Chapter 527: Ross, who has grasped the true essence of operations |
"From the extreme of yin comes yang; the cultivation technique of Dragon and Tiger Mountain is indeed profound. Initially, I could only generate a small amount of yang energy to create a tiny Taiji diagram to deceive others. But now, having reached the third level, the yang energy can actually contend with the sinister energy of the Soul Suppressing Bottle.
No wonder it's Master Xu's cultivation method. Now that I've practiced it in such a haphazard way, I'm afraid Master Xu wouldn't even recognize it as the technique from Dragon and Tiger Mountain! But that's fine; it suits my all-powerful Heavenly Demon persona. Otherwise, those three idiots outside would start getting suspicious..."
Du Ge muttered to himself.
At this moment.
In the palm of his hand, a constantly rotating Taiji diagram spun.
One half was Sun God power, the other half was Dark God power.
Behind him, a large Taiji diagram swirled, yin and yang in harmony, complementing each other, looking exceptionally balanced.
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Qi Yuan Star.
The Soul Suppressing Bottle is one thing, but flaunting such high-level power like Sun God power, couldn't he wait a few days to get a more advanced cultivation technique before showing off?
Damn it, this is challenging the company's bottom line!
He's completely ignoring my warnings, does he really think I can't do anything about him?
But soon, Bai Long looked dejected, realizing a terrifying fact.
If the company doesn't deal with Du Ge, it seems he really can't do anything about this brat.
Thus, Bai Long's face turned even darker.
...
Pan-Universal Entertainment headquarters fell silent.
"Ross, Du Ge is challenging our bottom line," Adan, the head of the Marketing Department, was the first to break the silence. "He's even insulting our intelligence."
Ross glared at him but said nothing.
Ever since the Alien Star Battlefield began, with the massive casualties of Alien Star warriors, he had been overwhelmed.
Those Alien Star warriors were carefully selected and personally trained by the audience outside the field, starting with over 2,700.
But within a few days, like an avalanche, only about 600 remained.
This drove the audience and gamblers who had invested a lot of mental power insane.
A group of them stormed the Pan-Universal Entertainment forum, demanding an explanation from the company, accusing them of using the Alien Star Battlefield to exploit their mental power...
Compared to these lunatics who lost everything at the start, Du Ge's antics seemed trivial.
To be honest, the drama outside is more intense than inside.
Ross now wished he could tear the head of the Exploration Department, Bas, to pieces. He was exhausted, wondering why things never went as he hoped.
The head of the Exploration Department, Bas, didn't dare meet Ross's gaze, nor did he dare to breathe loudly. He also couldn't understand why the high-level power of that planet could evade their scans and assessments.
But, it wasn't his fault!
He couldn't personally go to that planet to check, and the second Alien Star Battlefield Du Ge entered didn't reveal any planetary will either.
The blame should be on Pan-Universal Entertainment's outdated scanning and assessment system, right?
Choosing a high-powered Alien Star Battlefield across so many universes, isn't it normal for some errors to occur?
Who can guarantee that every Alien Star Battlefield will be error-free...
"Ross, shouldn't we give Du Ge a warning?" Adan asked. "He's getting more and more arrogant."
"Warn him about what? At least he knows to find a reason to cover it up." Ross rubbed his temples, speaking irritably, "All the other Alien Star warriors are forced into hiding, and the ratings are all relying on him alone.
Do you think sending him a remote message will make him stop using divine power? If he doesn't use divine power, how do we explain his previous actions? Or are you suggesting we end this Alien Star Battlefield immediately?"
"..." Adan opened his mouth but said nothing.
"Ross, what about the forum?" the head of the Network Department asked.
"Ignore them. The Alien Star Battlefield is supposed to be like this." Ross said through gritted teeth, "Du Ge also has millions of mental power. Why can he survive well in this world? It's because the contestants they trained aren't good enough."
"Ross, this will offend a lot of people," the head of the Network Department said hesitantly.
"Have the ratings dropped?" Ross asked.
"Initially, the ratings weren't very good. But once Du Ge became active, the ratings skyrocketed, and most of the audience focused on Du Ge."
Gao Qiao, the head of the Technical Department, said, "Besides those troublemaking gamblers, the audience is eagerly anticipating the moment Du Ge encounters the Dao Ancestor.
After all, the difficulty of this Alien Star Battlefield far exceeds previous ones, and the survival environment for Alien Star warriors is particularly harsh. They're eagerly awaiting Du Ge's downfall..."
He paused, "Moreover, some of the audience hopes Du Ge can gain the capital to escape from this Alien Star Battlefield. They seem to have empathized with Du Ge."
Ross was stunned: "Empathized?"
"Yes, empathized," Hod, the head of the Planning Department, said. "Ross, excluding those troublemaking gamblers, most of the audience is actually full of anticipation for the Resource Game. The show's reputation and feedback are excellent.
They see something new in every game, as well as Du Ge's growth. They don't care about Du Ge's little tricks; they see it as his intelligence..."
"Don't care?" A flash of inspiration struck Ross's mind, as if he had grasped a crucial point.
"Yes, don't care," Hod continued, looking at his supervisor. "Ross, I think you're right to be firm. Sometimes there's really no need to cater to a small group of people. Du Ge is turning the Resource Game into a blockbuster show. As long as the attention is high enough, the company's profit points will definitely not be low."
"Screw fairness," Ross suddenly stood up, excitedly saying, "Hod, you're right. We want ratings, not fairness. If we really pursued fairness, we shouldn't have designated Du Ge's keywords in the first place, nor should we have artificially created opponents for Du Ge outside Qi Yuan Star."
He waved his arms, pacing back and forth in the office. "Adan, issue a statement. We've discovered through comparing Du Ge's Simulation Field and Alien Star Battlefield that he has mastered light element affinity and water element affinity, bypassing the soul projection equipment.
But we don't intend to correct this. We plan to use it as an opportunity to give Du Ge hope of escaping Pan-Universal Entertainment."
Then, Ross turned to Bas, the head of the Exploration Department, and said fiercely, "Bas, have your people go full throttle and find a universe where multiple civilizations coexist.
In the next game field, we must arrange for Du Ge to have an escape plot. Let those gamblers go to hell; we're an entertainment company, not a service for gamblers.
Also, Gao Qiao, quickly start the next round of Simulation Field selection. Tell the audience that the difficulty of the next Alien Star Battlefield will only be higher than this one. They have plenty of time to train their contestants before the game field begins.
If their contestants perform as brilliantly as Du Ge in the game field, the company can give them a share."
...
As Ross expected, when Pan-Universal Entertainment announced Du Ge's details and admitted their oversight, the entire forum exploded.
The audience split into two factions: one accusing Pan-Universal Entertainment of hiding information and causing them to lose money;
The other celebrating as if it were a holiday, rejoicing in Du Ge's new breakthrough and eagerly anticipating the development of new plots.
After all.
For so many years, Du Ge was the only native who had deceived Pan-Universal Entertainment, and under their surveillance, had fooled so many people.
This alone was enough to prove he was exceptional.
If he could escape Pan-Universal Entertainment's control on his own, he would be even more outstanding.
Previously, there were indeed doubts about whether Du Ge's abilities were proportional to his efforts, but now, no one cared. Their focus had shifted to whether Du Ge could escape Pan-Universal's control.
Even Du Ge's self-talk and his attempts to cover up became an amusing spectacle in the eyes of those who knew the truth.
An outstanding protagonist should be unique.
To support Du Ge and accelerate his escape plan, a massive amount of mental power was once again rewarded to Du Ge.
Facing such a situation, even the most persistent gamblers found themselves helpless against Du Ge, a person who was already exceptional and now had an advantage.
What could their chosen contestants possibly use to compete with him?
Damn Pan-Universal Entertainment, once again playing them...
Thus.
The gamblers once again stormed the Pan-Universal Entertainment forum, demanding they find new contestant bases. They wanted to select contestants from those with attribute affinity to compete against Du Ge.
Ross was happy to agree to the gamblers' demands. After all, the Resource Game had reignited public participation, marking his success.
He didn't mind continuing to change the rules of the Resource Game.
To cater to the gamblers, he even announced that the next game field would increase the number of contestants.
Pan-Universal Entertainment didn't lack planets with attribute affinity, but previously, to ensure game fairness, those planets had been eliminated.
Now, since fairness was thrown aside, nothing mattered anymore.
The confrontation between new and old Alien Star warriors, the clash between Alien Star warriors with soul attributes and veteran Alien Star warriors, the battle between Alien Star warriors and natives...
Ross seemed to foresee the madness of the next Alien Star Battlefield.
Du Ge was indeed his lucky star.
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Qi Yuan Star.
Seeing the company's new announcement, Bai Long felt a sense of foreboding.
All of the company's projects were starting to revolve around Du Ge. If this continued, he feared Du Ge might one day really surpass him.
A native, potentially having a higher status than him, was not a pleasant thought!
Moreover, thinking that he was the one who recommended Du Ge, Bai Long felt even more frustrated.
...
Using the cultivation technique of Dragon and Tiger Mountain, openly exposing the Sun God power, Du Ge was actually a bit apprehensive.
After all, Sun God power was too conspicuous.
Unlike Dark God power, he had once fought the Sun God on the Alien Star Battlefield, and many had seen the use of Sun God power.
His self-talk explanation was actually quite far-fetched.
Revealing the Sun God power, Du Ge was gambling, betting on Pan-Universal Entertainment's tolerance for him.
With only about 600 Alien Star warriors left, those guys had to hide to survive, leaving him as the only one showing off.
For the sake of ratings, they had to grudgingly admit he was using the cultivation technique of Dragon and Tiger Mountain...
What Du Ge didn't expect was that after revealing the Sun God power, not only was he not warned, but his mental power surged.
In a short time, his mental power skyrocketed from 8.5 million to over 12 million, and the number was still rising.
The sudden happiness left Du Ge stunned.
What was going on?
In the last Alien Star Battlefield, there were already few people rewarding him with mental power, after all, Pan-Universal Entertainment sought balance and didn't want him to stand out too much.
His mental power increase relied entirely on harvesting the Power of Faith.
Without finding a new source of mental power growth, Du Ge thought his mental power was about to stagnate.
Now, it was growing on a large scale again?
What happened?
Did Pan-Universal Entertainment realize the Alien Star warriors' difficult situation and use external forces to help them enhance their strength?
Du Ge couldn't figure out what was happening outside, but no matter what, his exposure of Sun God power seemed to have been overlooked.
So, he could use Sun God power without restraint, and in this world, he could really let loose...
...
A smile crossed Du Ge's lips as he withdrew the Dark God power concealing him, revealing himself to Liao Jiulong and the others.
Seeing the Taiji diagram behind Du Ge, Liao Jiulong and the others were stunned.
Long Yichen and the others couldn't help but kneel.
It had to be said.
Du Ge's current image was too ostentatious, akin to the celestial beings depicted in temple murals.
Heaven knows.
Just a day ago, he was still an ordinary person who couldn't even defeat himself. Is this what they call a demon?
No wonder the authorities wanted to exterminate them; their growth rate was too fast...
...
Feeling the pure light power within the Taiji diagram, Liao Jiulong's heart skipped a beat, instantly believing the words of the benevolent persona of the Heavenly Demon.
Without benevolence, a Heavenly Demon with an evil heart could never cultivate such pure holy spiritual power.
Moreover, the Heavenly Demon had saved so many children from Longliu Manor, and he even boasted about rebuilding the world after its destruction, establishing a world without evil thoughts...
Perhaps, this path of refining the heart wasn't as difficult as he imagined.
"Liao Jiulong, I've comprehended some new supernatural powers from the cultivation technique of Dragon and Tiger Mountain. Tell me the next cultivation method."
Du Ge looked at Liao Jiulong, speaking calmly, "The mental technique of Dragon and Tiger Mountain makes too little use of spiritual power. Once I master the supernatural powers, I will impart the improved mental technique to you all. Your strength is too weak; I don't keep useless people around me."
It's said that the Dao Ancestor could casually wield supernatural powers, and it turns out the Heavenly Demon can too...
No wonder he was a prominent figure alongside the Dao Ancestor, and why the Dao Ancestor allowed him to reincarnate every hundred years. With such comprehension and aptitude, who could restrain him after a century?
Thinking about the Heavenly Demon, who was as renowned as the Dao Ancestor, imparting cultivation techniques to him in the future, Liao Jiulong couldn't hide his excitement. At this moment, he even thought that following the Heavenly Demon in cultivation might not be a bad idea!
Is this also the temptation of the Heavenly Demon?
But, resisting such temptation and staying true to oneself is really difficult!
"Liao Daoist, staying true to oneself and cultivating techniques are not mutually exclusive." Du Ge saw Liao Jiulong's dilemma and said, "Without the experience of understanding and mastering various techniques, how could the Five Emperors achieve their current accomplishments? Do you plan to spend your life cultivating only the Nine Transformations of the Universe Technique?"