"Extra! Extra! Anxi Jiedushi Lin Hao attained Tribulation-Crossing to Sainthood at the Great River Gorge Mouth!"
"Another new saint! The strongest Transmigrator emerges!"
"Blessing or curse? New Martial Saint immediately wipes out powerful Sichuan and Shu families!"
Shanghai's special circumstances allowed news to travel very quickly here.
After Li Bashan's nationwide telegram, the newspapers immediately began printing. Their headlines and content also revealed something of their leanings.
Great Jin's own newspapers sang Lin Hao's praises throughout, presenting him as loyal and patriotic, someone who could turn the tide for Great Jin just as Zong Tianqing had.
He had already rendered many meritorious services in pacifying the Western Regions and the Great Desert, and in Sichuan and Shu, he had rid the people of a scourge, rooting out a fiend who refined people into pills.
The Western Ocean newspapers offered both praise and criticism, focusing on Lin Hao's identity as a Transmigrator or digging up the rumors about him and Rola.
Japan's media were another matter entirely. Besides making all manner of dire predictions, they emphasized that Transmigrators were profit-driven and unreliable, telling Great Jin's people not to pin their hopes on this Martial Saint doing anything for them.
Earlier, news had arrived of the Japan Fleet's surprise attack on the Beihai Navy, injuring the Zhili Governor-General and sinking several auxiliary vessels.
Now, this newly emerged Martial Saint had forcibly erased that dispiriting momentum-
Even the people of the Old Godfather Chamber of Commerce stared blankly at the newspapers. "We knew Mr. Lin was formidable, and later he had Countess Lola's help, but we never expected him to attain sainthood himself so quickly-"
Ji Hong sighed.
"Yes. Thinking back to when he came to our door to exchange the Signal, it feels like a dream. You were even going to send