272: Evil cultivators can create accounts very quickly.

"Step right up, take a look!"

"The Taiyi Sect has just been established! Come listen to a lecture for half an hour and get free eggs."

"Shocking!!! This new sect is actually..."

"The Pope told me to get 100,000 followers in 7 days, saying he'd marry his sister to me once I finish."

Mo Ran looked at the overwhelming advertisements and offline promotions, and the corner of his mouth couldn't help but twitch.

"Senior, are you serious?"

Because "Lord Qingxuan" was a mouthful, after getting tired of hearing it, Qingxuan let Mo Ran change the address to Senior.

"Trust me, what you lack most right now is traffic."

"Haters or fake fans, it doesn't matter; at least for now, you need to have fans."

Qingxuan was in front of a television in the main city, watching the perspective shared from Mo Ran's side.

This television was one of the devices it had developed during this time using its vast knowledge reserve.

Mo Ran had never been very accepting of these things in the Eastern Region.

Although he could use Divine Sense to assist in understanding various so-called technologies, his brain wasn't very quick, and he was slow to learn things, so he never really liked using these devices.

It was only under Qingxuan's strong insistence that he started getting in touch with them and bought something called a "mobile phone."

Following Qingxuan's instructions, he first found a communication app on his phone, registered an official account, then posted random content, and spent money to promote it.

During this time, with Qingxuan's help, the Taiyi Sect, which originally only had one person and one bird, already had a few official followers.

Although they were mostly old men and women among the Mortals, and their faith wasn't firm, they had finally taken the first step.

However, these actions were very unpopular among the younger generation, and many people expressed disdain for their behavior, believing this was just another sect started by some money-grabbing organization.

Therefore, on his phone, Mo Ran often received all kinds of abuse, and some radicals would even run to the church to say nasty things, affecting stability.

However, after Mo Ran made a move once, the situation improved a lot.

The reason was still the same as before; Cultivators were rare here and generally respected.

So even though many young people had a poor impression of the Taiyi Sect, after confirming he was a Cultivator, no one dared to come to cause trouble offline anymore.

"But can this really gain faith?"

"And we don't have much funds left."

Mo Ran still couldn't understand.

Continuing to spend money to gain a small batch of wavering believers while incurring a lot of abuse—at this rate, he felt that either the church wouldn't be able to continue, or the capital chain would break first.

"Don't panic, we're just getting started."

"Is money even a problem?"

"I have my own clever plans; you just do as I say, and leave the rest to me."

After speaking, Qingxuan manipulated a remote Puppet through the television, then used the Puppet to take over Mo Ran's mobile phone.

Then, it began to show its "professionalism."

Qingxuan first scolded the popular idol groups in the Eastern Region and some groups that the public disliked, attracting a large amount of traffic through notoriety, and then took the opportunity to sell goods, selling off all of Mo Ran's inventory from this period at high prices.

Some who placed orders admired Mo Ran's "courage," while others did it purely for malicious reviews.

It could be said that on the day Mo Ran's shop went online, it ushered in the first and last peak of profitability on the internet.

However, Mo Ran didn't know how bad his reputation had become; after all, he didn't like to go online, which actually saved him from the experience of being cyberbullied.

"Senior, why does this little gadget keep beeping and showing so many incoming payment records?"

"It's a good thing that money is coming in; don't worry about it, just ship the goods."

"Senior, why do so many people leave comments saying 'Old Feng has flown'?"

"Uh... that's probably some mysterious slang in the Eastern Region; don't worry about it either, as long as the money is coming in, it's fine."

During this time, Qingxuan and Mo Ran could be said to have collaborated seamlessly.

Mo Ran had always admired this Senior, because it could always sell his items—which were usually hard to sell and overpriced—at even higher prices and in greater quantities, helping him recoup a large amount of funds.

On the other hand, he always failed to handle matters well, and recently, more people came to cause trouble offline, leaving him exhausted.

Although he didn't understand why, knowing he was a Cultivator, so many people still dared to target him offline, it must be because he hadn't done a good job himself.

Since Senior was trying so hard, if he didn't do better, he would really be letting down Senior's efforts.

Meanwhile, in the Qingxu Grotto-Heaven.

A few days after saying goodbye to Shi Suiyan, Zhou Yan fell into a period of leisure again.

Although Shi Suiyan said it was urgent, that was in terms of a Cultivator's time scale.

As it stood, apart from the future trip to the Eastern Extreme Secret Realm, he had no plans to leave the Northern Territory in the short term, so there was actually no need to be so anxious.

"Boss, what did that girl Shi come here for the other day?" Yuan Chenling asked curiously, lying by Zhou Yan's recliner.

During that time, he happened to have had an epiphany and went to find a corner to go into seclusion, so he only knew Shi Suiyan had come, but didn't know what she came for.

"Don't ask about things you shouldn't; don't you know curiosity killed the cat?"

Yuan Chenling pouted.

He couldn't help but think, I'm not a cat, though.

But he didn't ask further; after all, he had been very busy himself during this time.

For some reason, ever since he had that strange dream, he felt his body was much lighter. If it hadn't been for Zhou Yan stopping him, he probably would have been ready to undergo Core Formation right after coming out of that seclusion.

And the reason Zhou Yan stopped him was very simple, because Zhou Yan had discovered a method that seemed to be a simpler way of Undergoing Tribulation.

Just in the last two days, he suddenly noticed movement in the human Legacy within his body.

Originally, most of the content in this Legacy couldn't be used, so Zhou Yan had only used a few of them to condense the merit golden wheel and carry the national destiny; he didn't have much of a clue on how to light up the others.

But recently, an inexplicably added force had revealed another part of that dim Legacy.

And that force, while not as omnipotent as Karma, was easier to control than the bound national destiny. After accumulating a certain amount, Zhou Yan finally understood that this was the most magical power of Incense, often seen in cultivation stories.

So he returned to the main city immediately, wanting to see what Mo Ran had been up to recently.

Then he happened to arrest the dead black chicken, Qingxuan, who was causing trouble, and asked it for the full story.

Only then did Zhou Yan know what Heaven-Defying operations Qingxuan had pulled again: trading reputation for money, consuming hater traffic, scolding groups to drive traffic... the dead black chicken really dared to make money from anything.

If it weren't for the fact that Mo Ran was a Foundation Establishment Cultivator and had enough survival experience, he probably would have been ambushed long ago.

After teaching Qingxuan a lesson, Zhou Yan formally set about rebuilding the main city.

Anyway, with nothing to do, he might as well seriously develop this church, because the power of Incense was genuinely useful among those Legacies. He could feel that this would be of great benefit to his own cultivation; he might be able to embark on the path of rapid leveling up again through Incense.

So after careful consideration, Zhou Yan decided that he, Heavenly Venerable Zhou, would invest in this project.

His first step was to turn Yuan Chenling into an NPC and send him into the main city.

At the same time, he gave part of the human Legacy to Mo Ran, letting him use it to consolidate the church, including the God Summoning Art he had modified a second time.

The Great Yu version of the God Summoning Art summoned the Great Yu ancestors; after Zhou Yan modified it in the same way, the final connection would be to himself.

In this way, as long as they really made him a god over there, even if just a wild god, he could use Mo Ran's God Summoning Art to achieve remote combat assistance.

Although Zhou Yan wasn't a top-tier powerhouse, according to Qingxuan, the Eastern Region, apart from Cultivators, was a society dominated by technology.

And in the confrontation between magic power and technology, tech creations of the same level often needed to load a large number of anti-Spell erosion modules to fight against Cultivators for a long time, but this would also lead to a decrease in their combat power.

Coupled with the fact that the Power of Law also had a great influence on tech creations, except for important major cities, most Eastern Region cities didn't have mechanical creations above Soul Transformation; at most, they were Nascent Soul creations.

In other words, once the God Summoning Art was implemented, in that city, as long as no Soul Transformation Cultivator took action, Mo Ran could basically walk sideways.

And Zhou Yan also began to seriously study the main city and the human Legacy, trying to improve his strength to avoid being backstabbed by that old geezer Ma Hao in the future.

Decided, I'll use Hachikō for the experiment first.

No, no, it's to collect Incense first, and hand-craft a godhead for his dear mount to see if he can help him exempt the Lightning Tribulation.

If the things in the Legacy were really useful, he would craft one for himself.

Heh heh heh, there aren't many masters as conscientious as I am; I always think of my own people first when it comes to good things.

Hiss~ Eh?

Did I say I wouldn't laugh like this in the future?

Did I?