Chapter Sixty-Two: Accepting the Challenge

At 12:02 AM, the review section of "Coiling Dragon" was glaringly ablaze with a swath of red—floating red posts. Su Tong was dumbfounded. He was a newcomer; how could he have so many supportive readers?

From the beginning, he had always kept silent, hardly asking for anything. He hadn’t even uploaded the VIP chapters yet, and already more than twenty alliance leaders had emerged—each rewarding the book with a hundred thousand point coins.

One hundred point coins equaled one Great Qin yuan.

Readers whose fan value reached one hundred thousand would automatically be promoted to alliance leader for the book.

A reward of fifty thousand point coins or more would make a post in the review section appear in red font.

“Wow, caught a local tycoon!”
“Tycoon, please sponsor me!”
“Tycoon, let’s be friends!”
“Tycoon, I can warm your bed, do laundry, cook—please sponsor me!”
“Tycoon, I can fix TVs, pipes, and tractors—please sponsor me!”
“Not saying anything else, just strip, take me away, do anything you want!”
“...”

Below the floating red posts, a slew of shameless comments flooded in. No one cared about the content; it was all ignored.

The reader group was in an uproar, news spreading fast. The author, Nian Nu Jiao, kept quiet, but the readers of "Coiling Dragon" erupted like a volcano—one roar shook the mountains, another sent stars tumbling.

Suddenly, an even more shocking scene appeared.

A floating red post surfaced in the review section, filled with zeros.

Every reader who saw it couldn’t help but count the zeros carefully.

“One, two, three, four, five, six... Oh wow, six zeros: a million.”

A Silver Grand Alliance was born—a reward of one million point coins.

A single reward of one million point coins, being the first, crowned the Silver Grand Alliance.

Yet, the million-point reward was not the most exhilarating thing.

The true fever came from the content of the Silver Grand Alliance’s floating red post.

“Ajiao is calm amid honor and disgrace, watching kingdoms rise and fall, seeing clouds roll and drift? Wrong—Ajiao is here to help everyone save money, worried that fighting for monthly tickets will drain our wallets. Sigh, being provoked and slapped again and again, but Ajiao stands alone for us, swallowing every arrow in the dark. And us? Will we always cower behind Ajiao like timid mice? No, I refuse! What about you? Will you follow me and fight together? The Buddha fights for incense, humans fight for pride; tell me loudly your choice—crawl through life, or rise up and resist, even if defeated, even if slain, still staring forward in defiance. What does it matter if they are the great gods? I want the sky no longer to blind my eyes, the earth no longer to bury my heart, all beings to understand my will, and all the Buddhas to vanish like smoke!”

This Silver Grand Alliance clearly had read "The Legend of Wukong" and quoted its classic lines.

“Fight!”
“Keep formation below, fight!”
“Fight!”
“Fight!”
“Fight!”
“Fight!”
...

The formation was impeccably neat, each reader answering the call, their passion palpable.

Su Tong published two more chapters, saw that "Coiling Dragon" had more than seven hundred monthly tickets, and, upon seeing this post, felt his own blood stir.

Damn it, if he stayed silent now, he wasn’t a man.

He dove into the author’s backend and continued updating. The first new chapter bore the note: Ten extra chapters for the Silver Grand Alliance ‘Though a thousand stand against me, I go forth.’

He then released ten chapters in succession.

Afterward, Su Tong had to post a single chapter announcement.

“Minimum of two updates, tonight ten extra for ‘Though a thousand stand against me,’ and one extra for each alliance leader; all will be completed within three days. Now that everyone has stood up to fight, what do I have to fear? I am willing to lead the charge, to stand at the front. There is only one word: fight!”

Su Tong was deeply moved, afraid to write too much in the announcement lest he make a mistake.

But readers didn’t need a fiery or impassioned announcement—only for him to step forward and say a single word.

Indeed, once this announcement was posted, the entire PointPoint site, and even the whole online literature world, was thrown into turmoil.

“Wow, breaking news, huge news, the newcomer Nian Nu Jiao has accepted the challenge! The newcomer Nian Nu Jiao has accepted the challenge!”

Shenlong had been firing at the newcomer Nian Nu Jiao, provoking endlessly. Lately, nearly everyone in the online literature world knew about it.

PointPoint was the leader of online literature, its status unshakable; anything major that happened there was major for the entire scene.

“Such courage, what a sharp newcomer—he actually dared to accept the challenge.”
“Haha, I saw it. He got fired up by a single alliance leader.”
“One alliance leader goaded him and he dared to step up—he’s crazy?”
“You don’t get it, go see for yourself. That’s not an ordinary alliance leader, that’s a Silver Grand Alliance. Looks like another new tycoon is emerging in the online literature world—never seen him before.”
“Damn, I checked it out: a Silver Grand Alliance and nearly thirty alliance leaders. This newcomer is defying the heavens.”
“I bet it’s the operations team behind this—no way a newcomer is this powerful.”
“You guys above, you’re wrong to treat Nian Nu Jiao as a newcomer. Haven’t you read his free book ‘The Legend of Wukong’? This expert’s origins are mysterious.”
“Yes, I heard he’s a streamer. Haha, now Shenlong is in trouble. The showrooms have tons of tycoons, and the wealthy in online literature are nothing compared to those in the showrooms.”
“So impressive, are those alliance leaders all his showroom fans?”
“Just a flash in the pan. Haven’t you seen the stock trading book? It had the most alliance leaders ever—one or two thousand—but in the end it only reached third place on the monthly ticket chart. Without a massive fandom, you won’t last or rise too high.”
“Haha, even if Shenlong gets suppressed for a while, it’s funny enough. Now the monthly ticket chart has ‘Great God’ behind ‘Coiling Dragon.’ The former is in second place, the latter in first, a gap of more than four hundred votes.”
“Wow, not even an hour and the monthly ticket war is this fierce—the smell of gunpowder is thick.”
“I’m off to bed, haha. This month will be lively, especially at the end—double monthly tickets.”
“...”

Everywhere—groups, forums, review sections—such topics filled the air.

Shenlong also updated after midnight, three chapters in, only to find "Coiling Dragon" ablaze.

“Where did this newcomer come from, with such powerful operations?” After checking the review section of "Coiling Dragon," Shenlong’s eyes gleamed fiercely. Without needing to rally, dozens of veteran alliance leaders were already discussing strategies in the group.

“The other side is pretty arrogant.”
“Monthly tickets bought with real money—I suspect that author is actually a woman being sponsored by a real tycoon.”
“Keep that here, don’t spread it. No one knows yet if the author is male or female.”
“Don’t guess wildly. This author is either a streamer or connected to one.”
“How so?”
“He’s a streamer in the showrooms—I’ve checked. He can be said to have three books, but the styles are all different, so maybe someone helps him write. That’s why I say he might be connected.”
“Damn, a showroom streamer stretching his hand into this world. Does he think this is his territory? Maybe he couldn’t make it in the showrooms, so he came here? Let’s crush him.”
“Exactly. This is our realm; whoever comes must kneel.”
“Dragon Alliance is invincible—always was, always will be.”