Chapter 127: Chapter 127: Humoring a Kid

At that moment, Shen Zhiyao was sitting cross-legged in meditation, completely unaware of the drama unfolding on Weibo.

It wasn’t until just before her livestream that she noticed a massive surge in her merit, and in an instant, a golden light struck her body.

Shen Zhiyao’s cultivation had only recently reached the Nascent Soul Stage.

The higher one’s cultivation, the slower the rate of improvement. This was something all cultivators understood.

Shen Zhiyao was no exception.

After reaching the Nascent Soul Stage, she would have needed to cultivate for at least several decades to advance her cultivation again.

But at this moment, she felt her merit continuously increasing. The merit transformed into Spiritual Power and swarmed into her Dantian.

She slowly refined this Spiritual Power for her own use, and her realm rose along with it, soon reaching the Middle stage Nascent Soul.

When she opened her eyes again, her hair swayed gently. She could feel that the aura around her had grown much stronger, and the range of her perception had expanded.

The ghosts sharing the room with her also sensed this surge of Spiritual Power and rushed forward to congratulate her.

“Congratulations on another breakthrough, Immortal!”

“Judging by these Spiritual Power fluctuations… the Immortal’s cultivation must have reached the Middle stage Nascent Soul!”

“How are you so fast? It took me thousands of years of cultivation just to reach the Foundation Establishment Ninth Layer. I’m so jealous of you!”

“Hehe, I was a Goddess before. My cultivation is already at the Golden Core Middle Stage. You just keep trying!”

“Waaaah… I guess there’s no hope for my cultivation in this lifetime!”

“Cultivate my ass! The Immortal wants to eat some good food after her livestream. Get your butt to the kitchen and start cooking!”

…

After breaking through to the next realm, Shen Zhiyao was covered in sweat, grime, and impurities.

After slowly retracting her aura, she took a shower. By then, the sky had already turned completely dark.

Standing up again, she could feel that the aura around her had become very strong.

She placed her hand on the table and gently pulsed her power. The table instantly disintegrated into dust.

’This is… I’m almost there!’

When Shen Zhiyao finally had a moment to check Weibo, she discovered she was being flamed to hell and back.

Shen Zhiyao’s Weibo follower count had unexpectedly multiplied several times over, jumping from the original 2 million to 8 million.

And most of those followers were only there to flame her.

However, among this crowd of haters, there were also some who genuinely liked her and were working hard to defend Shen Zhiyao online.

Shen Zhiyao also saw:

#WhoeverSlandersShenZhiyaoNextWillBeBankruptedByMe!

#MyStreamerMyDreamMyStreamerWillBeProtectedByMe!

Seeing these kinds of topics quickly shoot to the top of the trending list warmed Shen Zhiyao’s heart.

Connecting this to the sudden increase in her Spiritual Power during her cultivation, she realized it was all due to her fans’ support, which had generated a powerful level of trust.

The corners of Shen Zhiyao’s lips curled up slightly as she picked up her phone and posted a Weibo update:

[Thank you all for speaking up for me, my darlings. I don’t know how to repay you, so I’ll put 20,000 peace charms in a lucky bag giveaway under this post for everyone. These talismans can be used to avert disaster. This is my way of thanking you all.]

The moment this post went live, her fans instantly got excited:

[Streamer, you finally spoke up! I can’t believe you’re giving out goodies, our love for you wasn’t in vain!]

[Streamer, please give me one! My wife is giving birth next month, I want to get a peace charm for her!]

[I’m about to have a heart transplant surgery, I’m begging for a peace charm, please…]

[Does this stuff really work? I want one too, I want one too!]

[Are you all a bunch of idiots? Who knows if these talismans are even effective, and you’re all here begging for them!]

[Then why don’t you send one to me! I’ll give it to my chicken and see if it can save its life when I slaughter it!]

Her true fans knew what this charm signified and were all desperate to get one.

But there were also haters mixed in, trying to take advantage of the situation.

But Shen Zhiyao had her ways; she could naturally distinguish between real fans and fake ones.

Shen Zhiyao now had 8 million followers, but there were only 20,000 peace charms to give away. It wouldn’t be an easy feat to win one from her Weibo post.

After posting, she replied to a few fans on Weibo, then called the two ghosts in her room over.

“Do you two want to learn the art of talisman crafting?”

The two ghosts nodded frantically. ’The Great Immortal is too good to us! Not long ago, she taught us a high-level spell that lets us walk freely in the sunlight. Now she’s going to teach us how to draw talismans? The Great Immortal is truly the best…’

The two ghosts were so moved they burst into tears on the spot.

“I’m going to teach you how to draw a peace charm now. Look, the pattern is like this. You just need to inject a little Spiritual Power while drawing it.”

Drawing the talisman wasn’t difficult, but the steps were a bit tedious. The slightest deviation while drawing would render the talisman ineffective.

Of these two ghosts, one’s cultivation was at the Golden Core Middle Stage, and the other was at the Foundation Establishment Ninth Layer. In terms of cultivation, they were more than sufficient.

After following Shen Zhiyao and practicing dozens of times, they could barely manage to draw the pattern.

The two ghosts were naturally delighted after learning a new skill and were just about to ask Shen Zhiyao if they should practice a few more times.

They turned their heads and saw Shen Zhiyao dragging a huge box toward them. “Here are 800 blank talismans. You two can start with these.”

The two ghosts instantly had a bad feeling. “The two of us… need to practice this many?”

Shen Zhiyao patted the box and said, “More practice will help you draw better talismans.”

The two ghosts understood in a flash. “Oh! So that’s why!”

Shen Zhiyao added, “You two need to draw quickly. I just ordered another huge batch online. You need to finish a total of twenty thousand.”

The female ghost in white asked, “Even for practice, we don’t need to draw this many, do we?”

’The two of us won’t have any time to go play in the basement anymore.’

Shen Zhiyao said, “I announced a giveaway on Weibo. I need twenty thousand peace charms within three days.”

The female ghost in white was completely speechless. ’So we’re being used as free labor?’

Shen Zhiyao asked, “What? You’re not willing?”

“No, the two of us are extremely willing! We’d be delighted to serve you.”

“It’s our honor to be able to work for the Immortal.”

“Skipping dancing for a couple of days is actually fine. Drawing talismans helps with cultivation. We’re both very happy to do it!”

And so, when Jin Fan arrived at Shen Zhiyao’s house that day, he happened to see the two ghosts furiously scribbling away.

He couldn’t help but sigh in amazement. ’Even ghosts are working this hard these days!’

“They’re helping me draw talismans,” Shen Zhiyao explained.

The female ghost in white felt that drawing them one by one was too inefficient. With a grand wave of her hand, leaves from the courtyard flew in, formed into the shape of hands, split into eight groups, and began rapidly drawing the talismans.

“Holy crap, that’s so awesome! That works too? I feel like I can do it! I want to draw too!” Jin Fan’s eyes lit up. He excitedly picked up a brush and started to copy them.

He drew twenty in one go, then scurried over to Shen Zhiyao to show off. “Ancestral Grandma, look at what I drew! I’m an art student, you know! How is it? Awesome, right? I got it after drawing just one! See how good mine are?”

Shen Zhiyao glanced at them. “You drew them well. They’re just useless.”

“Why?”

Shen Zhiyao smiled. “Your talismans can only be used as decoration. They can’t grant peace because you didn’t infuse any Spiritual Power into them.”

’So they need Spiritual Power infused into them…’

Jin Fan walked over to the female ghost in white, his head hanging in dejection. “Why didn’t you say so earlier? You let me waste all that effort.”

The female ghost in white smiled and explained, “You looked so happy, I was afraid you’d be upset if I told you. If you want to draw a few, just draw. Seeing you happy makes us happy too!”

’So they were just humoring me like a child.’

After moping for a while, he finally remembered that he had come to see Shen Zhiyao about something important…

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