When Old Six logged off, Shi Tiexin was completely dazed.
He stared blankly at his total reserve of Heavenly Gifted Golden Light.
Just five minutes ago, it had still been a ten-digit number. Last time, in order to accommodate Sister Gaohou, he had poured more than seven thousand Heavenly Gifted Golden Light into the Martial Heart Zen Lotus, draining his reserves to zero. Later, he earned some and spent some, generally maintaining the utterly destitute level of twenty or thirty points.
Now, he looked at the new number.
Its ones digit was six.
Its tens digit was seven.
Its hundreds digit was nine.
Its thousands digit was zero.
—but it also had a ten-thousands digit, and it was one.
More than ten thousand points!
More than ten thousand Heavenly Gifted Golden Light from a single match!
Shi Tiexin did a quick calculation, and Five Thunders Struck the Top of his head. One match gave over ten thousand points; if he played out an entire season and won every championship, wouldn't that mean hundreds of thousands of Heavenly Gifted Golden Light?!
Even the Olympics only awarded two or three thousand golden light for a single event. Old Six, on the other hand, got ten times more from one esports grand championship than ten Olympic gold medals combined.
Was that reasonable?
On careful thought, it actually was.
No matter how impressive the Olympics were, most people merely watched the spectacle, while few participated personally. No matter how incredible a sprinting champion was, there were only so many actual sprinters. The viewers were all spectators munching melon seeds, shallow fans who could watch or not watch.
But here, the entire population truly played esports. Everyone was a competitor, so their level of investment was naturally worlds apart. On top of that, the material