At 12:35 a.m. Tianjing time, the entire internet erupted.
The miserable website maintenance staff working overtime at their companies perked up.
Self-media workers smoking, losing hair, and unable to think of a single draft idea excitedly clattered away at their keyboards.
And countless students and office workers who had already gone to sleep dragged themselves out of bed, regretting missing such juicy gossip while grabbing their phones and watching recorded livestream footage despite the spoilers all over social media.
Ren Nesser doing livestreams was nothing unusual. He had done a Hand of Fate livestream a few months ago.
Immortal Palace figures appearing online was nothing unusual either. The Nine-Tailed Fox had appeared in her own passionate MMD video some time ago. The uploader of that MMD video seemed to have been banned for five hundred years outright.
But Immortal Palace and World Tree members actually started trash-talking each other right in Ren Nesser's livestream footage. Now that was incredible!
This was an era where even one celebrity picking a fight with another for resources could trend, and where every word a major entrepreneur said could be picked apart and mocked endlessly. This time, one side was the ancient Eastern Immortal Palace cultivator best known to the public, while the other was a Western World Tree mage who had once saved the world. Their long-distance verbal battle was practically the most entertaining news since New Year's. The only thing that could compare was probably another amusing story about Angel Zach getting beaten up.
Ren Suo casually opened any social group or forum and found discussions everywhere about "Immortal Palace's Ren Han, the World Tree mage, and the Gate of Truth's gatekeeper."
Though some people doubted whether they really were Ren Han and a mage, most accepted it as fact—after all, this