Southern District.
Xinghai University.
Xinghai University was the best esper university in the Southern District, admitting many outstanding new students every year.
The student dormitory apartments.
Xia Qingran, a sophomore, lay on her bed, bored.
Her fair, delicate feet swung up and down.
She idly scrolled through videos and soon came across one.
The footage was a little chaotic, but she could make out someone facing an onslaught from several mutant beasts.
The video's title was "Insane rookie gets taken in turns by five mutant beasts in the wild..."
Never mind what the actual content was like.
That title alone made Xia Qingran curious enough to watch.
There was nothing particularly special about the video itself. It was just someone fighting several mutant beasts.
He won in the end.
"This guy looks pretty handsome."
The video had several thousand likes and hundreds of comments.
Xia Qingran casually opened the comments section.
"Insane! A rookie who only awakened his superpower a few days ago can already fight five at once."
"This has to be fake! I don't believe anyone could do that."
"To the guy above, this is a recording of a livestream. Loads of people watched it live. Besides, this is Zhou Fan from Tianhai City, the freak whose C-rank superpower overpowered an S-rank superpower. Don't tell me you haven't heard of him?"
"That's Zhou Fan? Seriously?"
The comments piqued Xia Qingran's interest.
Especially the line about "the freak whose C-rank superpower overpowered an S-rank superpower."
"A C-rank superpower beating an S-rank superpower? Is he trying to build some sort of persona?"
"Zhou Fan... That name sounds a little familiar."
She was bored and had nothing to do anyway, so Xia Qingran searched for "Zhou Fan."
The first video that came up was the one posted by Tianhai No. 1 High School's official account.
It showed Zhou Fan taking on four mutant beasts by himself during combat training that day.
The video's description also stated it clearly.
Zhou Fan was a newly awakened student at their school that year, with a C-rank Spirit Eye System superpower.
"A video from the school's official account? Is this for real?"
Xia Qingran sat up.
She watched a few other videos related to Zhou Fan.
Aside from the school's official video, the second was actually the livestream clip she had just watched.
"This does look kind of interesting."
Xia Qingran wanted to find more videos about Zhou Fan, but there weren't any. The same two kept coming up.
"Zhou Fan... He probably used some kind of trick."
"But there's absolutely no way a C-rank superpower could beat an S-rank superpower."
Because she had an S-rank superpower herself!
All this time, no one at the same cultivation level had ever beaten her, whether they had an A-rank or B-rank superpower.
Let alone a C-rank superpower.
So Xia Qingran didn't believe the claims online about "a C-rank superpower overpowering an S-rank superpower."
"Why do these same two videos keep coming up? Aren't there any others?"
Xia Qingran searched around but found no new videos.
But when she casually pulled down to refresh, something appeared.
A livestream popped up.
Its title was "Zhou Fan himself: hot action in the wild."
"Zhou Fan?"
Curious, Xia Qingran tapped into the livestream.
Once inside, she saw a young man with refined features and a rather handsome face streaming with the wilderness behind him.
"So this is Zhou Fan? He looks pretty handsome from this angle."
Xia Qingran immediately became interested.
Handsome guys were the best at catching girls' attention.
Just as beautiful women were the best at catching boys' attention.
"Everyone, give me a follow. Once we hit two thousand viewers, I'll take on six mutant beasts by myself," Zhou Fan said.
"We've already got a thousand viewers, so let's wait a little longer."
There were actually this many people watching a morning livestream.
He had underestimated how many people were slacking off.
"He's taking on six mutant beasts by himself? At only First Tier, three stars... Interesting." One sentence from Zhou Fan had captured Xia Qingran's attention.
"Let's see if you can really pull it off."
"Two thousand viewers, right? A tip should do the trick."
She casually tapped on a Carnival worth three thousand yuan and sent it.
User "Call Me Your Majesty" sent "Carnival ×1"!
Dazzling gift effects immediately filled the entire livestream.
"Holy shit! Big spender!"
"May our generous boss find a fresh-faced college boy every day!"
"Awesome!"
Zhou Fan froze when he saw the gift effects on his screen.
Someone actually tipped me a Carnival?
And that username... Call Me Your Majesty.
A woman?
A rich woman??
Holy shit!
Has some rich woman taken a liking to me and decided to keep me?
Then I'd better put on a good show!
If a rich woman supported me, I wouldn't have to work for the rest of my life.
"Thank you for the Carnival, Your Majesty. Thank you, thank you," Zhou Fan said gratefully.
There was no shame in making money.
Call Me Your Majesty: "I want you to hurry up and start the challenge."
Zhou Fan: "I'll start once we pass two thousand viewers. Don't worry, everyone."
He had barely finished speaking.
The livestream's viewer count began shooting up.
Gift donations could bring traffic to a livestream.
Xia Qingran's single Carnival brought in three thousand viewers!
The live viewer count was already over 4,300!
"Four thousand viewers! Get going!"
"Hurry up and start!"
Zhou Fan suddenly felt the pressure.
These people really wanted to watch him suffer.
They were even willing to spend big on gifts to make him take on six at once!
Unbelievable!
"All right, I'll keep my word. I'll go lure some beasts over right now."
Phone in hand, Zhou Fan began searching the surrounding area for mutant beasts.
Mutant beasts were everywhere, so he soon found six.
All six were First Tier, two stars.
The viewers could also see every beast's level through the livestream's level identification feature.
"Holy shit! He's really doing it?"
"He's only First Tier, three stars, and he dares to take on six First Tier, two-star mutant beasts? Is he trying to get himself killed?"
"He's really putting his life on the line!"
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Many viewers were watching for the first time, so they were stunned to see Zhou Fan actually preparing to fight six mutant beasts alone.
Zhou Fan had already set his phone in a fixed position.
But judging by the steady stream of emotion points, this challenge was worth it.
He had already earned over a thousand emotion points before the fight even began.
"This guy's actually doing it?" Xia Qingran stared at the livestream, her red lips parted in shock.
She had thought Zhou Fan was just pulling a stunt and making a show of it.
She hadn't expected him to be serious!
"Taking on six First Tier, two-star mutant beasts at First Tier, three stars? Isn't that just asking to die?"
Even with her S-rank superpower, she had only been able to take on four or five First Tier, two-star mutant beasts at once when she was at First Tier, three stars.
And Zhou Fan only had a C-rank superpower.
In her eyes, what Zhou Fan was doing was no different from courting death.
Many people in the livestream thought the same.
Putting on a show would have been enough.
Why was he actually going through with it?
Only the regular viewers waited calmly for the show.
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