Chapter 45 - The Empress is a Hit!

She was a hit! The Empress was a hit!

In the following days, Long Yue, in her virtual persona as the Empress, spread across all the major video platforms.

Rumors about this Empress were everywhere. Some said she could draw the vastness of the Immortal Realm in an ink-wash style with just a brush and paper. Some said she single-handedly defeated dozens of Go masters with ease. And others said she was an unprecedented gaming genius, needing only one or two days at most to adapt and become an expert from a complete newbie!

As everyone knows, netizens love to join in on the excitement. People couldn't help but be curious whether the rumors were true, and countless numbers of people, drawn by her fame, flocked to the stream.

For the past few days, Long Yue, under the title of the Empress, held court in her stream every day, accepting challenges from everyone in all sorts of fields.

The challenges ranged from the initial Go matches, to painting competitions, and later, even one-on-one duels in all kinds of games.

No matter the game, at the very beginning, she would always appear very unfamiliar with it, having the complete posture of a newbie touching a game for the first time. But after gradually familiarizing herself, she would progress at an extremely exaggerated speed, going from being dominated and defeated to winning with ease.

After that, it would be very difficult for the opponent to ever win against her again.

Once she lost a challenge, she would begin to repeatedly study all the relevant knowledge about that game, cramming combo guides and highlight reels of gameplay.

Any highlight reel of gameplay she watched once, she could replicate and reproduce move for move.

From a newbie who didn't even recognize the in-game skills, to later replicating various highlight-reel moves to counter-kill her opponents, she took less than half a day at her fastest! A gaming genius, just like in the rumors!

It was precisely with the support of her heaven-defying gaming talent and her perfect Empress persona that she became a breakout hit. The tales and rumors of her deeds spread like wildfire online.

Over these few days, her stream became more and more popular and lively, and her fan count skyrocketed as if riding a rocket.

Yesterday it was a hundred thousand fans, and looking at today, it had directly reached nearly two hundred thousand!

By now, the all-around strength and talent she displayed had almost completely won over everyone in the stream.

The crowd's initial mockery and doubt gradually transformed into calls of praise and adoration.

At this point, regardless of whether she was a real Empress or just a fake persona, based on her almost omnipotent, empress-level performance, the crowd had already accepted her title of "Empress."

Of course, besides her superb talent and strength, there was another aspect that earned her the crowd's recognition of her "Empress" title.

That was her own insistence on proving herself as an Empress and her various behaviors that completely fit the persona.

When she first started streaming and called herself an Empress, people either just mocked her or paid it no mind, treating it as just a character setting that they heard and forgot.

However, regardless of how others questioned or mocked her, she would insist again and again that she was the Empress. Furthermore, the clumsiness she showed in various aspects and her hazy ignorance of reality were especially in line with the character setting.

What she displayed was a kind of natural, naive ignorance, not the kind that was intentionally artificial for the sake of entertainment value. Ironically, this had an even better entertainment effect.

This immediately couldn't help but make the crowd in the stream feel as if she really was an Empress who had fallen from the Immortal Realm into the mortal world and didn't understand anything…

For example, one time she got stuck in a wall in a game and couldn't move. Completely at a loss for what to do, she asked the bullet comments for help.

Someone in the bullet comments told her: 【Press Alt+F4 a few times in a row, the game bug will automatically be fixed.】

In the end, she actually believed it, and without the slightest hesitation, she followed the comment and repeatedly pressed Alt+F4, and the game closed on the spot…

When the game screen suddenly disappeared, she tilted her head with a blank expression, blinked dazedly, and was stunned for several seconds before she finally reacted.

“Hm? Where did This Empress's game go?”

This scene, it must be said, made everyone in the stream roar with laughter.

After realizing she had been tricked, she angrily searched through the stream chat for the person who had posted that bullet comment, which made the crowd roar with laughter even more.

By now, everyone had grown accustomed to Long Yue's self-proclamation of "This Empress." The stream chat was filled with comments starting with "Your Majesty the Empress," and all sorts of small gifts were being sent non-stop.

【Your Majesty the Empress, which game are you planning to dominate these mortals in next?】

【Your Majesty the Empress, Your Majesty the Empress, will you scold me please!】

【Your Majesty the Empress, how are you good at everything, you're so amazing!】

【Your Majesty the Empress, is there anything you can't do?】

【…】

“Thank you, thank you, you mortals, for the gifts you have sent This Empress. This Empress will remember your kindness in her heart!”

Looking at the nearly one hundred thousand viewers in the stream and the non-stop stream of gifts, Long Yue was grinning from ear to ear. She immediately waved her hand grandly and promised:

“When the day comes that This Empress regains her cultivation, she will definitely not forget the help you mortals have given This Empress, and will bestow upon you the immortal fate you have dreamed of~!”

“Whatever you want, just speak up~”

【Really, Your Majesty the Empress? I want to get filthy rich!】

【Your Majesty the Empress, Your Majesty the Empress, I want to live forever!】

【Your Majesty the Empress, just casually give me a Beauty Pill, just turn me into a handsome guy!】

【Your Majesty the Empress, can I have you? (heart emoji)】

【Your Majesty the Empress, I'm not greedy, I don't want wealth or immortality, just send me to the Hehuan Sect~】

【…】

Long Yue watched the bullet comments continuously scroll past on the screen with a smile on her face, generously promising each one:

“Mere gold, silver, wealth, and immortality are no difficulty for This Empress. Wanting to change your appearance is also not a difficult matter. This Empress has noted down all of your requests~”

“As for those of you who wish to enter the Hehuan Sect…”

Speaking to this point, Long Yue paused, her eyes narrowing slightly as she warned with a solemn expression:

“The Hehuan Sect is not the wonderful place you imagine. The demonic women there cultivate the unjust and immoral Joyful Union secret arts, and are most skilled at absorbing a man's vital essence and yang energy, acts which damage one's essence and life force!”

“An ordinary mortal, after just one or two dual cultivation sessions with a Hehuan Sect woman, will be sucked into a dried-up husk of skin and bones!”

“Even so, you still want to go?”

After speaking, the corners of Long Yue's mouth curved upwards slightly, revealing a teasing smile.

She had thought that these words would be enough to scare everyone into retreating in the face of difficulty, but she never expected that the stream chat would instead become even more enthusiastic:

【Go, go, go! Definitely going!】

【Suck mine, suck mine!】

【A matter this dangerous? Everyone, stand back, let me go first!】

【Are you kidding me? With my twenty years of Pure Yang Virgin Skill, I can withstand it at least ten times!】

【Hmph, that's only because those Hehuan Sect sirens haven't met me! Otherwise, I'd definitely make sure she comes and never returns!】

【…】

Looking at the eager and impatient bullet comments from the crowd, Long Yue couldn't help but reveal a look of disgust and confusion.

How is it that she suddenly can't understand the mortals of this world…

In the past, on the Immortal-Demon Continent, the moment the Hehuan sirens were mentioned, even the most lecherous men would be so scared they'd fear they couldn't avoid them fast enough. Yet these people were all incomparably heroic, eager to give it a try…

Are the men of this world all this brave…?

Lin Fan silently watched Long Yue interact with the bullet comments in all seriousness, and he didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

It was obvious. Everyone in the bullet comments was just treating it as a joke, playing along with her and deliberately teasing her. In the entire exchange, she was the only one who was serious…

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