through the heavens' anime. Professional netizens even calculated an account:

'battle through the heavens' has a total of 216 episodes, 25 minutes per episode. These top Hollywood-level special effects are calculated by frame:

24 frames per second, 1000 US dollars per frame;

24,000 US dollars per second, which is over 150,000 RMB;

216 episodes total 5,400 minutes, which is 7.776 billion US dollars, equivalent to 40 billion RMB.

The total cost is nearly fifty billion RMB!

When this number came out, netizens were stunned:

"Nearly fifty billion to make one animation? Is Tianxing Technology insane?"

No one believed Chen Mo would spend that much money on an anime. The only explanation was:

Tianxing Technology's special effects technology was a huge leap ahead of even Hollywood's top companies, directly reducing the cost to the minimum!

At this point, everyone realized that Tianxing Technology's strength was far more terrifying than they had imagined.