The next day, thanks to the cultivation contributed by people, Chu Yang broke through to the Void Return realm.
As he expected, progressing from the early to the mid-stage of the Void Return realm required three hundred million cultivation points.
For the past few days, Chu Yang hadn't been live-streaming the sale of cultivation techniques, partly because he hadn't drawn any good ones, and partly because he needed to stockpile items as rewards for trials.
When people entered the Demon Beast Secret Realm to hunt demon beasts, there would be casualties.
Most cultivators recently had never been on a battlefield.
The only one who had truly experienced combat using spiritual energy was Li Qingyun, who had helped capture three Myanmarese criminals in Xishuangbanna.
Back then, he had relied on the spiritual energy from plants to counter firearms. However, for him now, the location was no longer important for his cultivation speed.
Possessing the soul of the Enlightenment Tree, he was already equivalent to an inexhaustible treasure trove of wood-attribute spiritual energy.
Of course, if he were in a place with abundant vegetation, he might have more offensive options.
Returning to the topic, since everyone had no battlefield experience and hadn't endured life-and-death battles, when they entered the Demon Spirit Realm and encountered fierce demon beasts, some might freeze with fear.
But there was no other way. If they couldn't even dare to fight a few demon beasts, how could they confront the brutal demon races in three years?
As Chu Yang was contemplating this, Xue Qianwei happily knocked on his door.
"Chu Yang, Chu Yang! The promotional video is edited, come and see!"
Chu Yang quickly opened the door, and Xue Qianwei plugged in a USB drive, playing the promotional video for the Demon Spirit Realm trial, which she was very satisfied with.
"How is it?"
After watching it, Chu Yang found it interesting but asked doubtfully, "Why is there no sound? Didn't I give you the script?"
Xue Qianwei pouted, "Isn't that waiting for you to do the voiceover? How can anyone else's voiceover achieve the promotional effect?"
"Good heavens, I'm very busy!"
"Busy with what? You have a computer here and you're not live-streaming, while they put Luo Xiaowei on the plaza to guard for you. You just sit around daydreaming and call that busy?"
"Uh..."
Chu Yang was a bit speechless. He had been playing with the system all morning.
After a grueling morning, the narration voiceover finally concluded.
"On behalf of the XiongMiao platform, release this thing, and have your programmers create a registration program. Registration requires signing a death waiver, which is very important."
Xue Qianwei said with some concern, "If they get into trouble inside, won't you save them?"
"If I'm watching them all the time, what's the point of this trial?"
Xue Qianwei thought for a moment and asked cautiously, "What if I get into trouble?"
Chu Yang tilted his head, "???"
"You, a wealthy young lady, why are you going in there? Are you looking for trouble because life is too comfortable?"
Xue Qianwei was stunned for a moment and clenched her fist, "Who are you looking down on? I..."
"Stop messing around, be a good little assistant. What's so fun about the Demon Beast Secret Realm? There's plenty more fun stuff later!"
"Hey, what do you mean by that? Who's your little assistant? I'm the boss, damn it!"
"It's all the same. What are you still standing there for? Hurry up and release the trial recruitment!"
"Whoever wants to go can go! I am the boss... uh..."
Xue Qianwei's eyes widened. A transparent crystal emitting dense spiritual energy was suspended in front of her, suppressing her imposing aura.
Chu Yang smiled and said, "It's not like I'm not paying you. This is a top-grade spirit stone, equivalent to ten high-grade spirit stones, a hundred medium-grade spirit stones, and a thousand low-grade spirit stones..."
Boss Xue's eyes reddened, and she swallowed. Suddenly, she reached out, trying to snatch the top-grade spirit stone, but unfortunately, Chu Yang was much faster.
Before her hand could reach it, Chu Yang had already grabbed the spirit stone.
"I'll give it to you after you complete the task."
Xue Qianwei's expression stiffened slightly, and she finally had to yield.
For people like Xue Qianwei to catch up to those with heavenly talent, the best method was to pile on resources.
In the cultivation world, the Holy Sons and Holy Daughters of major sects might not have as good talent as the Holy Sons of minor sects, but they had high-level resources, which directly piled them into Holy Bodies.
Xue Qianwei thought the same thing, relying on her immense wealth to acquire resources and then overtake others by taking a shortcut...
When she carried her laptop to XiongMiao headquarters, she was suddenly startled.
"This is bad! I've become a wage slave, and he's the boss!"
...
At noon, Xue Qianwei posted a promotional video in the small group.
The Rich Woman Who Likes Playing with Fire - Xue Qianwei: "[Demon Spirit Realm Trial Recruitment].mp4, brothers, the trial registration is here! You have to sign a death waiver for this!"
Concurrently, Xue Qianwei also posted the video on Weibo with accompanying text.
XiongMiao Live Official: "We thank everyone for their enthusiasm for cultivation, but the path of cultivation is not one of peaceful development. To obtain better cultivation resources and to become stronger, one must undergo the baptism of life-and-death battles! We are now opening the Demon Beast Secret Realm [Demon Spirit Realm] as a trial ground, inviting all cultivators from the early Qi Refining to the late Nascent Soul stages to participate in this trial. The current registration limit is two thousand people. This trial is highly dangerous, and there is a high possibility of perishing in the [Demon Spirit Realm]. Signing a death waiver is mandatory!"
"The top five hundred participants in this trial will have the opportunity to explore the ruins of the ancient sect [Li Huo Palace]. Furthermore, the [Li Huo Palace] ruins are a Time Secret Realm, containing treasures left behind by [Li Huo Palace]. The time flow inside is 1% of the outside world, giving you seven hundred days to explore and cultivate within the secret realm!"
"Additionally, the top ten participants in this trial will receive extra rewards:
First Place: 10 top-grade spirit stones + Xian Dage's special gift.
Second Place: 5 top-grade spirit stones + Xian Dage's advanced gift.
Third Place: 2 top-grade spirit stones + Xian Dage's intermediate gift.
Fourth to Tenth Place: 1 top-grade spirit stone + Xian Dage's lucky gift."
For Chu Yang at this moment, the most stable cultivation resources he could provide were spirit stones.
As for the lucky gifts, they could only be drawn from the daily lucky draw. He didn't know what he would get, so he would just bluff with gifts for now.
The widespread popularization of cultivation had actually only begun the day before yesterday. In total, it had been just over two days.
The number of people who had obtained cultivation techniques was over two hundred thousand, and this number was still continuously rising.
These people could all be considered to be in the early Qi Refining stage. It was almost impossible for them to reach the late Qi Refining stage within seven days, unless they had heavenly talent and used spirit stones for cultivation.
As soon as this news was released, everyone exploded!