Chapter 116: [Group Livestream]

As soon as these words were spoken, the chat group fell silent.

A moment later—

【Xiang Yunye: That makes sense!】

【Xiang Yunye: I’ll try it right now!】

【Fan Xian: Fine, fine, fine, you’re cutting in, huh?】

【He Jing: Wait, don’t rush!】

【He Jing: I just tried tapping the button to start streaming, and the chat group popped up a friendly reminder: each member can only stream once per week, and each stream can last at most twenty-four hours.】

【He Jing: Lin Daoge hasn’t chimed in yet—maybe he’s busy with something.】

【He Jing: If you start streaming now, you might waste this chance!】

【Xiang Yunye: …】

【Xiang Yunye: I see it. There really is this reminder.】

【Xiang Yunye: You sneaky bastard, He Jing, you’re faster than me?】

【He Jing: What can I say? The position of those four characters was just too perfect—I couldn’t resist.】

【Lin Yu: Since we still don’t understand how the group stream works, why not let @Su Haoming try first?】

【Su Haoming: … Me?】

【Xiang Yunye: Great idea!】

【Fan Xian & He Jing: +1】

【Su Haoming: …】

【Su Haoming: Alright, I’ll give it a try first.】

A moment later, the chat group popped up a message—

【Group member 'Su Haoming' has started a stream—go watch now!】

Everyone hurriedly opened the group stream interface and indeed saw the newly created livestream room.

Upon entering, a familiar face appeared on screen, waving his arms excitedly.

“Moshi moshi, can you see me?”

【Everyone: We can see you!】

Group members flooded the chat. Su Haoming opened his own livestream, leaned his head toward the camera based on the screen view, and curiously probed with his spiritual power.

“This is amazing—how exactly is this streaming done? I don’t even see a camera!”

“Of course you can’t figure it out!”

Before the words had fully left his mouth, a flash of silver light appeared in the hall, and Lin Yu stepped out, staring straight at the camera’s position: “Fan Xian is right—group streaming is far superior to teleportation.”

“In terms you can understand, it’s a Dao-combining level technique.”

“By communicating with the world, it directly extracts images from the world and projects them into the chat group…”

Su Haoming froze upon hearing this.

The livestream’s comments also flooded in.

【Xiang Yunye: Dao-combining level technique?】

【Fan Xian: That’s insane?】

【He Jing: I think Lin Daoge is even more insane…】

【He Jing: Can you really see through a technique at this level?】

He could see through it—because he himself was this universe!

The instant Su Haoming started streaming, Lin Yu sensed the chat group’s anomaly and detected a force spontaneously arising, attempting to communicate with his inner universe—his own core consciousness.

Lin Yu detected no danger in this force, so he did not reject it.

In fact, he had observed the entire process of the chat group extracting the livestream footage.

From the group members’ perspective, this technique was indeed impressive.

But to Lin Yu, who was the world’s consciousness, it was nothing special.

Theoretically, he could simply block and expel this force to completely cut off the livestream.

But this was the chat group—could its methods really be this simple?

Thinking of this, Lin Yu shifted his intent, attempting to expel the force and seal his inner universe.

The process wasn’t difficult—in fact, it was simple—but for some reason, after Lin Yu expelled the force, the livestream continued without interruption.

…What’s going on?

Lin Yu paused, then frowned.

After a moment’s thought, he turned off his own chat group and activated his authority to completely seal off Su Haoming’s surroundings.

Instantly, the once-smooth livestream became choppy, frame rate plummeting, turning into a slideshow of PPTs.

Yet even so, the image was not fully blocked.

At least a few frames still appeared per second…

Seeing this, Lin Yu fell into thought.

Indeed, group streaming doesn’t just extract images from the world—it also uses each member’s chat group terminal.

That explains it!

Among all the powers he’d encountered, the chat group was the only one he couldn’t fully comprehend.

That it could bypass the numerous seals of his inner universe and transmit Su Haoming’s image to the outside didn’t surprise him at all.

Meanwhile, the other three group members were stunned, flooding the chat with messages—even Su Haoming, the livestreamer himself, looked utterly bewildered.

Lin Yu confirmed his hypothesis and immediately withdrew the seal.

The livestream flickered and resumed its smooth flow.

【Fan Xian: What just happened?】

【Xiang Yunye: What was that? Does the chat group have bad signal?】

“I couldn’t see anything!”

Su Haoming looked bewildered.

Lin Yu walked over and said softly: “Don’t panic—I just tried blocking the livestream, but unfortunately, the chat group’s methods are superior. Even I can’t fully block it.”

【Everyone: …】

[He Jing: Indeed, Lin Daoge is still more terrifying...]

Lin Yu turned to Su Haoming: “Stop fooling around—focus on studying group streaming!”

Su Haoming nodded and immediately shifted his attention to the livestream, eagerly studying it.

Not just him—Lin Yu and the other three group members also studied the audience interface of the livestream.

First, as the streamer, Su Haoming could gain activity points and credits based on stream duration and viewer count.

From his interface, activity points still had a daily limit of one hundred, but credits had no upper bound.

Theoretically, if viewer numbers were high enough, Su Haoming could earn massive credits through streaming.

But unfortunately, the group currently had only five members; with four viewers, streaming for twenty-four hours would yield at most eight hundred credits…

【Xiang Yunye: At most?】

【Xiang Yunye: That’s already a lot!】

【Fan Xian: Yeah, these are free credits.】

【He Jing: And I just tested it—the livestream can run in the background; you don’t need to watch in real time.】

【Xiang Yunye: Really? That’s great!】

Su Haoming asked: “What about your audience interface? How’s it different from mine?”

Lin Yu beside him shook his head: “Unfortunately, audience members can’t earn credits—only send comments to boost daily activity or spend credits to send gifts.”

“Gifts?”

Su Haoming’s eyes lit up.

Lin Yu nodded and casually selected a gift.

Instantly, a beautiful visual effect appeared on the right side of the livestream—a golden rocket.

Su Haoming, both shocked and delighted, bowed toward the camera and grinned: “Thank you, Boss Lin, for the rocket!”

Other group members in the livestream began teasing, flooding the chat with comments like “Boss is generous!” and “Boss is clueless!”

Lin Yu said bluntly: “Stop the nonsense—check how many credits you received.”

“Got it!”

Su Haoming saluted, then checked his streaming earnings.

After a quick calculation, he complained: “This damn chat group is so greedy—it took two hundred credits from my five-hundred-credit rocket, leaving me with only three hundred—worse than the chat group store’s handling fee!”

Greedy! So damn greedy!

Group members flooded the chat with comments, furious about the chat group’s cut.

Only Lin Yu remained unfazed, asking instead: “What about contribution points?”

Su Haoming paused slightly, then opened the group files and looked at the top-right corner.

“It went up! It went up!” Su Haoming exclaimed. “It really went up!”

“How much?”

“Let me see… it’s two hundred.”

“Matches the streaming cut rate…”

Lin Yu’s face wore a thoughtful expression.

When uploading group files, you gain equal points and contribution value based on their worth, but that doesn’t mean the two are the same thing.

In fact, Lin Yu had long suspected the nature of contribution value, believing its priority surpassed that of points—the amount of points gained from uploading group files should be calculated based on contribution value.

“Given this, the main benefit of the group livestream, besides earning points, must be buying contribution value through tips!”

“Is that even a benefit?”

“How isn’t it?”

Lin Yu shook his head. “Right now, the group isn’t short of contribution value because of the knowledge I’ve uploaded—but that won’t necessarily hold true in the future. Haven’t you all seen the Stage Three tasks?”

“Both activity and contribution value requirements are doubling. If this trend continues, future task targets will be outrageous—demand for contribution value might even overtake activity.”

“After all, activity is tied to group member count; as long as new members keep joining, the rate of acquisition will keep accelerating.”

“But contribution value is different. As we encounter more worlds, knowledge of various power systems will depreciate.”

“Who knows? One day, new members might earn only a tiny amount of contribution value—or none at all—causing contribution value acquisition to lag behind target growth…”

Hearing this, Su Haoming fell into thought.

The other three group members also discussed it, all agreeing his words held merit.

Lin Yu smiled. “Of course, this won’t happen anytime soon. At least for the next four or five tasks, you don’t need to worry about contribution value.”

【He Jing: By the way, did this upgrade bring any new members?】

【Xiang Yunye: Of course not.】

【Xiang Yunye: The group invites one person per month—it hasn’t even been a full month yet!】

【He Jing: Oh oh!】

【He Jing: I thought upgrading would bring one automatically…】

Seeing the livestream chat, Lin Yu’s mind stirred—he realized he hadn’t checked the prospective member list yet.

The group does invite one new member per month, but the prospective list isn’t bound by that rule!

Thinking of this, he immediately switched to the group chat interface and tapped the plus sign on the member list.

【New Member Progress: 21/30】

【Prospective Qualifications: 2】

【View Prospective Member List】

Two qualifications had appeared!

Lin Yu’s eyes lit up, and he immediately opened the prospective member list.

In an instant, two shimmering silver names appeared before him.

One was still Li Shimin from last time; the other was more intriguing.

“Lin Lie…”

Lin Yu’s expression turned peculiar, as if he could hear a crisp, booming shout through the name alone.

“Could it really be ‘Qi Piercing the Long Rainbow’?”

As he thought this, he draped his awareness over the name “Lin Lie.”

(End of Chapter)