"All right, the virtual avatar setup is complete!"
After receiving the packaged character artwork, Zhou Yan immediately sent the data files to Long Yue's computer and finished calibrating her avatar.
At that moment, a virtual fairy in a silver moon immortal gown, with silver hair and azure eyes, appeared on the screen.
Long Yue's face filled with delight. She loved it beyond measure.
The virtual avatar on the screen looked remarkably like her when she maintained her Immortal Emperor bearing. It was practically a shrunken cartoon version of her!
When she blinked, the virtual avatar on the screen blinked as well.
"She, she's copying my movements! How amazing!"
"Of course. It uses the camera for facial tracking."
Lin Fan pointed at the camera mounted above the computer screen and explained, "All your movements will be synchronized onto the character through the camera."
Long Yue curiously leaned closer to the camera, turning her head and opening her mouth in front of it.
Sure enough, the virtual avatar on the screen turned its head and opened its mouth along with her.
"It really does!" Long Yue could not help exclaiming in amazement.
This method of making it follow her movements was almost identical to the body-controlling immortal arts in the Immortal Realm, which forced others to imitate one's actions.
The difference was that those body-controlling immortal arts required a medium. Either one had to stick a body-control talisman onto the target, refine the target into a puppet connected to one's mind, or at the very least occupy the target's shadow and use it to control the body.
Yet as she sat before the computer, she did not need to do anything at all for the character on the screen to follow her every movement!
"Hehe, this isn't ordinary facial tracking. I had a friend custom-make this premium model. You don't need to switch expressions manually. As long as the camera detects changes in your expression, the avatar will automatically switch to the corresponding one!"
"This character artwork has over a dozen different expressions configured into it!"
Zhou Yan added with a proud look on his face.
Normally, streamers had to secretly switch their avatar's expressions themselves. But with this one, there was no need—the camera could recognize the streamer's expressions and synchronize the avatar's changes!
"Oh! It can even imitate expressions?"
Upon hearing that, Long Yue's eyes shone with astonished delight.
This was far more impressive than those body-controlling immortal arts. Those arts could not control someone else to synchronize their expressions!
"Here, this is your character profile."
While Long Yue was still immersed in her amazement, Lin Fan took out a character profile specially designed for her and handed it over.
Every virtual streamer had more or less some unique character settings, something that made them distinctive or endearing.
For example, the AI persona of the first generation of virtual streamers, or various lolis, mature older sisters, beast girls, and so on.
For that reason, he had specially drafted an exclusive character profile for her.
"What is this?"
Long Yue took the document curiously, quickly scanning it as her delicate brows furrowed slightly.
Lin Fan pointed at the character settings on the document and explained:
"This will be your character setting from now on. You are the Empress of the Immortal Realm who accidentally fell from the Immortal-Demon Continent into the mortal world. After arriving here, you unfortunately lost all your cultivation and spiritual power. In order to find a way to return to the Immortal Realm and survive, you were reborn as a virtual streamer and are currently working hard to adapt to this new world."
Long Yue: "..."
As she listened to Lin Fan's explanation, Long Yue narrowed her eyes and shot him an annoyed glance.
"What do you mean, this Empress's character setting? This Empress is the real thing, all right!"
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She had originally been the Empress of the Extreme Saint Heavenly Palace, yet now she had to pretend to be an Empress from the Immortal Realm. What kind of nonsense was that...?
"This character setting is great. It suits sister-in-law perfectly!"
Zhou Yan could not help praising her from the side.
From Long Yue's beauty and temperament, he had always felt that she possessed the ethereal air of a heavenly fairy descended into the mortal world.
Coupled with the fact that she knew nothing about modern electronic devices and understood little about many worldly matters, she looked even more like a secluded fairy who had suddenly arrived in the mortal realm!
More importantly, she would occasionally refer to herself as "this Empress." She truly sounded like an Empress from the Immortal Realm!
It fit the character setting perfectly!
"I think so too. This character setting will definitely suit her very well."
Lin Fan gave Long Yue a teasing smile.
Zhou Yan did not know it, but Lin Fan understood perfectly well. This was not some character setting he had come up with on a whim—it was Long Yue's real identity...
But with the guise of being a virtual streamer, no matter how outrageous the setting was, no one would suspect it was real. That was her most natural and unique advantage!
Other people's character settings were fake, but she was a genuine Empress!
"Empress, from now on, you don't need to deliberately hide your identity or verbal habits while streaming. Just keep referring to yourself as this Empress."
"Really? Won't that cause any trouble?" Long Yue asked with slight concern.
Lin Fan could not help laughing when he heard that.
"Don't worry. There won't be any trouble at all."
"Even if you cast an immortal art right in front of them, they won't take it seriously."
"That's right, sister-in-law. It's just a character setting. Sometimes you need to act in ways that suit the setting, so calling yourself this Empress is completely fine!"
Hearing that, Long Yue looked at the profile describing her as an Empress, and an inexplicable flutter stirred within her heart.
Lin Fan had repeatedly stressed before that she could not reveal her identity outside. But if she became a virtual streamer, she could once again reclaim her former identity as Empress, stop worrying about everything else, and be her true self...!
She suddenly felt that this job might really suit her!
Lin Fan saw the glimmer of excitement in Long Yue's eyes and could not help feeling a little surprised.
He had only ever seen that look in her eyes when she was eating something delicious. After looking through so many types of jobs, he had never once seen her make that expression. It was rare to see her interested in becoming a virtual streamer.
Being excited and interested in a job was the best motivation to keep at it.
Lin Fan opened the streaming room, configured the stream settings, and started a test broadcast before tomorrow's official stream.
"Empress, let's come up with a title for tomorrow's stream first."
For a new streamer, a good stream title was the first step toward attracting viewers. It was extremely important.
"Hmm... stream room... title..."
Long Yue furrowed her delicate brows. After thinking seriously for a moment, she suddenly seemed to think of something. Smiling faintly, she typed out the stream title on the keyboard one key at a time:
Extreme Saint Heavenly Palace Hall, Welcome to Pay Homage to This Empress.
Lin Fan: "..."
Zhou Yan: "..."
Upon seeing the stream title, Lin Fan and Zhou Yan fell silent for a moment.
What a novel and unique stream title...
But upon further thought, there seemed to be nothing wrong with it. After all, her character setting was the Empress of the Immortal Realm, and the stream room was equivalent to her hall in the Extreme Saint Heavenly Palace. It was unexpectedly quite fitting!
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