Chapter 29: Advertisement and The Bounty

When everyone thought the broadcast had come to an end, Wei Chen suddenly began speaking in a formal tone.

“This broadcast is brought to you by the Thousand Treasure Pavilion! On the twelfth day of the third month, in late spring, the season of planting! There will be an auction featuring the artifact set I obtained from the Flaming Lotus Secret Realm!”

Then he took out a new model of the Spirit Net Jade and held it up to the camera.

“Even if you don’t manage to win the auction items, there will still be this artifact available for purchase on that day! This is the U-Phone! With this in your hand, you won’t need to go to the public square to watch broadcasts anymore, you can even rewatch live broadcast recordings stored directly on the Spirit Net!”

“You’ll also be able to access the Spirit Net itself, a place where cultivators from all over can post questions, seek answers, make acquaintances, and arrange trades. Whatever you need, there’s a place for you there!”

“Moreover, transferring spirit stones has never been easier. With the Spirit Net, we guarantee secure transactions with just a 1% transfer fee, or only 0.5% for transfers over one million spirit stones! You can rest assured your spirit stones will arrive safely and instantly at their destination!”

“The U-Phone also ensures you’ll never miss any important contact or world news, even while in closed-door cultivation! With our alarm function, you’ll never come out of seclusion only to find your clan or sect has been wiped out. You’ll always stay up to date! Don’t forget! The U-Phone will be on sale at the auction, but the quantity is limited! First come, first served!”

Wei Chen promoted the U-Phone with contagious enthusiasm and a lively tone. The audience couldn’t help but grow curious, while many wealthy cultivators and major clans became particularly interested in the device’s spirit stone transfer function.

Still, they remained somewhat skeptical. After all, none of them had yet seen a U-Phone in person.

“That’s it, folks! That’s it for today’s first part of the Heaven Chosen topic. I am your host, Wei Chen, and I’ll continue to help you understand and give you tips to survive on your cultivation path!”

With that, the screen transitioned into the ending credit roll. The names of everyone who had helped Wei Chen with this episode of the live broadcast began scrolling upward.

Sponsor

Thousand Treasure Pavilion

Sword Manor

Special Thanks

Jian Heng, Vice Sect Leader of the Heavenly Sword Sect

After the short credit roll, the broadcast came to an end, and the screens floating above the various sects and city squares slowly fade and disappeared.

On Wei Chen’s side, the second broadcast had come to an end.

This time, he didn’t delve too deeply into the juicy details. The broadcast had only two goals in mind: first, to infuriate that Azure Sky Elder, and second, to pave the way for the next part so that the audience would understand what the “Heaven Chosen” actually are.

As for the Heaven Chosen, they are very real, according to the information he asked from the Lord of Death. Heaven Chosen are people born with strong destiny. To put it simply, they are like protagonists who will bring about great change to the world, whether for good or ill.

Since this episode merely served to prepare the audience for the next broadcast, Wei Chen didn’t expect to gain many points from it, as it didn’t contain any content that helped people survive.

“Mr. Wei,” Jian Heng called out.

Wei Chen turned toward Jian Heng, who was walking up to him. “Oh? What do you need, Vice Sect Leader Jian Heng?”

“May the Heavenly Sword Sect pre-order the U-Phone from you? You seem to have a good relationship with the Thousand Treasure Pavilion,” Jian Heng asked.

“Oh, this? Let me ask Miss Mo about it.” Wei Chen then sent a message to Mo Xingyao to confirm the matter.

And of course, Mo Xingyao, being a money-grubber, immediately agreed. Securing some sales before the release date was a win-win situation for both of them, it was a no-brainer for her.

After receiving confirmation from Mo Xingyao, Wei Chen asked, “She agreed. How many do you want, Vice Sect Leader Jian Heng?”

“Oh! About that, I’ll talk with Miss Mo myself,” Jian Heng said with a smile, then produced a Spirit Net Jade from his storage ring.

“Oh! You have one too!” Wei Chen pointed at the Spirit Net Jade in Jian Heng’s hand.

“Yes, my name on the Spirit Net is Sword Dao Genius,” Jian Heng replied.

“Oh! You’re that guy,” Wei Chen realized. No wonder that Sword Dao Genius didn’t appear in the chatroom today, it was Jian Heng himself.

“I’ll have someone escort you to the Thousand Treasure Pavilion using one of our small flying ark,” Jian Heng said.

“Thank you, Vice Sect Leader Jian,” Wei Chen accepted his kindness.

In truth, he hadn’t slept in a soft bed since he came to this world. He wanted to enjoy the trip rather than exhaust himself running with his movement technique all the way to the Thousand Treasure Pavilion.

The two said their goodbyes, and Jian Heng instructed one of the sect’s core disciples to escort Wei Chen to the Thousand Treasure Pavilion.

— At one of the Bounty Post in one of the City —

A bounty hunter walked up to the bounty board. His name was Lie Ren, one of the strong bounty hunters at the peak of the Nascent Soul Realm. His specialty was assassination, and he had claimed several bounties on Soul Transformation Realm experts under his belt.

Among the many posters on the board, one caught his eye. It was the bounty for a Soul Transformation Realm expert, and a Demonic Path cultivator.

“A Demonic Path cultivator?” Lie Ren muttered as he pulled the bounty poster from the board and examined the details.

—

Name: Wei Chen

Age: ???

Sect: None. A lone vagabond.

Cultivation Realm: Soul Transformation

Notes: A Demonic Path cultivator. Extremely fast and highly skilled in combat techniques, which appear to draw upon the power of death.

Bounty: 4,500,000 Spirit Stones

—

Looking at the bounty, Lie Ren smiled. 4.5 million spirit stones was a generous price for a lone Soul Transformation cultivator.

One had to know that the bounty range for Soul Transformation Realm targets typically spanned from 1 million to 10 million, depending on their background and threat level. If the target was an elder from a renowned sect, the bounty would naturally be higher. For lone wanderers, the price usually hovered between 1 to 3 million, assuming they were quite powerful.

But Wei Chen’s bounty was 4.5 million, which meant he was no ordinary Demonic Path cultivator. He must be exceptionally skilled, perhaps even capable of fighting across small realms.

Lie Ren carefully folded the bounty poster and stored it inside his storage ring.

If he wanted to collect this bounty, he would need to make a lot of preparations.

— 2 Days Later —

In the wilderness, a flying ark the size of a colonial-era galleon soared above the tall trees, passing over breathtaking waterfalls and towering, sword-shaped mountains.

Wei Chen leisurely enjoyed his journey toward Thousand Treasure City, Yes, Thousand Treasure City. As the name suggested, it was a city established by the Thousand Treasure Hall.

He had asked some of the people traveling with him on the ark and learned that this city had been built only a few decades ago. Yet now, it had already grown into a massive trading hub, a neutral ground where cultivators of both the Demonic Path and the Orthodox Path could exchange resources freely.

This world was much like the ones described in murim novels, where the Orthodox Path and the Demonic Path were locked in endless conflict, constantly killing each other. However, their mutual dependence on resources eventually forced them to compromise and establish a neutral zone.

Thus, Thousand Treasure City was born, a neutral city located right at the border between the Orthodox Path and the Demonic Path.

Because of its strategic location and the sheer volume of trade conducted daily, millions of transactions every day! The city generated enough wealth each year to buy out an entire mid-sized sect.

That was why, at the beginning of its construction, both the Demonic Path and the Orthodox Path had tried to claim control over it. The conflict nearly escalated into a full-scale war.

In the end, however, the city came under the ownership of the Thousand Treasure Hall, a subsidiary of the Sky-Severing Demon Valley, thanks to the overwhelming strength of its leader, the Sky-Severing Demon Sovereign.

But this success was only possible because the capital city of the province was under the control of the Orthodox Path. Otherwise, the Orthodox Path would never have allowed the Demonic Path to claim such a valuable piece of the pie.

Even so, the enormous wealth generated by this city constantly made the Orthodox factions envious. From time to time, they would attempt to undermine or seize control of it.

“Mr. Wei! We’ll arrive at Thousand Treasure City in half a day!” shouted a core disciple of the Heavenly Sword Sect. He was Jian Xiaoyao, the leader of the team assigned to escort Wei Chen to Thousand Treasure City.

Wei Chen smiled, but before he could respond, a speeding flying ark suddenly rushed toward them from the horizon.

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