Chapter 789: Chapter 356: Cultural Invasion, Jiushan Reform
Seeing him remain silent, Master Pang didn’t press further and just looked at the other two sections.
“Stage drama? Like that rescue one from before…”
“Yes, there are quite a few stage dramas now within the sect. In the future, they can be put on here for other cultivators to watch for a fee.”
“… This is great! This will surely make money!” Master Pang said joyfully, “It might even earn more than the store!”
Zheng Fa nodded lightly. Master Pang indeed had so talent for mundane affairs.
From his observations over the years, many cultivators’ entertainnt needs even surpassed their physiological needs.
Cultivators are a group theoretically with extrely long lifespans but confronted with unpredictable day-to-day survival, facing trendous psychological stress.
When one’s cultivation reaches Golden Core, they can even forgo eating.
If a cultivator were to just lie around, they would be idle and bored to the extre, not knowing what to do to pass the ti.
It’s safe to say there’s an extre lack of entertainnt activities.
The theater at Jiushan Market has long had tickets in short supply.
Stage dramas have beco the market’s highlight, attracting many foreign cultivators.
“As for storybooks, aren’t they a bit outdated and can’t be innovated much, probably won’t earn much money. Unlike stage dramas, they’re fresh, and there are none in the Xuanwei Realm.”
Master Pang asserted, “Not speaking for others, but I read quite a few storybooks in my youth, and now I’ve long lost interest, especially if it costs money. Absolutely not!”
Zheng Fa hadn’t yet explained when a hasty question ca from beside him.
“What about below?”
Zheng Fa and Master Pang turned to see Elder Xiong standing anxiously nearby, full of urgency.
“What below?”
Master Pang asked confusedly.
“The storybook!”
Master Pang asked curiously, “Storybook? About what?”
“Let tell you, this storybook is quite interesting. The protagonist was initially robbed of his fiancée by a disciple of Haori Mountain, seriously injured and near death, seemingly about to perish, then miraculously picked up a ring with remnants of a Great Power’s soul, continuously encountering adventures, joining Jiushan Sect, soaring through the sky, awakening talent in artifact refining, and reaching Golden Core in just ten years.”
At this point, Elder Xiong paused, looking at Zheng Fa with eyes even sowhat wistful, “I just saw the protagonist seek revenge on that scoundrel from Haori Mountain, and then it stopped?”
Master Pang listened, bewildered, and looked blankly at Zheng Fa, “What storybook is this? I’ve never seen it.”
“I just wrote it.”
Master Pang listened, becoming even more curious.
He opened the Comprehensive Records in his hand, found the storybook interface, saw only one book, and directly started reading it.
A Nascent Soul cultivator reads incredibly fast, and his facial expressions change even faster, as if playing with changing faces, gnashing teeth one mont, suddenly smiling the next.
From ti to ti, he even slapped his thigh, making crisp sounds without realizing it.
After half a stick of incense, he lifted his head and looked at Zheng Fa:
“What about below?”
“Below requires a fee.”
“…”
Hearing this, Master Pang took out a Spirit Stone and handed it to Zheng Fa without hesitation.
Zheng Fa handed him a card, explaining to the sowhat bewildered Master Pang, “This is a rit Card. Uncle Master, you can input the number on it into the Comprehensive Records to earn rit points, which can be used for shopping in the store or watching stage dramas and storybooks in Jiushan Entertainnt.”
The biggest problem in trying to earn money through these two applications is the lack of a suitable paynt system.
With the Xuanwei Realm’s incomplete currency system, Zheng Fa couldn’t co up with a solution for now, so he could only rely on an operation similar to ga point cards:
Holders of the Comprehensive Records can purchase physical point cards, recharge their rit, and then spend it.
Though it’s a bit troubleso, with Jiushan Realm’s current technical reserves, Zheng Fa could only think of this thod for the ti being.
…
Junior Master Huang walked with Zhang over to Zheng Fa’s side, looking puzzled at Master Pang, whose expressions were changing multiple tis in an instant:
“What’s he doing? Is he possessed?”
“Reading storybooks.”
Junior Master Huang snorted coldly, “That Pang, after all these years, still hasn’t changed, so childish!”
Lady Xuanhua heard this and hesitated for a mont, saying a fair word for Master Pang: “You can’t really bla Elder Pang.”
“Hmm?”
“The Sect Leader’s storybook, although the plot is sowhat thin and the language almost simplistic, yet it’s hard to put down. I couldn’t resist reading it all day and night the day before and almost delayed important work in the Heavenly Craft Pavilion.”
“… Is it that good?”
Junior Master Huang said in surprise.
Master Pang looked up, his gaze strangely directed at Zheng Fa:
“It’s not just good! Zheng Fa’s storybook, tsk…”
“Tsk what?”
“The villain in his storybook is precisely the True Inheritor of Haori Mountain, and his surna is Lu. His nature is arrogant, unreasonable, sinister, and vicious. The Haori Mountain sect also appears righteous but is actually deceitful and hypocritical,” Master Pang’s tone grew increasingly peculiar, “The Jiushan Sect, which the protagonist joins, is full of brotherly love, kindness from elders, fairness, clarity, and a united collective.”
“In contrast, who wouldn’t curse Haori Mountain?”
“Who wouldn’t admire our Jiushan Sect?”
“Not to ntion it’s written so convincingly, there aren’t any flaws to be found.”
Of course, no flaws could be found.
When Zheng Fa copied this piece, the plot was undoubtedly made simplistic.
But the secrets of cultivation techniques, magic artifacts, pills, the cultural customs of the Hundred Immortals Alliance, especially the rules of Haori Mountain, are all true, all realistic.
He had gone to the Chongxuan Sect personally for material collection and on-site investigation, being a True Inheritor of Haori Mountain and directly possessing first-hand information, who would dare to say it’s false?
This storybook, in modern terms, would be completely fictional.
But in the Xuanwei Realm, it could almost be called docuntary literature.
Modern people would call this stuff a cliché amateur story, Zheng Fa wouldn’t argue.
But entering the Xuanwei Realm, these cultivators must respectfully call it… the Shining Jiushan Dream!
“The perfect Jiushan Sect in here…” Master Pang looked at Zheng Fa with an extrely peculiar gaze, “Even I blush when I read it.”
Everyone’s expressions were also sowhat strange upon hearing this.
This Elder Pang is perhaps the person who places the Jiushan Sect most sincerely in his heart in the hall.
Given what he said, it can be imagined that the Jiushan Sect described in this storybook is indeed sowhat exaggeratedly good.
Sun Daoyu walked into the hall from outside, bowed to the Nascent Souls present, and respectfully said to Zheng Fa: “All the sect disciples have gathered; please instruct, Sect Leader.”
Zheng Fa nodded to Sun Daoyu, then turned to Master Pang and said, “Master Uncle, do you think the Jiushan Sect in the storybook is too unrealistic?”
Master Pang grinned, “I’m not saying Jiushan Sect isn’t good, but the Jiushan Sect in the storybook… is too good.”
Zheng Fa chuckled, lifted his steps, and walked towards the door, leaving only his voice echoing in the hall:
“But that’s the Jiushan Sect in my heart.”
“If Master Uncle thinks it’s not realistic enough, then after today’s Jiushan reforms, let’s just make it a reality.”
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