CHAPTER 558: CHAPTER 452 VARIANT NO. 1 ’YIQI’ (5K)

"Just wait and watch, I refuse to believe that with my intelligence, I can’t learn this so-called martial arts!"

Phoenix Mountain left behind this defiant declaration and left the instance with Yan Guang.

Before leaving, Yan Guang asked, "Who do you plan to learn from?"

"..."

Phoenix Mountain remained silent — who could he find? He was just making a bold statement.

Currently, the only one conducting public martial arts lessons in the entire Matrix is Zhan Zhouzhou.

After all these days of filtering, now whenever Zhan Zhouzhou starts a live broadcast, the viewership instantly skyrockets to nearly two thousand people.

Among these people, many have truly grasped some sword techniques through Zhan Zhouzhou’s lessons, and the outstanding ones have even mastered Swordsmanship Mastery in a matter of days, soon to break through to Swordsmanship Specialization!

However, the live streaming function released by the Matrix Terminal, except for Zhan Zhouzhou, has turned most streamers into entertainment programs for players to unwind in their spare time.

Among the top one hundred special streamer codes, there are even fewer who still stream, except for Zhan Zhouzhou, just a scant few.

Liu Jiale is also one of them.

However, his streaming content doesn’t include any teaching — it’s just him exploring from a first-person perspective until he finishes exploring ten rooms each day and then logs off.

This is still considered a relatively useful stream, as many slightly weaker players choose to follow Liu Jiale to gather some potentially usable biological information for the future.

The style of some other streamers in the top hundred ranks is much lower; basically, like entertainment streamers, they broadcast for a short time each night, acting foolish to ’earn’ trivial rewards.

Previously ranked player "Bai Xiaosheng" once released a Matrix exploration guide and, bearing the perfectly hundredth streamer code, set up a Q&A forum and interacted live with his audience for fun every day.

According to him, his original intent was actually to conduct a strategy seminar for new players to get some information from him.

Later he found that there were more freeloaders than those reading pirated novels, and it was entirely thankless work, so he stepped on his original intention and became a so-called ’relationship’ streamer.

Basically, he just made up some emotional short stories during live streaming, talked about some vague life philosophies in a chat format, and occasionally conspired with his friends to conduct a ’real sob story’ life counseling event, earning quite some tips.

He made several times more than when he conducted strategy seminars!

Bai Xiaosheng privately complained about this phenomenon to others.

Before entering the Matrix, people were overwhelmed by garbage content, paying for those nutritionless garbage content.

He thought it was due to the state of society, a trend.

After all, living in a fast-paced era, the busy daily work, just not lying flat would avoid starvation, led people to seek some fast-food culture, which was understandable.

But after entering the Matrix, even though the survival difficulty had been adjusted several times by the Terminal, and the mortality rate wasn’t as high as at the beginning, dangers still lurked everywhere.

In such an environment, players still maintained their previous habits, ignoring the useful knowledge he painstakingly compiled and continued freeloading.

Instead, the live streams with no nutritional value gained many rewards.

Before entering the Matrix, he could understand this phenomenon.

But after entering the Matrix, he really couldn’t understand people maintaining this habit.

So now he’s just given up; if sincere content isn’t popular, why should he care about them?

...

"Sigh..."

Phoenix Mountain closed the live broadcast interface. After searching for ten minutes, he only found dancing female streamers, not a single different type of content.

Each one dressed flamboyantly. Phoenix Mountain looked at those stream preview screens and almost thought he had clicked into some "XX Casino is online, beautiful female dealers dealing cards" shady website.

"Couldn’t find any, huh?" Yan Guang took out materials to upgrade his left arm and said, "Did you think everyone was like Zhan Zhouzhou, willing to share their secrets to the last drop?"

"Save it!"

"You might as well listen to me, tell Zhouzhou and attend her live classes from now on."

"Isn’t learning swordsmanship a good thing?"

Listening to Yan Guang’s advice, Phoenix Mountain sighed again, "Do you think I don’t want to? But the main problem is that if I go to learn the sword, it won’t improve my strength in the short term, and it might even hinder my development."

In front of Phoenix Mountain, a choice appeared.

After witnessing Zhan Zhouzhou’s prowess firsthand, Phoenix Mountain also wanted to enhance his strength through the martial arts route.

However, the Genetic Ability he developed is actually more suitable for learning barehanded techniques, and if he learns swordsmanship from Zhan Zhouzhou, then all his Genetic Abilities would be practically useless.

Especially the first developed "Bursting Power."

Though its tier is merely Silver.

Its growth rate is frighteningly high!

Phoenix Mountain had a hunch that if the Bursting Power could be employed with some fist techniques, its power might undergo a drastic transformation!

He certainly didn’t want to abandon such a useful Genetic Ability since "Bursting Power" counts as his strongest attack method.

"If it’s really no good... I’ll just have to ask Liu Jiale for help."

After pondering for a while, Phoenix Mountain said, "I remember he seems to have a Boxing Mastery."

Liu Jiale?

Yan Guang was puzzled, "Isn’t he practicing with the blade? Besides, I remember Old Li previously wanted to consult him but was rejected. He said his school doesn’t allow teaching outsiders; you’re better off finding Zhouzhou instead."