Haha, the boss is here to tease the streamer.
He even specifically picked the name Demon Supreme.
The boss sure was willing to spend money, casually sending over six hundred yuan worth of rockets.
Boss, you fool!
The chat barrage grew livelier by several degrees, but Long Yue could not help letting out a soft sigh, dejectedly propping her cheek on her hand.
Receiving over six hundred yuan in gifts should have been something to celebrate, yet she could not feel happy at all.
Because the one who had sent her the gifts was none other than the Demon Supreme...
She had heard that streaming platforms took a cut from gifts. The platform would take a portion of the more than six hundred yuan gifted to her, and only the remainder would be hers. Thinking about it made her feel even worse.
That six hundred-plus yuan would have been better off transferred directly to her...
But compared to losing that small cut from the gifts, what troubled her more now was how she could prove her identity as the Empress of the Immortal Realm to everyone.
She did not need every single person to believe her, but at the very least, she did not want these mortals looking down on and dismissing her anymore!
Yet after thinking for a long time, she truly could not come up with any way for herself, completely devoid of spiritual power, to prove it...
Just as Long Yue sank into distress, a chat message caught her attention:
The Empress has lost all her cultivation, but surely she has some specialty or ability that does not require spiritual power or cultivation, right?
Hmm... a specialty or ability that did not require spiritual power...?
Long Yue wore a contemplative expression as she repeatedly considered whether she possessed such a skill.
In the Immortal Realm, nearly everything required spiritual power. Even when drinking water, all she needed was a flick of her slender finger, and the water would float straight into her mouth. She did not even need to move.
But if it came to something she could truly do without any spiritual power at all, she seemed to have something after all!
"Got it! Besides immortal arts, magical treasures, alchemy, artifact forging, and treasure refinement, this Empress is also quite confident in music, chess, calligraphy, painting, singing, dancing, and instrumental performance!"
Long Yue excitedly declared to everyone in the stream.
Whenever she thought of her specialties, immortal arts, magical treasures, alchemy, artifact forging, and other cultivation skills were usually the first things that came to mind. After all, she could not do without those skills in the Immortal Realm, and she studied and cultivated them almost every day.
When Zhou Yan had asked what specialties she possessed, she had instinctively only thought of the cultivation skills she excelled at most, completely forgetting that she was actually no slouch in music, chess, calligraphy, and painting. Her talent in those fields simply was not as outstanding as it was in cultivation.
It was only after seeing that chat message that she remembered these arts she rarely displayed.
The viewers in the stream immediately grew interested upon hearing that.
Music, chess, calligraphy, painting, singing, dancing, and instruments? The streamer could do that much?
Really? I don't believe it unless you perform for us.
Why not give us one?
Enough talk, show us your talent already!
Long Yue was considering whether to turn on the camera and show off her dancing when she turned her head and saw Zhou Yan and Lin Fan staring wide-eyed at her. Their sunflower seeds had been replaced by watermelon, and they were waiting eagerly for her performance...
For some reason, she did not want to dance in front of these two at all, much less before the Demon Supreme...
She was the dignified Empress of the Immortal Realm. Performing dance and music for the Demon Supreme was far too strange...
"Hmm... this Empress does not have any musical instruments with her right now, and the room is too small to properly perform a dance."
"Let this Empress show you my skill in calligraphy and painting instead! Just wait!"
Long Yue casually found an excuse to get up from the computer desk. Her long, slender legs stepped between Lin Fan and Zhou Yan as she searched around the bedroom.
Lin Fan and Zhou Yan disappointedly took bites of watermelon.
What a shame. They would not get to see the Empress's—sister-in-law's—dancing...
"Found them!"
After finding an ink brush and rice paper, Long Yue happily stepped past Lin Fan and Zhou Yan again and returned to the computer desk. After slightly adjusting the camera toward the tabletop, she turned it on.
Besides her original Empress avatar, the stream now included an additional small window broadcasting the computer desk.
Situations requiring the camera to be turned on would inevitably arise during streaming, so before the stream, Lin Fan had already taught her this essential streaming skill.
Under the watchful eyes of the viewers, Long Yue held the ink brush and let it dance like a dragon, sketching and painting stroke by stroke across the rice paper.
At first, viewers still occasionally sent a few teasing messages, but as the image gradually emerged beneath the brush, they could not help becoming absorbed in it and slowly forgot to send messages.
Throughout the painting process, Long Yue was completely focused, free of distractions. She did not pause or hesitate in the slightest, completing it all in one fluid motion!
"Finished!"
The instant she placed the final stroke, she let out a light breath and held the completed painting toward the camera.
In that instant, a magnificent Hundred Palaces of the Immortal Realm Painting unfolded before everyone's eyes!
Though it was only an ink painting, it vividly depicted more than a hundred immortal palaces and jade towers standing amid the clouds. Its immortal aura was vast and majestic, as though the resplendent scenery of the Immortal Realm had appeared before them!
At that sight, the silent stream instantly erupted.
Holy shit! She really can paint!
This is way too beautiful!
She painted it so quickly, and it looks this good!
Oh no, the streamer actually has talent.
With painting skills like that, why are you a virtual streamer?
Streamer, streamer, can you draw one for me?
The chat suddenly flooded with messages, almost all of them expressions of amazement and praise. Long Yue wore a smug expression, raising her snow-white neck proudly as she said in a mocking tone:
"Oh my~ you mortals are so easily startled. This Empress merely drew this casually and only put in thirty percent effort. It is not worth mentioning~"
"Now you know how impressive this Empress is, right? Ho ho ho~"
Lin Fan: "..."
Watching Long Yue, who practically had arrogance and smugness written all over her face, Lin Fan could not help feeling speechless.
Just moments ago, she had been angry and embarrassed because the chat had doubted her. Now that she had caught an opportunity, she was mocking the viewers in return, looking exactly like a petty person drunk on success...
It seemed the Empress was especially vindictive and narrow-minded...
Still, after watching the whole process, he had to admit that she had every right and the ability to show off.
Ordinary people simply could not paint a Hundred Palaces of the Immortal Realm Painting like the one in her hands. Even masters who could paint it would never finish it in such a short amount of time!
"Lin Fan, you should have told me sister-in-law was this good at painting. Did I really need to find her a job?"
Zhou Yan involuntarily rose from his stool, staring at the Hundred Palaces of the Immortal Realm Painting on Long Yue's desk. He was so stunned that he forgot to take another bite of his watermelon.
When he had asked sister-in-law what talents and abilities she had, she had said a whole bunch of strange things, making him think she could not do anything...
If she had casually shown off her painting skills, he would never have had to exhaust all his connections looking for work for her.
With painting skills like these, she could casually paint something and put it up for sale. Plenty of people would buy it even for thousands or tens of thousands!
"I only found out just now that she could paint," Lin Fan said blandly.
He truly had not known that this Empress, who had once been lofty, aloof, and proud, possessed talents such as music, chess, calligraphy, and painting in addition to fighting.
Looking at it this way, he really had underestimated the Empress somewhat...
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