Chapter 271.2: A New Plan
Many ideas flashed across Qi Yuan’s mind. He quickly copied the previous design and added another feature to the jade slip. Whenever someone submitted a cultivation method, it was added to both the global pool and their personal pool, with each user maintaining their own progress bar.
Qi Yuan even thoughtfully placed rewards at 1%, 5%, 20%, 40%, and 100% to encourage people to upload techniques. This was the only way to get the members of Divine Flower Society to contribute enthusiastically.
For example:
Yet after thinking further, he frowned again. "Still not enough. I'm short on time. Cultivators love secluded cultivation. It might take a year or two for them to see this message. Everything will be too late by then."
Time was precious. He couldn't waste it.
Qi Yuan thought hard, then lit up. "I got it! Besides uploading techniques, your friends can also help you give it a boost!"
He felt like a genius. Want rewards? Simple. Invite friends to help fill the progress bar! Of course, each person could only help one person.
"Perfect. That's the plan!"
After thinking for a moment, Qi Yuan began tinkering again. Not long later, the system was finished. He switched to Qiyuann Sovereign account and uploaded five Jade-tier techniques. After that, he sent the assist page to the Blood-Clothed Sword God account and helped himself.
His personal page immediately showed 21% completion. Meanwhile, several techniques appeared in his jade slip, ranging from low-grade to Jade-tier. Examples included the Rain Bone Technique and Close-Combat Method.
"Nice. Test passed." Qi Yuan checked it with his own account and found it worked perfectly. He felt very proud. "Looks like I do have talent. If I applied for a programmer job on Blue Planet, I'd probably earn over ten thousand a month... Too bad I never worked at Penduoduo. If I had copied their logic, it would definitely be even more effective."
Qi Yuan let his thoughts wander as he made another post using Qiyuann Sovereign account.
Shocking! Blood-Clothed Sword God is Giving Out Benefits — Free Divine Methods!
You don't need 999 or even 998. As long as everyone gathers the techniques requested by the Blood-Clothed Sword God, the Divine Method will be given away for free!
I already donated a few techniques and unexpectedly received an unbelievably powerful cultivation method for it! Why didn't I find out about this earlier?! Want to know how to play? Come help me and give me a boost!
Qi Yuan had already decided to act as his own shill. Of course, the first step toward that would be to create a persona: a poor man who cultivated diligently, bullied by senior brothers and ignored by the elders. Even his beautiful senior sister looked down on him, while the sect stewards made life difficult at every turn. However, after exchanging techniques through the Divine Flower Society, he suddenly became rich and obtained Heaven-tier techniques! That was when the elders began to take notice. To top it off, the sect master’s daughter—his junior sister—started to admire him as well!
If he posted updates about this every day, it would definitely encourage many people to exchange techniques.
"Many hands make light work. Penduoduo was so popular in my previous life. With so many members in the Divine Flower Society, crowdsourcing one Divine Method shouldn't be a problem, right?" After posting, Qi Yuan felt refreshed. "Everything is done!"
Moreover, he had gained quite a lot from the Wind Thunder Valley. First he obtained the president's jade slip, then he collected a large number of cultivation techniques. The Dark Sun had many techniques as well. Qi Yuan alone obtained several hundred Heaven-tier methods, including some high-grade ones. Naturally, he placed many of them into the reward pools of both the Yuan God Sharing Society and the Divine Flower Society. Even if Yin Spirits mobilized their entire clans and frantically invited people to boost their progress bars until above 100%, there was still 1000%.
"It's about time to leave."
After finishing everything, Qi Yuan departed from Wind Thunder Valley.
***
Divine Radiance Sect, Seven-Colored Peak.
Jiang Lingsu drank a mouthful of fish soup and couldn't help letting out a satisfied burp. "I can't eat anymore. I need to control my weight and figure!"
After cultivating diligently, she had finally stepped into the mid-stage Foundation Establishment. That was considered fast even among her clan's siblings.
Jiang Lingsu thought of Qi Yuan and felt a little wistful. "I wonder how Senior Brother is doing now...?"
Today, members of her family had contacted her through Jiang Ya. The message was simple: they wanted her to return home. After all, to her family the Divine Radiance Sect was just a small sect and she their direct descendant. The teachings she received here could not compare to what the Jiang family could provide. As if that wasn’t enough, they had thoughtfully selected a young man of humble background, handsome appearance, and exceptional talent to become her matrilocal husband.
His marriage into the Jiang family was proof of how much she was cherished. They even said the youth was handsome and exceptionally talented, likely to reach the Nascent Soul realm within a hundred years, with a small chance of becoming a Violet Palace cultivator.
Jiang Lingsu rejected it immediately, even declaring, "My Senior Brother is already a Nascent Soul. He's worth more than that guy's entire leg hair!"
She nearly drove her father crazy. His daughter was only sixteen, yet she was already referring to a True Lord as her senior brother! In a small place like the Great Shang Kingdom, every True Lord was an old monster, nearly a thousand years old. Yet his daughter’s tone suggested she even admired him!
How could Jiang Zhihua not be furious?! He himself was still a handsome young man barely over three hundred years old, yet some thousand-year-old monster was trying to get close to his daughter! What intention could such an ancient powerhouse have in accepting a sixteen-year-old girl as his junior sister?!
Jiang Lingsu's mother had also once been his junior sister. They met when she had just stepped onto the path of cultivation. At the time, he was already a hundred years old, at the Golden Core realm. How could Jiang Zhihua not understand what that “senior brother” was thinking?! He absolutely had to make that shameless old bastard pay![1]
Unaware that her father was already on his way, Jiang Lingsu stopped dwelling on the matter and sent her consciousness into the Divine Flower Society jade slip.
Her expression immediately brightened. "A Divine Method?!"
The global progress bar was only at 1%, but she paid it little mind. Divine Methods were too distant for her. Her interest was entirely in the personal progress bar.
"Senior Brother really lacks cultivation methods. If I exchange some and give them to him, he'll definitely be overjoyed!"
Besides, the feeling of offering techniques and receiving rewards was wonderful.
Then, she saw a post that made her expression change slightly.
Brothers, I Exchanged Another Technique!
1. ***E/N: good ol projection. ☜
