At this moment, Xie Zhiyu’s mind was filled with a constant stream of ding-ding-dong-dong sounds.
The moment her livestream started, the System could no longer contain its excitement and immediately began announcing good news.
“Congratulations, Host, on starting your first livestream! The System Shop has been unlocked. Spiritual-root products have been unlocked. Luck Value +1.”
“Currently unlocked spiritual roots: the five basic Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth spiritual roots. The special Lightning Spiritual Root has also been unlocked…”
It went on and on with its report. Xie Zhiyu’s head began to ache from listening, so she hurriedly blocked the System’s notifications and opened the shop panel herself.
The spiritual-root products she had seen earlier were now all unlocked. The six products on the first page were primarily the basic Five Element spiritual roots, while some of the products on the following pages remained locked.
Xie Zhiyu randomly opened one of the products on the first page and discovered that it contained different options for the quality levels of that particular spiritual root.
The lowest was a Low-Grade Earth-Rank Spiritual Root, while the highest could reach a Low-Grade Heaven-Rank Spiritual Root.
Several other options remained locked.
The densely packed options made Xie Zhiyu’s head hurt a little. She quietly poked the System and asked what was going on.
“Oh, this? Spiritual roots have different grades. From lowest to highest, the ranks are Earth-Rank, Human-Rank, and Heaven-Rank. Each rank is further divided into Low, Middle, and High Grade, with High Grade being the best and Low Grade being the lowest.”
“Since you just started your first livestream, you unlocked spiritual roots ranging from Low-Grade Earth-Rank to Low-Grade Heaven-Rank for every type. However, because your Popularity Value isn’t high enough, Middle-Grade and High-Grade Heaven-Rank spiritual roots haven’t been unlocked yet. Even the number of purchases is limited.”
Only then did Xie Zhiyu notice that the purchase quantity for every option was limited to 1.
Take the Wood Spiritual Root she had selected, for example. Beneath the product were different grades of Wood Spiritual Roots to choose from, but each grade could currently only be purchased once.
Unexpectedly, however, the lowest-grade Earth-Rank Spiritual Root required 98 Popularity Points, while the highest, the Low-Grade Heaven-Rank Spiritual Root, only required 9,999 Popularity Points.
“The prices are quite a bit lower than I imagined,” Xie Zhiyu muttered.
Still, she could clearly see just how much importance the System placed on Popularity Value.
The System gave a soft hum. “Of course! My prices are practically dirt cheap.”
It sounded rather proud of itself.
But immediately afterward, it changed the subject.
“There is just one thing, though. Once you purchase a product and put it up for sale in your livestream, its selling price is fixed and cannot be adjusted by you.”
In other words, the prices of the products in the livestream were fixed.
“Don’t worry. I definitely won’t let you suffer a loss, Host,” it promised confidently.
Xie Zhiyu nodded in understanding. Seeing that she had finished looking things over, she shifted her attention back to her phone.
The conversation between the woman and the System had lasted only a dozen or so seconds, yet someone had already left a comment in the livestream.
“Riding the hype for traffic? I’m not that kind of person.” She smiled as she replied.
A strange voice suddenly appeared in the livestream. The voice leisurely answered, “What if what I’m saying is actually true?”
True?
Perhaps her tone had been too confident. The other viewers who had just entered the livestream instantly developed a rebellious streak.
[Autumn Will Surely Come: You’re making it sound so convincing. Just wait—once that countdown ends, you’re definitely going to get proven wrong.]
[L Yuyu: Exactly. We’ve been living in an age of technological advancement for how many years now? And you’re still talking about a spiritual energy revival? Don’t you know that after the founding of the country, spirits aren’t allowed to transform into humans?]
[It’s Duoduo: Where are the moderators? There’s another scammer here. Hurry up and ban them!]
Three new comments floated across the livestream.
Xie Zhiyu glanced at the Popularity count in the upper-right corner. In just the few moments it had taken her to respond to those comments, the number had already climbed to nearly 30.
And this was after only a little over a minute of streaming. The result had already exceeded her expectations.
Sure enough, choosing to start streaming at this particular moment had been the right decision.
She secretly had the System use its remaining energy to protect the livestream from being banned, while she glanced at the countdown.
There was still about a minute and a half left.
She adjusted the camera, framing the livestream more carefully, then pointed at the countdown.
“Isn’t there still more than a minute left? Just wait and see.”
Through the camera, a mountain could be seen not far beyond the window. A river flowed at its foot, surrounded by beautiful mountains and clear water. Just looking at the scenery was relaxing.
This was a famous high-end residential community in City A. Backed by mountains and surrounded by water, it had an excellent environment. It also wasn’t too far from the city center, making it extremely popular among the wealthy.
There happened to be someone from City A in the livestream, and they immediately recognized the location.
[Bear Gall 356: Is this Lanyuan, where one square meter costs 200,000 yuan? Damn, the streamer is actually a rich lady!]
Xie Zhiyu didn’t reply. She simply moved the phone a little closer.
There was a reason she had chosen to livestream from the study.
The System had told her that when the spiritual energy revival occurred, certain changes would take place in the world. People inside buildings might not be able to see them, but living things directly exposed to the air would be affected immediately.
The scenery behind the study was the best view in her home, so she figured the effects would be most obvious there. That was why she had positioned the camera there.
However, this action left everyone in the livestream puzzled.
[An’an Eats Watermelon: What exactly is the streamer doing? Why does she keep filming the mountains and river?]
“Shh.”
Xie Zhiyu placed her index finger against her lips and softly said, “Time’s up. Look.”
The countdown on the left reached 0 the instant her voice fell.
Before anyone in the livestream could even type a message, a strange phenomenon suddenly appeared.
Countless golden rays of light suddenly emerged in the already-brilliant sky. Their radiance was so dazzling that even the sunlight could not conceal them, covering the lush green mountains in a layer of golden light.
The flowers, grass, and trees on the mountain began growing wildly.
Branches rapidly extended, and almost in the blink of an eye, the greenery before them became even more vibrant and dense.
Colorful flowers poked their heads out from among the green foliage. To the naked eye, some of them appeared even larger than certain trees, making the entire mountain forest seem even more alive.
The river that had been quietly flowing at the foot of the mountain suddenly accelerated, splashing countless droplets into the air like boiling water.
The moment the crystal-clear droplets came into contact with the golden light, they instantly exploded like fireworks.
Fish leaped out of the water, eagerly swallowing the golden particles that had burst apart. Their bodies inexplicably grew a little larger as well.
In just a few breaths, the familiar scenery before their eyes had been completely transformed.
Everyone who witnessed the scene was left dumbfounded.
Without anyone noticing, the number of viewers in the livestream began skyrocketing, while comments poured in one after another at an increasingly frantic pace.
[Langlang Mountain: Holy crap! What am I looking at? This isn’t a hallucination, right?]
[Where There Is Sincerity, There Is Magic: Is this an AI-generated video? Is the streamer seriously playing a movie for us?]
[L Yuyu: Look at the livestream title. Holy crap, this is insane. Are these plants and animals about to become spirits?]
……
No one answered.
But the comments continued flooding across the screen even faster. Many of the viewers who had already been in the livestream were so shocked that they didn’t even know what to say.
[An’an Eats Watermelon: Oh my god! Is this real?]
“It’s real.”
Xie Zhiyu came back to her senses and happened to reply to that comment.
Standing beside the window, she was the one who could feel the changes most intensely.
At the exact moment the countdown reached zero, something inexplicable suddenly appeared in the air. Golden light descended from the sky one after another, and then all these changes began to occur.
The scorching air suddenly gained a hint of coolness.
“The temperature changed,” she murmured. For some reason, she suddenly felt the urge to stretch out her right hand.
Another change occurred.
The golden light floating aimlessly through the air suddenly seemed to have found its target. It surged frantically toward her, scrambling to burrow into her palm.
She only felt a warmth spread through her body, as though some hidden restraint had been broken.
With a soft click, her body suddenly began emitting the same golden light.
Inside the livestream, the right hand visible in the camera suddenly radiated a dazzling glow, leaving everyone stunned.
[Autumn Will Surely Come: ??? Is this Buddha light? Have my eyes suddenly gone blind, or am I really seeing this?]
[An’an Eats Watermelon: …Don’t doubt yourself. I saw it too. The golden light in the air is actually entering the streamer’s body. What on earth is going on?]
[Langlang Mountain: Everyone! We’ve solved the mystery! I secretly slipped outside the company while my boss wasn’t around and took a look. I discovered that the golden light is especially obvious in places with lots of plants. And I don’t know why, but the air suddenly feels so comfortable. I took a huge breath, and my whole body feels so refreshed!]
[Bear Gall 356: Holy crap. City A was actually a little smoggy today, but I just opened my window and looked outside. The weather has suddenly become so clear.]
[Where There Is Sincerity, There Is Magic: What exactly is going on? Could it be that the world really has undergone a spiritual energy revival?]
……
The livestream was filled with heated discussion.
However, this scene wasn’t happening only in Xie Zhiyu’s livestream. The same thing was occurring in most outdoor livestreams.
In a Mountain-Climbing Livestream
A man stopped halfway up Mount Tai, panting heavily. He pulled a bottle of mineral water from his backpack and took a sip.
He was just about to say something to his viewers when he glanced at the scenery on both sides of the path.
His eyes immediately widened.
“Holy crap.”
The words escaped his mouth instantly, as though he had witnessed something utterly unbelievable.
“Everyone, am I hallucinating?”
His voice rose several pitches as he instinctively turned the camera toward the plants along both sides of the road.
In the livestream, which had nearly ten thousand viewers, a miraculous scene unfolded.
The neatly trimmed plants suddenly began glowing with golden light and then grew wildly. In the blink of an eye, they had shot up and reached the man’s feet.
He wasn’t the only person resting halfway up the mountain. The other hikers who had stopped to rest were all staring at the scene in dumbfounded disbelief.
In Another Livestream—Deep-Sea Fishing
Several fishermen who had been quietly fishing from the deck were now equally shocked as they watched schools of fish continuously surge through the surface of the water.
“My god, what am I seeing?” one of them murmured. “An orca just jumped out of the water! There are dolphins over there too… and some fish I’ve never seen before.”
Several bizarre-looking fish that were clearly deep-sea species basked in the sunlight as they swallowed the golden light floating through the air.
The already enormous ocean predators now radiated an even more profound and intimidating presence, while their movements became noticeably more agile.
Scenes like this were occurring all over the world.
Everyone now knew that the world had truly undergone a spiritual energy revival.
Back in the livestream, because Xie Zhiyu had accurately predicted the exact time of the spiritual energy revival, the number of viewers had climbed to more than 300, and the comments had increased accordingly.
[Just Like the First Meeting: Just arrived. I heard from a friend that the streamer accurately predicted the spiritual energy revival? How did you know?]
[Lanlan: So those hidden sects and hidden families we heard about before were actually real?]
[First Snowfall: The streamer definitely knows something behind the scenes. Come on, tell us!]
……
The comments flew by rapidly, but Xie Zhiyu didn’t answer their questions.
Instead, she turned around and had the System put up a product link for her.
She cleared her throat.
Although she felt a little embarrassed, she still put on a serious expression and recited the lines she had prepared.
“Everyone, the world has undergone a spiritual energy revival. The opportunity to change your life has arrived.”
“Want to cultivate? Want to go from an ordinary person to a cultivator who can look down upon all living beings?”
“An opportunity like this won’t come twice!”
“For only 198, you can take home a Low-Grade Earth-Rank Spiritual Root.”
“Only 3 are available. What are you waiting for? Hurry up and place your orders!”