Tiger Shark Live Platform.
The Fitness category usually enjoys moderate popularity.
But today, its popularity suddenly increased by dozens of times.
The staff at the Tiger Shark Platform were stunned.
Damn, did the Fitness category take steroids today?
So many people suddenly watching fitness?
The staff clicked into the Fitness category, wondering what was going on.
After entering the category, the Tiger Shark staff found that it wasn't the entire category that had come alive.
Almost all of the sudden increase in popularity was concentrated in one live stream.
The staff took a glance at the title of the live stream: "Freestyle Fighting Champion, One-on-One Challenge against Qingyun Mountain's Heavenly Master!"
Holy moly!
The staff were dumbfounded.
With a title like that, it'd be strange if it didn't go viral!
If it weren't for work hours, they'd even want to watch it themselves.
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Microblogs, hot topics, some music app, some video app, some site.
As Zhou Yuanpeng openly challenged Qingyun Mountain's Heavenly Master,
his popularity also shot up instantly like a rocket.
Straight to the trending searches.
Just like that, within a short span of time, trending topics about Zhou Yuanpeng popped up across the major platforms.
"#WhoIsZhouYuanpeng?"
"#WhereIsZhouYuanpengStreaming?"
"#ZhouYuanpengVsPurpleRobedHeavenlyMaster, Who Has the Better Odds?"
"#TheConfrontationBetweenFreestyleFightingAndNationalMartialArts, Can the Purple Robed Heavenly Master Keep the National Martial Arts Shorts Up?"
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Online, almost everyone automatically tagged the Heavenly Master with National Martial Arts.
After all, it's Qingyun Mountain's Heavenly Master.
In martial arts novels, aren't all the hermits living on mountains skilled in several National Martial Arts disciplines?
Zhou Yuanpeng's challenge toward the Heavenly Master had unconsciously, in the eyes of the onlookers, turned into a match between freestyle fighting and National Martial Arts.
These past few years, many fake National Martial Arts masters had rendered the two words "National Martial Arts" exceedingly distasteful.
Thinking of National Martial Arts, many people in Dragon Country subconsciously thought of scammers.
And with Zhou Yuanpeng heading to Qingyun Mountain, many viewers wanted to see for themselves what the martial arts strength of the Heavenly Master on the mountain was.
Whether the baseline of Dragon Country's National Martial Arts shorts could be held or not?
If even the Heavenly Master of Xuanmen Sect's premier mountain, Qingyun Mountain, turned out to be a fake, then Dragon Country would truly have no National Martial Arts left.
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Inside Zhou Yuanpeng's live stream.
Just as he imagined, the popularity skyrocketed.
With his challenge against the Heavenly Master and climbing up the hot searches on various platforms,
countless users flocked to Tiger Shark Live.
It even brought a huge wave of traffic to Tiger Shark Live.
The boss of Tiger Shark Platform saw so many new users, his mouth skewed with a smile.
In Zhou Yuanpeng's live stream, he hadn't even climbed the mountain yet.
And the viewership had already hit the terrifying figure of over 5 million people.
To think that at the peak of his previous streams, the viewership was only about 2 million.
In the barrage, countless messages flew by.
"Came here from Weibo, the host is awesome! Actually going to Qingyun Mountain!"
"The photo opportunity subject has been trending for so long, and I heard in the comment section how incredibly powerful the Heavenly Master is. This is the first time someone's really challenging the Heavenly Master! Host, you got this! After successfully challenging, I'll gift you fifty rockets!"
"Wow, that's rich indeed! But daring to challenge the Heavenly Master alone, truly badass. I wouldn't dare, the host has both talent and guts!"
"Do you guys think the Heavenly Master will just toss the host down the mountain when the time comes? That'd be quite a spectacle!"
"LOL, while others are live streaming to make money, you're live streaming a risk to your life!"
"Enough already, can you not make the Heavenly Master sound so amazing? I don't understand, who started this hype? Why does everyone think the Heavenly Master of Qingyun Mountain is so powerful? He's just a regular person after all."
"Exactly! I went up to Qingyun Mountain a few days ago to burn incense. At that time, they were holding a ceremony for the new Heavenly Master to take his position. The current Heavenly Master on the mountain is a young man, seemed pretty ordinary to me. To my eyes, just a regular person. Not as mysterious as they say on the internet."
"The people of Qingyun Mountain never claimed to be incredibly powerful. It's just netizens who've watched too many TV series and movies, hyping themselves up."
"Brother Peng, we know your strength. Be gentle when you fight the Heavenly Master later; after all, he represents the top of the Dragon Country's Xuanmen Sect, so give him some face. It would be bad if you really injured the Heavenly Master, then those trolls would have a field day."
"Yeah! Don't give the trolls an opportunity, it wouldn't be good if they started saying you're injuring people with your heavy punches."
Inside the live stream, there were still many people who were sober-minded.
They felt that the online hype about the Purple Robed Heavenly Master was excessively exaggerated.
Yeah, in TV drama and films, the Heavenly Master is incredible.
Like the Uncle Jiu figure in movies.
Catching ghosts and exorcising evil.
But that's all in movies.
In reality, there's no one that impressive.
It's the same with the Heavenly Master on the mountain.
Novels and comics depict them as incredibly powerful, but that's just for the storyline.
In the real world, the Purple Robed Heavenly Master is at most a regular person who reads a lot of Taoist Scriptures.
Not at all like what the netizens have hyped up.
Zhou Yuanpeng thought so too.
Otherwise, how would he dare to come challenge the Heavenly Master?
He also felt that all this fuss about how mighty the Heavenly Master was, was just an internet fabrication.
And he was, after all, a genuine freestyle fighting champion and a top-level Sanda expert.
Beating the Heavenly Master, wouldn't it be a piece of cake?
Zhou Yuanpeng was full of confidence.
At that moment, he took out the signboard he had prepared in advance from his Range Rover.
Facing the camera, he removed the red cloth covering the signboard.
The signboard read "Challenge the Heavenly Master" in bold letters.
The audience in the live stream exclaimed: "66666!"
"Brother Peng is mighty!"
"The host is so daring! Just do it!"
"I just want to see today, with the host being so confident coming here, how he will wrap things up later!"
"Brother Peng, go for it, topple the Heavenly Master! You could brag about it all your life!"
Zhou Yuanpeng carried the signboard and began his ascent up the mountain.
The atmosphere in the live stream room was completely boiling over.
The viewer count was nearing 10 million!
…
Up on the mountain.
The ambulance's medics had arrived first.
Upon reaching Qingyun Mountain, the doctor inquired, "Where's the patient?"
Taoist Jing Xuan immediately had a few Daoist attendants bring out Zhang Tong.
"It's him!"
At the moment, Zhang Tong's palm had been pierced by a nail, bloodied all over.
Taoist Jing Xuan didn't dare to recklessly pull out the nail, and could only do some simple stemming and bandaging.
Watching Zhang Tong pass out,
the doctor asked what happened.
Taoist Jing Xuan said, "He was hit by the copper gourd in the hands of the Divine Statue of Lord Lao Zi of the Great Monad in the Three Pure Ones Hall."
The doctor was dumbfounded.
Hit by the copper gourd from the hands of the Divine Statue in the Three Pure Ones Hall?
Man, that's some terrible luck.
The doctor said, "Let's do this, we'll put him on a stretcher first and get him down the mountain."
There's not enough medical equipment on the mountain.
With Zhang Tong's hand pierced by a rusty nail, he'd definitely need a tetanus shot, and various tests had to be done.
He could only be treated back at the hospital at the foot of the mountain.
A few Daoist attendants nodded and placed Zhang Tong on the stretcher.
Then, the medics picked up Zhang Tong and prepared to go down the mountain.
However, at that moment, nobody expected that the stretcher Zhang Tong was lying on had just descended a few steps when it suddenly fell apart.
Zhang Tong happened to wake up, just opened his eyes, and fell off the stretcher onto the ground.
Then, he rolled down the steps leading to the Mountain Gate.
All injured, he finally crashed into the trunk of a large tree at mid-slope and passed out again.
Taoist Jing Xuan looked at Zhang Tong and shook his head: "Blessings of Infinite Heavenly Venerate, layman, why the agony?"
This man was truly plagued by bad luck!