CHAPTER 42: CHAPTER 36: MARTIAL ARTIST FORUM

PM.

In a well-decorated room, Yang Fan sat in front of the computer, his fingers rapidly tapping on the keyboard.

The bruises on his face had returned to normal. After school in the afternoon, he went to the hospital for treatment, spending twenty thousand New Coins.

This is the advancement of modern technology, as long as it’s not a fracture, missing limb, or amputated limb, it can be quickly healed.

Outside the door, faint footsteps could be heard.

Knock, knock, knock.

A knocking sound rang out.

"Yang Fan, I heard Ji Yu beat you up today, how are you?"

This was the voice of Second Brother, seemingly concerned, but with an unmistakable hint of schadenfreude in his tone.

"Xiaofan, even if you don’t have martial arts talent, you should study hard. Don’t think I don’t know what you’re up to at school!" This was the voice of Third Brother, in the usual reproachful tone.

"Open the door, I’m telling you, Dad knows about this too. Don’t you know our family is currently cooperating with the Yunhai Group? Don’t provoke Ji Yu again."

Listening to the voices outside, Yang Fan remained silent, his expression somewhat sorrowful.

He had been beaten, yet none of his family asked for the reason, nor did they care for him. All that was left was ridicule and mockery.

"One day, I’ll make you all shut your mouths."

Yang Fan secretly vowed.

He turned off the lights, ignoring the voices outside, because he had an important task tonight.

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The Martial Artist Forum, as the name suggests, is a forum related to martial artists.

Martial artists can freely communicate on the forum.

The Martial Artist Forum is one of the three major forums in Huaxia, with registered members reaching three hundred million, and over a million various posts are published every day.

Besides the Greater China Region on the homepage, the Martial Artist Forum is also divided into twelve districts based on the twelve base cities.

At this moment, a post titled "High School Student Beats Martial Artist" was being wildly clicked and replied to on the Jiang City district of the Martial Artist Forum.

The title of this post is very exaggerated, just seven characters: High School Student Beats Martial Artist.

At first glance, netizens couldn’t help but want to ridicule it.

Why not just call it High School Student Beats Grandmaster?

However, netizens merely ridiculed for a few seconds. On the Martial Artist Forum, there are countless exaggerated post titles, without a bit of exaggeration it simply wouldn’t attract people and would get lost in the ocean of posts.

Many netizens are used to it, but when they see such posts, they are quite annoyed and many won’t click on them, instead, they directly report and block the poster.

However, this time, when they saw the five photos under the post, they hesitated not at all and clicked in.

With pictures comes the truth!

The first photo shows a young man standing on the stage, with the background set inside a martial arts dojo.

The unique decoration style and layout are not unfamiliar to many netizens, at first glance recognizing it’s the Thunder Martial Arts Dojo. On the stage, a young man in a white top stands alone in the center, disdainfully swinging his right index finger at the audience below the stage; this is a dynamic picture.

The second photo is a close-up of the angry, disdainful, and openly cursing faces of the audience, in very high definition.

The third photo is a close-up of the front and back of the young man in the white top, respectively: "High Schooler Beats Martial Artist", "Advertising Space Available".

The fourth photo is the large screen showing the record: High Schooler Beats Martial Artist 9 Wins 9 Wins 0 Losses.

The fifth photo shows the young man’s cold and disdainful expression, mouthing the words, with subtitles: "I’ll be back tomorrow night, directly challenging a first-grade martial artist."

And below these five photos, there’s an edited short video.

Even though this was posted by an ordinary low-level member, without any promotion or spammers, the post had surpassed 4.61 million clicks and had 1.89 million replies and 140,000 shares in less than two hours.

And, it was still rapidly increasing.

Undoubtedly, this post went viral!

In the Jiang City district of the Martial Artist Forum’s hotlist daily ranking, "High School Student Beats Martial Artist" was ranked 17th, very close to the 16th place, just a bit more to explode.

"So fast?"

In the room, Yang Fan refreshed his backend’s follower count and points.

His original V0 account had soared to V5, just 460 points away from V6, and the number of followers shot up from single digits to 150,000.

Even if the member level and follower number are high, the forum won’t give a reward, but the accounts on the Martial Artist Forum are quite valuable.

As long as a forum account has real and active followers, it can run ads to sell products and profit from the follower economy.

A real and active V5 account can sell for a hundred thousand yuan and is in high demand.

Apart from money, having your posts followed and commented on by so many people is also a sense of achievement.

Yang Fan kept browsing the comments.

Comment 989: "Damn, isn’t he afraid of getting killed with that name?"

Comment 990: "This kid is really arrogant, but I like it."

Comment 991: "Such strong fighting skills, I wonder what grade this high school student is in, has he undergone demon spirit refinement?"

Comment 992: "This kind of ad placement is a first, society is too complex, I don’t want to grow up."

Comment 993: "Classic wolf in sheep’s clothing, those audience members probably want to kill him."

Comment 994: "Such strong physical fitness, does he need a girlfriend?"

Comment 995: "I have big boobs, click my avatar 6666"

Comment 996: "Who knows this guy’s contact info, there’s a big reward!!!!"

Comment 997: "Jiang City has been bustling lately, yesterday was Awakening Day when Ye Qiu appeared out of nowhere, and today this high schooler is amazing too."

Comment 998: "Are all high schoolers this strong now? Earth is really scary, I want to return to Mars."

Comment 999: "A ninth-rank body cultivator got slaughtered, which school is this high schooler from in Jiang City?"

Comment 1000: "Can anyone ask how much the endorsement fee is, I want to endorse myself!"

Browsing through the comments, when encountering some funny ones, Yang Fan would reply, and seeing the post creator’s response, those netizens seemed encouraged, showered him with compliments.

"Already 11th!"

Seeing the reply in the comment section, Yang Fan quickly clicked the mouse, only to discover that his post had climbed to 11th on the daily chart.

It’s just a step away from the top ten.

The top ten daily posts will be directly recommended on the homepage, and one can imagine how popular the post would become then.

Making it into the top ten of the day, it’s not an exaggeration to say it’s something to boast about for a lifetime.

No one nowadays cares about celebrity gossip; thus, the top ten lists consist mainly of significant news about Glory Players or clubs, Glory Competitions, and team news.

The first on the daily list is: "Thunder Team’s Coach Changes."

The second is: "Double Blade Yun Tianqi May Transfer."

Ye Qiu ranked first on yesterday’s daily list, but today, as the heat cooled down, it ranked third, imagining the glory of entering the top ten.

"Charge, charge, charge!"

"Charge, charge, charge, charge!"

"Charge, charge, charge, charge, charge!"

Countless netizens flooded the comment section with "Charge, charge, charge," as Yang Fan witnessed with his own eyes his post make it to the top ten, receiving the homepage display privilege, and it didn’t take long post entering the homepage for it to explode to ranking ninth.

The effect of the Martial Artist Forum’s homepage is apparent. At this time, over a million people noticed this post with its extremely arrogant name, prompting more people to click out of curiosity, further accelerating the post’s clicks and replies.

Yang Fan’s account had soared to V7, his followers breaking 1.45 million, and the background notification chimes never stopped.

Yang Fan opened it to see almost all asking for Lin Feng’s contact information and where to watch the match, many wanting to watch it live.

Many certified accounts of martial art dojos and clubs also left him messages, asking which grade Lin Feng was in, whether he’d attended the Awakening Day, and what demon spirit he’d refined.

They hoped to get complete information.

Obviously, Lin Feng had caught the club’s attention.

Lin Feng’s combat talent, far surpassing his peers, is extremely rare and possibly unique. As long as he has Soul Cultivator talent, even if slightly inferior, they will sign him up for intensive training.

Many are also interested in Lin Feng’s ads, but they require understanding Lin Feng’s specific situation and strength first.

Yang Fan did not reply to these messages as the heat wasn’t sufficient yet.

"Someone already figured it out?"

While browsing the post, Yang Fan quickly noticed that someone in the comment section had already disclosed Lin Feng’s information with a like count surpassing ten thousand.

Originally, Yang Fan thought that after learning Lin Feng hadn’t refined a demon spirit, the post’s heat would drop, but unexpectedly many netizens posted photos of the Song of Solomon, gossiping around, causing the post’s heat to rise instead of falling, vaguely trending towards the sixth position on the daily list.

Meanwhile, Lin Feng’s class chat group, which was quiet, became exceptionally lively, with photos being continually posted.

"Is this Lin Feng? When did he go to the Martial Arts Dojo?"

"Damn, I checked the Martial Artist Forum, and it’s exploded."

"The Martial Artist Forum’s Jiang City has already soared to seventh, scared me to death."

"No matter how strong combat talent is, it’s useless if he can’t become a Demon Spirit Master."

"He’s way stronger than you, you don’t even deserve to hold Lin Feng’s shoes."

The class group was bustling, with many people @ Lin Feng, but there was no response, and then they started @ Gao Hai, but there was also no message. Quite a few wanted to @ the Song of Solomon, but lacked the courage.

In the dark room, Song of Solomon hid under the covers, silently watching her classmates’ chats, without commenting.

After a long while, when there were no more responses in the group, she then turned off her phone, the light disappeared, and the Song of Solomon slowly closed her eyes, leaving only a sigh.