Chapter 38: Penniless

Yu Jinli memorized that phrase quietly and exited the page. Then, he went to Baidu, the all-powerful search engine. Right, in this world, there was also a search engine that knew everything. Only that it wasn’t Baidu anymore, but Qiandu. (Translator’s note: Bai in Baidu means hundred, Qian in Qiandu means thousand.) After consulting Qiandu, Yu Jinli finally understood what live streaming was. Then he went to several famous live streaming websites, watched several streamers and found that live streaming could be about everything. Meanwhile, he learned the process of live streaming. If he wasn’t worried about interrupting Jiang Mosheng’s cultivation, he would love to jump up and down in celebration. Sure enough, his golden coattail was his lucky star. A while ago, he was wondering how to win popularity and accumulate Power of Faith. Now he found a solution in such a short time. He didn’t need to be a national hero or a celebrity who could sing, dance or act. Just with live streaming, he could have fans. Besides, he already decided what to stream - cooking! He found that there were all kinds of live streaming except for cooking. Some streamers even broadcast when they slept. Perhaps, men in this world didn’t know how to cook. He believed that he would become popular after he joined live streaming. He would win a lot of love and collect a lot of Power of Faith which would add to his cultivation. Great! Thinking of the beautiful future, he couldn’t help laughing, pleased like a kitty that had eaten on the sly. When Jiang Mosheng woke up from meditation, he saw that and his lips curved upwards as well. “What makes you so happy?” A beautiful deep voice rose and brought Yu Jinli back to reality. Seeing that Jiang Mosheng was done with his cultivation, Yu Jinli ran to him eagerly, sat by the bed and asked hurriedly: “How do you feel now?” “Great,” Jiang Mosheng answered smilingly. Though he hadn’t got rid of the toxin completely, he felt there was less of it in his body. Besides, the pain it caused wasn’t as intense. He felt better now. “Good, good.” Hearing that, a burden was lifted from Yu Jinli’s shoulder. As usual, he put his fingers on Jiang Mosheng’s wrist and sent a trace of spirit power to check his conditions. Jiang Mosheng relaxed and let Yu Jinli do his job. Now, he finally knew that power he felt for the past few days was - spirit power. Yu Jinli checked his condition carefully. After all, Jiang Mosheng just started cultivation. Yu Jinli was worried he would take a wrong turn. However, when his spirit power reached Jiang Mosheng’s dantian, he found more spirit power in it than his own. Immediately, he felt a bit jealous. Obviously, he was the one that started cultivation first. How come he was left behind by Jiang Mosheng so quickly. It was not fair! It was all because there was no spiritual energy in this world, otherwise his cultivation level would definitely be much higher than Jiang Mosheng’s. The good thing was, as long as he didn’t speak of it, Jiang Mosheng wouldn’t know that he simply had a cultivation method without much spirit power. He would never tell Jiang Mosheng that. Never! He was Jiang Mosheng’s master. He had to maintain his dignity. Having made up his mind secretly, Yu Jinli took back his hand and put up an expression which he thought was mysterious as he said: “Good. It’s good that you’ve reached this level at your first cultivation, though not as good as I was. You need to put more efforts into it. Don’t slack off. In that way you’ll get rid of the toxin soon.” Looking at the pretentious expression on that small pretty face, Jiang Mosheng’s smile grew wider. But he didn’t laugh out loud in front of Yu Jinli as he tried to hold his laughter back while saying: “I see, my littler master shifu.” Hearing Jiang Mosheng call him master shifu, though with a “little” at the front, which he ignored voluntarily, he was over the moon and didn’t notice that Jiang Mosheng was trying to holding back a laughter. “Good. You are worthy of my efforts.” Immediately, Yu Jinli put on the manner of a master. “Kindly give me your advice, little master shifu.” Jiang Mosheng loved how proud Yu Jinli looked right now, and played along actively. “No problem. No problem.” Yu Jinli was very happy, finally a master shifu himself. If his master shifu and sect-brother were here, he would definitely show off in front of them, especially his sect-brother, who didn’t have a disciple yet. Now he had a disciple before his sect-brother did, a talented one too. His sect-brother must be very jealous of him. …… The follwing several days, Yu Jinli would talk to Jiang Mosheng about cultivation from time to time, remind him of places he might make mistakes, and answer questions. Afterwards, Jiang Mosheng would enter cultivation while Yu Jinli would log on star net, searching for information on live streaming - how to start, what tools were needed, and what live streaming websites there were. At first, he planned to register at Simple Victory Live Streaming, the most popular live streaming website, with a host of celebrity live-steamers. Rabbit that Eats Fish, who he watched a few days before was on Simple Victory. However, when he started to register, a pop-up ad drew his attention. It was a new live streaming website. In order to attract more steamers, it would give every steamer that finished his or her first live streaming session an incentive of 1000 credit, which steamers could transfer to his or her own account. That was a very tempting offer since right now Yu Jinli was... penniless. He didn’t need to pay for anything now that he lived in Jiang Family, he needed credit for live streaming tools. Though he had Jiang Family’s smart watch which had countless credit in it, he would be more comfortable spending money he made. Therefore, for his first pot of gold, Yu Jinli chose that new live streaming website - Star Origin Live Streaming, without hesitation. …… In the busiest section of capital star stood a towering building. It was one of the landmark buildings here - Mainstay Building. It was an office building. Generally, every big business would rent several floors of office space here. Even if left empty, it was a symbol of success. The 190th to 200th floors were rented by a company with a sigh that read Star Origin Live Streaming. Right now, in an office room at 200th floor, a handsome man was staring at the screen of his smart watch, as if he was annoyed about something. “Didn’t you tell me that you’ve put up ads on every big platform? Why is the number of registers so small?” Liu Xingyuan said unhappily. (Translator’s note: Xingyuan here means Star Origin, which is how the company got its name.) He was the founder and CEO of Star Origin Live Streaming. Right now, he was looking at the data page of the website. “Boss, our website went online barely 24 hours ago. It takes time to accumulate users. Now number of members has reached a million with over ten thousand steamers. It’s already a good result,” a man with gilded glasses reported honestly. “Far less than Simple Victory. It...” Short-tempered, Liu Xingyuan was interrupted by a new message on his smart watch. After he read the message, he was more irritated, as if he wanted to blow his office up. Du Ruobai, Liu Xingyuan’s assistant, could tell who that message was from simply judging from his boss’s reaction and sighed slightly. There was an ill-fated relationship between his boss and that Jian Congliang. Well, just ill fate, no relationship. Liu Xingyuan was the second son of a second-tier family in capital star. With a capable and intelligent elder brother, he simply needed to enjoy life and idle away his time in pleasure, a typical playboy. There were many people like Liu Xingyuan in capital star, without the pressure from their families to carry the family businesses. They would usually hang out together or being compared with each other. Jian Congliang belonged to that circle. Same as Liu Family, Jian Family was also second-tier. However, since a long time ago, the two families didn’t get along. Young generation of two families would compete with each in secret, while Liu Xingyuan and Jian Congliang had enhanced that spirit that was passed on to them. Perhaps because the two didn’t have anything better to do, since they were young, they were determined to beat the other down in every regard. Simple Victory Live Streaming was set up five years ago. In such a short time, it had become the most popular live streaming website with many celebrity steamers. It had stepped on other live streaming websites for quite some time. However, that wouldn’t concern Liu Xingyuan. The problem was, the owner of Simple Victory Live Streaming was Jian Congliang which was revealed recently. Once that news went out, people who thought Jian Congliang a hopeless playboy all changed their opinions and started to applaud him which made Liu Xingyuan sour. Think about it, what if a playboy like yourself suddenly turned into an elite while you were still a total failure. In addition, that playboy was your mortal enemy. Didn’t it feel worse than eating a dead mouse? “Jian Congliang must have done this on purpose. Keep a secret for five years? Not him, he won’t. I don’t believe he started that business.” After Liu Xingyuan learned about that news, he was so mad that he wanted to smash everything.