Li Yu's eyes widened. After seeing a mountain leveled with a single stroke of a sword, the first thought that flashed through his mind was: What cultivation level was this senior at!?
He had once seen Wen Weilan, the head of Hanging Moon Peak, take action. She was a Great True Person at golden core perfection, but even she would have had to travel there in person to deal with someone a thousand miles away.
Above golden core was nascent soul!
A mighty Nascent Soul True Lord actually had to show her face in public to sell flying swords?
The Five Lotus Sect was a great sect of the Mystic Sects in the Eastern Lands, and its sect master was a Nascent Soul True Lord—an existence whose word was law, whose slightest command sent ten thousand cultivators trembling.
Li Yu could not understand it!
He thought perhaps the flying sword was simply too powerful, allowing the girl with the sword hairpin to display destructive power at the nascent soul realm.
But that raised another question: why were there so many of such powerful flying swords?
And why was no one buying them?
Li Yu looked at the link that had just appeared in the tablet's lower-left corner. All eighteen Dao Void Swords remained in stock, not a single one sold. His face was full of confusion.
A flying sword this powerful would have been treasured as Hanging Moon Peak's supreme protective artifact.
Could the price be so high that no one could afford it?
Li Yu tapped the link, and the price quickly popped up: five thousand spirit crystals.
What sort of unit was a spirit crystal? Was it the same as a spirit stone?
Li Yu had become a bundle of curiosity. He committed everything displayed on the tablet firmly to memory, intending to visit the sect's Scripture Pavilion as soon as daylight came to look it all up.
Meanwhile, the girl with the sword hairpin on the tablet was struggling to keep her composure as she looked at the "zero" sales figure on her dashboard.
Her previously vivacious face began to droop as she sighed.
Her first sales livestream since her debut had ended in failure.
"It's all the sect master's fault. He wouldn't spend the money to hire a big streamer to sell these, going on about discovering talent within the sect instead. He just had to make the two of us do it..." Ignoring the fact that she was still live, the girl with the sword hairpin complained to her junior brother, who was handling the lighting while adjusting the camera beside her.
"Senior sister, there's still one viewer." Her junior brother pointed at the viewer count on the dashboard and reminded her through a voice transmission.
"End the stream!" the girl with the sword hairpin shouted, disappearing from the camera in a huff.
Li Yu looked at the darkened tablet and the notification reading [The streamer has left. Recommending similar streams for you]. Remembering what the girl with the sword hairpin had said earlier, he tapped Follow in the upper-left corner.
After he tapped it, another beautiful female cultivator appeared on the tablet.
Compared with the youthful, energetic girl with the sword hairpin, this female cultivator was decidedly mature. Her face was alluring, her gaze spun silken threads, and her entire body was visible on the tablet, showing off every voluptuous curve.
"Dear big brothers, hit Follow! If I gain ten thousand followers today, I'll perform a newly learned Heavenly Immortal Dance for you. I specially enrolled in classes at the Heavenly Maiden Sect to learn it. Watch it once a day to soothe your mind and spirit. It can even help your cultivation and breakthroughs..."
Li Yu was not interested in the female cultivator. He only wanted to see whether the Heavenly Immortal Dance could help his injuries.
And so he watched attentively in front of the tablet for an hour.
Unlike the earlier sales stream hosted by the girl with the sword hairpin, this mature female cultivator's follower count shot upward like a rocket. It soon increased by ten thousand, and under Li Yu's expectant gaze, she stepped out on her long, snow-white legs and launched into a lively dance like an immortal maiden from the heavens.
This woman is definitely a demonic cultivator!
After watching, Li Yu roundly condemned the mature female cultivator. Then, with astonishing willpower, he swiped away and began watching the next recommended livestream.
The night passed quickly, and Li Yu gained a rough understanding of this platform called Star River.
Here was the largest platform in the cultivation world, with countless sects established on it. He could buy all kinds of rare treasures of heaven and earth that Li Yu had only heard of in legends, and watch livestreams by leading talents from every field.
Li Yu even came across a streamer at the primordial spirit realm fishing in the Star Sea. The sight left him awestruck for the entire night.
Within the Mystic Sects of the Eastern Lands, existences at the primordial spirit realm stood at the pinnacle of cultivation and were called "Old Monsters." They only appeared during great calamities of heaven and earth.
The Five Lotus Sect supposedly had a primordial spirit patriarch in secluded cultivation within its forbidden grounds. It was precisely for this reason that it ranked among the Ten Great Sects of the Mystic Dao.
And for him, the most troublesome matter-his injuries-had also found a solution here.
He came across a medical consultation livestream hosted by someone named Ji Ganlin, a beautiful woman dressed in white and wearing a white hat. After following her, he waited for a chance to join her on a call.
It took Li Yu quite some fumbling to figure out how to join the call. Fortunately, Ji Ganlin did not have many followers and was very patient with him.
"Failed foundation establishment? For a minor ailment like that, just take a course of Golden Crow Pills." After hearing about Li Yu's condition, Ji Ganlin looked utterly speechless.
As the most outstanding disciple of this generation of the Heavenly Medicine Sect, she needed to treat ten thousand different ailments to cultivate her sect's supreme "Myriad Epidemics True Qi." That was why, after seeing patients during the day, she worked overtime at night giving medical consultations on stream.
But this was her first time encountering a minor ailment like Li Yu's. How was it any different from a cold?
Besides, how could anyone still fail at foundation establishment these days?
Ji Ganlin asked, "Which planet are you on? Which sect are you from? Isn't hundred-day foundation establishment the most basic of basics? Could you be from one of those uncivilized demonic factions outside the Star River Alliance?"
Li Yu broke into a sweat as he listened, because he did not know where his Eastern Lands belonged within the cultivation world.
According to the records in the Five Lotus Sect's texts, heaven was round and earth was square. The lands of the Zhuxia people comprised four territories, collectively known as the Mountains and Seas. Beyond the Mountains and Seas lay the mysterious Great Wilderness, filled with savage gods of the wild. Even Nascent Soul True Lords did not dare venture there lightly.
"I picked up a cultivation manual and taught myself. Perhaps I didn't understand it properly, so my foundation establishment failed. Besides, I live in a small rural place. I can't buy Golden Crow Pills here, and I've never heard of anyone who can refine them." Li Yu could only invent an explanation on the spot.
Ji Ganlin could not be bothered to expose his lie. She clicked directly on Li Yu's avatar and sent a prescription through the private-message interface. "My follower friend, if your planet really is too remote, gather the ingredients and decoct the medicine yourself. Three courses in total. Once you've finished them, you'll be cured."
Li Yu looked at the private-message window that popped up, thrilled to have received a prescription for free. After all, in the Eastern Lands, every complete prescription was extremely precious, representing a wealth of heritage and accumulated knowledge.
But after quickly reading it, he had another headache.
He did not recognize any of the medicinal ingredients listed.
With no other option, he could only steel himself and ask for another method.
Ji Ganlin was utterly speechless. She felt that Li Yu was deliberately prolonging the call. After all, she was a natural beauty with plenty of followers who only cared about her looks, and she occasionally encountered people like this who had no sense of boundaries.
"Then practice the Purple Glow Art,
and draw in the newborn purple qi every day. This method is just a little slower." Since she was livestreaming, Ji Ganlin could only remain patient and offer another solution.
Just as she was about to hang up, Li Yu's embarrassed voice sounded again. "What is the Purple Glow Art?"
Ji Ganlin opened a search window in the background, copied a standard version of the Purple Glow Art from the internet, and sent it to Li Yu. Without waiting for his thanks, she disconnected the call.
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