Jingting sighed, her tone full of admiration. "I've never been able to sit still since I was little. My master always said I had nails growing from my butt. Sometimes I really admire you guys. How can you sit there chanting from morning till night? Aren't you tired?"
Daoist Cen, "Didn't you chant incantations all day during your live stream? You didn't seem tired at all! We're sitting here, while you're standing! Logically, you should be more tired than us."
Jingting: "How can that be the same? Mine was insults and chatting, there was a back-and-forth exchange. Yours is just one-sided talking to yourself, sometimes I feel like I'm about to fall asleep listening to it..."
Daoist Cen smiled and said, "This is nothing. When we were at the Daoist Academy, we often meditated for an entire day, and sometimes we even had to attend evening self-study sessions."
Jingting in a daze for a long while, she said softly, "So, in that case, the reason I failed to get into university was actually because the Dao Ancestor was protecting me."
Chapter 74
Compared to Jingting, a slacker in college, the two village Daoist priests that Yun Zhaozhao chose are definitely hidden academic geniuses.
First of all, these two people are truly able to sit still. Chanting scriptures and meditating are very energy-consuming activities, and people who can't sit still, like those Jingting, might fall asleep while listening. But the newly arrived Daoist Yuan and Daoist Zhu are full of energy from morning to night, and even become more and more energetic as they listen.
Moreover, when Yun Zhaozhao asked, both of them felt that meditating and chanting scriptures at Clear Breeze Temple was much easier than carrying bricks on a construction site.
Seeing how confidently they spoke, Yun Zhaozhao assumed they really had been working as bricklayers on a construction site before coming to Clear Breeze Temple.
The two of them replied in unison, "No, we were just using an analogy."
Yun Zhaozhao: "..." You two are quite humorous.
Besides being able to sit still, these two new Daoist priests also have a really good following. This may be partly because they are locals, and partly because, like Xiaojiu, they started getting involved in society at a young age. Therefore, they are much more familiar with interpersonal relationships than Daoist Cen and Daoist Mao, who have just graduated from university.
Don't be fooled by Yun Zhaozhao's lofty and romantic demeanor when she was managing the Daoist temple. In reality, the daily work at the temple was full of trivial tasks, and not only that, but she also had to deal with different people all the time.
Someone like Jingting is good at live streaming, but when it comes to interacting with people offline, she's not as likable as Xiaojiu and the two new Daoist priests.
In the past, Yun Zhaozhao would have Xiaojiu handle any public complaints or reception work. Now that these two new comrades have arrived, Yun Zhaozhao will have the two new Daoist priests handle it.
Lawyer Wang had previously set a target of 1 million for Yun Zhaozhao, which involved recruiting about 50 new Daoist priests and also needing a respected senior Daoist priest to oversee the overall situation. Yun Zhaozhao now felt that this task was still daunting, so she simply decided to temporarily forget about it and focus on the present.
The most important things at hand are the construction of the new site and the successful online release of the short video series " Subduing Demons " after post-production.
On the day " The Subduing Demons " was released, Yun Zhaozhao specially had a projector set up in the courtyard of Clear Breeze Temple so that they could watch it directly in the courtyard like they used to watch old-fashioned movies.
Because Yun Chaochao took the Qingfeng audience out for a team-building activity during the days of filming, apart from the four members of the Cen Daoist, Mao Daoist and their disciples who stayed on set to act as extras, the others had not seen any behind-the-scenes footage and were unaware of the script.
Yun Zhaozhao knew a little more, but her knowledge was still limited.
So the group watched very attentively.
The short video begins with aerial footage of Clear Breeze Temple. The camera slowly zooms in from above, gradually revealing the Clear Breeze Temple from afar.
To be honest, this was the first time Yun Zhaozhao had seen Clear Breeze Temple from this angle. Before, she only thought Clear Breeze Temple was dilapidated and small, but now, seeing Clear Breeze Temple from an aerial view, and considering that Clear Breeze Mountain and Qingfeng Park were specially included in the filming of " The Subduing Demons ", the overall level of Clear Breeze Temple was instantly elevated.
It felt like a mysterious Clear Breeze Temple had sprung up in a fairy-tale-like place.
Then the scene shifts to the male protagonist leading his fellow disciples in sword practice at the entrance of a Daoist temple.
This shot is a wide shot. The male lead is in the front, followed by Daoist Cen and Daoist Mao with their disciples behind him. Behind them are other extras hired by the crew to create a grander spectacle.
Yun Zhaozhao had noticed this when she watched Daoist Cen and Daoist Mao lead the citizens in practicing Tai Chi Chuan. No matter what the performance was about, as long as there were many people, it would appear to be magnificent.
It's no wonder that many film directors like to shoot large-scale war scenes.
Like in this scene, it's actually just a few simple sword dance movements, but because there are so many people, and everyone is wearing Daoist robes, and their movements are so neat and uniform, it looks like a kind of imposing beauty. In short, at first glance, you can tell that this Daoist temple is not simple at all.
After the previous few shots of Clear Breeze Temple, the next scene focuses on the female lead in the bamboo forest of Clear Breeze Mountain.
These two storylines are interwoven in the editing.
Because the female lead is a snake demon, the director specifically had special effects added in post-production. And you know what? Current special effects technology is indeed quite realistic; even in short videos, the snakes look incredibly lifelike.
The beginning of the short video is about a snake demon who hears that there is a spiritual herb in the Daoist temple where the male protagonist lives, which can enhance one's cultivation level by a thousand years. So, in order to obtain this spiritual herb, the snake demon disguises herself as a human and goes to seduce the male protagonist.
Because the short videos are broadcast in episodes, each episode is less than 10 minutes long, so the first episode finished airing very quickly.
The Clear Breeze Temple were still thoroughly entertained, especially the actors, including Daoist Cen, who asked directly, "Didn't the director say we died in the first episode? Why didn't we die?"
Daoist Mao: "Yes, yes, they even said the snake demon would massacre our temple, leaving only the male lead alive. I thought we'd see such a spectacular scene in the very first episode!"
Yun Zhaozhao sighed helplessly, "... Isn't it good to let you live for two more episodes? You know, many actors try every means to build relationships with directors and producers just to have a few more lines on screen and live a few more minutes! So, in a way, we're the ones who benefit."
Daoist Cen: "That's true. I wonder if my old classmate Daoist Huaijin, has seen the short video ' Subduing Demons '? I'll send him the link later so he can take a good look."
Daoist Mao glanced helplessly at Daoist Cen: "He hasn't blocked you yet? I was thinking that, knowing his temperament, he wouldn't have blocked you after he came to Clear Breeze Temple last time and didn't get anything out of it."
Daoist Cen: "It's alright, if he wanted to block me, I just posted it in the class group. I don't believe he wouldn't see it."
Everyone: "..." Sometimes we think Daoist Cen is a good person, but other times we think he's really annoying!
The short video " The Subduing Demons " was heavily promoted online by Jingting before, and later, due to the interaction between Tang Li and the "The Subduing Demons" crew, it attracted a wave of strange CP fans. So now that the short video has been released, it has attracted a lot of attention.
Of course, while everyone is focused on the plot of "The Subduing Demons," they are also paying attention to the filming locations of Clear Breeze Temple and Clear Breeze Mountain in the story.
There are some places you've visited in person, and then see on TV, that feeling is incredibly special. People who have been to Clear Breeze Temple and Clear Breeze Mountain feel the same way. When they saw scenes of Clear Breeze Temple and Clear Breeze Mountain at the beginning of the TV series "The Subduing Demons," they were so excited they wanted to tell the whole world that they had been there.
Tang Li is also very good at guiding online public opinion.
Seeing that netizens were posting their experiences visiting Clear Breeze Temple in the comments section of the TV series " The Subduing Demons," he specially launched a prize-winning event called "I took a photo with Clear Breeze Temple " on the official Weibo of Clear Breeze Temple, inviting netizens to share photos or videos of themselves with Clear Breeze Temple.
The user with the most likes and shares will receive a generous cash reward.
Many netizens, seeing that they could get money for posting photos with Clear Breeze Temple, flocked to Clear Breeze Temple's Weibo to share their own photos. Some even made a special trip to Clear Breeze Temple two or three times just to get a few nice pictures with the Clear Breeze Temple...
This wave of prize-winning activities, coupled with the popularity of the TV series "The Subduing Demons," resulted in Clear Breeze Temple's official Weibo account gaining three to four thousand followers overnight.
However, since Clear Breeze Temple's online promotion has always been quite effective, no one really paid much attention to the few thousand new followers gained that night. After all, Jingting's live stream already has nearly 100,000 followers, and Clear Breeze Temple is doing just fine, isn't it?
The production team of " The Subduing Demons " is quite satisfied with the popularity of this short video. After all, what short videos need most is traffic. With traffic comes attention and discussion, and the higher the attention and discussion, the more room their production team has for future works. In any case, compared to Clear Breeze Temple, online traffic is more crucial for the production team.
Regardless, this surge in viewership is a timely boon for both the " Subduing Demons " production team and Clear Breeze Temple.
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Clear Breeze Temple has been making headlines online time and time again. Previously, only small Daoist temples like Embracing Bamboo Temple were getting restless, but now even large Daoist temples like True Yang Temple are starting to feel the heat.
Inside True Yang Temple, Daoist Jiaye is currently meditating and practicing.
Kneeling behind him was his junior brother, Daoist Jingyang, who is also the current head of True Yang Temple.
Daoist Jingyang reported the situation of Clear Breeze Temple to his senior brother in detail, "... Clear Breeze Temple used to be a small Daoist temple in City A, the kind that was about to go out of business two years ago. But somehow it suddenly came back to life. And after making inquiries from various sources, I haven't heard of any particularly powerful Daoist masters in this temple. But what's strange is that this temple is getting more and more prosperous every year. Now, when many people mention Daoist temples in City A, the first thing they think of is not our True Yang Temple, but this once unknown little temple. I think if we let it continue like this, it will be very bad for our True Yang Temple!"