Chapter 338: Eat My

There is absolutely no mistake, this mysterious man wearing a cloak is definitely Li Xiaoyao!

"This cloak, wearing it is the same as not wearing it!"

Whether it was the character's voice, the background music, or even his physique, those with a sharp eye recognized him easily.

During the previous promotion, Li Xiaoyao had appeared in character posters, but the poster images were either black silhouettes or only showed his Back Shadow.

Everyone was wondering when Li Xiaoyao would appear, but no one expected him to show up in the very first episode.

The barrage screen instantly boiled over, and the copy-paste bots began to flood the screen:

"Brother Xiaoyao!"

In the show, Jingtian asks him who he is.

The mysterious man does not answer directly, only saying that when the time is ripe, you will naturally know who I am.

This made the silly netizens even more active in posting barrages.

"Jingtian, I'm telling you he is Li Xiaoyao!"

"I'm telling you he is Li Xiaoyao, and I won't charge you for it!"

"Read after me: L-i Li, X-i-a-o-y-a-o!"

"Run! Don't you dare tell him the world is round!"

"If he hits you, just tell him: Love."

Jingtian just treats him like a lunatic and insists on going to sell the Jade Pendant.

Li Xiaoyao performs an Immortal Technique to show him an image of the human world three hundred days later, which will have been reduced to a purgatory.

And Jingtian is the key to saving everything.

At the same time, this Jade Pendant will also play a vital role.

Seeing that Jingtian is blinded by greed and that keeping the Jade Pendant on him is not particularly safe, he takes the Jade Pendant directly, then leaps away and disappears without a trace.

Accompanied by the familiar background music, everyone just feels that the once immature Brother Xiaoyao is now a high-level expert too; he is full of style!

Leshen Dama watches this scene and recalls that when the "Jingtian Arc" was being promoted, it was said that the timeline was 50 years before "Legend of Sword and Fairy 1," and some of the world-building information was released.

Strictly speaking, Li Xiaoyao is still Jingtian's grand-disciple. His father is Jingtian's disciple.

"I am not surprised at all that Li Xiaoyao appears 50 years ago; after all, he can travel through time and space. It was because of this peculiarity in 'Legend of Sword and Fairy 1' that everything turned into 【Fate】."

"But he gave his own grandmaster a beating; it's really... too filial!"

"Could this be the legendary act of betraying one's master and destroying one's ancestors?"

The audience watches Li Xiaoyao beat up Jingtian, and they are all amused.

"Luo Mo: I'm hitting myself!"

"Li Xiaoyao, the insubordinate."

"Li Xiaoyao: Is this guy really my father's master?"

"He can even hit himself this hard."

"Luo Mo: Feels pretty good."

At the end of the first episode, Jingtian and Xuejian run into danger, and the show's second male lead, Xu Zhangqing, makes a dazzling entrance.

Speaking of which, Xu Zhangqing can be said to wear the whitest clothes and burn the most expensive special effects in the entire "Legend of Sword and Fairy," and then... suffer the most vicious beatings.

In recent years, the 【White-Clad Show-off】 theory has become popular.

After all, wearing white clothes while walking the pugilistic world is very eye-catching.

At that time, people didn't have this idea; they just thought wearing white was cool.

It is precisely because Xu Zhangqing is dressed in white from head to toe that he was nicknamed 【White Tofu】 by Jingtian early on.

In fact, most of the content in the second episode consists of Xu Zhangqing showing off and performing Immortal Techniques.

This eldest disciple of the Shushan Sect satisfies everyone's Yearning for the Shushan Sect.

After all, the status and style of Shushan had already been established in "Legend of Sword and Fairy 1."

Since Xu Zhangqing is being groomed as the next sect leader of the Shushan Sect, everyone naturally compares him to Li Xiaoyao and the Sword Saint.

The two episodes finish quickly, and the ending theme "Forgetting Time" plays at this moment.

Leshen Dama rubs her crossed legs with her palms, still wanting more, and mutters: "It really is 'Forgetting Time'."

How did I finish watching it in the blink of an eye!?

Overall, she feels that the viewing experience was smooth and comfortable, and every character is very three-dimensional.

In just two short episodes, the characters have already been fleshed out and become vivid.

The suspense built in the early stages is also very clear, and many scenes are thrilling to watch.

"It doesn't feel any worse than the first one!" Leshen Dama thinks to herself.

Immediately after, this music critic begins to neglect her proper work.

She actually posts a review of "Legend of Sword and Fairy: Jingtian Arc" on Weibo.

Fans immediately begin to reply below.

"Leshen Dama is neglecting her work for Luo Mo again."

"If your legs weren't so pretty, I would have definitely unfollowed you!"

"Post a picture of your legs quickly, and I won't scold you."

"Oh my, it's just a small hobby of my wife's. Everyone, please calm your Anger; I apologize to everyone on my wife's behalf."

But then again, as a big influencer with millions of fans, Leshen Dama still has some influence.

Many people say they are going to watch the "Jingtian Arc" to see if it's as good as Leshen Dama says.

In fact, today, as the premiere day of "Legend of Sword and Fairy: Jingtian Arc," many public figures have stepped in to promote it for Luo Mo.

Xu Chujing, Chen Shanqi, Sun Yi, the Aurora Girls, and others have certainly all Shouted on various social media platforms specifically for this show.

People like Director Qian Qingyun, Run Jie, and the dog director Ke Ming have all called on everyone to go take a look.

Even Guan Fei, who voluntarily resigned from his position as 【Producer】 and was accused by haters of being discarded by Luo Mo like a worn-out donkey, posted three times in a row online to build momentum for "Jingtian Chapter".

After finishing the first two episodes, many people began to realize that the previous rumors and gossip were nothing but nonsense.

Luo Mo's directing level is very mature, the story is very coherent, and this time, even without Guan Fei, he still maintained his standard.

Of course, contrarians and keyboard warriors have their own set of theories; they will clamor: "Luo Mo is truly something this time; it's clearly still Guan Fei filming it, yet this time he didn't even give him the title of producer."

They don't stop to think that Guan Fei hasn't appeared on the set even once; with so many paparazzi and surrogate photographers surrounding Luo Mo's film crew, has anyone ever captured a single shot of Guan Fei?

In this day and age, is there already remote directing?

There is no need to try to convince these people; many of them just like to seek a sense of existence on the internet. The more you pay attention to them, the more they feel they are super awesome.

Therefore, even the 【Strangers】 won't bother with these people, letting them stay there in their "everyone is drunk while I alone am sober" state.

Nowadays, what more people are curious about is what kind of first-day results the second installment of the "Sword Fairy" series, directed by and starring the up-and-coming director and actor Luo Mo, will ultimately achieve?

……..

……..

The next day, Penguin Video Vice President Cheng Wen got up early.

As the busy Penguin Video Vice President, he still found time last night to check the various data for "Jingtian Chapter".

Must say, the momentum is very strong!

Judging from the word-of-mouth and ratings, it seems about the same as "Sword Fairy 1".

"Being able to maintain this level is already high enough," Cheng Wen said in his heart.

He knows the nature of some viewers very well: "As long as it's a sequel, no matter how well it's filmed, there will always be a large group of people who jump out to say it's not as good as the first one."

This phenomenon is very common and hard to avoid.

He was bored yesterday and went online to read a few comments, and was even amused by one of them.

That netizen said: "Heh, Li Xiaoyao appeared in the very first episode; it's very uncomfortable to watch. He doesn't know how to innovate or progress at all; you are still the best at riding on the coattails of popularity!"

Uh, speaking of which, isn't "Sword Fairy 1" Luo Mo's own work?

Cheng Wen naturally attaches immense importance to an S-Class Project.

Penguin is only promoting 5 S-Class Projects in total this year; originally there were only four, and "Jingtian Chapter" was added suddenly.

The previous S-Class Project could be said to be... a total flop!

This phenomenon is quite similar to the last few years on Earth; those with big promotions, big casts, and big productions often flopped so hard they hit rock bottom, without making a single splash, with incredibly dismal results.

Some... weren't even allowed to be broadcast!

On the contrary, some that weren't originally taken seriously became inexplicably popular!

"I can only say that the audience is becoming more and more picky, and the market is becoming harder and harder to figure out," Cheng Wen sighed.

Netizens are actually quite happy to see this phenomenon.

For many people, they don't want to see adaptations of some big IPs at all, feeling that they will ruin the original work.

Now it's great: the author earned the copyright fees, the capitalists lost everything, the trashy actors got implicated, and the original work didn't have to be ruined.

At the same time, because they frequently hit the Hot Search and all kinds of big news emerge one after another, the masterpieces in everyone's hearts, as well as the characters within them, can become even more popular!

——So satisfying!

Honestly, Cheng Wen has been under a lot of pressure lately.

Having flopped two A Ji projects and one S-Class Project in a row, he, as the Vice President of Penguin Video, has to take some responsibility.

Most importantly, if the pulse of the market cannot be grasped, the path of future development will be even harder to walk!

If you can't even know what the audience wants to watch at the cost of a total flop, how will you plan for next year?

This kind of loss is not a small amount like a few million or tens of millions; it is measured in the hundreds of millions!

"Fortunately... Luo Mo seems to always be able to grasp the market," Cheng Wen has high hopes for him.

He even views Luo Mo as the savior of Penguin Video this year.

After all, throughout the entire first half of the year, Penguin Video never really stood up!

It only bet on "Sword Fairy 1", which became a hit series.

And let's be honest, this feeling of gambling on a big bet... is quite addictive!

In fact, Penguin's data team, based on a specific set of algorithms, was already estimating the first-day viewership of "Sword Fairy: Jingtian Chapter".

Estimating data is actually not strange; just like when web novels are launched, there is also a set of algorithms within the web novel author circle that can estimate the total first 24-hour subscriptions of the entire book based on the first hour's subscription data.

However, an estimate is just an estimate; it's definitely only reliable once the actual data comes out.

The first-day viewership of "Sword Fairy: Jingtian Chapter" had already exceeded 100 million several hours ago.

The point now is whether the 24-hour viewership can exceed Pineapple's "Feudatory King"?

After all, "Feudatory King"'s first-day viewership of 209 million was truly too dazzling, ranking first this year.

Cheng Wen weighed it repeatedly in his heart, thinking about whether to give "Sword Fairy: Jingtian Chapter" some special privileges, breaking the rules to add some promotion and marketing to strive to push the results up.

After hesitating for a long time, he thought it was better not to set such a precedent.

Previously, A Ji projects were the highest level; it was only because everyone kept adding and adding that an S-Class was created.

"Don't get carried away, don't get carried away; have more confidence in Luo Mo," Cheng Wen told himself.

What made him most indignant was that while he was so concerned on his end, Luo Mo was truly carefree on his!

He even had the energy to go cook last night; who knows who he was cooking for, and he even specially posted on his Moments to show off his culinary skills.

"What a hands-off manager!" Cheng Wen was speechless.

It wasn't until 8 PM that the first-day results for "Sword Fairy: Jingtian Chapter" were to be settled.

The final result was: first-day viewership of 211 million!

Breaking the record of 209 million set by "Feudatory King", ranking first for the year!

—The "Sword" is unsheathed, first form, a narrow victory.

(PS: Second update, the last time to ask for monthly votes in 2021!)

(End of chapter)