Chapter 68: The Importance Of Popularity And Users
“I can still make some money.” Wu Xian gave a wry smile.
“Hm?” Xue Lingling was surprised. “Good Disciple, is your instance drawing success rate very high? About how much?”
Wu Xian thought for a moment and deliberately understated it. “Around forty to fifty percent.”
In fact, he would only fail once or twice at the beginning, and after getting proficient later, he almost never failed.
“Your skill level is pretty stable, no wonder.” Xue Lingling understood.
For a scroll painter just starting out, a thirty percent success rate for instances was already very good.
“What about you?”
“Now I can basically stabilize above sixty percent success rate.” Xue Lingling proudly curled up the corner of her mouth.
“Ah? Then why sell it so expensive?”
“What do you know?” Xue Lingling said grumpily. “You just started, there are many places to burn money later. If you don’t make money, how to improve? If you don’t improve, how to bring better-quality scroll paintings to the users who support you?”
Wu Xian looked strange. “Aren’t you a noble family disciple?”
“Noble family disciples don’t lack money?” Xue Lingling sighed faintly. “My old elder brother now hides far away as soon as he hears I’m coming home, but as Master, I can understand. Haven’t I come out to be self-reliant now?”
Good grief, even a small city Brahmin can’t afford a scroll painter. Looks like he needs to find more ways to make money.
“So, you still have a lot to learn,” Xue Lingling said calmly. “Rubbings can be sold at a loss to boost sales volume and popularity, but instances must make money.”
“Why is that?” Wu Xian was puzzled. “The rubbing market is bigger, sales volume will be bigger too. Shouldn’t rubbings make more money?”
Xue Lingling was slightly stunned, only then realizing that her disciple hadn’t received proper scroll painter education and knew nothing.
What a poor child. Fortunately, he met her.
“This involves the importance of popularity and users,” Xue Lingling began lecturing seriously. “You don’t think those top-tier scroll painters go to great lengths to grab users and boost popularity just for money, do you?”
“Then what?” Wu Xian was puzzled. “Could it be that users and popularity have other uses?”
He only knew that instances, when upgrading, could share experience with the 【original】, letting the original upgrade while lying down.
But this benefit shouldn’t require too many supporters, right?
“Of course,” Xue Lingling smiled. “Users, in the process of using scroll paintings and fighting side by side with them, can produce a special perception power, thereby helping us better condense the divine diagram and perceive the law network.
Especially 【instances】. If you find compatible high-quality users, this perception power provided will be more and more obvious.
Therefore, for original scroll painters, the significance of rubbings is to expand the user base, while the significance of instances is to screen high-quality users, because only those who truly like it will consider buying the instance.”
“Special perception power?”
Wu Xian murmured in shock and suspicion, only feeling his heart pounding and scalp tingling.
Only now did he realize why scroll painters cared so much about the popularity and sales volume of scroll paintings.
And this so-called “perception power” seemed to him more like power of faith, or incense power.
Or rather, users of scroll paintings are not only users of the scroll paintings, but also participants in the condensation and construction of the soul divine diagram behind them.
If he had known this earlier, why hold back?
Sorry, Master Sister.
Originally, he just wanted to slack off in your club and make some pocket money on the side.
Now, he’s probably going to go all out.
After respectfully seeing off Master Sister, Wu Xian couldn’t calm down for a long time.
With memories of his previous life, how could he not know the importance of power of faith and incense power to gods.
He even suspected that the function of “perception power” was far from as simple as Xue Lingling said. Perhaps at higher levels, it had even greater uses and value.
Taking a deep breath, he logged into the Ghost King Club official website and modified the scroll painting prices.
Instance sale price remained unchanged, after all, it was used to screen high-quality “believers.”
But the rubbing sale price was directly lowered to a brutally low level, highlighting good quality and cheap. If not good, no need to pay.
The key was, at this brutally low price, he still had quite a bit of profit.
Who made his skills so good?
With complete scroll painting concept, the pigment cost he mixed was much lower than other scroll painters.
Two words: invincible!
But as the saying goes, even fragrant wine fears deep alleys.
He needed to let more consumers know that his product was cheap and good.
Then he worked overtime, rushing out a batch of instance scroll paintings and rubbing scroll paintings, almost depleting his savings.
Then he delivered the two scroll paintings ordered by Xue Qingyang and Zhou Qi overnight.
The next day.
Though exhausted to death from working overnight “overtime on drafts,” he felt inexplicably excited.
Sorry, Master Sister.
Sorry, all you scroll painters.
Your scroll king is here—!
Call me Wu Jun, Wu Bus from now on!
After morning exercise, he bowed and prayed to the God of Wealth.
On time, he turned on the TV, searched for the Bronze Tier League bubble match live broadcast, and cheered for the club members.
Of course, mainly for Master Sister’s big nephew, after all, he held his 【Black and White Impermanence】.
But the livestream popularity of this bubble match was indeed a bit touching.
On the contrary, the number of participants was terrifyingly high.
No way around it, Bronze Tier League and Silver Tier League were both city-level competitions. Only advancing to Gold Tier League made it national.
And Bronze Tier League undoubtedly had the lowest attention. Even Wu Xian in the past had only watched some Yaoyang City Silver Tier League live streams and news.
And bubble matches were the bottom of the sewers, often jokingly called the chicken-pecking paradise, gold-panning in shit site.
Those participating were basically apprentice scroll painters with dreams of becoming scroll painters and wanting to prove themselves.
And countless individual players wanting to become stars. Even if they couldn’t advance, they kept at it tirelessly. What if some club spotted them?
Only the competition among the “youth training” players of major clubs was worth watching.
After all, all professional players needed to go through bubble matches to get the “professional spirit tamer player” status.
Watching match after match, Wu Xian couldn’t help laughing and crying.
“This bubble match really lives up to its name~!”
The scene was truly chicken-pecking, hard to separate.
Wu Xian even saw those two he met when taking the apprentice scroll painter certificate exam.
That Desert Warrior big brother surprisingly hadn’t given up his dream yet, personally bringing his Desert Warrior to compete, then got abused by an ordinary-to-the-extreme copper scroll painted spirit until doubting life.
On the contrary, that female scroll painter who created the 【Seed Beast】 advanced two rounds and gained some attention.
After all, the Seed Beast’s image was quite likable to girls.
The key was that Seed Beast looked stupidly cute, but fought quite fiercely, with strong contrast.
“Whoa, Brother Pillar is on the field too?”
In the match live screen, the tall and cool mud truck Brother Pillar appeared, instantly bringing a lot of popularity to the live broadcast room.
After all, Brother Pillar’s current popularity was still very high.
From the barrage floating in the live broadcast room, there were quite a few out-of-town viewers coming to watch.
“Haha, here it comes—!”
“Heard there’s Brother Pillar’s match here, brothers, I came smelling it.”
“So damn handsome! Much handsomer than in pictures.”
“Haha, everyone from the scroll painting net comment section?”
“But speaking of, is Yaoyang City bubble match attention this low? Only this many people?”
“Small city, very normal. Someone watching is already good.”
And though Brother Pillar was from a vehicle company, his five dimensions performance was absolutely top-tier combat scroll painting.
Without using laser gun or energy battle axe, just with fists and feet he easily defeated the opponent, making the live broadcast room audience boil.
“Handsome!”
“Brother Pillar did great.”
“This performance, this combat power, that uncle on scroll painting net really didn’t lie.”
“I see who dares doubt Brother Pillar’s five dimensions data now?”
“Numb, key is it’s impossible to buy now, orders queued to next year.”
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