Chapter 305: The Lingering Might

The online broadcast of *Celestial Sword 5 Qixia Zhuan* has officially concluded.

For a moment, the audience who had been following the show from the start felt a myriad of emotions.

Today, major social media platforms were practically flooded by *Celestial Sword 5*, with many people posting one or even several updates on their Moments and Weibo for the sake of this drama.

Some felt a sense of loss, some started cursing directly, some said they couldn't stop crying, and some expressed deep depression late at night...

Luo Mo is too good at wielding the knife; he wiped out the entire main cast!

Except for Li Xiaoyao, it could be said that the whole army was annihilated!

What left everyone feeling the most unreconciled was, naturally, the death of Zhao Ling'er.

Don't forget, although Ling'er and Xiaoyao became husband and wife in the first three episodes, due to some special reasons, they did not complete the final bow of the wedding ceremony, the "bow between husband and wife."

In the final few episodes, before the couple went to face the Moon Worshipper, they performed the wedding ceremony again in front of the Holy Aunt and other elders.

All of this made the audience feel it was so beautiful.

Everyone sincerely hoped that this family of three could live a happy and fulfilling life after saving the world.

The Zhao Ling'er played by Ding Xiaoyu was so full of spirit, so delicate and beautiful; from the start of the broadcast until now, her audience appeal has been extremely high, and many viewers have stated that she is the most likable heroine in any drama over the past two years.

Most importantly, the plot Reversal in the final episode was too painful to bear.

Ling'er fell to the bottom of the lake after defeating the Water Beast, and Li Xiaoyao was in immense pain and despair on the shore.

Just at this moment, Ling'er in her green dress slowly flew up from the bottom of the lake, looking completely ethereal, and flew to Li Xiaoyao's side.

This outfit was just like when the two first met on Fairy Spirit Island.

The young girl was still that same young girl; when she smiled and called out "Brother Xiaoyao," everyone seemed to see that carefree girl again, the girl who believed that even stones could bloom, the girl who believed in all the beauty in the world.

The two embraced, and it seemed as if everything was heading toward a happy family ending.

She said she had promised him that she would not die.

Li Xiaoyao and Zhao Ling'er walked hand in hand on the way home, amidst green mountains and clear waters, with flowers of all colors blooming by the roadside.

Li Xiaoyao said he wanted to take her back to Yuhang Town.

Zhao Ling'er also said she missed Auntie and Xiaohu.

Li Xiaoyao even laughed and said, "Right, we must not let them get close to Yiru; I'm afraid Yiru will be spoiled by them."

Once they mentioned their daughter Yiru, the two even began to discuss whether she would look more like him or her when she grew up.

"I hope her eyes are as big as yours."

"And her nose as high as mine."

"Eh... I think it's best if..."

Li Xiaoyao looked back again, and Zhao Ling'er was already stumbling.

He raised his hand to look, and his right hand, which had just touched her body, was covered in blood.

Clearly, clearly they were just planning their future.

Clearly, clearly they were just thinking about raising their daughter together.

The Nuwa Descendant, in the end, walked the path of sacrifice destined by Fate for the sake of her people.

Although this road home was filled with flowers, it was too long.

Ling'er could not accompany Brother Xiaoyao to the end.

Li Xiaoyao carried the blood-soaked Ling'er as they walked On the Road, and the soundtrack began to play at this moment.

It was still a simple instrumental track, yet it made the audience feel even more sorrowful and pained.

Some music becomes a thorn in one's memory; whenever you hear it in the future, the memory will ache faintly!

"It killed me with tears! As soon as this music started, I couldn't stop my eyes."

"I was holding it in, but as soon as the music started, I burst into tears!"

"It's just speechless; why are the works where Luo Mo is the screenwriter such a waste of tissues!"

"I'm going crazy; my favorite character in the whole show is Zhao Ling'er played by Yu!"

"It's killing me, my little fairy is dead!"

"I feel like she possessed all the beauty in the world, having both personal emotions and great love for humanity."

"In the end, it was also for the Promise to Brother Xiaoyao that she held on and refused to close her eyes. When she pretended to be unscathed, how much pain must her body and spirit have been in."

"I feel that the 'gentle on the outside, strong on the inside' label for heroines in other dramas is just being a 'silly sweet' early on and turning dark later. I feel Zhao Ling'er is the heroine who best fits this term; she always looks so soft and beautiful, yet she always has her own principles and persistence! She has her own strength and perseverance!"

By the time the first part of *Celestial Sword 5* finished airing, Ding Xiaoyu had gained nearly ten million followers on Weibo thanks to the role of Zhao Ling'er.

Because she already had great public appeal, her traffic was not low to begin with, and now, she has leapt to become the young Actor with the highest traffic recently!

Some dramas are ineffective performances; after you act in them, people might even start to dislike you as an Actor. For example, a character like "Lin Youyou" on Earth directly became a label for a green tea bitch.

Zhao Ling'er in *Chinese Paladin 1* was just too lovable.

The reason Luo Mo chose Ding Xiaoyu to play the role was precisely because she possessed that quality that makes the audience love her.

She is an innocent and lively fairy, and also a dutiful wife.

She is a princess of a kingdom who saved Nanzhao Kingdom from fire and water, and even more so, the Nuwa Descendant who saved the common people of the world.

She played every one of her roles well.

Every up and down in her life tugged at the hearts of the audience.

With her grandmother dead and her husband having lost his memory, she was a girl who grew up on an isolated island and hadn't touched the outside world for ten years. Following the amnesiac Li Xiaoyao, how much insecurity and helplessness must she have felt inside?

With all the great responsibilities placed on the shoulders of a young girl, how much exhaustion must she have felt?

Therefore, when she put on the green dress from Fairy Spirit Island again in the final episode and revealed that innocent and lively smile once more, it was the most heartbreaking scene!

To film this scene well, the crew spent two afternoons.

—If only life could always be like the first meeting!

But reality is often...

—If only it were like the first meeting!

………

………

The finale night of *Sword Fairy* ended just like that.

The next day, the various statistics for *Sword Fairy* were released online, shocking the eyes of countless people.

Among works with over ten billion views on Penguin Video, this was the series with the fewest episodes.

The remaining series had at least 48 episodes.

From this, one can see how terrifying the online popularity of *Sword Fairy* was!

It fully deserves labels like 【Early Year Blockbuster】, 【Phenomenal Hit】, and 【Recreating the Peak of Xianxia】.

This also led many Drama Critics to express one after another: "It's not that the Xianxia genre has declined, it's that you all don't know how to film Xianxia!"

After finishing this show, many people couldn't help but recall the sentence Luo Mo had previously posted on Weibo: "【The great hero acts for the country and the people.】!"

It's just that, after leaping from martial arts to Xianxia, that action is for the sake of all living beings in the three realms.

"Clearly, you group of people have lost your way; wearing the outer shell of Xianxia, you film the core of an Idol drama, which is why audiences mock it as a 'Chinese Paladin 1-Idol' drama."

"But as the screenwriter, Luo Mo has very well straightened out this detour and returned to the proper path of Xianxia dramas."

"Great love for the world and small personal love can clearly coexist in one show, and can clearly be interpreted together perfectly."

"Screenwriter Luo Mo has given his peers a good lesson. It can be said that *Sword Fairy* is a classic Xianxia template, worthy of study by screenwriters, and even self-reflection!"

"Thank you, Luo Mo, for letting us witness the peak of Xianxia dramas once again!"

"Presumably from now on, whenever everyone mentions Xianxia, they will never be able to bypass what he has created—Shushan!"

A newcomer series screenwriter, deified in one battle!

In the field of Xianxia dramas, others are praised for "gaining a firm foothold with one work."

Unlike Luo Mo, who stands at the peak with one work!

A towering Shushan was directly erected by him in the Xianxia field.

For a time, there was even a sense of "standing at the absolute peak, looking down at all the small mountains."

The aesthetics and Requirements of audiences for Xianxia dramas were directly raised by him with his own strength.

This caused the reputation of those "Chinese Paladin 1-Idol" dramas currently airing to continue to slide.

This made quite a few netizens happy.

At first, after seeing Luo Mo's period costume look, everyone shouted: "I beg you, come and save the period costume world."

But everyone was shouting that just because he was too handsome, a proper period costume beauty.

Yet who could have thought, he actually went and saved it!

You must know, the music scene has been going downhill in recent years; that is a very obvious fact, and many people clearly feel that the golden age of the music scene has already passed.

Then, Luo Mo emerged suddenly.

The film and television industry is doing alright; some categories have declined, but other categories that weren't popular before have emerged as a sudden force.

Luo Mo gave Xianxia a boost!

Many people, through the show *Sword Fairy*, began to broaden their thinking: What is an immortal?

—When the world is at peace, the immortal is the person on the mountain.

—When the world is in chaos, the person is the immortal descending the mountain.

……..

……..

On the other side, the web drama *Lost Sin*, which aired later than *Sword Fairy* and had 12 more episodes than *Sword Fairy*, was still "hotly airing."

Song Ge and the creative team of *Lost Sin*, as well as Wang Shisong of Pineapple, seeing their formidable rival finally sheath his sword after a chaotic slaughter using the Sword Control Technique, had a thought emerge in their hearts: "Our era has arrived!"

Indeed, *Sword Fairy*, a show that everyone initially thought was an inferior horse, directly became the Dark Horse of the beginning of the year.

After it finished leading the pack, wouldn't *Lost Sin*, which had been in second place, be the first among the currently airing shows?

"Build momentum! We can start building momentum!" Wang Shisong felt it was time.

The battle for the charts is sometimes very important, just like in the web novel circle, after the book that has always dominated the first place finishes, the original second place can dominate the first place.

Once it reaches the top, the data will skyrocket accordingly.

The performance of *Lost Sin* did not meet everyone's expectations, but now it seems, perhaps there is still a chance to fight for it!

Just like that, marketing and promotion immediately followed, with immense momentum.

Luo Mo watched this scene and wondered: "You think you can do it again?"

He didn't do anything else, he only did one thing—he uploaded all the *Sword Fairy* soundtracks that hadn't been uploaded to Penguin Music before.

The soundtracks mentioned here refer to those pure music pieces made by Mai Zhenhong, such as *Peach Blossom Island*, *Sword Fairy Romance*, and *Do Not Lose, Do Not Forget*.

You must know, the number of times these soundtracks were used on various short video platforms on Earth was incredibly astonishing.

To what extent was it frequent?

So frequent that a meme was born: "Sword Fairy: Do you guys not have your own soundtracks?"

For most practitioners in the film and television industry, seeing Luo Mo upload the *Sword Fairy* soundtrack, they only thought he was taking advantage of the popularity to make another buck.

"How many people can listen to pure music? If you don't upload it now, no one will download it later!"

"This stuff is basically a loss, which is why many people are increasingly not doing soundtracks properly."

But unexpectedly, these few pieces of pure music actually rushed onto the New Song Chart!

Many listeners even expressed that as soon as they heard the music, their memories began to churn.

"I immediately thought of the ten-year pact of the protagonist group again!"

"Damn it, my Ling'er!"

"No, I have to go rewatch it!"

"Starting a second watch!"

"Starting a third watch!"

It was clearly just instrumental music, so it was already incredibly exaggerated for it to charge onto the New Song Chart, yet it actually fed back into the popularity of a TV series that had already reached its finale!

Under these circumstances, the growth data for online viewership numbers from the second day was freshly released.

"Hidden Sin", yesterday's new online views: 112 million, status: two episodes updated.

"Celestial Sword 5 Qixia Zhuan", yesterday's new online views: 149 million, status: completed.

(PS: First update, requesting monthly tickets!)

(End of this chapter)