Chapter 27: For the Playing Rights!

"Raccoon Stream, room number 123411."

The swordman with the strange knife reported a room number to Jiang Qiao.

Jiang Qiao didn't need to exit the game. This time, he logged in using a VR device, so he simply slid his fingertips to open the built-in web browsing tool of the Tiangong game platform.

The web tool's favorites bar had the Raccoon Stream URL, so Jiang Qiao clicked on it and entered the room number.

The name of this streamer was Swordman with the Strange Knife, located in the VR online game section. The name of the live room was "New VR Game 'Holy Spirit' Absolutely Shocking", with a popularity of 251,000. Based on the popularity count, at least around 25,000 people were watching the stream simultaneously.

"Quite popular, he could be considered a big streamer." Jiang Qiao watched the barrage on the live stream; there were about two or three comments per second.

"Small streamer, small streamer, I only have this many viewers today because I'm streaming Holy Spirit. Usually, it's only around 100,000. My brother is amazing, with a stream popularity of one or two million." The swordman with the strange knife seemed very modest.

"Still pretty impressive."

When eating, Jiang Qiao would take some time to watch game streams. There were only a few top game streamers in the Quarrel Zone. Streamers with one or two million in popularity were top-tier, while streamers like the swordman with the strange knife with around 100,000 could make a living off streaming.

"Judging from the barrage, your viewers are urging you to level up." Jiang Qiao waved his hand, showing his web interface to the swordman with the strange knife. The live stream barrage floated continuously before his eyes.

'I finished my meal, why is the streamer still hanging around collecting activation codes?'

'Go fight monsters! We're not here to watch you stand around.'

'If you keep standing around collecting activation codes, I'm unfollowing.'

'The baby following that mage in front looks cute.'

"Don't panic, everyone! We're going to fight monsters and level up right away!" The swordman with the strange knife saw a barrage full of "unfollow if you keep collecting activation codes" and realized the barrage filled up because of Jiang Qiao's influence.

"Dude, you really don't have an activation code?" The swordman with the strange knife steadied his audience's mood and still asked Jiang Qiao one more time.

"No." Jiang Qiao replied.

"Then where did you get that baby?" The swordman with the strange knife moved his gaze to the Water Spirit floating beside Jiang Qiao.

This Water Spirit wasn't summoned by Jiang Qiao; it came out on its own.

Summoned beings also had a certain level of intelligence. The Water Spirit floated out of curiosity towards the "mechanical live stream camera" floating beside the swordman with the strange knife. Upon noticing the swordman's gaze, she hid behind Jiang Qiao's head, poking out a small head to look at the live stream camera.

This lively scene alone prevented anyone from seeing the Water Spirit as just a bunch of data.

"I'm an Elemental Summoner, where do you think my summoned beings come from?" Jiang Qiao countered.

Currently, the Holy Spirit hadn't yet opened the pet system, which Jiang Qiao would perfect in future updates.

"I forgot about that. Guys, I'm not playing a Summoner, so I can't get such a baby." The swordman with the strange knife helplessly told his audience, who demanded he get a baby like that.

'Suggest the streamer delete and start over.'

'Delete and start over +1.'

'Does the mage in front of the streamer still sell activation codes? 50,000!'

'They said 50,000, who are they?'

At this moment, Jiang Qiao caught two barrages, followed by a wave of mocking comments aimed at that user. As a result, the user sent five diamond treasure boxes to the live stream room.

This was the highest-level gift on Raccoon Stream, worth 2,000 each, making five worth 10,000. The swordman with the strange knife might not even make that much in a week of streaming.

When the glow of five diamond treasure boxes flashed in the live stream room, the mocking barrage turned into pure admiration, with comments full of praise like "Boss is generous", "Boss is awesome", and asking for Holy Spirit activation codes.

Jiang Qiao also saw that the ID of the user who sent the gifts was Sour Lemon.

"Lemon boss?" The swordman with the strange knife obviously knew this ID. He opened his mouth, still wanting to ask Jiang Qiao for activation codes, but Jiang Qiao had already walked away. After looking around and finding no sign of Jiang Qiao, he quickly joined the audience in thanking the patron and then hurriedly ran off to level up and fight monsters.

Jiang Qiao and Hai Lan had already walked out of Lionheart City.

"This live streaming is a bit like gladiators in the arena, showing the audience their fight process?" Hai Lan analyzed the live stream to Jiang Qiao.

"Almost, but the content of the live stream isn't just about fighting."

"Jiang Qiao, why don't you try it? Maybe you could make some money?" Hai Lan asked.

"I tried, but no one watched. Now, if I stream Holy Spirit, maybe some people would watch, but… there are already thirty to forty streamers streaming Holy Spirit on this site."

Jiang Qiao had actually tried streaming games before, but without any program effect, the popularity was only about a couple of hundred viewers, pitifully few.

But now, on the entire streamer platform, Holy Spirit had become the new favorite of streamers. Any streamer streaming Holy Spirit saw their popularity double or triple at least, and new streamers quickly emerged.

This already illustrated the attraction of Holy Spirit to players. Today was the first day of Holy Spirit's public release, and in a few days, its popularity would fully ferment.

Excited players would rush to the Holy Spirit's official website to register an account, only to find... they weren't qualified to play yet.

That feeling really made people want to smash their keyboards.

For the sake of players' keyboards, Jiang Qiao's top priority now was to turn the world named Tower Plane into a dungeon for Holy Spirit.

"Hai Lan, we're going to the Astrology Tower now." Jiang Qiao told Hai Lan. They found a secluded place, and after confirming no one was watching, Hai Lan opened a portal, and Jiang Qiao stepped through it.

On the other side of the portal was still the Astrology Tower in Lionheart City. The three astrologer NPCs at the tower greeted Jiang Qiao with respect upon his arrival.

Jiang Qiao ignored the three NPCs and went directly to the central astrological platform. Once activated, the star chart's light appeared in front of Jiang Qiao again.

The Plane Fragment of the Tower wasn't far from Blue Star. Jiang Qiao only needed about 1,200 energy points to open a portal to that fragment. The rest was just a few minor adjustments to the rules of this world.

Jiang Qiao didn't change much, just adjusted the gore effect, so that killing flesh-and-blood creatures wouldn't be too stomach-turning for the players. This small modification alone consumed nearly 200 energy points.

Before formally opening the entrance to this instance, Jiang Qiao needed to test it himself. Hai Lan created a portal leading to the Tower Plane, and Jiang Qiao walked directly into the portal.