Chapter 243: Oh No, Now He’s Really Angry! The Great Onmyoji Che Who Must Not Be Mentioned? Five Thunder Technique On The Verge Of Expert
【Deep Space Coin balance: 615822.00】
“I was pondering if the zeros after the decimal point can also be called zeros, right?”
On an interface simpler than any Shangshan Che had ever seen, a bizarre currency unit was followed by six digits.
Deep Space Coin?
He had never heard of this thing.
There couldn’t possibly be a national currency called this in the Mortal Realm… so this thing was probably some kind of virtual currency similar to Bitcoin?
After a brief moment of thought, a fairly reasonable idea popped into Shangshan Che’s mind—
Tamamo had just gone all-in on a futures contract with super leverage, multiplying the principal by dozens or even hundreds of times and winning big?
He was stunned for a moment, looking at Tamamo in front of him, whose face showed some anxiety but whose eyes couldn’t hide her joy and excitement.
—Tamamo, are you still an FX warrior!
Shangshan Che felt like he had actually guessed right.
But with futures, leverage, and virtual coins, if you really hit a market trend and made a killing, the one collecting the money wouldn’t think it was luck and decide to quit while ahead.
Instead, they’d confidently believe this was their true strength.
Then, in some “inexplicable” market wave, they’d get completely liquidated by a pin drop, all margin wiped to zero or even negative, saddled with a huge debt.
If this kept going, Tamamo would turn into a Daruma Doll!
Shangshan Che immediately raised both hands and said gravely, “Damn it! This won’t do! Absolutely not!”
Tamamo shrank back at first, wanting to bow to Shangshan Che and apologize.
But upon second thought, she realized she had only shown the balance and hadn’t mentioned the live stream yet.
Tamamo was confused: “Elder Brother Shangshan, what do you mean won’t do?”
Shangshan Che was thrown off by the counter-question and stated matter-of-factly, “Virtual coins, futures, leverage.”
“Ah?”
Tamamo: ?
Shangshan Che: ?
After the “ah,” the two with question marks over their heads stared at each other.
Tamamo’s eyes were full of confusion: “Elder Brother Shangshan, I don’t understand what you’re saying.”
It took a while for Shangshan Che to realize he had misunderstood.
But being wrong… that was a good thing!
He coughed awkwardly twice and asked again, “So what did you want to say?”
Tamamo pursed her lips, her chest rising and falling slightly, then spoke to Shangshan Che without reservation.
She told him about the origin of the live stream, the rough details, and how she had hurriedly ended it.
After hearing it, Shangshan Che thoughtfully looked at his unchanged Special Affairs Office APP.
If there was signal here, his name would probably dominate the top of the hot search list.
Fortunately, Shangshan Che had set himself to anonymous in the Special Affairs Office APP out of habit, so ordinary passersby couldn’t @ him.
Otherwise, as soon as the phone connected to the net, the inbox in the upper right would turn into “99+,” and the phone’s vibration motor would probably break.
Tamamo cautiously glanced at Shangshan Che’s expression with her peripheral vision, observing his reaction.
After a long time, the girl silently breathed a sigh of relief.
—Good, Elder Brother Shangshan didn’t seem too opposed to her live streaming just now.
So Tamamo continued, “Because many people sent gifts… these Deep Space Coins are the earnings from that live stream just now. They exchange with Soul Ash at a 100:1 ratio.”
Shangshan Che of course knew about Soul Essence.
It was Soul Ash with slightly lower purity but similarly efficiently extracted and refined.
Wait… these “Deep Space Coins” could be exchanged for Soul Ash?!
Shangshan Che whipped his head around and once again saw 【Deep Space Coin balance: 615822.00】.
In other words, this could be exchanged for nearly six thousand points of Soul Ash!
The slight displeasure in Shangshan Che’s heart vanished instantly, his eyes igniting with desire for Soul Ash.
Seeing his interested expression, Tamamo weakly reminded him, “Elder Brother Shangshan, if you want to withdraw these Deep Space Coins, the platform takes 70% handling fee.”
“That black!?”
Shangshan Che was shocked.
Just the ultra-blackhearted platform takes 70%, and if the streamer signs with two guilds or something like an MCN, plus taxes and such…
Then wouldn’t they only get 10%, or even less?
But was there tax in the Eternal World?
“Though I think it’s very blackhearted too, it seems Deep Space Online is the only one that can live stream normally in the Eternal World wilderness without any network…”
Tamamo paused, then said, “In other words, they’ve monopolized this track.”
“That conscientious!”
Shangshan Che’s face changed immediately.
The Eternal World was different from the Mortal Realm; essentially, it was a world where the biggest fist made the rules.
A monopoly in that situation… if those evil Factory Owners were in charge, Shangshan Che thought taking 95% fee wasn’t impossible.
Because the streamers in the Eternal World had no other choices.
Taking only 70% could be called conscientious among the conscientious.
Tamamo added, “But this balance is so high because a Boss just tipped.”
She hesitated but didn’t say that “the tipper was the boss of Kisaragi Train.”
Anyway, Elder Brother Shangshan and that boss were super close, probably talking every day, no place for an outsider like her to point fingers.
Seeing the Apprentice Master and Akiyama Mei walking far ahead, Shangshan Che grabbed Tamamo’s collar, picked her up, and hurried over, then continued listening to her.
“Right, Elder Brother Shangshan, we don’t want any of this rice!”
Tamamo’s tone was full of reluctance, but she said without hesitation,
“All of it to you, Eldest Brother!”
Before Shangshan Che could ask, she earnestly explained, “Because this live stream was started on a whim without asking you first.
So many Eternal World audience members learned of your existence through this live stream… I don’t know how much trouble it’ll bring, I’m really sorry.”
In mid-air, Tamamo bowed deeply: “If anything, using this Soul Essence that should have been yours as compensation is actually too little.”
—Tamamo thought she had caused him big trouble.
Walking out of the Ring of Ages Arena, Shangshan Che didn’t notice any obvious gazes on him.
Probably because the Eternal World was so vast, nearly a hundred thousand audience members dispersed and became extremely sparse.
—After today’s live stream and events fermented over time, it would definitely let hundreds of thousands, even millions, know of “Shangshan Che’s” existence.
It would bring trouble.
That was beyond doubt.
Shangshan Che smiled at her: “But sometimes, trouble can also be a boost.”
Just thinking about how in the future in the Eternal World, many demons might recognize him and come to deliver heads filled Shangshan Che with harvest joy.
Trouble, in a sense, was equivalent to Soul Ash.
“So Tamamo.” Shangshan Che thought for a moment and said, “Of course I’ll take these Deep Space Coins.”
Tamamo’s little face lit up, knowing the matter was settled.
“But—”
Shangshan Che looked at her and said, “You have to take a share too.”
“Uh… let’s say 10%.”
Considering Tamamo’s pride, family situation, and his own great need for Soul Ash, Shangshan Che gave a conservative number.
He looked up, meeting Tamamo’s eyes: “After all, the live stream idea was yours. Without you, these Deep Space Coins wouldn’t be sitting in the account now.”
“You should agree with that.”
Facts were facts.
Tamamo was silent for a bit, then nodded heavily: “Since Elder Brother Shangshan says so, we’ll accept it!”
Shangshan Che: “You deserve it.”
“So…”
In mid-air, carried over Shangshan Che’s shoulder like a sandbag, Tamamo struggled a bit, her face lifeless: “Can you put us down now?”
“Oh, almost forgot.”
After putting the little potato on his shoulder down on the ground, Shangshan Che soon saw two transparent bottles of one large and one small filled with dark gray Soul Ash appear in her hand.
“Here, Elder Brother Shangshan, this is for you.”
Taking the bottle, Shangshan Che felt the hefty weight in his palm and converted it to the Soul Ash data on his panel.
He saw the Soul Ash had only increased by just over 1500 points, confirming there was some loss when converting Soul Essence to panel Soul Ash.
His Soul Ash was purer!
Beside him, Tamamo was cheering with arms raised high over the huge sum of 160 portions of Soul Essence in her hand.
Impossible not to cheer!
—The ash in this little bottle alone could match several months of her wages!
Holding such a fortune, Tamamo was already planning where in the City of Disorder to splurge hard the next two days.
Shangshan Che took the chance to check the proficiency gains he hadn’t looked at earlier.
【After three battles, your skill Spirit Control Technique · Qi proficiency +152!】
【After three battles, your skill Five Thunder Technique · Qi Union proficiency +81!】
【After three battles, your skill Natural Reason School proficiency +49!】
Now, the proficiency of these three skills looked like this.
【Natural Reason School（Expert 730/10000）】
【Spirit Control Technique · Qi（Expert 2807/4000）】
【Five Thunder Technique · Qi Union（Mastery 2307/2800）】
Among them, Natural Reason School was still far from reaching Master.
But every point of proficiency gained did deepen Shangshan Che’s understanding of all things sword-related and make him more skilled.
For Spirit Control Technique, due to the more abundant spiritual energy in the City of Disorder, the proficiency gain was a bit higher.
And after the tide’s aftermath, the spiritual energy concentration in the Mortal Realm was slowly rising again.
Even without deliberately practicing Spirit Control Technique, its proficiency would rise slowly with each breath.
At this rate, perhaps in less than a month, Spirit Control Technique could become his first 【Master】-level skill.
Master was already the limit that most people in this world could touch after a lifetime of time, effort, and sweat.
Even if Spirit Control Technique was just a fragment of some Great Onmyōdō, it would surely bring unexpected surprises by then.
But it was still a ways off.
Better to look at the Five Thunder Technique right in front of him first…
It only needed 500 proficiency points for Five Thunder Technique to become Shangshan Che’s third Expert-level skill.
Based on the changes in his previous two skills, the qualitative change at Expert Five Thunder Technique definitely wouldn’t disappoint.
“If I train hard, maybe I can reach it before the Seed Battle starts.”
Shangshan Che thought that this way, outsiders’ intel on his Lightning Magic would lag again.
Expert-level Five Thunder Technique could serve as a hidden trump card.
Decided.
Next, set other skills aside and focus on Five Thunder Technique and the Muscle Refining stage of Corona Breathing Technique.
The latter was because proficiency could only be gained through cultivation, so cultivation priority was high.
Moreover, Shangshan Che was very curious about the “Palace of Flesh” ultimate form.
“Also, live streaming really can earn Soul Ash.”
Shangshan Che started thinking about live streaming to collect money, then gacha pulls.
He could win two resurrection matches per day in the Eternal World, an advantage no other streamer had.
But to really gain fans and Soul Ash on 【Deep Space Online】, the only monopolized Eternal World streaming platform, it would take planning.
“Before that, better go ask about Great Onmyoji Che’s situation first.”
……
Ten minutes ago, Deep Space Online branch · Big Data Push Department.
“Ten million level traffic exposure and push… sent!”
In front of the dark blue semi-transparent screen.
The operator shrouded entirely in a robe stared at the Hojo Ujiyasu big face on the live stream thumbnail and slammed the yellow button in front.
—A few minutes ago, he had personally witnessed this first-time, amateur, and terribly noob pure newbie stream room surge from hundreds to over ten thousand concurrent viewers.
Undoubtedly, this stream room had huge potential.
If it belonged to a veteran streamer, the operator would unhesitatingly give this level of push.
But a pure newbie… honestly, the uncertainty was high.
If the stream room absorbed all the pushed traffic, his performance would skyrocket.
But if he bet wrong, it might turn into “I once had a job…”
The operator held his breath, staring dead at the concurrent numbers changing every half second in the backend.
One minute later, loud cheers echoed in the dim single operator room.
This stream room not only absorbed all the traffic he pushed but outperformed 96% of similar ones!
“Never had such a wonderful all-in bet!”
But the next moment, the voice from the stream room made the operator’s words catch.
“My network seems to have some issues suddenly…”
Network issues???
The operator was stunned.
No, does our Deep Space Online streaming need something like a network?
He had just leaned his eyes to the screen when he saw five big words.
【Stream ended】
The ten-million-level traffic push had only utilized less than a tenth so far.
The remaining push all turned into question marks in the black-screen stream room.
Operator: ???
He had worked at Deep Space Online for nearly five years and this was the first time seeing someone voluntarily end a stream on the verge of going viral.
But no matter what, the result was bad.
Fucked.
The operator’s eyes went vacant as he slumped into the chair that cost a full 180 points of Soul Essence.
But soon, a comms voice came through his ear,
“Let me go contact and sign those two… Yes, Your Excellency, yes yes!”
……
“Speaking of, your big sis has some guts.”
Nanjo Emi stared at the darkened stream room screen and shook her head: “Doesn’t know anything and dares to stream in the City of Disorder, not afraid of being eaten clean.”
She glanced at the Deep Space ship leaving a tail flame and chuckled,
“But the result is good overall, earned quite a bit.”
Beside Nanjo Emi’s desk, the girl in a small Special Affairs Office uniform stuttered, “B-Big Sis has always been good at making money.”
“And you, Chisa?”
The boss chair slowly rotated as Nanjo Emi looked at the unremarkable girl before her with nothing standout,
“Tell me, what are you good at?”
—Minamoto Family branch home, in the tea room with a hundred-inch frameless big TV.
Minamoto Shizuka knelt at the small tea table, withdrawing her gaze from the blacked-out TV.
She straightened her back, sitting properly.
Facing the girl across the tea table, dressed in plain clothes with black hair to her waist.
“Shangshan Che… Mm, Shizuka, he’s one of your opponents in the Seed Battle?”
“Yes.”
“That’s quite something, you need to be extra careful.”
Minamoto Shizuka looked up in surprise, quite puzzled.
Quite something?
How long had it been since she heard Elder Sister evaluate someone like that?
Even she and that Saito guy were only “barely acceptable” in Elder Sister’s mouth.
Only six years ago, when Elder Sister first met Kyuuketsuin Kin, had she said the same.
Though then Elder Sister had sighed helplessly, saying it was a pity.
From later days, Kyuuketsuin Kin indeed idled all day, doing nothing, never cultivating even a moment.
But even so, he stood at the same level as her, maybe even higher.
So this meant—Shangshan Jun was actually on the same level as a seriously cultivating Kyuuketsuin Kin, a young prodigy?
She admitted Shangshan Jun was very strong, not to be underestimated.
But to that extent?
Minamoto Shizuka stared at the rippling tea surface, a thick unwillingness suddenly surging in her heart.
Why… he gets such high praise the first time Elder Sister sees him, while she gives her all and barely stays in Elder Sister’s memory.
“Shizuka, focus.”
The girl’s pupils trembled as her fists clenched on her lap; she inhaled deeply and bowed low,
“Sorry.”
“If you want to prove you’re stronger than this Shangshan Che, want to prove my judgment wrong.”
The Minamoto eldest daughter gazed at her immature little sister and said flatly,
“Then go defeat him, crush him in the Tokyo Seed Battle, refute everything with facts.”
“Yes.”
……
After using Thousand Faces to change appearance, Shangshan Che began approaching Sengoku Period samurai, ashigaru, or commoners one by one, probing if they knew “Great Onmyoji Che.”
He wanted to know how much difference there was in what different classes knew about Che.
But a weird phenomenon appeared.
No matter how well the chat went before, as soon as the topic turned to “Great Onmyoji Che,” everyone’s eyes would change slightly, they’d shut up, find excuses, and immediately distance themselves.
This time, Shangshan Che took out a huge sum of 500 points of Soul Ash.
He stared closely at the ragged ashigaru in front of him who couldn’t even scrape together half a set of armor, shook the Soul Ash bottle in his hand, and casually asked,
“—Do you know Great Onmyoji Che?”
