Chapter 1203

The next day, Luo Quan re-released her previously published new song "Ten Thousand Gods Chronicle" on Weibo, Bilibili, and Douyin, noting that it was the theme song she had found for "The Wilderness."

At first, everyone was quite happy, saying there was another new song to listen to.

But after listening to the song, many fans noticed something was off.

"I don't know if it's just my imagination, but I have a strange sense of familiarity."

"Excellent music always does this—it gives people a feeling of familiarity because your soul is also celebrating the encounter with it."

"Bullshit, this is just Luo Quan's old song! The arrangement, lyrics, and melody haven't changed at all—she just pulled it out and used it directly!"

"Haha, a bunch of people are still analyzing it from a distance—this is just pure idol filtering, isn't it?"

"To be fair, the lyrics are quite good, full of allusions and mythology."

"This is a song Luo Bao made a few years ago for Bilibili's New Year's Gala, but due to its style, it only went viral on Bilibili for a short time back then. Plus, it's been so long that new fans haven't really heard it."

"So Luo Bao assumed the song was obscure and dug up this old one to fool everyone, right?"

"Interrogate—we must mercilessly interrogate this kind of behavior!"

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Facing the fans' accusations, Luo Quan immediately responded: "I only said I found a theme song—I never said I composed a new one. If you didn't read carefully, how can you blame me?"

Upon hearing this, the fans flew into a rage:

"How dare you still talk back?"

"You've been getting a bit full of yourself lately, Luo Bao."

"With this excuse, I'm definitely not going to let it go."

"New song, new song, new song! Important things said three times."

"Even if the theme song is an old one, it's fine—but for such an important cosmic epic, having just one theme song feels a bit stingy, doesn't it?"

"Don't worry—I'm sure Luo Bao has a second song. She's pulled this suppress-then-boost tactic so many times before, she's got it down pat."

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It must be said, the fans are indeed very familiar with Luo Quan's tactics.

Seeing these analytical comments and guesses in the bullet comments, Luo Quan herself was a little surprised: "You actually guessed it right? Are you that perceptive?"

This is the downside of daily live streaming—behavioral logic is completely transparent to fans you interact with every day, leaving no room for secrets.

Put simply, when Luo Quan shifts her weight, her fans know whether she's about to defecate or urinate.

Although it's a bit crude, that's basically the meaning.

This time, she released an old song first, intending to use this method to stir up public opinion, then release a new song to reel it back in.

By releasing two songs in succession, she could appear very sincere.

But she never expected this little trick to be seen through so quickly by the fans, and for a moment, she didn't know what to say.

Although Luo Quan fell into silence, the fans, on the other hand, became very active:

"Oh come on, we're practically an old married couple—do we really need all this foreplay? Just get to the main event already."

"You're acting a bit suspicious—baseless suspicion."

"Hurry up and pull out the new song for everyone to hear—if it's not good, I'm turning into a little hater, okay?"

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"Since you all say that." Luo Quan helplessly scratched her head, opened the folder, and played a song inside titled "Kunpeng Spreads Its Wings."

"This is an insert song from 'The Wilderness.' You can treat it as another theme song, or even a battle song.

Its Chinese name is 'Kunpeng Spreads Its Wings,' and its English title is 'FlightOfTheSliverbird'."

As she finished speaking, the prelude of this pure instrumental piece began to play.

The crisp sound of the xiao flute was like birdsong at dawn, awakening heaven and earth and light.

The massive body of the Kunpeng stood upon the earth, gazing at the rosy dawn piercing the horizon, it unfurled its wings that covered the sky and blocked the sun, stirring up a wild wind that swept across ninety thousand miles of heaven and earth, soaring upward.

In the music, amidst the light and cheerful vocal humming, an exceptionally passionate cello accompaniment was added.

With the fusion of Chinese and Western elements, the song burst forth with unparalleled grandeur, making listeners feel as if they had truly transformed into a Kunpeng, roaming freely through the vast and boundless wilderness.

The song ended with immaculate, crisp percussion, and in an instant, everyone's gaze snapped back to reality—only then realizing the piece had finished, and simultaneously noticing that, at some point, their hairs had stood on end and they were drenched in hot sweat.

"Damn, what a hot-blooded song."

"Pure instrumental music can be this vivid—it feels like I really took a trip to the Wilderness."

"No wonder it's called a battle song—I now really want to ride my husky into battle!"

"Husky: Don't drag me into your madness, you crazy person."

"As soon as this song came out, I knew it would definitely go viral—it's perfect for use as BGM, getting ready to play it loudly on Douyin……"

"Whatever, as long as we can bring the Wilderness into the spotlight together."

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The fans' final remark truly hit Luo Quan where it counts.

Using songs to boost the movie's popularity was originally her initial intention.

After all, Douyin is primarily a platform for music paired with videos, and only with outstanding music can video content go viral alongside it.

A bland, stable love song definitely couldn't achieve this—if you want to go viral, you need your own unique flair.

And this song "Kunpeng Spreads Its Wings" undoubtedly possesses such flair—at least in terms of being "fiery," there's currently nothing on Douyin that can match it, and I believe it will soon top the BGM usage charts.

Of course, relying solely on music is definitely not enough.

Movie promotion is just like product selling—besides having an interesting product introduction, the promoter themselves needs to be even more important.

Luo Quan currently only has minor fame on Douyin, but Gao Liang is a major celebrity.

So Luo Quan entrusted this arduous task to him, having him take on the main responsibility of promoting the movie.

Actually, it doesn't require anything too difficult—Gao Liang put on the costume of "Kong Xuan" from Part Two, filmed a few cool-looking clips, and easily gained hundreds of thousands of likes.

At the end of the video, she pasted a subtitle reading "Honghuang coming soon, stay tuned," and the task was complete, wasn't it?

As for the promotional content on Weibo, that needed to be arranged by Luo Quan herself.

The users here are one of the main forces for movie-watching, and with more female users, using male stars as bait couldn't be more suitable.

So Luo Quan posted many behind-the-scenes clips of Wang Xiaoning and Qiao Enjun; both are famous handsome men in the entertainment circle, and this time they play fellow disciples in the drama.

They are clearly solemn saints, but the occasional playful dialogue that surfaced made such a serious fellow-disciple relationship appear more harmonious and natural.

Commercial films need this kind of measured emotional guidance.

Be solemn when it's time to be solemn, and when it's time to crack a couple of jokes, you also have to find a way to make the audience happy.

However, Luo Quan didn't expect that the footage of these two interacting would actually be misinterpreted by a bunch of girls.

It was originally just normal teasing between fellow disciples, but they forcibly used text comments to describe it as somewhat ambiguous scenes.

As the saying goes, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder"; the sheer size of this group is absolutely beyond imagination, otherwise they wouldn't have propped up so many big-hit dramas one after another.

Recently, because of restrictions, similar plots have appeared, so basically no one dares to openly sell BL anymore.

But that doesn't stop fujoshi from using their imagination; after imagining, they still post the comments to influence other sisters.

Moreover, Yuanshi Tianzun and Tongtian Jiaozhu were originally as close as brothers, yet due to ideological differences they eventually parted ways.

This typical love-hate relationship truly hits fujoshi right in the heart.

So when the stills of these two actors — handsome to a maddening degree — came out, the long-starved fujoshi were stirred up almost overnight, flooding everywhere.

Related super-topics and topics were quickly established on Weibo and Douban; on Lofter and Jinjiang, a large amount of fanfiction appeared, becoming their fantasy spiritual food.

Of course, they don't just fantasize.

After confirming the movie quality would be excellent, the interested fujoshi pre-purchased Honghuang movie tickets at the first opportunity.

Because it's a special-effects blockbuster, Honghuang's ticket prices are higher than ordinary films.

Cheap ones sell for forty to fifty yuan, expensive ones directly over a hundred.

No one knows exactly how many this group bought, but the backend shows that since the "Yuanshi and Tongtian" topic hit the hot search, Honghuang's pre-sales jumped a big chunk, with over sixty percent of buyers being female.

This is only day one; the growth should continue for the next few days.

As for Bilibili, honestly no deliberate promotion is needed there.

Luo Quan just needs to livestream on schedule every day, which equals advertising the movie.

Because fans ask movie-related questions in the livestream daily, and as long as it doesn't involve spoilers, Luo Quan tells all she knows.

Subtly influenced, anyone with free time who likes movies will go get a ticket.

Current pre-sale box office is quite good, already reaching 320 million.

After ten days of domestic release, Honghuang will also open in the US; although anticipation there is high, no one dares predict the exact box office.

But no matter how high the US box office, it doesn't affect the flag Luo Quan has planted domestically.

"The hype and praise that should be done are basically these." Luo Quan answered the last question about Honghuang and said in a summarizing tone: "If you want a story with depth, Honghuang probably doesn't have it.

But if you want special effects, spectacular fights, and cool magic, Honghuang absolutely delivers in spades — buying a ticket is a guaranteed win.

Of course, as an uploader, I certainly hope fans check reviews before deciding.

They're all good reviews anyway, so you definitely won't be able to refuse."

Luo Quan rarely shows such confident, arrogant attitude, but from the clips and footage released so far, her confidence has absolutely no problem.

Any other crew producing world-class effects would only be even more arrogant than Luo Quan.

Of course, Luo Quan won't step on peers or bind other things to force moviegoers to choose her film.

She only hopes everyone watches because they're interested in the movie and trust her ability.

If mixed with other things, it wouldn't be good.

What needed promoting, Luo Quan has basically promoted in place.

Four full days of preparation, and the movie finally迎来了 its imminent release moment.

Because it's the first work opening the Honghuang universe, Luo Quan focused on how to build a film universe at the premiere.

Because she already successfully built the "Zombie Universe," although its achievements still can't compare to the "Marvel Universe" for now, the number of people worldwide who can reach this achievement was originally countable on one hand.

As one of the very few successes, when Luo Quan spoke on stage, the filmmakers and industry bigwigs below all listened very seriously.

The former were gathering material for tonight's manuscripts, the actors were accumulating experience for future shoots.

An actor who doesn't want to be a director isn't a good star; many actors, after becoming famous, choose to write, direct, and star in their own stills.

On one hand the profit share is higher, on the other it boosts their status.

But while many transition, very few truly pull it off.

Now a success story is generously sharing experience on stage; these actors who want to direct naturally listen with utmost seriousness.

However, what made them feel a bit regretful was that the premiere only lasted about two hours; excluding the warm-up performances, actors sharing filming journeys, and the director sharing motives, the actual experience-sharing time was just a bit over half an hour.

Not long, but fortunately Luo Quan had no fluff and spoke only practical content, so they still learned quite a lot.

At the end of the premiere, a Tencent Pictures reporter raised a question to Luo Quan.

Things should have ended here, but as the sole partner for this film, Luo Quan more or less still had to give Tencent some face.

So seeing the extended microphone, she stopped and listened to what else the other party wanted to ask.

"Luo Quan, as of now Honghuang: Kaitian Pidi's pre-sales have exceeded 500 million; this is undoubtedly an excellent result. So may I ask what you predict the total box office of this epic will be?"

A very good question, because many people online are discussing it right now.

Chest-breaking-big-stone is Luo Quan doing a stunt, but it also made netizens curious whether this epic blockbuster can actually break 5 billion at the box office.

From the current momentum, it seems somewhat difficult.

After all, a true blockbuster isn't blanket viral marketing, but organic word-of-mouth recommendations everywhere from schools to companies to chat groups.

Currently Honghuang doesn't seem to have reached that level of heat yet.

"Definitely 5 billion." Luo Quan finished hearing the question and answered without a second thought.

The movie is about to be released, and no matter how humble and cautious Miss Luo Quan is, she absolutely would not show it at this time.

"It must be five billion." Miss Luo Quan repeated again, her tone extremely certain.