Chapter 202: Public Opinion Explodes
Manager Du and the others didn’t quite understand how Wu Xian planned to achieve it specifically, but they were impressed anyway.
Great scroll painters, after all, have methods beyond what us mortals can fathom.
“Alright, give us five days, and we’ll make sure you’re satisfied,” Manager Du patted his chest and said. “For the virtual illustrations, we’ll base them on your scroll painting images, right?”
“Exactly. For the specific frames, levels, decorations, and such, design them yourselves.” Wu Xian pulled a stack of diagrams from his Qiankun Bag: “These are the final draft sketches of my current scrolls, for your reference.”
Manager Du and the others flipped through them and were all stunned: “Six Case Officials, Four Great Judges? The Vice President is releasing new works?”
Wu Xian nodded. “This is the perfect opportunity to launch new products.”
“Great,” Manager Du and the others were overjoyed. “This way, it can also add fuel to the launch of this system.”
Afterward, the Network Department colleagues, led by Manager Du, began building the official website gacha system.
Meanwhile, Wu Xian logged into the Club Official Website right away and edited his personal column.
First, he froze the orders that had been queued up for over seven years and canceled them.
He then posted a column announcement explaining: “Hello, fellow Yin Commander fans. Due to the outrageous volume of current scroll painting orders, I have no choice but to change the sales method, so all current orders are canceled.
A week from now, a brand new sales system will go online, and current order users will receive certain compensation.
This change has been considered from all angles—look forward to it.
Additionally, alongside the new sales system launch, my new scroll painting works 【Six Case Officials】 series will also be released simultaneously.
For details, please follow subsequent announcements in my personal column.”
Gotta say, Wu Xian does have quite an influence in Yaoyang City these days.
The moment the announcement went out, the official website fan groups boiled over.
Before long, the Customer Department rushed over to him—their phones were blowing up.
But there was no helping it; pulling something like this out of the blue was bound to stir up a media storm.
For a time, fans were full of resentment, and conspiracy theories abounded.
“What the hell? Suddenly suspending sales and canceling all orders?”
“We’d been queued up past seven years—it was outrageous. I’d have a headache too.”
“Something’s off. Totally off.”
“Could it be internal club struggle? President Xue wouldn’t take the knife to our Master Wu, would she?”
“What are you thinking? They’re master and disciple, not just boss and subordinate.”
“Then what’s going on? Could the Alliance and Association be suppressing our Master Wu behind the scenes?”
“Unlikely. I work at the Association, and they value Master Wu highly.”
“Can someone tell me what happened? My hard-earned spot in the queue was almost here—wail wail wail…”
“The announcement said it all: a brand new sales method, with compensation for current order users.”
“Brand new sales method? Isn’t scroll painting sales always like this? What else could it be?”
“Who knows? We’ll see when it happens.”
“Hee hee, best if we can restart the queue from the beginning—yay!”
Many netizens queued up till the year of the monkey and the horse month were full of fantasy about this.
“You upstairs just stirring trouble for fun, huh?”
“By the way, can we focus? A week from now, the new 【Six Case Officials】 series will be on sale!”
“It’s only been this long, and Master Wu is already releasing high-tier scrolls above the Ten Great Yin Marshals?”
“What’s the deal with these Six Case Officials? Any insiders spill some info?”
“Since it’s a high-tier system, it can’t be bad.”
“Don’t rush, let’s wait and see.”
…
Xue Lingling soon got the news too and expressed concern about Wu Xian’s move.
“What are you doing?” Xue Lingling didn’t understand. “Sure, we’re dominant now, but this could easily ruin goodwill.”
“Don’t worry, Master Sister. I know what I’m doing,” Wu Xian said with a light laugh. “We’ll see the results in a week.”
He then explained his gacha system to his Master Sister.
The more Xue Lingling heard, the more speechless she got. “This… can it work? What if people keep failing to draw the scrolls they want? Won’t they curse you out online?”
“Let them curse,” Wu Xian said indifferently. “It’s normal to want to trash what you can’t get. Gold Scrolls in the normal sales system are the same.”
“That’s different. The normal sales system doesn’t require cost investment,” Xue Lingling shook her head. “The key to your setup is the risk of spending money and getting nothing—that could have legal risks.”
“But there’s the pity system as a safety net.”
“True, but plenty of people will still build up resentment, hurting your reputation.”
Wu Xian didn’t care about that.
To each their own tastes—even the greatest scroll painter can’t make everyone like them; there’ll always be haters.
He just needed to serve his own “fan base” well.
“Fine,” Xue Lingling said helplessly. “So how do you plan to compensate the current order users? Public opinion is hard to silence. Too little comp, and they’re unhappy; too much, and can you afford it?
That’s nearly a hundred thousand orders!”
Wu Xian smiled calmly, signaling Xue Lingling to relax.
He had a strategy for this.
For Copper Scroll Instance order users, directly compensating one “Encountering Fate” each would settle it.
The focus was on those Silver Scroll upgrade orders. Wu Xian tallied them up—over six hundred Silver Scroll orders in total.
These users were existing Yin Commander scroll owners, the loyal future fan base. Compensating each with one low-level Yin Soldier would have them grinning ear to ear.
It could also conveniently announce the special existence of “Yin Soldiers and Ghost Soldiers.”
Then, he’d add Yin Soldiers to the card pool as special cards. To build your own Yin Soldier team, they’d still need to do gacha pulls.
But before that, there was something important: cultivating and “capturing” Yin Soldiers.
…
Dengfeng Dojo, Bai Family.
Bai Shiqi, back at the dojo, was like a changed man, radiating humility and steadiness from inside out.
Along the way, plenty of fellow disciples saw him return and threw sarcastic remarks, but he didn’t care.
Because only he knew how huge his gains were from this Yaoyang City trip.
“Back?” His father Bai Qifeng, handling dojo affairs, slightly raised his brow.
“Yeah.”
Bai Qifeng seemed a bit puzzled. “I heard from reports below that you messed things up in Yaoyang City?”
At that, Bai Shiqi nodded helplessly. “Your son was outmatched, Father. I’ve disappointed you.”
Sensing his son’s transformation, a glint of surprise flashed in Bai Qifeng’s eyes.
His son was at that hot-blooded age, defying everyone—yet now he could candidly admit failure. Rare indeed~!
“I hear it was a young lady from the Undead Dojo who left you so convinced. She must be quite exceptional,” Bai Qifeng couldn’t help but feel curious.
“Yes, Miss Xue is indeed outstanding,” Bai Shiqi said noncommittally. “But even more outrageous was her disciple.”
“Disciple?” Bai Qifeng was stunned.
Taking on a disciple in the folk after graduating from the dojo wasn’t strange—they had the qualification.
The issue was, from his son’s tone, this disciple seemed even more exceptional than the master.
Bai Shiqi took a deep breath. “His name is Wu Xian, eighteen years old. Self-taught, exploring the scroll painter path, recently discovered by Xue Lingling and taken as disciple.”
“Self-taught exploration?” Bai Qifeng was shocked again.
