On the other side, Wang Ming put down the monitoring earphones with a bewildered look on his face … he repeatedly confirmed that he hadn't heard wrong.
Wang Situ …
Wasn't that his uncle's pen name?
The head of state was actually his uncle's fan?
This was so shocking that Wang Ming couldn't help sucking in a cold breath as his mind was already in a mess.
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At that moment, there were only five hours left before the end of the double monthly votes battle.
Lie Mengmeng looked at the ranking list on his phone. The number one author, Braised Pork Shoulder, had already reached 1.6 million votes, while the number two author, Braised Pig Feet in Sauce, had 1.58 million votes. Neither side was giving in.
Father Wang, on the other hand, had only just reached eight hundred thousand votes after that superficial single chapter … Although it had increased by nearly four hundred thousand, the gap between him and first and second place was getting wider and wider.
However, Father Wang didn't seem worried at all as he calmly smoked a cigar and watched a TV series, not even bothering to watch the live vote count.
In fact, Lie Mengmeng had his own understanding of the struggle for the monthly votes.
In the beginning, it was a battle between authors. The quantity and quality of their updates often determined whether readers would enthusiastically vote for them. But in the middle and late stages, it basically didn't have much to do with the authors anymore; all that was left was a battle between nouveau riche readers …
"I just asked the chief editor's office and confirmed that Braised Pork Shoulder and Braised Pig Feet in Sauce weren't buying votes. Each of them has a Sky-level sect backing them … "Actually, when he said this, Lie Mengmeng already felt a sense of despair in his heart.
What was the concept of a Sky-level sect? Nowadays, a light Sky-level sect's annual net profit was hundreds of millions. It wasn't strange at all for them to use a portion of their funds to give out red packets for monthly votes in order to support their favorite authors.
Previously, Lie Mengmeng had thought that there was a problem with the votes of these two authors purely because he didn't know the situation. After all, at six o 'clock, the two of them already had nearly a million monthly votes. Now that they were giving out red packets for monthly votes, one monthly vote cost five immortal gold. Ordinary people definitely wouldn't be able to afford such a large number of monthly votes.
"Oh, a Sky-level sect, that's a little awesome!"
When Father Wang heard Lie Mengmeng's words, he couldn't help laughing.
Lie Mengmeng almost vomited blood when he heard this. This wasn't just a little powerful … this was rather powerful!
How many Sky-level sects were there in the country that were certified by the government? No more than fifty … To be able to rope in a Sky-level sect as a backer was equivalent to having the backing of a financial group.
"Brother, aren't there any Sky-level sects in your fan club? If there's no Heaven Rank … Earth Rank is fine too … "Lie Mengmeng couldn't help but ask.
After all, looking at the current fan base, Father Wang definitely had more fans than the other two authors; it was impossible that he didn't have any big-shot fans.
"Oh, you're talking about this. Someone did come looking for me before. He said he was from Spirit Sword Sect, "Father Wang said.
"Spirit Sword Sect?" Lie Mengmeng was shocked. "This … this is a heaven-level sect! Brother! Moreover, the sect that supports Braised Pork Shoulder is none other than Spirit Sword Sect! "
"Oh, I know!" Father Wang said, "But I refused when they asked to place an advertisement for the sect in my book."
Lie Mengmeng: "Why … why did you refuse …"
Out of habit, Father Wang pushed up his black-rimmed glasses. "Real fans won't make so many demands."
Lie Mengmeng: "…"
Looking at the nervous look on Lie Mengmeng's face, Father Wang couldn't help laughing. "Why do I feel like you're even more nervous than I am?"
"The gap in the monthly votes battle this time is too big … If we lose, I think some of our fans will leave and go to someone else." Lie Mengmeng sighed and hesitated to speak.
Actually, what he said was a conservative estimate. After all, Father Wang was a veteran god on the website who had dominated the rankings for many years. If someone overtook him in this battle and "slaughtered a god," it would definitely be used as news hype.
In addition, the other two authors now had Sky-level sects as their backers. Lie Mengmeng felt that Father Wang's days in the future would be very difficult if this wave of momentum rose … Because Father Wang had refused the Sky-level sect's advertisement placement, if the person at the helm of the Sky-level sect was narrow-minded, he might even suppress Father Wang.
However, Father Wang still looked unperturbed, which Lie Mengmeng couldn't understand.
Father Wang: "Hehe, don't be nervous, just wait and see."
Sky-level sects indeed had a very strong foundation …
But the problem was that these two authors' "Sky-level sects" were leftovers from Father Wang!
What would they use to compete with him in the rankings?
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Unexpectedly, the monthly votes battle surrounding the double monthly votes event attracted a lot of attention.
After Wang Ling finished his homework, he glanced at the ranking list and saw that Father Wang was in third place. He immediately opened some forums and news apps, and sure enough, this monthly votes battle had already been reported in the news …
[News Headline]: "The fall of a god? Cultivation Chinese Network's veteran Great God Wang Situ has fallen behind in the monthly votes battle by a huge margin for the first time! "
There were a lot of similar news reports, and in the blink of an eye, they dominated all the major news channels and trending topics.
While Lie Mengmeng and Father Wang were talking downstairs, Wang Ling had actually heard some news about the "Sky-level sects" backing the two authors who were competing for votes.
Wang Ling guessed that this news might have been fanned by the Sky-level sects behind the scenes …
In fact, in previous years, there had been many cases of sects and popular authors cooperating with each other. The popular authors would advertise for the sects in their books, and the sects would support the authors in the form of competing for monthly votes or giving them tips.
This was due to the current market. Nowadays, there were a lot of cultivation novels on the Internet, and the popular authors would often construct their own novel worldviews on the basis of modern cultivation. Therefore, some sect elders had long since set their eyes on this area of advertising business. Some sects would even find some novel authors to specially customize a "cultivation novel" with their own sect as the background.
But initially, it was mostly Earth-level sects who looked for authors to cooperate with, because Earth-level sects lacked students.
But who knew when it had started, Sky-level sects had also started to stir things up …
There was a lot of discussion in the class group. In fact, there were a lot of people in the class who were Father Wang's fans, but they were all students, after all. Five immortal gold bars for a monthly vote – where would the students get the money from? Wang Ling felt that as students, it was already pretty good if they could subscribe to the official version! Using the name of the students to say that they didn't have the money to read pirated versions was never an excuse.
Grenade-Throwing Senior Immortal had always been following Father Wang's books!
So after seeing the news, Grenade-Throwing Senior Immortal immediately started to express his support in the group. "Everyone! Senior Wang's book, The Live Streaming Life of the Immortal King, is now ranked third in the monthly votes list! Can I ask everyone to mobilize their strength to help Senior Wang canvass for votes? "
Dharmaraja was the first to respond, and he immediately sent an OK gesture. "No problem! I'll vote for Senior Wang right away! "
Cailian Zhenren sent a fist salute gesture. "I don't really read this kind of novel, but I still support Senior Wang. I'll contribute one hundred monthly votes."
Immortal Toya: "But Senior Immortal, our strength alone isn't enough. The gap is a little big."
Grenade-Throwing Senior Immortal nodded. "Everyone, vote first. I've already posted an event in my cultivation forum to cheer for Senior Wang like crazy! No matter what, we have to support Senior Wang! "
As he said this, Grenade-Throwing Senior Immortal directly sent out a link to the event.
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